Aubrey Beardsley Drawings
New York: United Book Guild, 1967. Beardsley, Aubrey. First edition. Boards. 151 pages. 28 x 22 cm. 151 black and white illustrations. Clean, bright copy. More
Drawing
The Illustrated Drawing-Book. For The Use Schools, Students, And Artisans; Containing I. Pencil Drawing. II. Figure And Art. III. Perspective, &c. IV. Engraving. With Three Hundred Illustrative Drawings And Diagrams
London: Ward, Lock, And Tyler, Nd. Fourth edition. Hardcover. 143 pages. 20.5 x 13.5 cm. Illustrations are woodcuts. Endpapers are adverts on yellow stock. Bright, very fresh and clean copy, nicks to backstrip extremities. More
A Bottle of Notes and Some Voyages: Claes Oldenburg Coosje van Bruggen
Sunderland: Northern Centre for Contemporary Art, 1988. Oldenburg, Claes. First edition. Paperback. 233 pages. 11 x 8 1/2". Profusely illustrated in color and black and white. Bibliography. Bookplate. More
Mad Magazine Archive
Original drawings and related ephemera of Bob Clarke, a mainstay illustrator at Mad Magazine who had the most cartoon-like style through the late 1950's and early 1960's, and also designed the label of Cutty Sark scotch. Clarke arrived after the original editor Harvey Kurtzman left MAD. Included here are eight..... More
Alexander Dobkin's Travel Sketchbook
NY: Crown, 1965. First edition. More
Schritte in Reich de Mitte
Np: Np, (1986). Erni, Hans. First edition. Hardcover. Group of four color lithograph prints 50 x 40 cm. all numbered 46 of 145 and signed in each margin by Erni. Housed in paper chemise with same illustration in gilt as per the cover design of the beige cloth box. More
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Schritte in Reich de Mitte; [aquarelles et dessins]
Genf: Promedi, SA, 1986. Erni, Hans. First edition. Hardcover. Unpaginated. 24 x 32 cm. Limited edition Luxe, copy 46 of 145 (total edition of 165) signed by Erni. Text in German. Erni steps into the Middle Kingdom of China presenting color and black and white drawings. Plus an original pencil..... More
Skizzen 1982/83
Frauenfeld: Editions Scheidegger im Verlag Huber, 1984. Erni, Hans. First edition. Hardcover. Unpaginated. 28 x 21.5 cm. Host of sketches by Erni in black and white and in color: with a large double-page original pencil drawing on verso of front free endpaper extending onto half title and additionally signed on..... More
Peintures En Relief De Hans Erni by Walter Ruegg
Geneve: Pierre Cailler, 1963. Erni, Hans. First edition. Stiff Wraps. 23 pages in text. 68 illustrations, three in color, all printed recto only. Limited edition, copy 25 of 50 with an original numbered etching 25/50 signed by Erni laid-in. Text translated from the German by P. Lafue. More
Vie et Mythologie; 7 avril au Mai 1989
Martigny: Fondation Pierre Gianadda, 1989. Erni, Hans. First edition. Stiff Wraps. 159 pages. 24 x 22 cm. Text by Pierre-Francis Schneeberger. Commentary by Leonard Gianadda, Claude Richoz and Jura Bruschweiter. 140 illustrations mostly in color of his paintings and lithographs, plus his sculptures. Black and white photographs in the text..... More
First Nudes
London: Neville Spearman, 1954. First edition. Hardcover. Unpaginated. 25 x 17 1/2 cm. Introduction by Sir John Rothenstein. Gill was forty-four when he began drawing from life. The twenty-four herein were made in Paris, 1926. The economy and clarity of line are on each page. one without dj. More
Drawing For Young Children; Containing One Hundred And Fifty Drawing Copies, And Numerous Exercises; Published Under The Superintendence Of The Society For The Diffusion Of Useful Knowledge, London
New York & Boston: Charles S. Francis & Joseph H. Francis, 1848. Hardcover. Approx. 64 pages in text. 18.5 x 15 cm. 470 drawings in this exercise book, with wood cut images printed verso/recto, and black pages between the former. Lacks front free endpaper, contents generally clean in tight binding..... More
Hans Erni Lebendige Zeitgenossenschaft Werke 1979-1987
Zurich: ABC Verlag, 1987. Erni, Hans. First edition. Hardcover. 212 pages. 26.5 x 22 cm. With an original drawing, inscribed and signed by Erni on the half title. More than 200 reproductions, mostly in color. The tinted pages contain a summary in English of the author's essay who was a...... More
Imitative Art, Or the Amateur Sketcher. Representing The Pictorial Appearances Of Objects As Governed By The Aerial And Linear Perspective
London: Weldon & Co., (1878). Hardcover. 111 pages. 18 x 12.5 cm. Host of text illustrations and 12 plates with multiple images per plate. Eight pages of adverts at rear. The Introduction: "..............a ready means of producing a representation of any favoured scene under the circumstances which insure agreeable impressions..... More
Figure Drawing and Portraiture in Lead Pencil, Chalk and Charcoal
London: Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, 1931. First edition. Hardcover. 179 pp. Illustrated by the author with 132 tipped in black and white plates. A few bleached spots at front cover and spine foot; otherwise clean and neat copy. More
A Text Book of Geometrical Drawing, For The Use of Mechanics And Schools In Which The Definitions And Rules Of Geometry Are Familiarly Explained, The Practical Problems Are Arranged From The Most Simple To the more Complex, And In Their Description Technicalities Are Avoid As Much As Possible
New York: D. Van Nostrand, 1865. Sixth edition. Hardcover. 157 pages 27 x 17.5 cm. Fifty-six steel engraved plates. A monumentally popular manual and the author's first work which went through countless editions. This edition with additional material -- "An Introduction to Isometrical Drawing, And An Essay On Linear Perspective..... More
Old Master Drawings
NY: Jack Kilgore & Co., 1994. First edition. Paperback. 66 pages. 10 1/2 x 8 1/4." Thirty-three color plates. Index of Artists. More
Architectural Illustration The Value Delineation Process
NY: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1979. First edition. Paperback. 260 pp. Landscape 4to, 21 x 27 cm, copiously illustrated. Shows realistically how a designed structure will appear when built. Bookplate. More
Carnet de Dessins Berlin - Tunis 1908
Paris: Berggruen, 1968. Pascin, Jules. Stiff Wraps. 19 pages in text by Claude Roger Marx, and 14 leaves of illustration. Limited edition, copy 176 of 300. Text in first volume, and images in the second: a few are are color lithographs with moveable overslips. Front cover paper label on second..... More
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Catalogue De L'Oeuvre Grave De Robert Nanteuil [Plate volume only]
Paris: Loys Delteil & Maurice Le Garrec, 1925. First edition. Hardcover. 28.5 x 21 cm. Limited edition, one of 750. 234 portraits printed recto only. BRYAN Vol. V, p.3. "Celebrated French engraver and draughtsman in crayons.....In 1648 he applied himself to engraving in the style of C. Mellan and others..... More
The Flemish Drawings in the Collection of His Majesty the King at Windsor Castle
NY: Oxford Univ. Press, 1942. First edition. 62 pages in text. 302black and white reproductions. Index of Artists and Subjects. List of Numbers. Ex-library. Spine sunned. Orig. cloth. LUCAS p94. More
Louis I. Khan Complete Works 1935-1974
Basel: Birkhauser, 1994. Second revised and enlarged edition. Hardcover. 437 pages. Oblong Folio, 25 x 44 cm. The final and most up to date presentation of Khan's work, including much new material not available in the first edition. A comprehensive overview with measured drawings, plans and drawings. Fresh, bright copy..... More
The Amorous Illustrations of Thomas Rowlandson
NY: Cythera Press, 1969. Rowlandson, Thomas. First edition. Hardcover. 39 pages in text. 31 x 24 cm. Introduction by Gert Schiff. 50 color plates. The erotic drawings, some of which were done for the Prince Regent bears witness to Rowlandson's temperament and the temper of the times. More
The Watercolor Drawings of Thomas Rowlandson From the Albert H. Wiggin Collection in Boston Public Library
NY: Watson-Guptill, 1947. Rowlandson, Thomas. First edition. Hardcover. 127 pp. With commentary by Arthur W. Heintzelman. Fifty-two representative plates in black and white and color. More
