Search Results: Authors starting with V from Sims Reed Rare Books

London.: Printed by The Ballantyne Press ... [for] Hacon & Ricketts ... And [for] John Lane, 1903.. Original publisher's full vellum pierced for thongs, spine with gilt rules to form six compartments with title gilt at head.. 8vo. (237 x 151 mm).. Leaf with half-title and publication note verso, leaf with dedication 'Affectionately dedicated to C[harles]. H[azelwood]. S[hannon].' recto, verso and following recto with 'The Story' in red, verso with title and Moore's verse recto and verso with running title, side-notes and pagination in red throughout and illustrated with three full-page hors-texte woodcut plates by Ricketts, final leaf with colophon recto; in the present copy gathering 'b' is discoloured. [PROVENANCE: Bookplate of Laurence Hodson, printed at the Kelmscott Press, to front pastedown]. Laurence Hodson's copy on vellum of 'Danaë', the last book sold by Hacon & Ricketts.From the edition limited to 240 copies with this one of 10 printed on vellum.Thomas Sturge Moore (1870 - 1944), he… Read More

Paris.: H. Simonis Empis., 1896.. Original printed wrappers with design by Vallotton on front cover.. 16mo.. First edition illustrated with original designs by Felix Vallotton.

Paris: Gabriel de Gonet., (c.1852).. Original publisher's dark blue percaline with elaborate polychromatic decoration, front boards with gilt title and elaborate decorative border to surround central vignette ('Le Bolero' see vol. 2, page 87) with additional colour, butterfly vignette to rear covers, smooth spines with gilt titles and elaborate gilt tooling, yellow glazed endpapers, a.e.g.. 2 vols. Large 8vo. (270 x 190 mm).. Half-titles with printer's credit verso, engraved pictorial titles with additional colour by hand and printed titles to each vol. and text illustrated with 35 wood-engravings by Varin (including pictorial titles) each with additional colour by hand, final section 'Entomologie des Dames' with numerous monochrome text vignettes.. 'Les Papillons' in the publisher's polychromatic binding.Although not a work by Grandville, 'Les Papillons' with its anthropomorphic depictions is very much in a similar style. The series of texts by Nus and Meray are illustrated with fancifully… Read More

Tenerife.: Santa Cruz de Tenerife., (1935, Febrero).. Folded broadsheet. (495 x 340 mm).. Illustrated in monochrome. Issue no. 33 of Eduardo Westedahl's influential magazine of the avant-garde.The 'gaceta de arte' magazine ran to 38 issues, with 600 copies distributed monthly from Tenerife between 1932 - 1936. The gaceta was influenced by Central European avant-garde movements and associated periodicals such as La Revista de Occidente, but the strongest influence was perhaps the rationalism associated with the Bauhaus movement in Germany, whose mark can clearly be seen in the header typeface based on the designs of Franz Roh, and in the layout of the magazine as a whole.Spanish painter and writer Eduardo Westerdahl had visited Central Europe the year prior to the magazine's conception, and his February 1932 editorial manifesto 'Position' cites Stuttgart, Dessau, Paris, Frankfurt, Prague, Dusseldorf, Berlin and Moscow as cities which influenced the culture of his home island of Tenerife.… Read More

Paris.: J. Hetzel et Paulin, Editeurs., 1842.. Original publisher's maroon morocco, boards ruled in blind with matching gilt vignettes to front and rear boards and spines, titles gilt to spines, cream moiré endpapers, two original part wrappers retained, a.e.g.. 2 vols. Large 8vo. (270 x 194 mm).. Each vol. with half-title, title and frontispiece and a total of 199 hors-texte monochrome plates as well as numerous monochrome vignettes, all engraved by Brevière after Grandville. The first edition of Grandville's anthropomorphic masterpiece in the deluxe publisher's binding.This exceptional copy, bound in full maroon morocco, features all of the plates in the first issue (as per Carteret) and the first issue of the binding incorporating the special tools after Grandville's designs but without the additional decorative tools to the corners of the central panels of the front boards. The legend 'Badigeonographie générale des murailles de la France et de l'étranger' to the frontispiece, later… Read More

Moscow.: Ogiz-Izogiz., 1931.. Original publisher's cream stapled wrappers as issued, titles to front cover in black and photomontage illustration by Sergei Senkin in brown and black over front and rear covers.. Large 8vo. (260 x 184 mm).. Leaf with title recto and credits verso, leaf with introductory text recto and verso and 14 leaves with text and numerous monochrome illustrations (see below), one in red and black, occasional lines of text in red, final leaf verso with contents. An excellent copy of this very scarce analysis of capitalist exploitation with extensive satirical illustration.From the edition limited to 5,000 copies.The striking photomontage cover by Sergei Senkin depicts toiling exploited labourers of every kind, while the illustration throughout - accompanied by analytical anti-capitalist commentary - is drawn from the work of George Grosz, Théophile-Alexandre Steinlen, Otto Dix, Käthe Kollwitz, Frans Masereel, John Heartfield and others. While the illustration is largely… Read More

Florence.: Giunta., 1568.. Full seventeenth-century Italian red morocco, boards with gilt-tooled borders and gilt rules to surround central armorial vignettes, banded spine with title and decoration in gilt, turn-ins with gilt tooled borders, a.e.g.. 3 parts in 3 vols. 4to.. Woodcut pictorial title with architectural border to each vol. (the first showing the waking of the souls of dead artists, the remainder with the Medici arms), portrait of Vasari and 144 woodcut portraits after designs by Vasari or his pupils, each with title and within six differing borders of female figures representing the arts (woodcut portrait of Giulio Genga in vol. III with cancel slip correcting title), historiated or decorated woodcut initials and head- and tail-pieces throughout. [PROVENANCE: Bookplates of Adélaïde Suzanne de Laborde (1753 - 1832) to front pastedown of each vol. with the text 'Bibliothèque de Madame de la Borde'; Jean Gardiner Kinnear (1794 - 1865) with his arms to front and rear boards of each vol.… Read More

Paris.: (Vassal et Essling), chez l'Editeur., 1827.. Contemporary red calf-backed marbled boards, title gilt with elaborate gilt tooling to spine.. Folio. (405 x 292 mm).. Half-title, title, list of plates with descriptive text (pp. 24) and 115 hand coloured engraved plates by Gatine and Schencker after designs by Carle Vernet, Bosio, Lante, Dutailly and others. A fine copy with full margins, with a sheet size measuring 392 x 275 mm (the copy cited by Carteret measures only 360 x 265 mm). One of the scarcest fashion and caricature suites with superb coloured plates.As well as caricaturing the excesses of contemporary fashion and society, the finely executed plates depict various public entertainers including the rope-dancing troupes of Forioso and Ravel, a magic lantern, two performing dog acts, two of Indian jugglers, two of acrobats, and four different aerial runways.'Cet admirable recueil, un des plus beaux de son époque, est d'une grande rareté à toutes marges. On le rencontre souvent… Read More

Paris., (c.1815).. Later burgundy crushed morocco-backed marbled boards, banded spine in six compartments with urn tools and titles gilt, marbled endpapers.. Folio. (428 x 290 mm).. The suite of 33 hand coloured engraved plates by Gatine after Horace Vernet and Lante, numbered 1 - 33 at upper right, with title above and description beneath, each with large margins, this copy with an additional variant of plate no. 22, titled 'Chapeau de paille. Robe à deux étages de remplis'; sheet size: c.420 x 278 mm. The rare complete suite of hand-coloured engravings of dandies ('Incroyables') and their female counterparts ('Merveilleuses').'George-Jacques Gatine was the leading costume engraver of his time. For many years he supplied plates for the 'Journal des Dames'. He engraved the 115 designs which make up 'Le bon genre' of 1817... He also made hundreds of plates of regional and Parisian dress. None of these remotely approaches Incroyables et Merveilleuses in excellence, for he never again had anyone… Read More

Paris., 1894–1896.. Housed in modern half-morocco drop-back box, button ties.. Large folio.. With 27 sheets of original designs, each mounted on card, and each individually presented in passepartout. Verneuil's original designs for an unpublished book depicting the life of the Virgin Mary.This collection consists of 1 sheet of fully coloured watercolour (four coloured page border designs), 7 full-page pen-and-ink designs (each with minor areas of white gouache and coloured pencil), 1 sheet with pen-and-ink design (two-page border designs), and 18 sheets of ink drawings (four page border designs).Two of the drawings are signed by Verneuil, and the majority of the border designs carry the artist's monogram. The designs are dated from between 1894 and 1896.Maurice Pillard-Verneuil (1869-1942) began architectural studies in Paris but a strong interest in art led him to an apprenticeship at L'Ecole Guerin under Eugène Grasset, the master of the emerging Art Nouveau style of the late 19th… Read More

Paris.: M.-P. Tremois., 1929.. Loose as issued in original publisher's glossy blue paper wrappers with printed titles and vignette in gilt to covers and portfolio.. 2 vols. Folio. (450 x 325 mm).. Leaf with copy number verso, half-title, original colour etching by Vertès as frontispiece and title with vignette by Vertès, Gomez de la Serna's text illustrated with 4 further original colour etchings by Marcel Vertès and with 35 lithograph vignette illustrations in the text, final leaf with justification; text leaves all with double rules in blue. Vertes' 'Le Cirque' with additional suites. From the edition limited to 103 copies, with this one of 4 examples reserved for the Librairie Flammarion (D). This copy includes the following sets of the prints:1. 5 prints in colour, as published.2. Suite of 5 prints in colour printed on Japon, with each print signed in pencil.3. Suite of 5 prints printed in black, with remarques, printed on vélin de Hollande.4. Suite of 5 prints printed in black… Read More

Prague.: Aventinum., 1922.. Original wrappers.. 8vo. (214 x 134 mm).. Translation by Josef Hrdinov. Cover design by Josef Capek.Half-title page signed by the author.

Cologne.: Galerie Reckermann., 1989.. 8vo. Card (210 x 149 mm).. Invitation to the opening of the exhibition La Peinture dans la Non-Peinture Jacques Mahé de La Villeglé Décollagen von und mit Künstlerplakaten at Galerie Reckermann on the 7th and 8th of April 1989. The exhibition ran from the 7th to the 29th of April 1989.

N.p.: (Tolmer), (1936).. Publisher's wrappers with pochoir illustration.. 4to.. 4 pochoir colourd plates by Bernard Villemot. Part 1 (all published). Produced by Villemot on the occasion of the Berlin 1936 Olympics. With plates of Tennis, Atheletics, Sailing, etc.

Paris.: Georges Ondet, Editeur., 1899.. Contemporary morocco-backed marbled boards and endpapers, spine ruled in gilt with gilt title, original publisher's wrapper with colour lithograph to front cover by Vincent preserved.. Small folio. (298 x 204 mm).. Half-title with 'Collection Botrel' verso, leaf with reproduction photographic portrait of Botrel verso as frontispiece, printed title with publisher's vignette, two leaves with preface by Georges d'Esparbès and fifteen songs with printed music by Botrel, each with title and illustrated with a colour lithograph by Vincent ('Le Dernier Madrigal' and 'La Cloche d'Ys' with titles bound after the lithographs), final vignette and final leaf with 'Table' recto and advertisement for publications by Ondet verso. Théodore Botrel's 'Chansons de la Fleur de Lys' illustrated with colour lithographs by Hervé Vincent.The fifteen songs, each with the musical accompaniment, are the following: 'La Chasse aux Loups', 'Fleur de Reine', 'Jean Cottereau', 'Le… Read More

Hilversum.: Steendrukkerj de Jong & Co., 1968.. Original black paper wrappers and white card slipcase with title 'Carel Visser Olanda' excised from upper cover.. Tall 8vo. (298 x 100 mm).. Leaf with title, leaf with biographical details, leaf with Visser's introduction, 25 leaves with monochrome reproductions of drawings of works by Visser each with title recto only, three leaves with list of works, leaf with layout of Visser's exhibition and printer's credit and publisher's details verso; Visser's metal multiple is inserted loosely. Carel Visser's catalogue / multiple 'Olanda' for the XXXIV Biennale 1968. The catalogue for Visser's Biennale presentation in the original card slipcase together with Visser's multiple with the stamped titles: 'CAREL VISSER OLANDA - XXXIV BIENNALE - VENEZIA 1956'; it appears likely that Visser's multiple was not limited.A leading exponent of Dutch Abstract-Minimalist Constructivism in sculpture, Visser was awarded the David E. Bright sculpture prize at the Biennale… Read More

(Brussels?).: Edition de la 'Libre Esthétique'., 1903, 3 mars.. Original publisher's grey wrappers with Yapp edges, stitched as issued, titles and vignette in black to front cover.. 12mo. (188 x 138 mm).. Leaf with justification verso, title with vignette and 'Du Même Auteur' verso, leaf with explanatory text and the text of de Voisins lecture; with the terminal blank. An excellent, unsophisticated copy of Comte Auguste Gilbert de Voisins lecture at the Salon de la Libre Esthétique on Henri de Regnier.From the edition limited to 100 numbered copies on Hollande Van Gelder printed 'pour les Membres Protecteurs de la Libre Esthétique'.'Je voudrais vous entretenir de certaines façons qu'il y a de transcrire un paysage en poésie ... je les prendrai, pour la plupart, dans lew dernier livre de vers d'un poète que vous aimez tous et qui, mieux que nul autre, a su dire la singularité et pénétrante poésie des grands parcs disposés en vue d'un noble effet, des allées que ferme un horizon… Read More

Amsterdam.: Editions Duwaer., 1949.. Loose as issued in original wrappers. Ex libris on front flyleaf.. Small folio.. Unpaginated text with 25 tipped-in plates, some in colour, several folding. An unnumbered copy, from the limited edition of 300.Letterpress typography by the artist. Texts by Friedrich Vordemberge-Gildewart (including his significant “abstraktkonkret-absolut”), Ozenfant, Vantongerloo, Van Doesburg and others, in German, French and English. A superbly designed volume, published in memory of Frans Duwaer.[Ref. “Typographie kann unter Umständen Kunst sein”: Vordemberge-Gildewart Typographie und Werbegestaltung (Landesmuseum Wiesbaden, 1990), no. T444].

(Düsseldorf.)., 1974.. Original publisher's taped boards with manuscript title 'TREIBSATZ' in ink to front board.. 8vo. (212 x 152 mm).. Watercolour illustrations with integrated text in ink on uncut doubled pages recto and verso throughout. Jan Voss' unique artist book / multiple: 'Treibsatz.'From the edition limited to 15 copies, each signed and numbered by the artist in pencil to the inner rear board.Although 'Treibsatz' was issued by Voss as an edition, each copy is drawn and written by hand and is therefore unique.The text in its entirety reads 'Wenn die Flut kommt, strandet mit ihren Wellen allerlei Zeug, und es ist ein Vergnügen, sich aufzumachen, und dem Samen zu folgen, und die Gegenstände aufzulesen, und sie für ein paar Gezeiten mit sich zu tragen, bevor der Sog der Ebbe sie zurückzieht ins Meer.'

(Düsseldorf.)., (1969).. Original card boards with white paper label with manuscript title in black ink to front cover, white paper label with with signature and date to rear inner cover, boards with shrink wrap covering (as issued?).. Square 4to. (242 x 222 mm).. Leaves of folded wove paper each with drawing in black ink and / or collage elements throughout (see below). The unique artist book / maquette of scatological drawings and collage by Jan Voss.The pages depict an individual, from the drawings clearly a male, who approaches and sits on a toilet and appears to excrete a black bird. The bird then takes flight and, in a serious of collages of colour paper pasted direct to the doubled sheets of wove paper with clear tape, extrudes its own excretions over water before flying off.Voss later used these images as the basis for a section of his 1971 artist book, 'Piss Buch: 4 Gedichten von Young [sic] Voss'. The final section, as here, is titled 'Das Kanalisationsproblemlösungsbuch'. Jan Voss… Read More