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1824ST18708London: Robert Triphook 1824. FIRST EDITION. 233 x 143 mm. 9 1/8 x 5 3/4". 2 p.l. v 3 206 pp. 1 leaf ads. <br/> HANDSOME SCARLET MOROCCO BY RIVIERE & SON stamp-signed on front turn-in front cover WITH FIVE MINIATURE PORTRAITS OF SHAKESPEARE on ivory under glass ALMOST CERTAINLY BY MISS C. B. CURRIE surrounded by delicate gilt tooling rear cover and spine compartments framed by double gilt fillets raised bands gilt lettering to two compartments gilt-ruled turn-ins olive green silk endleaves top edge gilt other edges untrimmed. In a maroon fleece-lined slipcase. With five engraved plates reproducing portraits of Shakespeare. Jaggard pp. 586-87. Slight wear to silk endleaves at front hinge isolated small printing smudges or other trivial defects final leaf ads with short closed tear at head otherwise A VERY FINE COPY the text with no signs of use and the splendid binding in perfect condition.<br/> <br/> This analysis of portraits purporting to depict Shakespeare is the perfect vehicle for a Cosway binding used here to present the leading contenders on the front cover these likenesses also appear on engraved plates in the book. The portrait at the center of our cover is considered the most authoritative being that done by Martin Droeshout for the First Folio of 1623. The other portraits shown in the plates and in the miniatures are the Chandos Head the Stratford Bust the engraving by W. Marshall from the 1640 edition of the poems and the Jansen portrait of 1610. A Shakespeare scholar who raised the alarm about forgeries of Shakespeare manuscripts in the 1790s Boaden 1762-1839 sets forth here as indicated in the preface "a careful examination of the evidence" by which "the pretended portraits have been rejected and the genuine confirmed and established." The so-called "Cosway" binding with painted miniatures inlaid in handsome morocco--either inside or as here on the outside of the front cover--apparently originated with the London bookselling firm of Henry Sotheran about 1909. In that year G. C. Williamson's 1905 book entitled "Richard Cosway" which celebrated the career of this leading Georgian and Regency miniature painter was remaindered by Sotheran and presumably given this special decorative treatment in order to boost sales. The name "Cosway" then was used to describe any book so treated whatever its subject. The finest miniatures on Cosway bindings were executed by Caroline Billin Currie 1849-1940 who is known to have created such paintings for Sotheran's from 1910 until her death usually from designs by J. H. Stonehouse and typically for bindings executed as here by Riviere. Not present in this volume is an inserted leaf acknowledging Currie's work--something normally seen with Cosway bindings featuring her miniatures; but she has a distinctive deftness to her brush strokes and a recognizably refined execution that are clearly present here. The precision and detail of these portraits and the wonderfully expressive eyes are hallmarks of her work. Robert Triphook unknown
1697ST19416Rotterdam: Reinier Leers 1697- ca. 1713. 390 x 245 mm. 15 3/8 x 9 5/8". <br/> APPEALING CONTEMPORARY MARBLED CALF GILT covers with border roll of alternating diamonds and lilies raised bands spine compartments with thistle tulip and acorn centerpiece foliate cornerpieces burgundy morocco spine label marbled endpapers all edges gilt. WITH 66 SENSITIVELY DRAWN AND EXPERTLY ENGRAVED PORTRAITS of notable personages after Adriaen van der Werff created for Larrey's "Histoire." Brunet III 852; Graesse IV 110-11; Lowndes II 1313 all citing Larrey’s "Histoire". Leather with a few minor scratches a half dozen plates lightly browned isolated mild marginal foxing but A VERY FINE COPY--the plates especially clean and fresh with rich impressions of the engravings and in a lustrous unrestored contemporaneous binding.<br/> <br/> These brilliant portraits by Dutch Baroque painter Adriaen van der Werff 1659-1722 were unanimously deemed by Brunet Graesse and Lowndes to be the only valuable part of Larrey's otherwise disappointing history of England Scotland and Ireland; and our former owner seems to have agreed choosing to have them bound--quite beautifully--apart from the text. The engravings here are mostly of 16th and 17th century kings queens religious figures and statesmen of England but they also include some continental European monarchs such as Holy Roman Emperor Charles V Philip II of Spain and Frederick the Great of Prussia. The plates are not only beautifully engraved—by accomplished Dutch engravers Pieter van Gunst Cornelis Vermeulen and Gerard Valck—but are wonderfully convincing images with considerable personality. For once Queen Elizabeth I looks like a real woman as opposed to a tightly cinched flattened figure floating above a farthingale and dwarfed by mountainous ruffs. And Henry VII looks much less regal than he does haggard and rueful. According to the "Handbook of Painting" van der Werrf's portraits "were so highly admired by princes and men of fortune that he found it impossible to execute all the commissions given him." His fortune was made when John William Elector of the Palatinate commissioned his own portrait: so pleased was the elector with this work that he put the artist on a generous retainer presented him with a portrait executed in diamonds and awarded him a knighthood. Larrey's "Histoire d'Angleterre d'Ecosse et d'Irlande" was issued between 1697 and 1713 with a second edition in 1723. Brunet notes that the work was available with and without plates suggesting the suite of engravings was issued apart from the text; it is obvious our set has been together from the beginning in its present early 18th century binding. Reinier Leers unknown
96138901China n.d. c 1750's. Wood covers paper title slip layed on title brushed on accordion folded 11 fine color paintings cinnabar sealed silk border mounts few old worm holeselse clean solid copy. VERY R A R E !! A very charming early painted work with lovely Chinese text adjacent to each painting. This work covers 11 old sages and the text is a tribute to each. Covers Buo Liu Ji an official Wang Yi Zhi a Taoist notable Yen Wen Zhong scholar & eight others. Nicely painted with a delicate hand finely executed and very clearly written characters each with two nice cinnabar seals in both lower corners. Those celebrated are drawn in full period costume some are seated in elaborate chairs most sport very long beards. A wonderful example of a Chinese painted album strictly for Chinese without a thought for the "foreign market." Refreshingly superb work showing the literati. . unknown
16176232s.l.: s.n. 16th and 17th century. In-4° portraits de papes de rois d'hommes politiques Pierre Séguier Chancellier de France e.a. d'hommes de lettres Molière Ronsard. Les dames Catherine de Medicis e.a. en fin de volume. Reliure en plein veau blond dos à cinq nerfs compartiments ornés. Portraits of popes kings politicians writers. Ladies at the end of the volume. Full blond calf binding decorated back s.n. unknown
19472221919<p>Photograph signed "W. Somerset Maugham" in black ink on the mount of a striking portrait of Maugham from the chest up with him leaning his cheek on his right hand. Signed in full. The photograph is stamped "Pirie MacDonald Photographer-of-Men New York." The image measures approximately 6" x 9" and is affixed to MacDonald's original mounting board which measures 11" x 14". On the back of the board is imprinted an array of information of MacDonald's awards and accomplishments and address. A further affixed label indicates this photograph of Maugham was taken in 1935 and signed by him in 1947. An excellent and rare "soft focus" image. Very good.</p> unknown
1860D9231c. 1860s. Hardcover. Very Good. Hand-tooled gilt morocco; small 4to; period album with brass clasp; contains 38 playful images mostly pen-and-ink drawings but also including 4 cartes-de-visite and 1 tintype with hand-drawn elements like a pipe extra hair or gender-benders. Perhaps a gift for Humphrey and Meta the results are delightful character sketches: a stern Italian nurse portraits of Humphrey and Meta aged 1 and screaming and 8 and 9 and later not screaming their rivals Madame Gorgonzola with her nose in the air Cousin Rubicon Reverend Brimstone and more. <br/><br/> hardcover
199281984Industria. New. 1992. Hardcover. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened -- with a bonus offer-- . Industria hardcover
194628322New York: Henry Holt & Co. As New. 1946. Hardcover. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - AS NEW THE TEXT BLOCK IS PRISTINE CLEAN UNMARKED AND IN EXCELLENT CONDITION - -- with a bonus offer-- . Henry Holt & Co. hardcover
174018992AB1740. Rom Rubeis ca. 1740. 325 : 23 cm. Title-page and 69 engraved plates. Contemporary boards with title-label on spine. An elegant collection of portraits of cardinals printed on strong paper and with wide margins. Following a chronological order the first cardinal depicted is Alderano Cybo 1645i while the last is Henricus de la Grande d'Aroqvan 1695 Henry Stuart 1747. The engraqved plates show pope Innocent XI and his cardinals. - Complete copies are rare. - Plates 47 till 69 with a brown stain in the lower left part but the images are not effected. hardcover
1957058685The Rand Corporation 1957. 1st Edition . No Binding. Fine. 53 Posters Each 12" X 9". Finely Printed On Heavy Card Each With Portrait Signed "N. Boyle" A Particularly Memorable Quotation And The Same Logo At Bottom "The Rand Corporation Santa Monica California". A Fine Set In A Folding Box Perhaps But Not Certainly As Issued. The Posters Were The Basis Of A Series Of Well Known Ads Placed In Serious And Academic Journals Etc. The Original Ads Are Still Collectible But These Original Posters Are All Rare. <br/> <br/> The Rand Corporation unknown
189263140New York Boston and Philadelphia John C. Yorston & Co. Masonic Publishers 1892. 4to 350 x 280 mm. Five volumes uniformly bound in publisher original full cloth with gilt lettering and ornamentation to front boards. Small paper-labels pasted on to spines. Light wear to extremities and a few scratches to edges of boards. A few plates with marginal brownspotting otherwise fine and clean. With numerous fine steel engraving. <br/><br/><em>Large Paper Edition of this grand and finely produced biographical compendium of American Freemasonry profusely illustrated with engraved portraits of prominent members across the United States. </em> hardcover
1714ST19517bAmsterdam: Pierre Humbert 1714. FIRST EDITION. 290 x 220 mm. 11 1/2 x 8 3/4". Two volumes. <br/> Excellent contemporary calf raised bands spine lavishly gilt in compartments with unusual architectural centerpiece intricate scrolling cornerpieces with lancet accents two red morocco labels marbled endpapers. Title pages with engraved vignette of the council dedication page with engraved royal arms of Frederick William of Prussia decorative engraved initials and 19 ENGRAVED PORTRAITS BY BERNARD PICART. A Large Paper Copy. Front pastedowns with private library shelf label of Bessinge. Title pages of both volumes with signature of Charles Richard Tronchin. Brunet III 976. ◆Volume II with half-inch split at head of front joint and small patch of lost patina from insect activity on front board joints and extremities of both volumes a little rubbed boards with light chafing or faint scratches isolated mild browning or other trivial imperfections but still AN EXTREMELY APPEALING SET--entirely clean and fresh internally with especially ample margins with sharp impressions of unusually bright plates and with bindings showing no significant signs of use and looking very attractive on the shelf.<br/> <br/> This is a handsomely illustrated history of the Council of Constance the 15th century ecumenical council that resolved the Western Schism elected a new pope for the unified Roman Catholic Church and condemned reformer Jan Hus as a heretic. It is enlivened with beautiful portraits of the participants by an artist Ray considers "the outstanding professional illustrator of the first third of the eighteenth century." Our author French Protestant divine Jacques Lenfant 1661-1728 drew heavily on writings by those present at the council for this account which is considered a fair recording of the proceedings. Lenfant likely felt some sympathy for Hus tried and burned at the stake for heresy and for his countryman Jerome of Prague who came to support Hus and ended up meeting the same fate. Picart has referenced their martyrdom in his portraits depicting Hus' execution in a vignette beneath his portrait and balancing the tondo portrait of Jerome on a pile of burning logs. Similarly the radical English theologian John Wycliffe posthumously convicted of heresy at the council is pictured over a stack of burning books his writing having been condemned to this fate. But in addition to the harsh reality of burning execution Picart employs gentler details: Parisian Jean Gerson the formidable Chancellor of Paris is in sober robes but the adorable fluffy puppy beneath his portrait softens his image considerably. The cardinal of Foix who had negotiated the end of the schism involving rival popes in Rome and Avignon is flanked by a cherub holding an olive branch looking askance at a slain dragon which has been relieved of his many heads. The new pope Martin V is shown with the insignia of the papacy and a dove clasping an olive branch in its beak. The portrait of Italian humanist Poggio Bracciolini is shown hanging in an open window that looks out on his city of Florence with a stack of books by Quintilian and other classical authors Poggio had rescued from obscurity on the windowsill. Throughout Picart's facial images are strikingly individuated--these are convincing portraits that project history from the book's pages. Picart 1673-1733 was born in Paris where he learned engraving from his father Etienne and from Sébastian Le Clerc and "early acquired a reputation both as an artist and engraver." He moved to the busy publishing city of Amsterdam sometime before 1712 and established himself as both printseller and illustrator/engraver. There he designed and engraved an impressive body of illustrations for Dutch printers at a time when in Ray's words "designs for the finest illustrated books were typically drawn by leading painters." Our previous owner Charles Richard Tronchin 1763-1835 was a Swiss politician of great wealth who donate very substantial sums to relieve the sick and destitute. Pierre Humbert unknown
187229260AB1872. London Vanity Fair 1872. Folio. 208 208 pages. Complete set. Interleaved with 51 chromolithographic portraits. Beautifully restored original Hardcover half-leather with orginal spine gilt letttering and ornament. With new linen-covered boards using the original pastedowns and endpapers. A stunning Volume in excellent condition. All illustrations in wonderful colour. Portraits include: 1. Caricature of Marie Joseph Louis Adolphe Thiers President of France. Caption read "Faute-de-mieux Premier" / 2. Caricature of Richard Edmund St Lawrence Boyle 9th Earl of Cork and 9th Earl of Orrery 1829-1904. Caption read "Master of Her Majesty's Buckhounds" / 3. Caricature of Dr Frederick Quin 1799 - 1878. Caption read "Homoeopathic Society" / 4. Men of the Day No.38: Caricature of Mr. James Anthony Froude. Caption reads: "He created Henry VIII exploded Mary Stuart and demolished Elizabeth" / 5. Caricature of Wilkie Collins 1824-1889. Caption read "The Novelist who invented Sensation" / 6. Caricature of Spencer Horatio Walpole 1806-1898. Caption read "He defended Hyde Park" / 7. Caricature of John Ruskin. Caption read "The realisation of the Ideal" / 8. Caricature of George Grenfell Glyn M.P. 1824-1887. Caption read "The Whip" / 9. Alexander William Kinglake 18091891 - British politician military historian writer and traveler. Caricature / 10. Caricature of William Henry Smith 1825 1891. Caption read "Newspapers" / 11. Caricature of Sir Roundell Palmer. Caption reads: "He refused the Woolsack and voted against the Disestablishment of the Irish Church" / 12. Caricature of Mr.John Francis Maguire MP. Caption reads: "A Home Ruler" / 13. Caricature of Charles Kingsley 1819-1875. Caption read "The Apostle of the Flesh" / 14. Caricature of John Tyndall. Caption read "The Scientific Use of the Imagination" / 15. Caricature of Reverend John Cumming. Caption read "The End of the World" / 16. Caricature of The Rt Hon Gathorne Hardy MP DCL. Caption reads: "Conservative" / 17. Caricature of Mr William Hepworth Dixon. Caption reads: "He discovered New America and Free Russia" / 18. Caricature of King Amadeus of Spain. Caption reads "He would be a King" / 19. Caricature of Sir Wilfrid Lawson 2nd Baronet MP 1829-1906. Caption reads: "Permissive Prohibition" / 20. Caricature of The Hon Hamilton Fish. Caption reads: "Consequential damages" / 21. Caricature of The Hon. Charles Sumner 1811-1874. Caption reads: "The Massive Grievance" / 22. Caricature of Ulysses S. Grant. Caption read "Captain Tanner Farmer General Imperator" / 23. Caricature of Thomas Hughes M.P. 1822-1896. Caption read "Tom Brown" / 24. Caricature of Mr S Morley MP. Caption reads: "Dissent" / 25. Caricature of Sir Arthur Wellesley KG PC MP 2nd Duke of Wellington. Caption read "The son of Waterloo" / 26. Caricature of Frederic Leighton 1830-1896. Caption read "A sacrifice to the Graces" / 27. Caricature of Michael Costa 1808-1884. Caption read "Orchestration" / 28. Caricature of Mr George Leeman MP. Caption read "A Yorkshire Solicitor" / 29. Caricature of Horace Greeley. Caption reads: "Anything to beat Grant" / 30. Caricature of The Rt Hon Edward Pleydell-Bouverie MP. Caption reads: "He did not decline the Speakership." / etc. hardcover
199228156San Francisco: The Arion Press 1992. Limited. Cloth. Near Fine. R.B. Kitaj. Limited edition of 200 this is 65 1992. Near Fine. Small folio 62 pp. with lithographs by Kitaj. Bound in publishers two colors of Japanese cloth black and grey/green black lettering on the front binding design with a flap enclosing the fore-edge that folds into the front cover; cream endpapers fore- and bottom edges uncut. Very very slight signs of shelf wear - no notable defects. Signed by author and artist. The Arion Press unknown
1978041524-PAtlanta GA.: The Olympia Galleries LTD./ The Ashantilly Press 1978. Book. Illus. by Thomas Eakins. As New. Hardcover. Limited Edition. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Limited Edition of only 200 copies quarter leather spine with gilt letters marbled hardcover boards in the gray cloth slipcase. Illustrated with 21 tipped in Thomas Eakins black & white photos tipped on Rives Heavyweight buff paper. This limited edition featuring photographic prints from the original prints made by Eakins while at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts including eleven images never before published . A rare limited edition of 200 copies this is 187. The Olympia Galleries, LTD./ The Ashantilly Press Hardcover
179113195Madrid: Imprenta Real a cargo de Lázaro Gacquer 1791. 430x320mm. 17x12½". Madrid Imprenta Real a cargo de Lázaro Gacquer 1791. En folio mayor 430 x 320mm. 9 láminas calcográficas. Encuadernación en holandesa. Primera edición. Colección de 9 retratos de personajes relacionados con América: Vasco Núñez de Balboa Hernán Cortés Bartolomé de Las Casas Hernando de Soto Francisco Pizarro Pedro Méndez de Avilés Juan de Palafox y Mendoza Jorge Juan y Antonio de Ulloa. Esta magnífica obra se publicó en 18 entregas con un total de 118 láminas. La presente colección contiene los retratos de los españoles ilustres relacionados con América. Imprenta Real a cargo de Lázaro Gacquer unknown
1919108343Adelaide 1919. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide circa 1919. A custom-made photograph album 190 × 200 mm containing 6 card leaves with an original gelatin silver photograph mounted on both sides of each leaf with interleaved tissue-guards. Each photograph is approximately 135 × 95 mm. Half leather and cloth lettered in full in gilt on the front cover with 'The Eucalypts' in gilt on the spine; leather discoloured and moderately rubbed with slight wear in a few areas; some tiny paint spots near the head of the front cover; tissue-guards a little foxed and offset; marginal silvering-out to five prints; overall in very good condition. All but the first portrait is signed and only the last one contains an additional inscription the date '10.1.19'. The State Library of South Australia has another example of this album enabling us to confirm the identities where the handwriting was unclear. Ministers of religion lawyers doctors and architects predominate. The subjects are Reverend A.H. Gifford possibly A.E. Gifford; Benjamin Benny 1869-1935 senator and solicitor; George McEwin 1873-1945 lawyer and philanthropist; Edward Erskine Cleland 1869-1943 barrister and judge; Alfred McBain Bonython 1865-1954 architect; Sir James Wallace Sandford 1879-1958 merchant and politician; Reverend Wilfred Harris Unitarian minister returned to England in 1918; Dr Herbert Frank Shorney 1878-1933 opthalmologist; Sir Thomas John Mellis Napier 1882-1976 later a SA Supreme Court judge; Harold Reid; Edward Warner Benham 1872-1948 lawyer and academic; and Francis Hedley Counsell 1864-1933 architect. <p>The subtitle is a misquote from 'Among the Sandhills' by Adela Florence Nicolson née Cory 1865-1904 an English poet who wrote under the pseudonym Laurence Hope 'The scented orange bushes check the breeze Granting in tribute many waxen stars And aromatic Eucalyptus trees Defy the sun with grey-green scimitars'. We have saved the best until the end: we purchased this item decades ago and have postponed cataloguing it innumerable times not knowing who 'The Eucalypts' were. We have finally solved the puzzle by the simple expedient of spending untold hours on it. We eventually discovered the lengthy biographical sketch of Alfred Bonython compiled by Giles Walkley for the University of SA's database on architects accessible online. Among many other interesting details he records that 'At the age of 42 Bonython became the father of a fourth daughter . Determinedly reviving his literary activities he joined both at their outset in 1910 Lady Symon's Poetry Society and the "liberal Christian" discussion group The Eucalypts Club . SRG 252'. hardcover
189076014V.p.: V.p. 1890-1920. The soft leather-covered album measures 15.5 x 11.5 inches and contains fifty extant pages containing a total of 164 original photographs of varying sizes. The album has had some of its pages removed and there are missing photos from extant pages. There are an additional 23 fine photos either unmounted or on partial pages that have been removed from the album but are present in this offering. Altogether there are 187 photographs in this grouping. Several of the photos are over 9 x 13 inches in size. The photographs whether still in the album or separated from it are in Fine condition. Harriette Hattie Elizabeth Hill Foster Goldnamer 1868-1940 assembled the album and wrote the white ink photo descriptions in a wonderful cursive hand. According to Hughes’ Artists in California Hattie married “… Daniel Foster and moved to Fresno CA in 1886. In 1904 she moved to San Francisco where she studied at the Mark Hopkins Art Institute and privately with Frederick Bauer. A widow by 1910 she had married Wm. Goldnamer. She then settled in Oakland where she remained until her demise on May 2 1940.†As an artist Hattie worked in charcoal and oil and specialized in still life and figure studies. This album is one of three family photographs she put together that we acquired together. Although the family names are the same in all three each stands alone and we are offering them individually. All but nine of the 164 photographs in the album are fine portraits of her family and friends and several of herself. Surnames identified in the album include Hill Foster McNeil Gardner Potter Bryer Gould Pierce Page Oust Le Blanc Ryan McKenzie Holden Oberwetter Russell Hutchens Eldred Dunbar King Brown Scholler Holaday Radley Hutchens and many others. From the identification inscriptions beneath the photos along with photographers’ imprints many of Hattie’s family and friends were from the Illinois-Nebraska area and California. There are a number of oval portraits of identified individuals both male and female dated 1900. The other nine images in the album are large photos of the Hill Dunbar and Oberwetter ranches in Nebraska and Wyoming circa 1895-1900.The photo with the “Louis Fleckenstein / Los Angeles†blind stamp is of Loraine Stebinger who signed the photo’s mount “Most sincerely Loraine Stebinger Dec. 25 1918.†Removed from the album the photograph of the musician shows her playing the piano and measures 7 x 10 inches on a 10 x 13.5 inch cream colored mount. Fleckenstein 1866-1943 was an internationally known pictorialist photographer before moving to Los Angeles in 1907 to open up a portrait studio. He and a colleague had already organized the Salon Club of America to give support to regional camera clubs interested in pictorial photography where the emphasis was on photography as an art form rather than a documentary tool – aesthetics over reality! In 1914 along with Edward Weston and others Fleckenstein helped found the Camera Pictorialists of Los Angeles. In 1924 he relocated to Long Beach where he continued his work in photography. His photos are now in most major museum collections of photography.Another unattributed photo of Stebinger has an ink presentation “To my dearly beloved Friend Harriet Goldnamer from Lorraine Stebingerâ€. That presentation photo was key to identifying Hattie Goldnamer as the compiler of all three albums acquired at the same time of which this is one. Of interest is the penciled note on the back that attributes it along with several other shots of Stebinger in the same dress to Fleckenstein. However that has not been verified. V.p. hardcover
1993311109SANTA BARBARA: CAPRA PRESS. Fine with no dust jacket. 1993. First Edition; First Printing. Softcover. 0884963780 . A paperback original. SIGNED by director/ screenwriter Robert Altman & Frank Barhydt on the title page. Also SIGNED by writer & author of the foreword Tess Gallagher on the contents page. Fine in trade-size pictorial printed wrappers. Features full-color portraits of the cast & Robert Altman by artist Don Bachardy. LR . CAPRA PRESS. paperback
20071326Iceland: The National Museum of Iceland 2007. Paperback. Good. Large oversize softcover signed and dated by legendary photographer Mary Ellen Mark on the half-title in the year of publication. No indication of printing. A good plus copy with all wear being external - the deep blue covers have some scuffing and there is minor bending at the corners and wear to the cover edges. . A sticker to the front cover is printed "Islensku Bokmennta Verdlaunin Tilnefnina" indicating the book's nomination for an Icelandic award but also in hand writing on the sticker is "recommendation for book price." Interior is clean and unmarked other than the photographer's autograph. Binding is solid and with no splits or creases. 176 pp. black and white photography text in Icelandic and English. <br/><br/> The National Museum of Iceland paperback
201188848Brooklyn NY: Strike Three Press 2011. First Limited Edition. One of 64 numbered copies specially bound and signed by the illustrator this being copy no.40. Quarto 38cm; dark blue Asahi cloth boards and black cloth backstrip titled in gilt on spine with printed title label mounted to upper front cover; text printed letterpress; 48pp; illus. A Fine copy. <br /> <br /> An attractive volume of expressive pen and ink portraits of American blues musicians by illustrator Joe Ciardiello b.1953 including portraits of Leadbelly Memphis Minnie Muddy Waters Charlie Patton Mississippi John Hurt Howlin' Wolf and others. With an introduction by John Kruth. OCLC notes just 2 holdings Columbia Ringling College of Art & Design. 88848. Strike Three Press unknown
1904006161Paris: Octave Beauchamp. Printer: G. de Malherbe 1904. First edition. Hardcover. Cloth spines. Wood boards. Slipcase. Near Fine. Folio 33 by 26 cm. Unpaginated. With pieces on Victorien Sardou Sarah Bernhardt François Coppée Mme Edmond Adam Anatole France Mme la Duchesse D'Uzès Jules Lemaître Mme Réjane Jules Claretie Mme Segond-Weber Jean Richepin Marthe Brandès Coquelin Aîné Jeanne Granier Jules Massenet Aïno Ackté Mounet-Sully Jane Hading J-L.Gérôme Jane Hatto Antonin Mercié Marie Delna Luc-Olivier Merson Sibyl-Sanderson F.-A. Bartholdi Mme. Carrère-Xanrof Alfred Capus and la Reine Ranavalo. With each following a title page two pages of biography a portrait page and a note biographique page the former being more impressionistic seeking to convey something of the personages character charisma and basis for renown and the latter more a straightforward concise biography. Also on a glossy leaf is a photograph surrounded by chromolithographed Art Nouveau decoration and a facsimile holograph inscription and autograph. Without extra Cappiello caricatures. The boards are of wood with an inset medallions of Sarah Bernhardt in her role as "La Princesse Lointaine" after the illustration by Alphonse Mucha. With publisher's slipcase. Condition: Slipcase with moderate shelfwear. Octave Beauchamp. Printer: G. de Malherbe hardcover
19189533Tacoma: Robert W. Hubert 1918. Assume First and Only Edition. Original wraps. Very good. oblong 12mo. silhouette decorated covers unpaginated. -- Front edges moderately bumped bottom front corner bumped a couple small nicks to extremities of the covers. Robert W. Hubert unknown
1780031157London: T. Cadell 1780. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good. X Xix 480 588 Pp. Original Quarter Calf Over Marbled Boards 5 Bands Spines Elaborately Gilt But Re-Backed With Remains Of Original Heavily Gilt Spines. All Edges Of Page Block Colored Red. Elaborately Marbled. Multicolor Endpapers Also Apparently Original As They Match The Worn And Faded Marbled Boards. Both Volumes With Elaborate Bookplates And Also Handwritten Name Signatures Of Paul Panton Esq. Who Is Named In The List Of Subscribers At The Beginning Of Volume I. Bindings Worn Except For Professional Re-Backing Material Hinges Tight Contents Fine Immaculate And Square. This First Edition Is Rare; Worldcat Shows Only Three Institutional Holdings Two In Uk One In Canada; All Copies Of This 1780 First Printing May Have Been Subscribers' Copies. <br/> <br/> T. Cadell hardcover
1833246869London: Charles Knight Pall-Mall East 1833. 168 engraved portraits. 7 vols. 8vo. Half lavender pebbled morocco. Some rubbing else very good. 7. 168 engraved portraits. 7 vols. 8vo. Charles Knight, Pall-Mall East unknown
