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Madison, Wisconsin: Screen Art Company, 1948. First edition of this vibrant portfolio celebrating Wisconsin decorative traditions, "designs from handicraft articles either brought to Wisconsin or made here by the early settlers, or by members of the three largest native Indian tribes." Included are examples of Chippewa beading, Norwegian baskets, Polish Easter eggs, Winnebago blankets, German embroidery, and everyday objects like boot jacks and butter molds created by nineteenth-century Wisconsin residents. A near-fine example. Fifteen loose color serigraph plates on heavy stock, accompanied by a four-page illustrated introduction, measuring 13.75 x 10.75. All housed in original color pictorial portfolio with blue cloth spine. Light shelfwear to portfolio, faint foxing to introduction, plates lightly toned.

England, 1900. Original watercolor by British artist Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale (1872-1945), first exhibited in her career-making 1901 solo exhibition: "Rarely, if ever has a woman painter made a great reputation as quickly and as thoroughly as Miss Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale, whose series of watercolour drawings has, during last month, drawn the whole of artistic London to the Dowdeswell Galleries" (The Artist, June 1901). The young Fortescue-Brickdale was inspired by the Pre-Raphaelite movement of Edward Burne-Jones, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and John Everett Millais. She studied with John Ruskin as a teenager, and befriended John Byam Shaw, a protégé of Millais, at the Royal Academy, later teaching at Shaw's school of art. An outlier in a male-dominated field, she built a successful career as a fine art painter and book illustrator, becoming the first female member of the Institute of Painters in Oils, and working in sculpture and stained glass as well. Throughout her life, she was drawn to… Read More

(London): Macmillan, 1967. First edition of this early children's title by Newbery winner Paula Fox, the story of an anxious (and anxiously watched) young boy: "Everyone wanted to help Lewis. That's why he was thinking of running away." Lewis's life improves markedly when his parents leave town, and a free-spirited sitter allows him to roam after school. Publishers today would likely shy away from a story that encourages children to explore caves with men they befriend in the park, but in Fox's telling, Lewis's adventures have a dreamlike, almost magical quality. Edward Ardizzone's drawings perfectly capture the boy's experience of oppression and liberation. A near-fine copy. Single volume, measuring 8.5 x 5.5 inches: [6], 57, [1]. Original black cloth lettered in silver, original clipped orange pictorial dust jacket printed in black and white. Black and white illustrations throughout text. Lightest edgewear and sunning, small tape repair to jacket verso, ghost of bookseller label to front flap.