CRUIKSHANK, George, illustrator; ROSCOE, Thomas

Tales of Humour, Gallantry, & Romance

London: Printed for Charles Baldwyn, 1824. George Cruikshank's Own Copy Signed and Dated by Him on the Title-Page CRUIKSHANK, George, illustrator. [ROSCOE, Thomas]. [Italian Tales]. Tales of Humour, Gallantry, & Romance, Selected and Translated from the Italian. With Sixteen Illustrative Drawings by George Cruikshank. London: Printed for Charles Baldwyn, 1824. George Cruikshank's copy, signed "George Cruikshank 1824" at top of title-page. First edition, mixed issue. Octavo (7 7/8 x 4 7/8 inches; 199 x 123 mm.). viii, 253, [1, imprint], [8, advertisements] pp. Fifteen engraved plates and woodcut on title-page "The Pomegranate Seed". Publisher's quarter dark green canvas over red paper boards, spine with original printed paper label (worn), edges uncut. Front joint worn but sound, inner hinges expertly strengthened. With the engraved bookplate of William Hartmann Woodin on front paste-down and ink signature on front free end-paper. An excellent copy chemised in a quarter blue morocco slipcase. A complicated collation. According to Cohn the first issue has a plate to the tale "The Dead Rider" at p. 58, and no woodcut on the title page. Our copy has the second issue title page with the woodcut "The Pomegranate Seed" but it also has the plate "The Dead Rider" facing page 62. According to Cohn the first issue has a misprint at p. 32, line 10, the word "creditor" being used in mistake for "debtor". Our copy has the fist issue "creditor" According to Cohn there are seventeen illustrations including the woodcut on the title-page Our copy has sixteen illustrations including the woodcut on the title-page. Cohn, 444. .

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Book number: 03846

Catalogue: Illustrated Books

Keywords: ROSCOE, Thomas Caricatures Italian Literature Cruikshankiana

CRUIKSHANK, George, illustrator; MAYHEW, Henry; MAYHEW, Augustus

Whom to Marry and How to Get Married!

London: David Bogue, 1848. 'Warnings about Men to Avoid when Searching for a Husband' Illustrated by George Cruikshank CRUIKSHANK, George, illustrator. MAYHEW, Henry & Augustus. Whom to Marry and How to get Married! or, The Adventures of a Lady in Search of a Good Husband. Edited by the brothers Mayhew. Illustrated by George Cruikshank. London, David Bogue, [1848]. First edition. Crown octavo (7 1/8 x 4 7/8 inches; 182 x 124 mm.). [viii], [1]-271, 1, blank] pp. Vignette glyphograph title-page. Twelve etched plates including frontispiece. Partially uncut, a few plates with light marginal foxing. Bound by Morrell ca. 1920 in full tan calf, covers with triple-rule borders, spine with five raised bands elaborately decorated in gilt in compartments, red and brown morocco labels lettered in gilt, decorative gilt board edges and turn-ins, top edge gilt, others uncut. A fine example, handsomely bound. First issued in six parts, with yellow wrappers (November 1847 to April 1848.. (Cohn, p.160). The Mayhew brothers Henry & Augustus, were both heavily involved in the production of Victorian satire; Henry, the elder, was in fact one of the founders of Punch magazine. That same style of sharp mockery shines through in the present work. The book is set in ten 'Offers' (chapters) and would appear to contain warnings about men to avoid when searching for a husband. "This was a lucky escape as a poor confiding girl ever had. If I had only married the handsome deceitful monster, I do verily believe I should have been reduced to the disgraceful state of having to darn my own clothes, or, what is much worse, having to nurse and take care of my own children.." (p. 145). Henry Mayhew (1812-1887) was an English journalist, playwright, and advocate of reform. He was one of the co-founders of the satirical magazine Punch in 1841, and was the magazine's joint editor, with Mark Lemon, in its early days. He is also known for his work as a social researcher, publishing an extensive series of newspaper articles in the Morning Chronicle that was later compiled into the book series London Labour and the London Poor (1861), a groundbreaking and influential survey of the city's poor. Augustus Septimus Mayhew (1826-1875) was an English journalist and author. He wrote in collaboration with his brother Henry such works as The Greatest Plague of Life, or the Adventures of a Lady in Search of a Good Servant (1847) and Whom to Marry and How to get Married! or, The Adventures of a Lady in Search of a Good Husband (1848), both illustrated by George Cruikshank. Cohn, 545; Patten II, p.268. .

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Book number: 05575

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Keywords: MAYHEW, Henry MAYHEW, Augustus Fine Bindings Nineteenth-Century Literature Cruikshankiana

CRUIKSHANK, George; AINSWORTH, William Harrison

Windsor Castle [&] St. James's, or the Court of Queen Anne

London: Ainsworth Magazine, [1842-45]. Two First Editions from the Original Ainsworth Magazine Parts Windsor Castle & Saint James's, or the Court of Queen Anne Superbly bound by Tout of London including many of the Original Wrappers and Advertisements etc. CRUIKSHANK, George. AINSWORTH, William Harrison. Windsor Castle, An Historical Romance. Illustrated by Tony Johannot [and George Cruikshank] with designs on wood by W. Alfred Delamotte. [London: [Ainsworth Magazine], Hugh Cunningham, 1842-1843]. [&] Saint James's, or The Court of Queen Anne. An Historical Romance by W. Harrison Ainsworth, illustrated by George Cruikshank. London: John Mortimer, 1844. First appearance of these two Ainsworth Novels specially bound from various issues of the original Ainsworth Magazine, with specially composed title-pages including the title and the mention at the bottom: "As originally published 1842-3" & "As originally published 1845" Two octavo volumes (9 1/4 x 5 3/4 inches; 235 x 146 mm.). Windsor Castle. [i]-iv, [i]-iv, [79]-94, [269]-284, [365]-380, [475]-504, [5]-29, [1, blank], [95]-121, [1, blank], [189]-211, [1, blank], [283]-328, [377]-429, [1, blank], [471]-521, 1, blank] pp. Pictorial woodcut title, engraved portrait of Anne Bullen, four etched plates by Tony Johannot and fourteen etched plates by George Cruikshank, all with protective tissue-guards. Woodcut title-page and eighty-seven woodcut illustrations by W. Alfred Delamotte throughout the text. Included are five of the original front wrappers from the parts (IX, Oct 1842; X, Nov 1842; XII, Jan 1843; XV, Apr 1843 & XVII, June 1843); Seven contents leaves (Dec 1842; Jan -June 1843); Thirty-eight leaves of advertisements. Saint James's, or The Court of Queen Anne. [i]-iv, [i]-iv, [80]-521, [1, blank]; [1]-30, 93-120, 119*, 120*, 121-122, 187-217, [1, blank], 281-316, 375-403, [1, blank], 469-496, [1]-18, 95-108, 189-205, [1, blank], 439-468 (remaining text covered by paper), 551-558, [739, blank], 740-742 pp. Pictorial woodcut title, engraved portrait of Queen Anne (mounted on India paper), engraved portrait of W. Harrison Ainsworth and thirteen engraved plates by George Cruikshank. The first three-volume edition dated 1855 had only 9 of the 13 etched plates by George Cruikshank. (cf. Cohn, 21). Both volumes uniformly bound by Tout, (stamp-signed in gilt on front turn-in of each volume) ca. 1900. Full red morocco, covers elaborately decorated in gilt, spines with five raised bands elaborately decorated and lettered in gilt in compartments, gilt-ruled board edges, elaborate gilt turn-ins, green watered silk liners and end-leaves, top edge gilt, others uncut. A very pretty set. William Harrison Ainsworth (1805-1882) was an English historical novelist born at King Street in Manchester. He trained as a lawyer, but the legal profession held no attraction for him. While completing his legal studies in London he met the publisher John Ebers, at that time manager of the King's Theatre, Haymarket. Ebers introduced Ainsworth to literary and dramatic circles, and to his daughter, who became Ainsworth's wife. Ainsworth briefly tried the publishing business, but soon gave it up and devoted himself to journalism and literature. His first success as a writer came with Rookwood in 1834, which features Dick Turpin as its leading character. A stream of thirty-nine novels followed, the last of which appeared in 1881. "Ainsworth hoped to start publishing Windsor Castle in his magazine by April, but he was delayed when his mother died on 15 March 1842. John Forster wrote to Ainsworth to offer assistance in writing the novel, but there is no evidence that Ainsworth accepted. The work was soon finished and started appearing in the magazine by July 1842, where it ran until June 1843. George Cruikshank, illustrator for The Miser's Daughter, took over as illustrator for Windsor Castle after the first one finished its run.. By the end of 1843, Ainsworth had sold his stake in Ainsworth's Magazine to John Mortimer while remaining as editor. The next work that Ainsworth included in his magazine was Saint James's or the Court of Queen Anne, An Historical Romance, which ran from January 1844 until December 1844." Saint James's, or The Court of Queen Anne was originally serially published in 1844. It describes the events surrounding the end of Queen Anne's reign and the dispute between the Duke and Duchess of Marlborough with two Tories for influence over the queen. While Ainsworth served as editor for his own magazine, Ainsworth's Magazine, he included many of his own works. Of these, Saint James's or the Court of Queen Anne, An Historical Romance ran from January 1844 until December 1844. It was also published as a three volume set in 1844 by John Mortimer. The work was illustrated by George Cruikshank, which marks the last time that Ainsworth and Cruikshank collaborated on a novel.. The Ainsworth's Magazine edition of St. James's included fourteen illustrations by Cruikshank. However, only seven appeared in the three-volume edition of the work. Two of the illustrations not carried over in the book edition were of Cruikshank's best depictions: one titled "The Double Duel" and another titled "Sergeant Scales's Drum". A rift developed between Cruikshank and Ainsworth, and St. James's was the last work of Ainsworth that Cruikshank illustrated. It is possible that the rift came as Ainsworth was giving up his ownership of the Ainsworth's Magazine, but the cause is unknown. It is also possible that the dropping of illustrations from the three volume edition was either a cause or an effect of the rift." (Wikipedia). .

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Book number: 05569

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DARWIN, Charles; LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB; KREDEL, Fritz, illustrator; MONTAGU, Ashley (preface)

Descent of Man, the

Adelaide, South Australia: Printed for The Limited Editions Club, 1971. Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science." DARWIN, Charles. The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex. With a Preface by Ashley Montagu and Drawings by Fritz Kredel. Adelaide, South Australia: Printed for The Limited Editions Club, 1971. Limited to 1,500 copies signed by Fritz Kredel, this being no. 1201. Large quarto (10 11/16 x 7 7/8 inches; 272 x 201 mm.). 384 pp. Illustrated throughout with numerous black and white drawings, some of which are full-page. Publisher's quarter green Oasis morocco over natural 'wood veneer' paper boards, spine decoratively stamped and lettered in gilt. Minimal fading to spine, still a near fine copy in the publisher's matching slip-case. Charles Robert Darwin, (1809-1882) was an English naturalist and geologist, best known for his contributions to evolutionary theory. He established that all species of life have descended over time from common ancestors, and in a joint publication with Alfred Russel Wallace introduced his scientific theory that this branching pattern of evolution resulted from a process that he called natural selection, in which the struggle for existence has a similar effect to the artificial selection involved in selective breeding. Darwin published his theory of evolution with compelling evidence in his 1859 book On the Origin of Species, overcoming scientific rejection of earlier concepts of transmutation of species. By the 1870s, the scientific community and much of the general public had accepted evolution as a fact. However, many favored competing explanations and it was not until the emergence of the modern evolutionary synthesis from the 1930s to the 1950s that a broad consensus developed in which natural selection was the basic mechanism of evolution. In modified form, Darwin's scientific discovery is the unifying theory of the life sciences, explaining the diversity of life. Darwin has been described as one of the most influential figures in human history. He was honored by burial in Westminster Abbey. The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex was first published in 1871. It applies evolutionary theory to human evolution, and details Darwin's theory of sexual selection, a form of biological adaptation distinct from, yet interconnected with, natural selection. The book discusses many related issues, including evolutionary psychology, evolutionary ethics, differences between human races, differences between sexes, the dominant role of women in mate choice, and the relevance of the evolutionary theory to society. Fritz Kredel (1900-1973) was a German, later American artist and graphic designer. In his early years, he studied under Rudolf Koch at Offenbach School of Art and Design, and developed skills in woodcuts. Koch and Kredel collaborated on A Book of Signs (1923) and The Book of Flowers (1930). Following Koch's death in 1934, Kredel moved to Frankfurt, but in 1938 he fled Germany for political reasons with help from Melbert Cary. After emigrating to the United States that year, he taught at Cooper Union in New York and continued to work as an artist. He produced illustrations for over 400 books in German and English and received many awards and honors. Many of his originals are now housed at the Art Library at Yale University. Limited Editions Club Bibliography, 435. .

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Book number: 03677

Catalogue: Illustrated Books

Keywords: LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB KREDEL, Fritz, illustrator MONTAGU, Ashley (preface) Science and Technology Signed Limited Edition

DAUMIER, Honoré

Variétés Drolatiques [Bound with] Histoire Ancienne

Paris: Léopold Pannier et Cie. 1841. An Exceptionally Rare Daumier Album Seven Series Complete Containing Fifty Humorous Lithographs DAUMIER, Honoré, illustrator. Variétés Drolatiques. Vulgarités. - Les Musiciens de Paris. - Proverbes de famille. - Proverbes et Maximes. - La Peche. - La Journée du Celibataire. - Les Saltimbanques. 50 Planches. Paris: Léopold Pannier et Cie. [1841]. Vulgarités. 10 plates complete DR 905-914 Les Musiciens de Paris. 6 plates complete DR 919-924 Proverbes de famille. 2 plates complete DR 797-798 Proverbes et Maximes. 12 plates complete DR 803-814 La Peche. 7 plates complete DR 815-821 La Journée du Celibataire. 12 plates complete DR 607-618 Les Saltimbanques. 1 plate (of 2) DR 620 Total 50 plates complete. "Pannier published a separate album with the title "Variétés Drolatiques", par Daumier, Paris , 1 vol. in-4°, demi chagr. It contains the following complete series,sur blanc, bringing the total of prints to 50:Vulgarités, Musiciens de Paris, Proverbes de Famille, Proverbes et Maximes, La Pêche, Journée du Célibataire und Les Saltimbanques." This album can be considered rare." (Daumier Register). OCLC locates just three of the plates from Proverbes Maximes. Nos. 6, 9, and 11 (all at Washington University, OR, USA). We located just one copy at auction - sold between October 1898 and July 1899!!! The only plate that appears in the Armand Hammer Daumier collection is the second plate of La Peche (p.67) [Bound together with]: Exceedingly Rare Daumier Histoire Ancienne Complete with Fifty Superb Lithographs DAUMIER, Honoré. illustrator. PHILIPON, Charles. Histoire Ancienne. Paris: Chez Aubert, [1841-1843]. Folio (13 3/16 x 10 inches; 335 x 254 mm.). Fifty superb lithograph plates. Some intermittent, mainly marginal foxing. Together 100 fine lithograph plates containing two of Daumier's rarest suites, both complete. Contemporary quarter dark brown morocco over marbled boards, spine with four raised bands, ruled in blind and lettered in gilt, marbled end-papers. A near fine and complete example of two of Honoré Daumier's finest and rarest works. There is only one copy of Histoire Ancienne located in libraries and institutions worldwide (The Bibliotheque Nationale de France). "This series of 50 lithos on characters in ancient history and mythology appeared between 1841 and 1843. Daumier's irreverent satirizing of the sacred characters in Greek and Roman mythology contributed to the Romantic attack upon the Classical school in the continuing battle waged in the theater, literature and the arts. Philipon's contrived poems, as captions to the series, contain many veiled allusions to Louis-Philippe and individuals in his reign." Plate no. 22. "Le Baptême D'Achille.." (The baptism of Achilles; As one tempers a weapon of war, Thetis wishing to make a hero of her brat, dipped him in the Styx, as soon as he saw the light, which proves that a bath is good for all purposes. - On the Influence of Baths, poem by Mr. Vigier.) Deltail # 946. Plate no. 46. "La Mère des Gracques.." (The mother of the Gracchi: One day when a gay lady was shamelessly praising her jewels, which were worth a few cents, this Roman mother, showing her two young sons, the hope of the country, said, "Behold my only jewels!" - Plutarch.) Deltail # 970. This well-known story provided Daumier the chance to portray two typical Frenchwomen with typical unruly children. Deltail # 970. Plate no. 47. "Pygmalion.." (O triumph of the arts! What was your amazement, great sculptor, when you saw your marble come to life and, in a chaste and gentle manner, slowly bow down to ask you for a pinch of snuff. - Count Siméon.). Deltail # 971. (Charles F. Ramus, editor. Daumier 120 Great Lithographs) Histoire Ancienne is a series consisting of 50 numbered lithographs (DR. 925-974), which appeared in the Charivari between December 1841 and January 1843. Between December 1841 and January 1843, Honoré Daumier in the Charivari published a series devoted to ancient history: fifty plates to antique themes, seventeen of which illustrating the Iliad, the Odyssey and Telemachus of Fenelon. "Alone, without scientific mission, Daumier traveled Greece, drawing where a beautiful feeling attached him, crying where a touching tradition was waiting. Drawing day and night, he finally found the original Greek sense." says the satirical newspaper. The cartoonist wants to infuse "life, movement, privacy, anything that lacked" the Greek hero petrified by ancient sculpture. Some illustrations, comic relief, reminiscent of Greek tombstones Daumier modernized by the effects of perspective or shortcuts. For each board, a comment from a few to a "translation" of Homer crazy, "light poetry", underline the ironic look worn by Daumier on antiquity. "A quarrel between painters of the classic and romantic schools had fully flared up. Delacroix asked the "loaded" question: "Qui me délivrera des Grecs et des Romains?" (Who redeems us from the Greeks and Romans?). Daumier succeeded to answer it his own way by showing historic personalities such as Hercules, Pygmalion or Agamemnon in absurd situations. It was his method to put history into perspective. In December 1841, the Charivari announced the arrival of this series as follows: "We have sent Monsieur Daumier to Greece, alone and without any scientific support. He worked day and night to reveal the Greek soul of the past.. Daumier brings antiquity back to us". The lithographs of the series "Histoire Ancienne" were published between 1841 and 1843. Daumier was far ahead of his time when he started as one of the first to show how relative the importance of Greek and Roman Mythology can be in a modern world. The admirers of ancient history especially in Arts however were not dissipated easily. It would take another 15 years until Baudelaire in literature and Offenbach in music de-mystified the "old Greeks" and removed the centuries old dust from them." (The Daumier Registry) Deltail. Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre lithographées de Honoré Daumier, 925-974; Beraldi, Les Graveurs du XIX siècle, V, p. 126; Ramus, p. 126. .

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Book number: 04953

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Keywords: Books in French Caricatures French Caricature

DETMOLD, Edward J., illustrator

Arabian Nights, the

London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1924. Edition Deluxe Of Detmold's Rarest Book [DETMOLD, Edward J. illustrator]. The Arabian Nights. Tales from the Thousand and One Nights. Illustrated by E.J. Detmold. London: Hodder and Stoughton, n.d. [1924]. Edition Deluxe, limited to 100 copies only, here bound without the signed limitation leaf. Quarto (11 x 8 1/4 in; 280 x 211 mm). viii, 240 pp. Twelve tipped-in color plates. Publisher's full pictorially gilt vellum. Very light stain on front board, spine gilt a little rubbed, some very light foxing to endpapers but still an excellent copy of Detmold's rarest book. Some deluxe copies were bound, as here, without the signed limitation leaf, the result, apparently, of the publisher printing more than 100 copies and deluxe binding the extra sheets. Detmold illustrated "a number of books of fantasy drawing.. which show a vivid imagination, fine drawing and warm coloring" (Houfe, 115) "The Detmold twins were a unique phenomenon in British art, recognized by their contemporaries as a single creative personality ‘divided between two bodies'. Their remarkable etchings and watercolours of plants and animals, minutely detailed in the Japanese manner, are all prized collector's items. Charles Frederick and Edward Barton Detmold were born in Putney, south London, on 21 November 1883. Their middle names were later replaced by ‘Maurice' and ‘Julius', but the two boys were generally called Maurice and Edward..At the age of 5 the twins developed a dual passion for drawing and observing animals, and made regular sketching expeditions to Regent's Park Zoo and the Natural History Museum in South Kensington, where they drew detailed sketches of shells, crayfish, monkey skulls, and hundreds of other animal subjects. Their first book, Pictures from Birdland, comprising 24 colour plates, was published by J.M. Dent for the Christmas market in 1899. The Detmolds' most celebrated joint achievement, and among the finest book illustrations ever produced, was the set of 16 watercolours depicting scenes from Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book. Macmillan first issued these in November 1903..Maurice suddenly committed suicide in April 1908. "Edward was devastated..[but] was determined to carry on with all the various ideas and projects they had originally planned in unison. He joined the ranks of Hodder & Stoughton's immortal band of gift book illustrators..with the superb 1909 edition of Aesop's Fables..For George Allen, Detmold illustrated Lemonnier's Birds and Beasts (1911), and two de luxe volumes by the Nobel prizewinner Maurice Maeterlinck, The Life of the Bee (1911) and Hours of Gladness (1912). He returned to Hodder & Stoughton with another popular animal series for children: The Book of Baby Birds (1912), The Book of Baby Pets (1913), The Book of Baby Dogs (1914), and Our Little Neighbours (1921). His final two opulent gift books for Hodder & Stoughton were Fabre's Book of Insects (1921), with 12 remarkable colour studies of the beautiful and bizarre denizens of the insect world a seen through Detmold's ‘microscope' eye; and The Arabian Nights (1924), a very successful change of direction into the realms of exotic fantasy. On the strength of The Arabian Nights, Detmold could have become one of the greatest illustrators of fantasy and fairy stories..During the 1920s Detmold continued to draw, paint, and hold exhibitions of etchings and drypoints, but it was not long before he retired completely from public life..On 1 July 1957 he committed suicide, nearly half a century after the death of his twin brother" (Richard Dalby, The Golden Age of Children's Book Illustration, pp. 96-98). .

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Book number: 02533

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Keywords: Persian Literature

DETMOLD, Edward J., illustrator

The Fables of ÆSop

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1909. One of 750 Copies Signed by the Artist Aesop's Fables Illustrated by Edward J. Detmold with Twenty-Five Magnificent Color Plates [DETMOLD, Edward J. illustrator]. AESOP. The Fables of Æsop. Illustrated with 25 Drawings in Color by Edward J. Detmold. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1909. One of 750 copies signed by Edward J. Detmold, of which this is no. 467. Large quarto (12 1/8 x 9 7/8 inches; 308 x 250 mm.). 80 Un-numbered leaves. Twenty-five magnificent mounted color plates, some with slightly irregular shapes. Publisher's white buckram, front cover pictorially stamped in gilt, spine lettered in gilt, publishers gilt emblem on back cover, top edge gilt, others uncut, plain end-papers except for small publishers' emblem printed in gray. Neat ink name on front free end-paper, spine slightly darkened and 'mottled' otherwise a very fine copy. Housed in the publishers white cardboard slip-case (repaired). An interesting feature of this book is the sometime slightly irregular shapes of the mounted color plates. "Except where separately acknowledged the fables in this volume are printed from the third edition of Sir Roger L'Estrange's translation (1699)." (Publishers' note). After the tragic death of his twin brother and collaborator, Edward Detmold concentrated his talents on books, primarily of flowers and animals: "Detmold's finest plates are those produced for The Fables of Aesop (1909), The Life of the Bee (1911), and Hours of Gladness (1912), the latter with texts after Maurice Maeterlinck, the Belgian poet, naturalist, and mystic..A painting of chrysanthemums, contained in Hours of Gladness, is a glorious acknowledgement of the artist's debt to William Morris and Burne-Jones" (David Larkin, The Fantastic Creatures of Edward Julius Detmold). .

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Book number: 03586

Catalogue: Illustrated Books

Keywords: Signed Limited Edition

DORÉ, Gustave

Les Différents Publics de Paris

Paris: Au Bureau du Journal Amusant, [1854]. A Superb Copy Of One of the Master's Earliest Successes DORÉ, Gustave. Les Différents Publics de Paris. Paris: Au Bureau du Journal Amusant, [1854]. First edition. Oblong quarto (10 x 13 1/4 in; 254 x 335 mm.). Lithograph title and twenty original lithograph plates. Publisher's lithographed green boards, small piece (1 1/8 inch) missing from top of spine. Ink signature on front free end-paper. Some light foxing, heavier on preliminary leaves. A superb copy of the second 'collection' from the most popular and successful French book illustrator of the mid 19th century. "These twenty lithographs are studies of massed humanity, ranging from the audiences at the great Parisian theatres to the crowds at a wrestling match or a Punch and Judy show. Without exception they are striking in conception and fertile in detail. To compare Doré's version of the reader's room at the library [no. 14, and amongst Doré's celebrated] with Daumier's in Les bas bleus is to ask one's self what word is left for the first if the second is called a caricature. Yet each of Doré's scenes is based on close observation, and the album provides valuable testimony to the manners of the day" (Ray). One of Doré's earliest efforts with which he made his debut at age twenty-two, Les Différents Publics de Paris "scored an easy success..brilliant..masterly lithographed skits on Paris" (Gosling, p. 16, 38). An important volume, and a cornerstone to any collection of Doré. Beraldi Vl, 30. Leblanc, 90. Rahir, 404. Ray, 241. List of Plates: 1. Opéra Italien. 2. Comédie Francaise. 3. Opéra (la fosse aux lions). 4. Jardin Des Plantes. 5. Odéon. 6. Folies Nouvelles. 7. Seraphin. 8. Funambules. 9. Soirées Fantastiques de Robert Houdin 10. Le Theatre Guignol. 11. Cirque et Hippodrome. 12. Les Lutteurs. 13. Les Abonnés Au Canon Du Palais Royal. 14. La Bibliotheque (Salle de travail). 15. Les Joueurs De Boules. 16. Amphithéatre De L'Ecole De Médecine. 17. Cours D' Anatomie Comparée Au Jardin Des Plantes. 18. La Coulisse De La Bourse. 19. Justice De Paix Du 12me. Arrondissement. 20. Les Revues. .

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Book number: 03768

Catalogue: Illustrated Books

Keywords: Books in French Music Theater French Caricature

DOYLE, Arthur Conan; SAUBER, Robert, illustrator

Uncle Bernac

London: Smith, Elder, & Co., 1897. I dare say that I had already read my uncle's letter a hundred times, and I am sure that I knew it by heart" DOYLE, A[rthur] Conan. Uncle Bernac. A Memory of the Empire. London: Smith, Elder, & Co. 1897. First English edition. Octavo (7 1/2 x 5 inches; 191 x 127 mm.). x, 300, [8, publishers advertisements] pp. Monotone frontispiece (with tissue-guard) and eleven monotone plates by Robert Sauber. Three leaves with slightly creased corners, a few light marginal stains, otherwise very good. Publisher's red cloth, front cover blocked and titled in gilt, spine lettered in gilt, black coated endpapers. Inner hinges cracked, spine ends and corners a little rubbed. A good copy. 12,500 copies were published on 14th May 1897 priced 6/-. "I dare say that I had already read my uncle's letter a hundred times, and I am sure that I knew it by heart. None the less I took it out of my pocket, and, sitting on the side of the lugger, I went over it again with as much attention as if it were for the first time. It was written in a prim, angular hand, such as one might expect from a man who had begun life as a village attorney, and it was addressed to Louis de Laval, to the care of William Hargreaves, of the Green Man in Ashford, Kent. The landlord had many a hogshead of untaxed French brandy from the Normandy coast, and the letter had found its way by the same hands.." (Chapter I - The Coast of France). Robert Herman Sauber (1868-1936) was a British painter and illustrator. Green and Gibson A21a. .

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Book number: 05018

Catalogue: Illustrated Books

Keywords: SAUBER, Robert, illustrator Nineteenth-Century Literature Naval and Military

DULAC, Edmund, Illustrator

Belle Au Bois Dormant, la [the Sleeping Beauty]

Paris: L'Edition d'Art H. Piazza & Cie, 1910. Numbered and Signed by the Artist In The Publishers Deluxe Morocco by Durvand A Variant Not Noted by Hughey [DULAC, Edmund, illustrator]. La Belle Au Bois Dormant [The Sleeping Beauty]. Et quelques aures contes de jadis. Préface de Edmund Pilon, Illustrations de Edmund Dulac. Paris: L'Edition d'Art H. Piazza & Cie, (1910). First edition in French, limited to 400 copies signed by the artist, this being copy no. 266. Quarto (11 5/8 x 9 in; 293 x 228 mm). 172, [1, limitation], [1, blank], [3, adv.], [1, blank] pp. With thirty color plates as in the first English limited edition but with grey-green borders, captions in French, and guard sheets as tissue. With an additional four extra head- and tailpieces, four decorated initials and border designs for text and chapter pages, and two small medallions, all printed in grey-green, not found in the first English limited edition. In the publisher's original full crushed brown morocco deluxe binding by Durvand (with elaborate gilt decoration, wrappers bound in). Top edge gilt. Spine very slightly sunned. A fine copy. Includes Le Barbe Bleue (Bluebeard), Cendrillon (Cinderella), and La Belle et la Béte (Beauty and the Beast). A variant not noted by Hughey, numbered and signed as 23x but specially bound as noted in 23z, aa yet in a variant leather color ("green or red"). "[Dulac's] best work..is to be found in The Sleeping Beauty and Other Fairy Tales. His designs for the title story and 'Cinderella' have ornate eighteenth century settings ..No less ornate and rather more attractive are the eastern scenes conceived by Dulac for 'Bluebeard' and 'Beauty and the Beast'" (Ray, The Illustrator and the Book in England 1790-1914, p. 209). "The most beautiful book ever published at a popular price" (Advert. 1910). "It is all that could be desired" (Illustrated London News, Dec. 3, 1919). Hughey 23x, 23z, aa. .

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Book number: 02808

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Keywords: Fine Bindings Books in French French Literature Signed Limited Edition

DULAC, Edmund; ROSENTHAL, Léonard

Kingdom of the Pearl, the

New York: Brentano's, 1925. One of 100 Copies Signed by Edmund Dulac In the Original Printed Dust Jacket [DULAC, Edmund, illustrator]. ROSENTHAL, Léonard. The Kingdom of the Pearl. Illustrated by Edmund Dulac. New York: Brentano's [n.d. 1925]. American deluxe limited edition (first published with Dulac illustrations in French in 1920 with title: Au Royaume de la Perle). One of 100 copies numbered and signed by the artist (this copy being No. 48), out of a total edition of 775 copies "for sale in the United States of America"). Large quarto (11 15/16 x 9 5/8 inches; 303 x 243 mm.). [12], 150, [1], [1, printer's imprint] pp. Ten mounted color plates, with descriptive tissue guards. Original quarter vellum over cream paper boards. Front cover and spine decoratively stamped and lettered in gilt. Top edge gilt, others uncut. Decorative endpapers. A fine copy in the original printed dust jacket. From the renowned collection of Estelle Doheny, with her neat leather book-plate on front paste-down. "Au Royaume de la Perle was first published in Paris (by Payot) in 1919 without benefit of the Dulac illustrations which the author Mr. Rosenthal so eagerly sought. But when, in 1920, Dulac found time to produce 10 pictures, Mr. Rosenthal not only purchased the water colours, but had another publisher, Piazza of Paris, publish a 1,500-copy new edition of his ‘Perle' book with the Dulac illustrations. Also Dulac reveals in a reply to a Mr. Carroll of Massachusetts who hoped to buy one of the ‘Pearl' illustrations that Mr. Rosenthal also purchased the copyright to the 10 pictures. However Mr. Rosenthal did allow his book with Dulac pictures and in English translation to be published in England by The Nisbet Publishing House..The English edition, although praised by The Times Literary critic as Dulac ‘at his best' and ‘fantastically Persian,' was not a commercial success. In order to make use of the 775 sheets remaining from 1,550 printed for the English edition, arrangements were made in 1925 to market an edition through Brentano's, booksellers in New York..The ‘Pearl' pictures indeed display a ripening of a Dulac style first seen in Sindbad the Sailor, employed in some of his Fairy Book pictures and developed fully in The Tanglewood Tales. It is a Persian miniature style, but made quite his own..His plates, truly genius, do much to bring a fanciful touch to the otherwise stark exposition of a treatise on pearls" (Hughey). Hughey 54d. .

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Book number: 03381

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DULAC, Edmund; ANDERSEN, Hans Christian

Reine Des Neiges, la

Paris: L'Édition D'Art / H. Piazza, 1911. French Signed Limited Edition of Edmund Dulac's Hans Andersen [DULAC, Edmund, illustrator]. ANDERSEN, Hans Christian. La Reine des Neiges et Quelques Autres Contes Illustrés par Edmond Dulac. Paris: L'Édition D'Art / H. Piazza, [1911]. French Signed Limited Edition. Limited to 500 numbered copies on Papier du Japon signed by Edmund Dulac (this being #487). Quarto (11 3/8 x 8 3/4 inches; 290 x 224 mm.). 172 pp. Title-page decoratively printed in red, black green and yellow. Twenty-eight mounted color plates, each framed with turquoise green flowery borders and titled tissue-guards. Original front wrapper decorated in green and gilt bound in. Contemporary (Publishers ?) full mottled calf, covers with triple rule borders and decorative corner pieces, spine with five raised bands, decoratively stamped in gilt and with a maroon morocco lettering label. All edges stained red, marbled endpapers. Expert and almost invisible repair to rear joint, tiny (one inch) crack at top of front joint. An excellent copy. "28 Dulac colour plates, mounted on vellum, framed with turquoise green flowery borders; covered with tissue guards imprinted with black captions. Also special turquoise green borders for title page and snowflake border designs for text pages. 5 different dark green initials decorated with turquoise surrounds; small medallion designs for limitation and printer's pages, 7 designs for chapter titles, 9 tailpiece designs.. Price when issued: full leather 100 fr." (Hughey, 27kk). During his lifetime, Hans Christian Andersen, whose every fairy tale has become a classic, was second only to Charles Dickens as the most popular author in the Western world. Hughey, 27kk. .

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Book number: 03185

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Keywords: ANDERSEN, Hans Christian Books in French Fairy Tales Signed Limited Edition

DULAC, Edmund, Illustrator; KHAYYAM, Omar; FITZGERALD, Edward (trans.)

Rubáiyát of Omar KhayyáM

London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1909. Edmund Dulac's Rubaiyat [DULAC, Edmund, illustrator]. KHAYYÁM, Omar. FITZGERALD, Edward (trans.). Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám. Rendered into English Verse by Edward Fitzgerald. With Illustrations by Edmund Dulac. London: Hodder and Stoughton, [1909]. First trade edition. Quarto (10 11/16 x 8 3/8 inches; 271 x 213 mm). [60] leaves. Title-page decoratively printed in sepia and light brown. Twenty mounted color plates, including frontispiece, each with a captioned tissue guard. Decorative borders to plates and leaves. Bound ca. 1910 for the Times Book Club in full plum calf, covers decoratively bordered in gilt, spine with three raised bands, f=decoratively stamped and lettered in gilt. Top-edge gilt, gilt board-edges and turn-ins, marbled end-papers. Some rubbing and slight splitting to joints, but still sound. Ink inscription dated 1923 on top margin of half-title. A reasonably priced example of this classic. Hughey 21a. .

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Book number: 03651

Catalogue: Illustrated Books

Keywords: KHAYYAM, Omar FITZGERALD, Edward (trans.) Fine Bindings Persian Literature

EDWARDS, Lionel

My Hunting Sketch Book [and] My Hunting Sketch Book Volume Two

London: Eyre and Spottiswoode Limited, 1928. The Large-Paper Edition DeLuxe - Signed by Lionel Edwards EDWARDS, Lionel. My Hunting Sketch Book [and] My Hunting Sketch Book Volume Two. Written and Illustrated by Lionel Edwards, R.I. London: Eyre and Spottiswoode Limited, 1928-1930. Large-Paper Copies. Limited to 255 and copies and 185 copies signed by Lionel Edwards (these being copies #155 and 90 respectively). The mounted color frontispiece in volume one is also signed by Lionel Edwards. Two folio volumes (12 7/16 x 10 1/8 inches: 315 x 258 mm.). xiv, 28, [1, blank], [1, colophon], 2, blank] pp. with fifteen mounted color plates; xvi, 40, [1, blank], [1, colophon], 2, blank] pp. with twelve mounted color and nine black and white plates. Publishers quarter vellum over red cloth boards, front covers titled in gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut. Slight rubbing to corners, otherwise a fine set. Volume one with the Sporting Gallery exhibition announcement dated November 1928 for the original drawings for "My Hunting Sketch Book" laid in. Lionel Edwards (1878-1966) was a British artist who specialized in painting horses and other aspects of British country life. He is best known for his hunting scenes but also painted pictures of horse racing, shooting and fishing. He provided illustrations for Country Life, The Sphere, The Graphic and numerous books. His artistic output was remarkable: he wrote almost 30 books and illustrated many more, including editions of Black Beauty, Lorna Doone and The Black Arrow, in addition to numerous private commissions. He became a member of the Royal Cambrian Academy of Art in 1926 and the Royal Institute in 1927. His favorite medium was watercolor, although he used oils more in his later years. .

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Book number: 03288

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Keywords: Hunting Signed Limited Edition Sports

BIBLE IN ENGLISH; FITTLER, James, engraver

Holy Bible Ornamented with Engravings by James Fittler from Celebrated Pictures by Old Masters, the

London: R. Bowyer, 1795. The 'Killer Bible', Illustrated with Sixty-Two Copper-Engraved Plates from the Old Masters, A Remarkably Fine Copy of the Large-Paper Edition In a Wonderful Georgian Full Morocco Binding [BIBLE IN ENGLISH]. The Holy Bible Ornamented with Engravings by James Fittler from Celebrated Pictures by Old Masters. The Letter Press by Thomas Bensley. London: R. Bowyer, 1795. Two large quarto volumes (12 1/2 x 9 3/4 inches; 318 x 248 mm.). Unpaginated. Text in double columns. With two copper-engraved title-pages (with a separate title-page for the New Testament) and sixty-two plates (including two frontispieces) from the works of Dürer, Rembrandt, Van Dyck, Rubens, and others. Lower corner of 3H3 (possible paper-fault) torn away with no loss of text. Some foxing to a few of the plates, otherwise remarkably bright and fresh. Contemporary English full dark blue straight-grained morocco. Covers with two gilt borders surrounding blind-stamped Greek key design. Spines with five double raised bands ruled in gilt, blind-stamped Greek key design and lettered in gilt in compartments. Board-edges decorated in blind, elaborate gilt decorated turn-ins, gray liners and endleaves, all edges gilt. Gift signature to front flyleaf in volume one (dated 1841) and a tipped-in square of paper with another nineteenth century gift inscription. Some light scuffing to the boards, otherwise near fine. A spectacular example of the large paper edition, which is dramatically larger than the regular one. This Bible is remembered by many as the "Killer Bible" for its typographical error in Mark VII, verse 27: "Let the children be killed" rather than "filled." However, it is more exemplary for its artistic design by some of England's most skilled book artists of the period. James Fittler (1758-1835), who exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1788 to 1824 and was marine engraver to George III, is also known for his engravings for the Boydell Shakespeare and Dibdin's Aedes Althorpinae, though this Bible was probably his most ambitious literary project. Thomas Bentley, who printed the text, was known for his attractive editions including fine, large works for Thomas Macklin, Rudolph Ackermann, and Paul Colnaghi, all publishers of plate books, and was responsible for several of the earliest books for the Roxburghe Club. ESTC lists three editions of the Bowyer and Fittler Bible: this one, which ESTC describes as the large paper edition; the regular two-volume quarto edition (also 1795); and a: two-volume twelvemo edition (1796), which was issued in parts. ESTC records only seven copies of this large-paper issue: British Library; Cashel Cathedral Library; the Bodleian; University of Toronto; NYPL; Union Theological Seminary, and the University of Houston. Herbert 1394. ESTC T95050. .

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Book number: 05223

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Keywords: FITTLER, James, engraver Bibles Fine Bindings Religion