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[CHROMOLITHOGRAPHY]
1. Alastair [Hans Henning von Voight] (Illustrator).
Sebastian Van Storck by Walter Pater And An Introduction By P.G. Konody.
London & New York: John Lane & Dodd, Mead, 1927. First edition. 68 pages. 32 x 26 cm. Limited edition, copy 774 of 1050. Eight full-page color lithographs by Alastair, one after p.52 signed in pencil by the artist. Pater's fictional account set in the time just after Holland's contest with Spain had abated. Wide text margins, backstrip darkened, nicks to latter head and foot. Orig. cream cloth lettered and decorated in gilt. Very good. $395.00
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[CHROMOLITHOGRAPHS]
2. Bacon, J.
The Theory Of Colouring: Being An Analysis Of The Principles Of Contrast And Harmony In The Arrangement Of Colours, With Their Application To The Study of Nature, And Hints On the Composition Of Pictures, Etc. Fourth Edition, Revised And Enlarged.
London: Geo. Romney, 1872. [x] 58 [20] pages. 18 x 12.5 cm. Color frontispiece, six chromolithograph plates, one wood engraving. The 20 pages represent publisher ads at rear. Originally published about 1866, this was a long popular manual. The Bacon manual stresses binary and triadic color harmonies unencumbered by the long disquisition's on aesthetics that mark most French treatises. Bright, very fresh copy. Yellow endpapers. BIRREN 23. Orig. blue cloth spine and front cover lettered in gilt and blind. Aeg. Near fine. $120.00
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[PRINTED BY HAND]
3. Binyon, Lawrence.
The Sirens An Ode.
Chelsfied: Stanton Press, 1924. First edition. 38 pages. 31.5 x 19.5 cm. Signed by Lawrence Binyon in ink, dated November 1926. Laid-in an ALS dated 7 Aug: 1924 to Louis Vernon Ledoux, American lyric poet and noted authority on Japanese prints. Binyon replies to Ledoux's invitation to visit New York and thanks him for the purchase of this title and describes the delay in getting his Ode printed by Mr. Lambert, advising his work would by shipped shortly. ALS on Department of Prints And Drawings, British Museum stationery. Printed by hand on Kelmscott hand-made paper, copy 68 of 250. Orig. quarter brown cloth and decorated boards, front cover paper label. Near fine. $395.00
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4. Boston. Museum of Fine Arts.
The Artist & The Book 1860-1960 in Western Europe and the United States.
Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1961. First edition. 232 pages. Introduction by Philip Hofer. Voluminously illustrated in black and white, and a handful of color plates. Bibliography. Index. Index of Publishers. Index of Printers. Individual entries are classified by country, instead of by artist; France 182, US 47, Germany 39, England 26, Switzerland 14, Belgium 7, Italy 6, Spain 3, and Austria 2. Owner inscription. Orig. white cloth. Near fine in slightly chipped dust wrapper. $90.00
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[BLACK LETTER]
5. Bridges, Robert.
The Growth of Love.
Oxford: Daniel Press, 1890. Second edition. 79 pages. 22 x 17.5 cm. Limited edition one of 100 copies, the first book of the Daniel Press to be printed in black letter in Dr. Fall's type. and the only second edition ever printed by the Press. By profession Bridges was a medical doctor. He befriended Richard Manly Hopkins and arranged Hopkins' posthumous publications. He was appointed Poet Laureate in 1913, the only medical graduate to have held the office. Armorial bookplate of Henry William Poor. The colophon contains the ownership penned name of Ronald Lane Latimer, The Alcestis Press. The latter maintained a N No. 20. Light finger soiling. Three quarter vellum, marbled boards and endpapers. Teg. Very good. $790.00
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6. Buchanan, Robert.
The Story of David Gray.
Portland: Thomas Mosher, 1900. First edition. [viii] 85 pages. 20 x 16 cm. Limited edition, copy 37 of 50 on Japanese vellum. Frontispiece is an engraved portrait of David Gray, title page printed in red and black. Clean, fresh copy, Orig. stiff printed wrappers. Fine in rubbed very good dust wrapper. $90.00
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[WOOD ENGRAVINGS]
7. Burns, Robert.
Songs From Robert Burns Selected by A.E. Coppard, with Wood Engravings by Mabel M. Annesley.
Waltham Saint Lawrence: Golden Cockerel Press, 1925. 112 pages. 22.5 x 15 cm. Limited edition, copy 349 of 450 on Batchelor hand-made paper with 18 wood engravings by Mabel M. Annesley. CHANTICLEER 28. Fresh, bright copy, small bookseller label on pastedown New begins, San Francisco. Orig. delft blue boards, white buckram spine. Near fine. (#20208) $200.00
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[EXTRA ILLUSTRATED]
8. Campbell, Thomas.
Life of Mrs. Siddons.
London: Edward Moxon, 1839. First edition. Extra illustrated with numerous inserted engravings. Mrs. Siddons, the sister of John Kemble, the actor was a force on the English stage in her own right, "and probably the one great tragedy queen that Britain ever produced. She first attracted attention in the part of Belvidera in Otway's `Venice Preserv'd', and was subsequently famous in her impersonation of Lady Macbeth and other Shakespearean characters." [see: OXFORD COMPANION TO ENGLISH LITERATURE, p.753]. Binding with covers ruled in gilt, raised bands decorated in gilt, elaborate scroll work and centerpieces in compartments, inner dentelles in sunburst pattern, marbled endpapers. Armorial bookplate of Sidney Kirkman.Contemporary full green niger, spine venly faded to brown, bound by Hardy. All edges gilt. Fine. $495.00
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10. Cox, Palmer.
The Brownies Around The World.
New York: Century Company, 1895. First edition. 144 pages (XII). 26 x 21.5 cm. The fourth book in the series. Test bright, faultless with a plethora of images by Palmer Cox also fresh. Free front endpaper with scant evidence of bookplate removal, Harold Bond owns this book presented by Aunt Em." Orig. full color full color illustrations on tan glazed boards. Fine in very good dust wrapper with modest spine and edge nicks. $795.00
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[TINTED LITHOGRAPHS]
11. Craig, Edward Gordon.
Henry Irving. Ellen Terry. Etc. A Book Of Portraits.
Chicago: Herbert S. Stone & Co., (1899). First edition. 31.5 x 23.5 cm. Title page and 19 tipped-in plates of English stage actors: Irving and Terry in a number of their well-known roles including those from Dickens's works. Title page and a few plates, color tinted lithographs, the balance black and white lithographs. Small bookseller label, John Howell, San Francisco. Covers dusty, small front cover spot. Orig. publisher's decorated cream cloth stamped in red, green and black. Very good. $550.00
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[ORIGINAL LITHOGRAPHS]
12. Duchatel, Edouard.
Manuel De Lithographie pour l'Artiste et l'Imprimeur Preface de Leonce Benedite Conservateur du Musee du Luxembourg.
Paris: E. Duchatel, 1907. First edition. 100 (2) pages. 31.5 x 25.5 cm. Limited edition, one of 300 from edition of 500 (this copy not numbered) on papier du Marais. Index and one page of adverts at rear. 12 full page original lithographs by Mrs. A. Belleroche, Andre Cahard, Desire Lucas, Abel Faivre, C. Cleandre, Paul Maurou, Lucien Metivet, L. Monod, Maruice Neumont, Georges Redon, L. Vallet & A. Willette. Lithography was invented in the 1790s by Alois Senefelder in Germany but, over the next century, became the domain of commercial and scientific printers. The French treatise of 1893 encouraged artists to return to the medium and the author, Duchatel's illustrated text describes how to work directly on the stone and use various transfer papers. Two years later, a major Paris exhibition of 1895, mounted to celebrate the centennial of the technique, and devoted a major section to prints by contemporary artists. The cover is by Maurice Neumont with the original lithograph also included within sans text. Text in French. Errata. Scattered light toning to margins of some images not affecting the portrait. Orig. color lithographed cover in yellow, red and black. Near fine. $595.00
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[COLOR PLATES]
13. Dulac, Edmund (Illustrator).
Rubaiyat Of Omar Khayyam Rendered into English Verse by Edward Fitzgerald.
New York: Garden City Publishing Co., Inc, 1937. 197 pages. 23.5 x 16 cm. Twelve full page color plates by Dulac. Interior contents very clean and fresh, almost as new copy. Raised bands, spine panels decorated in gilt motifs. Bound by Lauriat of Boston. Blind stamp of Margaret Pepper on title page. Three quarter navy morocco and light blue cloth. Teg. Fine. $150.00
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[INITIAL DESIGNS]
15. Emerson, Ralph Waldo.
Nature.
Munich: Bremer Presse, 1929. Printed for Random House. 86 pages. 29 x 19.5 cm. Limited edition, copy 16 of 250 printed by hand on Zanders hand-made paper, title and initials designed by Anna Simons. Title page printed in red and black as are initial letters. Interior contents very fresh, clean and bright. Orig. cream vellum spine lettered in gilt and marbled boards. Fine in near fine red cloth dust wrapper in matching slightly worn slipcase. $550.00
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16. Ford, Charles Henry (Editor).
View: The Modern Magazine Marcel Duchamp Number, Series V. No. 1.
New York: View Inc., 1945. First edition. 54 pages. 30.5 x 23 cm. Cover design by Marcel Duchamp. articles by Andre Breton, Gabrielle Buffet, Robert Desnos, Harriet & Sidney Janis, and Frederick Parker, plus contributions by Man Ray. Numerous black and white illustrations from photographs including a folding triptych with dye cuts after the artist. Ford was an American poet, novelist, diarist, filmmaker, photographer, and collage artist. He published more than a dozen collections of poetry, exhibited his artwork in Europe and the United States, edited the Surrealist magazine View (1940–1947) in New York City, and directed an experimental film. He was the partner of the artist Pavel Tchelitchew. Moderate edgewear, white back wrapper with modest hand soiling. Orig. illustrated wrappers. Very good. $995.00
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[COLOR ENGRAVING]
18. Gerbault, Henry.
Voila! Album Inedit En Couleurs Preface by Sully Prudhomme.
Paris: H. Simonis Empis, 1900. First edition. 3 text pages. Folio, 46 x 27.5 cm. 25 leaves printed recto only -- color engraved satiric plates, with text in French, some polite risqué nudity contemporary of the period. The author, water color painter, and poster artist was a nephew of Sully Prodhomme. His illustrations also appeared magazines: La Vie Parisienne, Fantasio, Le Rire, L'Art et la Mode and La Vie Moderne. Clean, fresh copy with plates bright. Three quarter maroon morocco and matching cloth, marbled endpapers. Fine. $375.00
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[SIGNED COPY]
19. Godine, David R.
Lyric Verse A Printer's Choice Compiled and printed by David R. Godine.
Lunenburg: Stinehour Press, 1966. First edition. 75 pages. 25 x 16.5 cm. One of 500 copies bound by the Harcourt Bindery. A signed presentation copy "For Judge and Mrs. Lune, With all my fond wishes, affection & respects," dated Jan. 69. Written as a result of a Senior Fellowship granted Godine by Dartmouth College. Orig. beige linen spine and marbled boards. Fine. $125.00
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[WOOD ENGRAVING]
20. Graves, Robert.
Welshman's Hose.
London: The Fleuron, 1925. First edition. 61 pages. 20.5 x 15.5 cm. Limited edition, one of 525 with wood engravings by Paul Nash. This collection of poetry written very early in his long career. A fresh, very bright copy. Orig. decorated boards, black cloth spine. Fine. $150.00
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[COLOR PRINTING]
21. Greenaway, Kate .
Under The Window Pictures & Rhymes for Children Engraved & Printed by Edmund Evans.
London : George Routledge & Sons, 1878. First edition. [4] 64 pages. 24 x 19 cm. This first printing has the three illustrations on pages. 21, 35 and 63, which were omitted from later printings. Bright, fresh copy. Book label J. Bay, 16 Mount St. front cover pastedown. Owner inscription first leave after endpaper dated Nov/79. Slight rubbing to extremities. Orig. decorated and laminated boards. Very good. $150.00
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[COLOR PRINTING]
22. _____. (Illustrator).
A Day In A Child's Life Engraved & Printed by Edmund Evans.
London: George Routledge & Sons, ca 1881. First edition. 29 pages. 25 x 21 cm. Music by Myles B. Foster. Owner inscriptions front endpapers and one on half-title dated 1884. There are three leaves decorated in color prior to title page. Cover lightly soiled, nicks to front cover fore-edge and front cover foot. Orig. decorated and laminated light green boards. Very good. $150.00
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[COLOR PRINTING]
23. _____.(Illustrator).
The Language of Flowers.
London: George Routledge, (1884). First edition. 80 pages. 15 x 12 cm. Forty-eight colored picture pages printed by Edmund Evans. Charles Baker in his "Bibliography of British Book Illustrators 1860-1900 notes, "It is extremely difficult to identify early issues of some of Kate Greenaway's books;" however, in this instance there is little doubt as to the issue. BAKER G66a. Pale green endpapers, spine a hint darkened, interior contents very fresh and bright. Orig. white pebble grained cloth, triple gilt front cover border panels. Aeg. Near fine. $390.00
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[PHILIP NOLAN]
24. Hale, Edward Everett.
The Man Without A Country.
Boston: Ticknor And Fields, 1865. First edition. 23 pages. 16.5 x 11 cm. The story of an American Army lieutenant Philip Nolan, who renounces his country during a trial for treason and is consequently sentenced to spend the rest of his day as sea without so much as a word of news about the United States. The story was first published in the Atlantic Monthly in 1863 to bolster support for the Union Army during the Civil War. Hale's tale was so convincing many readers believed it to be a true story. Laid-in an ALS written and signed in pencil by Edward E. Hale on "Soldiers Memorial Society" of Boston stationery. Hale's name appears on the latter as "Secretary." General C.G. Loring, Jr, a Confederate General during the Civil War is on the masthead as Chairman Executive Committee. Bookplates of John Gribbel St. Austell Hall, and Warwick James Price (color engraving) front cover pastedown, inner dentelles, double gilt cover border fillets, marbled endpapers . Later full black morocco, spine lettered in gilt, rebacked. Teg. Very good. $350.00
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[THEATER DESIGN]
25. Haworth-Booth, Mark .
E. McKnight Kauffer a designer and his public.
London: Gordon Fraser, 1979. First edition. 136 pages. 30 x 21 cm. 75 plates, some in color: posters, theater designs, book jackets et al., plus a plethora of black and white illustrations in the text. Bibliography. Monograph includes a checklist of Kauffer's published work. Orig. navy cloth. Fine in fine dust wrapper. $120.00
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[ONE OF 200]
26. Hearn, Lafcadio.
Gibbeted: Execution Of A Youthful Murderer...Shocking Tragedy At Dayton...A Broken Rope And A Double Hanging... Sickening Scenes Behind The Scaffold Screen.
Los Angeles: John Murray, 1933. First edition thus. 31 pages. 20 x 13 cm. Foreword by P.D. Perkins. Stories written between 1876-1877 when Hearn was a reporter on the staff of Murat Halstead's Cincinnati Commercial. Hearn had no definite assignment at the "Commercial," where he covered boxing matches, also reporting on Negro life, crime and poverty, but this did not deter him from seeking out the more bizarre stories presented here. Limited edition, copy 45 of 200. BAL 8026. Orig. black cloth with paper spine label slightly toned. Very good. $150.00
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[LINEAR PERSPECTIVE]
27. Howard, Frank.
Imitative Art, Or the Amateur Sketcher. Representing The Pictorial Appearances Of Objects As Governed By The Aerial And Linear Perspective.
London: Weldon & Co., (1878). 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, and entitle the production to rank as a Work of Art." Clean, fresh copy. Orig. green cloth decorated in blind, front cover and backstrip lettered in gilt. Near fine. $100.00
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[COLOR LITHOGRAPHS]
28. Humphrey, Maud.
Baby's Record with twelve illstrations in Colour and thirty illustrations in black & white.
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1898. First edition. 29 x 23 cm. Unpaginated. All color plates are lithographs. Old fashioned entry book for entering dates of Baby firsts. This unused copy clean with no owner entries. The author, mother of actor Humphrey Bogart was an illustrator, water colorist, and suffragette. Slight soil lower front cover at margin. generally fresh and crisp. Orig. light blue/gray cover decorated in gilt. Aeg. Very good/Near fine. $170.00
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[WOOD BLOCK PRINTS]
29. Japanese Ehon (E-Hon) Picture Books.
Np: Np, Nd. 18 leaves. 17.5 x 12 cm. All plates french-leaved in color. These picture books, very popular during the late Edo-Meiji era were a significant aspect of the Japanese publishing industry during the 19th century with a host of Japanese woodblock print artists contributing their efforts. This Ehon presents a series of samurai engagements with arrows flying and spears thrusting in a myriad of battle scenes. Orig. contemporary decorated paper covers, string-tied with paper cover label. Very good. $190.00
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[WOOD BLOCK PRINTS]
30. _____.
Np: Np, Nd. 12 leaves. 17.5 x 12 cm. All plates french-leaved 2 plates in color, balance black and white. These picture books, very popular during the late Edo-Meiji era were a significant aspect of the Japanese publishing industry during the 19th century with a host of Japanese woodblock print artists contributing their efforts. Images by Utagawa Kunisada, mostly portraiture of men and women from the waist up: he was the most popular, prolific and commercially successful designer of ukiyo-e woodblock prints in 19th-century Japan. Orig. contemporary decorated paper covers, string-tied, paper cover label chipped. Very good. $190.00
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[WOOD BLOCK PRINTS]
31. Japanese Ehon (E-Hon) Picture Books. Japanese Ehon (E-Hon) Picture Books.
Np: Np, Nd. 32 leaves. 17.5 x 12 cm. All plates french-leaved 2 plates in color, balance black and white. These picture books, very popular during the late Edo-Meiji era were a significant aspect of the Japanese publishing industry during the 19th century with a host of Japanese woodblock print artists contributing their efforts. Fight scenes interspersed with domestic
activity, a winding tale with much calligraphic detail. Orig. contemporary decorated paper covers, string-tied, paper cover label. Very good. Stiff. wraps. $225.00
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[SIGNED COPY]
32. Leighton, Clare (Illustrator).
The Time of Man A Novel by Elizabeth Madox Roberts With Wood Engravings by Clare Leighton. New York: Viking Press, 1945. First edition. 397 pages. 22.5 x 15.5 cm. Signed presentation by Leighton --"For ESM, with deep love from C.L. New Year's Eve 1945-1946. Hoping for so much more for her in the New Year. Baltimore." 16 wood engravings by Leighton. The author wrote extensively of Kentucky mountain traditions and people. Bright, fresh copy. Orig. beige basket weave cloth, front cover illustrated paper inset. Fine in slightly nicked slipcase. $120.00
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[LETTER PRESS]
33. Lionni, Leo.
Designs for the printed page.
Buffalo: Fortune, ca 1960. First edition. Unpaginated. 33 x 26 cm. 47 color designs, each with descriptive text, interpretations of the design's intent by the author, Fortune Magazine's Art Director. Printed on 80 pound production gloss from Consolidated Paper. Cover stock is 16 pint Supertuff. Entire book printed letterpress direct from engravings, and printed in Century Schoolbook. Slight discoloration at backstrip. Orig. stiff decorated wrappers. Very good in dusty, decorated yellow cloth slipcase. $180.00
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[ART NOUVEAU]
34. Martinie, A.H.
La Ferronnerie Deuxieme Serie. Paris: Albert Levy, 1929. First Edition. 7 text pages. 34 x 26 cm. Forty eight plates printed recto only. Includes full page Art Deco and Art Nouveau designs by a host of prominent architects and designers of the period including Jean Prouve, Edgar Brandt, Raymond Subes, M. Rux-Spitz et al. Interior contents clean and sharp, rubbed and nicked spine, covers lettered in black and red. Orig. decorated board board portfolio with cloth ties intact. Very good. $190.00
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34. Olschki, Leo S.
Le Livre Illustre Au XV Siecle.
Florence: Leo S. Olschi, 1926. First edition. 80 pages in text. 24.5 x 17.5 cm. With 344 illustrations on 220 plates with one in color, three in bistre, plus 15 figures in the text, two in color. Printed in red and black, interior contents: text and plates fresh and bright. Scholarly review covering England, Germany, Spain, France, Italy and Pays-Bas. Small nick lower front cover center, slight toning at cover margins. Orig. parchment over wrappers. Very good. (#21816) $105.00
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[SEPIA & COLOR]
35. Whistler, Laurence.
Rex Whistler The Konigsmark Drawings Reproduced in facsimile in Sepia and Colour With an introduction, and the story in brief, derived from A.E.W. Mason's novel.
London: Richards Press, 1952. First edition. 24 pages in text. 33.5 x 28 cm. Limited edition, copy 77 of 1000. 10 tipped-in plates, plus a facsimile of Whistler's first letter to Mason accepting the commission. This work completed by Whistler during the heat wave in the summer of 1941 while serving in the Welsh Guards during WW II. Whistler illustrates Mason's romantic tale from the days of the Grand Alliance against Louis XIV in a setting of German Baroque palaces and gardens. Backstrip rubbed at extremities and sunned. Orig. orange cloth, front cover decorated and lettered in gilt. Very good. $100.00
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[HAND COLORED ETCHING]
36. Woodward, William.
A Cure for a Smoky Chimney !!
London: Thomas Tegg, ca 1822. 26.5 x 40 cm. Etching with hand coloring. Whatman watermark 1822. Woman says, "believe Doctor your are little better than a great Irish impostor -- to take two Guineas for curing my Chimney, and the moment I put a bit of fire in the grate I almost suffocated !!" Fellow replies, " Don't put yourself in such a passion my dear Crater I'll make it appear as plain as the nose on your face -- all you talked to me about smoke you never mentioned the fire -- depend on it if you put no fire in the grate the Devil a bit of smoke will come from the Chimney." Price one Shilling in lower right corner. Top margin frayed. Very good. $150.00
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[SIGNED BY AUTHOR]
37. Young, Francis Brett.
Blood Oranges.
London: White Owl Press, 1932. First edition. 40 pages. 22.5 x 14.5 cm. Limited edition, copy 55 of 230 signed by the author. Drawings by Albert Edward Berbank, typography by Herbert Jones. Bookplate of Richard D. Friedlander. Bright, crisp copy. Orig. cream basket weave cloth with beveled edges, spine lettering in gilt. Fine. $150.00
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