9 résultats
192538689Bamberg: Keramos-Verlag A.G. 1925. Second edition i.e. year. Quarto. Pictorial wrappers; 82pp; illus. Old tape reinforcement to spine; covers soiled; contents complete and fresh about Very Good. Scarce annual of the German and Bavarian pottery industries. Text in English. Profusely illustrated with photographic plates. Rare; Staatsbibliothek Bamberg only in OCLC. The annual was issued from 1924 to 1928. Keramos-Verlag A.G. unknown
18906584London: I. J. & Co 1890. First Thus. Hardcover. Good. Folio. Unpaginated. Filled with line drawings of mirror or painting frame models offered by I. J. & Co. Bound in brick-red cloth elaborately blindstamped with gilt lettering on front board. Preliminaries foxed. With edge-wear; corners worn. A customer has identified several models for rooms at a house being furnished each with prices in pencil i.e. "Mr. Singer's room £ 8.8.0" "Study £ 12" "South Room £ 7.15" or "Nursery £ 6.0.0." We've posited 1890 as the publication date based on paper type image reproduction and binding; that date is mere educated guess. A scarce trade catalog consisting mostly of frames for mirrors and paintings each designated with a model number. Searches of auction records and library holdings revealed no copies of this title nor reference to the manufacturer I. J. & Co. Rare. I. J. & Co hardcover
1871DOV17973New York: J. Sabin & Sons 1871. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Small 4to. Original cloth rebacked and recornered with green cloth. 78 plates. Some scattered staining mostly confined to top margin and upper left corner. Quite scarce. <br/><br/> J. Sabin & Sons hardcover
192428786New York: E. Weyhe 1924. First American edition First State with the printing accomplished in Germany. Colour printing by Dr. Selle and Co. Berlin. Letterpress by Otto v. Holten. With 122 very fine full-page colour plates both tipped on and by direct transfer reproducing over 2000 decorative motives from the arts of Asia Primitive Europe North Central and South America Africa Oceania and from the peasant arts of Europe. Paintings by Bollacher Tilke Dengler Erigh and Alberts Berlin Hamburg Stuttgart Potsdam. Photography by Wasmuth. Folio very attractively bound in polished black cloth over marbled paper covered boards the spine with a black morocco label gilt lettered and ruled. ix iii 35 pages 122 colored plates. A fine copy the binding the text-block paper and colourplates all in excellent condition just a touch of age to the edges. FIRST EDITION FIRST STATE AND A VERY WELL PRESERVED COPY OF WEYHE'S QUITE EXQUISITE "ORNAMENT" a highly important cross-cultural survey of the variety of ornamental motifs and styles artist have employed throughout the centuries on all types of applied arts; pottery textiles metal arts beadwork baskets etc. This American issue was printed in Germany from the original plates color printed by Selle & Co. but with the text translated into English.<br> Helmuth Theodor Bossert was an important German art historian philologist and archaeologist. He is best-known for his excavations of the Hittite fortress city at Karatepe Turkey and the discovery of bilingual inscriptions which enabled the translation of Hittite hieroglyphs. E. Weyhe hardcover
19111776Paterson New Jersey: National Silk Dyeing Company 1911 - 1915. Very Good overall. Five accordion-style books bound in brown cloth with snaps and gilt stamping containing nearly 780 samples of 800; each set of samples is approx. 5 cm long and contains five different hues of tied silk string. Each book 13 x 23 cm or approx. 23 x 75 cm opened in full. Splitting to edges of some bindings; some samples missing or bent. A rare collection of silk sample booklets from the period before and after the 1913 Paterson Silk Strike. Included are: Autumn 1911 Autumn 1912 Spring 1914 Autumn 1914 and Spring 1915. OCLC locates only incomplete holdings at Yale Spring 1915 - Spring 1918 the Fashion Institute of Technology Spring 1911 Autumn 1916 Spring 1917 and Spring 1918 and the Brooklyn Museum Spring 1913. National Silk Dyeing Company hardcover
18901249111890. No imprint but presumed to be made by Fandel Phillips & Sons Newgate St. London circa 1890. <br /> <br /> 10 examples of colored transparent crystographs of varying sizes printed in lithograph on translucent paper; some displaying signs of wear and having previously been mounted; offered together with five extracted advertisements neatly cut and mounted on card together with a photocopy of the title-page of the Fandel Phillips & Sons trade catalogue; a lovely group of extremely fragile survivors. <br /> <br /> § Rare surviving specimens of imitation stained glass transparencies; an interesting and rather lovely example of the Victorian passion for illuminated spectacle and of the democratization of the arts and crafts aesthetic. <br /> <br /> A vibrant and eye-catching small collection of beautiful late-Victorian transparencies or 'Crystographs' for glass and window decoration presumably done in lithograph and we believe produced and sold by the London merchants Fandel Phillips & Sons of Newgate Street London. Described as being 'cheaper than any imitation stained glass introduced to the public' they were developed at the end of the 19th century and soon found popularity with a number of companies both in the UK and the US offering them for sale. Relatively cheap to purchase often bought in boxes "banded in dozens mostly assorted" the innovation could enable "a large surface of blank cheerless glass. to be converted into a rich artistic and antique picture for about one shilling" Fandel trade catalogue description provided in photocopy. "The material on which subjects are depicted is a new one and is unaffected by the atmospheric influence does not allow the colors to fade and so affords a scope for talent in adapting the design to any size window or other glass object that may be desired" ibid. As one of the accompanying advertisements reveals the crystographs were divided into center pieces border pieces and large sheets with all manner of themes printed the present selection including attractive images of birds flowers and butterflies a knight on his charger a medieval lady together with geometric border patterns. The present collection includes designs of various size with examples of center pieces and borders. Other advertisements included here note a series of "imitation photographs" of churches figures from folklore "scripture subjects" with more prosaic images also available for more commercial use perhaps such as "hot sausages and potatoes" and "ice creams." <br /> <br /> With regards to the provenance of this group it is our understanding that they were originally found within a Victorian trade catalogue issued by Kingsbury & Co presumably as specimen pieces accompanied by the advertisements the catalogue having sadly been broken up some time ago by a previous owner. Kingsbury & Co. seems likely to have been the Fleet Street newsagent Kingsbury & Co. which is listed at being at 7 Racquet Court in the Post Office Directory for 1891. Henry Fandel and Benjamin Samuel Phillips are listed as working together in the London Gazette of 1839 and they are later described in the Post Office Directory as 'Warehousemen importers of berlin & other wools toys fancy & japanese & oriental goods & manufacturers of every description of embroidery silks haberdashers & lace warehousemen." We are unsure as to whether the photocopy we have of their "Catalogue of Crystographs to Represent Stained Glass Windows" was bound together with the Kingsbury & Co Catalogue but it seems likely. <br /> <br /> We have found online advertisements for other producers of crystographs including John Thridgould & Co. of London who promoted them as being "the most perfect substitute for costly stained glass windows" in the journal Literary World Vol. 42 1890 and the Penfield paper manufacturing Company of Philadelphia promoting them in an 1892 Church Magazine as being of use in "Churches Schools houses Offices Libraries etc." <br /> <br /> Bearing in mind their fragility a wonderful and scarce survivor. <br /> <br /> The group includes: <br /> <br /> 1. Image of Lillies 444 x 168 mm: 'Threepenny Centre Pieces - Series 509 4 Designs of Flowers in Rich Colors.' 1 of 4 seemingly ; a little browned tail edge somewhat nicked with slight loss though not touching image; with original extracted advertisement mounted on card.<br /> <br /> 2. I. Flowers Butterfly and Bee 517 x 195 mm; with foliage and Four Butterflies 410 x 168 mm: 'Sixpenny Centre Pieces - Series 604 2 Designs of Flowers in Rich Colours' and seemingly both designs; a little browned and soiled slight cracking towards tail of second sheet; with original extracted advertisement mounted on card.<br /> <br /> 3. 'Threepenny Centre Pieces. Series 1560. 'Designed in Rich Colours. This series is arranged so that it can be cut to fit dome shape windows if required. I - The Challenge Knight on Horseback' 1 of 4. 330 x 228 mm; some discrete tape repairs to verso upper margin nicked with slight loss; with original extracted advertisement mounted on card. <br /> <br /> 4. Two penny Centre Piece Possibly Series 545 'My Lady Bountiful' depicting Lady in Waiting in Tudor Costume 190 x 178 mm some minor cracking visible with remains of old mount at tail of verso.<br /> <br /> 5. One Penny Centre Piece 'Series 208 2 designs' 1 of 2 Blue Bird flying over a lily pond 290 x 195 mm discrete tape repairs to verso; with original extracted advertisement mounted on card.<br /> <br /> 6. One Penny Centre Piece possibly Series 208 or 210 290 x 195 mm; torn and cracked with loss of image at tail with remains of old mount at tail of verso and small nick at upper margin.<br /> <br /> 7. Three geometric cords pieces 230 x 75 mm; 228 x 85 mm; 230 x 65 mm; each very good. unknown
01948Tokyo: Japan Art Society 1905. Setsu Kushi Hinagata Patterns of Miniature Combs<br /> An Aesthetic Window into Japanese Decorative Tradition <br /> <br /> DECORATIVE ARTS. In Japanese. Setsu Kushi Hinagata Patterns of Miniature Combs. Tokyo: Japan Art Society 37th Year of the Meiji 1905. <br /> <br /> Octavo 9 1/2 x 5 3/4 in; 242 x 140 mm. 154 pp. A unique scrapbook of over 500 charcoal rubbings on rice paper of Japanese miniature comb and hairpin koagi patterns tipped-in to the pages of three issues of Japanese Art Society Reports bound together. The original collector has crossed-out the original titles publisher etc. and provided their own manuscript title in black marking pen. Each page has two rubbed patterns each pattern with upper and lower views of each comb and the rubbings are remarkably sharp with even small details very clear.<br /> <br /> Publisher's original string-bound wrappers with losses but the integrity of interior of the book remains complete and intact. Early auction clipping for this item "Kushi Hinagata" mounted to the inside of the rear Japanese front cover. Housed in a green silk drop-back box with traditional Japanese clasps with paper label on spine lettered in Japanese.<br /> <br /> This kind of vernacular studio-generated scrapbook - mixing printed art society documents with hundreds of individually made rubbings - is exceptionally rare. It offers not only an aesthetic window into Japanese decorative tradition but also a unique document of private study and preservation by an anonymous mid-century compiler.<br /> <br /> The art of Japanese hair decoration or kushi dates back hundreds of years and has rich and varied heritage. As with much Eastern art it served to "beautify items of everyday use to make the commonplace extraordinary and to tell of the life and status of the wearers who were geisha courtesans court ladies and housewives" Ziesnitz and Momoko Combs and Hairpins Daruma: Japanese Art and Antique Magazine Summer 2002. And indeed this work is a testament to the beautiful and elegant diversity of this Japanese decorative art. <br /> <br /> A curious attractive and visually arresting book one with certain aesthetic merit given the obsessive care and attention necessary to compile such a volume which with its use of a marking pen dates this compilation to sometime post-1952 the year that marking pens were introduced. A valuable historical cultural and artistic record as well as an object that as much as its subject renders the commonplace extraordinary and takes its place along side of Hokusai's classic Imayo Kushi Hinagata 1823 as a key reference.<br /> <br /> "Women have always adorned themselves but perhaps none so subtly as the Japanese. You can reproduce the old hairstyles seen in painting and sculpture but their hair ornaments remind us of the coiffures on which they were worn. In other words hair ornaments are tangible souvenirs of ancient hairstyles.<br /> <br /> "Hair ornaments were not mere accessories to feminine coiffure and attire. In keeping with the Japanese urge to beautify items of everyday use to make the commonplace extraordinary they were turned into artistic objects mirroring cultural and and social history. They tell of the life and status of their wearers who were geisha courtesans court ladies and housewives.<br /> <br /> "They give a glimpse of the exceptional beauty of Japanese art." Ziesnitz Sharon. Combs and Hairpins. Daruma 35 vol. 9 No. 3 Summer 2002. [Tokyo]: [Japan Art Society], [1905] unknown
312937vp vd. Illustrated. Folio and 4to. Bound uniformly in purple morocco with "Governor Charles Edison Library" on the front pastedown t.e.g. by Bookends Bindery. Each spine is uniformly faded else fine. Illustrated. Folio and 4to. 1. English Decoration in the 18th Centrury. By John Fowler and John Cornforth. London: Barriue & Jenkins 1974<br /> 2. French Decorative Art 1638-1793. By George Savage. N.Y.: Praeger 1969<br /> 3. A Book of Distinctive Interiors. Ed. William A. Vollmer. N.Y.: McBride Nast and Company 1912.<br /> 4. Louis XVI Furniture. By Seymour De Ricci. Stuttgart: Julius Hoffmann 1913<br /> 5. Three Centuries of Furniture in Color. By H.D. Molesworth and John Kenworthy-Browne. N.Y.: Viking Press 1972.<br /> 6. Historic Midwest Houses. By John Drury. Minneapolis: The University of Minnesota Press 1947.<br /> 7. Great Palaces of Europe. Introduction by Sacheverell Sitwell. London: Weidenfeld and Nicholson 1964.<br /> 8. Le Meuble Léger en France. By Guillaume Janneau. Paris: Paul Hartmann 1952.<br /> 9. Les Ébénistes du XVIIIe Siècle. By Comte de Salverte. Paris: F. de Nobele 1962.<br /> 10. Les Ébénistes Parisiens du XIXe siècle 1795-1870. Paris: F. de Nobele 1965.<br /> 11. World Architecture: an Illustrated History. Ed. Trewin Copplestone. Secaucus N.J. 1976.<br /> 12. Furniture Clocks and Gilt Bronzes In Two Volumes Volume I. By Geoffrey de Bellaigue. London: Published for the National Trust by Office du Livre 1974.<br /> 13. Furniture Clocks and Gilt Bronzes In Two Volumes Volume II. By Geoffrey de Bellaigue. London: Published for the National Trust by Office du Livre 1974.<br /> 14. L'Art et la Manière des Maitres Ébénistes Français au XVIIIe Siècle Tome I Les Truquages. By Jean Nicolay. Paris: Editions Pygmalion 1976.<br /> 15. French Provincial Decorative Art. By Catharine Oglesby. London New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1951.<br /> 16. Versailles. By Gérald van der Kemp. New York Paris: The Vendome Press 1978.<br /> 17. Decoration Volume I. Ed. Souren Mélikian. New York: French & European Publications Inc 1963.<br /> 18. Decoration Volume II. Ed. Souren Mélikian. New York: French & European Publications Inc 1963.<br /> 19. La Pendule Française des Origines a nos jours. Paris: Tardy 1976.<br /> 20. French Cabinetmakers of the Eighteenth Century. By Jean Meuvret. New York: French & European Publications Inc 1965<br /> 21. Furniture Treasury Mostly of American Origin. By Wallace Nutting. Volumes I and II in One. New York: Macmillan Publishing Co Inc 1977.<br /> 22. Furniture Treasury Mostly of American Origin. By Wallace Nutting. Volume Three. New York: Macmillan Publishing Co. Inc 1977.<br /> 23. Les Petits Meubles. By Guillaume Janneau. Paris: Editions d'Arts 1977.<br /> 24. French Art of the Eighteenth Century. By Stéphane Faniel. New York: Simon and Schuster 1957.<br /> 25. Le Style Louis XV. By Gérard Mabille. Paris Baschet et Cie 1978.<br /> 26. Paris Furniture by the Master Ébénistes. By Charles Packer. Newport England: The Ceramic Book Company 1956. unknown
35501Folio and 4to. Bound uniformly in purple morocco with "Governor Charles Edison Library" on the front pastedown t.e.g. by Bookends Bindery<br/> <br/> From the library of Charles Edison specially bound for him.<br/> <br/> 1. English Decoration in the 18th Centrury. By John Fowler and John Cornforth. London: Barriue & Jenkins 1974 2. French Decorative Art 1638-1793. By George Savage. N.Y.: Praeger 1969 3. A Book of Distinctive Interiors. Ed. William A. Vollmer. N.Y.: McBride Nast and Company 1912. 4. Louis XVI Furniture. By Seymour De Ricci. Stuttgart: Julius Hoffmann 1913 5. Three Centuries of Furniture in Color. By H.D. Molesworth and John Kenworthy-Browne. N.Y.: Viking Press 1972. 6. Historic Midwest Houses. By John Drury. Minneapolis: The University of Minnesota Press 1947. 7. Great Palaces of Europe. Introduction by Sacheverell Sitwell. London: Weidenfeld and Nicholson 1964. 8. Le Meuble Léger en France. By Guillaume Janneau. Paris: Paul Hartmann 1952. 9. Les Ébénistes du XVIIIe Siècle. By Comte de Salverte. Paris: F. de Nobele 1962. 10. Les Ébénistes Parisiens du XIXe siècle 1795-1870. Paris: F. de Nobele 1965. 11. World Architecture: an Illustrated History. Ed. Trewin Copplestone. Secaucus N.J. 1976. 12. Furniture Clocks and Gilt Bronzes In Two Volumes Volume I. By Geoffrey de Bellaigue. London: Published for the National Trust by Office du Livre 1974. 13. Furniture Clocks and Gilt Bronzes In Two Volumes Volume II. By Geoffrey de Bellaigue. London: Published for the National Trust by Office du Livre 1974. 14. L'Art et la Manière des Maitres Ébénistes Français au XVIIIe Siècle Tome I Les Truquages. By Jean Nicolay. Paris: Editions Pygmalion 1976. 15. French Provincial Decorative Art. By Catharine Oglesby. London New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1951. 16. Versailles. By Gérald van der Kemp. New York Paris: The Vendome Press 1978. 17. Decoration Volume I. Ed. Souren Mélikian. New York: French & European Publications Inc 1963. 18. Decoration Volume II. Ed. Souren Mélikian. New York: French & European Publications Inc 1963. 19. La Pendule Française des Origines a nos jours. Paris: Tardy 1976. 20. French Cabinetmakers of the Eighteenth Century. By Jean Meuvret. New York: French & European Publications Inc 1965 21. Furniture Treasury Mostly of American Origin. By Wallace Nutting. Volumes I and II in One. New York: Macmillan Publishing Co Inc 1977. 22. Furniture Treasury Mostly of American Origin. By Wallace Nutting. Volume Three. New York: Macmillan Publishing Co. Inc 1977. 23. Les Petits Meubles. By Guillaume Janneau. Paris: Editions d'Arts 1977. 24. French Art of the Eighteenth Century. By Stéphane Faniel. New York: Simon and Schuster 1957. 25. Le Style Louis XV. By Gérard Mabille. Paris Baschet et Cie 1978. 26. Paris Furniture by the Master Ébénistes. By Charles Packer. Newport England: The Ceramic Book Company 1956. unknown
