Search Results
Matches 1-20 of 682
Plauen: Verlag von Christian Stoll, 1907.
Folio, 48 x 33 cm. No text. Twenty-four plates printed recto only, color lithographs with a host of images per plate of textile designs made in the Atelier Haebler or by Fritz Herz -- myriad design variations in vibrant colors. Small owner stamp portfolio cover, slight bump to corners, small nicks head of title page, plates very clean and fresh. more information
Price: 2600.00 USD
Leipsig: Gilbers'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung Eugen Twietmayer, 1900.
Folio, 44 x 34 cm. Title page with price list on verso. Illustrated title page in Jugendstil style lettering, sixteen full-page chromolithograph plates with multiple images per plate, Art Nouveau designs (Jugendstil) in a host of decorative styles incorporating floral and other plant-inspired motifs, as well as highly-styled curvilinear forms. OCLC lists one copy only. Plate six creased at fore-edge head with foxing in plate margin: image is clean. Balance of plates fresh, clean and bright. more information
Price: 2100.00 USD
London: George G. Harrap, 1936.
256 pages, 27 x 21 cm. Limited edition, copy 314 of 460 signed by Arthur Rackham. Twelve full-page plates with lettered tissue guards. Introduction by R. Farquharson Sharp, the translator who made a concerted effort to keep as closely to the original's meaning, doing so in unrhymed verse. Plates and text clean and fresh, decorated endpapers, front cover slightly bowed, front cover joint darkened at head. more information
Price: 1500.00 USD
Paris: Aud Editions de la Nouvelle Revue Francaise, 1919.
Unpaginated -- approx. 28 leaves -- each leaf illustrated. 34 x 33 cm. Born Edward Louis Warschawsky Leon, this his first book completed when he was eighteen years old, and the first children's book for the publisher NRF, with pochoir illustrations colored by hand by Jean Saude, and this work considered a milestone in the history of children's book illustration -- the vibrant art deco plates enchanting, and in today's terms, probably considered more an avanat-garde brake-through in the book arts. Calligraphic text. Text block reinforced with tengu-jo tissue, resewn on tapes backed with nishi-kaji paper, few small tears in... more information
Price: 1000.00 USD
NY: Limited Editions Club, 1940.
558 pages. 26 1/2 x 20 cm. Illustrated with lithographs -- full-page and chapter headings -- by Thomas Hart Benton: designed by George Macy. Limited edition, copy 393 of 1146 copes signed by Benton.This work amongst a handful of LEC publications were never part of the regular subscription series, and were produced for limited distribution to friends of the Club; some were issued as commemorative keepsakes and promotional pieces. NEWMAN & WICHE A-13. They also note, many of these [Special Publications] are increasingly elusive and of special interest "to the connoisseur of the literature of the book arts. With "About... more information
Price: 950.00 USD
NY: Limited Editions Club, 1992.
Unpaginated, Elephant Folio, 55 x 46 cm. Illustrated with five full-page color lithographs by Elizabeth Catlett. 1992 marked the 50th anniversary of Walker's poem published by the Yale University Press with a Foreword by Stephen Vincent Benet. Both author and illustrator, born in the South during the first twenty years of the 20th century endured the virulent discrimination against Black Americans. Both from well educated middle class families, their lives intersected at the State University of Iowa as roommates studying for a Master in Arts. Two powerful women combine to capture the African-American experience with poetry and visual imagery. Limited... more information
Price: 1775.00 USD
NY: Reinhold, 1967.
256 pages. Folio. With a special introduction and explanatory notes by Faber Birren. The text is based on the first English edition of 1854 as translated from the first French edition of 1839, "De La Loi du Contraste Simultane des Coulers." Lavishly illustrated; twenty-eight color plates, including fifteen plates adapted from the original French edition, and a multitude of black and white illustrations. Glossary. Birren shows how many of Chevreul's ideas in color harmony, contrast effects, optical mixtures, and legibility have been validated by modern scientific research. more information
Price: 250.00 USD
Upper Mall, Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press, 1895.
56 pages. Small 8vo, 14.5 x 11 cm, printed in Golden type in black and red. Wood-cut title page. This was the only book Morris printed for the American public, and the only Kelmscott book to bear the name of an American publisher. The English and American copies have a slightly different colophon. The shoulder-notes were added by Morris. Way became a personal disciple of Morris, and later visited England to see him at Kelmscott House, where he was told how Morris "wanted to make some nice books, but had no thought of developing such a business as has come... more information
Price: 2000.00 USD
London: R. Ackermann, 1821.
291 pages. 25 1/2 x 17 cm. 18 hand-colored aquatint plates. This, the first separate edition, appearing originally in Ackermann's "Repository of Arts" during the years 1817-1820; the latter containing seventeen plates only -- the extra plate, no.15 is listed in the Directions to the Binder, and as ABBEY LIFE pp.185 -186 notes, "Early impressions of the plates are clear and sharp, and compare well with the magazine issue," as are those in this copy. ABBEY TRAVEL 89. TOOLEY 415. Tall copy, plates generally clean and bright, some plate offsetting; light, occasional age-toning, bookplate, raised bands. more information
Price: 1150.00 USD
NY: American Inst. of Graphic Arts, 1939.
8 pages. 25 1/2 x 17 cm. Colored wood-cut by Rudolph Ruzicka. Bookplate. Fresh, bright copy. more information
Price: 35.00 USD
San Francisco: John Henry Nash, 1925.
XX, 11 pages in text, 36 x 23.5 cm. Limited edition, Copy 149 of 250 on handmade paper. for William Andrews Clark, Jr., with his "Compliments" slip, and small book label of Theodore Lilienthal. First edition, 1751,in facsimile, 13 pages. 24.5 x 19.5 cm., accompanies the previous. Also laid-in is a "A Bibliographical And Descriptive Note by W.N.C. Carlton." on Gray's Elegy, a Christmas lagniappe by George D. Smith Book Company, one of 1000 copies.....plus......an A.L.s. typed, in envelope from Clark to Theodore Lilienthal, thanking him for a volume of "The Book of Ruth." Clean, fresh copies, one spine label... more information
Price: 275.00 USD
Holyoke: Hampden Glazed Paper and Card Co, 1923.
24 pages in text. Folio, 35 x 27 cm. The book originated as a cover design contest in which more than 3500 American and European artist participated. 300 designs were selected, followed by an exhibition at art galleries in the USA and Canada. This book is a selective record, noting the design artist, suggesting a commercial application and the number of inks used for each. Owner signature second free-endpaper, slight extremity wear. more information
Price: 1250.00 USD
New York: American Artists Group Inc, 1945.
96 pages. 24 x 16 cm. 97 illustrations in color and black and white. A former professor at the Leipzig Academy of Graphic Arts, he left Germany prior to World War II. Lynn Ward says, "No other artist in our time...has explored the possibilities of the medium so widely or achieved so much in it...." Ward went abroad in 1926 and studied with Mueller. more information
Price: 40.00 USD
Washington, D.C: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1980.
103 pages. 26 x 21.5 cm. Catalogue published for the National Collection of Fine Arts and the Whitney Museum of American Art. 71 illustrations and bibliography. Matulka was a dedicated artist and teacher of strong convictions who was fascinated by the entire turbulent world of modern art. Clean, crisp copy. more information
Price: 35.00 USD
Paris: Societe des Beaux Arts, 1904.
283 pages. 23.5 x 15 cm. Limited edition, copy 15 of unknown limitation. Illustrated with eight full page engravings. Text in English and French. Text and plates clean and fresh, covers toned at corners, offsetting from silk lined leather covers, separate portfolio of 15 examples of modern etching lacking, portfolio joints rubbed. more information
Price: 250.00 USD
Paris: Librarie Centrale Des Beaux-Arts [Emil Levy], 1912.
17 pages in text. 41 x 30 cm. Engraved color title and 325 engraved, hand-colored full-page plates with accompanying text. Rene Colas calls this work "the most beautiful collection in existence of the eighteenth century," referring of course, to the original edition. For this Levy edition, the plates were reengraved, but with extreme fidelity, and the coloring was done by hand just as it had been done in the eighteenth century. Complete sets of this original edition are extremely rare. This complete reprint edition is as well, scarce. Thirteen issues in wrappers, twelve of which are housed in four folding... more information
Price: 5500.00 USD
Paris: Les Bibliophiles Independents, 1899.
135 pages. 29 x 23 cm. Hand-colored triptych frontispiece engraved on metal, sixteen wood engravings, thirty-two borders in various colors, and fifteen tailpieces. Limited edition, copy 28 of 200 copies on Japan Paper. De Feure, a protégé of Siegfried Bing was influenced by Gwen Veenema and Jules Cheret, created theater designs and posters designs for l'Estampe Moderne in Art Nouvea styles. Schwob, a symbolist literary exponent in the tradition of Mallarme, Mirabeau, Gide, Jarry, helped Wilde translate "Salome" into French -- the play produced in Paris,1896. Paul Valery dedicated two of his works to Schwob. GORDON RAY 367. "By far... more information
Price: 12500.00 USD
NY: Ltd. Editions Club, 1946.
150 pages. 30 1/2 x 22 cm. Illustrated by Arthur Szyk all his being full-color, tipped-in plates. Preface by Mary Ellen Chase. Limited edition, copy 938 of 1950. Signed by Szyk. Designed by George Macy and printed by Lewis E. White. NEWMAN & WICHE 173. Unusually fresh, clean copy, generally noted for its tenuous condition -- spine crackling and flaking -- and with the original glassine overwrapper slightly darkened. more information
Price: 300.00 USD
London: The Art Journal, 1882.
276 pages. 28.5 x 22 cm. Engraved frontispiece of Bewick, and 100 black and white illustrations. Limited edition, copy 25 of 250, a presentation copy, "from the author," dated Sept. 14, 1882. FREITAG 707. Gordon N. Ray [ILLUSTRATOR AND THE BOOK IN ENGLAND], notes, "Bewick's use of end-grained blocks was widely imitated both in England and the Continent. Among his apprentices were some of the most distinguished engravers of the first half of the 19th century. When later artists like Gordon Craig and William Nicholson revived the tradition of creative work on wood, they turned to Bewick's example in freeing... more information
Price: 250.00 USD
London & New York: Harper & Brothers, ca 1900.
210 pages. 23.5 x 17 cm. 60 designs including nineteen color plates by Walter Crane. Spencer [WALTER CRANE pp. 138], notes, "He also continued to work on more specific color commissions in several publications for older children. The earliest and best of these was Hawthorne's WONDER BOOK." Decorated green endpapers, modest extremity rubbing, owner inscription front free endpaper dated 1901. more information
Price: 100.00 USD
