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Silhouettes and Songs. Illustrative of the Months.
Poems by eminent authors.
Boston: Lockwood, Brooks & Co, 1877. Green percaline hardback boards, with gilt and black embossed design to front board. Blind stamped vignette to rear board. Bevelled edges. All edges gilt. Cracking to paper of front board, but binding. Light to moderate foxing throughout. [8] pages, 24 unnumbered leaves of plates with text - one for each month of the year. Silhouette designs by Helen Maria Hinds. Poems featured by Spenser (Faerie Queene), J. G. Whittier, Hiram Rich, Celia Thaxter, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Samuel Longfellow, Julia Ward Howe, James Freeman Clarke, James Russell Lowell, Lucy Larcom, Edward E. Hale, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Rose Terry, L.T.C. Howison. 205 x 260 mm (8 x 10¼ inches). Conforms to OCLC: 684756690.
Book ID: 4786More details Price: £60.00 -
Snob a L'Exposition
Book ID: 5382More details Price: £175.00 -
Snow at night
Book ID: 5687More details Price: £350.00 -
Souvenirs Exotiques. Schilderijen / Paintings 1999-2005
Condition: .
Book ID: 2685More details Price: £45.00 -
St Paul's Cathedral
Book ID: 5338More details Price: £60.00 -
St Pierre Rome
St Peter's Rome
Book ID: 5462More details Price: £75.00 -
Storied Past. Four Centuries of French Drawings from the Blanton Museum of Art.
Blanton Museum of Art in association with Hudson Hills Press, 2011. First edition. Hardback in original unclipped dust jacket. Both book and jacket in near fine condition. 160 pages. 285 x 260 mm (11¼ x 10¼ inches).
Book ID: 3691More details Price: £26.00 -
Suburbia caricatured.
Book ID: 4932More details Price: £45.00 -
Tableaux, pastels et dessins de Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Volume 1 (of 2)
Book ID: 4061More details Price: £275.00 -
Tagebücher von Paul Klee 1898-1918. Herausgegeben und eingeleitert von Felix Klee
Koln: Verlag M. DuMont Schauberg, 1957. German language. 1st edition. 2 coloured plates (these may be tipped in post cards - but very neatly done). Several black and white photographs and illustrations throughout. Yellow hardback with what illustration in white to the front board. Fading to the spine, and the spine edge is beginning to fray. Internally in good condition but with a touch of darkening to the page edges. Owner's bookplate to the inside front board. 426 pages. 225 by 180mm (8¾ by 7 inches).
Book ID: 2792More details Price: £20.00 -
Tais toi donc, si Lebrun voulait en donner deux des jours de congé, rien l'empecherait.
Book ID: 5364More details Price: £50.00 -
Taxidermies
Book ID: 5492More details Price: £40.00 -
The Art of Maurice Sendak
New York: Abradale Press / Harry N. Abrams, 1993. First edition. Green hardback book inside original colour illustrated, unclipped dust jacket. With 261 illustrations throughout, includes 94 colour, including fold-out / gatefold plates. Very clean and tidy. mark to the base of the book - possibly remainder mark. Otherwise immaculate inside and out. 278 pages. 28 x 30 cm.
. Première édition. Livre cartonné vert avec jaquette d'origine illustrée en couleur, non décousue. Avec 261 illustrations tout au long de l'ouvrage, dont 94 en couleur, y compris des planches dépliantes. Très propre et bien rangé. Une marque à la base du livre - peut-être une marque d'oubli. Autrement, l'intérieur et l'extérieur sont impeccables. 278 pages. 28 x 30 cm.
Book ID: 5035More details Price: £45.00 -
The art of Rubery Bennett.
Sydney: Angus & Robertson Ltd, 1954. Limited edition. Unnumbered, only 1,000 copies. Signed in blue ink on limitation page by Bennett. With 23 tipped-in colour reproductions, in its original dust jacket. With an introduction by William Dargie. Unpaginated. 290 x 220 mm (11½ x 8¾ inches).
William Rubery Bennett was an Australian landscape artist whose work is still in high demand.
Condition: Some handling and small closed tears / chips to the dust jacket edges, and some soiling to back. Book is rubbed at edges. Gift inscription to front pastedown. Pages show some signs of age, overall a good copy of a scarce work.
Book ID: 2763More details Price: £30.00 -
The Book of Stars.
Photographies 1928 - 1990.
Munich - Paris: Schirmer / Mosel, 1991. First edition. Burgundy cloth hardback boards in original unclipped dust jacket. 140 full-page b/w portrait photos. A whole range of celebrities from Fred Astaire, Greta Garbo, and Bette Davis, to Kathleen Turner, Grace Jones and Dolph Lundgren, and Diana Ross. Book boards, dust jacket and contents all in very good condition. 355 x 270 mm (14 x 10¾ inches).
Book ID: 3872More details Price: £40.00 -
The Cad to the Man Wot Drives the Sovereign
London: Thomas McLean, 1829. A lovely copy of this hand coloured engraving. A political satire, mocking Sir William Peel as being Wellington's fixer. Clean impression, and nice bright colouring. The sheet is fixed to a backing paper which is slightly stiffer. Blank verso. Image is 36cm x 26cm. Backing sheet is 42cm x 32cm.
. Un bel exemplaire de cette gravure coloriée à la main. Une satire politique qui se moque de Sir William Peel, considéré comme l'homme à tout faire de Wellington. Impression propre et belles couleurs vives. La feuille est fixée sur un support légèrement plus rigide. Verso vierge. L'image mesure 36 cm x 26 cm. La feuille de support mesure 42 cm x 32 cm.
Book ID: 4883More details Price: £150.00 -
The Cockpit
Book ID: 5001More details Price: £120.00 -
The Graphic Language of Neville Brody.
With 474 illustrations, 101 in full colour.
London: Thames and Hudson, 1988. First edition. Softback. An attractive artbook on Brody's work. Printed in double columns of text, and full of illustrations throughout. Clean and tidy, with just a touch of handling to the mainly white covers. 160 pages. 30cm x 25cm.
. Première édition. Couverture souple. Un beau livre d'art consacré à l'œuvre de Brody. Imprimé en double colonne, il regorge d'illustrations. Propre et soigné, avec juste quelques traces d'usure sur la couverture principalement blanche. 160 pages. 30 cm x 25 cm.
Book ID: 5467More details Price: £30.00 -
The Graphic Work of Howard Cook: A Catalogue Raisonné
Book ID: 4714More details Price: £100.00 -
The Inflexible Porter, a Tragedy
London: J.R. Smith, 1783. Stipple print engraving. Conforms to British Museum Satires 6343 - Museum number J,6.58. The engraving shows a porter lifting up both hands to show the impossibility of access to his master. He is addressing a would-be visitor, who faces him with his hat in hand, pointing towards his companion, a young man who stands with one hand is in his pocket, and the other, holding his hat, rests on the head of his cane. Under passe-partout. In excellent condition. 245 x 265 mm (9¾ x 10½ inches).
Book ID: 3563More details Price: £175.00

































































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