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1999008319Sao Paulo: G&A Editorial 1999. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. A bilingual publication with side-by-side text in Portuguese and English. Stated first publication December 1999. 11.5 x 11.25 inches. Photolithography by Visuale. Printing by Prol. Bound in full-pictorial glossy paper-covered hardboards. Unbumped spine head and tail and with sharp corners. Slightly concave boards quite minor. Very clean binding. Text block firmly bound in. With blue ribbon page marker. 516 numbered pages. Heavy-weight glossy paper. With a section of essays or "editorials" at the rear of the volume as well as a biography or "curriculum" for each of the featured artists. The bios in Portuguese only. With numerous color plates many full-page featuring the art work of more than 60 Brazilian artists. An exceptionally clean interior. With a heavy-duty full-pictorial dust jacket. Either unread or very gently read. A Near Fine copy in a Near Fine DJ. Scarce in any condition. 7 lb. 6 oz. This book is the first of a series BrazilianArt Book by Projeto BrazilianArt. <br/> <br/> G&A Editorial hardcover
1962008692New York NY: The Pierpont Morgan Library 1962. Limited Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. This is an English language edition with auxiliary text in Chinese. Presumed first printing of the first edition. One of 850 copies only. Designed and produced by the Spiral Press NY during 1962. Printed and bound in the U.S.A. 12.5 x 9.5 inches. Bound in blue and gray buckram boards with fairly crisp gilt-stamped lettering to the spine and with the collector's seal of John M. Crawford Jr. in gilt stamping to the front board. Generally unbumped spine head and tail and with impressively sharp corners. Text block firmly bound in. 302 numbered pages of text plus numerous color and B&W plates and illustrations some of which are fold-out variously on matte stock and semi-glossy stock. A few tissue guards are also present. Book contents include a Chinese chronology a detailed overview of calligraphy and painting in the collection a glossary of Chinese terms a bibliography and more. An impressively clean interior. No demerits noticed. With the original medium-duty slipcase. The slipcase bound in blue and gray buckram and with calligraphy designs front and back. A Very Good copy in a Good Plus slipcase. 5 lbs. 8 oz. weight. This is a scholarly catalogue for an exhibition at the Pierpont Morgan Library in New York the Fogg Art Museum in Cambridge and the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art in Kansas City Missouri. Additionally the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York held two exhibitions from their Crawford collection of Chinese calligraphy and painting October 1984 to February 1985 and March to July 1985. John M. Crawford Jr. 1921-1996 was a prominent collector of Oriental art and a trustee of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In addition to fine Chinese calligraphy and paintings Crawford also collected fine books including medieval manuscripts and bindings done by William Morris the leader of the English crafts movement of the 19th century. <br/> <br/> The Pierpont Morgan Library hardcover
1995008041Beijing: Chinese Literature Press 1995. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Text in Chinese and Japanese. Two text booklets laid in one in English and one in German: 1 Selected fan paintings from the Palace Museum; 2 Erlesene Faacherbilder aus dem Museum des Kaiserpalastes. This is the first and presumed only edition. Published in 1995 by the Chinese Literature Press. Printed and bound in China. Oblong 10.5 x 11.25 inches. 26.5 x 28.5 cm. Red/black hardboards with gilt-stamped Chinese lettering to the spine. Unbumped spine head and tail and fairly sharp corners. Front cover slightly warped and with minor rippling at the top of the pastedown on the reverse. Text block firmly bound in. Illustrated pastedowns and FEPs. With 212 numbered pages. Red ribbon page marker. With approximately 105 full-page full-color plates on glossy paper. Illustrations include fan paintings in the collection of Beijing's Palace Museum culled from approximately 3000 fan paintings in the museum's collection. No marks observed. An unusually clean and attractive copy and quite tight. Respectfully read. Full-color glossy dust jacket with fan reproduction spanning almost 20 inches. DJ is uncut and with very minor rubbing/rippling. Housed in a folding orange and gold brocade cloth case with paper label imitation bone clasps. Case is 11.5 x 12.25 inches. Minor shelf wear to box minor warping to box top. Downgraded to a Very Good Minus copy due to the minor warping of the front board and the case top. Very scarce in any condition. 5 lbs. weight. The fan paintings in the book span a period of more than 1000 years. The Chinese are said to be fond of shan or fans because the traditional shan is not only a handy cooling device but also a popular objet d'art. In the long course of the development of traditional Chinese painting the art of the decorated fan has always been considered an important genre. The ISBN is listed as 750710270X. <br/> <br/> Chinese Literature Press hardcover
1968008044Tokyo: Nihon Keizai Shimbun 1968. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Text in Japanese with ancillary text in English including list of plates. This is the first and presumed only edition. Published in 1968 by Nihon Keizai Shinbunsha. Printed and bound in Japan. 15 x 11.25 inches. 38.3 x 28.5 cm. Custom navy blue cloth hardboards with crisp orange-stamped Japanese lettering to the spine and front board. Unbumped spine head and tail and sharp corners. Text block firmly bound in. Dove gray pastedowns and FEPs with minor tape residue on rear pastedown. With 164 numbered pages of Japanese text and illustrations and iv pages of text in English. Profusely illustrated. With numerous full-color plates on glossy paper including double-page spreads. Some tipped-in plates. Also with B&W plates. An immensely clean and attractive copy and quite tight. Either unread or very gently read. Housed in a heavy-duty buff-colored cardboard box the top part with a paper title label. Box with some scuffing and wear. The box top was separating at two corners but has been discreetly reinforced with linen hinging tape. A Near Fine copy in a Very Good box. Scarce in any condition. 11 lbs. 6 oz. weight. The Shosoin is the treasure house of Todai-ji Temple in Nara Japan which houses artifacts connected to Emperor Shomu 701-756 and Empress Komyo 701-760 as well as arts and crafts of the Tempyo era of Japanese history. <br/> <br/> Nihon Keizai Shimbun hardcover
19980082961998. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Principal text in Japanese and supplemental text in English and in French. Presumed first printing of the first edition. Printed and bound in Japan. 12 x 11.25 inches. Bound in very colorful glossy paper hardboards with crisp titling to the front board and the spine. Unbumped spine head and tail and sharp corners. Immensely clean binding. Text block firmly bound in. Black paper pastedowns. With 383 numbered pages. With scores of full-color plates and monochrome plates many full-page illustrating the scope of the artist's work. All plates on heavy-duty semi-glossy stock. A strikingly clean interior; the book almost certainly unread and the text block still tight. With a heavy-duty slipcase of glossy illustrated paper. A Fine copy in a Near Fine slipcase. Very scarce in any condition. 7 lbs. 7 oz. Shinjo Saito 1917- was a painter based in Kyoto. He was also known as a priest of Shinnyo-do Temple. As a young person he studied Buddhism at Ryukoku University. Over the long course of his artistic life he gradually painted more abstract compositions. He prided himself on being a long-time post-war member of the Kodo Bijutsu Association. A retrospective exhibition of Saito's work was held at the National Museum of Art Osaka in 1997. This book appeared shortly thereafter and was much influenced by the Osaka exhibition. <br/> <br/> hardcover
194046903New York: Theo Audel Publishers 1940. Hardcover. 8vo. Black blind-ruled cloth with gilt spine lettering. xii 294pp 8pp ads. Numerous illustrations and line drawings sample sheet with 20 tipped-in glossy color swatches. Very good. Couple small smudges to rear board else tight and handsome; ownership initials on front pastedown. Second edition of this guide first published in 1922 under the auspices of the International Association of Master Painters and Decorators a hefty text on exterior and interior house painting and wallpapering. Spine title: "Elementary Studies in House Painting Decorating and Paper Hanging." The leaf preceding title page bearing twenty tiny tipped-in glossy color swatches is a delight. Theo Audel Publishers hardcover
198128802Salem Mass: Peabody Museum 1981. Revised Edition. 150illustrations 60 in color. xviii 535 pp. 1 vols. Thick 4to. Cloth. Fine in fine dust jacket. Revised Edition. 150illustrations 60 in color. xviii 535 pp. 1 vols. Thick 4to. <br/><br/> Peabody Museum hardcover
191330809Paris: Leo Delteil & A. Le Corbeiller 1913. Illustrated with plates. 1 vols. 8vo. Two volumes bound in one. Later half red morocco gilt. Some minor wear else very good. Illustrated with plates. 1 vols. 8vo. Volumes I and II of Delteil's yearbook of painting and engraving sales. JC-NY/Biblio/5 Leo Delteil & A. Le Corbeiller unknown
19472110502150415255Mainichishinbunsha 1947. Soft Cover. Fine. Volume: 1 Mainichishinbunsha paperback
19402110502150414214Great Japan Oratorical Society Kodansha 1940. Soft Cover. Fine. Volume: 1 Great Japan Oratorical Society Kodansha paperback
19682110502150412974Fujin Picture Company 1968. Soft Cover. Fine. Volume: 1 Fujin Picture Company paperback
19372110502150415239Arusu 1937. Soft Cover. Fine. Volume: 1 Arusu paperback
19612110502150414249International information company 1961. Soft Cover. Fine. Volume: 1 International information company paperback
19725566Verona: Arnoldo Mondadori Editore 1972. Limited Edition. Full Leather in Slipcase. Fine/Very Good. 16mo. Pp. 238. With 111 black-and-white illustrations. Index. Full green leather with gilt and blindstamp design on boards and spine. In the publisher's marbled slipcase reflecting a design similar to the binding. Of an edition limited to 3203 copies this is copy 632. A charming volume in the publisher's series on European art this volume dedicated to non-Italian masters. A superb copy in fresh condition with a top seam of the the slipcase starting and just a touch of overall wear. Arnoldo Mondadori Editore unknown
19725567Verona: Arnoldo Mondadori Editore 1972. Limited Edition. Full Leather in Slipcase. Fine/Near Fine. 16mo. Pp. 238. With 111 black-and-white illustrations. Index. Full brown leather with gilt and blindstamp design on boards and spine. In the publisher's marbled slipcase reflecting a design similar to the binding. Of an edition limited to 2899 copies this is copy 1072. A charming volume in the publisher's series on European art this devoted to the achievement of Italian painters. A well preserved copy with the slipcase showing only the slightest wear. Arnoldo Mondadori Editore unknown
194563891San Francisco CA: Carl Frederick Hobby 1211 Jackson Street ca. 1945. One large oil painting on canvas sized 13 x 18 in. preserved as original stretched canvas within the frame as presented to the artist’s niece and with the original green & gilt frame now professionally cleaned and w/ artist’s business card mounted on verso of frame along with numbering & size. Signed in lower corner this painting was presented by the artist following the War to his niece and held in the family until 2025. This original oil painting depicts a young Chinese-American mother and child buying an orange with fruit crates stacked beside in front of the mirror and pedestrian walking by as well as the advertising signage in the doorway in Chinese painted by Hobby. The sign reads 油糖èœèˆ– You tang chai pu — oil and sugar vegetable shop and produce in the crates below the window in the foreground appear to be cabbages oranges and possibly mangoes. Hobby wrote in his 1936 illustrated book “Chinatown San Francisco†that there were a variety of vegetable and produce “Chinese Food Shops†situated from Washington to Jackson Street selling blue-green melons mustard greens water chestnuts and more.Hobby 1886-1964 was the son of an Iowa City IA ophthalmologist and moved with the family as a teenager to San Diego CA about 1900 where he began working at 14 as a sketch artist and later published a book in San Diego in 1919 with his artwork. He studied art at the Cumming School of Art in Des Moines the Art Students League in New York and became portrait and landscape painter in San Diego until 1923. After a divorce from Plooma Crowther he settled in San Francisco in Chinatown where he became an instructor at the Art Center while also painting and sketching the densely populated area publishing “The Street of Dragon Lanterns Chinatown of San Francisco†in 1936 while contracting with the Madison & Burke Agency through World War II. Exhibits of his paintings and pen & ink sketches were displayed at the Oakland Art Gallery in 1928 and the Society for Sanity in Art in 1945. See: Maud McB. Maywood Palm City The Chula Vista Star July 9 1937 p. 6; Sketches of San Diego 1919. Carl Frederick Hobby, 1211 Jackson Street, unknown
192963892San Francisco CA: Carl Frederick Hobby 1353 Post Street 1929. One small oil painting on canvas sized 8.5 x 11 in. preserved as original stretched canvas within the frame as presented to the artist’s sister Ruth Annis Hobby Gibbs 1878-1940 Scouticut Neck Fairhaven Massachusetts with the original wooden frame now professionally cleaned and w/ artist’s signature in lower right corner of painting this painting was presented with a gift inscription in Chinese å二月廿五號一ä¹äºŒä¹ December 25 1929 and given with others by the artist over a 10 year period in the 1920’s-1930’s to his sister and held in the family until 2025. This original oil painting portrays a Chinese-American woman and child strolling past shop windows in Chinatown w/ awnings and fire-escapes looming above while another person carrying large basket walks away and another small child looks on. After settling in San Francisco’s Chinatown less than 6 years before the artist had launched his lifetime work to depict through oil paints and pen & ink the quintessential life to be discovered in Chinatown. Eventually he would issue a book just 7 years later in 1936 of Chinatown sights and attractions filled with his pen & ink illustrations. Hobby 1886-1964 was the son of an Iowa City IA ophthalmologist and moved with the family as a teenager to San Diego CA about 1900 about the time his sister Ruth Annis Hobby voyaged to marry her fiance during the Philippine Insurrection in 1899 in Manila. He studied art at the Cumming School of Art in Des Moines the Art Students League in New York and became portrait and landscape painter in San Diego until 1923. After a divorce from Plooma Crowther he settled in San Francisco in Chinatown where he became an instructor at the Art Center while also painting and sketching the densely populated area publishing “The Street of Dragon Lanterns Chinatown of San Francisco†in 1936 while contracting with the Madison & Burke Agency through World War II. Exhibits of his paintings and pen & ink sketches were displayed at the Oakland Art Gallery in 1928 and the Society for Sanity in Art in 1945. See: Maud McB. Maywood Palm City The Chula Vista Star July 9 1937 p. 6. Carl Frederick Hobby, 1353 Post Street, unknown
194564014San Francisco CA: Carl Frederick Hobby 1211 Jackson Street ca. 1945. One large oil painting on canvas sized 11 x 14 in. preserved as original stretched canvas within the frame as presented to the artist’s niece and with the original green & gilt frame sized 14.5 x 17.5 in. now professionally cleaned and w/ artist’s pencil numbering on verso of frame and apparently executed about the same time as his “Produce Stand†painting. Signed in lower corner this painting was presented by the artist following the War to his niece and held in the family until 2025. This original oil painting depicts a young Chinese-American child drinking from a bottle of orange soda in traditional Chinese hat and high-collared cloak with rain falling around the subject as well as brick wall and cityscape faintly in the background. Chinese-American children were frequent subjects along with their families for the artist as he often featured them with parents marketing or in their everyday lives on the teeming streets of San Francisco. This close large portrait represents an unusual format for the artist as he tended to paint and draw group scenes.Hobby 1886-1964 was the son of an Iowa City IA ophthalmologist and moved with the family as a teenager to San Diego CA about 1900 where he began working at 14 as a sketch artist and later published a book in San Diego in 1919 with his artwork. He studied art at the Cumming School of Art in Des Moines the Art Students League in New York and became portrait and landscape painter in San Diego until 1923. After a divorce from Plooma Crowther he settled in San Francisco in Chinatown where he became an instructor at the Art Center while also painting and sketching the densely populated area publishing “The Street of Dragon Lanterns Chinatown of San Francisco†in 1936 while contracting with the Madison & Burke Agency through World War II. Exhibits of his paintings and pen & ink sketches were displayed at the Oakland Art Gallery in 1928 and the Society for Sanity in Art in 1945. See: Maud McB. Maywood Palm City The Chula Vista Star July 9 1937 p. 6; Sketches of San Diego 1919. Carl Frederick Hobby, 1211 Jackson Street, unknown
192863890San Francisco CA: Carl Frederick Hobby 838 Grant Ave. ca. 1928-1930. One large oil painting on canvas sized 15.25 x 20 in. preserved as original stretched canvas within the frame as presented to the artist’s sister Ruth Annis Hobby Gibbs 1878-1940 and with the original green-stained frame now professionally cleaned faintly touched up in a couple indiscernible spots and backed w/ archival paper. Although unsigned this painting was presented with others by the artist over a 10 year period in the 1920’s-1930’s to his sister and held in the family until 2025. This original oil painting captures a street scene of young Chinese-American family strolling past Yee Sang Tong’s Chinese apothecary vividly displaying the historic building’s exterior a peek at the street around-the-corner and the advertising signage fronting the building in Chinese painted by Hobby. These signs include è£•ç”Ÿå ‚ Yee Sang Tong; åƒèŒ¸çŽ‹ç‰Œ Can song wangpai - premium ginseng and deer antler velvet products; and å„é …ä¸¸æ•£è—¥é…’ Ge xiang wan san yaojiu can ring wangpai - pills powders and medicinal tinctures of all kinds. Chinese-American apothecaries and pharmacies continued to be well-respected into the 20th-Century as Chinese-Americans were generally barred access from San Francisco’s hospitals and clinics and were often unfairly blamed for many of the diseases that occasionally swept the city. They often prescribed and distributed such traditional drugs as quinine digitalis and ephedrine. Hobby 1886-1964 was the son of an Iowa City IA ophthalmologist and moved with the family as a teenager to San Diego CA about 1900 about the time his sister Ruth Annis Hobby voyaged to marry her fiance during the Philippine Insurrection in 1899 in Manila. He studied art at the Cumming School of Art in Des Moines the Art Students League in New York and became portrait and landscape painter in San Diego until 1923. After a divorce from Plooma Crowther he settled in San Francisco in Chinatown where he became an instructor at the Art Center while also painting and sketching the densely populated area publishing “The Street of Dragon Lanterns Chinatown San Francisco†in 1936 while contracting with the Madison & Burke Agency through World War II. Exhibits of his paintings and pen & ink sketches were displayed at the Oakland Art Gallery in 1928 and the Society for Sanity in Art in 1945. See: Maud McB. Maywood Palm City The Chula Vista Star July 9 1937 p. 6; Elizabeth Fair Zijing Fan Hannibal Taubes Wendy Wan-ting Wang & Yifan Zheng Merchants and Revolutionaries: Chinese-Language Letters Held in the Chico History Museum Butte county Historical Society Diggin’s Vol. 67 No. 4 Winter 2023-2024. Carl Frederick Hobby, 838 Grant Ave., unknown
194034751London: Oxford University Press 1940. First Edition. Illustrated with 56 collotype plates 48 concerning paintings and represented by 36 full-page monochrome plates 3 full-page color plates 7 manifold monochrome plates and 2 manifold color plates. The remaining plates are composed of 5 full-page plates of calligraphy and 3 full-page plates of seals. The multi-folding plates provide the opportunity to view an entire painted scroll or long painting. Title-page printed in red and black. 72 paintings from pre-T'ang times into the Ch'ing dynasty are discussed. Each painting is described and the translation of its seals and inscriptions provided. Large Folio 15.25" x 11.5" publisher's original green polished buckram cloth the spine lettered in gilt the upper cover with gilt decoration of a Chinese seal. xvi 279 plates pp. A fine copy especially clean and bright the binding very strong and showing virtually no wear though with the mark of a cup which at some time was placed on the upper cover. The Supplement is in fine condition as well. FIRST EDITION SCARCE. The Moore collection contains extraordinary illustrations from some of them most important painters and calligraphers in the long history of Chinese art. The subject matter of the book is traversed by the authors of the volume with scholarship and taste their text being accompanied by the fine illustrations most of them in monochrome and some in colour. The authors are full and illuminating in their descriptions their biographical and bibliographical contributions along with their treatment of the inscriptions and seals. The reason for bringing the inscriptions and seals into the foreground is because "calligraphy has long been considered a major art by the Chinese who frequently valued the inscription on a painting as highly or even more highly than the painting itself. A number of the scrolls depicted have inscriptions which certify their authenticity and are also the calligraphy of famous scholars. These contain many valuable comments on the technique of painting and statements of historical and biographical importance. The seals on the scrolls are not only works of art in themselves but are important as a record of the painting or as an expression of appreciation of it."<br> The painters represented come from various dynasties in their noblest estate painters eloquent of the great virtues of the school--a peculiar magic in the interpretation of nature felicity in composition and linear aspect. The plates provide well the Chinese ideas of beauty and style. R. Cortissoz Oxford University Press hardcover
19296286London: William Heinemann Ltd 1929. First edition. Octavo 7 1/8 x 4 5/8 inches; 180 x 117 mm. ii Miss Currie signed limitation verso blank i-xxvii i blank 1-1088 pp. Inserted folded "Forsyte Family Tree" small neat repair to one fold. Inserted limitation leaf at front "This is No. 160 of the Books/with Fore-edge Paintings/by/Miss Currie/The Painting under the gold/is a view of/Mapledurham./Signed/ C.B. Currie". Bound ca. 1930 by Rivière & Son for Henry Sotheran. Full dark blue straight-grain morocco covers elaborately tooled in gilt and blind spine with five raised bands decoratively tooled in gilt and blind and lettered in gilt in compartments. Gilt-ruled board edges gilt decorated turn-ins gray endpapers all edges gilt. A very fine example housed in a custom made felt-lined black cloth clamshell case with black leather label on spine lettered in gilt. With a very fine fore-edge painting by Miss C.B. Currie of Mapledurham Oxfordshire from The Forsyte Saga.<br /> <br /> John Galsworthy's The Forsyte Saga is a multi-novel & short story series following the tumultuous lives of a wealthy English family as they navigate relationships and changing times in the late-19th and early 20th centuries. A Modern Comedy is the sequel to the series consisting of three aditional novels and two interludes.<br /> <br /> The artist Miss C.B. Currie Caroline Billin Curry 1849-1940 was one of the most beloved book painters of the 20th century who spent the majority of her career working for Henry Sotheran Booksellers in London. "She became famous for her miniature paintings applied to two art forms. First on ivory mounted on Rivière bindings and named by her employer as "Cosway" bindings. Later she expanded her work into the art of painting on the fanned edge of a book -- called a fore-edge painting. Most of these paintings were signed and numbered by the artist. Whereas fore-edge painting history is replete with unknown artists Currie is a notable exception. In the book world the name Miss C.B. Currie is widely recognized yet her personal life and real name remained guarded and unknown until now. It turns out her name was in fact partly a pseudonym. Though her work is highly prized there is no known published biography. Her correct full name was recently discovered to be Caroline Billin Curry. During her entire artistic career Curry used the slightly altered version of her name "Currie". Her true full name is not to be found in any published record of her work from Sotheran's" Weber.<br /> <br /> Provenance: Sotheran's catalogue 819 supplement item 1690 illustrated; Christie's London 29th October 1969 lot 19 purchased by E. Joseph London; Brauun Rasmussen 6th December 2005; New England Book Auction 18th April 2006 purchased by Jeff Weber; Sold to Randall Moscovitz 2007.<br /> <br /> Weber. Annotated Dictionary of Fore-Edge Painting. Catalogue Raisonné No. 160 p. 344 with photograph. William Heinemann Ltd unknown
1910TK0294London:: Chapman & Hall ca.1910-25. 1910. 8vo. vi 393 2 pp. Original full rouge calf simple gilt-rules raised bands gilt spine title all edges gilt marbled endsheets by Henry Young & Sons Ltd. Liverpool. Very good. With a recent fore-edge painting showing some women punting a rowboat in a small river. Commissioned or painted by a house artist for Harrington's ca. 1990s-2010. c340/101 Chapman & Hall, [ca.1910-25]. hardcover
19336283London: William Heinemann Ltd 1933. Later printing. Octavo 7 1/8 x 4 5/8 inches; 180 x 117 mm. ii Miss Currie signed limitation verso blank i-xvi 1-1104 pp. Including folded "Forsyte Family Tree". Inserted limitation leaf at front "This is No. 172 of the Books/with Fore-edge Paintings/by/Miss Currie/The Painting under the gold/is a view from/Richmond Hill./Signed/ C.B. Currie". Bound ca. 1933 by Rivière & Son for Henry Sotheran. Full dark blue straight-grain morocco covers elaborately bordered in gilt and blind enclosing a diamond-shaped gilt lozenge spine with five raised bands decoratively tooled in gilt and blind and lettered in gilt in compartments. Gilt -ruled board edges gilt decorated turn-ins gray endpapers all edges gilt. A very fine example. Housed in a custom made felt-lined black cloth clamshell case with black leather label on spine lettered in gilt. With a very fine fore-edge painting by Miss C.B. Currie of Richmond Hill from The Forsyte Saga.<br /> <br /> John Galsworthy's The Forsyte Saga is a multi-novel & short story series following the tumultuous lives of a wealthy English family as they navigate relationships and changing times in the late-19th and early 20th centuries. Here the fore-edge painting features a building central to many of the character's lives. <br /> <br /> The artist Miss C.B. Currie Caroline Billin Curry 1849-1940 was one of the most beloved book painters of the 20th century who spent the majority of her carrier working for Henry Sotheran Booksellers in London. "She became famous for her miniature paintings applied to two art forms. First on ivory mounted on Rivière bindings and named by her employer as "Cosway" bindings. Later she expanded her work into the art of painting on the fanned edge of a book -- called a fore-edge painting. Most of these paintings were signed and numbered by the artist. Whereas fore-edge painting history is replete with unknown artists Currie is a notable exception. In the book world the name Miss C.B. Currie is widely recognized yet her personal life and real name remained guarded and unknown until now. It turns out her name was in fact partly a pseudonym. Though her work is highly prized there is no known published biography. Her correct full name was recently discovered to be Caroline Billin Curry. During her entire artistic career Curry used the slightly altered version of her name "Currie". Her true full name is not to be found in any published record of her work from Sotheran's" Weber.<br /> <br /> Provenance: Sotheran's catalogue 819 supplement item 1688 or 1689; Chas. J. Sawyer Ltd. Catalogue 154 item 127 1929 -- said to have passed to an Akron Ohio institution -- unknown Ohio bookseller -- Mosher Books 2008; Sold to Randall Moscovitz 2008.<br /> <br /> Weber. Annotated Dictionary of Fore-Edge Painting.Catalogue Raisonné no. 172. William Heinemann Ltd unknown
192380270London:: Macmillan and Co. 1923. Complete edition. old full polished calf; gilt paneled spine; a.e.g. Very fine. 8vo. With a 20th c. fore-edge painting after Dante Gabriel Rossetti's "Meadow Bower." Macmillan and Co., unknown
19026285London: Macmillan and Co 1902. The Globe edition. Octavo 7 1/8 x 4 3/4 inches; 180 x 121 mm. ii Miss Currie signed limitation verso blank i-v vi-lx ii 1-695 1 pp. Inserted photogravure portrait frontispiece of "Mr. Quick as Tony Lumpkin". Laid-in is the original catalog description and receipt from Zeitlin & Ver Brugge Los Angeles dated March 5th 1986. Bound ca. 1931 by Rivière & Son for Henry Sotheran. Full dark blue straight-grain morocco covers elaborately tooled in gilt and blind spine with five raised bands decoratively tooled in gilt and blind and lettered in gilt in compartments. Gilt -ruled board edges gilt decorated turn-ins gray endpapers all edges gilt. With the bookplate of Brooklyn Public Library Ramsay fund on front paste-down. Housed in a fleece-lined quarter black morocco clamshell case spine with five raised bands lettered in gilt in compartments. With a very fine fore-edge painting by Miss C.B. Currie of Lucan House Dublin. Inserted limitation leaf at front "This is No. 157 of the Books/with Fore-edge Paintings/by/Miss Currie/The Painting under the gold/is a view of/Lucan-House Dublin./Signed/ C.B. Currie". A very fine example.<br /> <br /> Goldsmith was an Irish novelist playwright and poet whose facility among different genres brought him fame and friendship with many great eighteenth-century British authors. Kept busy by writing quickly and voluminously for Grub Street the center of London's disreputable part of the literary world Goldsmith nevertheless also found time to hone novels such as The Vicar of Wakefield poems such as The Deserted Village and plays such as She Stoops to Conquer. Contemporaries celebrated Goldsmith's ability to craft deceptively complex characters most notably in the case of Charles Primrose the vicar from The Vicar of Wakefield. Goldsmith counted Samuel Johnson among his closest friends and Johnson wrote the epitaph that appears on Goldsmith's memorial in Westminster Abbey's famous Poets' Corner: "To the memory of Oliver Goldsmith poet philosopher and historian by whom scarcely any style of writing was left untouched and no one touched unadorned whether to move to laughter or tears; a powerful yet lenient master of the affections in genius sublime vivid and versatile in expression noble brilliant and delicate is cherished in this monument by the love of his companions the fidelity of his friends and the admiration of his readers." <br /> <br /> "The miniature painter "Miss C.B. Currie" b. December 12 1849; d. April 2 1940 was one of the most prominent fore-edge artists in the twentieth century. A master of the art of miniature painting she excelled as a copyist working for Henry Sotheran Booksellers London. She became famous for her miniature paintings applied to two art forms. First on ivory mounted on Rivière bindings and named by her employer as "Cosway" bindings. Later she expanded her work into the art of painting on the fanned edge of a book -- called a fore-edge painting. Most of these paintings were signed and numbered by the artist. Whereas fore-edge painting history is replete with unknown artists Currie is a notable exception. Even today many fore-edge artists remain anonymous. In the book world the name Miss C.B. Currie is widely recognized yet her personal life and real name remained guarded and unknown until now. It turns out her name was in fact partly a pseudonym. Though her work is highly prized there is no known published biography. Her correct full name was recently discovered to be Caroline Billin Curry. During her entire artistic career Curry used the slightly altered version of her name "Currie". Her true full name is not to be found in any published record of her work from Sotheran's. Her private affairs remain mostly unknown to us and sadly no portrait photograph is known. The earliest year Currie fore-edge paintings appear in Sotheran catalogues is a 1913 supplemental leaf and after that not until 1924 see Currie 20. Since nineteen fore-edge paintings were made prior to 1924 and none of these appear in the Sotheran catalogues available to me from 1910-1923 it is unclear as to when the fore-edge painting effort really began. She may have made a few fore-edge paintings from ca. 1911 to 1914 and then discontinued until after the war. The number 172 was reached by 1933 and it seems unlikely that many more were done after that date." Weber 273. <br /> <br /> Provenance: Bloomsbury Book Auctions London Feb. 6th1986 lot 153 purchased by E. Joseph London; Sold to Zeilin Ver Brugge 1986; Sold to Randall Moscovitz 1986.<br /> <br /> Weber. Annotated Dictionary of Fore-Edge Painting. Catalogue Raisonné No. 157 p. 343 with color photograph. Macmillan and Co unknown
