Malcolm Poynter (Artist Book) by Powers, Robert P. (Editor) - 1982

London: The Fine Art Society LTD. Very Good. 1912. Hardcover. Clean brown cloth, a vellum spine with title label. Text tight, clean & intact. Heavy stock pages. Top edge gilt somewhat worn, deckle page edges. Portrait frontispiece. Illustrated with tissue protected etchings. Published in 1908 in a limited edition of 150 copies. The present catalogue presents an illustrated record of the artist's etched works and is detailed to be useful to the collector. Contents: Introductory Note; Catalogue of Etchings; List of Public Galleries & Museums; List of Plates with Corresponding Numbers; Bibliography and Index. Vellum spine is slightly age toned. Art Catalogue; Etched Works; Folio 13" - 23" tall; 139 pages .

London: printed for R. Blamire, in the Strand, 1792. Early Reprint. Quarter-Morocco. Near Fine. Fourth Edition (so stated) of the first standard guide on print collecting in England, including detailed commentary on Hogarth's Rake's Progress. 8vo: xiii,[3],174,xi,[1]pp. Contemporary quarter black morocco over marbled boards, flat spine in six compartments between gilt rules, gilt urn stamped in each but second titled in gilt. An excellent copy, tightly bound and generally clean and bright with only the occasional minor smudge and handling mark and a few stray spots of foxing. Barbier, pp. 24-27. Lowndes II 895. . First published anonymously in 1768 (Gilpin's authorship was only revealed with the third edition, in 1781). On the continent its influence spread through German, French and Dutch translations. Gilpin's "aim, as the title-page indicates, was to outline ‘the Principles of picturesque Beauty, the Different Kinds of Prints, and the Characters of the most noted Masters'. . . . The Essay… Read More

Editions D'Art De Francony. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1971. First. Hardcover. Limited #1510/5000. Includes three original lithos, tissue-guard overlays. Third original litho laid-in by publisher to front of book, sandwiched between errata page and extra title page. Publisher original printed wraparound band attached. Text in French, English, German. Dust jackets clean and intact. .

Avoca, Nebraska:: Blue Heron Press,, 2013.. Edition of 30. 11” x 5” closed, 11” x 35” open. Woodcut and letterpress on Japanese Nishinouch. Digital print on Asuka. Irregular accordion folding, into folio of covered boards with etching and mixed media decorative paper. Karen Kunc: "The cantilevered folds of a looming structure have subtle visual cues that seep and inundate behind and within. This edifice is made vulnerable by the hype and chatter of rumor and echoes; it is permeated by the consuming, swirling network of insistencies - the distractions of the media world we have created - that penetrates our every hour...fascinating, fanciful, insidious, precarious.

Toronto: Cerebus / Prentice-Hall, 1980. 285 pp, 13 1/2" H x 19" D. First Edition. Maroon cloth with blind-stamped 'CASSON' on fore edge of front board and gilt lettering on spine. "A.J. Casson is one of the most beloved of all Canadian artists. His works are sought after probably more than those of any other living native painter. As a member of the Group of Seven and in the many years since its dissolution, he has created a brilliant series of canvases celebrating our landscape in all its many moods and seasons. His works are treasured in every national public gallery collection, and in hundred of private collections. It is to bring together a magnificent cross-section from these collections that this volume has been designed. It includes representative major canvases, oil sketches and watercolours. The artist himself, has overseen the quality of every plate in this publication. International orders will require additional postage costs.

Amsterdam: Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, 1984.. Oblong small quarto (22 x 25 cm). Stiff wrappers printed with an original color linocut. Two folding plates. Trace of rubbing to the joints, uniform slight toning to the paper stock, otherwise a nice copy, near fine. First edition. Introduction by Dieter Schwarz. One of 40 numbered copies, signed by the artist, so denoted in the margin of the terminal folding linocut. Comprised of approximately 100 original linocuts in various colors, collectively bound. There is some variation in the trim size of the sheets. OCLC locates three copies, only two of them in North America: MOMA and Cornell. OCLC: 63239909.

NY: Reynal & Company, 1970. First edition. Hard cover in original cloth and dust jacket. Published NY: Reynal & Company, 1970. Folio, 11" x 14 3/4", 701pp. plus 2pp. errata/addenda, 2000 black and white and 56 color illustrations. Light gray cloth with gilt tiles, dark blue endpapers. Catalogue raisonné with bibliography and index, originally published in 1928, revised and updated. Near Fine. For International orders additional shipping charges.

As New. Montolivet: CERA, 1998. 371 pages. Hardback 30.6x25cms. ISBN: 2951039506. Introductory essays, notes and bibliography in French and English. Catalogue raisonné.

First London edition, printed in England. Not stated first printing but no other printings are listed. Front cover Gilding still clear on Rackham's depiction of Undine with fish swimming about her. Also clear gild design on spine. Overall, book is in very good to excellent condition except for the following: a tera - about 1/8" along the top of the spine, chipping and shelf wear along cover edges and corners, and edges of pine (see photos). Pages are in excellent condition - no rears or marks. all 15 Rackham plates are in pristine condition.

Book will be priority mailed to any U. S. address.

First edition; presumed first printing. From the next to the bottom line of the title page, "Engraved by Thomas Piroli, From the Drawings in Pofsefssion [sic] of Thomas Hope, Esq. 1793" The last line lists the publisher/ printer and the date of printing as May 1, 1807. Pages are not numbered. We counted approximately 115 pages containing individual engravings. There is noticeable foxing on the first three pages and last four pages (including first and last fly leaf pages).. Remaining pages are clear or with light faxing. However the images on all these pages seem predominately clear of foxing. Pages are clear, without tears or marks. Plates are in very good condition over all. Both covers have been separated from the binding/ also first three pages and last four, each section bound together, have separated from the binding (separated as two separated sections). Cover over the spine has largely worn away, although binding is tight (excepting the two sections that are loose). Pencil… Read More