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1.[PRIVATE PRESS/LIVRES d'ARTISTES]
1. Bachinski, Walter (Illustrator).
The Artist As Saltimbanque.
Ontario: Shanty Bay Press, 2010. First edition. Folio, 72 pages including blanks. 38 x 27 cm. Limited edition, copy five of 55 for sale printed on 200 gsm arches cover in 18 point Deepdene Roman signed by Bachinski and Janis Butler. Four full-page pochoir plates and 8 multi-coloured linocuts including title and colophon, all by Walter Bachinski. Shanty Bay was established in 1996 as a private press devoted to publishing livres d'artistes. The press is a partnership between Janis Butler, who does the typesetting, presswork and bindings, and Walter Bachinski, who illustrates the books. The French Saltimbanque translates to "travelling entertainer ⧫ street entertainer." Laid in the original four page prospectus and a larger version of the title page illustration and notes price for each copy at $3000.00. The latter price would translate roughly to US$2400.00. The authors include Apollinaire, Beaumont, Baudelaire, Miller, Rilke and Twain. Wide text margins, almost as new copy. Orig. illustrated black cloth decorated in red. Fine in fine black cloth slipcase. (#24034) $1,895.00
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[FINE PRINTING]
1A. Bacon, Francis.
The Essayes Or Counsels Civill And Morall of Francis Lord Verulam Viscount St Alban.
London: Cresset Press, 1928. 198 pages. Folio, 39.5 x 26. Limited edition, copy 17 of 250 on Batchelor's Kelmscott paper, printed at the Shakespeare Head Press. Printed in red and black with wide text margins. Titles and initial letters designed by Joscelyne Gaskin. Bound by Sangorski and Sutcliffe, book-label of Philip Duschnes, interior contents fresh and bright, small nick back cover, some natural discoloration to rear cover. Orig. full vellum lettered in gilt. Teg. Very good. (#19342) $370.00
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[COSTUME]
1B. Bescher, M.
Les Rois Et Reines De France En Estampes, Ou Abrege Historique Et Chronologique De Chaque Regne, Suivi Du Tableau Des Moeurs Et Usages Des Francais Sous Chaque Race.
Paris: Alexis Emery, 1825. Second edition. 139 pages. Landscape octavo, 13 x 22 cm. 28 hand-colored plates, all with multiple images per plate, depicts the history of the French monarchy in costume, beginning with the reign of Pharamond through to Louis XVIII. Chronological Table of the Monarchy -- the Merovingiens, Carlovingiens, and Capetiens. Mild dampstain title and last few leaves at lower corner. Plates fresh and bright, scattered light text toning. Orig. vellum backed pictorial boards with moderate wear. Very good. (#19190) $300.00
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[BOOK ARTS]
2. Blake, William.
Illustrations Of The Book of Job Being All The Water-Colour Designs Pencil Drawings And Engravings Reproduced In Facsimile.
New York: Pierpont Morgan Library, 1935. 38 x 29 1/2 cm. Folio, 61 pages in text. Introduction by Lawrence Binyon and Geoffrey Keynes. All the reproductions, except the collotypes in the text of the Introduction made and printed by Emery Walker Ltd, and the Introduction printed by John Johnson at the Oxford University Press. Published in six parts, sixty three water colors (The Thomas Butts, John Linnell & New Zealand Set) -- being parts II,III, V. Twenty-five pencil and wash drawings (part IV), and twenty-two etchings of the Book of Job (part VI). The Trainon Press, "Book of Job," does not reproduce all the drawings. Internally very clean, each part with printed paper front cover label, small smudge upper left corner Vol. IV. Orig. stiff gray wrappers, black cloth spine. Fine. Six parts. (#18547) $620.00
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[PICTORIAL RUSSIA]
3. Blin De Sainmore [Adrien Michel Hyacinthe].
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. 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 from 862-1681 end of both volumes. Interior contents plates and text clean, extra engraved title Vol. II toned, 1 x 4 centimeter at lower margin edge of title lacking with no text affected, marbled endpapers, corners worn. Contemporary calf rebacked, leather spine labels printed in gilt. Aeg. Very good. 2 vols.(#19450) $1,350.00
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[POCHOIR PLATES]
4. Brantome (Pierre de Bourdeille).
Vie Des Dames Galantes Illustrations De Pierre Leconte.
Paris: Le Impressions Des Roses, ca 1950. 427 pages. Limited edition, copy 190 of 300. 20 full page erotic pochoir plates by Pierre Leconte, and a host decorated initial letters and color chapter decorations. French text with wide text margins, original decorated stiff wrappers printed in two colors laid-in. Raised bands, spine panels gilt decorated and lettered. Full crimson morocco, top edge marbled. Fine. (#21344) $300.00
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[BOOK PLATES]
5. Brangwyn, Frank.
Bookplates By Frank Brangwyn R. A.
London: Moreland Press, 1920. First edition. 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. Orig. beige cloth, decorated and lettered in brown. Very good. (#19515) $295.00
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[ETCHINGS]
6. _____.
Catalogue Of The Etched Work of Frank Brangwyn.
London: Fine Art Society, 1912. Englarged edition. 139 pages. 34 x 27 cm. 200 plates with descriptive text: edition size and dimensions. First published 1908 in a limited edtion of 150, this edition expanded. Index. Interior very bright and clean. binding firm and tight, spine slightly darkened. Orig two-toned cloth, tan leather spine label printed in gilt. Teg. Very good. (#18631) $320.00
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[CATALOGUE RAISONNE]
7. _____.
The Etchings of Frank Brangwyn, R.A. A Catalogue Raisonne by W. Gaunt.
London: The Studio, 1926. First edition. 235 pages. 29 1/2 x 23 cm. Limited edition, copy 95 of 125 with an etching signed by Brangwyn, "A Londoner (Type Cockney)" with lettered tissue guard. 331 black and white illustrations. Catalogue of Etchings. A List of Plates in Chronological Order with Corresponding Numbers in the Fine Art Society's' and Newbolt's Catalogues Respectively. List of Public Galleries and Museums. Index. Bibliography. Important reference work -- clean, very fresh copy, beveled edges, gilt front cover lettering bright. FREITAG 1022. Orig. full vellum, black leather spine label lettered in gilt. Fine in slipcase moderately worn. (#19188) $550.00
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[BOOK ARTS]
8. Brunelleschi, Umberto (Illustrator).
Le Malheureux Petit Voyage by Gabriel Soulages.
Paris: L'Estampe Moderne, 1926. 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. Orig. illustrated wrappers. Fine in patterned chemise portfolio, spine worn and evenly faded to brown. In matching, edgeworn slipcase. Original Wraps. (#18273) $750.00
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[PRIVATE PRESS]
1. Burkitt, F. Crawford.
The Hymn Of Bardaisan Rendered Into English by F. Crawford Burkitt. London: Essex House Press, 1899. 30 pages. 15. x 11 cm. One of 300 copies printed in red and black under the supervision of C.R. Ashbee, the second book of the Press, the compositors and pressman were from the Kelmscott Press. Bardaisan, a Syraic author attempted to create a synthesis of Christian and occult beliefs, his movement considered heretic by Christians. Bookplate of Richard D. Friedlander. Orig. light gray boards, front cover paper label. Fine. (#21241) $295.00
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[ALA GILLRAY]
9. Combe, William.
Doctor Syntax In Paris Or a Tour in search of the Grotesque by William Combe.
London : W. Wright, 1820. First edition. 318 pages. 26 x 16 cm. Eighteen hand-colored aquatints plates with tissue guards. Plates are by Charles William's, styled with vibrant coloration.Originally issued in parts, and on completion in boards; this copy with wide text margins as issued, and apparently in the original boards containing remnants of a spine label carrying one pound, one shilling price as noted by ABBEY TRAVEL 109 -- also stating '"the text might be conceivably by Combe." TOOLEY 432. William's was chief caricaturist between 1799 and 1815 for the leading British publisher S. W. Fores, and worked in a style similar to James Gillray in his earlier works, Untrimmed, scattered light foxing, plates are generally clean and bright, former owner's bookplates on front paste-down. backstrip slight loss head and foot. Contemporary brown boards with remnant of original paper spine label. Very good. (#18455) $900.00
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[MILITARY]
9A. Davis, Gherardi.
The Colors Of The United States Army 1789-1912.
New York: Privately Printed at the Gillis Press, 1912. First edition. 80 pages. 31 x 23 cm. Limited edition, copy 124 of 125, a signed presentation copy dated January, 1913. Twenty plates, some in color of Regimental unit colors. The Infantry of the Army which succeeded the Continental Army did not carry the stars and stripes until 1841: generally, in the early years the Army's national flag color was blue, the regimental color, white. Plates present colors of Infantry, Cavalry, Artillery, and Engineers. Laid-in are three additional proofs. The author was appointed a Deputy Police Commissioner for New York City in 1903; John Davis, Governor of Massachusetts (1787-1854) was his grandfather. Clean and sound internally, front cover paper label chipped, paper spine label lacking. Orig. blue stiff wrappers over boards. Very good.. (#20401) $1,100.00
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[[BOOK ARTS]
10. De Crauzat, Ernest.
L'Oeuvre Grave et Lithographie De Steinlen Catalogue descriptif et analytique suive d'un Essai de Bibliographie et d'Iconographie de son Oeuvre Illustre.
Paris: Societe de Propogation des Livres D'Art, 1913. First edition. [[XV] 228 pages. 33 x 25.5 cm. Limited edition, copy 255 of 500 on papier d'Alfa. Preface by Roger Marx. There are three original etchings, and seven original lithographs. Also presented are etchings, monotypes, original lithographs [prints, musical covers, posters and book cover designs]. FREITAG 9143. Text in French. Partly unopened, interior contents clean, printed on glossy stock, cloth backstrip, contents loosely inserted in stiff printed wrappers with pictorial medallion of Naoum Aronson. Orig. gray stiff wrappers, cloth spine. Very good. (#19838) $725.00
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[MOURLOT FRERES]
10A. Derain, Andre (Illustrator).
Le Barbier De Seville by P.-A.C. de Beaumarchais Decors & Personnages Par Andre Derain.
Paris: Nouveau Cercle Parisien, 1963. 153 pages. Folio, 37 x 29 cm. The watercolors and lithographs printed by Mourlot Freres. Limited edition, copy CXX of 270 printed for Madame Therese Moncey on velin de Rives. The first 150 copies printed in Roman letters. Fifty six original lithographs with 52 in color -- eight double-paged, 44 in text. The Derain illustrations originally designed for the sets and costumes of Rossini's opera in 1953 at the Aix-en-Provence festival. Loose as issued in original printed wrappers. Fine in fine chemise in fine beige board cloth in near fine matching cloth slipcase. (#22201) $725.00
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[BOOK ARTS]
11. Dodgson, Campbell.
A Complete Catalogue Of The Etchings And Dry-Points Of Edmund Blampied.
London: Halton & Truscott Smith, 1926. First edition. 28 pages in text. 29 x 23.5 cm. Limited edition, copy 47 of 350 including an original signed etched frontispiece by Blampied entitled "The Cooling Stream." 99 plates with lettered tissue guards. An eminent artist born in the Parish of Saint Martin, Jersey in the Channel Islands whose first language was Jerrais, a French/Norman tongue. Elected to the Royal Society of British Artists in 1938, he produced some 200 etchings and drypoints, and more than 80 lithographs and lithographic prints, many of which depicted rural life in his beloved island of Jersey. He was also a prolific illustrator, appearing in around 50 books and over 600 issues of magazines and newspapers. Laid in is letter on Cleveland Museum of Art stationary noting the exhibition of Blampied sponsored by the Print Club of Cleveland, together with a Catalogue of the Exhibition. Clean, very bright copy, book plate. Orig. brown cloth lettered in gilt. Teg. Fine. (#19850) $750.00
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[BOOK ARTS]
12. Doyle, Richard (Dickie).
The Foreign Tour of Messrs Brown Jones and Robinson Being The History of What They Saw, And Did In Belgium, Germany, etc.
London: Bradbury & Evans, 1854. First edition. 80 pages. 29.5 x 24 cm. 80 wood-engraved illustrations printed recto only. Gordon Ray [THE ILLUSTRATOR AND THE BOOK IN ENGLAND FROM 1790 TO 1914] calls this "Doyle's most personal book with respect to life in the world.....The artist Brown, in whom there is a good deal of Doyle himself, records in scores of little scenes the vicissitudes and humors encountered by his companions and himself during a summer's excursion to Germany and northern Italy." Title page lightly toned, interior generally clean, firm copy. Late 19th century three quarter brown morocco and marbled boards with matching endpapers. Aeg. Very good. (#10491) $225.00
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[SCATALOGICAL]
13. Dubout (Illustrator).
Knock Ou Le Triomphe De La Medecine by Jules Romains Comedie en Trois Actes.
Paris: Le Editions Du Valois, 1953. 192 pages. 26 x 21 cm, fifty-four colored lithographs (aquarelles) by Dubout, inimitably ribald and Gallic -- physicians, buffoons and cheeky bums. -- the original comedy produced Paris, 1923. Limited edition, copy 1002 of 2050. A fresh, bright, and clean copy. Orig. illustrated stiff wrappers. Fine in fine portfolio in slightly nicked matching slipcase. Stiff Wraps. (#17861) $295.00
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[BOOK PLATES]
13A. Fincham, Henry W.
Artists and Engravers of British and American Book Plates A Book of Reference For Book Plate and Print Collectors.
London: Kegan, Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. Ltd, 1897. First edition. 135 pages. 29 x 23 cm. One of 1000 copies. More than seventy illustrations in black and white. Index. List of illustrations of book plates. Quality reproductions on thick paper. KARPEL K385. "A list of bookplates, ranging from the mid-seventeenth to the late nineteenth century is included in this volume. The list is arranged by the name of the engraver, and gives information on the signature, style, date, and provenance of the plates." Two bookplates, one armorial. Backstrip rubbed at extremities, small nick fore-edge back cover. Orig. two-toned brown and tan cloth lettered in black and red. Very good. #23448) $150.00
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[ART DECO]
14. France, Anatole.
La Vie En Fleur Illustrated by Pierre Brissaud.
Paris: Les Editions d' Art Devambez, 1924. 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 Marty, Charles Martin and Georges Lepape. His fashion designs, pochoirs illustrations for "Gazette du Bon Ton" are renown. Lovely, very fresh and crisp copy almost as new. Orig. pale blue illustrated, silk textured wrappers. Fine. (#18255) $395.00
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[BOOK ARTS]
14A. Frith, William Powell.
John Leech His Life and Work.
London: Richard Bentley And Son, 1891. First edition. 268, 306 pages. 22 x 24 cm. Illustrated with portraits, black and white full page and numerous hors texte illustrations. Frith was a traditional painter and raconteur who had 12 children with his wife and seven more with his mistress. He eclipsed George Cruikshank, who always had his pencil at the ready. So much for Victorian prudery. Text and plates fresh and clean. Raised bands, gilt spine panels in arabesque motifs. Contemporary three quarter brown morocco, marbled boards and matching marbled endpapers. Near fine. 2 Vols. Hardcover. (#23329) $250.00
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[DESIGN]
15. Gide Andre.
Thesee.
Paris: Gallimard, 1947. First edition thus. 127 pages. Folio, 38 x 29 cm. Limited edition, copy 396 of 329 sur velin de Lana. 28 original black and white lithographs by Mariano Andreu, a Spanish lithographer, painted and stage designer who produced approximately 30 "Livres de Luxe." His stage designs -- sets and costumes -- included work for Shakespeare (London productions), ballet and 20th Century Fox. "Thesee," originally an early French opera with music by Jean-Baptiste Lully. Text in French. MONOD 5367. Clean, bright copy. Orig. printed stiff wrappers with original glassine. Fine in near fine chemise in moderately worn slipcase. (#19806) $395.00
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[BOOK ARTS]
16. Gorey, Edward.
The Betrayed Confidence Seven Series Of Dogear Wryde Postcards. Orleans, MA: Parnassus, 1992. First edition. Unpaginated. Square 4to 18.5 x 18.5 cm. Compilation of all seven Dogear Wryde Postcard Series, signed by Gorey on title page. Orig, pictorial wrappers. Fine (#19661) $250.00
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[BOOK ARTS]
17. _____.
Menaced Objects Series [Dogear Wryde Postcards].
Np: Np, 1989. First edition. Sixteen illustrated cards in black and white, 6 x 4 inches, 152 x 100 mm. Limited edition copy 13 of 250 signed by Edward Gorey, in original pictorial envelope -- cards are crisp and clean. Illustrated envelope. Fine (#19658) $795.00
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[BOOK ARTS]
18. _____.
Tragedies Topiares [Dogear Wryde Postcards].
Np: Np, 1989. First edition. Twelve illustrated cards in black and white, 6 x 4 inches, 152 x 100 mm. Limited edition one of 250 copies; "This is set o/s" and signed by Edward Gorey, in original pictorial envelope -- cards are crisp and clean. Illustrated envelope slightly dusty. Fine. (#19655) $625.00
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[BOOK ARTS]
19. _____.
Q.R.V. The Universal Solvent.
Np: Fantod Press, 1990. Unpaginated. Square 4to, 14 x 10 cm. Signed by Gorey on the title page. Small dark spot front cover. Orig. white wrappers, front cover paper label.Near fine. $175.00. 20549
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[WOODBLOCKS]
20. Grabhorn, Edwin & Marjorie Grabhorn.
Ukiyo-e "The Floating World" Illustrated by twenty-eight rare examples of Japanese woodblock prints by seventeen great masters of the art.
San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1962. First edition. Unpaginated. Folio, 40 x 26 cm. Limited edition, one of 400 printed at the Grabhorn Press. 28 plates, one double-paged. with descriptive text for each plate representing seventeen master artists of this genre. Very clean, bright copy. Orig. black cloth spine and patterned boards. Fine in fine plain maroon dust wrapper (#19114) $250.00
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[MAPS]
21. Humphreys, Arthur.
Old Decorative Maps And Charts With Illustrations From Engravings In The Macpherson Collection, And A Catalogue Of The Atlases, Etc., In The Collection By Henry Stevens.
London: Halton & Truscott Smith, 1926. First edition. 51 pages in text, plus 43 page catalogue following the plates. Seventy-nine full-page illustrations, including nineteen tipped-in color plates. Limited edition, copy 33 of 100 printed on quality, rag stock. Bright, very fresh copy internally and externally. Three quarter vellum and brown cloth, spine printed in gilt. Teg. Fine in very good, slightly nicked slipcase.. (#17885) $500.00
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[BOOK ARTS/FINE PRINTING]
21B. Hunter, Dard.
Before Life Began 1883-1923.
Cleveland: The Rowfant Club, 1941. First edition. 116 pages. 23 x 15 cm. Limited edition, copy 169 of 219 signed by Bruce Rogers, printed at the press of A. Colish, New York on paper made in the author's mill at Lime Rock Connecticut. The water-mark portrait shows him half-way before life began. The cover paper made by Veronica Ruzicka. In this biography, Hunter, six foot tall at the age of 14 enlisted, and accepted into the cavalry during the Spanish American War only to have his father drag him back home. Also, a good deal of material on his days spent working at the Roycrofters with Elbert Hubbard. Bright, sharp copy, bookplate. Orig. vellum spine and marbled boards. Fine in original worn and chipped glassine overwrapper. (#21313) $350.00
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[ETCHINGS]
22. Laver, James.
A Complete Catalogue Of The Etchings And Dry-Points Of Arthur Briscoe.
London: Halton & Truscott Smith, 1930. First edition. 30 page in text. 28.5 x 23 cm. Limited edition, copy 76 of 250 with an original signed etching by Arthur Briscoe. A marine painter and etcher who studied at the Slade Art School, he was elected an Associate of the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers and Engravers in 1930. An avid sailor himself, Arthur Trevor Briscoe served as a Lieutenant in the R.N.V.R. during W.W.I, holding the command of a Motor Launch: one his duties being to patrol the Scapa Flow. Bright, clean copy, additional penciled bibliographical notes in the Catalogue, Bookplate, slight spine sunning. Orig. navy cloth, beveled edges. Teg. Near fine. (#19849) $590.00
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[PRINTS]
23. Ledoux, Louis V.
Japanese Prints By Harunobe & Shunsho In The Collection Of Louis V. Ledoux -- Volume II.
New York: E. Weyhe, 1945. First edition. Unpaginated. Folio, 36 x 26 cm. Eight plates in full color and forty-four in half tone, each with descriptive text. Limited edition, one of 400. Harunobu flowered late in life, during the last six years he produced his most beautiful designs. Shunsho, one of the most powerful and dramatic artists of the popular school is known as the leading designer of actor prints in hoso-ye form -- Sharaku. Backstrip extremities, lower corners rubbed, covers and interior contents clean and fresh. Orig. beige cloth spine and decorated boards, front cover paper label. Very good. (#18541) $220.00
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[ART DECO]
24. Legrain, Pierre.
Pierre Legrain Relieur Repertoire Descriptif Et Bibliographique De Mille Deux Cent Trente-Six Reliures.
Paris: Librairie Auguste Blaizot, 1965. First edition. 204 pages. 33 x 27 cm. Limited edition, copy 315 of 600 printed on Velin de Rives. Introduction by Professeur Jacques Millot. 243 reproductions of bindings in heliogravure, and seven tipped-in plates in full-color. Handsomely produced retrospective, spectacular Art Deco bindings of Pierre Legrain. Fresh, clean copy, partly unopened, front cover of wrappers very slightly bumped. Orig. printed stiff wrappers. Fine in fine in near fine brown cloth chemise in very good, slightly worn matching cloth slipcase. (#19860) $650.00
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[ART DECO]
25. Legrand, Edy.
Macao & Cosmage Ou L'Experience Du Bonheur.
Paris: Aux Editions de la Nouvelle Revue Francaise, 1919. First edition. 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 text mended with paste tengu-jo, interior contents overall bright, covers darkened, corners worn. Orig. illustrated stiff boards. Very good. (#19843) $675.00
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[ART DECO]
25A. Legrand, Edy (Illustrator).
Voyages & Glorieuses Descovertes Des Grands Navigateurs Et Explorateurs Francais.
Paris: Tolmer, 1921. First edition. Folio, 11" x 15 1/4", 30 pages, 54 illustrations -- one double-page, two large folding maps on Japan, a plethora of pochoir plates (hand-colored through stencils). A triumph of modern French book making depicting the feats of French exploration -- Cartier, de la Salle and Le Perouse. "In England of the halcyon 1920's, Eric Ravilious and Edward Bawden joined Douglas Percy Bliss in a chorus of praise for for MACAO ET COSMAGE, 1919 & VOYAGES." [see: Private Libraries Spring 1969]. Front cover and extremities rubbed, interior contents clean and fresh. Orig. pictorial boards and beige cloth spine. Very good. #22625) $250.00
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[ENGRAVINGS]
26. Louys, Pierre.
Aphrodite.
Paris: L'Intermediare Du Bibliophile, 1929. 258 pages. Folio, 33.5 x 26 cm. Limited edition, copy 294 of 300 (of a total of 325) on Papier de Rives, inscribed and signed by Edouard Chimot. 16 colored engravings by Chimot. The Greek goddess of love born as legend has it when Cronus cut of Uranus' testicles, threw them into the sea, and from which arose Aphrodite in the roiling sea. Clean, fresh copy, wide text margins, spine slightly toned. Contents loose as issued in original printed wrappers with glassine overwrapper. Near fine. (#19337) $1,895.00
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[ETCHINGS]
26A. Masson, Andre.
Jeux Amoureux.
Paris: Galerie Louise Leiris, 1963. First edition. Folio, 33 x 26 cm. Limited edtion, copy 25 of 30 (total edition of 40, ten exemplaires hors commerce) signed by Andre Masson, with nine original etchings on chine applique (BFK Rives watermarked paper), one is mounted on the front wrapper, others are loose as issued, all with tissue guards, and eight etchings inititaled in pencil by Masson. Title with the vignette of the monogram of Kahnweiler engraved after Derain. Printed on the presses of Atelier Crommelynck. Textured, hand made front cover paper with vegetable and floral motifs surround Masson's illustration. Fine in fine custom chemise of blue boards. (#21479) $2,450.00
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[AQUATINTS]
27. Moleville, Antoine-Francois-Bertrand de.
The Costume Of The Hereditary States Of The House Of Austria. London: William Miller, 1804. First edition. IV pages in text. Folio, 37 x 27 cm. 50 hand-colored aquatint plates, two title pages in French and English with text describing the individual plates also in both languages. English text translated by R.C. Dallas, the commentary on the ethnic background of the varied populace of the Austro-Hungarian Empire reflect the social and racial prejudices of the time. ABBEY TRAVEL 71. COLAS, No. 2112. LIPPERHEIDE, No. 831. MARTIN HARDIE p. 151. Internally exceptionally clean, text and plates, a bare hint of offsetting to a few leaves. Extremity rubbing, double gilt border fillets house rectangle of gilt floret designs with those in blind outside the frame, raised bands, spine panels richly gilt. The image of the Jew details the rampant anti-Semitism of the time -- "his hat serves to conceal a bag of money which he is going to lend on usurious interest." Contemporary straight-grain green morocco. Aeg. Very good. (#19191) $1,650.00
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[BOOK ARTS/MOURLOT]
28. Motherlant, Henry de.
Les Jeunes Filles.
Paris: G. Govone, 1938. 187 (2) pages. 32 x 24 cm. Twelve color lithographs by Mariette Lydis, a delicate engraver noted for her prints with a style approximating that of Foujita. Limited edition, copy 304 of 382 on Rives paper printed by Fernand Mourlot. Minor wear to wrappers, text and plates clean and fresh. Orig. printed tan wrappers with unsewn text, loose as issued. Near fine. (#18298) $350.00
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[BOOK ARTS]
29. Mouron, Henri.
A.M. Cassandre.
New York: Rizzoli, 1985. First edition. 314 pages. 28 x 25 cm. 398 illustrations, ninety in color. Written by his son, this monograph presents Cassandre's manipulation of typography and image -- including work for the theater, the great typsetters of the time, as well as the posters. Orig. brick cloth. Fine in fine dust wrapper in clear acetate wrapper. (#17971) $250.00
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[ BOOK ARTS]
30. Pogany, Willy (Illustrator).
The Light Of Asia or The Great Renunciation (Mahabhinishkramana) Being The Life And Teaching Of Gautama Prince of India and Founder of Buddhism (As Told in Verse by and Indian Buddhist) by Sir Edwin Arnold.
Philadelphia: David McKay, 1932. First edition thus. 192 pages. 25 x 20 cm. Illustrated in black and white by Will Pogany. "To Herbert Morrison from his old friend Hollywood 1937." Morrison, Life Peer Baron Morrison of Lambeth was a member of the Labour Party, serving as Foreign Secretary, 1951, and as a Deputy Prime Minister. During World War II he served as Home Secretary. Morrison also created the London greenbelt system and was responsible for the unified London transport system. Crisp, fresh and very bright copy. No dust jacket, but believe not issued by publisher. Orig. black cloth, silver front cover panel with cloth inset illustrated by Pogany. Fine. (#18586) $290.00
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[PRIVATE PRESS]
31. Powys, Llewelyn.
The Book Of Days Of Llewelyn Powys Thoughts From His Philosophy Selected By John Wallis.
London: Golden Cockerel Press, 1937. First edition. 88 pages. Folio, 34 x 24 cm. Title printed in red and black, side notes printed in red, twelve full-page etchings by Elizabeth Corsellis. Limited edition, copy 261 of 295 on Batchelor hand-made paper, out of a total edition of 300, with a special watermark designed by the artist, and bound by Zaehnsdorf. Laid-in, an illustrated prospectus of four pages on salmon stock announcing Autumn Publications with a Subscription Form. PERTOLETE 118. Very slight bump to upper corners. Orig. quarter green morocco and brown canvas boards. Teg. Fine. (#19694) $795.00
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[BOOK ARTS]
32. Rackham, Arthur (Illustrator).
The Ingoldsby Legends Or Mirth & Marvels by Thomas Ingoldsby [Richard Barham].
London: J.M. Dent, 1907. 549 pages. 29 x 23 cm. Limited edition, copy 190 of 560 signed by Rackham.Twenty-four tipped-in color plates on dark green paper with lettered tissue guards, plus 12 duotone plates and text illustrations in black and white. Title page printed in red and brown. This edition is a reprint of the 1898 edition with added illustrations and in a larger format. For Rackham the early years of the 20th century were fraught with economic insecurity. By 1907 he was well established: Dent after the success of "Alice in Wonderland" reissued this work as HAMILTON p.95 notes, "The new edition of "Ingoldsby Legends" had a new frontispiece and some new plates, with earlier plates reworked and many recoloured. Cover decorations in gilt bold and bright, vellum clean, spine gilt lettering slightly faded, mostly at foot, edges uncut. Orig. full vellum, new ribbon ties. Very good. (#18697) $1,500.00
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33. Roder, Carl Gottlieb.
Neue farbig Vorlagen fur die Textil-Industrie (Series I).
Plauen: Verlag von Christian Stoll, 1907. First edition. 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. Orig. brown boards, cloth spine renewed, cover printed in dark red, cloth ties. Very good. (#18739) $2,500.00
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34. Rowlandson, Thomas (Illustrator).
Journal Of Sentimental Travels In The Southern Provinces Of France, Shortly Before The Revolution by William Combe.
London: R. Ackermann, 1821. First edition. 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. Late 19th century three-quarter scarlet morocco and scarlet cloth with marbled endpapers. Teg. Near fine. (#18462) $950.00
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35. Stern, Harold.
Figure Prints of Old Japan A Pictorial Pageant Of Actors & Courtesans Of The Eighteenth Century.
San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1959. First edition. Unpaginated. Folio, 40 x 26 cm. Limited edition, one of 400. Fifty-two colored or tinted plates. Introduction by Harold Stern. Illustrated from original prints in the collection of Edwin and Marjorie Grabhorn, printed by the Grabhorn Press. Reproductions printed recto only. Major contributors in terms of prints depicted are Harunobu, Kiyomasu, Masanobu, Sharaku, Utamaro, Kaigetsudo, et al. Bright, clean and fresh copy. Owner inscription free endpaper. Orig. green cloth spine and pictorial boards. Fine. (#19112) $250.00
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36. Stuart, Gilbert.
Gilbert Stuart An Illustrated Descriptive List of His Works.
New York: William Edwin Rudge, 1926. First edition. Folio, 32 1/2 x 23 cm. Seventy-three engraved portraits of George Washington. Compiled by Lawrence Park. With an Account of His Life by John Hill Morgan and Appreciation by Royal Cortissoz. A monumental undertaking, providing a Descriptive List of The Portraits by Gilbert Stuart as well as nearly 1000 black and white portraits. Park died before this work was published, but his labor of love was dedicated to a man who was also a social chronicler, the pictorial historian of characteristic figures in America's national life at a crucial moment. Catalogue Raisonne. FREITAG 9197. KARPEL H498. "A major and monumental work...." LUCAS p.195. Orig. navy cloth. Teg. Fine. 4 vols. (#23765) $375.00
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37. Surtees, Robert S.
The Analysis Of The Hunting Field; Being A Series Of Sketches Of The Principal Characters That Compose One. The Whole Forming A Slight Souvenir Of The Season, 1845-6.
London: Rudolph Ackermann, 1846. First edition. 326 pages. Six hand-colored plates by Alken, with additional pictorial vignette title, and forty-three illustrations on wood engraved by Cook. GORDON RAY p.36, said of Alken, "He worked in color aquatint in a style akin to that of Rowlandson and the early George Cruikshank, passing from the broader caricature in his early books to a more sober recording of the passing scene in his later." Moderate foxing to first few text leaves, light to moderate toning beyond, plates clean, four pages of adverts at rear. Slight toning to backstrip. Orig. green cloth with pictorial front cover in gilt, sharp and bright. Front cover design replicated on back cover in blind. Aeg. Near fine in custom cloth slipcase. (#18467) $850.00
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[CALLIGRAPHY]
38. Tschichold, Jan.
Schatzkammer Der Schreibkunst Meisterwerke Der Kalligraphie Aus Vier Jahrhunderen Auf Zweihundert Tafeln.
Basel: Birkhauser, 1945. First printing. 13 pages in text. Landscape 4to, 24 x 33 cm. Comprehensive calligraphic study with 199 plates illustrating styles and interpretations spanning 400 years, some capturing human and animal forms. Clean, fresh copy. Orig. decorated boards and white cloth spine. Fine in nicked dust wrapper in original publisher's shipping box. (#20754) $325.00
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[ART NOUVEAU]
39. Uzanne, Octave L.
L'Art Dans La Decoration Exterieure Des Livres en France et a L'Etranger Les Couvertures illustrees les Cartonnages d'Editeurs la Reliure d'Art.
Paris: Societe Francaise d'Editions d'Art, 1898. First edition. 272 pages. 28 x 21 cm. Limited edition, copy 690 of 1000, original wrappers designed by Louis Rhead bound-in. Plethora of color tinted and black white text illustrations. French text treats book decoration and the book arts at the turn of the century at the zenith of Art Nouveau influence -- bindings, cover design, commercial printing. Raised bands, spine panels in floral art nouveau motifs, marbled endpapers, rubbing to lower extremities, interior very clean and fresh. Three quarter navy morocco and patterned boards. Teg. Very good. (#19926) $425.00
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40. Vertes, Marcel (Illustrator).
L'Age D'Or Par Raymond Hesse Lithographies Originales En Couleurs De Marcel Vertes.
Paris: Les Editions De La Roseraie, 1926. First edition. 82 pages in text. 28.5 x 21 cm. Limited edition, copy 61 of 250 on Arches, with an original drawing of Cupid on the half title signed and inscribed by Vertes, and by Hesse -- both to Lucien Bonn. Eleven full page color lithographs by Vertes. The author, a bibliophile, and a lawyer by profession. Vertes, born in Hungary achieved success in Paris during the 1920's: he worked for the satirical magazine, "Rire" and "Gazette Du Bon Ton." His portrayals of women and scenes of Paris street life were arch. Interior contents very fresh, bright and clean, only flaw, slight toning lower portion of front cover. Orig. cream wrappers lettered in gilt. Very good. 20271) $695.00
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41. Westmacott, Charles Molloy [Bernard Blackmantle].
The English Spy: An Original Work, Characteristic, Satirical, And Humorous. Comprising Scenes And Sketches In Every Bank Of Society, Being Portraits Of The Illustrious, Eminent, Eccentric, and Notorious, Drawn From The Life By Bernard Blackmantle.
London: Sherwood, Jones, 1825-1826. First edition. 412, 399 pages. 24 x 15 cm. 71 hand-colored aquatints with tissue guards, of which 67 are by Robert Cruikshank, 2 by Rowlandson and one each by T. Wageman and G.M. Brightly; full page woodcut [Five Principal Orders of Society], and 74 woodcuts in the text, of these 23 are by Rowlandson, the others by Cruikshank, Wageman and Huges. With first issue points -- plate at p.389 in Vol. I misdated 1284 and p.222 in Vol. 2 blank. CBEL Vol. 14, p. 225. " The English Spy, both in text and in illustrations, is sometimes as coarse as ever was Smollet in word or Gillray in drawing, it contains many lively representations of life, high and low, gives much curious information about real people still recongisable under their fictitious names [including Charles Kemble, Macready, Grimaldi, Mme. Vestris, Mathews and Wallack, and also George IV and his mistress] , and preserves many tales of a past age." Further, CBEL notes this work was considered an offshoot of "Life in London," and that Westmacott "appears to have been a blackmailer; but was a spirited and amusing writer." Purportedly, Westmacott received a horsewhipping from Charles Kemble three years after this work was published. ABBEY LIFE 325. TOOLEY 504. Elegantly bound by W. Root & Son. raised bands, spine panels richly gilt, elaborate cover border panel gilt motifs frame inner four corner floral designs in gilt, inner dentelles, marbled endpapers. Exceptionally clean, bright set; plates and text, Vol. I covers rehinged. Early 20th century full brick crushed morocco. Teg. Two vols. Fine. (#19852) $1,695.00
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