The Decorated Letter
New York: Braziller, 1978. First edition. Paperback. 40 pages. Forty-color plates, and eighteen black and white figures. Bibliography. With critical commentary on each color plate by the author. Owner notation. More
Painting
Hints To Young Practitioners in the study of Landscape Painting; Illustrated by Fine Engravings. Intended to show the Different Stages of the Neutral Tint. To which are added, Instructions In The Art Of Painting On Velvet
London: Longman, Hurst, Rees & Orme, 1820. Third edition. Hardcover. 67 pages. 23 x 15 cm. First published Edinburgh, 1804. Engraved title page. ABBEY LIFE 91. One colored aquatint, one etching, and three uncolored aquatints. New endpapers, covers rubbed, minor foxing and soiling. More
III Bienal De Arte Picotorico Cerveceria National De Panama
Panama City: Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, 1996. First edition. Paperback. 86 pages. 10 x 9". Host of color plates -- photographs of excellent quality. Modern Panamian art, list of artists with biographies. Text in Spanish. More
Axel Herman Haig And His Work; Illustrated From His Etchings, Pencil-Drawings and Water-Colours, With A Biography And A Descriptive Catalogue Of His Etched Works
London: The Fine Art Society, Ltd, 1905. First edition. Hardcover. 176 pages. 27 x 21 cm. Haig, Swedish painter, draftsman, engraver noted for his architectural etchings lived in England, traveled widely, dying in 1921. Title page in red and black. Essentially a catalogue raisonne with note stating there will be..... More
Class Distinctions Dutch Painting in the Age of Rembrandt and Vermeer; With essays by Henk van Nierop, Herman Roodenburg, Eric Jan Sluijter. Marieke de Winkel, and Sanny de Zoete
Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 2016. First edition. Hardcover. 343 pages. 28.5 x 24 cm. 180 color plates, a reflection of the golden age of painting, portraits of an array of social strata rendered with erudtion by the scholarly articles herein. Artist Biographies. Index. More
Manual Rose
Montevideo: Ediciones Lucia Ametrano, 1990. Rose, Manual. First edition. Hardcover. 181 pages. 31 x 24 cm. One of 700 copies with three original photo lithographs laid-in. Text in Spanish with English translations of Rose's life and critical commentary also in English. Profusely illustrated in color and black and white. List..... More
Painters of Reality The Legacy of Leonardo and Caravaggio in Lombardy
NY: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2004. First edition. Paperback. 257 pages. 30 x 23 cm. Abundantly illustrated: black and white and color plates. Bibliography. Index. More
Xu Beihong
Peking: 1995. First edition. Hardcover. 149 pages. 26.5 x 21.5 cm. Text mostly in Chinese with a Preface in English, and a biographical sketch in English by Liao Jingwen, entitled "Xu Beihong: His Life in Art." The remaining English text in rear, Biographical Notes on Xu Beihong who is probably..... More
Three Eyes The Old Master painting from different view points
London: Heim Gallery, 1990. First edition. Paperback. 112 pages. 9 x 9". 39 color plates with detailed descriptive text. More
George Chinnery 1774-1852 Artist of the China Coast; with Foreword by Alice Winchester
Leigh-on-Sea: F. Lewis, 1963. First edition. Hardcover. 56 pages in text. 29 x 22 cm. Limited edition, one of 500. Signed presentation [both authors] copy to James S. Copley with his bookplate. 76 plates, many with multiple images per plate. Bibliography. An English painter who spent the major part of..... More
Adriaen Van Ostade Die Radierungen des Meisters in original-getreuen Nachbildungen mit einer Einfuhrung
Berlin: Amsler & Ruthhardt, 1922. Van Ostade, Adriaen. First edition. Hardcover. 5 pages in text. 37 x 29 cm, Limited edition, copy 7 of 16. Fifty plates. Van Ostade, a painter and etcher was a pupil of Frans Hals. Best known for his good humored scenes of peasant life, depicting..... More
M. and M. Karolik Collection of American Water Colors and Drawings 1800-1875
Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1962. First edition. Hardcover. More than 400 illustrations. Foreword by Perry T. Rathbone. Introduction by Henry T. Rossiter. ARNTZEN/RAINWATER L79. "Contains useful information for the study of 19th century American draughtsmen and watercolorists. Both volumes contain appendixes listing known artists represented, known sitters, places represented..... More
The Prints of the Pont-Aven School * Gaugain & His Circle in Brittany; In collaborations with Samuel Josefowitz * Forward by Douglas Druick
New York: Abbeville, 1986. First edition. 143 pages. 29 x 22 cm. Mostly illustrated in black and white and a few color plates. Selected Bibliography. Inside of dust wrapper back cover damp stained. More
Charles Knight R.W.S., R.O.I.; with Preface by Sir William Russell Flint, R.A.
Leigh-on-Sea: F. Lewis, 1952. Knight, Charles. First edition. Hardcover. 116 pages in text. 29 x 22 cm. Limited edition, copy 225 of 300. Four tipped-in color plates and 52 in black and white. List of Subscribers. English water color painter. Flint called him" a good and important influence," in carrying..... More
English Art Series. London Buildings. London Paintings. London Sculpture
London: Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, 1933. Hardcover. Three volumes in one, each with itsown Index and a list of illustrations in black and white. Approximately 300 pages in text total. Backstrip worn at joints and extremities with small tear at head. More
The Growth Of Canadian Painting
London: Collins, 1950. First edition. Hardcover. 112 pages. Sixteen color plates and 64 black and white illustrations. With a Foreword by Eric Newton. Index. CHAMBERLAIN 1248. "Tries to give a chart of 20th century painting in Canada. Not an orthodox history of Canadian Art. Covers the work of 27 artists..... More
Hogarth The Complete Engravings
New York: Abrams, 1968. First American edition. Hardcover. 30 pages in text. 34 x 25 cm. 267 black and white illustrations with detailed notes on the plates. FREITAG 4341. Owner inscription. More
What Is Art?; An Introduction To Painting, Sculpture And Architecture
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1980. First edition. Hardcover. 386 pages. 29 x 23.5 cm. More than 460 illustrations in color and black and white. Glossary and Index. More
Lorenzo Lotto e la nascita della psicologia moderna
Milan: Gruppo Editoriale Fabbri, 1980. First edition. Hardcover. 335 pages. 30 x 25 cm. Profusely illustrated in color and black and white, more than 290 plates. Index of Names. Chronology of Lorenzo Lotto who was an Italian painter, draughtsman and illustrator of the Venetian school who was active during the..... More
The Works of James McNeill Whistler
New York: Moffat, Yard, 1907. Whistler, James McNeill. First edition. Hardcover. 302 pages. Thirty-nine black and white plates. With an incomplete List of Whistler's Paintings in Oil and in Water-Colour, Pastels and Drawings. A List of Whistler's Etchings. A List of Whistler's Lithographs. Index. Extremities rubbed. FREITAG 10246. LUCAS p...... More
Picasso's Weeping Woman The Life and Art of Dora Maar
Boston & New York: Bulfinch Press Book, 2000. First American edition. Hardcover. 224 pages. 28.5 x 22 cm. Profusely illustrated in color and black and white with a selection of her photographs. Short Bibliography. More
Marc Chagall; Ausgewahlte Graphik
Munich: Haus der Kunst Munchen, 1978. Chagall, Marc. First edition. Hardcover. 128 pages. 22 x 16.5 cm. 217 entries. Exhibition catalogue [5 August to 15 October 1978], with eight loose plates of Chagall art in color, image size 17 x 14 cm., and plate size: 28 x 23 cm. Catalogue..... More
Early Dutch Painting Painting in the northern Netherlands in the fifteenth century
New York: Tabard Press, 1980. First edition. Hardcover. 264 pages. 30 x 27 cm. 250 illustrations, forty-two in color. An important study in light of the many paintings destroyed in religious controversies. Catalogue herein completes this ground breaking study, listing almost all the significant paintings of the period under review..... More
Death Of A Wood
Rochester, Kent: Hangman Books, 1989. Hamper, Bill. First edition. Stiff Wraps. 32 unnumbered pages. 25.5 x 16 cm. Eight full page colored woodcuts by Bill Hamper printed recto only. Distributed by Black Hand Books. The front cover notes copy one of 15 with Hamper's name in pencil on front cover..... More