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rif. 149584None Stated: None stated nd. Hardcover. Ex-library copy with usual marks. Plates mostly clean but a few have minor-to-mild foxing. Two plates have perforation stamps on lower margins not affecting plate images. Front end pages ffep detached and laid in contain 2 library plates 2 personal book plates and one additional plate. Some wear to spine mostly at head/tail and to leather corners but nothing terribly offensive. Ex-lib. sticker on back cover. Dark green 3/4 leather with complementary medium green cloth. Gilt edging lettering and 3 bands not raised. AEG. No text. 20 pp each with an individual bw etching / engraving. With bookplates by prominent people. The title page is hand-lettered and there is no printed publication information. This is a unique and important item of Cruikshankiana. Ex-library copy with minimally offensive marks given the importance of each one. This volume contains ONLY the 20 engravings used as illustrations for Eccentric Tales. The original sketches were by Alfred Henry Forrester under the pseudonym of Alfred Crowquill. The actual book illustrations then were done by George Cruikshank. This particular book contains Forrester's personal book plate. Another book plate is of Albert M. Cohn who wrote a catalogue raisonne of Cruikshank's works in 1924 a small label on the fep makes reference to this catalogue #471. And a third book plate is of William Hartman Woodin Secretary of the Treasury under Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1933. The final bookplate present is that of the Brooklyn Public Library. Plates No. 8 and 15 have remarques. The Cruikshank illustrations in Eccentric Tales were apparently hand-tinted but these images are in b/w with no tinting and appear to be etching proofs for the final illustrations. Both Crowquill's and Cruikshank's names appear under each etching. Delightful and humorous illustrations done in great detail. Unique and rare. None stated hardcover
rif. 149584None Stated: None stated nd. Hardcover. Ex-library copy with usual marks. Plates mostly clean but a few have minor-to-mild foxing. Two plates have perforation stamps on lower margins not affecting plate images. Front end pages ffep detached and laid in contain 2 library plates 2 personal book plates and one additional plate. Some wear to spine mostly at head/tail and to leather corners but nothing terribly offensive. Ex-lib. sticker on back cover. Dark green 3/4 leather with complementary medium green cloth. Gilt edging lettering and 3 bands not raised. AEG. No text. 20 pp each with an individual bw etching / engraving. With bookplates by prominent people. The title page is hand-lettered and there is no printed publication information. This is a unique and important item of Cruikshankiana. Ex-library copy with minimally offensive marks given the importance of each one. This volume contains ONLY the 20 engravings used as illustrations for Eccentric Tales. The original sketches were by Alfred Henry Forrester under the pseudonym of Alfred Crowquill. The actual book illustrations then were done by George Cruikshank. This particular book contains Forrester's personal book plate. Another book plate is of Albert M. Cohn who wrote a catalogue raisonne of Cruikshank's works in 1924 a small label on the fep makes reference to this catalogue #471. And a third book plate is of William Hartman Woodin Secretary of the Treasury under Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1933. The final bookplate present is that of the Brooklyn Public Library. Plates No. 8 and 15 have remarques. The Cruikshank illustrations in Eccentric Tales were apparently hand-tinted but these images are in b/w with no tinting and appear to be etching proofs for the final illustrations. Both Crowquill's and Cruikshank's names appear under each etching. Delightful and humorous illustrations done in great detail. Unique and rare. None stated hardcover books
1799rif. GITk824(Kyoto 1799). 5 volumes sur 6 (26,5cm sur 18,5cm) imprimés sur beau papier de mûrier selon la technique traditionnelle du fukurotoji (pages doublées et cousues au moyen de ligatures), plats de couverture cartonnée bleue avec le titre imprimé en noir sur fond ocre, appliqué sur le 1er. *TOME I 1re partie: 37 feuillets non chiffrés soit 74pp *TOME I 2e partie: 58 feuillets non chiffrés soit 116pp *TOME II: 38 feuillets non chiffrés soit 76pp *TOME III: 40 feuillets non chiffrés soit 80pp *TOME IV: 54 feuillets non chiffrés soit 108pp. SANS LE TOME V ET DERNIER. Orné de 139 magnifiques gravures sur bois bien nettes et d'une grande fraîcheur (24 à pleine page et 115 sur double page) représentant principalement des vues de jardins de temples, monastères, pavillons de thé. La plupart offrant un foisonnement de personnages de tous âges, sexe et condition sociale. Sutures décousues; petits manques sur les étiquettes de titre; auréole claire ancienne en tête des feuillets des deux parties du Tome I et au bas des fonds des Tomes II, III, IV; petite galerie de vers marginale sans gravité sur 7 feuillets du Tome I 2e partie et 5 feuillets du Tome II, plus importante dans les fonds du Tomme III sans dommage pour le texte et les gravures. BEL EXEMPLAIRE MALGRE LES DEFAUTS SIGNALES l'impression du texte (en japonais et en chinois), ainsi que celle des gravures étant fraîche et bien nette.
rif. 55437Sarajevo: Izdanje glavnog odbora AFŽ-a za Bosne i Hertsegovine Državna štamparija 1945. Quarto 25 × 20 cm. Original staple-stitched pictorial wrappers by Mica Todorović; 35 1 pp. One double page reproducing drawings by Ismet Mujezinović. Light soil and foxing to wrappers else very good. An illustrated election brochure from Sarajevo promoting Tito the communist revolutionary and WWII partisan leader to head Yugoslavia. The volume was published by the Women's Antifascist Front AFŽ in anticipation of the first election with the participation of women voters in 1945. In the opening text of the volume Tito addresses Yugoslav women "On November 11th you the women of Yugoslavia who have earned the right to solve all internal political and economic problems on an equal footing with men will have your say. And I do not doubt your word. I have no doubt that it will correspond to the heroic struggle and heroic actions of women during this war." The brochure includes political agitational speeches by female communist and antifascist political leaders such as Mitra Mitrović 1912-2001 who was the founding member of the Women's Antifascist Front in 1942 and later the Minister of Education of communist Yugoslavia as well as by Lepa Perović 1911-2000 a communist activist partisan leader during WWII and later a member of the Yugoslav parliament. Perović's essay is accompanied with photo-illustrations of women taking part in the partisan war effort. Nadžida Hadžić 1906-2001 the president of Women's Antifascist Front contributed a longer article on the post-war activities of the AFŽ members in sheltering the homeless elderly and orphaned children in the aftermath of WWII. A double page spread reproducing drawings of war atrocities by Ismet Mujezinović poems about the victory of the partisans and a satirical article about Tito's opposition close the volume. The wrapper designer Bosnian Expressionist painter Mica Todorović 1900-1981 is often called the "first lady of Yugoslav art" because she was the first woman to graduate from the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb 1926 and the first female member of the Bosnian Academy of Science and Arts. Part of the communist-leaning Zagreb Zemlja 1929-1935 artist collective and a member of the communist party since 1932 she was imprisoned at the Stara Gradiška concentration camp during WWII for her political beliefs. After liberation she used a cycle of her drawings of the conditions at the camp to testify for the State Commission of War Crimes in Belgrade becoming the first and only artist whose work was used as evidence by the Commission. The volume seems to have been sent to the AFŽ members by mail in anticipation of this historic election with the front wrapper indicating that postage has been paid. As of November 2025 KVK OCLC show no copies in North America. unknown
1904rif. 3810London: John F. Shaw 1904. First edition. Publisher's quarter decorated cloth over full-color glazed pictorial boards corners a little worn.Small quarto 9 5/8 x 7 1/8 in; 245 x 180 mm. A few illustrations hand-colored by a child. Closed tear to bottom edge of page. 17. Early ink presentation dated "Christmas 1905" on front paste-down. Illustrated throughout in black and white and color with fifteen drawings by Louis Wain and an unrecorded text drawing by Arthur Rackham so initialed on page 40. Unrecorded and scarce with no copies noted in the Wain or Rackham bibliographies. Anytime an unrecorded book illustration by Arthur Rackham comes to light it's an item for collectors to note. Buried within this book unheralded on page forty is a black and white text illustration of four chickens in various states of distress as they observe in high dudgeon and with no little annoyance a cat within their food bucket chowing down the chicken feed. And at the lower left of the bucket as small as can be are Rackham's initials as typically drawn. Latimore and Haskell and Riall make no mention of this illustration in their Rackham bibliographies and the Arthur Rackham Society expressed no knowledge of it when we inquired. A true scarcity -- a previously unknown Rackham during his transitional period when his fairies and goblins were emerging but had not yet fully vanquished the simple pay-the-bills work of his early years. Arthur Rackham 1867-1939 is perhaps the most acclaimed and influential illustrator of the Golden Age of Illustration. A prolific artist even from his youth Rackham got his start as an illustrator working for the Westminster Budget Newspaper 1892. Over the next few years he took on more and more commissions for children's books hitting his career high in the first three decades of the twentieth century. Rackham turned his imaginative pen to every classic-from Shakespeare to Dickens to Poe. Cf. Dale 34 and 35. John F. Shaw unknown
1904rif. 3810London: John F. Shaw 1904. First edition. Publisher's quarter decorated cloth over full-color glazed pictorial boards corners a little worn.Small quarto 9 5/8 x 7 1/8 in; 245 x 180 mm. A few illustrations hand-colored by a child. Closed tear to bottom edge of page. 17. Early ink presentation dated "Christmas 1905" on front paste-down. Illustrated throughout in black and white and color with fifteen drawings by Louis Wain and an unrecorded text drawing by Arthur Rackham so initialed on page 40. Unrecorded and scarce with no copies noted in the Wain or Rackham bibliographies. Anytime an unrecorded book illustration by Arthur Rackham comes to light it's an item for collectors to note. Buried within this book unheralded on page forty is a black and white text illustration of four chickens in various states of distress as they observe in high dudgeon and with no little annoyance a cat within their food bucket chowing down the chicken feed. And at the lower left of the bucket as small as can be are Rackham's initials as typically drawn. Latimore and Haskell and Riall make no mention of this illustration in their Rackham bibliographies and the Arthur Rackham Society expressed no knowledge of it when we inquired. A true scarcity -- a previously unknown Rackham during his transitional period when his fairies and goblins were emerging but had not yet fully vanquished the simple pay-the-bills work of his early years. Arthur Rackham 1867-1939 is perhaps the most acclaimed and influential illustrator of the Golden Age of Illustration. A prolific artist even from his youth Rackham got his start as an illustrator working for the Westminster Budget Newspaper 1892. Over the next few years he took on more and more commissions for children's books hitting his career high in the first three decades of the twentieth century. Rackham turned his imaginative pen to every classic-from Shakespeare to Dickens to Poe. Cf. Dale 34 and 35. John F. Shaw unknown books
1850rif. 19081Nantes Charpentier 1850 -in-folio demi-chagrin deux volumes, reliure d'époque demi-chagrin vert sombre in-folio Editeur à coins (binding half shagreen in-folio with corners Editor)(49 x 33,5 cm), dos à nerfs (spine with raised bands) décoré or (gilt decoration) et à froid (blind-stamping decoration), entre-nerfs à fleurons "Rocaille" "or" au fer évidé avec filets or et filets courbe dans un encadrement d'un filet large or + blason de bretagne or et cuivre rouge au centre du dos dans un encadrement de filets or et à froid courbes, titres et tomaisons frappés or (gilt title and volume numbering) avec double filets or, filet large à froid de part et d'autre des nerfs, Charpentier editeurs "or" en pied, Plats décorés or, mors et coins décorés or à double filets or (joints and corners with gilt decoration), papier "imitation percale" noir aux plats avec titre or dans encadrement "or" portant les armes de la ville de Nantes (différents entre à première et la 4ème de couverture), toutes tranches lisses (all edges smooth), gardes de papier moiré blanc, Première partie: III + 66 pages (pagination individuelle pour chaque article)+ [1p. table]+ 30 lithographies et 1 carte en couleurs. Deuxième partie: III + 90 pages + [2pp. table]+ 43 lithographies. Soit un total de 74 lithographies, certaines à deux tons, quelques-unes rehaussées; vignettes en-tête, lettrines et culs-de-lampe, fines et trés légères rousseurs, 1850 Nantes: Imprimerie de Charpentier père, Fils et Cie Editeur,
1936rif. 22802Paris, Calmann-Lévy, 1936-1937. 15 volumes, petit in-4°, demi-chagrin rouge à coins, titre doré entre deux nerfs pincés, filet doré à épaisseur croissante et décroissante, auteur en pied du dos, tête dorée, couverture en couleur et dos conservés, non rogné (reliure de l'éditeur).Aziyadé (ill. de Auguste Leroux) 18 H.T.Les désenchantées (ill. de A. Calbet) 18 H.T.Madame Chrysanthème (ill. de Sylvain Sauvage) 12 H.T.Le Mariage de Loti (ill. J.G. Domergue) 13 H.T.Matelot (ill. Charles Fouqueray) 13 H.T.Mon frère Yves (ill. Emilien Dufour) 12 H.T.Pêcheur d'Islande (ill. Mathurin Méheut) 19 H.T.Ramuntcho (ill. Pierre Brissaud) 12 H.T.Le Roman d'un spahi (ill. Charles Fouqueray) 12 H.T.La troisième jeunesse de Madame Prune (ill. Sylvain Sauvage) 13 H.T.La mort de Philae (ill. Deluermoz) 6 H.T.Un pèlerin d'Angkor (ill. Maurice Lalau) 7 H.T. suivi de : Le livre de la pitié et de la mort (ill. idem) 6 H.T.Prime jeunesse. Suivi de : Un jeune officier pauvre (ill. Marty) 14 H.T.Le roman d'un enfant (ill. Marty) 12 H.T.Vers Ispahan (ill. Deluermoz) 15 H.T.Soit en tout 202 illustrations hors-texte en couleurs plus de nombreuses illustrations dans le texte.
rif. r5809Stuttgart: Manus Press. VG : in very good condition. Slip case rubbed. Contents loose as issued. 1972. First Edition 165/500. Original orange cloth chemise with slipcase. 430mm x 300mm 17" x 12". 50pp. 12 coloured lithographs on Arches Paper. Text in German. Signatures of illustrators on final page of contents with publication details. Signed by Max Ernst and Dorothea Tanning on limitation page. . Manus Press hardcover
1949rif. 191021949 Gouache, et encre de Chine, signée en bas à droite, (1949), 36 x 24 cm., encadrée.
rif. 75100London: Macmillan & Co. Limited 1900-1901. American Literature FIRST BROCK ILLUSTRATED EDITIONS. Complete in five volumes. Octavo 19 x 13 x 18cm. Each volume contains twenty-five line drawing plates by the brothers Brock. Recently bound in brown half calf with raised bands gilt titles to contrasting red and green labels further gilt decoration to spines and matching cloth over boards. Tope edges gilt and others lightly trimmed. Contents clean and fresh exterior as new. A near fine copy in an attractive recent leather binding. An epic series set in the Iroquois area near New York over the lifetime of Natty "Hawkeye" Bumppo from the mid eighteenth century up to the early nineteenth and one of the first truly American literary creations. London: Macmillan & Co. Limited, 1900-1901 unknown
rif. 68946London: Macmillan & Co. Limited 1900-1901. American Literature FIRST BROCK ILLUSTRATED EDITIONS. Complete in five volumes. Octavo 19 x 13 x 18cm. Each volume contains twenty-five line drawing plates by the brothers Brock. Elegantly hand-bound in traditional half tan calf with twin labels gilt raised bands gilt titles and decoration to spines matching cloth over boards t.e.g. Contents clean and fresh exterior as new. A near fine copy in an attractive recent leather binding. An epic series set in the Iroquois area near New York over the lifetime of Natty "Hawkeye" Bumppo from the mid eighteenth century up to the early nineteenth and one of the first truly American literary creations. 'The Pathfinder' is a publisher's presentation copy with their blind-stamp to prelims. London: Macmillan & Co. Limited, 1900-1901 unknown
1944rif. 131286A complete 7 volume set of 'New Excursions into English Poetry' published between 1944 and 1947 by Frederick Muller Ltd London during war time economy standards. All 7 BOOKS are the First UK printings. All wrappers are protected in removable Brodart archival covers. 'This series is something of an experiment and demands original work both from the anthologer and the artist who have worked in collaboration though there has been no attempt to give literal and pictorial illustrations of the actual poems.' A superb collection of important poetry anthologies in original wrappers and illustrated with original lithographs by some of the leading Neo-Romantic artists of the period. Vol.1 : 'English Scottish & Welsh Landscape Verse' chosen by John Betjeman and Geoffrey Taylor with lithographs by John Piper. The BOOK is in Very Good or better condition. The WRAPPER is neatly price-clipped and is in Very Good condition with small losses to the spine ends. Vol.2 : 'The Poets Eye' anthology chosen by Geoffrey Grigson with 16 lithographs by John Craxton. The BOOK is in near Fine condition. The WRAPPER is complete and also is in like near Fine condition with some light age related markings to the rear panel. This title is the scarcest of the set to find with its wrapper in such collectible condition. Many copies have been broken up with the striking lithographs having been sold separately some for very high prices. Vol.3 :'Sea Poems' chosen by Myfanwy Piper with original lithographs by Mona Moore. The BOOK is in Very Good or better condition. Neat dated previous owner's name to the upper front paste-down. Some spotting to the upper text-block which has just lightly encroached on the page edges in a few places. The WRAPPER is complete and is in near Fine condition with very slight edge-wear and toning to the spine and folds. Vol. 4: 'A Soldiers' Verse' with lithographs by William Scott. Both the BOOK and WRAPPER are in Very Good or better condition. Internally clean. The wrapper has slithers of loss to the spine ends and lower corners. Vol. 5: 'Poems of Death' verses chosen by Phoebe Pool with lithographs by Michael Ayrton. The BOOK is in near fine condition.The WRAPPER is complete and is also in near Fine condition with very slight loss to the lower spine end. Vol.6 : 'Travellers' Verse' chosen by M.G. Lloyd Thomas with lithographs by Edward Bawden. The BOOK is in near fine condition. Neat dated penned previous owners name to the front blank end-paper. The WRAPPER is complete and is also in near Fine condition with only the very slightest of edge-wear. Vol.7 : 'Poems of Sleep and Dream' chosen by Carol Stewart with lithographs by Robert Colquhoun. The BOOK is in near Fine condition. Internally clean. The WRAPPER is complete and is in near Fine condition with slight slither of loss at the spine ends and a little toning to the spine. This title has become increasingly scarce to find with its wrapper in collectible condition. A handsome complete set and rarely found in such condition with their wrappers. More images available on request. Ashton Rare Books welcomes direct contact. Frederick Muller Ltd, London hardcover
1998rif. 38037Barcelona 1998. FIRST EDITION of these poems and prose poems by Gimferrer in Catalan with Japanese translation laid in illustrated with EIGHT ORIGINAL FULL-PAGE COLOR LITHOGRAPHS four by Fusako Yasuda and four by Lluís Pessa. EDITION LIMITED TO ONLY TWELVE 12 NUMBERED COPIES. Signed by the author and the artists. 4to. Loose as issued in original wraps and very attractive board slipcase covered with Japanese paper. FINE AND BRIGHT WITH NO DEFECTS. Like new. A LIVRE D'ARTISTE OF THE GREATEST RARITY. paperback
1935rif. 39424Paris: Arts & Métiers Graphiques 1935. Edouard Vuillard. A BEAUTIFULLY-BOUND COPY OF AN OUTSTANDING LIVRE D'ARTISTE ONE OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL AND LUXURIOUS COOKBOOKS EVER PUBLISHED with 18 full-page hors-texte original prints. Complete with SIX ORIGINAL FULL-PAGE HORS-TEXTE LITHOGRAPHS BY VUILLARD Roger-Marx 54-59 SIX FULL-PAGE HORS-TEXTE ETCHINGS BY DUNOYER DE SEGONZAC Cailler 780-785 AND SIX FULL-PAGE HORS-TEXTE ETCHINGS BY VILLEBOEUF. One of 150 numbered copies printed on several different colors of fine Arches laid paper. BEAUTIFULLY BOUND IN CONTEMPORARY THREE-QUARTERS CALF AND DECORATED PAPER with red and white checkerboard mosaic meant to recall typical French kitchen linens. All edges gilt. FINE AND BRIGHT WITH NO DEFECTS. Housed in a custom chemise which has kept the binding entirely unfaded and calf-lined board slipcase. Arts & Métiers Graphiques unknown
1935rif. 277439Budapest: George Vajna 1935. Limited. hardcover. near fine. Translated by Frances Shires. Ten original colored etchings by Lidia Farkas and Zoltan Poharnok. Thin 8vo unpaged bound in linen with an embroidered decoration. Budapest: Dr. George Vajna & Co. n.d. ca.1935. Limited Edition. Number 103 of 250 copies signed by both artists. The etchings are printed by hand-press and are hand-colored. Small damp-stain on the upper corner of the binding otherwise a fine copy of this exquisite and quite rare book printed in Hungary. George Vajna unknown
1935rif. 277439Budapest: George Vajna 1935. Limited. hardcover. near fine. Translated by Frances Shires. Ten original colored etchings by Lidia Farkas and Zoltan Poharnok. Thin 8vo unpaged bound in linen with an embroidered decoration. Budapest: Dr. George Vajna & Co. n.d. ca.1935. Limited Edition. Number 103 of 250 copies signed by both artists. The etchings are printed by hand-press and are hand-colored. Small damp-stain on the upper corner of the binding otherwise a fine copy of this exquisite and quite rare book printed in Hungary. George Vajna unknown books
rif. 73286London: Macmillan and Co. 1898-1903. Classic English Literature LEATHER-BOUND SET each being a reprint thus illustrated by either Brock or Thomson. Complete in five volumes. Octavo 20 x 14 x 18cm. With an introduction by Austin Dobson to each volume profusely illustrated throughout by Charles Brock for Pride and Prejudice and Hugh Thomson for the all the other titles. Recently bound in burgundy half morocco with raised bands gilt titles to twin navy labels and marbled paper over boards. Top edges gilt. A single worm-hole to 'Northanger Abbey and Persuasion' volume otherwise a crisp clean set in an attractive new leather binding. Book Collector No.271 'The Great Illustrators'. London: Macmillan and Co., 1898-1903 unknown
rif. 72148London: Macmillan and Co. 1906-1910. Classic English Literature Illustrated by either Brock or Thomson. Complete in five volumes. Early printings in PUBLISHER'S LEATHER. Octavo 20 x 14 x 18cm. With an introduction by Austin Dobson to each volume profusely illustrated throughout by Charles Brock for Pride and Prejudice and Hugh Thomson for the all the other titles. Bound in full green limp morocco with gilt to spine gilt floral endpapers a.e.g. with rounded corners. Although unmarked this binding is almost certainly a commercial 'deluxe' binding offered by Macmillan. Contents fine no inscriptions. Fragile leather worn to spine ends as expected joints a little rubbed. A very good set and a rare survival in these bindings. Book Collector No.271 'The Great Illustrators'. London: Macmillan and Co., 1906-1910 unknown
1822Paris, chez Nepveu et Aimé André, 1822. 3 volumes in/8 reliure en plein maroquin rouge signé Niedré, dos à nerfs à caissons dorés, plats à triples filets dorés, doré toutes tranches, double filets sur les coupes, dentelle intérieure, vol1 : frontispice, xliii ff, 1 fac-similé d’un autographe d’Arioste, 2 vignettes, 36 planche, 463 p. - vol2 : 31 planches, 480 p. - vol.3 : 27 planches, 486 p. Beaux exemplaires avec de très rares rousseurs Le relieur Niedree fut distingué pour son travail en 1844. Il était réputé pour ses reliures de style Renaissance ; “la conservation des marges était pour lui l’objet des plus grands soins.” Orlando Furioso, ou Roland furieux est un poème épique de 40 chants, écrit par Ludovico Ariosto, dit en français l'Arioste, écrit au début du XVIe siècle, le Cinquecento italien, il sera publié en 1516. S'inscrivant dans le cycle carolingien comme un lointain descendant de la Chanson de Roland (ou Chanson de Roncevaux) et présenté, à sa sortie, comme une suite de l'Orlando Innamorato (Roland amoureux) de Matteo Maria Boiardo. Le poème fut écrit en ferrarais, le dialecte utilisé à Ferrare, puis l'Arioste lui-même l'adapta en toscan littéraire, afin qu'il soit plus accessible pour le reste de l'Italie. Roger et Bradamante y sont présentés comme les ancêtres légendaires des ducs de Ferrare, et donc du cardinal Alphonse d'Este qui était le protecteur de l'Arioste et sans doute le commanditaire du livre.
1865rif. 3790London: Bradbury & Evans 1865. First edition. Third issue with Part I's title Mr. Facey Romford's Hounds in solid lettering in the original twelve monthly parts May 1864-April 1865. Octavo 8 3/4 x 5 5/8 in; 223 x 144 mm.Collating vi 2 391 1 with twenty-four hand-colored steel-engraved plates two to each volume heightened with gum arabic. The illustrations to Parts VIII-XII are unsigned but by Hablot K. Brown aka "Phiz." The woodcut on the upper wrapper is by Hablot K. Brown. Advertisements collate per Schwerdt save Part VI which lacks the Note of Lever's Martin and Part VII lacking the slip for The Belle of the Village. Publisher's original red-brown pictorial wrappers. Minimal restoration of spines to a few volumes tiny chip to fore- edge of Part I otherwise an excellent and quite lovely set. Chemised and housed in a red cloth clamshell case with black leather spine label lettered in gilt. "Although Surtees approached his publishers in July 1861 with the idea of bringing out 'Mr. Facey Romford' they preferred not to undertake the matter until Mr. Leech's services were definitely secured and there would be no questoin of such delays as had occurred in the illustrations of 'Handley Cross.' Leech promised however to being in January 1862 and the situation seemed sufficiently secure to set up the type but just at this time the artist held his first exhibition of oil paintings which proved so successful and diverting that the 'Facey Romford' illustrations were again postponed. Surtees in despair at last offered the book in August 1864 to The Field where is was refused. In March of that year Leech finally undertook the drawings but never lived to complete the work which was carried on byPhiz" Field. Field 225. Tooley 475. Schwerdt II 237. Podeschi 207. Bradbury & Evans unknown
1865rif. 3790London: Bradbury & Evans 1865. First edition. Third issue with Part I's title Mr. Facey Romford's Hounds in solid lettering in the original twelve monthly parts May 1864-April 1865. Octavo 8 3/4 x 5 5/8 in; 223 x 144 mm.Collating vi 2 391 1 with twenty-four hand-colored steel-engraved plates two to each volume heightened with gum arabic. The illustrations to Parts VIII-XII are unsigned but by Hablot K. Brown aka "Phiz." The woodcut on the upper wrapper is by Hablot K. Brown. Advertisements collate per Schwerdt save Part VI which lacks the Note of Lever's Martin and Part VII lacking the slip for The Belle of the Village. Publisher's original red-brown pictorial wrappers. Minimal restoration of spines to a few volumes tiny chip to fore- edge of Part I otherwise an excellent and quite lovely set. Chemised and housed in a red cloth clamshell case with black leather spine label lettered in gilt. "Although Surtees approached his publishers in July 1861 with the idea of bringing out 'Mr. Facey Romford' they preferred not to undertake the matter until Mr. Leech's services were definitely secured and there would be no questoin of such delays as had occurred in the illustrations of 'Handley Cross.' Leech promised however to being in January 1862 and the situation seemed sufficiently secure to set up the type but just at this time the artist held his first exhibition of oil paintings which proved so successful and diverting that the 'Facey Romford' illustrations were again postponed. Surtees in despair at last offered the book in August 1864 to The Field where is was refused. In March of that year Leech finally undertook the drawings but never lived to complete the work which was carried on byPhiz" Field. Field 225. Tooley 475. Schwerdt II 237. Podeschi 207. Bradbury & Evans unknown books
rif. 51-2545Mount Horeb Wisconsin: Perishable Press Walter Hamady 1976 . Original handmade paper covers. 20 x 19 cm cm. 24 page surfaces 12 printed. Edition of 150 signed and numbered copies. Fine.Two Decades of Hamady and the Perishable Press Limited no. 77.Walter Hamady born 1940 is an American artist book designer papermaker poet and teacher. He is especially known for his innovative efforts in letterpress printing bookbinding and papermaking exemplified in the productions of The Perishable Press Limited and the Shadwell Papermill founded by Hamady in the mid-1960s. In 1966 Hamady joined the faculty of the University of Wisconsin Madison where he would teach papermaking letterpress printing and bookbinding for more than three decades. Mount Horeb, Wisconsin: Perishable Press (Walter Hamady), 1976 unknown
rif. 93361Eksp. zagotov. gos. bumag Skt. Peterburg 1899. . Small folio 33 x 23 cm. 6 accordion-folded leaves with a printed page as front cover and another as rear cover chromolithographed illustrations throughout; light spotting and soiling mostly on the external flaps. a fine example of one of Vasnetsov's most famous illustrated works published to commemorate the anniversary of Pushkin's birth. The Song of Wise Oleg is based on a chronicle by Nikolay Karamzin and remains one of the most well-known Russian poems of all time. Illustrated in the style of a medieval manuscript it is richly embellished with head and tail pieces and decorated initials. The Song became a turning point in the development of the book as an integrated art form and was presented at the International Exhibition for Book Printing and Graphics in 1914. Kilgour 897; Seslavinskiy Girlianda 189. Eksp. zagotov. gos. bumag, Skt. Peterburg, [1899]. unknown
rif. 120600Moscow Zemlia i Fabrika ZIF 1927. . Sole edition 4to 28.5 x 21.8 cm; illustrations throughout some repairs to gutter and spine; original illustrated wrappers small loss of paper to lower corner a very good copy. A scarce Constructivist children's book illustrated by the Chichagova sisters. The sisters Galina and Olga studied at the Stroganov Academy until 1917 and in 1920 joined Vkhutemas under the tutelage of Rodchenko. They worked together on all of their book illustrations and remained keen advocates of the Constructivist movement. OCLC lists just two copies at Princeton and the University of Pensylvania. Moscow, Zemlia i Fabrika [ZIF], [1927]. unknown
