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| This selection contains 6 title(s) on 1 page. This is page 1 with nrs. 1 to 6 |
 | ALKEN, HENRY THOMAS. Epsom National Derby Day: Open to All Nations. 1851. [London]: Ackermann & Co., [1851]. 1 sheet. 12 x 240 cm. folded to 12 x 30 cm. Brown cloth with large hand-colored label (hardback). First edition. Fair only. Boards rubbed with small scuff at lower fore corner, panels a bit soiled with some edge tears, most panels with paper loss (but not cloth backing) as follows: small chip to lower edge of panel 1, scuffing and some loss of paper to top edge of panel 3, 1/2 x1 1/2 inch loss to top edge of panel 5, loss of 1 inch along top edge of panel 6 with larger chip, loss of last half of panel 8, cloth backing stained, still some nice, bright, hand-colored caricatures with a grand if somewhat damaged sweep. Â ¶ Panoramic view on 4 double leaves joined and folded Japanese fashion and colored by hand and done as a parody of Alken's own 'The race and the road.' W. S. Sparrow suggest this could be by either Henry Thomas Alken, or his son, Henry Gordon Alken, as it is signed only H. Alken. Scarce. None in OCLC while RLIN shows 3 copies only at Harvard, Yale, and Huntington. Not in the BL. USD 250.00 [Appr.: EURO 166 | £UK 151 | JP¥ 21499] Book number: 27381 Click here to order or inquire at Kaaterskill Books. | |
| NATIONAL GALLERY. National Gallery: Illustrated General Catalogue. London: National Gallery, 1973. [i], 842 pp. 8vo. Cloth (hardback). First edition. Illus. with 2000+ b/w photos. About fine, boards with some scuffing, plates bright and crisp. Â ¶ The complete record of all of the holdings in the National Gallery, London. Alphabetically by artists. USD 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 16.75 | £UK 15.25 | JP¥ 2150] Book number: 26093 Click here to order or inquire at Kaaterskill Books. | ||
| GAUNT, WILLIAM. A Concise History of English Painting. London: Thames and Hudson, (1978). 288 pp. 8vo. Stiff paper wrappers. Reprint. Illus. with 181 b/w and 41 color reproductions. A very good copy. USD 8.00 [Appr.: EURO 5.5 | £UK 5 | JP¥ 688] Book number: 26975 Click here to order or inquire at Kaaterskill Books. | ||
| JERROLD, BLANCHARD. The Life of George Cruikshank. In Two Epochs [Two Volumes]. London: Chatto And Windus, 1882. xvi, 284 pp.; viii, 280 pp. + Adv [32 pp]. 8vo. Original brown cloth with illustrations in gilt and black (hardback). First edition. Illus. with 84 b/w drawings. Spine ends worn with a few tiny chips and tears, bookplate and bookseller tickets removed from front pastedowns; endpapers with occasional splits, bindings tight, leaves fresh, A solid set and about very good. Â ¶ George Cruikshank (1792-1878) was an English artist, caricaturist, and illustrator, best know for his work on Dickens, though he is rumored to have created over 12000 illustrations during his life. USD 100.00 [Appr.: EURO 66.5 | £UK 60.5 | JP¥ 8599] Book number: 26288 Click here to order or inquire at Kaaterskill Books. | ||
| ROWLANDSON, THOMAS; HEINTZELMAN, ARTHUR W., COMMENTARY. The Watercolor Drawings of Thomas Rowlandson from the Albert H. Wiggin Collection in the Boston Public Library. New York: Watson-Guptill, 1947. 127 pp. 4to. Cloth (hardback). First edition. Illus. with 52 color & b/w plates. A very good+ copy in a good+ chipped dust jacket. USD 18.00 [Appr.: EURO 12 | £UK 11 | JP¥ 1548] Book number: 28146 Click here to order or inquire at Kaaterskill Books. | ||
| WATERHOUSE, ELLIS. Painting in Britain 1530 to 1790. [Pelican History of Art]. Harmondsworth: Penguin, (1956). xv, 271 pp. + plates 192 pp. Sm. 4to. Red cloth with black morocco lettering piece (hardback). Second printing. Illus. with b/w plates. Boards rubbed else a very good clean, crisp, unmarked copy. Lacking the slipcase. Â ¶ A condensed, well-written, authoritative survey of British painting from the period of Henry VIII and Holbein to the end of the 18th c. Valuable bibliography with critical comments. Artzen M287. USD 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 16.75 | £UK 15.25 | JP¥ 2150] Book number: 27514 Click here to order or inquire at Kaaterskill Books. |
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