ALDIN, Cecil

Artist's Models, an

London: H. F. & G. Witherby, 1930. First Edition in the Original Vellum Over Boards Ceceil Aldins' Favorite Dogs - Cracker, Susan, Jemima & Turpentine ALDIN, Cecil. An Artist's Models. London: H. F. & G. Witherby, [n.d. 1930]. First edition. Limited to 310 numbered copies on English hand-made paper (this being copy No. 164), signed by the author/artist. Quarto (11 1/2 x 7 1/2 inches; 285 x 190 mm.). 80 pp. Twenty color plates, with captioned tissue guards. Original vellum over boards lettered in gilt on front cover and spine. Top edge gilt, others uncut. Very minor discoloration to vellum, mild bump to bottom edge of lower board near joint, otherwise a fine copy. An Artist's Models tell the humorous stories of his models, both professional and amateur - so well that the reader actually knows Cracker, Susan, Jemima, and his beloved rough-haired Dachshund Turpentine aka Von Tirpitz. Cecil Aldin (1870-1935) "was a most prolific artist and illustrator. While living in London, he became friends with the Beggarstaff Brothers (see Houfe under William Nicholson and James Pryde), John Hassall, Phil May and Dudley Hardy, and their influence on his work was great. He produced a great number of prints, a select list of which is included with a comprehensive bibliography in Heron's book [Cecil Aldin: The Story of a Sporting Artist (1981)]. He did a great deal of advertising work, including posters, for such companies as Bovril, Colman (manufacturers of starch and mustard), and Cadbury's, and Royal Doulton produced about sixty items with Aldin drawings between 1910 and 1939. Horses, dogs and the English countryside were the major topics of Aldin's illustrations. The obituary in The Times asserted that ‘there never yet has been a painter of dogs fit to hold a candle to him..Cecil Aldin can justly be described as one of the leading spirits in the renaissance of British sporting art'" (Alan Horne, The Dictionary of 20th Century British Book Illustrators, p. 67). Books written and illustrated by Aldin include Old Inns (1921); Old Manor Houses (1923); Cathedral[s] and Abbey Churches of England (1924); Romances of the Road (1928); An Artist's Models (1930); Exmoor, the Riding Playground of England (1935); and Hunting Scenes (1936). .

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Book number: 00081

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BARIC, Jules Jean Antoine

Ou Diable L'Esprit Va-T-IL Se Nicher

Paris [&] New York: Arnauld de Vresse, Editeur, Roe Lockwood and Son , 1878. Silly Questions Depicted in Nineteen Humorous Lithographs BARIC, [Jules Jean Antoine]. Ou Diable L'Esprit Va-T-Il Se Nicher? Par Baric. [Where the Devil will the Spirit go?]. Paris [&] New-York: Arnauld de Vresse, Editeur, Roe Lockwood and Son [1878]. First (only?) edition. Folio (13 3/16 x 10 1/8 inches; 335 x 257 mm.). Lithographed pictorial title and eighteen numbered lithographed plates depicting the Devil. The plates are captioned below. Plates lithographed by Génix. Publisher's pictorial glazed yellow boards, expertly and almost invisibly rebacked to style. Extremities a little worn, light staining to endpapers. Some light foxing and marginal soiling. An excellent copy of this scarce work. Jules Jean Antoine Baric (1825-1905) illustrated several books of caricatures or cartoons for Arnauld de Vresse between 1857 and 1878. No copy has sold at auction since 1975. According to OCLC there is just one copy located in libraries and institutions worldwide (National Library of Sweden). The Plates: 1. - Mr. Plumichon, pourquoi donc l'eau coule-t-elle dans ce sens? - Ma chère amie, vous faites toujours des questions au dessus de votre portée.. c'est parceque.. l'eau.. va toujours.. à la rivière.. 2. Monsieu l'mare, j'vous améne un homme qui dit, comme ça, qu'il est né à Bourges, et son passe-port marque ben né à quilin.. pour lors que ça m'semble louche. 3. - C'est tout d'même embêtant de ne plus y voir que d'un oeil! - Tu y vois encore plus que moi! - Comment donc ça? - Est-ce que tu ne me vois pas deux yeux? Tandis que, moi, je ne t'en vois qu'un! 4. - Eh! Bien, Madeleine, vous ne servez pas les fruits? - Madame, n'yen a p'us d'pourris! 5. - Ah!.. Mademoiselle xx a mis sa robe de Néophyte!.. - Qu'est-ce que c'est donc que cette étoffe là? La Néophyte? Je voudrais bien la voir de près, car je n'en ai jamais vu!.. 6. - Joseph, essuyez-moi ça, vite, d'une manière quelconque! - Oh! Mossieu, j'aurai aussitôt fait avec une éponge.. allez!.. 7. - Pourquoi ne viendriez-vous pas à ce bal? - Je craindrais de faire tapisserie.. - Oh! Pour cela, vous pouvez être tranquille!.. je ne fais danser que les patraques.. et vous comprenez.. que je ne manquerai pas de vous faire danser!.. 8. Madame hésite, à ce que je vois, entre le chocolat et le vert d'eau.. 9. - Sais-tu que tu as l'air de faire joliment ta tête? - Que veux-tu? Mon cher.. il faut bien faire quelque chose! 10. - Qu'est-ce que c'est donc que c'bonhomme là, papa? - C'est sans doute l'inventeur des pommes de terre.. tu vois bien qu'il a des pommes de terre dans la main? 11. - Voulez-vous de l'oie aux marrons? - Qu'est-ce que c'est que ça? - Vous ne savez pas c'que c'est que de l'oie?.. c'est le papa ou la maman d'un canard.. 12. - Je vous trouve bien heureuse!.. - Heureuse?.. Ah! Ma chère amie.. les nombrils dorés (Lambris dorés) n'font pas le bonheur.. allez!.. 13. - Quel âge avez-vous? - J'crès ben que j'ons tout à l'heure 20 ans.. mais on m'a toujou' dit qu'si j'avais point été malade, j'en aurais ben 21 passés, au jour d'aujourd'hui. 14. - Qué qu'tu fais donc là? - J'cherche le bout de la corde. - Tu sais ben que j'l'ai coupé? - Qué qu'ça fait? - Ça fait que tu n'le trouveras point! - N'y en a-t-i' point un autre! Donc! Bête! 15. - Ah! Ça! Qu'est-ce que tu fais là? - J'apprends à me presenter dans le monde, mon cher.. - Ah! Elle est bien bonne!!! 16. - Ah! Malheureux, on voit tout sortir de terre, quoi! De c'temps ci! - Comment on voit tout sortir de terre!.. moi qui ai enterré ma femme voilà trois jours! 17. Mon cher oncle je vou écri la présente à cette seule fin de vous annonser la mor de ce povre croulebois don on a trouvéz le cadaver que je vous envoille par la possette, pendu dans sa chambre, parceque Mosieu Bourdoignon qui devé vous la portée ne par pas, nous avons cette année neune masse de cornichon moi le premier des commis, suis surge de vous en offrir de la part du patron si vous en voulez, je me porte bien et souhaite que la présente vous trouve de méme, votre neveu pour la vie, Jean Calebasse. 18. Mes chers parents; ç ava bien, mon métre m'a déja fai saigner cet semaine il m'a promi de me faire écorché la semaine prochaine si ça continue ainsi qui m'a di, il me fera depécer pour se montre avant la faim de l'année. Je vous embrasse, Joseph Triplard. Gumuchian 466; Not in Colas, Hiler, Lipperheide, or BM. .

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Book number: 04967

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BAWDEN, Edward; Bliss, Douglas Percy; [PENDOMER PRESS]

Edward Bawden

Godalming, Surrey: The Pendomer Press, 1979. One of 200 Copies with a Signed Lithograph by Edward Bawden [BAWDEN, Edward]. BLISS, Douglas Percy. Edward Bawden. [Godalming, Surrey]: The Pendomer Press, [n.d. 1979]. First edition, de luxe issue. Limited to 200 numbered copies (this copy being No. 40). Quarto (11 3/8 x 8 inches; 287 x 222 mm.). 200 pp. Eleven color plates and numerous black and white text illustrations. Pictorial title-page. "This book has been designed by John and Griselda Lewis. It has been printed and bound by the Scolar Press. The paper is Glastonbury Book Antique Laid..The book has been set in 12/14 Monotype Modern Extended and printed by offset lithography" (Colophon). Bibliography, by Barry McKay (p. 177-197). With a four-color lithograph laid into a terra cotta paper portfolio: "‘Nekayah, the Prince and Imlac in Cairo' from The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia by Samuel Johnson. Lithograph drawn in four colours by Edward Bawden and printed in an edition of 200 by The Curwen Studio, each copy being signed by the artist[this copy also being No. 40]." Original quarter black morocco, ruled in gilt, over decorative paper boards. Spine lettered in gilt. Top edge gilt. Laid in is a two-page color illustrated article on Edward Bawden. As new. Housed together with the signed lithograph in the original plain terra cotta paper over board slipcase (mildest of soiling to slipcase). Edward Bawden (1903-1989) was "one of Britain's most original and versatile artists. In this, the first full-length study of his work, the author tells the story of Bawden's career and devotes sections to his book illustrations and advertisements, his watercolours, including the brilliant series he made as an Official War Artist, his murals and his linocuts. Bawden's graphic work is characterised by humour and the frankness and simplicity of his line..There is a full bibliography of Bawden's illustrations for books, magazines and publicity material, compiled by Barry McKay..There are over 100 illustrations including 11 in colour" (from the first trade edition dust jacket). .

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BEAUMONT, Charles-Édouard de

Au Bal Masqué

Paris: Au Bureau du Charivari, Maison Martinet, 1848. Charles-Édourd de Beaumont's Au Bal Masqué - At the Masked Ball BEAUMONT, Charles-Édouard de. Au Bal Masqué. [At the Masked Ball] Album par Beaumont. Paris: Au Bureau du Charivari, Maison Martinet, [1848]. [First Series]. Quarto (13 1/4 x 10 inches; 336 x 254 mm.). Pictorial lithograph title-page and thirty superb lithograph plates. Some light foxing (mainly marginal) to a few plates, otherwise fine. Later violet cloth over boards, spine lettered in gilt. Publisher's pictorial yellow wrappers bound in. This exceptionally rare album of lithographs echoes that of Gavarni who dedicated works of the same theme at the same time. Mr. Descamps-Scrive who had a colored copy of the same thirty prints prints of this album indicated that the date was "towards 1860" (catalog Descamps-Scrive, second part). OCLC locates just two complete copies in libraries and institutions worldwide, both at The Morgan Library & Museum (NY, USA), one of which appears to be partially colored. Charles-Édouard de Beaumont (1819-1888) was one of the great caricaturists and lithographers that illustrated the beautiful pages of Charivari and other fashionable image journals. He produced all the illustrations for the picturesque Revue, Le Diable Amoureux (The Devil in Love) and many of the illustrations for the 1844 edition of Victor Hugo's Notre-Dame de Paris. Often criticized for drawing too much inspiration from Paul Gavarni, he published between 1228 and 1273 lithographs in the years 1842 to 1866. He was often criticized for drawing too much inspiration from Paul Gavarni. In 1879 he co-founded the Societe d'Aquarellistes Francais in 1879, where he exhibited several watercolors Masquerades were popular imagery in France at this time, which suggests that de Beaumont might have implied that the latent qualities of the masquerade, such as anonymity, deceit, promiscuity and superficiality, equally exist in more everyday settings. Additionally, because masked balls were contexts that permitted forms of interaction and intimacy otherwise prohibited, they can be regarded as occasions where gender and sexual norms could be transgressed. De Beaumont's satirical images of gender relations are not always as progressive as this description of the series might suggest. In 1848, after Au Bal Masqué, de Beaumont stopped depicting women in acceptable female roles and instead reconnected them to the role of prostitute. He would also reverse their gender roles to support an antifeminist backlash prompted by a conservative political climate. Out of this same school of thought, de Beaumont authored a book titled The Sword and Womankind that attributes a range of historical calamities to the deeds of wayward women. For example, depictions of women castrating men and enacting other violent acts spread from the belief that women were responsible for the failure of the 1848 revolution. While the prints from Au Bal Masqué may not depict these same sentiments, it satirizes diversions from gender norms while also depicting women outside of the domestic sphere, behaving contrary to traditional social expectations. Plates: 1. Chère enfant avant que tu n'entre dans cebal laisse moi te bènir.. 2. Si quelque gandin t'invite à souper.. tâche de m'emmener?.. 3. Mesdames, entrez dans la loge.. 4. Tu es joliment costume!..on jurerait que tu es une femme!.. 5. Le pantalon à la nouvelle ordonnance.. c'est ça qui est commode pour aller.. 6. Mon petit bébé.. nous irons demain acheter des joujoux chez Giroux.. 7. Vois-tu ce gros monsieur, là-bas?.. 8. Tiens!..une femme honnête!.. 9. Je ne veux pas qu'on m'embrasse!.. 10. Oh!.. Adolphe.. j'ai un bien grand service à te demander?.. 11. Adéle.. il n'y a qu'un instant, je te voyais causer à l'ètage supérieur, avec un monsieur?.. 12. Vas donc t'asseoir sur cette banquette, au lieu de fatigue ce malheureux Paul.. 13. Comment! Vous M. Dugardin, un homme sérieux un maître clerc de notaire, vous.. 14. Vois-tu la bas c'est mon Eléonore.. 15. Comment.. monster!..tu me dis que tu pars pour Meaux, pour affaires..et, je.. 16. Vue prise dans un cabinet particulier.. au moment ou le monsieur regarde la carte.. 17. Nêtes-vous pas mademoiselle Elisa?.. 18. Après Souper. Dieu que je suis malheureuse de ne pas être restée vertueuse!.. 19. Comme je suis portiere, je sais tout et je puis te tirer la bonne aventure.. 20. Veux-tu souper? Eugénie.. 21. Je suis la femme qui doit faire votre bonheur donnez moi une petite maison.. 22. Ainsi vous ne voulez pas me permettre d'aller vous render visite demain?.. 23. Est ce que tu vas encore carotter ce soir une pièce dix sous à chaque personne qui voudre.. 24. Si tu adresses encore la parole à mon Ernest, tu auras affaire à moi.. 25. Tu serais bien aimable de me prendre dix billets de loterie à un franc.. 26. Comme tu as deux batons de sucre de pomme, donne m'en un.. 27. Allons-nous souper, Adolphe?.. 28. Comme tu as l'air de mauvaise humeur!.. 29. Pendant le bal, un Anglais m'a offert ce baton de sucre de pomme que la marchande.. 30. Mademoiselle Adèle.. si vous continuez à rentrer à des heures aussi indues, je...

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Book number: 04619

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Keywords: Books in French Caricatures French Caricature

[TRIANON PRESS]; BLAKE, William; KEYNES, Geoffrey

All Religions Are One

London: Published by The Trianon Press for The William Blake Trust, London, 1970. All Religions Are One [TRIANON PRESS, The]. BLAKE, William. All Religions Are One. London: Published by The Trianon Press for The William Blake Trust, 1970. One of 600 numbered copies (this copy being No. 9), out of a total edition of 662 copies. Quarto (11 3/4 x 9 in; 298 x 230 mm). (28) pp. Ten color plates. Original quarter green morocco over marbled boards. Fine. In the original marbled board slipcase. The plates were reproduced in Paris in the workshops of Trianon Press (France) by the collotype process, with some water-color washes added by hand. The editorial matter was printed by the Imprimerie Darantiere, Dijon, and binding was by Engel, Malakoff, and the hand-made slip-case by Adine, Paris. With a description and bibliographical history by Geoffrey Keynes. .

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Book number: 00824

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Keywords: BLAKE, William KEYNES, Geoffrey Illustrated Books Poetry Eighteenth-Century Literature Eighteenth-Century Literature Fine Printing Literature Poetry

[TRIANON PRESS]; BLAKE, William; KEYNES, Geoffrey

Complete Portraiture of William & Catherine Blake, the

London: Published by The Trianon Press for The William Blake Trust, London, 1977. Complete Portraiture of William & Catherine Blake [TRIANON PRESS, The]. [BLAKE, William]. KEYNES, Geoffrey. The Complete Portraiture of William & Catherine Blake. London, Published by The Trianon Press for The William Blake Trust, 1977. One of 600 numbered copies (this copy being No. 135), out of a total edition of 662 copies. Quarto (11 3/8 x 8 1/4 in; 290 x 210 mm). 154 p. Ten color plates. Original quarter brown morocco over cloth boards. Fine. In the original cloth slipcase. .

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Keywords: BLAKE, William KEYNES, Geoffrey Illustrated Books Poetry Eighteenth-Century Literature Eighteenth-Century Literature Fine Printing Literature Poetry

[TRIANON PRESS]; BLAKE, William; Keynes, Geoffrey

Europe a Prophecy

London: Published by The Trianon Press for The William Blake Trust, 1969. With the Celebrated Design "The Ancient of Days" [TRIANON PRESS, The]. BLAKE, William. Europe a Prophecy. London: The Trianon Press for the William Blake Trust, 1969. One of 480 numbered copies (this copy being No. 375), out of a total edition of 526 copies. Quarto (13 11/16 x 10 1/4 in; 345 x 260 mm). (48) pp. Seventeen color facsimile plates reproduced from the edition of 1794. Original quarter brown morocco over marbled boards. Fine. In the original marbled board slipcase. Includes the four stanza poetical "preface" telling how a Fairy sang a song to Blake abut the five senses of man, which Blake omitted from most copies. "Foster Damon has suggested that Blake [did so] because he identified in it too plainly the sense of touch with sexual pleasure, even though he did not directly name it in the first stanza" (Keynes). The illuminated pages were reproduced in Paris by the collotype and stencil process in the workshops of Trianon Press (France) and M. Crampe. The editorial matter was printed by the Imprimerie Darantiere, Dijon, and the binding was by Engel, Malakoff. With a description and bibliographical statement by Geoffrey Keynes. .

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Book number: 00822

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Keywords: BLAKE, William Keynes, Geoffrey Illustrated Books Poetry Eighteenth-Century Literature Fine Bindings Eighteenth-Century Literature Fine Printing Literature

[TRIANON PRESS]; BLAKE, William; KEYNES, Geoffrey

Jerusalem. The Emanation of the Giant Albion

Clairvaux, Jura, France: Published by The Trianon Press for The William Blake Trust, London, 1974. With Plates from the Lord Cunliffe Copy And Four Facsimile Proofs of Four Prints Not Found in the Earlier Trianon Edition. [TRIANON PRESS, The]. BLAKE, William. Jerusalem. The Emanation of the Giant Albion. London: The Trianon Press for The William Blake Trust, 1974. One of 500 numbered copies (this copy being No. 326), out of a total edition of 558 copies. Folio (14 7/16 x 10 1/4 in; 365 x 260 mm). (72) pp. Twenty-five color plates, eight proofs, and commentary at the end. Original quarter brown morocco over hand-marbled paper boards. Fine. In the original marbled board slipcase. The Trianon Press' 1950 facsimile edition of Blake's Jerusalem used the Stirling copy (1820), the only one known to have been completed in color by Blake. For the edition under notice, Trianon used the copy if Lord Cunliffe, an earlier version (1818) which contained twenty-five colored plates noted for the delicacy of their water-color washes and printed in a light red-brown ink. There were other variations of significance in these plates sufficient for Trianon to issue this later edition which is supplemented by facsimiles of proofs of four prints from Jerusalem from approximately the same date and executed in a similar style, from the Preston collection. The plates were reproduced in Paris in the workshops of Trianon Press (France) by the collotype and hand-stencil process. The editorial matter was printed by the Imprimerie Darantiere, Dijon, and binding was by Reliural, Paris, and the hand-made slip-case by Adine, Paris. With a commentary and bibliographical history by Geoffrey Keynes. .

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Book number: 00823

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Keywords: BLAKE, William KEYNES, Geoffrey Poetry Eighteenth-Century Literature Eighteenth-Century Literature Fine Printing Literature Poetry

BOSWELL, James

Life of Samuel Johnson LL. D. The

London: J.M. Dent & Co. 1901. Boswells' Life of Johnson Illustrated by Herbert Railton Extra-Illustrated by the Insertion of over Six Hundred Portraits and Scenes etc. Extended from Three to Seven Volumes Handsomely Bound by F.J.Pfister of New York BOSWELL, James. The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D. Edited by Arnold Glover of the Inner Temple with an introduction by Austin Dobson. With one hundred illustrations by Herbert Railton and many portraits. London: J.M. Dent & Co. 1901. Three octavo volumes extended to seven (8 7/8 x 6 inches; 222 x 152 mm.). Extra-illustrated by the insertion of over six hundred plates including many portraits and scenes by various artists, at least one original letter (complete with envelope), pages from books and periodicals contemporary to the events being related by Boswell (including The Gentleman's Magazine), notices of marriages and deaths, bookseller catalogues, auction catalogues, etc. some items with hand-written captions, many mounted onto stiff paper with decorative borders. Bound by Pfister of New York ca. 1901. Full red morocco, covers elaborately stamped in gilt, spines with five raised bands, decorative gilt inside borders, mottled pink endleaves. With the bookplate of Robert Freeman Pick. "At the January dinner of the League, held at the rooms of the Aldine Association, on the evening of January 17, 1900, F.J. Pfister, a well-known New York bookbinder, delivered an interesting address on the art of decorating the covers of books by means of pyrography, or of "burning in" with a heated tool the design with which the cover of a book is to be decorated, instead of impressing it, either blind or gilded, with dies or the ordinary binders' tools.. Mr. Pfister pointed out that pyrography is not a recent art, but an ancient process revived." (The Booksellers' League. A History of its formation and ten years of its work. New York, 1905. page 96). With the Ex-Libris in each volume of one "R.F. Pick", his name across an open book laying on two laurel branches and with a small beetle busily eating his way through the pages. Based on the name, the New York bindery, and the design of the Ex-Libris it seems highly likely that our Mr. Pick was the bookseller of that name who had an establishment at 136 E. 34th Street, New York City, and advertised his firm as "Bookseller and Importer" of "Rare and Choice Books". Interestingly, on the same page of the Literary Collector (dated October 1901 to March 1902) on which we find Mr. Pick's advertisement is one for the bindery, F.J. Pfister, directly beneath. .

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Book number: 05222

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BULL, René, illustrator; Mérimée, Prosper; Johnson, A.E.

Carmen

London: Hutchinson & Co. 1916. With Sixteen Full-Page Color Plates by René Bull [BULL, René, illustrator]. MÉRIMÉE, Prosper. Carmen. Translated by A.E. Johnson. With Pictures by René Bull. London: Hutchinson & Co. [n.d, 1916]. First trade edition. Quarto (10 13/16 x 8 7/16 inches; 275 x 214 mm.). [2, blank], x, 204 pp. Color frontispiece and fifteen color plates, with descriptive tissue guards. Seventy-four black and white illustrations in the text. Publishers red cloth over boards pictorially stamped and lettered in gilt on front cover and spine. Gray and white pictorial endpapers. Top edge gilt, others stained red. Gilt on spine dull, some light wear to extremities, neat ink inscription dated 1917 on front free endpaper, and another ink inscription on front blank leaf. A good copy of an uncommon book. Rene Bull's vibrant illustrations perfectly capture the intense drama of love and jealousy in Prosper Mérimée's tale which was the basis for Georges Bizet's opera of the same title. René Bull (d. 1942) "was born in Ireland and went to Paris to study engineering, but left this for art work in London, 1892. After working for various magazines, he was appointed ‘special' for Black and White, 1896, attending the Armenian massacres and the Graeco-Turkish War as artist..He served in the First World War in RNVR, 1916, and RAF, 1917. Bull was one of the most versatile specials because his stature as an artist was above average. Not only an accurate reporter, he was a talented comic draughtsman and a brilliant illustrator of fairy stories" (Houfe, The Dictionary of 19th Century British Book Illustrators, p. 81). Works illustrated by Bull include: La Fontaine's Fables (1905), Uncle Remus, by Joel Chandler Harris (1906), The Arabian Nights (1912), The Russian Ballet by A.E. Johnson (1913), Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (1913), Carmen, by Prosper Mérimée (1916), and Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World, by Jonathan Swift (1928). .

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Book number: 03527

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Keywords: Mérimée, Prosper Johnson, A.E. Signed Limited Edition Illustrated Books French Literature European Literature French Literature Music

CANIFF, Milton

Terry and the Pirates

New York: Random House , 1946. Inscribed by the Milton Caniff CANIFF, Milton. Terry and the Pirates. Adapted from the famous comic strip. New York: Random House, [1946]. First edition inscribed by the author. Small quarto ( 10 x 7 inches; 254 x 178 mm.).[vi], [1]-115, [1, blank]. With seventeen black & white illustrations in the text. Inscribed on the front free endpaper "For Richard Baker / Best Wishes / Milton Caniff / 7 January / 1947". Publisher's pictorial boards, pictorial dust jacket. A near fine copy. Milton Arthur Paul Caniff (1907-1988) was an American cartoonist known for the Terry and the Pirates and Steve Canyon comic strips. .

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CLARKE, Harry; WALTERS, Lettice d'Oyly; Monro, Harold

Year's at the Spring, the

London: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd. 1920. Harry Clarke Illustrates from Hilaire Belloc to William Butler Yeats Twelve superb color plates, Twelve tinted plates and twenty-two black and white Vignettes [CLARKE, Harry, illustrator]. [WALTERS, Lettice d'Oyly, compiler]. The Year's at the Spring. An Anthology of Recent Poetry Compiled by L. d'O. Walters and Illustrated by Harry Clarke. With an Introduction by Harold Monro. London: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd.1920. First UK trade edition. Quarto (10 7/16 x 8 inches; 265 x 203 mm.). [1-4], 5-127, [1] pp. Twelve full-page color plates, twelve full-page black and white plates, and twenty-two black and white vignettes. Publisher's light tan cloth over boards, front cover and spine pictorially stamped in black and red. Neat name and date (1922) on front paste-down. A fine copy. Contains poems by Hilaire Belloc, Rupert Brooke, G.K. Chesterton, W.H. Davies, Walter de la Mare, Robert Graves, Thomas Hardy, Ralph Hodgson, John Masefield, Alice Meynell, Harold Monro, James Stephens, William Butler Yeats, and others. "Harraps commissioned the Year's at the Spring Anthology illustrations as a result of the great success of the Poe illustrations and promised Bodkin, who had felt there should have been colour in the Poe, that there would be twelve colour plates as well as twelve black and white..There are some haunting images—unearthly, soulful and beautiful among these illustrations. There is none of the dread, the fear, the agonized foreboding and horror of the Poe. Here, the dead are depicted hooded in watery crimson, like exotic submarine flowers in vertically wavering strands, or feathers melting into the carriage of the beautiful Queen of the Dead. Many of the illustrations are set on, beside or beneath the surface of the sea and feature stylized submarine flora and fauna; galleons recur frequently. The Japanese and generally Oriental influence, so prevalent in the work of decorative designers and illustrators of the day, is noticeable; two of the finest illustrations—those to Lettice d'Oyly Walter's All is Spirit and Part of Me and Rupert Brooke's The Great Lover (‘Out on the wind of Time, shining and streaming..') cut across the page in a dramatic whiplash. Some are whimsical, a few are a little weak. Thomas McGreevy thought St. Augustine and his band of monks, an illustration to Elroy Flecker's The Dying Patriot, ‘the most perfect of all Mr. Clarke's drawings'. Harry's own features recur often—(e.g. in the illustration to H.H. Abbott's Black and White, where ‘the cold white face' is his, peering out through the mist, hatted and coated on the kerb of the poplar-lined Mount Merrion Avenue; and as one of The Dead)" (Bowe, pp. 55-56). Bowe, p. 149, no. 4; Steenson. A Bibliographical Checklist of the work of Harry Clarke, A3.b. .

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Book number: 05501

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Keywords: WALTERS, Lettice d'Oyly Monro, Harold Irish Literature Poetry

CRUIKSHANK, George

British Regalities. The Coronation Reporter;

London: Printed and published by T. Dalby, 1821. The Cartoonist George Cruikshank Transformed into a Wise Reporter of the Coronation of George IV.. CRUIKSHANK, George, illustrator. British Regalities. The Coronation Reporter; Containing a report of every occurrence and a description of every ceremony connected with the Coronation of His Majesty King George IV. July 19, 1821. Embellished with Views of the most Interesting Scenes, from original drawings. London: Printed and published by T. Dalby, [1821]. First edition of this account of the coronation of King George IV, which took place on July 19, 1821. Small octavo (5 5/8 x 3 3/4 inches; 149 x 95 mm.). Engraved pictorial framed title-page, verso blank, 108 pp. Folding etched frontispiece and two other etched plates. Full red straight-grain morocco, covers decoratively bordered in gilt, smooth spine lettered horizontally in gilt, gray endpapers. Armorial bookplate of Edmund Yates on front paste-down. Front joint expertly repaired. The plates: Coronation of George IV (folding) Return of the Procession from the Abbey (folding) The Champions Challenge & c. "In the H. W. Bruton copy appeared the following note by the latter: A very rare book. I know of one other copy only - that in Mr. Truman's collection. H. W. Bruton. Since writing the above Captain Douglas has informed me that the book is in his collection. H. W. B. A label of the Bath Mechanics' Institution is pasted down on the inner side of the front cover, and pasted down on the inner side of the back cover is the label of the Bath Athenaeum." (Parke-Bernet Galleries, February 26/27, 1942). Cohn 92. .

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CRUIKSHANK, George, illustrator

Comic Blackstone, the

London: Bradbury and Evans, 1857. The Comic Blackstone CRUIKSHANK, George, illustrator. A'BECKETT. The Comic Blackstone. A New Edition. With illustrations by George Cruikshank. London, Bradbury and Evans, 1857. Two parts in one mall octavo volume (6 5/8 x 4 1/8 inches; 169 x 105 mm.). xii, 252 pp. Engraved woodcut pictorial title-page and engraved woodcut illustration on last page. Bound by Zaehnsdorf ca. 1900 in three quarter dark blue calf over marbled boards, smooth spine decorated in gilt and with red morocco label lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. The first edition appeared in two parts in 1844-1846. There were several reissues in one volume from 1846 on. Cohn 1. (First edition). .

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CRUIKSHANK, George; THACKERAY, (William Makepeace)

An Essay on the Genius of George Cruikshank

London: George Redway, 1884. With the original Pen & Ink Drawing for the Portrait Frontispiece [CRUIKSHANK, George]. THACKERAY, William Makepeace. An Essay on the Genius of George Cruikshank. Reprinted verbatim from the "Westminster Review" edited with a prefatory note on Thackeray as an artist and art-critic by W. E. Church.. with upwards of forty illustrations including all the original woodcuts and a new portrait of Cruikshank etched by F.W. Pailthorpe. London, George Redway, 1884. *One of six copies large-paper copies printed on Japanese Paper. Folio (11 1/4 x 7 1/2 inches; 285 x 190 mm.). Portrait frontispiece in triplicate**. [iv], [i]-xvi, [1]-60, [2, advertisements] pp. Ful page plate "March - Showery" facing p. 49. ** The first is the original pen and ink drawing by F.W. Pailthorpe signed in pencil; The second is a 'first proof' also signed by Pailthorpe in pencil; The third is the final version printed on India paper, mounted. Bound by Jean-Luc Honegger, signed with black stamp 'Honegger' on rear endpaper. Full royal blue morocco, covers double-ruled in gilt, spine with five raised bands decoratively paneled and lettered in gilt in compartments, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, others uncut. With three bookplates on front pastedown: Armorial bookplate 'Virtute et Labore' (John Burges Carmac?); F.S. Bradburn and Adrian W. Flühmann. A fine copy. * According to an old pencil note on the armorial bookplate. A classic essay on George Cruikshank, first published in 1840 in the Westminster Review, during the illustrator's lifetime. William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863) was one of George Cruikshank's closest friends. The preface by W.E. Church is in the original edition. Jean-Luc Honegger is a Swiss bookbinder who for decades has been infusing a "second life" to some of the rarest books of the most prestigious collections. He creates bindings that are works of art, made of different kinds of colored leathers and skins and that sometimes require more than fifty hours of manual work. He has adorned the books of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France and the Bodmer Foundation, among others. His bindings have been exhibited in museums including the Musée d'Art et d'Histoire in Geneva in 2002.  Cohn, 789: for the first edition of 1840; Ray, p. 69: "Thackeray, who remains [Cruikshank's] best critic, particularly praised the 'grotesque beauty' of his earlier work.

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Keywords: THACKERAY, (William Makepeace) Fine Bindings Biography Caricatures Nineteenth-Century Literature