Le Peche Veniel Conte Drolatique
Paris: Rene Kieffer, 1922. Original Wraps. 4to, with brilliant color illustrations by J. Hamman. Limited edition, copy 450 of 590 on velin de cuve paper. Text in French. More
Illustrated Books
Les Contes Drolatiques; Colligez Ez Abbayes De Touraine -- Dixieme Edition Illustree de 425 Dessins Par Gustave Dore
Paris: Garnier Freres, Nd. Dore, Gustave. Dixieme edition. Hardcover. [XXXI] 614 pages. 21 x 15 cm. Originally published 1855. Bookplate, original wrappers bound in, bright and fresh copy with images sharp, slight extremity rubbing, backstrip decorated and lettered in gilt. GORDON N. RAY, 244. "This is Dore's early masterpiece; indeed..... More
The Wonderful World of Oz
West Hatfield: Pennyroyal Press, 1985. Moser, Barry. Hardcover. 268 pages. 33.5 x 30.5 cm. Limited edition, copy 200 of 350 illustrated and signed by Barry Moser. With an appreciation by Justin G. Shiller, printed by Harold McGrath in Van Dijck type on archival paper with calligraphy by Yvette Rutledge. Sixty..... More
Ben Ionson His Volpone: or The Foxe; Together With An Eulogy Of The Artist By Robert Ross
London: Leonard Smithers, 1898. Beardsley, Aubrey. New Edition. Hardcover. 193 pages. 29 x 22.5 cm. Limited edition, copy 33 of 1000, includes one of the extra photogravure plates that was issued with the one of 100 copies that included a suite of the plates in a larger format, and is..... More
Histoire De Russie, Representee Par Figures, Accompagnees D'Un Precis Historique.; Les Figures Gravees Par F.A. David, Associe Libre De L'Academie De Peinture Et De Sculpture De Berlin, D'Apres Les Dessins De Monnet
Paris: Boiste, 1797-1799. First edition. leather_bound. 102, 104 pages. 26.5 x 20 cm. With additional engraved titles, and 36 sanguine plates [with tissue guards] by Francois Anne after Charles Monnet, an historical and portrait painter born in Paris about 1730, admitted into the Academy in 1765. Chronological Table of Illustrations..... More
Bookplates By Frank Brangwyn R. A.
London: Moreland Press, 1920. Brangwyn, Frank. First edition. Hardcover. 69 pages. 26 x 20. Portfolio of Brangwyn's bookplates, some in color. Forward by Eden Phillpotts and with a Technical Note by E. Hesketh Hubbard. Bibliography. Decorated endpapers, slight rubbing to backstrip extremities, upper corners rubbed. More
Le Malheureux Petit Voyage by Gabriel Soulages
Paris: L'Estampe Moderne, 1926. Brunelleschi, Umberto. Original Wraps. 208 pages. 22 x 17 Twenty-six pochoir plates, including fifteen color engravings. Limited edition, copy 135 of 435 copies on Velin Arches. Brunelleschi's polite, décolleté nudity, romantic rather than hard core, paints a style popular in its day. More
La Fleur Des Antiquitez De Paris
Paris: Aux Editions De L'Ibis, 1945. Valade, Pierre. Paperback. 138 pages. 25 x 17 cm. Host of colored wood block engravings -- full page, initial letters, and vignettes -- by Pierre Valade. Limited edition, copy 612 of 945. First published 1533. Almost as new copy, More
The Humourist A Collection Of Entertaining Tales, Anecdotes Epigrams, &c.
London: John C. Nimmo, 1892. First edition. Hardcover. 220, 228, 224, 226 pages. 19.5 x 15 cm. Limited edition, copy 60 of 260. Forty hand colored etchings, including additional engraved half-titles with vignettes in each volume. A series of comic tales originally published in 1819-1820. Light rubbing to extremities. Raised..... More
The Cruikshankian Momus "Let Momus Rule The Day" Pictorial Broadside and Humorous Song-Headings
London: John C. Nimmo, 1892. First edition. Hardcover. 136 pages in text. 28 x 18 cm. Fifty-two comic designs of the the three Cruikshanks [Elder Isaac, Robert and George] colored by hand after the originals. Limited edition, copy 376 of 520 . Crisp, clean signed presentation copy in a florid..... More
The Cruikshankian Momus "Let Momus Rule The Day" Pictorial Broadside and Humorous Song-Headings; Fifty-Two Comic Designs to Popular Ballads By The Three Cruikshanks The Elder Isaac, Robert And The Great George Coloured By Hand (After the Originals)
London: John C. Nimmo, 1892. First edition. Hardcover. 136 pages in text. 28 x 18 cm. Limited edition, copy 187 of 520. Title page printed in red and black. Very crisp, clean copy both images and text. Bound by Birdsall -- raised bands, spines richly gilt in floral motifs. More
Robert Helmont Diary of A Recluse 1870-1871
London: George Routledge, 1888. Hardcover. 198 pages. Translated by Laura Ensor. With an array of abundant illustrations by Picard and Montegut. Limited edition, copy 147 of 1000. Lovely, fresh copy with wide text margins. More
Tartarin de Tarascon; Illustre D'Aquarelles Originales De Jacques Touchet
Paris: Aux Editions Du Rameau D'Or, 1942. Orig. Stiff wraps. Fine. 158 pages. 20 x 14 cm. Host of brilliant aquarelles ( technique of painting in transparent, rather than opaque, watercolours). Originally published in 1872 his creativeness resulted in characters that were real and also typical. More
An Iconography of the Engravings of Stephen Gooden
London: Elkin Matthews, 1944. Gooden, Stephen. First edition. Hardcover. 196 pages. 25.5 x 19.5 cm. 180 illustrated line-engravings, and three illustrations in other media. Dodgson notes, "Gooden in no longer our only line engraver, but it can hardly be disputed that he is our best." Unnumbered copy 1 of 500..... More
Elaine by Alfred Tennyson
London: E. Moxon, Son, & Co, 1867. First edition. leather_bound. Folio, 35.5 x 26.5 cm. Enid, Elaine, Vivien and Guinevere were part of a series published by Moxon, illustrated by Dore. Enid is the Fourth Part of Idylls of the King. Nine steel engraved plates: according to the publisher, the..... More
Enid by Alfred Tennyson
London: E. Moxon, Son, & Co, 1868. First edition. leather_bound. Folio, 35.5 x 26.5 cm. Enid, Elaine, Vivien and Guinevere were part of a series published by Moxon, illustrated by Dore. Enid is the Fourth Part of Idylls of the King. Nine steel engraved plates: according to the publisher, the..... More
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam; The First and Fourth Renderings in English Verse With Illustrations by Willy Pogany
London: George G. Harrap, 1930. Pogany, Willy. Hardcover. 172 pages. 25.5 x 20 cm. 12 tipped-in full page color plates and 46 mounted gilt decorated against a black background with gold borders. Partly unopened. Bright, fresh copy. More
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
London: Hodder and Stoughton, (1913). Rene Bull. leather_bound. 75 pages printed recto only. 27.5 x 22.5 cm. Hand bound by Joseph E. Zuffant Jr.,for The Monastery Hill Bindery with his label mounted to inside front free endpaper. Twenty four tipped in color plates with lettered tissue guards, illustrations after Rene..... More
The Prints Of Louis Lozowick; A Catalogue Raisonne
New York: Hudson Hills Press, 1982. Lozowick, Louis. First edition. Hardcover. 223 pages. 30.5 x 24 cm. A comprehensive study of the graphic work of a leading artist of the American Scene/ Precisionist school. 16 color plates plus 414 duotone illustrations, chronology, exhibitions, and selected bibliography. More
La Vie En Fleur; Illustrated by Pierre Brissaud
Paris: Les Editions d' Art Devambez, 1924. Brissaud, Pierre. Paperback. 295 pages. 25 x 16 1/2 cm. Nine colored etchings with lettered tissue guards. Limited edition, copy 157 of 450 on Rives paper. Brissaud, a French Art Deco illustrator, painter and engraver trained at the same Parisian workshop as Andre..... More
George Overbury "Pop" Hart; His Life And Art
New Brunswick: Rutgers Univ. Press, 1986. Hart, George Overbury "Pop" First edition. Hardcover. 144 pages. 23.5 x 31 cm. Hart, a central figure in the artist colony based in Fort Lee, New Jersey, was a close associate of renowned artists Jules Pascin, Walt Kuhn, Jerome Myers, and George Biddle. 121..... More
La Geographie; Cours Supplementaire Pour Les Eleves De 20 A60 Ans
Paris: Javal Et Bourdeaux, 1948. Paperback. 117 pages. 23 x 18 cm. More than 100 colored wood blocks, cartoons by Lui, satiric, slightly risqué spoofs, tongue-in-cheek social commentary. Limited edition, copy 444 of 600 copies on Lafuma paper (total edition of 790), color printing by Daniel Jacomet. Very fresh, clean..... More
Baroque Book Illustrations A Short Survey From The Collection in The Department of Graphic Arts Harvard College Library
Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press, 1970. Second edition. Hardcover. 192 pages. 29 x 22 cm. Forty-three pages in text. 149 black and white reproductions of Baroque Book Illustrations. ARNTZEN/RAINWATER N33. "An excellent visual outline of the complicated mass of 17th century illustrated books." This edition with new Introductory material. More
Morandi Etchings; Italian Arts Festival October 1978 with a forward by Maria Catelli Isola and an introduction by Stefania Massari
Perth: Univ. of Western Australia Press, 1978. Morandi, Giorgio. First edition. Hardcover. 84 pages. 27 x 27.5 cm. Limited edition, copy 166 of 250. 80 works by Morandi, which span his entire career as an etcher. Bibliography. More
The Fables Of Jean De La Fontaine; Translated by Edward March
London: William Heinemann, 1931. Gooden, Stephen. Hardcover. 235 & 336 pages. 26 x 17 cm. Limited edition, copy 98 of 525 signed by Edward Marsh and Stephen Gooden. Marsh, sponsored the Georgian school of poets, including Rupert Brooke and Siegfried Sassoon. 26 copper engravings with tissue guards set in Monotype..... More