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1900Best.-Nr. 1421261900. JAPANESE ORNAMENTAL WOODBLOCK PRINTS. Bijutsu Kai. Collection of Pictures Regarding Colour Designs for Japanese Textiles Costumes. Five parts in one volume. Five folding plates and 18 full-page coloured woodblock prints per section for a total of 95 original illustrations. 8vo 232 x 160 mm. bound in Japanese accordion style with Japanese fold pages and silk-thread stitched spine in new linen cloth folding box with leather spine label. Kyoto: Geisodo ca. 1900. A superb set of this important compendium of early Japanese textile designs showing a great variety of patterns and scenes. The woodblock prints are often exceptional Japanese images very much in the wabi-sabi tradition. Not in Hillier The Art of the Japanese Book 1987. hardcover
Best.-Nr. 7233San Francisco: The Arion Press 2017. Limited Edition. One of 300 copies. Original two-part blue-grey cloth box housing a 13.5" x 50-foot scroll wound on aluminum spool with bookcloth wrapper nestled in grey foam lining together with the cloth-bound 20pp booklet containing Langdon Hammer's Introduction to The Bridge with two photographs of the Brooklyn Bridge by Michael Kenna. Text was handset by Andrew Hoyem with French Elzevir type illustrated with seven woodblock prints by Joel Shapiro. A Fine copy. An imaginative and elaborate production re-envisioning Hart Crane's long poem inspired by the Brooklyn Bridge. The book originally published by The Black Sun Press in 1930 was a collaborative work with Crane's friend the photographer Walker Evans. Arion No.110. The Arion Press unknown
Best.-Nr. 112186n.p. n.d. eighteenth century circa 1750. . A suite of four original hand coloured engravings titled in Spanish and French La Manna Le Matin; El Mediodia Le Midi; Eldespues de Comer L'Apres Diner and Le Soir La Tarde each approx. 50 x 68 cm modern gilt frames. An exquisite suite of four eighteenth century conversation piece engravings in the rococo style showing the nobility at leisure dining and dancing outdoors in a bucolic setting. Each image is beautifully set within delicately coloured scrolled borders featuring flowers foliage leafy tendrils and fruit. These prints capture the privilege and lifestyle of the aristocracy and are typical of French decorative art in the early to mid eighteenth century. n.p., n.d. [eighteenth century, circa 1750]. unknown
Best.-Nr. 221757T. Cadell Jnr and W. Davies The Strand London 1798. . 617 pp frontispiece map fold-out map numerous engraved plates list of engraved plates at rear very nice clean and tight copy bound in early nineteenth century half calf with gilt-lettered spine label. Includes many full page engraved plates of aboriginal tribal ceremonies including eye-tooth removal at male initiation ceremony etc. A supplemental volume was published in 1802 covering the period Jan. 1788 to Aug. 1801 however this present volume is the fundamental founding volume relating to the settlement of Australia. From the library of Selwyn Smith with his armorial bookplate and signature : "Selwyn Smith Sydney 1848. T. Cadell Jnr and W. Davies, The Strand, London, 1798. unknown
1959Best.-Nr. 511Cleveland Ohio: The Cleveland Museum of Art 1959. 20 prints 7.25"x9.75" in a brown trifold portfolio. Good. Rubbing folder dog ear to print I. Twenty prints from the original artist's proofs of Durer's woodcuts owned by the Cleveland Museum of Art there are doubles of print XX. The Cleveland Museum of Art unknown
1995Best.-Nr. 20053005London: Frances Lincoln Publishers 1995. First Thus 1st Printing. Hardcover. New/New. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Published by Frances Lincoln Publishers. First printing thus. About 10 x 8 inches bound in green cloth with title information to spine in gold. With beautifully rendered and printed wood engravings throughout. NEW. Not read. Binding firm and square. All corners pointed. Without bumps or creases. Not marked in any way and very clean and bright. Dust jacket same. All items carefully wrapped and sent boxed. Frances Lincoln Publishers hardcover
1936Best.-Nr. C90252London: Country Life 1936. First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. Hardcover Hardcover. Very Good. First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. Large 8vo.pp. 226. A gardener's year recording ""the horticultural adventures the discoveries of wild flowers and the little thrills that come to the country dweller."" Original publisherÕs cloth binding in green lettered white. Finely illustrated dust jacket depicting a Crown Imperial Fritillary. Illustrated with 24 woodcuts by John Farleigh. Neat inscription on the front end paper. Very good indeed in minus very good dust jacket. Slight spotting. Dust jacket with chips at spine and top edge. Country Life hardcover
1810Best.-Nr. A46018Paris: Chez Osterwald L'aine 1810. First Edition. Wraps. Paperback . Very Good. First Edition. Wraps. 12mo.14 by 10.5cms pp 36 with 16 portraits by Bosselman and 5 pages text. Tissue guards to portraits with some slight foxing to tissue and plates. Original publisher's printed grey blue covers slightly chipped at spine ends o/w vg pleasing copy. World Cat dates this book as 1810 possibly from the engravings. Portraits of the Royal family Napoleon Bonaparte Lucien Bonaparte Prince Eugene Napoleon Francois Marie Louise D'Autriche Duchesse D'Angolueleme etc. No date c.1810. Chez Osterwald L'aine, paperback
1949Best.-Nr. C104113London: Oxford University Press 1949. Re-Issue. Hardcover. Dust Jacket. Hardcover Hardcover. Very Good. Re-Issue. Hardcover. Dust Jacket. 8vo.pp. 556. Original publisher's cloth binding in cherry red lettered gilt at spine. Dust jacket in beige lettered beige on a brown country-style illustration. Finally detailed Wood engraving in black-and-white by Julie Neild. Introduction by H.J. Massingham. Very good in very good dust jacket. Oxford University Press, hardcover
Best.-Nr. 10427Berkeley CA: Editions Koch 2003. Full Leather. Fine binding. Folio. 44 pp. frontis plates. Limited edition one of 120 copies this copy out of series; there are also 26 lettered deluxe copies with a suite of 10 engravings. All are signed by Bringhurst Wagener and Peter Koch at the colophon. Bound by Camille Botelho in black box calf with inlays and onlays of dyed calf vinyl snakeskin painted paper mylar laminates and a porcupine quill; hand embroidered endbands; vinyl snakeskin doublures. A fine copy in clamshell box. True to form Peter Koch has produced a marvelous edition of what remains of Parmenides's poem "On Nature." The fragments of the poem are rendered in this opposite page bilingual edition with the Greek on the left and Bringhurst's English translation on the right. The poetry is brilliantly accompanied by Wagner's striking engravings a frontispiece and 4 additional wood engravings in red and orange. Given it survives only in fragments there is some debate as to the "meaning" of the symbolism of Parmenides's poem making it a work ripe for interpretation. But at base his view of reality is one of stasis unchangeable. And while that enduring Greek logic marks the work Wagener introduces remarkably abstract and kinetic illustrations printed in an urgent deep red and orange-projecting anything but stasis. It is the discord between the logical understanding or reality and the emotional understanding of it that spoke to Botelho and informed her design of this incredible binding. She writes: "In the design I thought of Parmenides looking out past shadowy arches from within a dark room to find total chaos beyond. The curve of the Mylar inlay and the curve of the porcupine quill mimic a column marking a threshold beyond which is uncontrolled noise and movement and mess. I wanted the disparity between the smoothness of the box calf and the chaos of the inlays and yellow foiling to be a comment on how frightening examining one's reality can be." Magnificently achieved Botelho has created an exceptional binding that bridges Parmenides and Wagener giving voice to the paradox she sees in this metaphysical conversation on the nature of reality. Editions Koch unknown
1953Best.-Nr. 9695New York: Hammer Creek Press 1953. Unbound. Near Fine binding. Portfolio. 6.5" x 4.25." 4 folded leaves. Limited edition number of copies unknown. As issued 4 bifolium leaves laid into portfolio. Only light rubbing to the portfolio; leaves are fine. Comprises as title page with printing on the recto of the first page only; and three engraving on three bifolium with title of engravings in red on the recto of the first leaf and the engraving occupying the recto of the second leaf. Engravings are of "The Hell-Box Press" "The Hammer Creek Press" and "Along the Hammer Creek." An additional pressmark by DePol on the title page. Cohen 24; DePol Catalogue Raisonne p. 41. Hammer Creek Press unknown
1956Best.-Nr. 9700New York: Hammer Creek Press 1956. Original Wrappers. Near Fine binding. 12mo. 24 4 blank1 pp. illus. Limited edition to approximately 100 copies. As issued in marbled paper wrappers of stiff covers with printed paper title label on the front cover. Quite a nice copy with little in the way of shelf-rubbing to the cover; Reynolds Stone-designed bookplate of noted collector Norman Sondheim inside the front cover. Short introduction by Fass about the history and aim of the press. Includes 43 described books announcements and ephemera from the press. As this present work is the 43rd item in Fass's list and only 35th in Cohen's checklist there are apparently inclusions here not noted in Cohen. Several examples of pressmarks by DePol Angelo and Carnes. Two by Valenti Angelo are done in multiple colors with gilding. The Hammer Creek Press began when in 1950 when Fass purchased from Valenti Angelo a small Hughes & Kimber cast iron press previously owned by Bruce Rogers who had sold it to Angelo the year before. It was on this press of significant provenance that the bulk of the Hammer Creek Press editions were printed including this present book. Opening this work is an engraving by John DePol of the storied press with a page of "Data" by Fass. One of the mores substantial works issued by the Press as well as one of the more uncommon titles despite the larger-than-usual limitation. As more than 30 institutions are reporting ownership according to OCLC it means this is increasingly rare in commerce. A lovely example of Fass's work. Cohen 35. Hammer Creek Press unknown
Best.-Nr. A9781300958260Paperback / softback. New. paperback
1843Best.-Nr. 434524-KG34Paris : Lafont Éditeur 1843. Hardcover. Fair. Original half leather gilt lettered and decorated spine illustrated with numerous maps with colours foldable map in rear oblong circa 25x32cm.; Edges and corners cover and spine seriously worn; worn spots cover; spine-ends seriously worn/damaged; name on first free endpaper; names and annotations on verso empty last pages; foldable map in rear damaged. Paris : Lafont, Éditeur hardcover
1745Best.-Nr. 855Regensburg: H. Lentz and H.G. Neubauer et al. 1745. First edition. Very good. Mezzotint engraving printed in color finished by hand 12.75 x 8.25 inches platemark approx; 15.25 x 9.5 inches overall approx. Left edge retains sewing stabs neatly disbound in some earlier century else a very vibrant example of a hand colored mezzotint engraving. The individual botanicals in this plate are: a. Phaseolus flore puniceo b. Phaseolus major c. Phaseolus orthocaulus d. Phaseolus Indicus e. Phaseolus major seu Faba purgatrioc. Drawn from Johann Wilhelm Weinmann's Phytanthoza Iconographia this dazzling print is part of a riotous celebration of plants trees shrubs herbs flowers fruits mushrooms and trailing vines. Printed in color and delicately finished by hand the series stands among the earliest triumphs of color printing and marks the first published collection to feature the work of George Dionysus Ehret one of the eighteenth century's most admired botanical artists. Other artists/engravers included in this work are Bartholomaus Seuter Johann Elias Ridinger and Johann Jakob Haid. In Great Flower Books Satcheverall Sitwell refers to this set as the "pioneering work of botanical prints engraved to be inked in color." . NISSEN2126. DUNTHORNE 327. SITWELL/BLUNT Great Flower Books p. 151 166. . H. Lentz and H.G. Neubauer, et al. unknown
1979Best.-Nr. 371475-AF11The Tern Press 1979. Hardcover. Good. Original decorated cloth marbled endpapers 90 numbered copies issued this is number 47 illustrated with small prints partly in b/w oblong circa 215x275cm. Signed by Peter Abbs Nicholas Parry and Mary Parry. The Tern Press hardcover
1928Best.-Nr. 1403491Paris: Edward W. Titus 1928. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo 6 49 7 pages plus 5 illustrated plates. In Very Good minus condition. In brown cloth binding with red lettering on paper labels to front board and spine. Boards are moderately soiled most heavily on spine with faint stains on boards near the joints. Rubbing along board edges fore corners lightly bumped. Label on spine is heavily sunned and scuffed. Text block shows light wear and foxing to deckled edges. Also foxed sparsely throughout most prominently on endpapers. Stain in gutter of first free endpaper. Small pencil annotation on page 7 indicates a typo in the text. SH consignment. Shelved in Room A. Bill Bird was an American publisher best known for running the Three Mountains Press a small press that published many prominent modernists in the 1920s including Ezra Pound Ernest Hemingway James Joyce William Carlos Williams and Robert McAlmon with Ezra Pound serving as editor. Over a period of two and a half years he published 9 works. Concurrently he founded Consolidated Press Service and worked there as a journalist from 1920-1933 when he joined the New York Sun as chief foreign correspondent. Forced to flee France after the Nazi invasion he wrote articles warning of war. After WWII he moved to Tangier and was the editor of the Tangier Gazette. This title was among Bird's private collection having been carted by him from Paris where he stayed until 1940 to Spain Tangiers and finally back to Paris and by descent to the US. 1403491. Special Collections. Edward W. Titus hardcover
1945Best.-Nr. 33330952Waltham Saint Lawrence: The Golden Cockerel Press 1945. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Webb Clifford. One of 500 copies folio size pp. The Golden Cockerel Press came together in autumn of 1920 at a time when post-World War I society was ushering in a renaissance of creative minds including another renaissance of the printing press as the artist's tool similar to that of William Morris and the arts and crafts printers of the previous century. The press worked with many notable artists including Eric Gill Blair Hughes-Stanton Robert Gibbings and the artist for this work Clifford Webb. Clifford Cyril Webb 1895-1972 studied art and is best known today for his wood engravings. He was a founder-member of the Society of Wood Engravers and "was a prominent figure in the group of engravers whobrought about the revival of wood engraving in the 1920s and benefited from the encouragement of Robert Gibbings and the Golden Cockerel Press" n.b. quote from Webb's entry in Horne "The Dictionary of 20th Century British Book Illustrators" p. 437. Per the bibliographical entry for this work "it is surprising that no complete translation of this unique eye-witness account of the First Crusade had ever been published in England before. What the pilgrims did in their fervour of blind fanaticism 'to the glory of God' makes astonishing reading!" ___DESCRIPTION: Bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe in half vellum with orange buckram boards gilt vignette on the front board of crusaders on horseback by Clifford Webb top edge gilt frontis one of five full-page wood-engravings bound in throughout small title page wood-engraving also of crusaders on horseback wood-engraving of a cockerel holding a crusader pennant in its beak on p. 9; Poliphilus type on hand-made paper folio size 12 3/8" by 7 3/8" pagination: 1-4 5-92 1 colophon. ___CONDITION: A solid very good copy with clean boards the vellum smooth and without wear a strong square text block with solid hinges the interior is clean and bright and entirely free of prior owner markings; a small mark on the vellum on the back board light overall edgewear the corners bumped but not rubbed. ___CITATION: Cockalorum 168. ___POSTAGE: International customers please note that additional postage may apply as the standard does not always cover costs; please inquire for details. ___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA ILAB and IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have we are here to help. The Golden Cockerel Press hardcover
Best.-Nr. 348579-VC44Newcastle/London : Beilby Bewick and G.G. & J. Robinson 1797. Hardcover. Good. Bound in 2 uniform later marbled and gilt calf 1797-1804 marbled endpapers illustrated with with 208240 wood engravings XXX23351XX400 pages 8vo circa 22x13cm. 2 volumes: I The History and Description of Land Birds; II The History and Description of Water Birds. First edition first issue without the words ""Wycliffe 1791"" in the block of the figure of the Sea Eagle in volume I page11; no misprint in volume I page 145 Schæniclus not Sahæniclus and with the vignette in volume I page 285 uncensored.; Both volumes recased; book plate on upper pastedown both volumes. Newcastle/London : Beilby Bewick and G.G. & J. Robinson hardcover
1924Best.-Nr. 96543New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1924. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover in batik-decorated boards with blue cloth strip at spine. No dust jacket. One of 2040 numbered copies printed by the Pynson Printers after a design by Elmer Adler. This copy numbered 922. Heavy wear at corner tips and some darkening of right-hand side of front board. Interior pages are clean and supple; binding is solid. Title on spine is within a bright gilt medallion. Twelve intact wood engravings by Wilfred Jones. A nice copy. 8vo. 135 pp. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover
1954Best.-Nr. 337877-XC27St. Ives : The Ark Press 1954. Hardcover. Good. Original pictorial boards in matching dust jacket full page engravings in red by Ru van Rossem unpaged edition of 250 copies 8vo. Signed by Ru van Rossem on title page.; Foxed on dust jacket; foxed on cut; some foxing inside. , St. Ives : The Ark Press hardcover
1846Best.-Nr. 157997London: William S. Orr 1846. Nice copy. large octavo. cloth binding xxxii 602 568 488 132pp. engravings text ills. glossary With hundreds of engravings & text illustrations. Some light foxing mainly to prelims o/w a very nice set which has been very nicely rebound with new end papers in green buckram with raised bands at spine & red title-labels. All edges marbled. Quite a handsome set William S. Orr hardcover
1989Best.-Nr. 157079London: Folio Society 1989. reprint. As New. octavo. hardbacks in decorated cloth c.2200pp. illusts. Sense and Sensibility Pride and Prejudice Mansfield Park Emma Northanger Abbey Persuasion & Shorter Works. Bound in red quarter cloth over patterned boards. In a nice red cloth slip-case as issued Folio Society hardcover
1985Best.-Nr. 59810Great Barrington MA: Penmaen Busyhaus Publications 1985. Limited Edition "Out of Series" Print Set not numbered not in linen slipcase/box. Prints. Near Fine. Folio 39 cm Two suites of loose prints the suites are issued in two states. 13 prints printed on white paper 12 of which are signed; 13 prints printed on cream-colored paper 12 of which are signed. The images on the cream-colored paper are the same as the images on the white paper the only difference being the paper. The 13th print in each suite is by Lynd Ward which are not signed as he passed away in June of 1985 just before the project was completed. Does not contain the introduction by Leonard Baskin or the descriptive letterpress text. With signed self-portraits by the following artists: -Fred Becker 1913-2004. Born in Oakland California and active in St. Louis Missouri and New England. -Jack Coughlin b. 1932. Born in Greenwich Connecticut. He studied at the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence and the Art Students League of New York. He is most known for his portrait wood engravings etchings and lithographs of literary figures and musicians. Information obtained from Brier Hill Gallery Boston MA. -John DePol 1913-2004. A New York printmaker and wood engraver. His press was Endgrain Press. -Fritz Eichenberg 1901-1990. A German/American artist. Considered a master of wood engraving. Eichenberg's first big commissions came with Crime and Punishment and Gulliver's Travels for the Limited Editions Club. His images often depict suffering and poverty. His positions included director of Graphic Arts Center in Brooklyn and a teacher of Graphics at New York's Pratt Institute. Westmont Ridley-Tree Museum of Art -Raymond Gloeckler 1928-2022. Born in Portage Wisconsin. While still a student he taught art via a government program in rural schools. Later he was employed as a professor at UW-Madison between 1961-1993. "Gloeckler is known for his highly detailed caricatures and bold expressive satire and commentary. His prints and paintings comment on humanity's follies and foibles in a unique light-hearted style defying art world trends." - Gallery of Wisconsin Art -James Grashow b. 1942. An American sculptor and woodcut artist. "James Grashow was born in Brooklyn in 1942 and has been creating works that address themes of man nature and mortality since the 1960's" "The scale of his work ranges from large environmental installations through which the viewer traverses to the delicate and contained world of his houseplants where homes and buildings replace flowers and buds in intricately constructed bouquets." - The artist's website -Judith Jaidinger b. 1941. One of the two female artists represented here. Born in Chicago Illinois. "Judith Jaidinger's obsession with cutting began in her 1960s student days at the School of the Art Institute and is linked to her equally long frankly sensuous relationship with boxwood. She was introduced to both in an engraving class taught by British-born print-master Adrian Troy. "At the same time printing industry technology had moved on supplanting woodblock engravings with line drawings and photography. 'A dying art' Jaidinger says. It was also a seriously slumping industry. But in the 1960s in Chicago hub of an enormous catalog business there were still a few commercial wood-engraving establishments turning out the precise detailed images more typical of the previous century. One of them Sander Wood Engraving on Dearborn Street was where Professor Troy a committed modernist sent his students to buy the best material: rare English-grown boxwood blocks. "'He warned us' Jaidinger recalls 'If you go to Sander and buy your wood from them don't look at what those engravers are doing. I don't want you to be influenced by them.' "That made it irresistible." - Reader- Chicago's alternative nonprofit newsroom -Stefan Martin 1936-1994. Born in Elgin Illinois and a graduate of the Art Institute of Chicago. He was also active in Roosevelt New Jersey. His work is held in private museums and collections throughout the world including the Metropolitan Museum and the Smithsonian Institution. -Michael McCurdy 1942-2016. American author illustrator and publisher. Born in New York City. McCurdy served as an instructor at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Concord Academy and at the Book Arts Laboratory of the Wellesley College Library. He founded Penmaen Press 1968-1985. Information obtained from Brier Hill Gallery Boston MA. -Barry Moser b. 1940. The owner and operator of The Pennyroyal Press and the illustrator of over 250 books including Moby Dick The Divine Comedy and a highly regarded edition of The Bible. "Barry Moser is probably the most important book illustrator working in America today." - Nicholas Basbanes -Gillian Tyler b. 1935. Born in Baltimore Maryland. She is an illustrator that works primarily in children's books. -Herbert Ogdon Waters 1903-1996. Born in China. Waters came to the United States and studied at the Pennsylvania Museum School of Industrial Art in Philadelphia the Art Institute of Chicago and Harvard University. He was a public school art instructor under the auspices of the Works Progress Administration's Federal Arts Project. He later taught art at the University of New Hampshire at Durham and at the Holderness School in Plymouth New Hampshire. Information obtained from Brier Hill Gallery Boston MA. -Lynd Ward 1905-1985. The 13th print in each suite is by Lynd Ward which are not signed as he passed away in June of 1985 just before the project was completed. Originally issued in an edition of 250 boxed sets. Penmaen Busyhaus Publications unknown
2001Best.-Nr. 154417London: Folio Society 2001. 1st edition. As New. tall octavo. hardback in original cloth xix 472pp. engravings Leather spine over decorated boards. In sturdy card slip-case as issued Folio Society hardcover
