Formes Et Couleurs-Vingt Planches En Couleurs Contenant Soixante-Sept Motifs Decoratifs by Thomas, Auguste H

Other Criteria , 2007. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/No Jacket, As Issued . As new. Signed and inscribed with detailed butterfly drawing in ink by Damien Hirst on title page.

Boston, Massachusetts:: Eleonora Gomez Bas,, 2002.. One-of-a-Kind. 8" x 8.25" x 1.25"; containing 24 35mm black and white photo prints, mounted onto Strathmore Bristol cardstock. All photographs taken using Canon A1 and Canon Rebel SLR cameras, with Kodak T-MAX 400 film. Bound in cloth boards with titles printed on front cover. Laid in black glossy box with paper title label on cover. Elenora Gomez Bas: "I made this book at North Bennet Street School (Boston, MA) in 2002. My wish was to give a container to a select group of photos from a trip to 'Valle de la Pascua' (Estado Guárico, Venezuela), and from my hikes up 'El Avila' mountain (Caracas, Venezuela).  "My boyfriend and I went to 'Valle de la Pascua' (a 4 1/2 hour drive from Caracas) in 1999 to visit an altar built for the 'Anima de Pica'-Pica'; (Pica Pica Soul). Legend has it that a man by the name of José Zambrano was once found dead by a Pica-Pica plant (the… Read More

"Pulcinoelefante" is an Italian publishing house founded by Alberto Casiraghi (or Casiraghy).
The books are hand printed using movable types on the high-quality Hahnemühle paper produced in Germany. Annually "Pulcinoelefante" publishes hundreds of small plaquettes formed by a text (aphorism or short poem), accompanied by small engravings or original drawings made by artists. Each edition is published in a very small number of copies hors de commerce.
"[…] Piegata dal vento della vita, sub specie mutationis, l'opera di Alda Merini, in un flusso inarginato, si muove dalla narrativa alla poesia, dall'eros al mistico, dall'informe alla forma, dal terrestre al celeste, dal vissuto al sognato.
E' significativo notare il profondo legame di Alda Merini con le edizioni Pulcinoelefante di Alberto Casiraghy (edizioni veloci, stampate in giornata). Si attua una produzione sconfinata di Alda Merini, dove si riconferma un'intuizione consequenziale: una sorta di frase infinita nella temporalità, nella durata… Read More

(3) pages letterpress text, 6 lithographed plates. Publisher's wrappers with printed blue title shield to front cover. Uncut. Folio (480 x 320 mm). Slightly soiled. Engel. Bibl. Faustiana 1822 ; cf. Sammlung Kippenberg 1903 ("Verlag von Otto Humburg & Co." no date (obviously a remainder copy without the original wrappers; the Otto Humburg publishing house started its business around 1865) ; Rümann. 19. Jahrhundert 635. First edition. One of the rarest and at the same time most unusual suites to illustrate Goethe's Faust, and also one of the largest in size. Only a few copies with the original wrappers can be found; this is important because the suite was issued without a title page, so the title and imprint can only be found here. "(Er) wurde bekannt durch seine Illustrationen in Arabeskenform zu Goethes Faust und ebensolche zu Ossians Gedichten (Berlin, 1835)" (Thieme/Becker XVI, p 47). - "Carl Harnisch, born in Altenburg, Germany on January 1, 1800, worked as an artist and created designs for… Read More

London: Elliot Stock, 1898. A superb example of a vellucent binding. Cedric Chivers (1853 -1929) of Bath revived the technique of painting under vellum. Chivers would execute his paintings on paper which was covered with a translucent skin to form the binding, The covers were then lightly tooled with gold. It is rare to find such a finely preserved fine binding. Signed by Chivers. In 'Days and Hours in a Garden', 19th century Scotish artist and writier, Eleanor Vere Boyle (1825 -1916) takes us through the months of the year, the cherry blossoms, the rooks, the wild ivy etc. etc., reminiscent of a modest walled-garden 'Walden' by Thoreau. VIII MAY "There have been just one or two sweet days, when the white Cherry orchards shone softly against the sky of serenest blue; days when we did not but revel in the joyous present, forgetting quite that ever it could be that "rough winds do shake the darling buds of May" Octavo, vellucent binding, top edge gilt, frontispiece, small woodcut illustrations… Read More

Sorengo.: Galleria Henze., 1980. First edition. Hardcover. Fine. Folio. Seven colour lithographs by Francis Bott, loose, as issued in cloth folder. One of 8 copies reserved for artist and author, each plate signed and marked 'Épreuve d'Artiste'. Signed on the colophon by Bott and Muggiasca.The edition was printed as the following:50 examples numbered and signed by the artist. Signed by artist and author at rear.7 were numbered in roman numerals, with an original drawing.8 examples of ‘epreuves des artistes’ were reserved for artist and author.10 examples stamped.(The Henze numbers to this set are H1319-1325.)Size approximately 400 x 300mm

[New York: Purgatory Pie Press, 1990].. Aluminum and paper construction, contained in 16mm film canister (24 cm diameter), with printed labels on and inside the upper lid. Fine. Copy #35 of an edition planned to consist of 74 copies. Signed by Bartalos, and by Dikko Faust and Esther K. Smith, principals of the press. The construction contains four accordion-fold booklets, letterpress printed on handmade, Khadi jute paper. Each is bound between aluminum covers, which are die-cut into the profile shapes of a cat, duck, crocodile and man's head. They're attached with nuts and bolts to a circular, revolving disk, hinged to a die-cut figure, in an allusion to multi-headed conceptions of Hindu deities. The whole, when folded, is then inserted into the felt-lined film canister, calculated as an ode to Bollywood. "I was in India on this trip with my college roommate, and I was really struck by the industrialization and the modernization of India, juxtaposed with the traditional aspects of it ... It's such an… Read More

New York: The Limited Editions Club. New. 2003. Limited Edition. Hardcover. A unique publication for The Limited Editions Club, with this also being the first edition, written specifically for the members of LEC. Dean Mitchell provides 3 color etchings for the book. Wynton Marsalis brings a 3rd dimension, who composed a 30min interpretation of Angelou's as a celebration of Jazz. A CD of the composition, which includes Maya Angelou reading her poem is included in a special compartment of the case. The book was very well received by critics, Michael Kimmelman from the New York Times, dedicated almost the entire front page of the April 26th 2002 edition to Mitchell's art. Book comes in one volume 23 x 20 inches, with a CD by Wynton Marsalis and Maya Angelou. This copy being #249 of 400, signed by Angelou, Mitchell and Marsalis. Slipcase in NF condition, with a small mark on the front cover. Book as new. Laid in is the original Monthly Newsletter #592 and the LEC invoice for $4000.… Read More

Author's copy, presented to him by the publisher, with added drawingsSamuel Prout (1783-1852).
Sketches at Home and Abroad. Hints on the Acquirement of Freedom of Execution and Breadth of Effect in Landscape Painting. To which are added, Simple Instructions, on the proper uses and application of Colour.
London, Marco A. Nattali, printed by Hullmandel & Walton, London. 1844.
Very large 4° (38 x 28 cm). 16 pp, 48 ll. With a lithographed additional title (with chine collé lithographed vignette on India paper); 48 lithographed plates printed chine collé on India paper; lithographed plate list at end with chine collé lithographed vignette. Also with two additional original drawings tipped on front free endpaper: one by Samuel Prout in crayon of Weymouth in Dorset, England and one by his son Samuel Gillespie Prout in pencil and blue watercolour of Herstmonceaux Castle in Sussex.
Dark green half morocco with marbled sides, spine gilt in six compartments with raised bands and gilt title, gilt edges,… Read More

Oblong folio (32 x 23 cm), 9 molded thermoplastic sheets (4 sheets white and 5 transparent acetate) 8 sheets - front cover included - have been molded (thermoformed), while 13 of the 14 molded forms have been colored (in white, black and blue). In publishers paper slipcase.
- First edition. One of 200 copies. Published on the occasion of an exhibition held from March 21 – April 21, 1972 in the Galerie Jeanne Bucher. The names of the reproduced 'oliobulles' are: la premiere 66, la prebulle 67, la petite tribulle 68, la grande bubulle 72, les bubulles 69, les 12 seins de marianne 69, la noire tribulle 71, geobulle 70, monobulle 70, planibulle 70, mlf 71, bulobulle 71, la tribulle blue 71 and la fonibulle72.
Gérard Singer's growing curiosity for technological advances led him to abandon painting in the early 1960s in favor of sculpture. Convinced that art must be integrated into the life of men, he designs spaces to be lived in and experienced by the spectator, environments that refer to original… Read More