London: Unicorn Press, 1898. Paperback. viii, [1], 98-186 p., 2 loose prints: full-page illustrations, music; 22 cm. Grey wrappers printed in dark blue with yapp edges; emblem of the Unicorn Press on back wrapper. Contents: The Merchant George Gisze, a photogravure after a painting by Holbein, loose, as issued; The..... More
Paris: Ch. Massin & Cie. 1928. Loose_leaf. 12, [4] p.: 40 leaves of photographs; 34 cm. Portfolio has red cloth spine and corners, with red ribbon ties; printed in red and black. The text and leaves of plates are loose in the portfolio, as issued. Text is entirely in French..... More
Philadelphia: John Sartrain, 1835. 1 mezzotint engraving of Benjamin Carr (1768-1831), American composer, singer, music teacher, and music publisher. Sheet is 30 x 24 cm.; image is 14 x 11 cm. John Sartain (1808-1897) pioneered mezzotint engraving in the United States. He engraved this portrait of Benjamin Carr from a...... More
Philadelphia: William Smith, 1860. Sheet is 48 x 57 cm. Image is 33 x 38 cm. Hand-colored lithograph produced by Magee's Lithograph Press, 48 S. 3rd St., Philadelphia. No date of publication. John L. Magee, artist, lithographer, and engraver, was located at 48 or 49 S. 3rd St., Philadelphia, only..... More
Philadelphia: Beck Engraving, 1901. Hardcover. [2], 47, [1] p., color frontispiece and 126 leaves of black-and-white plates; 24 cm. Red cloth with gilt-stamped spine and cover title: Catalogue of the Collection of Paintings of Peter A. Schemm. Top page edges gilt. "Gallery Schemm" -- at head of title page. Each..... More
Frankfurt am Main: Prestel Verlag, 1934. Hardcover. xvii, [3], 56 p.: illustrations; 25 cm. Off-white cover with black spine and cover titles; color illustration on front cover. Contain 56 pages of full-page black-and-white illustrations of drawings by German artists of the 15th and 16th centuries, including Mathias Grünewald, Albrecht Dürer..... More
Berlin: Ernst Rowohlt Verlag, 1925. Hardcover. "51.-63. Tausend." [6], 346, [2] p., frontispiece and 9 leaves of plates (including portraits); 23 cm. Light brown cloth with dark brown spine and cover titles and decoration. Top page edges dark brown. Small bookseller's label on front fixed endpaper: Wohlthat'sche Buchhandlung K.u.H. Schild..... More
New York: X-iing Books, 2010. Paperback. 128 p.: illustrations; 23 cm. Paperback with orange cover; illustration runs continuously across the covers. Title in silver on front cover and in silver printed in a mirror image on the back cover. Agriculture Reader is an arts annual founded in 2006. This volume..... More
London: John Lane, 1911. Hardcover. 2 volumes (xl, [2], 502, [2] p.; xiii, [3], 541, [1] p.): frontispieces in each volume, 113 additional plates (a few in color); 26 cm. Publisher's dark blue cloth with gilt-stamped spine titles and cover titles; white decoration. Top page edges gilt. Vol. 1 frontispiece..... More
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Ipswich, England: Limited Editions Club, 1968. Castellon, Federico. Hardcover. With an introduction by Thomas Caldecot Chubb and illustrations by Federico Castellon. This is number 167 of a limited edition of 1,500 copies printed by W.S. Cowell in Ipswich, Suffolk, Eng. The aquatints were etched in copper by Federico Castellon and..... More
London / New York: B.T. Batsford, 1948. Hardcover. vi, 120 p., frontispiece and 7 leaves of color plates: many full-page and in-text illustrations; 22 cm. Blue cloth with yellow spine title. Patterned dust jacket designed by Sibyl James. Publisher's adversitements on back dust jacket flap and half title verso. "First..... More
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New York: Harper & Row, 1981. 1 publisher's press sheet (41 x 36 cm.). Color image (23 x 25 cm.) of the main character, Ida, hold her baby sister, as she and her mother watch her father's ship sailing away. In Near Fine Condition: slightly creased; clean and bright... More
Paris: De l'Imprimerie Royale, 1755. 1 handcolored copperplate engraving (25 x 20 cm.) from art by Jacques de Sève (fl. 1742-1788); engraved by C. Baron. Plate 19 from Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, Histoire Naturelle, vol. 6. The plate is undated. The 11 volumes on Quadrupeds were originally published from..... More
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Paris: De l'Imprimerie Royale, 1800. 1 handcolored copperplate engraving (25 x 19 cm.) from art by Jacques de Sève (fl. 1742-1788); engraved by Schmits. Plate 13 from Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, Histoire Naturelle, vol. 1. The plate is undated. Although the 11 volumes on Quadrupeds were originally published from..... More
Paris: De l'Imprimerie Royale, 1755. 1 handcolored copperplate engraving (25 x 20 cm.) from art by Jacques de Sève (fl. 1742-1788); engraved by Madeleine-Therese Rousselet. Plate 11 from Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, Histoire Naturelle, vol. 6. The plate is undated. The 11 volumes on Quadrupeds were originally published from..... More
Paris: De l'Imprimerie Royale, 1755. 1 handcolored copperplate engraving (25 x 20 cm.) from art by Jacques de Sève (fl. 1742-1788); engraved by Le Villain. Plate 24 from Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, Histoire Naturelle, vol. 6. Although the plate is undated, the 11 volumes on Quadrupeds were published from..... More
New York: Oxford University Press, 1987. Hardcover. viii, [4], 308 p.: illustrations; 24 cm. Black cover with silver spine title. Illustrated dust jacket. Includes bibliography and index. Authors and photographers discussed include: Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry James, Alvin Langdon Coburn, Theodore Dreiser, Alfred Stieglitz, Jacob Riis, John Dos Passos, James Agee..... More
Cambridge, Mass. Dept. of Printing and Graphic Arts, Harvard College Library, 1960. [4] p.: illustrations; 22 x 27 cm. With an order card. Prospectus for a limited edition of 600 copies printed by the Meriden Gravure Co. of Natural History by Jules Renard with Lithographs by Walter Stein. Contains two..... More
Vienna: Anton Schroll & Co., 1926. Hardcover. xi, [1], 208 p.: 487 illustrations; 31 cm. Faux leather spine and corners; red and green spine labels with gilt-stamped titles. Marbled paper over boards. Beschreibender Katalog der Handzeichnungen in der Graphischen Sammlung Albertina, Bd. 1. Lacking the pamphlet with the translation of..... More
Vienna: Anton Schroll & Co., 1941. Hardcover. [8], 75, [1] p., 174 p. containing 784 illustrations; 31 cm. Faux leather spine and corners; red and green spine labels with gilt-stamped titles. Light brown paper over boards. Beschreibender Katalog der Handzeichnungen in der Staatlichen Graphischen Sammlung Albertina, Band 6. This catalog..... More
Dublin: Academy House, 1898. Paperback. Sold also by Hodges, Figgis, & Co., Dublin, and Williams & Norgate, London. [4], xiv, 12, [2] p., 12 leaves of photogravure plates: in-text illustrations and 1 full page of illustrations; 44 cm. Grey cloth spine; card covers printed in black. In Ireland, the High..... More
New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1990. Hardcover. 208 p.: 118 illustrations (50 in color); 29 cm. Dark green cloth with gilt-stamped spine title and emblem on front cover. Illustrated dust jacket. Includes biographical notes on the poets, and indices of poems, poets, and artists. Book and dust jacket are in..... More
1850. 1 print (16 x 14 cm.). Black-and-white print of Thomas Sully painting of 1843, Cinderella at the Kitchen Fire, showing Cinderella sitting in front of the fire playing with a cat, her stepsisters in the next room in front of a mirror. No date or other publication information; the..... More
![The Present State of Old English Furniture [provenance: Louise Miller Johnson Pratt]. R. W....](/pictures/thumb/005939.JPG?v=1513973133)
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Co., 1921. Hardcover. xii, 132 p., tissue-guarded frontispiece and 59 leaves of plates; 31 cm. Maroon cloth with gilt-stamped spine and cover titles; blind-stamped decorative border on front cover. Top page edges red. Title page printed in red and black. Small bookseller's label on back..... More
London: H. Berthoud, 1825. Hardcover. [72] p., frontispiece and 19 leaves of plates; 36 cm. Contemporary black leather spine with plain grey paper over boards. The publisher intended the plate of Mrs. Siddons to be bound as the frontispiece, but here the plate of Mr. Kean was bound as the..... More