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Engraving in England in the sixteenth & seventeenth centuries. A descriptive catalogue with introductions. Part l: The Tudor period § Part 2: The reign of James I § Part 3: The reign of Charles I (compiled from the notes of the late A.M. Hind by Margery Corbett and Michael Norton)
Cambridge, University Press, 1952-1964Three volumes (25.5 cm), I (1952): xxx, 333 pp., 156 plates (319 illustrations) and frontispiece. II (1955): xxxii, 413 pp., 252 plates (617 illustrations) and frontispiece. III (1964): xiv, 396 pp., 214 plates (466 illustrations). Uniform publisher’s red cloth, printed dust jackets (volumes II and III only). - A work intended to give a complete history of British engraving (in copper, or other metal) from the Tudor Period through the reign of Charles I; a fourth volume, which was to have covered 1649 to 1688, was never published. Each volume is arranged in three parts: the first deals with the more important works by both known and anonymous masters; the second lists engravers in chronological order; and the third describes the prints of anonymous engravers, together with the works of foreign engravers working in England. Each print is located in at least one collection. Many engravings, wholly cartographic in character are described. “Every historian of the period, every student of its literature or of its art, will want to own this book” (Frances A. Yates, from a review of volume III, in The Book Collector, Winter 1964, pp.514-518). ¶ Endpapers of volume I slightly spotted, and a few marks and insignificant stains on binding; lacking its dust jacket. The other two volumes are in fine state. Overall, an excellent, clean set of this standard work. -
The diary of Benjamin Robert Haydon : Volume one : 1808-1815 § Volume two : 1816-1824
Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 1960Two volumes (24.5 cm), I: xxvi, 495 (1) pp., frontispiece, text illustrations. II: [10], 553 (1) pp., text illustrations. Uniform publisher’s brown cloth, dust jackets. - The first two volumes (only) of Pope’s edition (volumes III-V were published in 1963). ¶ Prices clipped from flaps of dust jackets; jackets torn, significant losses. Internally bright and unmarked. -
John Baptist Jackson: 18th-century master of the color woodcut (Smithsonian Institution, Bulletin 222)
Washington, DC, U.S. Government Printing Office, 1962(29 cm), xii, 183 (1) pp. 76 plates (12 in colour). Publisher’s cloth binding. ¶ Fine copy. -
Anecdotes of painting in England
New York, Arno Press, 1969Four volumes (32 cm), uniformly bound in contemporary blue cloth. - Facsimile reprint of the James Dallaway-Ralph N. Wornum edition, published London: Chatto & Windus, 1876 (in three volumes). Added here, as a fourth volume, is a facsimile of the Frederick W. Hilles and Philip B. Daghlian edition of Anecdotes of Painting in England 1760-1795 (New Haven & London 1937). ¶ Gift inscription in ink on endpaper of volume I; otherwise an excellent, unmarked set. -
English woodcuts 1480-1535
Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1973(27.5 cm), xv, 483, xvii, 82 pp., illustrations. Publisher’s blue cloth. - Corrected reprint of the 1935 edition, with new supplement (100 pp. text and 18 additional woodcuts). ¶ As new. -
The King's Arcadia : Inigo Jones and the Stuart court (catalogue of an exhibition organised by the Arts Council of Great Britain, held at the Banqueting House, Whitehall, London, 12 July-2 September 1973)
London, Arts Council of Great Britain, 1973(23.5 cm), 232 pp., illustrations. Publisher’s pictorial wrappers. - Exhibition celebrating the fourth centenary of Inigo Jones’s birth. The famous notebook kept by Jones during his Italian tour of 1613-1615 was exhibited, together with a selection of books from his library, including his copies of Palladio, Lomazzo, and Serlio; an essay is devoted to Jones’s annotations in his books. The drawings are rightly discussed in detail (nothing else survives of Jones’s stage works, and only seven of his forty-five recorded buildings still stand). ¶ Good copy. -
The King's Arcadia: Inigo Jones and the Stuart court (catalogue of an exhibition organised by the Arts Council of Great Britain, held at the Banqueting House, Whitehall, London, 12 July-2 September 1973)
London, Arts Council of Great Britain, 1973(23.5 cm), 232 pp., illustrations. Publisher’s pictorial wrappers. - Exhibition celebrating the fourth centenary of Inigo Jones’s birth. The famous notebook kept by Jones during his Italian tour of 1613-1615 was exhibited, together with a selection of books from his library, including his copies of Palladio, Lomazzo, and Serlio; an essay is devoted to Jones’s annotations in his books. The drawings are rightly discussed in detail (nothing else survives of Jones’s stage works, and only seven of his forty-five recorded buildings still stand). ¶ Good copy. -
The Early life of James McBey : an autobiography 1883-1911
Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1977(24 cm), ix, 131 pp., [8] leaves of plates. Publisher’s cloth, dust jacket. - First edition. Memoir of the first 28 years of the life of one of Scotland’s most successful and celebrated artists. ¶ Presentation inscription by the author, dated 1981. Fine copy. -
Francis Barlow: first master of English book illustration
London, Scolar Press, 1978(26 cm), 237 (1) pp., 107 black & white illustrations. Errata slip loosely inserted. Publisher’s cloth, dust jacket. - Account of the first native English book illustrator, concentrating on his principal works: Theophila (1652), a religious poem by Edward Benlowes, and three series of illustrations to Aesop: Aesop’s Fables (1666), Ogilby’s Aesopics and Androcleus (1668), and Life of Aesop (1687). About half the text is devoted to the work of contemporary book illustrators, in particular Marcus Gheeraerts, Francis Cleyn, and Wenceslaus Hollar. The book is rich in information of a bibliographical nature. ¶ Clean tear (1 cm) in dust jacket. Excellent copy. -
The Comely frontispiece : the emblematic title-page in England 1550-1660
London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1979(24 cm), viii, 248 pp., 20 plates. Publisher’s boards, dust jacket. - Commentaries on 20 woodcut or engraved title-pages from English books published between 1577 and 1651. Among these books are works of literature (Sidney’s Arcadia, Drayton’s Poly-Olbion, Jonson’s Works), travel books (Captain John Smith’s Generall Historie of Virginia and van Linschoten’s Discours of Voyages), translations (Chapman’s Homer and Sylvester’s DuBartas), and Bibles (the Bishops’ of 1602 and the King James), as well as John Dee’s General and Rare Memorials, Burton’s Anatomy of Melancholy, and Hobbes’ Leviathan. ¶ Excellent copy. -
Aesop in England : the transmission of motifs in seventeenth-century illustrations of Aesop's fables
Charlottesville, University Press of Virginia / Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia, 1979(23.5 cm), x, 163 (1) pp. 70 illustrations. Publisher’s green cloth (no dust jacket issued). - The author is mainly concerned with the illustrations created by Wenceslaus Hollar and Francis Barlow, and shows the influence of their work on Elisha Kirkall and Bewick, and on emblem makers. ¶ Fine copy. -
Sir Thomas Lawrence 1769-1830 (catalogue for an exhibition held at the National Portrait Gallery exhibition rooms, 15 Carlton House Terrace, 9 November 1979-16 March 1980)
London, National Portrait Gallery, 1979(25 cm), 116 pp., illustrations (most in colour). Publisher’s pictorial wrappers. ¶ As new. -
Painters and engraving : the reproductive print from Hogarth to Wilkie (catalogue of an exhibition held at the Yale Center for British Art and British Studies, Yale University, New Haven, 26 March-22 June 1980)
New Haven, Yale Center for British Art, 1980(27.5 cm), (4) iv, 73 pp., [4] p. of plates. 150 catalogue entries. Publisher’s printed wrappers. - Exhibition based on the holdings of reproductive prints in the Yale Center for British Art. Artists best represented are Hogarth, Reynolds, Wright of Derby, Benjamin West, Stubbs, and Wheatly. ¶ Very good, unmarked copy. -
Thomas Gainsborough (catalogue accompanying an exhibition held at The Tate Gallery, London, 8 October 1980-4 January 1981)
London, Tate Gallery, 1980(25 cm), 158 pp., 18 colour plates, 189 illustrations. Publisher’s pictorial wrappers. - Catalogue accompanying an exhibition of 100 paintings and fifty drawings; works from private and overseas collection account for more than three-quarters of the exhibits. The exhibition was seen afterwards at the Grand Palais in Paris - the first time that a British artists had been so honoured. ¶ Ownership inscription; otherwise as new. -
William Strang RA 1859-1921: Painter, etcher (catalogue of an exhibition held at the Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield, 6 December 1980-18 January 1981; and National Portrait Gallery, London, 1981)
Sheffield, City Art Galleries, 1980(25 cm), 86 pp., illustrations (some in colour). 95 catalogue entries. Publisher’s printed wrappers. - A re-evaluation of the work of William Strang. Biographical introduction, with discussions of his techniques in etching and painting, and his portraits; full catalogue entries. ¶ Very good, unmarked copy. -
American graphic arts : Three centuries of illustrated books, prints & drawings (catalogue of an exhibition)
Princeton, Princeton University Library, 1981(24 cm), xii, 56 pp., [24] p. of plates. Publisher’s printed wrappers. - Essays by Dale Roylance (Graphic arts in America, 1670-1900) and by Nancy Finlay (American printmaking in the twentieth century), with “A checklist of the exhibition” (176 catalogue entries) and “American graphic arts in the Princeton University Library: a cumulative index to the Princeton University chronicle, 1930-1980”. Published as Princeton University Library Chronicle, volume 42 (Winter 1981). One of 1000 copies bound for special distribution. ¶ Good, unmarked copy. -
A descriptive catalogue of the etched work of Wenceslaus Hollar 1607-1677
Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1982(26 cm), lxiv, 452 pp., 1 illustration. Publisher’s dark blue cloth, dust jacket. - 2,733 entries, together with the first comprehensive and accurate life of Hollar. First edition. ¶ Dust jacket rubbed, creased, and torn (1 cm); otherwise an excellent copy. -
Leonard Baskin : Sculpture and watercolours (accompanies an exhibition held in the Kennedy Galleries, New York, 1-23 April 1982)
New York, Kennedy Galleries, 1982(29.5 × 23 cm), [48] pp., illustrations (many in colour). 48 items. Publisher’s pictorial wrappers. - The catalogue preface “Leonard Baskin” by Gloria-Gilda Deák is reprinted from Profiles of American Artists (New York: Kennedy Galleries, 1981). Among the drawings (items 18-44) are five sheets used to illustrate Ted Hughes, Season Songs (New York: Viking Press, 1975). ¶ Very good, unmarked copy. -
David Roberts’ Egypt & The Holy Land (gallery exhibition catalogue)
London, Schuster Gallery, 1987(20 × 21 cm), 27 pp., illustrations. Publisher’s pictorial wrappers. -
A dictionary of Michelangelo’s watermarks (published on the occasion of the exhibition ‘Michelangelo draughtsman’ at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 9 October-11 December 1988)
Milan, Olivetti, 1988(30 cm), 49 (1) pp., 104 reproductions of watermarks. Publisher’s printed wrappers. - An examination of the majority of Michelangelo’s drawings (558 of 633 sheets), letters and ricordi, resulting in the identification of 360 watermarks, here organised in 36 categories and 104 types. ¶ Pencil mark on upper wrapper; otherwise a very good, clean copy.
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