War Art And Society One
Boston: Boston Book & Art, 1970. First edition. Hardcover. 96 pages. 115 color and blackand white plates. One of a series of books based on exhibitions by the Welsh Arts Council. Well illustrated and poignant. More
Works-on-Paper
The Happy Hypocrite; A Fairy Tale For Tired Men
London: John Lane, 1897. Beerbohm, Max. First edition. Hardcover. 53 pages. 16.5 x 13 cm. Number One of the Bodley Booklets printed by Will Bradley at the Wayside Press in Springfield, Mass. BOMBACE A16. Front cover of the pictorial wrappers chipped at edges with some loss. Interior clean, housed in..... More
La Lithographie Originale En France
Paris: Librarie des Arts Decoratifs, 1960. First edition. Paperback. 16 pages in text. Folio, 30 x 23 cm. Fifty-two plates, a few in color loose as issued. Lithographs by major French artists -- Ingres, Daumier, Manet, Dore, Renoir, Lautrec, Bonnard, Matisse et al. More
George Grosz with an Essay by the Artist
New York: Arts Inc., 1960. Grosz, George. First edition. Hardcover. 166 pages. 28 x 22 cm. 114 reproductions, six in color. Introduction by Ruth Berenson and Norbert Muhlen. Bibliography. Grosz's essay illuminates his later, American period. More
Visions of the Daughters of Albion
Edmonton: William Muir, 1884. Hardcover. Eleven leaves printed recto only. 28.5 x 22.5 cm. Limited edition, one of 50. Eleven hand colored plates etched in relief with text printed in gold on Hodgkinson wove paper, reprint of the 1793 edition. Contains a short and early example of his prophetic books..... More
Edward Bawden
Godalming, Surrey: Pendomer Press, 1979. First edition. Hardcover. 200 pages. 29.5 x 21 cm. Limited edition, copy 138 of 200, printed and bound by the Scolar Press on Glastonbury Book Antique Laid 120 gm paper. Bibliography by Barry McKay. This special edition with an original four-color lithograph "Nekayah," the Prince..... More
A Travers Nos Vignes by Heron De Villefosse
Paris: Bernard Klein, 1952. Brianchon, Maurice. First edition. Hardcover. 49 pages in text. Folio, 38 x 29 cm. Limited edition, copy 31 from a total of 300, and one of only 30 copies on Japon with an additional etching of the cover and a suite on chine. The extra suite..... More
Murillo & His Drawings
Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press, 1976. Murillo, Bartolome Estaban. First edition. 200 pages. 22 x 26.5 cm. Voluminously illustrated with nearly 100 black and white reproductions, over one-third of which have not previously been studied or published, as well as seventy-one comparative illustrations. Catalogue Raisonne of Drawings by Murillo. Bibliography. Index..... More
Friedrich Weinbrenner Architect of Kurlsruhe A Catalogue of the Drawings in the Architectural Archives of the University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, 1986. First edition. Hardcover. 163 pages. 246 illustrations some in color. Catalogue of Selected Drawings. Checklist of the Weinbrenner Collection at the Univ. of Pennsylvania.Bibliography. Concordance of Inventory Numbers. Weinbrenner was the first internationally important German architect of the 19th Century. More
Canning Abduction Trial Hand-Colored Engraving
Np: Np, ca 1753. 30.3 x 24 cm. (plate size) with image 19 x 15 cm. Portrait of Elizabeth Canning in the witness box during her abduction trial which divided London during the 18th century, and remains an unsolved mystery. She was eventually convicted of perjury, transported to America, married..... More
Nos Actrices
Paris: Editions de la Revue Blanche, 1899. First edition. Hardcover. 45 x 35 cm. One page Preface by Marcel Prevost, French novelist and women's rights advocate. Limited edition, copy 16 of 44 on Japan imperial paper. 18 color pochoir plates of contemporary actresses in their famous roles, including Sara Bernhardt..... More
Revolutionary Soviet Film Posters
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 1974. First edition. Boards. 97 pp. With fifty-six posters in black and white, sixteen in full-color, and seventeen text figures. Index. This monograph tracks the relationship between film making and the graphic arts which developed in the Soviet Union during the1920's. More
Very Unpleasant Weather,; or the Old Saying verified "Raining Cats, Dogs, & Pitchforks !
London: McLean, August 1st 1835. Print. 28.5 x 40 cm. Engraving -- Poster reads, "Cheap Safe & Expiditious Travelling....Pig & Whistle to the Cow & Snuffers...Winchester Hants." Clean, sharp impression, nicks at top margin. More
Boney's threatened invasion brought to bear or taking a View of the English coast from ye Poop of the Bellerophon
London: S.W. Fores, September 10, 1815. First edition. Pictorial Boards. Hand colored engraving 13 3/4 x 9 3/4 inches in mat 19 x 15 inches. An ironic allusion to Napoleon's invasion of England For Elba as Hell Bay. As Napoleon views the coast Bertrand says, "By gar! mon Emperor. dey..... More
Forain Draughtsman, Lithographer Etcher
New York: M. Knoedler & Company, Inc., 1936. Forain, Jean-Louis. First edition. Hardcover. 67 pages. 23.5 x 16 cm. Limited edition, copy 293 of 500 printed by D.B. Updike at the Merrymount Press. Illustrated with reproductions of Forain's work. Almost as new condition. More
A Selection of 65 Drawings from one drawing book 1952-1956
Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1970. Duncan, Robert. First edition. Hardcover. 22 x 14.5 cm. Limited edition, copy 299 of 300 signed by Duncan. A series of sixty-five numbered, folio plates in black and white, some of which are fold-outs from their original size. The remarkable drawings are housed in..... More
The Draftsman's Art; Master Drawings from the National Gallery of Scotland
Edinburgh: National Gallery of Scotland, 1999. First edition. Stiff Wraps. 183 pages. 29.5 x 24.5 cm. Drawings from the 15th to 19th centuries. Profusion of color plates. Index of Artists. More
Old French Etchings Along The Marne
Minneapolis: Northcraft Studios, "At The Sign of the Pine" 1920's. First edition. Hardcover. Portfolio is 15 x 12 1/2 inches. A complete set of five etchings: Canal Bridge, The Old Well at Toul, A Street Scene, The Fireside, The Fagot Gatherer, plus at inside back cover a bifold leaf, a...... More
Architectural Drawing Framed: Art Deco Design
NP: NP, ND. 21 x 16 inches, gouache on paper of Art Deco jewelry shop designed by R. Tailliard. More
The Poster in History
New York: McGraw-Hill, 1974. 1st American edition. Hardcover. 315 pp. With essay on The Development of Poster Art by Carlo Arturo Quintavalle. Translated by Alfred and Bruni Mayor. Profusely illustrated with 450 illustrations, 250 in full-color. Bibliography. The color reproduction is particularly exquisite. More
Gaudier-Brzeska Drawing And Sculpture
New York: October House, 1965. Gaudier-Brzeska, Henri. 1st American edition. Hardcover. 30 pages in text. Introduction by Mervyn Levy. Eighty-four reproductions, and four color plates. Dead at 23 years of age, Gaudier-Brzeska is honored here on the 50th anniversary of his death. Ex-library. FREITAG 3302. More
Fifty Works on Paper
NY: Vance Jordan Fine Art, 2000. First edition. Paperback. 94 pages. 11 x 9". Color and black and white plates. Works by American artiists. A few with sale prices of works featured tipped-in. More
Marc Chagall Gouaches * Drawings * Watercolors
New York: Abrams, 1984. Chagall, Marc. 1st American edition. Hardcover. 210 p[ages. Translated from the German by Robert Erich Wolf. Forty-two full-color illustrations within a total of seventy-seven plates. Apart from the specific emotive and mystical Russian-Jewish themes, Chagall is discussed in context of the emerging art movements in Paris..... More
Papiergesange Buchkunst im zwanzigsten Jahrhundert
Munich: Prestel, 1991. First edition. Paperback. 312 pages. 28 x 21 cm. Copiously illustrated: black and white and color plates. Bibliography. Index. Exhibition of 20th century book illustration held at the Bayrischen Staatsbibliothek, Munich. Test in German. More
Verzeichnis der Kupferstiche Radierungen un Holzschnitte von Marc Chagall; Band I: Werke 1922-1966
Bern: Verlag Kornfeld und Klipstein, 1970. Klee, Paul. First edition. Hardcover. 248 pages. 31 x 29.4 cm. Contains 123 black and white and color illustrations, list of his signatures and wood-cuts and engravings with German text plus bibliographic data for each entry. This Catalogue Raisonne printed on heavy glossy stock..... More