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1891175254Tokio: Hakubunsha Ginza Kelly and Walsh Ltd. et al. 1891. Softcover. Fair only. Front cover gonwe spine missing and contents loose due to the glue and babric along the cloth having deteriorated. Contents clean and bright corners mostly sharp light soiling to exposed areas. A very nice reference copy not for the collector necessarily. Glued thick wraps. Rear cover only present with colored floral imagery. xii 152 1 pp. with 30 colored plates with tissue guards 54 bw plates and 26 figures printed within the text. Last numbered page is 136 followed by a series of plate pages and then a single sheet with a colophon in Japanese after this. This edition measure 14.25" x 10.5" Text is in English. Two-page Preface by the author. Lovely color plates with rice-paper tissue guards. Sections are sewn together at the spine but these threads are fragile. Sold as a reading or reference copy only. Includes works by Tsukioka Yoshitoshi and Kawanabe Kiosui and others. Swann tells us "One of the earliest illustrated works on the art of Japanese Ikebana or flower arranging. Conder who served as official architect to the Imperial Japanese Government published a brief paper on the subject in the Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan in 1889 prompting this fuller illustrated monograph." Hakubunsha, Ginza, Kelly and Walsh Ltd. et al. hardcover books
1868103010Philadelphia: Artists' Fund Society of Philadelphia Galleries 1868. Hardbound. Fair. Spine cloth has several tears along hinge 3 small areas of loss including one at each end inner hinges have cracks rear hinge fragile. Light foxing throughout. Binding fragile nine plates separated laid in. Oversize book purple-brown cloth boards gilt titles embossed cover design and beveled edges. Embossed title on back cover. 3 text leaves plus 20 bw plates. "Issued By The Society To Its Associate Members and Subscribers." 15 of the 20 plates are signed by the artist in pencil unsigned artists desaignated by "NS." Includes works by C. Schussele NS I.L. Williams George C. Lambdin Thomas Moran Daniel R. Knight William Trost Richards NS Peter Moran S.J. Ferris William H. Willcox Edward Moran V. De V. Bonfield Samuel B. Waugh James Hamilton NS N.H. Trotter T. Henry Smith NS Samuel Sartain E.B. Bensell NS John Faulkner George B. Wood Jr. and T.J. Fenimore. Artists' Fund Society of Philadelphia Galleries hardcover books
WALTER-FILM000041No binding. Fine. Fine Art Print Vintage original 11 x 14"" 28 x 35 cm. lobby card USA Douglas Fairbanks Billie Dove Tempe Pigott Donald Crisp Sam De Grasse dir: Albert Parker; United Artists. One of Douglas Fairbanks' best roles and one of the most memorable silent films which set the standard for all pirate epics to follow. Story of a nobleman who vows to avenge his father's death by the hands of pirates. He infiltrates their band and becomes known as the black pirate. Dove appears at left with Fairbanks and a sword duel is presented within the shape of the pirate ship behind. The star the title and the fact that it is ""Photographed in Technicolor"" is all that is needed to promote this epic FINE. unknown books
1918107391New York: National Arts Club 1918. Hardbound. Portfolio case is worn chipped and tattered. Contents generally VG with age toning. Cardboard portfolio with ties and tipped-on facsimile of woman's head. 50 leaves inside contents 46 of 47 called for images 1 duplicate image one uncalled-for image and reproduction of written text by Pennell. "This unique collection of drawings was contributed to the "American Artist's War Emergency Fund" by forty-seven American artists to be disposed of for the benefit of this fund." Second leaf is a lithograph of a handwritten brief essay on lithography by Joseph Pennell. 37th drawing in the portfolio is also by Pennell. This copy has two copies of a contribution by Henry Walker and lacks the contribution listed for Ben Foster. There is however an unlisted contribution by G.H. Buer that is printed on a smaller sized sheet than the rest. Those artists represented in this set include Hugo Ballin Cecilia Beaux Edwin Blashfield Ernest Blumenshein George De Forest Brush G.H. Buer Howard Russell Butler Ercole Cartotto Frederick S. Church B.West Clinedinest Colin Campbell Cooper E. Irving Couse Kenyon Cox Charles C. Curran Eliott Daingerfield Paul Dougherty Ben Foster - lacking Daniel Garber Charles Dana Gibson Philip Leslie Hale Childe Hassam Ernest Ipsen Francis C. Jones Hugh Bolton Jones Arthur I. Keller Paul King Ella Conde Lamb William H. Lippincott Will H. Low Clara Mac Chesney F. Luis Mora H. Siddons Mowbray Ivan G. Olinsky Violet Oakley Maxfield Parrish William Macgregor Paxton Henry W. Parton Joseph Pennell Edward H. Potthast William Ritschel Henry B. Snell Gardner Symons C.Y. Turner Douglas Volk Henry O. Walker 2 copies Harry W. Watrous J. Alden Weir and Irving R. Wiles. An extraordinarily rare item. National Arts Club hardcover books
14072501New York: Stewart Tabori & Chang 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Johnston Ollie and Thomas Frank. Quarto size 208 pp. signed by Ollie Johnston Frank Thomas Marc Davis and Maurice Noble. Both the book and the companion flip book are signed by animators Ollie Johnston Frank Thomas Marc Davis and Maurice Noble. Johnston Thomas and Davis were three of Walt Disneys' "Nine Old Men" and Marc Davis developed and animated the characters of Bambi and Thumper. Maurice Noble was with Disney Studios for the early part of his career and worked on the development of the Bambi film. <br/><br/>Who amongst us has not either read the book by Felix Salten published in the 1920s or seen the film done in 1942 As the authors wrote "From the start 'Bambi' was a very different picture. It had a fantasy and reality all its own separate from Walt Disney's other films. This was no imaginary forest that one could enter and leave at will. Whoever ventured in became part of an experience so strong that neither heart nor mind could ever forget its impact". <br/><br/>This book bridges the worlds between the book and the film and invite us into the world in which the authors and animators worked and lived every day: how to bring the magic of the book and the story onto the big screen. Apparently Walt Disney himself envisioned such a book for the authors dedicated the book to him with the following words: "We dedicate this book to Walt Disney who asked for it fifty years ago.Sorry Walt - you always said we were slow".<br/><br/>We are offering this set together as they were originally sold and as they were meant to be with both the Flip Book and the standard volume. BOTH VOLUMES ARE SIGNED BY ALL FOUR ARTISTS. The companion Flip Book displays short animation sequences for Bambi Ollie Johnston Thumper Frank Thomas Friend Owl Eric Larson and Bambi as the grown buck Milt Kahl.<br/><br/>___DESCRIPTION: BAMBI - red cloth boards with title embossed on the front silver lettering on the spine pictorial endpapers etchings of Bambi's head four artist's signatures on the half-title page pictorial frontispiece title page in royal purple and black with small vignette of Bambi and Thumper the volume is replete with vintage photographs drawings and etchings. Dust jacket shows a single animation cell on the front depicting Bambi Thumper and Flower summary of the book on the front flap author bios on the back flap 208 pages. FLIP BOOK is softbound with pictorial cardboard wraps that mirror the dust jacket on the front four artist's signatures on the title page no text as all pages are devoted to the animation statement on the back wrap stating the volume is not for individual sale unpaginated comprised of 48 leaves 16 mo. <br/><br/>___CONDITION: The main volume BAMBI is in absolutely pristine condition with no flaws that we can detect including being free of prior owner markings. The unclipped but not priced dust jacket shows a small amount of sunning to the front near the spine else fine. The FLIP BOOK is fine with no creases or edgewear at all it appears to be unread and is also free of prior owner markings.<br/><br/>___POSTAGE: International customers please note that additional postage may apply please contact seller for details.<br/><br/>___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA ILAB and IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have we are here to help. Stewart, Tabori & Chang [1990] hardcover books
WALTER-FILM000431No binding. Very Good. Fine Art Print Vintage original 22 x 14"" 55 x 35 cm. window card poster USA. Ingrid Bergman Gregory Peck Michael Chekhov Leo G. Carroll Rhonda Fleming Norman Lloyd dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Selznick/United Artists. A man suffering from amnesia is revealed as an imposter when the doctor -- whose place he has taken at a mental hospital -- is found dead. A woman psychiatrist at the hospital who has fallen in love with him works with him to discover who he really is and to find out what happened to the deceased physician. One of the earlier films to explore the area of psychoanalysis brought to the screen with brilliant suspense and creativity by masters of their craft including producer Selznick who had a big interest in the subject writer Ben Hecht composer Miklós Rózsa Academy Award winner and director Hitchcock. There was a best picture nomination too and the Academy was mentioned on much of the poster art as Ingrid Bergman had just won for her performance in the suspenseful Gaslight. The romantic aura of the film is at the core of this poster presentation. This poster has been beautifully restored and cleaned. The missing top blank are for the theatre information has been replaced. There was a crease running down the right side of the image area which has been addressed as well as a minor crease to the bottom left corner. Really clean NEAR FINE. unknown books
008546Boston and New York: Geo. H. Polley & Co. No Date circa 1890s. Original publisher's quarter cloth over paper covered boards complete with title page and 58 numbered plates with 5 of 6 ribbon ties still present. Very Good boards rubbed especially at corners and moderately soiled. Internally with light soiling to edges of plates stamp of "The Whitman Studios" bottom edge each plate. The Whitman Studios were an architectural firm of the period owned by Philadelphia architect J. Franklin Whitman. A quite collectible copy of this SCARCE book on American architectural ornamentation of the late 18th century. . . First Edition. Portfolio. Very Good/No Jacket As Issued. Elephant Folio - over 15" - 23" tall. Geo. H. Polley & Co. Paperback books
WALTER-FILM000196No binding. Very Good. Fine Art Print Vintage original 14 x 22"" 35 x 55 cm. window card poster USA. Feodor Chaliapin Sr. George Robey Oscar Asche Miles Mander Sidney Fox dir: Georg Wilhelm Pabst; United Artists. The story of an elderly gentlemen in 16th century Spain who goes mad after reading too much about chivalry claims himself a knight and sets out with a small entourage to revive that age. With songs this version of the famous tale would later be realized as the musical MAN OF LA MANCHA. Three versions were filmed for 3 different languages -- English French and German -- with the famous Russian-born opera singer Feodor Chaliapin playing in all three versions resulting in three somewhat different films. This work is one of the only times Chaliapin was captured on film. He is known to have been the first opera singer to concern himself with a believably-acted presentation of character. This card displays beautifully and has been cleaned and backed. There were some creases/tears in the ""C"" of ""Chaliapin"" which has had a bit of touch-up. An area in the top center has been addressed. An area at the bottom of the sword has also had a bit of touch-up and a tear at the center of Chaliapin's neck extending from the right edge has had a touch-up. An inner tear below the windmill has been addressed. A few minor edge creases have been smoothed out VERY GOOD-FINE. unknown books
196423908Chicago: Oaky Doaky Inc. 1964. Near fine in wrappers. Pair of unique hand-made artist books each measures 8 1/2 x 5 3/4 inches. Both books consist of card-stock sheets with various elements attached to the stiff pages including cut paper from newspapers and magazines as well as objects such as a pair of glasses a metal spoon the top of a tin a penny etc. Both books are titled and annotated in stamped purple ink. Most of the stamped annotations refer to a cryptic numbering system others provide prices or occasional commentary "Wow" "Sharp Oh" "New Item". A pair of attractive if mysterious artist books. Chicago: Oaky Doaky Inc. unknown books
1952WRCLIT73364New York: Artists Equity Association 1952. 12pp. plus 99 leaves. Large quarto 305 x 235 mm. Plastic comb bound stiff pictorial card covers. 99 lithographed sheets printed on rectos only with color lithographs on rectos and versos of covers. Extreme fore-tips of wrappers a bit creased and soft plastic comb a bit handsoiled slight soiling to upper cover and some offset incurred in printing to verso of upper cover internally near fine. First edition of the third volume in the series. Copy #846 of two thousand numbered copies. In the creation of this lavish program for the 15 May Ball held at the Hotel Astor sponsors selected an artist or artists from the membership to create full- page original designs associated with their product or service. "Each page was designed by the artist directly on the litho plate thus making this a collection of original lithographs" - prefatory note. Byron Browne Adolf Dehn Sol Wilson and Ruth Reeves created the color works for the covers and Milton Avery T.L. Feinenger Antonio Frasconi Chaim Gross John Groth Jacob Lawrence Ben Shahn Raphael Soyer and Max Weber were among the contributors to the internal plates a few in colors but the majority monochrome. A few artists contributed more than once and while the majority are signed in the plate a few are not. A marvelous and stylistically diverse showcase of some of the important talents in the field at the time. Artists Equity Association unknown books
1959254459New York: Artists Equity Association 1959. Limited. unbound. very good. Slim folio with title page plus 27 illustrated sheets EACH SIGNED and loose as issued in a tattered printed paper wrappers. New York: Artists Equity Association 1959. A limited edition portfolio - Volume X in the publisher's series on American artists. First edition. Overall a very good copy with rough cover but clean plates.<br/><br/> A unique copy as all 27 of the artists have signed their respective pages in ink or pencil: Samuel Adler Byron Browne Alexander Brook Victor Candell Jose de Creeft Julio de Diego Philip Evergood Ernest Fiene Ruth Gilkow Marion Greenwood William Gropper Chaim Gross Robert Gwathmey Joseph Hirsch Leon Kroll Jacob Lawrence Jack Levine Leo Lionni Goldie Lipson George L.K. Morris Seong Moy Anton Refregier Sidney Simon Harry Sternberg Anthony Toney Stuyvesant Van Veen & Sol Wilson.<br/><br/> Artists Equity Association unknown books
WALTER-FILM000411No binding. Very Good. Fine Art Print Vintage original 22 x 28"" 55 x 70 cm. half sheet poster USA. Joel McCrea Laraine Day Herbert Marshall George Sanders Albert Bassermann Robert Benchley Edmund Gwenn dir: Alfred Hitchcock; United Artists. Academy Award-nominated classic for which Hitchcock beautifully blended suspense action and comedy. There was also a bold political statement made just as the entire world went to war that neutrality will not work when others are bent on war. This film along with Rebecca which would win many of the Oscars that year made a huge impression on America during Hitchcock's first year of Hollywood film making. Gary Cooper and Joan Fontaine were the director's first choices for the leads played by McCrea and Day. This half sheet has a much stronger design than the film's one sheet poster and it is always a frustratingly elusive piece to find. This poster has been cleaned and is in beautifully preserved condition paper-backed with the strong center fold addressed with minor touch-up. Internal creases and minor edge tears have been addressed as well VERY GOOD-FINE. unknown books
WALTER-FILM000115No binding. Very Good. Fine Art Print Vintage original 11 x 14"" 28 x 35 cm. lobby card USA. Lillian Gish Dorothy Gish Joseph Shildkraut Frank Losee Katherine Emmet Lucille La Verne Frank Lublia Creighton Hale Monte Blue dir: D. W. Griffith; United Artists. The classic epic version of the d'Ennery/Cormon novel"" The Two Orphans"" with screenplay by director Griffith and the perfect vehicle for the great Gish sisters. They are seen here during their characters' more fortunate earlier period. Griffith wove both history of the French Revolution period and political commentary on the state of the world post World War I into his screenplay. In this film two sisters travel to Paris to see if the one sister can be cured of her blindness; while there they are separated the seeing one abducted and the other sister becomes lost as the French Revolution rages around them. Stunning hand color and the most desirable card showing the sisters. There is one tiny chip at lower left and small repairs to the other three blank corners and some minor creasing NEAR FINE. unknown books
184229653Paris: Marchant 1842. Two volumes bound in one. Quarto. Full gilt-ruled dark green morocco with raised bands on spine in blindstamped compartments titling gilt inner dentelles gilt dark green endpapers with doublure pattern.<br/><br/>Each volume consists of 3 preliminary leaves plus 40 full-page plates and 162 pp. of text for a total of 80 fine lithographic portraits of dancers singers and actors in role portraits finely-printed on china paper and laid down to mounts.<br/><br/>With biographical essays on each subject including:<br/><br/>Dancers Perrot Elssler Taglioni Thillon Leroux and Grisi<br/><br/>Singers Deburau Duprez Fargueil Aine Levasseur Rubini Persiani Prevost Damoreau Lafont Lablache Grisi Tamburini Klein singer and actor Stolz Thillon Chollet Roger Mario and Dorus-Gras<br/><br/>Actors Rachel M. Melingue Plessy Mme. Melingue Achard Doze Odry Lepeintre Jeune Dupont Boutin Flore Georges Joanny Albert Vertpre Monrose Bocage Firmin Saint-Ernest Mars Menjaud Sauvage Bardou Beauvallet Alcide-Tousez Mme. Volnys Ferville Mr. Volnys Guillemin Gauthier Arnal Clarisse Chilly Moessard Brunet Albert Provost Brohan Anais Vernet Desmousseaux Dorval Regnier Mante Julienne Lepeintre Aine Dejazet Numa Samson Sainville Ligier Colon Leplus Raucourt Bouffe and Lemaitre <br/><br/>The biographical articles are each 4 or 6 pages in length; the lithographs are quite finely-drawn. A third volume was planned and at least 18 plates appeared but the volume was never completed.<br/><br/>Binding slightly worn rubbed and bumped. Minor wear; some foxing to mounts heavier to some leaves; some leaves slightly loose including title to Book I; some signatures loose; some browning to Book II. Most plates to Book I with tissue guards. <br/><br/>The illustrative plates are in very good condition overall. A significant contribution to the iconography of the period offering important evidence of contemporary performers and theatrical costume. Marchant unknown books
197816833San Francisco 1978. Silkscreen in three colors 26" x 20" ca 66cm x 51cm. Edition unspecified; signed and dated in pencil upper right. Very fine copy free of wear or soil. Magnificent three-color screenprint by master Chicano printmaker Rupert Garcia announcing an exhibition of works in honor of Frida Kahlo at the Galeria de la Raza in San Francisco. Garcia b. 1941 is one of California's best-known and most influential artist-activists; he was a founding member of the Galeria de la Raza in 1970. unknown books
20139673Charlottesville VA: Virginia Arts of the Book Center 2013. Limited Edition. Stiff Boards Wraps etc. Fine in Fine Archival Box. Tight bright and unmarred. Various bindings and materials; boxed in cream box with printed paper onley. 32mo. Var pag. Illus. Numbered limited edition this being 15 of 15. <br/><br/>"This collection of 15 miniature books was created by 27 local artists employing a variety of printing styles including letterpress lithography etching and giclée. The books also showcase several binding styles such as Coptic stiff board accordion and non-adhesive. And believe us “miniature” is no exaggeration! At only 2 wide and 3 long these books evidence the artists’ clear precision and attention to detail. The books are packaged in a handsome collector’s boxed set." publisher's statement <br />While 20 to 50 copies of each book were available for individual sale only 15 sets of this complete collection were created. This is the last of the run. Includes: <br />3Q15 The copper scroll / Garrett S. Queen -- <br />Prime of life / Addeane Caelleigh -- <br />How to draw a cloud / Dean Doss with others -- <br />A map to-- <br />/ Stacey Evans -- <br />These ancient mountains a poem by Barney Brown / Bonnie Bernstein & Yolanda Merrill -- <br />Poison sisters / Lana Lambert & Frank Riccio -- <br />Trees are the answer / Janet Eden -- <br />Lost & found / Jennifer Wingard -- <br />Temps perdu lost time / Michael Swanberg Mary MacNeil Alysin Lake & Jennifer Wingard -- <br /> Emily Dickinson XXIV / Kirsten Miles & Holly Odom -- <br /> The gray goo problem / Kriston Adolfson -- <br /> Mother> Bear / Angie Hogan & Roger Williams -- <br /> Anticism! Manifesto cries / Kevin McFadden & Katherine McNamara -- <br /> Jefferson reappraised / Kevin McFadden & Amber Karnes -- <br /> Where are you from / Jennifer Billingsly & Matthew Gibson. Virginia Arts of the Book Center hardcover books
1932905201932. Multiple Artists Hardy Jowett author. Chinese Costumes ä¸è¯æœç‰©è€ƒç•¥ ZhÅng huá fú wù kâo lüè. 1932. Peiping Peiking China: The Chinese Painting Association of Peiping. 32 x 22cm silk-covered boards bound with cord. Front board is embroidered with multicolor flowers and a butterfly. Table of Contents in English as well as a Foreword in English by Hardy Jowett. 24 hand-painted color illustrations depict informal and formal dress including military and religious garb of men and women in China during the Qing Dynasty. Each plate has a paper tissue guard with title and description in English. Handwritten name in ink and pencil on title page. Slight discoloration to a few faces. Staining on silk cover. Bottom forecorner of title page clipped. books
59090New York: Harper 1898 as individually described below each signed and labeled in pencil below the image. Chicago 1890s. Original pencil drawings. 1 "The American Black Scoter / Ademia americana" an original pencil drawing 11 3/4 x 15 1/2 inches of two American Scoters a male and a female swimming on the water's surface but with one webbed foot clearly visible below with hills in the background; signed in pencil by the artist below the image "Drawn from Nature by D.G. Elliot F.R.S.E. &c." and labeled as the title. 2 "Canvas-Back Duck" an original pencil drawing 11 1/2 x 15 1/4 inches of two American Scoters a male and a female the male standing on a marsh the female swimming on the water's surface with a small flock of canvasbacks flying the background; signed in pencil by the artist below the image "Drawn from Nature by D.G. Elliot F.R.S.E. &c." and labeled as the title. 3 "Hooded Merganser / Lophodytes cucullatus" an original pencil drawing 11 1/2 x 15 1/2 inches of two Hooded Mergansers a male and a female swimming on the water's surface but with one webbed foot of each clearly visible below with wooded islands in the background; signed in pencil by the artist below the image "Drawn from Nature by D.G. Elliot." and labeled as the title. A similar lot of Elliot's drawings for "Wild Fowl" sold at auction in 1988 for $2000 ABPC 1976-2011. Very good. Matted some darkening or soiling around the edges. #6098. Elliot a native of New York City travelled through Europe the Near East and South America as a young man studying the birds of those areas "a subject in which he had always been interested. An artist of no mean attainments his ambitions led him to the publication of large folios like those of John Gould monographing various families of birds with lifesize illustrations from his own brush . these included birds of paradise pheasants and thrushes horn bills and other species. His own collection of birds consisting of some one thousand specimens and covering most of the described species in North America was the best private collection extant and was secured by the American Museum of Natural History in 1869" DAB. He was one of the founders of the American Ornithologists' Union and its second president 1890; he accepted a position at the Field Museum in Chicago in the early 1890s directing that institution for ten years ending his career working on the natural history of mammals. <br/><br/> unknown books
15504234<p>Rome: Antonio Lafreri 1550. </p><p>Price: $3750.00 </p><p>Single sheet engraving. 400 x 288 mm. plate; 431 x 318 mm. sheet </p><p>First state. With Lafreri's excudit: "Ant. LafrerI FormIs Romae MDL" at lower right. Watermark "Crossbow with arrow in a circle" similar to Briquet 759. A very good impression with light surface wear and light marginal soiling. Three early stamps on the verso two of them from the Kupferstichkabinet Berlin Lugt 1606 the second of which identifies the print as a duplicate Lugt 2482. The third stamp Lugt 1672 is that of the collector Wilhelm von Lepel.</p><p>An iconic image of the statue known as Pasquino by far the most famous of Rome's statue parlanti talking statues. The statue was discovered in 1501 in the Parione district of Rome. Cardinal Oliviero Carafa "the embodiment of humanist ideals centering on the revival of antiquity"Reynolds erected the statue next to his palace near Piazza Navona on the site of today's Palazzo Braschi where it stands to this day. As early as 1501 satirical poems in Latin and Italian variously celebrating or criticizing the pope clergy and nobility or lampooning private individuals were affixed to the statue. By 1508 the statue had become the focus of a yearly celebration held on St. Mark's Day during which the statue was dressed as a Roman deity or other mythological figure and anonymous writers attached to it poems written in the "voice" of the statue. In 1511 Pasquino was dressed as Grief mourning the death of Cardinal Carafa. In 1549 the year before this print was published Pasquino famously opined on the death of Pope Paul III: 'Here was buried a certain Paul/ a fraud a fox thief murderer;/ Here famous in the mouth of Pasquino/ There suffering in the mouth of the devil."<br /><br />The artist responsible for this print has included a number of pasquinades in Latin and Italian shown on bits of paper attached to the walls of Carafa's palace. The ground in front of the statue is strewn with props a reference to the costumes worn by Pasquino during the St. Mark's Day celebration. In the distance are two pairs of men the first standing in the piazza and the second strolling towards the statue. Carafa's arms are visible in the shadow on the statue's base.<br /><br />Lafreri's print is a close copy of one published in 1542 by Antonio Salamanca Lafreri's rival and eventual business partner. The identity of the artist is unknown. Among those to whom the plate has been attributed are Enea Vico and Nicolas Beatrizet.<br /><br />The sculpture comprises two figures believed to be either Menelaus cradling the dead Patroclus or Ajax holding the dead Achilles.<br /><br />The primary inscription is a sonetto caudato.<br /><br />Io non son come paio un Babbuino <br />stroppiato senza piedi et senza mani <br />Nemen con glialtri membri sconci et strani <br />La simmia son di Niccolo Zoppino. <br />Ma son quel famosissimo Pasquino <br />Che tremar faccio i Signor piu soprani<br />et stupir forastieri et Paesani<br />quando compango in volgare o in Latino.<br />La mia persona è fatta in tal maniera <br />Per i colpi e hor questo hor quel in accocca <br />Per ch'io dico i lor falli a buona cera. <br />Ma infin ch'io ha l'usata lingua in bocca <br />Non ne fo stima anchor che 'l resto pera <br />et sempre cantaro Zara a chi tocca <br />Che se la gente sciocca <br />Non si vuol rimaner de i falli suoi <br />Chi terrà me' che no 'l ridica poi.<br /><br />I am not as I seem a Babbuino<br />crippled without hands or feet <br />Nor with obscene and strange exotic parts <br />am I the Ape of Nicolò Zoppino<br />But I am that most famous Pasquino <br />who makes the most prominent men shiver. <br />and astonishes the out-of-towners and my fellow citizens<br />when I compose in vernacular or in Latin.<br />My persona was shaped in this way: <br />by the blows I take from here and from there <br />because I reveal their sins<br />But as long as I have the use of the tongue in my mouth<br />I do not care even if the rest of my body perishes <br />and I will continue to sing whatever happens <br />and the people who are offended must deal with it. <br />Because if stupid people do not want to keep their sins to themselves<br />Who is going to stop me from telling them<br /><br />The one that was sure to attract the most attention reads:<br /><br />Pasquin tu fuste et sarai semper un pazo<br />Ti sai in ogni forma trasformate<br />Se ti voi alle donne grato fare<br />Per che non ti trasformi int' Vn Ca<br /><br />Pasquino you always were and always will be an idiot.<br />You know how to transform yourself into any form<br />If you want to please women<br />Why don't you turn yourself into a dck<br /><br />Pasquino: Witness to a Rivalry Prelude to a Partnership:<br /><br />The engraving of Rome's talking statue published in 1550 bears witness to the rivalry between the two leading Roman print publishers of the mid-16th c. Antonio Salamanca 1479-1562 and Antonio Lafreri 1512-1577 and to the vast publishing phenomenon that came to be known as the "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae" The Mirror of Roman Magnificence". <br /><br />In the years following the sack of 1527 the Spanish emigree Antonio Salamanca began producing engravings of Roman subjects with regularity prior to the sack such prints were few and appeared sporadically. In the 1540s another emigree printer the Frenchman Antonio Lafreri Antoine Lafréry began a rival enterprise copying many of Salamanca's engravings. The Pasquino an image that Lafreri lifted from Salamanca dates to this period.<br /><br />In 1553 the two competing Roman publishers entered into a contractual alliance for twelve years "with the explicit purpose of printing and selling copperplate prints of ancient and modern subjects… When the contractual agreement between Salamanca and Lafreri was established in 1553 the underlying principle of the "Speculum" was in place: it was to be a corpus of documentary prints of ancient and modern Roman subjects mainly in folio."Parshall<br /><br />Lafreri's and Salamanca's engravings illustrating the ancient and modern marvels of Rome tombs temples palaces baths statuary obelisks columns inscriptions frescoes etc. were purchased by tourists as souvenirs studied by antiquarians used as models by artists and architects and circulated as virtual visits for armchair travelers beyond Rome. By the late 1570s collectors could also purchase an engraved title page while selecting prints for their own Speculum collections. As a result Lafreri's customers or those of his heirs Salamanca had died in 1562 and Parshall suggests that the title was only in use after Lafreri's death in 1577 collected images to suit their own needs or taste. After the death of Lafreri two-thirds of the existing copper plates went to his heirs and another third was sold to other publishers. These new owners continued to print the existing images while still producing new prints.<br /><br />"Print collecting in the Renaissance is not very well understood mainly because prints were numerous comparatively inexpensive and therefore rarely inventoried. They are less likely than other sorts of objects to come down to us with a clear indication of their original setting. Nevertheless the evidence of a few large collections from the sixteenth century does suggest some consistent patterns most notably that prints accumulated in substantial numbers tended to be compiled in albums where they were organized by subject- matter and scale…. There is still much to learn about how such collecting practices evolved and the development of a market to serve them."Parshall "Antonio Lafreri's Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae" Print Quarterly March 2006 Vol. 23 No. 1 pp. 3-28.</p><p>References: Lafreri-Index Z.249. Marigliani "Lo Splendore di Roma nell'Arte incisoria del Cinquecento" Edizioni Tipografia Marina 2016 V.56; Rubach "Ant. Lafreri Formis Romae: Der Verleger Antonio Lafreri und seine Druckgraphickproduktion" 2016 no. 337; Hülsen Speculum 1921 Nr. 71a; Alberti L'Indice di Antonio Lafreri no. 84.</p> Antonio Lafreri, books
6845The sheets range from 640 x 1430 mm. to smaller. Kyoto: 19th century. The Yagis father and son were notable artists of 19th-century Japan. The father Kiho 1806-76 was born in today's Shiga Prefecture and lived mainly in Kyoto. He studied painting under Keibun Matsumura of the Shijo school and Giho Yamagata of the Kano school. Kiho excelled at figure painting and bird-and-flower painting and was the subject along with his teachers of a recent exhibition 2009 at the Nagahama Castle Historical Museum in Shiga a catalogue was issued at the time. His work is found at the Kyoto Palace and the Higashi Honganji Temple also in Kyoto. His son Unkei d. 1892 also had a successful career as an artist concentrating in the same genres. This collection of drawings which are mostly of natural history subjects landscapes and dragons reflects the very considerable skills of the Yagis and must be seen to be appreciated. There are fourteen sheets of underdrawings of birds for the screen at the Higashi Honganji Temple. In excellent condition. unknown books
542582 black & white silhouette ports. on pale blue backgrounds & numerous finely color-printed vignettes & "poem-strips." 48 folding leaves. 8vo orig. decorated wrappers orig. block-printed title label on upper cover new stitching. Japan: 1867. First edition of this finely color-printed book which contains a memorable double-page frontispiece by Zeshin 1807-91 the leading Shijo-style painter of the Meiji period one of the greatest of lacquer artists of his time and a prominent contributor of designs for books. "In the Meiji period and before the presence of a print designed by Zeshin invariably gave a certain cachet to any book of verse or landscapes and he was frequently enlisted by astute publishers to provide one or two telling designs for compilations of mixed authorship.In 1867 he helped to launch a book of shadow portraits or silhouettes by designing a telling frontispiece. Kuma-naki Kage 'Shadows Everywhere' consists of a series of the silhouettes not thought to have been drawn by Zeshin and Zeshin introduces such a portrait mounted as a kakemono into the elegant room he has pictured with a balcony overlooking a lake."-Hillier The Art of the Japanese Book pp. 964 & 915-16. As noted above Zeshin has contributed the beautiful double-page color-printed frontispiece and perhaps a few more vignettes. The remainder of the silhouettes vignettes and "poem-strips" has been executed by Yoshiiku Ochiai or Yoshiiku Utagawa 1833-1904 one of the leading artists of the Utagawa school. Each of the black & white silhouettes depicts members of a poetry society and the "poem strips" offers a selection of their verse and a brief biographical account. The production of this book was complex and displays Japanese woodcut color-printing at its finest. Many of the leaves have portions with blind-embossing for instance the fore-edges of books have been blind-embossed to give the suggestion of edges of leaves. A number of the text pages have also been blind-embossed with a cherry-blossom motif. In fine and fresh condition. Accompanied by the original decorated sleeve a very rare survival. unknown books
195790083d<p>KAMAKURA Yoshitarô & Kamakura Shizue artists. <b>RYUKYU BINGATA & RYUKYU BINGATA Dai Nishû.</b> Kyoto: Kyoto Shoin. Two huge cloth portfolios the earlier 62.5 x 49.5 cm issued in 1957 as a limited edition unspecified limitation of all 20 bingata stencil prints on lovely handmade paper but without the small stenciled plate originally laid onto the absent title page and without the portfolio cover. It was printed by Kamakura Yoshitarô 1898-1983 and his wife Shizue. The second portfolio is approximately the same size again with 20 large prints and a laid down plate on the title page as well as a stenciled cloth image laid down on the outside of the portfolio. It was printed in an edition of only 10 copies in 1967 created by Kamakura assisted in this effort by his daughter.</p><p>Kamakura himself was a great scholar of Okinawan art and a master of the Okinawan technique of stencil printing related to katazome called bingata. As such he was recognized by the Japanese government as a Living National Treasure. These are undoubtedly his central masterpieces created when he was at the height of his powers in such tiny numbers as to render this complete series in our possession for all intents and purposes virtually unique. The prints are clean and quite amazing. The most important artifact of the folk art print movement we have ever handled.</p><p><br /></p> Kyoto Shoin books
1957900831957. KAMAKURA Yoshitarô & Kamakura Shizue artists. RYÛKYÛ BINGATA & RYÛKYÛ BINGATA Dai Nishû. Kyoto: Kyoto Shoin. Two huge cloth portfolios the earlier 62.5 x 49.5 cm issued in 1957 as a limited edition unspecified limitation of all 20 bingata stencil prints on lovely handmade paper but without the small stenciled plate originally laid onto the absent title page and without the portfolio cover. It was printed by Kamakura Yoshitaro 1898-1983 and his wife Shizue. The second portfolio is approximately the same size again with 20 large prints and a laid down plate on the title page as well as a stenciled cloth image laid down on the outside of the portfolio. It was printed in an edition of only 10 copies in 1967 created by Kamakura assisted in this effort by his daughter. Kamakura himself was a great scholar of Okinawan art and a master of the Okinawan technique of stencil printing related to katazome called bingata. As such he was recognized by the Japanese government as a Living National Treasure. These are undoubtedly his central masterpieces created when he was at the height of his powers in such tiny numbers as to render this complete series in our possession for all intents and purposes virtually unique. The prints are clean and quite amazing. The most important artifact of the folk art print movement we have ever handled. unknown books
188028460France Italy Switzerland and Britain circa 1880-1925 1880. Overall condition is very good; sketchbooks with ordinary wear; foxing to just some of the works on watercolor board; a few photographs with edge wear; a large and well-rounded archive fully deserving of proper preservation and study with much to say about the intersections of Victorian landscape art early photography and the working methods and commercial life of husband and wife professional artists. A detailed description of the collection is available via pdf on our website at www.brickrow.com on the catalogues page. The Stevens were successful artists in Europe and Britain between the later stages of the Victorian era and the early 20th century. They held regular exhibitions of their collaborative landscape studies of the French Riviera Swiss Alps Italian lakes and English countryside. They maintained galleries at Cannes and London and were patronized by European royalty and aristocracy including Tsar Nicholas II and the Empress of Russia. The archive includes a portfolio of 20 watercolor studies and 15 pencil sketches; eight sketchbooks with approximately 100 watercolor or pencil studies; two albums of newspaper exhibition reviews; a file of testimonials documents and letters concerning Russian purchases; printed invitation cards gallery and price references; lists of important patrons; approximately 280 photographs taken by the Stevens mostly silver gelatin prints; and three albumen photographs signed and captioned on the verso "Frank Mason Good." A fine archive that documents the artists' working methods with field sketches watercolor studies and the use of photography; as well the archive documents their commercial and financial success through correspondence exhibition announcements and two albums of fastidiously compiled press clippings. <br/><br/> [France, Italy, Switzerland and Britain, circa 1880-1925] unknown books
1808288495London: R. Ackermann 1808. First. hardcover. near fine. Thomas Rowlandson & Augustus Charles Pugin. Beautifully illustrated with 104 brilliantly hand-colored aquatint plates after Thomas Rowlandson and A.C. Pugin Pugin engraved the architectural details & Rowlandson the figures. 3 volumes. Illustrated woodcut titles and engraved dedication page to the Prince of Wales in each volume. 4 iv 2 231; 6 vi 239; 4 iv 280 6 pages. Large 4tos bound in contemporary 3/4 red calf over marbled boards with gilt spines; marbled endpapers; all edges yellow. London: R. Ackermann 1808-1810. <BR><BR>First edition likely bound from the original parts without the half titles as was often the case; the papers are watermarked 1806 & 1807 and containing 11 of Abbey's 12 key plates are in the first "luminescent" state and 12 of the 13 errata points still un-corrected. Offsetting from plates as usual and dedication pages are foxed but otherwise an exceptionally clean and bright copy with very infrequent spotting in margins on a handful of pages.<br/><br/> Rowlandson's first and most famous color-plate book increasingly difficult to obtain in early state as so many copies were broken up to sell the images individually. Ackermann is credited with establishing art lithography in England and this is one of his most interesting and valuable works. "The Microcosm of London is one of the great colour-plate books and a carefully selected copy should form the cornerstone of any collection of books on this subject. The plates present an unrivaled picture of London in the early 19th century of historic value as many of the buildings no longer exist." --Tooley 7. "Original impressions of these splendid plates have a luminous quality entirely absent from later printings". --Abbey Scenery 212.<br/><br/> R. Ackermann unknown books
