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T H E C O L O P H O N B O O K S H O P Robert and Christine Liska P. O. B O X 1 0 5 2 E X E T E R N E W H a M T H E C O L O P H O N B O O K S H O P Robert and Christine Liska P. O. B O X 1 0 5 2 E X E T E R N E W H A M P S H I R E 0 3 8 3 3 ( 6 0 3 ) 7 7 2 8 4 4 3 Net Price Sale List Part Two The price in bold is the net sale price All items listed have been carefully described and are in fine collector’s condition unless otherwise noted. All are sold on an approval basis and any purchase may be returned within two weeks for any reason. Member ABAA and ILAB. All items are offered subject to prior sale. Please add $5.00 shipping for the first book, $1.00 for each additional volume. New clients are requested to send remittance with order. All shipments outside the United States will be charged shipping at cost. We accept VISA, MASTERCARD and AMERICAN EXPRESS. (603) 772-8443; FAX (603) 772-3384; e-mail: [email protected] http://www.colophonbooks.com 600. (ILLUSTRATED BOOKS). ELLIS, Richard Williamson. Book Illustration. A Survey of its History & Development shown by the work of Various Artists, together with Critical Comments. Kingsport, TN: The Kingsport Press, 1952, large 8vo, cloth. (xviii), 76pp. First Edition. Created from the series which originally appeared in “Publisher’s Weekly” this volume presents a single example of the illustrator’s work followed by two to three paragraphs of biography. While covering the better known artists such as Rowlandson, Cruikshank, Caldecott, Walter Crane, Kate Greenaway, Rockwell Kent, Eric Gill, Arthur Rackham, etc., the compiler also gives credit to the accomplished, though lesser-known illustrators, James Daugherty, Henry C. Pitz, Rafaello Busoni, Jeanyee Wong, and others. Sixty-nine illustrators are presented. Two short tape marks on front and back pastedown endpapers, else a fine copy. (17711) $40.00 $20 601. (ILLUSTRATED BOOKS). GOLDEN, Catherine J., (editor). Book Illustrated. Text, Image, and Culture 1770-1930. New Castle: Oak Knoll Press, 2000, octavo, cloth in dust jacket. (xvi), 320pp. First Edition. This work is a collection of eight essays by leading scholars in the United States and England examining the rich interplay of word and picture collaborations from 1770-1930. These essays illustrate the ways visual culture evolved. Illustrations spanning 160 years of ballets, plays, poetry, novels, and children’s books are analyzed. New. (9875) $20.00 $15 603. (ILLUSTRATED BOOKS). JESTIN, Loftus. The Answer to the Lyre. Richard Bentley’s Illustrations for Thomas Gray’s Poems. Philadelphia: Univ of Pennsylvania Press, (1990), large 8vo, cloth in dust jacket. 355pp. First Edition. From the dust jacket: ‘In 1753 Robert Dodsley published Designs by Mr. R. Bentley, for Six Poems by Mr. T. Gray. Sponsored by Horace Walpole, this luxurious quarto was the first major aesthetic expression of the Strawberry Hill circle and a landmark in English book illustrations. Kenneth Clark has called it “the most graceful monument to Gothic Rococo.” Its witty interplay between illustration and text anticipated Blake, who studied it some thirty years later. Among its poems is Gray’s famous Elegy Written in a Country Church-Yard. Loftus Jestin offers a facsimile of Designs (out of print since 1786) and a full- length interdisciplinary study of the collaboration of Bentley, Gray, and Walpole that produced this extraordinary book. He shows the way poems and illustrations at once complement, compete with, and invigorate each other, and he examines Strawberry Hill, Walpole’s house at Twickenham, where Bentley’s genius flourished. Very fine. (10611) $6.00 $4 605. (ILLUSTRATED BOOKS). KLEMIN, Diana. The Illustrated Book: Its Art and Craft. New York: Bramhall House, (1970), quarto, cloth in dust jacket. 159pp. First Edition. A contemporary survey with examples and commentary on the work of seventy- four artists. With 82 illustrations, 8 in full color. Edges of text block lightly foxed. Minor dust soiling to price-clipped jacket. (21753) $15.00 $9 607. (ILLUSTRATED BOOKS). MELLBY, Julie. Splendid Pages. The Molly and Walter Bareiss Collection of Modern Illustrated Books. New York: Hudson Hills Press, (2003), large quarto, cloth in dust jacket. (224)pp. First Edition. The Toledo Museum of Art has one of the world’s finest and most comprehensive collections devoted to modern illustrated books. Thanks to 40 years of collecting by Molly and Walter Bareiss, this collection holds over 1,400 volumes dating from the 1850s through 2000. Mr. and Mrs. Bareiss generously donated the entire collection to the Toledo Museum of Art in 1984 and, as a special valentine to the Bareiss family, the Toledo Museum will open a major exhibition of these books entitled Splendid Pages: The Molly and Walter Bareiss Collection of Modern Illustrated Books on February 14, 2003. The Modern Illustrated Book collection, now at the Toledo Museum, includes a virtual who’s who of late 19th- and 20th-century artists, including such luminaries as Marc Chagall, Aristide Maillol, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró, Pablo Picasso, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Robert Motherwell, and Robert Rauschenberg. Significant volumes include Parallè lement by Paul Verlaine and Pierre Bonnard, Die Gesä nge des Maldoror by Georg Baselitz and Comte de Lautréamont and Dlia Golosa (For the Voice) by El Lissitzky and Vladimir Vladimirovich Maiakovsky. Toledo Museum curator Julie Mellby has assembled contributions from individuals devoted to the Book Arts as collectors, artists, poets, publishers, and historians. Walter Bareiss contributes “Recollections of a Book Addict,” Eleanor Garvey writes about Philip Hofer as a pioneer scholar of book arts, and more. With a comprehensive checklist, index, and bibliography. With 105 New. (11879) $15.00 $10 608. (ILLUSTRATED BOOKS). MUIR, Percy. Victorian Illustrated Books. London: Portman Books, (1989), quarto, boards in dust jacket. (xvi), 287pp. Reprint of the 1985 revised edition. There are certain authors and illustrators whose names will always be connected with the Victorian period: for example, Dickens and Cruikshank, Lewis Carroll and Tenniel. Others, such as Bewick, Turner, Caldecott, Kate Greenaway, Beardsley, and Phil May, seem to exist independently of any particular writer. The author chronicles each artist and their work. The text also includes the work of engravers such as Dalziel’s, the influence of such Continental artists as Dore and Busch, the illustrated books of contemporary America, and the chapbook, annuals and keepsakes of the period. With 264 black and white illustrations and 5 color plates. Fine copy. (3793) $25.00 $18 610. (ILLUSTRATION). GRIFFITHS, Antony. Prints for Books. Book Illustration in France 1760-1800. (London): The British Library, (2004), small octavo, printed paper wrappers. (xiv), 178pp. First Edition. The second half of the 18th century in France was one of the great ages of book illustration. Based on the text of The Panizzi Lectures in 2003, this book discusses the passionate interest in book collection and fine printing in the 1780s and how business responded to this new situation and the Revolution in the 1790s. With more than 200 footnotes, 90 black and white illustrations, and appendix giving the actual period of production of some of the most important books of the period. New. New. (14206) $40.00 $20 611. (ILLUSTRATION). HUNNISETT, Basil. Engraved on Steel. The History of Picture Production using Steel Plates. (Aldershot): Ashgate, (1998), octavo, boards in dust jacket. (xvii), 387pp. First Edition. From the dust jacket: “Steel engraving, in which extremely fine lines and subtle tones are possible, is an ancient art. This study, which is illustrated with over 150 pictures, recounts the history of steel engraving from its beginnings in the decorative arts to its heyday with the rapid development of the print industry in the 19th century...Engraved on Steel focuses on engraving and engravers, exploring the use of steel engraving in both the decorative arts and in printing, but Basil Hunnisett also describes the context of the steel engraver’s work. The processes by which steel engraving became one of the most widely used forms of printing in the 19th century are described in detail as are the developments in the print industry, paper manufacture and publishing that determined its history. The activities of print publishers are also examined, including those of the Art Unions. A companion volume to Steel Engraved Book Illustration in England (Scolar 1980). Engraved on Steel explores areas such as note, map, stamp, and book plate engraving, etching, mezzotint and aquatint, the casing of books and most present day usage.” Extensively, and beautifully, illustrated in black and white and in color. New. (5688) $35.00 $25 612. (ILLUSTRATION). LACK, H. Walter. Florilegium Imperiale. Botanical Illustrations for Fancis I of Austria. Munich: Prestel, (2006), large quarto, pictorial cloth in printed slipover case. (304) pp. First Edition. Francis I of Austria, the last monarch to rule over the Holy Roman Empire, was obsessed with flowers. His imperial gardens, where he realized his passion for flowers, remain one of Vienna’s most beloved treasures. In 1791, Francis I commissioned Matthias Schmutzer to paint portraits of every flower in the garden-a project that took more than three decades to complete. Until now, only six of the extant 1,300 paintings have ever been published. This collection features 120 of the most outstanding of Schmutzer’s watercolors. Painted life-size and with extraordinary precision, the flowers range from the exotic to the common. A fascinating text offers biographical information about Francis I, descriptions of the imperial gardens in the ruler’s time, and photographs of how they appear today. A significant contribution to horticultural history, this unique and beautifully presented book will delight lovers of botanical art and European culture alike. With 120 full color illustrations. New.
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