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177420168Rome 1774. Copper engraving on two joined sheets by Ottaviani after drawings by Savorelli and Camporesi printed in light brown coloured ink with contemporary hand-colouring. Neat marginal restoration. A stunning plate from "Logge di Rafaele nel Vaticano": with contemporary colouring of the highest quality from the golden age of the hand-coloured print. The main panel shows Moses coming down from Mount Sinai holding the tablets bearing the ten words of the Covenant his face "horned from the conversation of the Lord". Aaron and the children of Israel seeing the face of Moses "horned" are afraid to come near.<br/> <br/>A very fine image from the second part of a work titled "Loggie di Rafaele nel Vaticano" depicting the decorative work executed by Raphael and his assistants between 1518-1519 in the Vatican. They were drawn by Gaetano Savorelli a Roman painter and draughtsman best known for his Raphael drawings and Pietro Camporesi a Roman architect who worked for Pope Clemens XIII and Pius VI on rooms for the Vatican Museum. The first to illustrate the famous frescoes these beautiful plates were probably planned as early as 1760 but were not executed until 1772 to 1776. The plate is remarkable not only as the first important visual record of Raphael's work but also for the quality of the hand-colouring - the work on this image is in our opinion some of the greatest to be produced in Europe during the whole of the eighteenth century: the golden age of the hand-coloured print. They were remarkable not just for their size and magnificent colouring but also because of the influence they had on contemporary taste. The decision was made to "borrow" elements from Raphael's Vatican tapestries and insert them where the original frescoes were in too poor a state to be legible. The finished plates therefore represented an amalgam of design elements presented with a crisp freshness of colour that held enormous appeal and did much to stimulate the taste for the "grotesque" in the Neo-classical period. A year after the death of his principal patron Julius II Raphael succeeded Donato Bramante in 1514 as the official Vatican architect. Having previously adorned the "Stanze" or chambers of Julius on the second floor of the papal apartments in the Vatican palace he was commissioned by Leo X in 1517 to decorate the adjacent Logge. He designed an elaborate cycle of ornamental frescoes for the room's ceiling vaults doors and auxiliary pillars which were executed by his assistants Giulio Romano and Giovanni da Udine. Twelve of the quadrilateral ceiling vaults were adorned with murals of familiar Old Testament scenes and one with a scene from the New Testament while the more decorative frescoes painted on the pilasters by Udine were covered with imaginative compositions of 'grotesque' motifs like foliage fruit and chimerical beasts.<br/> <br/>Cf. Brunet IV 1110 & 1111; cf. Berlin "Kat". 4068 & 4066; "Raphael Invenit: Stampe da Rafaello" 1985 Ottaviano 22; cf. "Raphael: Reproduktions-graphik aus vier Jahrhunderten" Coburg 1984 104 & no. 245. unknown books
177420165Rome 1774. Copper engraving on two joined sheets by Ottaviani after drawings by Savorelli and Camporesi printed in light brown coloured ink with contemporary hand-colouring. Neat marginal restoration. A stunning plate from "Logge di Rafaele nel Vaticano": with contemporary colouring of the highest quality from the golden age of the hand-coloured print. In the main panel the Lord appears to Isaac and tells him not to go down into Egypt but to stay in Gerara.<br/> <br/>A very fine image from the second part of a work titled "Loggie di Rafaele nel Vaticano" depicting the decorative work executed by Raphael and his assistants between 1518-1519 in the Vatican. They were drawn by Gaetano Savorelli a Roman painter and draughtsman best known for his Raphael drawings and Pietro Camporesi a Roman architect who worked for Pope Clemens XIII and Pius VI on rooms for the Vatican Museum. The first to illustrate the famous frescoes these beautiful plates were probably planned as early as 1760 but were not executed until 1772 to 1776. The plate is remarkable not only as the first important visual record of Raphael's work but also for the quality of the hand-colouring - the work on this image is in our opinion some of the greatest to be produced in Europe during the whole of the eighteenth century: the golden age of the hand-coloured print. They were remarkable not just for their size and magnificent colouring but also because of the influence they had on contemporary taste. The decision was made to "borrow" elements from Raphael's Vatican tapestries and insert them where the original frescoes were in too poor a state to be legible. The finished plates therefore represented an amalgam of design elements presented with a crisp freshness of colour that held enormous appeal and did much to stimulate the taste for the "grotesque" in the Neo-classical period. A year after the death of his principal patron Julius II Raphael succeeded Donato Bramante in 1514 as the official Vatican architect. Having previously adorned the "Stanze" or chambers of Julius on the second floor of the papal apartments in the Vatican palace he was commissioned by Leo X in 1517 to decorate the adjacent Logge. He designed an elaborate cycle of ornamental frescoes for the room's ceiling vaults doors and auxiliary pillars which were executed by his assistants Giulio Romano and Giovanni da Udine. Twelve of the quadrilateral ceiling vaults were adorned with murals of familiar Old Testament scenes and one with a scene from the New Testament while the more decorative frescoes painted on the pilasters by Udine were covered with imaginative compositions of 'grotesque' motifs like foliage fruit and chimerical beasts.<br/> <br/>Cf. Brunet IV 1110 & 1111; cf. Berlin "Kat". 4068 & 4066; "Raphael Invenit: Stampe da Rafaello" 1985 Ottaviano 22; cf. "Raphael: Reproduktions-graphik aus vier Jahrhunderten" Coburg 1984 104 & no. 245. unknown books
211707Signed Raphael Soyer lower left inscribed Kelekian center right. 1 vols. 14 x 9.25 inches. Fine. In frame. Signed Raphael Soyer lower left inscribed Kelekian center right. 1 vols. 14 x 9.25 inches. Kelekian 1868-1951 one of the most important art/antiquites dealers of the modern era. Known to his peers as the "dean of antiquities" Kelekian's connoisseurship of the ancient art of the Near East opened the eyes of many Americans to a heritage hitherto unknown and unappreciated. Kelekian was born in Kayser in modern-day Turkey began his career in Constantinople opened a gallery in Paris in 1891 and moved to New York shortly after the 1893 Chicago World's Fair. Very quickly Kelekian's gallery developed clients among America's wealthiest families e.g. the Havermeyers John D. Rockefeller Jr. the Astors the Walters of Baltimore et. al. Kelekian ws primarlily responsible for building the Coptic Early Christian and Classical collections of Henry Walters later founder of the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore and the Gothic collection of financier and Metropolitan Museum of Art president George Blumenthal. Kelekian was equally well known as an early champion of modern art and began collecting and promoting such artists as Henri Matisse André Derain and Pablo Picasso at a very early date. Boisterous expansive a friends to many artists he died in his eighties at his hime in New York with world-wide reputation. for a sketch of his life and career see the excellent sketch by Hrag Vartanian for the Armenian General benevolent Fund http://www.agbu.org/agbunews/display.aspA_ID=69. unknown books
17868168London: Published by J. R. Smith No. 83 Oxford Street 1786. Coloured mezzotint. In good condition with the exception of some faint soiling in upper margin. Bottom margin outside platemark is coated with white paint. Water stains on verso of sheet not noticeable on front of sheet. Image size: 14 3/4 x 17 inches. Plate size: 17 7/8 x 19 5/8 inches. Sheet size: 19 5/8 x 20 inches. A wonderful mezzotint after Rev. Matthew William Peters by one of the finest eighteenth century engravers.<br/> <br/>This charming print is engraved after a painting by Rev. Matthew William Peters and is a fascinating example of this period in British printmaking. Matthew Peters was trained in London under the portraitist Thomas Hudson. He quickly became a prominent member of the Society of Artists exhibiting portraits in oil and pastel and attracting a number of prominent aristocratic patrons including the Duke of Manchester the Marquess of Granby and Lord Grosvenor for whom he painted some of his most controversial pictures. Urged by his patrons Peters painted a series of quasi-erotic character studies of courtesans which at that time were quite unusual in Britain. These controversial pictures were eagerly reproduced by industrious printmaker/publishers such as Smith and caused a flurry of curious customers to hurry to London print-shops. Following his ordination in 1781 Peters quickly denounced his early erotic pictures as immoral. Upon being appointed Honorary Chaplain to the Royal Academy Peters expressed a profound regret "that he ever devoted his talents to such subjects". With this in mind this picture becomes extremely interesting. In this work Peters continues to observe and appreciate charming subjects in fancy costumes but eliminates the erotic overtones present in his earlier works. Instead he has chosen to depict an age-old moral subject fortune-telling an institution in western art since the Renaissance. This print which is expertly engraved by one of the finest eighteenth century printmakers is a fascinating view into a turbulent period in Peters' life when he struggled to produce images that would appeal to his viewers while remaining true to his moral beliefs.<br/> <br/>D'Oench Copper into Gold: Prints by John Raphael Smith 1751-1812 p. 224 No. 274; Smith Catalogue No. 135 & 136; Ackermann 1802 p. 9 described as companion prints; Chaloner Smith British Mezzotinto Portraits Ward 97 Smith 186; Frankau An 18th Century Artist and Engraver: John Raphael Smith 146. Published by J. R. Smith, No. 83 Oxford Street unknown books
1856WRCAM41810Mexico City 1856. 4804pp. Several errors in pagination. Small quarto. Contemporary red half sheep and boards spine gilt. Boards and extremities rubbed. Contemporary bookplate on front pastedown. Light toning and minor foxing. Very good. An extremely valuable compilation which gives detailed data including route scenery and other key information about many various parts of Mexico. By piecing together the different itineraries it offers a traveler could basically go anywhere in Mexico and into the U.S. already provided with extremely detailed instructions about the best route and what facilities - such as water grass and shelter - were available every step of the way. A detailed name index listing routes and where they are to be found in the book further enhances the volume's usefulness for travelers be they headed to destinations great or small. Many of the routes described begin in Mexico City; some routes extend into Texas and New Mexico. Among the most interesting are two itineraries concerning California. One describes a journey from La Paz at the far southern end of Baja California to the U.S. border. This is one of the most detailed and expansively described routes in the entire book preserving a wealth of geographic and natural details. Many of the places detailed in this section have either disappeared or been extensively altered. The other journey is along the Sonora Route from Ures to Sonora to the California gold fields. This trip passes through Los Angeles and includes some commentary on the missions in the area. "An important guide book giving the routes and mileage with sketches of the country throughout Mexico" - Eberstadt. PALAU 9290. SABIN 976. EBERSTADT 138:033. BARRETT 34. hardcover books
1930308625Boston: Houghton Mifflin 1930. Autograph edition. Number 142 of 750 numbered sets SIGNED BY SABATINI in Volume 1 with page of manuscript of 39 lines tipped in Volume I. Plates in Two States Coloured and Uncolored. 29 vols. 8vo. Publisher's 3/4 green morocco by The Riverside Press. t.e.g. A handsome set. Autograph edition. Number 142 of 750 numbered sets SIGNED BY SABATINI in Volume 1 with page of manuscript of 39 lines tipped in Volume I. Plates in Two States Coloured and Uncolored. 29 vols. 8vo. Volumes I-XXII XXIV-XXVIII XXXII-XXXIII only. Houghton Mifflin unknown books
18566878Mexico City: Jose A. Godoy 1856. First edition. Quarto pp 480 3 errata. A state-by-state guide book for travel throughout Mexico with routes and distances between each city town village ranch etc. The routes described extend into Texas San Antonio and El Paso and New Mexico Albuquerque Bernalillo Santa Fe. Also of note are the routes going from Sonora "al Placer de Oro de la Alta California" i.e. the gold mines of Upper California. This was known as the "Sonora Route" and was traversed by many Mexicans who were among the first to reach the gold fields in 1849 and the early 1850s. It enters the U.S. at the Colorado River and goes through Temecula La Joya then "La Mision vieja se pasa el rio de los Nietos y a la derecha del camino a una legua de distancia esta la mision de San Gabriel opulenta ante su destruccion. Los Angeles: poblacion hoy de los Estados Unidos del Norte." The route then goes through various ranches and follows the "Mission Trail" northward: "La Mision de S. Buenaventura. El rancho de Carpinteria. Sta Barbara presidio: a una milla de distancia esta la mision con una hermosa parroquia y es el obispado. La Mision de Santa Ines. S. Luis Obispo: pasa este camino por un frondoso rio que llaman Arroyo Seco. La Joya: rancho despoblado a la orilla de un rio cubierto de grandes alamedas. La Mision de San Miguel: para llegar a esta se pasa por el rancho que nombran Paso de Robles. La Mision de Soledad. Mision de San Juan. Pueblo de San Jose: pasando por el Ojo del rancho de Cochi. la Laguna y otros mas. Mision de San Jose. Stokton poblacion que esta formando sobre un estero de rio de San Joaquin el cual tiene mucho comercio por los buques procedentes de San Francisco del Alta California. El Rio Estanislao. Un aguage que proporciona pastos que escasean mucho adelante. El Placer de Estanislao Stanislaus." The notes concerning each place are valuable and in some cases very detailed for instance for Baja Caliornia and Tamaulipas with detailed description of the border town of Matamoros on the "Rio Bravo". Sabin 976: Eberstadt 138-033 "An important guide book giving the routes and mileages with sketches of the country throughout Mexico including Coahuila Sonora and New Mexico." Though fairly well-represented on Worldcat the book is quite scarce in the market Eberstadt's copy from 1956 being the only one recorded. Previous owner's name -- "P. Argumoso / 1917" on title page; Mexican book-seller's stamp on ffep. Half calf over marbled boards. Very nice copy. <br/><br/> Jose A. Godoy hardcover books
1869236593Paris: l'auteur rue Royer-Collard 1869. First edition. 200 sepia-toned plates bound out of sequence. 1 vols. Folio. Three quarter green morocco spine richly gilt hinges repaired bookplates discreet embossed library stamp to title page some edges rough plates clean. First edition. 200 sepia-toned plates bound out of sequence. 1 vols. Folio. Lipperheide 337; Colas 1528; Hiler p. 473 l'auteur, rue Royer-Collard unknown books
17846627London: Published by J. Birchall 1784. Mezzotint. In excellent condition with the exception that the lower margin is trimmed along the plate mark. A beautiful mezzotint after the sentimental genre painting by William Redmore Bigg.<br/> <br/>William Redmore Bigg 1755-1828 was a popular London genre painter who is best known for his family tableaux depicting acts of charity. Of these this scene in which an aristocratic lady attended by her daughters young black servant and dog visit a poor "cottager" is one of the best. The original painting 1781 is in the Philadelphia Museum of Art. John Raphael Smith 1752-1812 engraved the mezzotint for John Boydell the leading London printseller which tells the story admirably. It is a sentiment expressed without irony though we now consider the black servant boy in livery and turban politically insensitive. He too looks on the poor woman and her sleeping child with pity. Nor are the silk dressesextragant hats lap dog and silk parasol that the Lord's family sport intended for criticism: this is an idealised version of recommended behavior. The littlest girl overcome by this encounter with poverty cries as she hands over the money and we understand that this is part of her moral education. The composition is appealing and successful. The Lady whose fine country house can be seen in the distance forms the apex of the pyramidal group just as her generous act is the apex of a good and stable society. At this time virtually all "welfare" was local and critical to the large portion of the English population lived in want. Nevertheless it was only beginning to be thought that the wealthy had any obligation to the poor and it was generally accepted that acts like these were and ought to be wholly voluntary. This is an ideal example of the print clearly an early impression in which silks and satins gleam curls and ribbons swirl. Published by J. Birchall unknown books
19852635New York: Limited Editions Club/Anthoensen Press 1985. First Edition Thus. Loose Signatures. Fine. Bright and unmarred. fo. 32pp. Illus. color and b/w plates. Signed by Neel and Soyer. Unnumbered. <br/><br/>This is a set of loose signatures of Poe's classic tale printed by the Anthoensen Press on mould-made paper designed by Ben Shiff and hand-set by Michael and Winifred Bixler. The bound copies were bound by John Isakovics in hand-marbled paper by Faith Harrison. Alice Neel died shortly before the publication of this volume and the images are dark and exceptional and include her stunning skull "self-portrait" the last not present in the loose signatures. The printer brought blank pages to Neel to sign and she signed approximately 400 of them before she passed away. This copy is additionally interesting as it was a printer's proof from Anthoensen Press and is unnumbered. Signed by Neel and Soyer. Limited Editions Club/Anthoensen Press unknown books
18016589London: Published by John Raphael Smith 1801. Mezzotint with roulette coloured by hand. Image size: 17 1/4 x 21 1/2 inches. A touching scene after Morland: 'a master of genre and animal painting an artist worthy to be placed in the same rank as the best of those Dutch masters whom he studied as a boy' DNB<br/> <br/>This print is a wonderful example of the manner in which Morland perfectly conveys the hardships and beauties of country life his depiction of a poor country family battling the hardships of winter shows the bitter side of the pastoral life with grace and sympathy. George Morland was one of the most successful genre painters of his time creating during his industrious career some of England's most cherished paintings. At an early age Morland displayed his artistic genius he learned to paint at three and exhibited his first work at the Royal Academy at the mere age of ten. Morland was a prodigious painter producing more than 4000 paintings during the entirety of his career and sometimes painting two or three works in a day. His beautiful idealistic scenes were a favorite source of inspiration for contemporary engravers and as many as 250 separate engravings were done of his paintings during his lifetime. One such engraver was John Raphael Smith who throughout his career translated many of Morland's paintings to print. Smith was a highly influential figure in the late eighteenth-century British art world he quickly became an impresario of the print-publishing trade producing nearly 400 prints during his lifetime 130 of which were of his own design. This beautiful print refelects both the talents of the engraver and the genius of the artist in its sentiment and execution it demonstrates the best of English genre. Published by John Raphael Smith unknown books
022373Boston; 1924-1929: Houghton Mifflin Co. Octavo. In 23 unopened volumes. Rafael Sabatini was an Italian-English writer of romance and adventure novels. Several of his books were very popular and soon made into plays and film. This is the "Definitive edition" which OCLC records only one library which has the first 14 volumes. The present set incorporated more volumes after 1924. Later there was another edition which was limited and signed. Half-titles engraved frontispieces illustrated with tissue guards present. A handsome set bound in 3/4 brown morocco over salmon cloth raised bands with compartments lettered and decorated in gilt. top edges gilt marbled endpapers. A fine set with just a handful of volumes with some fading to spines. Houghton Mifflin Co unknown books
1922278519Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co 1922. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding/Fair dust jacket. A first edition with a pencilled name and address on the front endpaper. The dustjacket is Fair only. The jacket has not been price-clipped and has the correct First Edition price of $2.00 on the flap. There is about a 1" piece gone from the top the jacket spine and about 2" from the bottom. The N. C. Wyeth illustration to the front panel is mostly present but has a 1/2" x 1" amount of loss at the top edge of the illustration and there is minor loss at the front fold. The front of the jacket was in two pieces and has been discreetly repaired on the verso. Very Good binding / Fair dust jacket. Houghton Mifflin Co unknown books
1795147391795. Engraving. Printed on laid paper. Collector mark bearing the initials E.O printed in blue ink on verso of sheet. Some rippling in the middle of image. Image size: 22 x 15 1/16 inches. An exceedingly rare self/family portrait by Raphael Morghen after a painting by Angelica Kauffman.<br/> <br/>Though the whereabouts of the original painting is not known this is clearly a self-portrait of Angelica Kauffman seated with what appear to be two grown children and a son-in-law. She holds what is perhaps a portrait of her second husband Francesco Zucchi who died in 1795. Her children would have to have been from her unhappy first marriage. There is no title but rather a text in French about how virtue is instilled in children. This impressive portrait was painted by the celebrated artist Angelica Kauffman and engraved by the renowned Italian printmaker Raphael Morghen. Kauffman was a child prodigy who executed her first commissioned work before the age of thirteen. As a child she traveled through Austria and Italy with her father the painter Joseph Kauffman. She assisted him by painting the backgrounds of his works but she quickly received her own commissions and established a reputation for herself as an accomplished painter. In 1766 she traveled to London where she painted portraits and decorative paintings. She was a close friend of Reynolds and was one of the first female members of the British Royal Academy. Goethe called her "the most accomplished woman in Europe". Raphael Morghen received his first artistic training from his father the accomplished engraver Filippo Morghen. Like Kauffman Morghen was also a child prodigy publishing his first engraving at the age of twelve. By the age of twenty he had established himself as one of the premiere engravers in Europe allowing him to garner countless commissions. He worked in Naples Rome and Florence and produced over two hundred and fifty prints during his prolific career.<br/> <br/>Benezit Dictionnaire des Peintres Sculpteurs Dessinateurs et Graveurs. unknown books
1957150334N.p.: N.p. 1957. Vintage oversize borderless double weight reference photograph from the 1957 film showing actors Anthony Perkins and Norma Moore. With the stamps of photographer Bill Avery and editor Bud Fraker on the verso along with the stamp of Photoplay and several holograph pencil and ink annotations regarding layout. <br/><br/>A dramatization of the experiences of major league baseball star Jimmy Piersall loosely based on his own 1955 memoirs following his 1948 contract with the Boston Red Sox to his eventual nervous breakdown and hospitalization for bipolar disorder. <br/><br/>Bill Avery worked as a photographer at Columbia Pictures in the early 20th century with a brief interlude working as a combat cameraman during World War II. He also worked at MGM under noted photographer C.S. Bill and occasionally worked as a freelance publicity photographer shooting iconic images of Elvis Presley Jack Lemmon Katharine and Audrey Hepburn and Shirley MacLaine among many others.<br/><br/>Set in Boston Massachusetts and Waterbury Connecticut. <br/><br/>8.3 x 13.5 inches. Very Good plus with a few small holograph pencil annotations regarding cropping on the bottom edge. N.p. unknown books
1912135051912. inscribed by Sabatini A History and Some Criticisms. With a Coloured Frontispiece and Sixteen Other Illustrations in Half-tone. London: Stanley Paul & Co. n.d.1912. 32 pp ads undated but with this title listed second in the list of new announcements and with 1910 and 1911 cited elsewhere. Original black cloth lettered in gilt with dust jacket. First Edition of this very early historical work by Sabatini about a decade before he hit it big with "swashbuckling" tales such as SCARAMOUCHE and CAPTAIN BLOOD. Born of an Italian father and an English mother and educated in Portugal and Switzerland Sabatini 1875-1950 was fluent in five languages by the time he was eighteen; he would soon have a position in the Intelligence Department of the War Office during the Great War. The Sabatini website cites a 48-page ad catalogue but we think it is quite possible that this catalogue may precede: the only dates appearing in this catalogue are 1910 and 1911 and the inscription below is dated January 1912 the month of publication. This is a near-fine copy the only real flaw being some small holes in the cloth at the joints one fore-corner also shows some wear; included is the 1912 dust jacket red printed in black in good-to-very good condition a large chip at the bottom of the front panel other minor edge-wear but nothing affecting print spine slightly faded. THIS IS AN INSCRIBED PRESENTATION COPY with the author's ink inscription on the title verso "To Herbert Jarman from Rafael Sabatini London 17 Jany 1912". Jarman was an actor and occasional assistant producer on the London stage -- for example not long before this inscription Jarman had starred as Louis XIII in the 1911 stage production of "Bardelys the Magnificent" adapted by Sabatini and Henry Hamilton from Sabatini's 1906 novel of the same title our thanks to Sabatini biographer Ruth Heredia for this information. This early Sabatini title is scarce; in dust jacket it is very scarce; and inscribed it is extremely scarce. unknown books
19775528Washington DC: New Republic Books 1977. Hardcover. VG/VG wear to extremities of dustjacket. Blue cloth with light bluish color pictorial dustjacket. 316 pp. 39 bw plates. INSCRIBED by Soyer to Will and Elena Barnet with a very detailed drawing of a woman's torso on the ffep under the inscription by Soyer. Includes Soyer's thoughts on European art he saw while on tour; conversations with people like Edward Hopper Jack Levine Leonard Baskin and Henry Moore. New Republic Books hardcover books
1902191212New York: Macmillan 1902. Hardcover. vii 261p. iii ads frontispiece and 7 plates mild foxing front hinge starting at publisher's device and frontis untrimmed fore-edge and bottom edge first edition according to Sisson page 6 and BAL 11873 blue-gray cloth titles in white decorations on cover and spine in red black and white spine titles abit rubbed otherwise very good. Macmillan hardcover books
17777514London: Published by John Boydell Cheapside 1777. Mezzotint. State iii/iii with the engraved inscription in thick and thin cursive letters. In good condition apart from some overall light surface soiling and foxing. Occasional rubbed creases throughout image. Laid down onto cream wove backing paper. Image size: 13 1/16 x 10 15/16 inches. This charming portrait of the fashionable Catherine Schindlerin expertly illustrates Smith's superior technique and artistic ingenuity.<br/> <br/>Catherine Schinderlin was a German singer and actress who began her career in London in 1775 the year Reynolds did this portrait for the Duke and Duchess of Dorset. It shows the actress in the role of the "Coquette" from an as yet unidentified play or opera. A highly influential figure in the late eighteenth-century British art world John Raphael Smith was the most robust and prolific printmaker of his time. During his prodigious career Smith produced nearly 400 prints 130 of which were of his own design. The remainder were reproduced paintings by such noted British artists as Joshua Reynolds George Romney and Joseph Wright of Derby. Smith was an incredibly astute businessman and soon became an impresario of the print-publishing trade. At the 1783 exhibition of the Society of Artists Smith exhibited his print of the Prince of Wales. This clever bit of marketing precipitated his appointment as the Prince of Wales' mezzotint engraver immediately making him even more desirable to an art market hungry for quality prints. D'Oench<br/> <br/>D'Oench Copper into Gold Prints by John Raphael Smith 88; Frankau An Eighteenth Century Artist and Engraver John Raphael Smith 306 iii/iii; Chaloner Smith British Mezzotinto Portraits 147 iii/iii; Russell English Mezzotint Portraits and their States 147; O'Donoghue Catalogue of Engraved British Portraits.in the British Museum 1; Lennox-Boyd & Stogdon state iii/iii. Published by John Boydell, Cheapside unknown books
134382Hardcover. Good ex-library. the bindings are in excellent condition but the volumes are scrapbooks and all items were pasted in with glue. furthermore the mounting paper is acidic and has become quite brittle. as a result many of the programs are wavy from the paste are toned from the paper or have edgewear. still it's a very interesting and unique collection. 4 volumes. Black library buckram in black library slipcases. Not paginated. Oversize and quite bulky. The title for these volumes is merely descriptive as they were not formally published. They are nicely bound scrapbooks containing of newspaper clippings advertisements and handbills and programs for a variety of concerts and performances chiefly in New York City. The contents were collected by Louis Raphael Dressler an organist conductor occasional composer and a charter member of the Manuscript Society who was also very active in the New York music scene for over 50 years. This would be a great one of a kind collection for researchers or connoisseurs interested in New York's music and theatrical milieu or performing artists and arts organizations during the years listed. hardcover books
1909001617Paris: Librairie des Amateurs A. Ferroud 1909. Limited Edition and First Edition Thus. Half Morocco with marbled cloth folio accompanying and both fitting into a slipcase. Fine. On Japon Imperial. Limited edition of which this copies was inadvertently unnumbered but which was probably part of the first or second most limited tranch of the first 65 or 130 copies based on this copy being accompanied by a suite of plates in one or two states the larger illustrations being in two states and thus probably fitting into the most exclusive tranch. 4to. 281 pp. 43 color illustrations contained within the work proper. Wraps bound in. Some minor wear to the leather spine and the marbled paper on the edges of the slipcase. <br/><br/> Librairie des Amateurs, A. Ferroud hardcover books
1875263777Rome: presso la R. Calcografia 1875. 14 plates numbered in two series I II-VIII and I-VI depicting Raphael's designs for the frescoes of the Loggia of Pope Leo X at the Vatican. 1 vols. Folio. Green cloth spine perished. Internally a fine bright copy. 14 plates numbered in two series I II-VIII and I-VI depicting Raphael's designs for the frescoes of the Loggia of Pope Leo X at the Vatican. 1 vols. Folio. presso la R. Calcografia unknown books
1918173971Paris: H. Laurens 1918. Limited 428 / 550 copies printed. Hardcover. VG covers are somewhat soiled but sturdy. Contents clean with two old repairs to inner tears on the first three leaves not bad. Beige cloth with mounted title from original paper wraps on cover spine and rear panel. xii 519 pages with approximately 500 illustrations. Text is in French. Edited by É. Chavannes after the death of the translator./ Originally published in 4 collections or series 1st ser. in 1679; 2d and 3d in 1701; and 4th in 1818 The plan of the work was developed by Shen Xinyou from an album prepared by Li Liu-fang and the first three series were edited by with the help of Li Yu who also contributed the introduction to the 1st ser. Wang Gai and his brothers Wang Shi and Wang Nie were chiefly responsible for preparing the commentaries and reproducing the plates from famous masters. The 4th ser. was largely the work of Ding Gao./ Contains the first three series. Limited to 550 copies this being number 428. "Translation and commentary by Raphael Petrucci augmented by a preface a biographical dictionary of painters and a vocabulary of technical terms; illustrated with about five hundred engravings." Shipping weight is 17 pounds. H. Laurens hardcover books
2723Paris: Librairie Des Editions Modernes. Three-Quarter Leather. Collectible; Very Good. First Thus. Elegant French erotica translated into English "the suppressed English edition" circa 1920. Special issue with 2 original signed-- by the artist Malay-- erotic watercolors bound-in. Octavo 126 pgs. Handsomely rebound in 3/4 calf over green linen. 5 raised bands bright gilt-decorated compartments and bright gilt-letttering along spine. Original pictorial wrapper very saucy bound-in as well. New marbled endpapers top-edge gilt. A solid VG copy with light fraying along spine creases and light scuffing along front panel. Internally very clean. Wonderfully-illustrated early 20th century French erotica. Signed by Illustrator. <br/><br/> Librairie Des Editions Modernes hardcover books
1923002629New York: Grosset & Dunlap 1923. Sabatini Rafael. SCARAMOUCHE. New York: Grosset & Dunlap 1923. Photoplay Edition released in tandem with the 1923 Rex Ingram- Metro Silent Film. A Good firm copy in the primary red cloth binding with spine gilt dulled and a prominent discolored stripe on the back cover which although unfortunate shouldn't be a deal breaker as this copy is INSCRIBED BY THE TWO STARS of the film ROMAN NOVARRO and ALICE TERRY and is likely unique thus. In a Very Good slightly browned dust jacket. WITH: a signed typed letter w/ original mailing envelope from Roman Novarro to Art Ronnie a noted studio publicist who later became a TV critic for the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner. This is from Ronnie's collection bookplate. Novarro's letter touches on several points of interest. Inscribed photoplays are exceedingly rare. Possibly a unique opportunity for the collector. SCARAMOUCHE is generally considered one of Sabatini's greatest novels and the film is still considered with its cast of thousands among the great classic silent films. Signed. First Photoplay Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Very Good. Grosset & Dunlap Hardcover books
