AUDSLEY, George Ashdown

The Art of Organ-Building: A Comprehensive Historical, Theoretical, and Practical Treatise on the Tonal Appointment and Mechanical Construction of Concert Room, Church, and Chamber Organs

New York, Dover Publications, 1965. Hardcover. Complete 2-volume set. Burgundy cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial price-clipped dust jackets. 600pp, 758pp. Frontispieces, numerous line drawings. Near fine/very good. Jackets edgeworn, with a few small edge chips. A tight and quite attractive facsimile reprint of the classic 1905 Dodd, Mead first edition. A superb set of the classic, exhaustive text. .

Main Street Fine Books & ManuscriptsProfessional seller

Book number: 43510

Catalogue: Books

Keywords: Music

AUDSLEY, GEORGE ASHDOWN

The Art of Organ-Building (Two Volume Set) a Comprehensive Historical, Theoretical, and Practical Treatise on the Tonal Appointment and Mechanical Construction of Concert-Room, Church, and Chamber Organs

New York: Dodd, Mead, and Company, 1905. Limited Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. This edition limited to 250 numbered copies signed by the author. This is copy 109. The two volume set is in Near Fine condition and was issued without dust jackets. The volumes are half vellum with green cloth and gilt lettering and decorations to the spines of the books. The text pages are clean and bright. There are previous owner's bookplates on both front pastedown pages. T. E. G. (Top Edge Gilt) Foredges and bottom edges of the text block are untrimmed. The spines of the books have some ground-in dirt. "Audsley's interest in the pipe organ was largely sparked by early experiences hearing W. T. Best at St. George's Hall, Liverpool. Audsley wrote numerous magazine articles on the organ, and as early as the 1880s was envisioning huge instruments with numerous divisions each under separate expression, in imitation of the symphony orchestra. The Los Angeles Art Organ Co. (successors to the Murray M. Harris Organ Company) had Audsley design the world's largest organ they were building for the St. Louis Exposition of 1904, and included him on the paid staff. This instrument was produced just as his book on The Art of Organ-Building was being published This great pipe organ eventually was purchased for the John Wanamaker Store in Philadelphia, PA, where it is today known as the Wanamaker Organ. In 1905, Audsley published the monumental two-volume The Art of Organ Building as an attempt to position himself as the pre-eminent organ designer in the US. The lavish work includes numerous superb drawings done by Audsley and is still consulted today although organ fashions have evolved in many directions in the ever-fluid, passion-driven world of music. He was an early advocate of console standardization and radiating concave pedal keyboards to accommodate the natural movement of human legs. Unfortunately, his plan to develop the profession of "organ architect" as a consultant to work in consultation with major builders in achieving a high-art product was short-lived." (from Wikipedia) Due to the extreme weight of this book, postage will have to be determined at time of ordering. ; Signed by Author. Near Fine .

S. Howlett-West BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 42525

Catalogue: Music

Keywords: Music Limited Editions George Ashdown Audsley Organs Organ Building Architecture Signed Edition

AUDSLEY, W. & G. [ WILLIAM AUDSLEY 1833-1907 / GEORGE ASHDOWN AUDSLEY 1838-1925 ] .

Cottage, Lodge, and Villa Architecture. By W. & G. Audsley .

Glasgow : William Mackenzie [1868] . 0. A very good modern half leather binding. 12.0" x 9.5" x 2.0". 4to. pp.58/150 plates with descriptive text./pp.24 - Orders of Architecture/ pp.16 - Linear Perspective/ folding table of Geometrical figures/ pp.19 - Practical Geometry . brown morocco spine and corners over marbled boards. Spine with 5 raised bands and gilt titles. Modern endpapers (handmade paper). Small binder's stamp to recto of rear endpaper of a 'Black Cat'. Title-page in red & black. Clear text and illustrations on lightly toned paper. Folding table strengthened along folds. VG.

Chilton BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 48517

Catalogue: Architecture: : 19th Century

Keywords: 49949 Glasgow William Mackenzie Cottage, Lodge, and Villa Architecture. By W. & G. Audsley . Architecture: : 19th Century

AUDSLEY, WILLIAM JAMES & GEORGE ASHDOWN AUDSLEY

Dictionary of Architecture and the Allied Arts (3 Volumes)

Liverpool & London: Henry Sotheran & Co. Hardcover. With illustrations. Some wear and bumping to spine edges. Few pages somewhat loose. Inscription from previous owner on front free endpapers. Some wear to spine, covers and corners. ; 27.3 x 18 x 2.7cms; 287, iv pages. Good with no dust jacket .

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Book number: LCB60107

Catalogue: Architecture

Audsley, George Ashdown.

Gems of Japanese Art and Handicraft. [WITH A TOTAL OF 73 PLATES].

London, Sampson, Low, Marston, 1913. Hardcover. ~ ~ NOTE: THE PRICE OF THIS BOOK IS CURRENTLY REDUCED! ~ ~ . Folio. I. Text Volume: Pp. vi, 60. With large illustrated initial and several other illustrations to the text. Title-page printed in red and black with large central ornament. In the original stiff wrappers, printed in red and black repeating title-page. II. Plates: 8 sections with a total of 66 exquisite chromolithograph plates, plus an additional section of 7 monochromatic plates numbered A-G. All is placed in the original portfolio, green cloth over boards, gilt lettering, large central ornament in red and gilt, cloth ties, spine and interior reinforced with matching cloth, text volume bit chipped along spine. In a very good condition and with a splendid set of crisp plates. ~ FIRST EDITION. An authoritative manual on chromolithography in 1885 (Colour and Colour Printing, by W. D. Richmond) asserts the need for at least nine separate stones to achieve such richness, but in fact the number of stones used here was more than twenty. Rich gilt highlights and varnish layers were added. A splendid production in excellent state of preservation. X-7 .

Librarium of The HagueProfessional seller

Book number: 6987

Catalogue: Far East: Studies in Culture, Politics, History & Topography

Keywords: ART HISTORY MODERN CULTURE FAR EAST CHINA CHINESE KOREA KOREAN INDIA INDIAN KOREANOLOGY CHINAOLOGY BUDDHISM BUDDHIST SANSKRIT TIBET TIBETAN MONGOL MONGOLIA MONGOLIAN JAPAN JAPANESE TAIWAN TAIPEI FORMOSA FORMOSIAN ASIA AZIË ASIE ASIEN URAL-ALTAIC ANCIENT O

Audsley, George Ashdown. Thomas W.Cutler.

The Grammar of Japanese Ornament. Introduction by Charles Newton.

London. Studio Editions. 1989. 4°. 248,37pp. Or.hardcover with d.j. Illustr.

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Book number: 37229

Keywords: Kunst, Art

Audsley, George Ashdown; Cutler, Thomas W.

The Grammar of Japanese Ornament.

New York: Arch Cape Press, (1989). (1989). - Quarto [13-1/4 inches high by 9-1/4 inches wide], red cloth titled in gilt on the spine, in a dust wrapper. The top edge of the dust jacket is lightly creased with a chip out of the head of its spine & a short tear to the front panel. 248 pages plus 37 pages of color illustrations of designs on silk. Also with profuse color & black-and-white illustrations throughout. Near fine in a very good dust wrapper.

Introduction by Charles Newton. Very good .

Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd.Professional seller

Book number: 24369

Catalogue: Art

Keywords: ART; DECORATIVE ARTS; ORNAMENT; TEXTILES; LACQUER; ARCHITECTURE; SCULPTURE; PRINTING; CERAMICS; FABRICS; METALWQRK; ENAMEL; JAPANESE; DESIGN; THE GRAMMAR OF JAPANESE ORNAMENT; GEORGE AUDSLEY; THOMAS CUTLER; CHARLES NEWTON; ILLUSTRATIONS.

AUDSLEY, GEORGE ASHDOWN, AND BOWES, J.

Keramic Art of Japan

1875. AUDSLEY, George Ashdown, and BOWES, James Lord. KERAMIC ART OF JAPAN. London: Henry Sotheran & Co, 1875. First edition, in 7 part. Folio. In total: lxxi + 61pp. with 12 plates (plate "J" not included, as usual); 50 (of 51-- plate #35 missing) plates with accompanying text (missing text page for plate 50) + list of marks and monograms, with 4 plates. 66 plates in all. Overall, a very good set. Some plates show light soiling at and along the edges as wells as a few nicks. The wrappers, (all are present) are either separated or quite worn at the folds and the contents are extracted from each one. All plates and text pages are loose. Internally, there is only occasional foxing and/or a touch of soil but overall it is a clean, bright, and pleasing example of this magnificent Victorian color plate book in an unusual format. A copy of the prospectus (folio size) is included. .

Boston Book CompanyProfessional seller

Book number: 82338

Catalogue: Japan and East Asia

AUDSLEY, GEORGE ASHDOWN

Organ-Stops and the Artistic Registration: Names, Forms, Construction, Tonalities and Offices in Scientific Combination

New York, The H. W. Gray Co. 1949. Hardcover, 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book, 294pp, hardback, dark blue cloth gilt, frontis and welll illustrated with 35 figures and 4 plates, with some pencil ticks and pencil lines against text, removeable, else good. Good.

Salsus BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 031658

Keywords: music

AUDSLEY, GEORGE ASHDOWN

Organ-Stops and the Artistic Registration: Names, Forms, Construction, Tonalities and Offices in Scientific Combination

New York, The H. W. Gray Co. 1949. Hardcover, 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book, 294pp, hardback, dark blue cloth gilt, frontis and welll illustrated with 35 figures and 4 plates, good. Good.

Salsus BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 044163

Keywords: music

AUDSLEY, George Ashdown

The Organ of the Twentieth Century

Dover Publications Inc. 1970. Used - Good. Good paperback . 1970 reprint of 1919 original in tight binding with B&W illustrations; wear to edges and corners of cover; back cover panel yellowed; otherwise, a good, clean copy. Photo:http://cibimages.blob.core.windows.net/img-1/stand_95933_jpg.jpg. ISBN: 0486225291

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Book number: BOOKS318036I

George Ashdown Audsley

The Ornamental Arts of Japan

London, Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1882-84. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this lavishly illustrated work exploring the beauties of Japanese art, colourfully illustrated with chromolithographs. The first edition of this work.An uncommon work.Four parts bound in two volumes, being parts 1, 2, 5, and 6 only, of a total of 9 parts, lacking parts 3, 4, 8, and 9.An impressive work exploring the beauties of the ornamental arts of Japan.The author of this work, George Ashdown Audsley, discusses the different mediums oft used in Japanese art, presenting some of the fine examples to be found across the country.Audsley was an accomplished architect and artist who wrote one of the first and most important books on Japanese art in the English language, titled 'The Keramic Art of Japan&apos. Part I covers drawing, painting, engraving, and printing. Part II covers embroidery. Part V covers incrusted work. Part VI covers metal work.The chromolithographs faithfully portray the vivid and captivating beauty of the art explored in these volumes.Volume I illustrated with a frontispiece, twenty-one chromolithograph plates, and nine monochrome plates.Volume II illustrated with a frontispiece, ten chromolithograph plates, and sixteen monochrome plates.Collated, all plates are present. Rebound in an institutional cloth binding. Externally, smart, with only a few light marks to the boards. Surface wear to the recto of the front endpapers. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and generally clean with a few light handling marks. Small closed tear to the tail of a few pages. Institutional stamps throughout. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: Various. Very Good Indeed .

Rooke BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 896P53

Catalogue: Travel & Exploration

Keywords: The Ornamental Arts of Japan japan ornamental arts art japan george ashdown audsley Various

George Ashdown Audsley; Maurice Ashdown Audsley

The Practical Decorator and Ornamentist for the Use of Architects, Practical Painters, Decorators, and Designers part 2

blackie, 1892. 1st Edition. Soft cover. 8 plates in folio paper covers Good.

The Victoria BookshopProfessional seller

Book number: 500047647

Keywords: art

George Ashdown Audsley; Maurice Ashdown Audsley

The Practical Decorator and Ornamentist for the Use of Architects, Practical Painters, Decorators, and Designers part 1

blackie, 1892. 1st Edition. Soft cover. 6 plates in folio paper covers Good.

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Book number: 500047648

Keywords: art

George Ashdown Audsley; Maurice Ashdown Audsley

The Practical Decorator and Ornamentist for the Use of Architects, Practical Painters, Decorators, and Designers part 3

blackie, 1892. 1st Edition. Soft cover. 6 plates in folio paper covers Good.

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Book number: 500047649

Keywords: art