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1984Best.-Nr. 297106Marlborough Wilts England: Paulinus Press 1984. Limited Edition. Hard Cover. Fine binding. Large 8vo.; in the publisher’s pink silk bonding with a cream label to the spine lettered in gilt with slipcase; 55 pages with illustrations and a set of proofs; signed by the author Walter Shewring; the engraver Simon Brett the engraver; Christopher Skelton the printer; and Clare Skelton the binder.~~This edition limited to twenty-five special copies printed on Zerkall mould-made paper with additional pages bearing impressions of the engravings printed direct from the wood blocks; in the rear of the book is a loose set of proofs of the engravings on japon printed and signed by the artist.~~This special edition is signed by the author the engraver the printer and the binder “in recognition of its being the last book produced at Skelton’s Press under Christopher Skelton’s ownership”. Fine binding. Paulinus Press unknown
Best.-Nr. 42710London: W. Nicol 1832. 8vo 2 57 1pp. title and terminal leaf dust soiled blank margins a little chipped stitched as issued 1109 lots. [London: W. Nicol], 1832 unknown
1875Best.-Nr. BOOKS350130New York NY: Harper & Brothers Publishers. Good/NO DUSTJACKET. 1875. . Hardcover. Sm 4to. 155 p.p. Cracked inner hinge; shelf lean; head and tail of spine; previous owner's bookplate approximately 2 and a half inches by 1 and a half inches on front pastedown previous owner's inscription on front free-end paper; corners of cover bumped in; pages lightly warped otherwise pages clean and unmarked. . Harper & Brothers Publishers hardcover
1946Best.-Nr. 50322061071J M Dent and Sons Ltd London 1946. Reprint. Hardcover. Good Condition/Good. Illustrator: wood engravings by Marie Hartley. Brown covers with white lettering on the spine lightly rubbed at spine-ends sound binding part of dust-jacket and 3 hand-taken black and white photographs pasted onto reverse of front end-paper and on half-title-page. Faint smudges on title-page clean pages. Fourth Impression. 174 pages. Previous owner's name in pencil at front. Illustrator: wood engravings by Marie Hartley. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: under 1 kg. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 50322061071. All our books music and maps are sent by a tracked mail service. J M Dent and Sons Ltd hardcover
1880Best.-Nr. 04411110044J Hetzel & Co Paris 1880. Edition Unstated. Hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. Illustrator: Ferat Pannemaker. Undated circa 1880. Ouvrage couronne par l'Academie francaise. Bibliotheque D'Education et de Recreation. Half leather with marbled boards small bookplate for John William Hoyland annotated by Rachel Barbara Hoyland green leather is worn with spine-label detached boards are good but paper is worn on edges binding sound pages are a little darkened but clean excellent illustrations full page map of Afrique Australe Southern Africa numbered 78 1878. Text is in French. Estimated date only. Illustrator: Ferat Pannemaker. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: under 1 kg. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 04411110044. All our books music and maps are sent by a tracked mail service. J Hetzel & Co hardcover
1927Best.-Nr. 355490725414London 1927. First Edition. Hard Cover. London: Published by the Fleuron Limited and printed at the Curwen Press 1927-1930. CONTAINS SIGNED WOOD ENGRAVINGS BY JOHN NASH IN VOLUME 3 AND ERIC RAVILIOUS IN VOLUME 4. Publisher's yellow brown pink or purple buckram with gilt lettering to the spine t.e.g. others uncut spines a little faded. Robert Gibbings writes on the Golden Cockerel Press Eric Gill on intaglio printing from woodblocks Paul Nash on woodcut patterns Douglas Percy Bliss on the tools of the wood-engraver etc. W A Thorpe on the Wood-Engravings of John Nash Wood and Metal in the Invention of Printing by Victor Scholderer German Woodcut Lettering by Dr. Julius Rodenberg et al. Generously illustrated with examples of the work of many of the great wood engravers of the time Eric Ravilious John Nash Tirzah Garwood Gwen Raverat Clare Leighton et al. Vol 1 yellow buckram from 1927 is # 25 of 75 copies of which 70 are for sale. Vol 2 brown buckram from 1928 is # 42 of 80 copies of which 75 are for sale. In addition to the blocks in the text there is a fold-out in collotype of woodcut wall-papers opposite page 1. Vol 3 pink buckram from 1929 is # 18 of 80 copies of which 75 are for sale and contains one of the few woodcuts to be produced in Tirzah Garwood's lifetime Vol 4 purple buckram from 1930 is # 27 of 75 copies of which 70 are for sale. A very good set. Containing signed wood-engravings by Eric Ravilious and John Nash. NB: THESE SPECIAL EDITION SETS ARE VERY RARE AS THE SIGNED ENGRAVINGS BY ERIC RAVILIOUS AND JOHN NASH ARE USUALLY FOUND REMOVED. NNB: Dustwrappers not present. Further photographs available upon request. hardcover
1936Best.-Nr. end2601K1936 hardback in cloth board covers 157 pages illus. three wood engravings by Julian Wehr ex library copy; heavy general wear; usual library stamps and marks; coffee splash to side text block; no dust jacket; text is clean and free of notes etc; wood engravings are all present; NB no dust jacket carefully packaged and dispatched from UK within two working days Random House hardcover
1771Best.-Nr. 3835Three engravings by Paul Revere are certainly the most distinctive feature of this Boston almanac for 1772 namely: Miss Emma Leach a dwarf born in Beverley Massachusetts on front cover. The Patriotic American Farmer John Dickinson. Mrs. Catharine M'Caulay. Almanac making in colonial America was a rather unscrupulous affair at times. The notion of copyright was unknown among publishers. Indeed almanac piracy or perhaps liberal borrowing was the accepted industry practice. The present almanac offers an excellent example of heavy borrowing. The Boston Ames Almanack for 1772 was published in two versions: one by Ezekiel Russell and the other a pirated version by an unnamed printer/publisher. The text and images of the two are very similar although the cuts of the three subjects differ very slightly between the two almanacs. Paul Revere's daybook for December 1771 identifies two purchasers of plates for a 1772 Ames almanac Ezekiel Russell and Edes & Gill. Within a matter of a week it's apparent that Revere produced two sets of plates of the same subjects for competing almanacs. In an advertisement for Russell's version of the Ames almanac he "hopes that the publick with their usual impartiality will give him preference in buying of his Ames' genuine almanac before any pirated edition." Revere's contributions were in both the original and this pirated edition of the almanac. References: Evans: 11961; Drake Almanacs of the U.S.: 3205; Brigham Paul Revere's Engravings: pp. 202-203; Hamilton Early American Book Illustrators and Wood Engravers: 56; O'Neal Early American Almanacs: 115 mistakenly citing Russell as publisher. Condition: Disbound; leaves are separated with a later paper reinforcement in the gutter of two leaves. Chipping to lower corners of two leaves. Scattered mostly light staining and a few spots of foxing. Good. ICN 7815. [Printed by T. & J. Fleet and Edes & Gill. Price 2s. 8d. per dozen, and six coppers single. ]
1974Best.-Nr. 000652Land's End Press 1974. Hardcover. Good/Good. Scarce edition. From dust Jacket: "Here in one volume are facsimiles of three rare and valuable works of fencing by the noted eighteenth century fencing masters Domenico and Henry Angelo." Hard back binding in publisher's original crimson cloth covers gilt title and author lettering to the spine. Landscape 6½'' x 9¼''. Contains printed pages of text with full-page monochrome etchings and engravings throughout.Very Good condition book with minor rubbing of the cloth along the spine. Good condition dust jacket with some damage. Not price clipped.Names stamped on First page. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection. Land's End Press hardcover
1934Best.-Nr. 6048381934. "Eric Gill" in black fountain pen ink Jerusalem June 13 1934. 8" x 10". 1 page recto only. Very good. To Mr. Sutcliffe: In full: "Many thanks for your letter of June 4. I shall be back home in July & will come and see you about the matter as soon as possible. . ." Probably the London book binder George Sutcliffe. unknown
1802Best.-Nr. 219552London.: W. Miller. 1802. Hand-coloured engraving 34.7 x 26 cms sheet including plate-mark edge toning but in very good condition. Attractive large image prepared as Plate IV for Dalvimart's work "The Costume of Turkey". "Dalvimart's is one of the basic works on Turkish costume which has provided the prototypes for numerous other illustrative material. It is known that Dalvimart travelled in Turkey and Greece in 1797-8" Atabey. . W. Miller. unknown
1802Best.-Nr. 219551London.: W. Miller. 1802. Hand-coloured engraving 34.7 x 25.8 cms sheet including plate-mark edge toning but in very good condition. Attractive large image prepared as plate 17 for Dalvimart's work "The Costume of Turkey". "Dalvimart's is one of the basic works on Turkish costume which has provided the prototypes for numerous other illustrative material. It is known that Dalvimart travelled in Turkey and Greece in 1797-8" Atabey. . W. Miller. unknown
1802Best.-Nr. 219553London.: W. Miller. 1802. Hand-coloured engraving 34.7 x 25.9 cms sheet including plate-mark edge toning but in very good condition. Attractive large image of a Dervise or Dervish prepared as Plate XXX for Dalvimart's work "The Costume of Turkey". "Dalvimart's is one of the basic works on Turkish costume which has provided the prototypes for numerous other illustrative material. It is known that Dalvimart travelled in Turkey and Greece in 1797-8" Atabey. . W. Miller. unknown
1920Best.-Nr. 000012714Leipzig / Wien = Vienna: Bibliographisches Institut 1920. Paperback. Near Fine. Oblong 8vo. 14 cm x 16.5 cm. Unpaginated. Brown paper wrappers printed in red and black. Illustrated with 22 black and white images of towns and landmarks from the state of Saxony. Minor wear to the extremities. Bibliographisches Institut paperback
2005Best.-Nr. 33693London: Folio Society 2005 Beautiful Folio Society Edition in green pink and black illustrated cloth & light blue slipcase First Printing with new Foreword and binding design no markings a Fine unread copy in Near Fine slipcase; 8vo; 493pp illus. First Edition. Hard Cover. As New. London: Folio Society hardcover
1930Best.-Nr. 20691New York: Coward-McCann Inc 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. Cloth spine. Paper pastedown on boards. Very Good. John Held Jr. A Prohibition Era paean to the bibulous lifestyle with many apercus and interspersed among these short pieces over 60 cocktail recipes and of course the inimitable woodcuts of John Held who made something of a specialty as an illustrator of cocktail literature. With a short inscription by compiler editor writer Hunt who was Librarian at Yale and who also had been a publishing executive. 8vo. 22.5 by 17 cm. xiv 2 95 1 pp. The short inscription was to a woman living on Christopher Street back when it was the backdrop for "My Sister Eileen". Cover stained. Hinge somewhat loose. Leaves fairly heavily age toned but generally clean otherwise. Coward-McCann, Inc hardcover
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1960Best.-Nr. 177507Peking.: Foreign Languages Press. 1960. Post card booklet containing 12 colour postcards of 20th century Chinese woodcuts each 15.5 x 10.5cm left edge perforated coloured pictorial wrappers. Very good condition. Artists include: Hung Chen-shan Shao Keh-ping Ku Yuan Li Huan-min Liu Kuang Cheng Shuang Chao Yen-nien Teng Ko Chao Tsung-tsao Tung Chi-chung Hsiu Chun Tu Chi and Li Ping-fan. . Foreign Languages Press. unknown
1976Best.-Nr. 36978Paris: A Parole Donnee 1976. Fine. Paris: A Parole Donnée 1976. First Edition Limited to 60 copies of which this is no. 34. Small square quarto 16.5cm; contents loose as issued in original printed dust jacket housed in scarlet cloth chemise and slipcase; 16pp.; two color engravings with tissue guards both engravings signed with limitation by the artist in pencil along bottom edge. A Fine example additionally signed by the artist and poet on colophon in rear. French artist's book of poems issued as the first volume in the "A Parole Donnée" series. We find no copies in the trade or OCLC as of October 2025. A Parole Donnee unknown
1977Best.-Nr. 36980Paris: A Parole Donnee 1977. Fine/Fine. Paris: "A Parole Donnée" 1977. First Edition Limited to 10 copies including original engraving printed on both Arches and Japon papers of which this is no. 1. Small square quarto 16.5cm; loose as issued in original pale grey printed dust jacket housed in original emerald green cloth chemise and slipcase; 16pp.; two color engravings signed with limitation by the artist. A Fine example. Additionally signed by the poet Bohbot on colophon in rear. Issued as the third volume in the poet's "A Parole Donnée" series. The plates were signed by Bryen shortly before his death in May of 1977. The book was released posthumously in September. No copies in OCLC as of October 2025. A Parole Donnee unknown
1976Best.-Nr. 36979Paris: A Parole Donnee 1976. Fine. Paris: "A Parole Donnée" 1976. First Edition Limited to 72 copies of which this is no. 9 of 12 hors commerce copies. Small square quarto 16.5cm; loose as issued in grey printed dust jacket housed in bright blue cloth chemise and slipcase; 16pp.; two leaves of color engravings signed with limitation in pencil by the Japanese printmaker Shoichi Hasegawa. A Fine example additionally signed by the poet and artist on colophon in rear. Issued as the second volume in the poet's A Parole Donnée series. No copies located in OCLC as of October 2025. A Parole Donnee unknown
1916Best.-Nr. 898711916. Seitei KachÅ çœäºèŠ±é³¥ Prints Bird and Flower Watanabe Seitei 渡辺çœäº also ShÅtei artist Tokyo: Okura Shoten Okura Yasugoro Taisho 5 1916 Brown cloth clasped portfolio 28.2 x 38 cm. A complete collection of the 22 color prints the preface and table of contents page 24 sheets in all with a colophon label on the inside of the rear cover. A wonderful production in color woodblock of the work of the important artist Watanabe Seitei 渡辺çœäº 1851-1918. Okura Shoten was also the publisher of Seitei's other two books the 3 volume Seitei KachÅ Gafu çœäºèŠ±é³¥ç”»èœ of 1890-1 and the KachÅ Gafu 花鳥画譜 of 1903 but this portfolio is by far the rarest of all his works. Prints from the series are seldom seen and much prized complete sets like this one are vanishingly rare. After studying under Kikuchi YÅsai èŠæ± 容斎 1788-1878 also known as Kikuchi Takeyasu and Kawahara RyÅhei and established artist Shibata Zeshin 柴田是真 1807-1891 in his youth he traveled to Europe in 1878. One of the early practitioners of the Nihonga 日本画 style of Western-influenced traditional painting he is primarily known for his work with bird and flower subjects which he revolutionized with his delicate and playful ability to capture the reality of color plumage and other details. Overall the condition of the covers is quite good and the prints are well printed. The heavy paper on which the prints are mounted are a bit toned but the prints themselves are quite good and clean with wonderful colors and impressions. A cornerstone of any Japanese bird and flower collection. Enclosed in a custom clasped cloth box. unknown
1970Best.-Nr. 898071970. Creative Prints SHINOHARA Cao artist. HISHÔ NO SHINTAN. Shôwa 45 1970 A small 7.5 x 7.5 cm western style square book bound in white leather. Illustrated through in tiny engravings some colored signed by Shinohara numbered 83 of 100 copies. In a lovely little leather slipcase and wraparond paper like new. A very unusual work from the heyday of Japanese artist books after the War. unknown
Best.-Nr. 89806CREATIVE PRINTS WATARAI Jun'suke artist. KOROPOKKURU NO SHI. a little 9.8 x 7.4 cm leather wraparound box gold embossed with 13 copperengravings inside illustrating a text of POEMS OF THE LITTLE PEOPLE the little people being humanculi of Ainu legend who "take their ease under the trees" of the great northern forests. Though undated this copy is #9 of 50 copies and was produced by Sawamura Gallery probably in the 1970s. In perfect condition throughout with the original wraparounds the text pamphlet and the outer shipping box as well. unknown
1859Best.-Nr. 833001859. PRINTS - BOSTON SOUTH BOSTON 1859 HANDCOLORED LITHOGRAPH BY JOSEPH FOXCROFT COLE. Boston: J. F. A. Cole ca. 1859. Image matted to 22 x 29 1/2 inches. Three spots of browning to the sky area faint arc of foxing a few more to the scenes below the main image. Main image features a main intersection of roads one signposted "G Street Ward 12". Great perspective. Very good overall. Below the title is printed: "To the citizens of South Boston this picture is most respectfully dedicated by the Artist. unknown
