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20192111902154603674Iwanamishoten 2019. Soft Cover. Fine. The book is in fine condition. Iwanamishoten paperback
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19382092902137502765Kawaideshobo 1938. Soft Cover. Fine. Size: 46 size Number of books: 6 Kawaideshobo paperback
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18391726411839. MERIMEE M.J.F.L. The Art of Painting in Oil and in Fresco. With Original Observations. By W.B. Sarsfield Taylor. xliv 371 pp. illustrated with 2 hand-coloured plates - the English chromatic scale of M. Harris and the French chromatic scale of Merimee. 8vo 190 x 115 mm. bound contemporary half morocco London: Whittaker & Co. 1839. First Edition in English; originally published Paris 1830; translated into English by W. B. Sarsfield Taylor. It was called by Faber Birren "perhaps the most important book on painting of the early 19th century." History of color in painting p. 55. The subtitle states the work is "a history of the various processes and materials employed from its discovery by Hubert and Jan Van Eyck to the present time.with original observations on the rise and progress of British Art the French and English chromatic scales and theories of colouring by W.B.S.T." Chapter six deals with conservation and restoration and is given a good analysis in Ruhemann/Plesters pp. 384-5. Noted also by Mayer in The Artist's handbook: "one of the first of the carefully written books on methods and materials; an authentic account of the knowledge of the present day." p. 352. Also contains information on pigments; multiple references in R. D. Harley Artist's pigments. Birren Collection 455. The Book of Colour Concepts 170. unknown
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1839008893London England: Whittaker & Co. 1839. Book. Good-VG. Half-Leather. First U.K. Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. The 1839 London translation of Merimee's book originally published in French in 1830. The standard technical recipe text of the mid-19th century referred to by both Eastlake and Merrifield. First English language first English edition. Half-leather scuffed with exposure and surface loss at various points some loss at spine extremities with marbled paper over boards four raised bands lettered in gilt. Front board detached along joint but still firmly anchored by both binding cords; rear board detached and anchored only by one binding cord. Former owner book plate of Henry D. Gilpin 1801-1860 Quaker lawyer and statesman U.S. Attorney General 1840-41 under President Martin Van Buren on front pastedown. Text block is fully intact. xliv 371 pp. w/ two hand-colored plates the first the frontis. of English Chromatic Scale Moses Harris's colour-wheel the second after p. 244 of the French Chromatic Scale Merimee's both with intact tissue guards. This translation of Merimee's famous French treatise was made at the suggestion of Mulready Etty and Wilkie. This volume contains substantial extracts from the original manuscript of Harris's "Natural History of Colours" which the author describes as a "work . . . so very scarce that I have never seen a copy of it" p.350. Recommended leather restoration would significantly enhance appearance but this copy is still quite presentable "as is" and could be recased to provide a complement to its near-immaculate interior. Noted condition as Good-VG weighs semi-detached boards and chipped leather against the quite tidy state of the text block itself which is solid Near Fine and its former ownership. Published by Whittaker & Co. Ave Maria Lane printed by Gilbert & Rivington in St. John's Square. Exceedingly scarce. Whittaker & Co. Hardcover
183917113London: Whittaker & Co 1839. First edition in English. Hardcover. Very good. 8vo. xliv 371 pp. Original blue-green T-grain cloth; title in gilt on spine and the boards blocked with a design in blind; yellow coated endpapers. With two hand-colored plates the first the frontispiece of English Chromatic Scale Moses Harris's colour-wheel the second after p. 244 of the French Chromatic Scale Merimee's. The 1839 London translation of Merimee's book originally published in French in 1830. Cloth spotted and unevenly sunned on the upper board; inner hinged neatly mended; else a very good copy. With the penciled signature of Nash Hood and with three pencil sketches apparently by him on the endpapers. Rare. Whittaker & Co hardcover
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