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London: Frederick Muller Limited, 1976. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. black cloth. Fine in fine dust wrapper. 192 pages. 25 x 18.5 cm. The Ars Typographica Library. Mason worked with Count Kessler, Gordon Craig, Eric Gill etal.

Paris: H. Floury, 1912. First edition. Hardcover. Navy cloth, red leather spine labels printed in gilt. Fine. 2 vols. Forain, Jean-Louis. 16 pages in text. 27 x 23 cm. The frontispiece an original etching by Forain, plus 130 plates printed recto only, each with descriptive text and tissue guards. Limited edition, copy 58 of 300. Alphabetical Index of the Plates. FREITAG 3018. GORDON N. RAY p.437 [THE ART OF THE FRENCH ILLUSTRATED BOOK 1700 TO 1914] notes, "Though Forain was primarily a painter, he devoted much of his career to the graphic arts. A superb etcher and lithographer, he also contributed drawings over twenty-five years to a wide range of journals......give him a prominent place among the artists who recorded the life of the metropolis." A clean, very fresh copy both plates and text; original wrappers bound-in.

Paris: Goupil, 1905. First edition. leather_bound. Orig. dark green morocco. Aeg. Fine. Nattier, J.-M. 103 pages. 33 x 24.5 cm. Limited edition, copy 25 of 75 on Japan imperial paper, approx. 90 plates in three states, the two supplementary sets of plates are engraved "sur papier Whatman," all are tinted, all with lettered tissue guards. Nattier's graceful and charming portraits of court ladies in this mode were very fashionable, partly because he could beautify a sitter while also retaining her likeness. Many of his pictures are in the public collections of France. BRYAN Vol. IV, p. 7. " He distinguished himself as a portrait painter, in which capacity he was much employed." The author, a noted French art historian noted for his substantial body of work on Renaissance humanism. Elegantly bound, raised bands, panels richly gilt, cover gilt border in elaborate gilt frame of fleurons, curls and fleur-de-lis motifs, inner dentelles, marbled endpapers.

Totowa: Rowman and Littlefield, 1975. First American edition. Hardcover. Orig. brown cloth. Near fine in good dust wrapper.. 214 pages. 21 x 13 cm. Comprises some 2500 items.

London: Wm. S. Orr And Co, 1844. First edition. Stiff Wraps. Rebacked, bound in original cream pictorial stiff wrappers, the design by Crowquill. Aeg. Very good. Leetch, John. 59 pages. 17 x 13 cm. Frontispiece, also repeated on back cover, and 11 tinted wood engraved. Adverts at rear dated 1844. FIELD (Leetch On My Shelves). 93. Rubbing to extremities, overall a firm, bright copy.

Montreal: Musee d'art contemporain, 1979. First edition. Original Wraps. Orig. illustrated wrappers. Fine. Pollock, Jackson. 115 pages. Six illustrations. Preface by Louisa Letocha. Four essays which represent perspectives on Jackson Pollock. Text in French and English.

New York: C&M Arts, 1993. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. gray cloth lettered in black. Fine. Pollock,Jackson. Six leaves. Commentary by Carter Ratcliff. Color plates printed recto only with media. Works in the Exhibition.

London: Saunders & Otley, 1837. Illustrated Edition. leather_bound. Later 19th century uniform polished tan calf. Aeg. Near fine. 3 vols. R.W. Buss. 304, 304, 308 pages. 19 x 13 cm. Another in the series of maritime fiction enormously popular in its day, amongst the first sea novels, by a distinguished naval hero based on his real life experiences. This hand-colored edition followed the uncolored first edition of 1834. SADLEIR 1578c." Etched frontispiece, and 3 plates [hand-colored] by R.W. Buss in each vol......Otley put out an advertisement that any owner of the uncolored copy who so desired would in due course receive a set of coloured plates in exchange for his plain ones." Fresh, bright triple decker set. Raised bands, spine panels richly gilt, inner dentelles, red and green morocco spine labels, slight nicks backstrip heads.

Washington DC: The Rappahannock Press, 1993. First edition. Stiff Wraps. Orig. illustrated stiff wrappers. Fine. Lawrence, Jacob. 169 (3) pages. 28 x 25.5 cm. Essays by experts. Host of color plates. Exhibition Checklist. Selected Bibliography. Index.

New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1923. First American edition. Hardcover. Orig. mustard yellow cloth with printed paper spine label. Very good. 303 pages. 19 1/2 x 14 cm. One of 1500 copies. KIRKPATRICK A66. Faint owner inscription, interior contents bright and clean, slight rubbing to backstrip head and foot.

New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 1973. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. black cloth, backstrip very slightly rubbed. Near fine. Quercia, Jacopo della. 146 pages in text. 134 black and white plates, 116 illustrations hors texte. Yale University Publications in Art 23. Critical Bibliography. Index. The first book in English about this major artist who ranks with Ghiberti and Donatello as a leading sculpture of the early Italian Renaissance. FREITAG 19127.

Boston: Institute of Contemporary Art, 1950. First edition. Stiff Wraps. Orig. illustrated grey stiff wrappers. Fine. 46 pages. 24.5 x 18.5 cm. Critical essays by George Heard Hamilton, Thomas B. Hess and Frederick S. Wright. Illustrated in black and white.

Paris. Stiff Wraps. Orig. illustrated stiff wraps. Fine. Ensor, James. 22 text pages. 19 x 14 cm. Limited edition, copy 41 of 50 on Japan Imperial paper. Unopened. Host of black and white plates printed recto only. Biography of Ensor. The essay in French by Firman Cuypers, Belgian journalist. Ensor was a Belgian painter and printmaker, an important influence on expressionism and surrealism. Bright, very fresh copy in the original clear glassine wrapper.

London: John Lane, 1927. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. orange cloth. Very good in worn dust wrapper. Steen, Jan. 82 pages. 32 x 24 cm. Forty full-page plates with tissue guards. Translated by G.J. Renier. FREITAG 9126. Fresh, very bright copy: plates and text, corners slightly bumped, bookplate.

Chicago: Museum of Contemporary Art, 1986. First edition. Paperback. Orig. illustrated stiff wrappers. Near fine. 208 pages. 30 x 23 cm. Copiously illustrated in color and black and white. Bibliography.

New York: Japan Society, 1913. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. thick boards and cloth. Very good. 52 pages. 32 x 26 cm, twenty-four plates, all but two are in full-color -- latter are lithographs on mounted vellum stock. An early appreciation and retrospective of the master artists of the Ukiyoe school --Harunobu, Kiyomitsu, Toyonobu, Masanobu, et al .Gookin notes, "They represent a plebeian art which was not a spontaneous upgrowth from the soil, but, so to speak, a down-growth or offshoot from an old and highly developed art of aristocratic lineage. Notable lenders to the exhibit were Samuel Isham, The Estate of Francis Lathrop and Howard Mansfield; indeed,they were the major American collectors at that time. Limited edition, copy 209 of 1000 printed by DeVinne. Clean and very fresh internally, slight bump front cover corners.

NY: Thomas Yoseloff, 1962. 1st American edition. Hardcover. Orig. red cloth. Near fine in very good dust wrapper. 296 pp. With 239 black and white illustrations and eight color plates. Notes on Dating. Bibliography. Index. This account, based on western and Japanese literature, summarizes the latest research on the entire field of Japanese decorative art. Translated by Katherine Watson.

New York: Horizon, 1967. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. white cloth, red square inset front cover. Very good. 144 pages. Thirty-two color plates, the last is an extended gate-fold. Wright, not shy with hyperbole, waxes rapturous when describing his own experience with the Japanese print: "The print is more autobiographical than you can imagine. If Japanese prints were to be deducted from my education I don't know what direction the whole may have taken." Spine slightly darkened.

Np: Np, Nd. Stiff Wraps. Orig. contemporary decorated paper covers, string-tied, paper cover label chipped. Very good. 12 leaves. 17.5 x 12 cm. All plates french-leaved 2 plates in color, balance black and white. These picture books, very popular during the late Edo-Meiji era were a significant aspect of the Japanese publishing industry during the 19th century with a host of Japanese woodblock print artists contributing their efforts. Images by Utagawa Kunisada, mostly portraiture of men and women from the waist up: he was the most popular, prolific and commercially successful designer of ukiyo-e woodblock prints in 19th-century Japan.

Np: Np, Nd. Stiff Wraps. Orig. contemporary decorated paper covers, string-tied with paper cover label. Very good. 18 leaves. 17.5 x 12 cm. All plates french-leaved in color. These picture books, very popular during the late Edo-Meiji era were a significant aspect of the Japanese publishing industry during the 19th century with a host of Japanese woodblock print artists contributing their efforts. This Ehon presents a series of samurai engagements with arrows flying and spears thrusting in a myriad of battle scenes.