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 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.....
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.....
Edition limited to 225 copies numbered and signed by Katz. This copy is number 194, and is additionally inscribed to John and Mary Updike, Ipswich, Mass., 1972. With fifteen rubber stamp prints by Robert Creeley, Tom Wesselmann, Red Grooms & Kenneth Koch, Marisol, Robert Indiana, Josef Levi, Gerard Malanga, Allen.....
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.....
First edition. #553 of 1050 copies, signed by both Laughlin and Cohn. Born in Louisiana, photographer Clarence John Laughlin (1905–1985) is best known for his photographs of the American South and his beloved New Orleans French Quarter. After working as a photographer for Vogue (with then-editor Edward Steichen) and.....
An illustrated catalog for the Harmon Foundation’s 1933 exhibition of fine art by contemporary black artists. Featuring an illustration of the painting “Woman Holding a Jug” by James A. Porter on the front cover, this catalog was produced in connection with the 1933 Harmon Foundation exhibit that ran from 20.....
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.....
First edition. One of 800 copies. A landmark work illustrated with historically valuable and evocative photogravures after photographs taken by Sirén as well as plates reproducing architectural drawings made by Chinese artists under the author’s supervision. Born in Helsinki, Sirén held a Professorship at the University of Stockholm (1908–23).....
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.....
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.....