One of the more impressive American trade catalogs of the nineteenth century. Most of the catalogs published by Mott between 1873 and 1905 are described in Romaine, who states that the company "issued many of the finest pictorial catalogs of ornamental ironwork." The variety of fountains, urns and other iron.....
A fine brassfounder’s trade catalogue illustrating over 600 objects on eighty-one plates (twelve folding), each numbered and (most) priced in manuscript, dating around 1811 as one leaf has a dated watermark (most likely from a Birmingham manufacturer)—this copy turned up in Spain, where it appears to have been kept for.....
A handsomely illustrated painting and art supply catalog including products such as China palettes, Tin boxes, Easels, Bronze powders, Putty knives, Vellum cloth, German drawing papers, Chinese Water Closet Paper, Sketch books, Camel’s Hair Mottlers, Badger Hair Blenders, and Red Sable Lettering Pencils. The numerous brushes offered include French Bristle.....
A appealing little trade catalog for upholstered ottomans and hassocks; includes slipper-box and diamond ottomans, a church hassock, and walnut blacking cases for shining shoes. CONDITION: Good with bumped, creased last page and back wrapper.
A unique and truly delightful Arts & Crafts illumination of an account of the pursuit and capture of wild horses in Nevada, calligraphed, illustrated, and bound by San Francisco artist Otis Oldfield. This seems to be the only example in book form of horse-breaker Charles “Pete” Barnum’s vivid, first-hand account.....
An important early study of Manet, illustrated with two original Manet etchings, “L'Odalisque Couchee” and “La Convelescente,” as well as three etchings by M. H. Guérard after Manet, and six gravures. Both Manet etchings are nice, strong impressions. Inscribed to etcher and poster artist Ernest Haskell on the ffep as.....
An unusually handsome, wide-margined copy of this marvelous collection of views of early eighteenth-century Vienna. The series begins with a beautifully designed allegorical plate consisting of a panoramic view of the city in the form of a relief panel on a monument surmounted by an eagle, with two figures.....
The illustrated catalog for the Harmon Foundation’s 1935 exhibition of works by three contemporary black artists, held at the Delphic Studios. In addition to featuring the works and biographies of artists Malvin Gray Johnson, Richmond Barthé, and Sargent Johnson, the catalog is both a retrospective of the Harmon Foundation’s efforts.....
A delightful volume of trial drawings, many of them satirical, for an illustrated alphabet featuring a variety of humorous and imaginative characters complimenting Johnston’s limericks. The volume begins with two calligraphic frontispieces, one consisting of the phrase “The Envelope” graced by an angelic figure holding a brush and canvas (apparently.....
An exceptionally handsome monograph on the work of British illustrator Walter Crane, and still the most authoritative work on the artist. Richly illustrated with chromolithographs, two tipped-in facsimile leaves from the Kelmscott Press edition of The Story of the Glittering Plain, and examples of Crane’s paintings, book illustrations, wallpaper designs.....
No. 930 of 1000 copies on vélin of an edition of 1025. Poster artist and etcher Ernest Haskell’s copy of Maindron’s second history of the poster, illustrated with seventy-two chromolithographic plates reproducing works by Jules Cheret, Toulouse-Lautrec, Mucha, Pal, Steinlen, and others. “Ernest Maindron was the great poster collector of.....
First edition, limited to 400 copies, this copy number 343. Inscribed by Marin on the half-title: “To Stanley Clifford write some more, John Marin.” A volume of letters written to Alfred Stieglitz between 1910 and 1930, reflecting the close relationship between the artist and the gallerist. Stieglitz was a crucial.....
A beautiful copy in original boards of the first printing of the first furniture finisher’s manual published in the United States, reprinted from the first British edition of the same year. Described on the title-page as a “New Edition, with considerable Additions,” this first American edition provides concise instructions on.....
One of 492 copies “printed upon Japan paper for private distribution” of this sumptuous volume produced by Tiffany himself. According to the preface, Tiffany compiled this volume at the urging of his children. Most copies were distributed for promotional purposes. Included are chapters on Tiffany’s paintings, stained glass, favrile glass.....
Winslow Homer’s copy of the first edition of Willis’s History of Portland, with his ownership inscription in pencil on the front paste-down in each volume, reading “ W. Homer Scarboro Me.” Homer lived at Prout’s Neck in Scarborough, just south of Portland,from 1883 to 1910. It was there that Homer.....