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198623945Baltimore MD: The Baltimore Museum of Art 1986. Softcover. VG. Pale grey and illustrated wraps with brown lettering. 89 pp. Numerous color & bw plates. Issued in conjunction with the 1986-1987 exhibition of furniture and artwork designed by Scott Burton 1939-1989. With text by Brenda Richardson and assistance of Trish Walters. 17 works in the exhibition. Exhibition and performance history. Selected bibliography. Chronology of Commissioned work 1980-88. Chronology of studio pieces 1972-86. One of 3500 copies. The Baltimore Museum of Art paperback books
200126006New York: Mitchell-Innes & Nash 2001. Hardcover. VG slight bumping to corners. Cream and gray illustrated boards. 72 pp. 10 figures 22 color plates. Essay by Brenda Richardson. This is the 1st exhibit and catalogue devoted exclusively to de Kooning's tracings. Published to accompany the exhibition held in New York; Mitchell-Innes & Nash March 21 to April 21 2001. Mitchell-Innes & Nash hardcover books
1971128473Berkeley California: University Art Museum Berkeley 1971. Edition limited to 5000 copies unsigned unnumbered. Softcover. VG. pgs edge toned. Yellow mottled wraps metal spiral binding 74 pages profuse bw illustrations some color. Exhibition catalogue. Essay "I am my own Engima" by Brenda Richardson with notes by William T. Wiley. Includes biographical notes selected exhibitions selected bibliography and exhibition checklist. University Art Museum, Berkeley paperback books
1985126516Baltimore Maryland: Baltimore Museum of Art 1985. Softcover. VG- Some creasing at spine. Color illustrated wraps; 202 pp.; Profusely illustrated in bw and color. An overview of the collection of Dr. Claribel and Miss Etta Cone which was bequested to the Baltimore Museum of Art and features works by Matisse Picasso Cezanne Renoir and others; Includes essays by Gertrude Stein and Brenda Richardson as well as annotated chronology of the Cone acquisitions. Baltimore Museum of Art unknown books
199324015New York: Amistad 1993. Hardcover. ix 371p. inscribed on the half-title page and signed by the African American journalist very good first edition in quarter-cloth boards and unclipped dj. Richardson's first novel. Amistad hardcover books
199332439New York: Amistad 1993. Hardcover. ix 371p. first edition dj. African American journalist Richardson's first novel. Amistad hardcover books
199366724New York: Amistad 1993. Hardcover. ix 371p. review slip and author photo laid in first edition very good in a like dj. The African American author's first novel. Amistad hardcover books
1992Embry 146804Baltimore Museum of Art 1992. Revised edition. Fine in custom mylar cover. Full page color reproductions. Oversized paperback. Baltimore Museum of Art, 1992. Revised edition. paperback books
183561406Holley NY 1835. Small 4to notebook approx. 8 x 6 1/4 in. bound in original half calf over marbled boards containing approximately 80 leaves with manuscript entries and designs composed and drawn in ink and pencil; some blank pages scattered throughout. Approximately 50 designs including fully realized furniture styles with measurements some sketches or details of design elements table legs column styles acanthus leaf patterns etc. some more abbreviated images of design features. Dates on some of the drawings indicate the notebook was used between 1830 and 1833. One manuscript entry includes a grid-style list of prices for joints in various woods; another describes the construction of a portable desk giving the cost of various additions to the basic design such as a hollow for pens a square drawer and a book rest. Another 10 pp. offer approximately 18 recipes for stains and varnishes. Three loose scraps containing designs laid in. Moderate wear dampstaining to endpapers otherwise very good. The letterpress broadside advertises Richardson's business and reads in part: "Holley / Cabinet / Ware House. / C. Richardson / would inform the people of Holley and vicinity / that he still continues the cabinet making business 3 doors south of Perry's Tavern." Brockport: A. Edwards Printer 1835. The broadside measures 14 x 11 in. printed in various sizes and styles of type with a central composite image of period furniture including a dresser chairs settee and wash stand the text within a thick ornamental border. Old fold lines some foxing else a nice example. This broadside appears to be unrecorded. A very faint contemporary pencil notation on the front endpaper of the notebook reads "Chase Richardson 1832." This is most likely the same Richardson who had the broadside printed given that some of the illustrations on the broadside appear to be taken from drawings in the accompanying manuscript. Records from Hillside Cemetery Clarendon Orleans County NY just 3 miles from Holley NY mention a Chase Richardson 1810-1839. Both items are housed in recent cloth clamshell boxes with gilt stamped leather labels. At the beginning of the 19th century the furniture industry in America saw a sudden shift of its epicenter from Philadelphia to New York. Dubbed the "London of America" it was thought at the time that New York would in fact be the leader in business in the United States. To facilitate the cabinetmaking industry a new directory for cabinetmakers in New York was published in 1805 and various guides were issued helping craftsmen to price their furniture. Styles were elegant and influenced highly by the European furniture which was also being imported into New York. Phyfe Allison and Ash produced some of the finest examples of furniture from that period. However although the high styles of the time may have been determined by these well known cabinetmakers others imitated and added their own interpretations.<br/>John L. Scherer in his exhibition catalog "New York Furniture: The Federal Period 1788-1825" Albany: 1988 states: "Eventually cabinetmakers in upstate towns and villages who picked up New York City styles rendered their own versions. Using local woods this furniture evokes a spirit of the time with a dash of country charm. As trends in New York State furniture moved upstate they also spread across the country. New York remained in the forefront of furniture design and production until the end of the century." This fine group of material illustrates an 1830's provincial craftsman working in the newly fashionable Empire-style designs. Among the more fully executed designs in this notebook are a washstand stool dressing tables and secretaries each with detailed measurements. Some are titled such as "French Bureau" "Grecian Card Table" and "Portable Secretary." Others may have been sketched during a trip to York Ontario now Toronto including "York Bureau No. 1 and 2." Richardson was aware of the developments in furniture design in other parts of the state. One of the notes beside a drawing of a "Dress Beauro sic Plain" mentions what the same item sold for at Meads & Alvords. John Meads & William Alvord operated a successful cabinet-maker's shop in Albany NY until Alvord's death in 1847 according to a "Bi-centennial History of Albany" published by W.W. Munsell in 1886. The notebook also includes details of carving designs such as foliage scrolls turning profiles and volutes. In the back of the volume are several recipes for varnishes and stains some intended to imitate more expensive materials such as mahogany curly maple and marble. For example to imitate birds eye maple one had only to mix "cuprite two shades darker than white lead & chrome yellow & V. Red plus Raw Terra de Sena" using a quill and fingers as tools. Many of these recipes are credited to other cabinet-makers residing in Ontario and northern New England. A recipe for white varnish came from John Bradshaw of Waterson sp a stain for Rose Wood Chairs from Silas Alden of Boston a German Polish recipe from Clark H. Ober of New Ipswich etc. While information and documentation for furniture makers in the larger cities is often obtainable information on smaller local artisans is much more scarce. <br/>Both items were inherited by Gertrude Cole Simmons 1895-1985 of an old Holley-area family. Her grandmother was Ellen Maria Richardson Cowles 1838-1873 who may have been the daughter or niece of the cabinet maker C. Richardson. <br/><br/> hardcover books
183548691Holley NY 1835. Small 4to notebook approx. 8" x 6¼" bound in original half calf over marbled boards containing approximately 80 leaves with manuscript entries and designs composed and drawn in ink and pencil; some blank pages scattered throughout. Approximately 50 designs including fully realized furniture styles with measurements some sketches or details of design elements table legs column styles acanthus leaf patterns etc. some more abbreviated images of design features. Dates on some of the drawings indicate the notebook was used between 1830 and 1833. One manuscript entry includes a grid-style list of prices for joints in various woods; another describes the construction of a portable desk giving the cost of various additions to the basic design such as a hollow for pens a square drawer and a book rest. Another 10 pp. offer approximately 18 recipes for stains and varnishes. Three loose scraps containing designs laid in. Moderate wear dampstaining to endpapers otherwise very good. The letterpress broadside advertises Richardson's business and reads in part: "Holley / Cabinet / Ware House. / C. Richardson / would inform the people of Holley and vicinity / that he still continues the cabinet making business 3 doors south of Perry's Tavern." Brockport: A. Edwards Printer 1835. The broadside measures 14" x 11" printed in various sizes and styles of type with a central composite image of period furniture including a dresser chairs settee and wash stand the text within a thick ornamental border. Old fold lines some foxing else a nice example. This broadside appears to be unrecorded. A very faint contemporary pencil notation on the front endpaper of the notebook reads "Chase Richardson 1832." This is most likely the same Richardson who had the broadside printed given that some of the illustrations on the broadside appear to be taken from drawings in the accompanying manuscript. Records from Hillside Cemetery Clarendon Orleans County NY just 3 miles from Holley NY mention a Chase Richardson 1810-1839. Both items are housed in recent cloth clamshell boxes with gilt stamped leather labels. At the beginning of the 19th century the furniture industry in America saw a sudden shift of its epicenter from Philadelphia to New York. Dubbed the "London of America" it was thought at the time that New York would in fact be the leader in business in the United States. To facilitate the cabinetmaking industry a new directory for cabinetmakers in New York was published in 1805 and various guides were issued helping craftsmen to price their furniture. Styles were elegant and influenced highly by the European furniture which was also being imported into New York. Phyfe Allison and Ash produced some of the finest examples of furniture from that period. However although the high styles of the time may have been determined by these well known cabinetmakers others imitated and added their own interpretations. John L. Scherer in his exhibition catalog "New York Furniture: The Federal Period 1788-1825" Albany: 1988 states: "Eventually cabinetmakers in upstate towns and villages who picked up New York City styles rendered their own versions. Using local woods this furniture evokes a spirit of the time with a dash of country charm. As trends in New York State furniture moved upstate they also spread across the country. New York remained in the forefront of furniture design and production until the end of the century." This fine group of material illustrates an 1830's provincial craftsman working in the newly fashionable Empire-style designs. Among the more fully executed designs in this notebook are a washstand stool dressing tables and secretaries each with detailed measurements. Some are titled such as "French Bureau" "Grecian Card Table" and "Portable Secretary." Others may have been sketched during a trip to York Ontario now Toronto including "York Bureau No. 1 and 2." Richardson was aware of the developments in furniture design in other parts of the state. One of the notes beside a drawing of a "Dress Beauro sic Plain" mentions what the same item sold for at Meads & Alvords. John Meads & William Alvord operated a successful cabinet-maker's shop in Albany NY until Alvord's death in 1847 according to a "Bi-centennial History of Albany" published by W.W. Munsell in 1886. The notebook also includes details of carving designs such as foliage scrolls turning profiles and volutes. In the back of the volume are several recipes for varnishes and stains some intended to imitate more expensive materials such as mahogany curly maple and marble. For example to imitate birds eye maple one had only to mix "cuprite two shades darker than white lead & chrome yellow & V. Red plus Raw Terra de Sena" using a quill and fingers as tools. Many of these recipes are credited to other cabinet-makers residing in Ontario and northern New England. A recipe for white varnish came from John Bradshaw of Waterson sp a stain for Rose Wood Chairs from Silas Alden of Boston a German Polish recipe from Clark H. Ober of New Ipswich etc. While information and documentation for furniture makers in the larger cities is often obtainable information on smaller local artisans is much more scarce. Both items were inherited by Gertrude Cole Simmons 1895-1985 of an old Holley-area family. Her grandmother was Ellen Maria Richardson Cowles 1838-1873 who may have been the daughter or niece of the cabinet maker C. Richardson. See also: Finkelman Encyclopedia of the New American Nation: The Emergence of the United States 1754-1829. Detroit 2006; Scherer New York Furniture: The Federal Period 1788-1825. Albany 1988; and Scherer New York Furniture at the New York State Museum Alexandria VA 1984. <br/><br/> hardcover books
1953012405Paris France: Unesco 1953. Book. Very good condition. Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo 8vo. 341 pages of text including a bibliography. Hardcover binding with a bump to the bottom of the spine. Unclipped dustjacket with a large chip to the bottom of the front panel and a chip at the bottom of the spine with moderate shelfwear rubbing and browning; protected in archival mylar. Several pages with small pencil checkmarks in the margins. Previous owner's bookplate neatly on the front endpaper. Minor browning to page edges. Unesco Hardcover books
1870275305London: Hotten 1870. hardcover. very good. Color frontis many text illustrations. viii 504pp. plus ads thick 12mo decorative green cloth; scattered foxing corners rubbed and with neat repairs to spine ends. London: John Camden Hotten 1870. A very good copy.<br/><br/> Hotten unknown books
2006012044Manchester University Press 2006. Cloth. Fine/Near Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 255p. index bibliography. The author has unearthed a wide range of previoulsy published documentary evidence as well as consulting published works that deal with ordinary households which influenced tragedies. Consequintly it enables us to see the background of theatre that has often been missed. The aurthor is lecturer in English and History at the Shakespeare Institute. Manchester University Press unknown books
134141NY: Wm. Helburn n.d. Hardcover. Good ex-library with expected marks plus all pages and plates are marked with a perforation Frayed cloth at spine ends discoloration to cover and a dampstain on the right edge of cloth leaving a touch of red dye at the very edge of the first two plates. Red library buckram. 92 duotone plates. Oversize. Ornaments for interior design architecture staircases ceilings walls mouldings etc. and mostly large furnitureInterior Components - European. Wm. Helburn hardcover books
183644559London: William Pickering 1836. First edition 2 volumes 4to pp. 4 1183 1; 4 1185-2222 1; contemporary and probably original full calf double gilt-ruled borders gilt-decorated spine in 5 compartments black gilt-lettered morocco spine labels partially perished; rebacked original spines laid down; boards a bit scratched hinges reinforced else very good and sound. Contemporary armorial bookplate of Nathaniel Ellison on front pastedowns. The most substantial lexicographical undertaking in England between Johnson and the O.E.D. "Richardson was an ardent philologist of the school of Horne Tooke . His principle was to arrive at the original and proper meaning which was inherent in a word from its etymology" see DNB. <br/><br/> William Pickering hardcover books
184434089London: William Pickering 1844. 2 volumes 4to pp. 36 1183 1; 4 1185-2226 2; slightly later full polished tan gilt-paneled spines in 6 compartments citron and brown morocco labels; all edges marbled some rubbing but generally very good. The most substantial lexicographical undertaking in England between that of Samuel Johnson and the O.E.D. "First published as part of the Encyclopaedia Metropolitana 1818-37 it consisted of a great many illustrative quotations drawn from literature but with relatively few and brief definitions . Richardson's approach was based on the notion that quotations alone if sufficient in number could serve to elucidate 'true etymological meaning.' He went far beyond Johnson in collecting quotations beginning at the fourteenth century Johnson went back only to the end of the 16th century . Richardson sought by his vast collection of quotations to justify the preposterous theory of John Horne Tooke that each word had a single immutable meaning. In his own work each word and its derivatives were given one etymology and one meaning. His etymologies were as preposterous as his theories but his dictionary was of great interest to lexicographers because it foreshadowed the historical collections of quotations that were later to form the basis of the Oxford English Dictionary" Landau Dictionaries p. 66. Based on the "historical principle" of lexicography this work formed an important link between Johnson and the O.E.D. Kennedy 6437. <br/><br/> William Pickering unknown books
183830869London: William Pickering 1838. Second edition 2 volumes thick 4to pp. 4 71 1 1183 1; 4 1185-2222 1; text in triple column; publisher's 1/4 brown morocco scuffed prelims and terminals spotted; a good sound set. First published in the same format in 1836-37. Based on the "historical principle" of lexicography this work formed the most substantial link between Samuel Johnson and the OED. Kennedy 6429; Vancil p. 204. <br/><br/> William Pickering unknown books
183631189London: William Pickering 1836. First edition 2 volumes 4to pp. 4 1183 1; 4 1185-2222 1; contemporary and probably original full calf double gilt-ruled borders gilt-decorated spine in 5 compartments gilt-lettered in 2; rebacked original spines laid down; spines a little rubbed else very good and sound. The most substantial lexicographical undertaking in England between Johnson and the O.E.D. "Richardson was an ardent philologist of the school of Horne Tooke . His principle was to arrive at the original and proper meaning which was inherent in a word from its etymology" see DNB. Based on the "historical principle" of lexicography this work formed the most substantial link between and the O.E.D. <br/><br/> William Pickering unknown books
184620069Philadelphia: E.H. Butler & Co 1846. First edition printed in America from William Pickering's stereotype plates; 2 volumes 4to pp. 4 71 1 1183 1; 2 1185-2222 1; contemporary full calf red morocco labels on spines some rubbing and wear but generally good and sound. The most substantial lexicographical undertaking in England between that of Samuel Johnson and the O.E.D. "First published as part of the Encyclopaedia Metropolitana 1818-37 it consisted of a great many illustrative quotations drawn from literature but with relatively few and brief definitions . Richardson's approach was based on the notion that quotations alone if sufficient in number could serve to elucidate 'true etymological meaning.' He went far beyond Johnson in collecting quotations beginning at the fourteenth century Johnson went back only to the end of the 16th century . Richardson sought by his vast collection of quotations to justify the preposterous theory of John Horne Tooke that each word had a single immutable meaning. In his own work each word and its derivatives were given one etymology and one meaning. His etymologies were as preposterous as his theories but his dictionary was of great interest to lexicographers because it foreshadowed the historical collections of quotations that were later to form the basis of the Oxford English Dictionary" Landau Dictionaries p. 66. Based on the "historical principle" of lexicography this work formed an important link between Johnson and the O.E.D. Kennedy 6449. <br/><br/> E.H. Butler & Co unknown books
183628120London: William Pickering 1836. First edition 2 volumes 4to pp. 4 1183 1; 4 1185-2222 1; recent red cloth gilt-lettered direct on gilt-paneled spine; very good and sound. The most substantial lexicographical undertaking in England between Johnson and the O.E.D. "Richardson was an ardent philologist of the school of Horne Tooke . His principle was to arrive at the original and proper meaning which was inherent in a word from its etymology" see DNB. Based on the "historical principle" of lexicography this work formed the most substantial link between Samuel Johnson and the O.E.D. <br/><br/> William Pickering hardcover books
188862421Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company 1888. 88p. first edition minor pencil marginalia original cloth binding slightly soiled with minor edgewear. J.B. Lippincott Company unknown books
1923245030London: London & Counties Press 1923. hardcover. very good. 2 volumes only. Profusely illustrated with the frontispiece of Vol. I being an original signed etching by Alick P.F. Ritchie. Title in red and black printed on heavy rag paper small thick folio full leather original dark brown morocco gilt-lettered covers t.e.g. lettered tissue guards; edges slightly rubbed. London: The London & Counties Press 1923 1927. First Edition No. 417 of only 475 numbered sets. Very good.<br/><br/> Limited Edition one of 475 numbered copies. One of the most complete histories of thoroughbred racing breeding training and sporting history in England and America.<br/><br/> London & Counties Press unknown books
1923258560London: The London & Counties Press Association 1923. First edition No. 127 of only 475 complete sets. Profusely illustrated with the frontispiece of Vol. I being an original signed etching by Alick P.F. Ritchie. 3 vols. Large 4to 12-1/2 x 10-3/4 inches. Original dark brown morocco almost fine. First edition No. 127 of only 475 complete sets. Profusely illustrated with the frontispiece of Vol. I being an original signed etching by Alick P.F. Ritchie. 3 vols. Large 4to 12-1/2 x 10-3/4 inches. An imposing substantial study of flat racing steeplechasing breeding training stable management and sporting history contained in three massive volumes printed on heavy rag paper totaling over 1200 pages with 229 superb plates and representing an extraordinary production which would be impossible to duplicate today. Loder 1162 The London & Counties Press Association unknown books
1888008673New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons 1888. SCARCE in complete two volume set. Published 1888 Vol. I. The Development of American Thought.-- 1889 Vol. II. American Poetry and Fiction. Handsomely bound in contemporary half red morocco over marbled boards gilt lettering back marbled end papers tops gilt. Near Fine a few small rubs to morocco at spines. Richardson's influential full-scale analysis of the history of American literature his most important work. . Early Printing. Half Morocco. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. G. P. Putnam's Sons Hardcover books
188166763London: Sampson Low Marston Searle & Rivington 1881. First edition. 222 pp w/index. Very good plus in full white parchment-covered boards with the cover printed in black and red. Chip to spine. London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, hardcover books
