[NOEL HUMPHREYS]

The Illuminator> containing all the Parts of the Illuminator's Magazine & Completing the Subject.

Barnard & Son, 1862? 4to. pp. 110, 23 of 29 plates, mostly in colour, some heightened in gold. Original embossed cloth, rather mottled, inner joint pulled.U Scarce, The Library Hub lists 3 locations [N.L.S., Cambridge and University of Edinburgh], OCLC lists a further 3 copies in U.S. institutions. Some of the contributions are signed by Noel Humphreys. Although there appear to be 6 plates missing, these appear to have never been bound in.

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Book number: 42871

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MAX BEERBOHM

Two Original Watercolour Cartoons relating to the affair between George Bernard Shaw and Mrs Patrick Campbell. Titled "Mrs. Campbell and Mr. Shaw as They Respectively Appeared to Themselves," and "Mrs. Campbell and Mr. Shaw as They Respectively Appear to Each Other."

1922. 2 original watercolours, each approximately 210 x 190 mm. signed "Max," titled and dated July 1922. In later mounts and frames. Unpublished during Beerbohm's lifetime [1872 - 1956], perhaps because they are slightly crueller than many of his caricatures and he was closely acquainted with both subjects. They first appeared in Alan Dent's biography of Mrs. Patrick Campbell [1961] as from the collection of S.H. Benson Ltd. a leading London advertising agency in the mid 20th century. They were sold at Phillips, London [Sale no. 979, 2nd June 1992, lots 13 and 14].

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Book number: 45337

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BELL, Vanessa

Exhibition of Paintings by Vanessa Bell (1880 - 1961). 6th - 27th October, 1961.

The Adams Gallery, 1961. 8vo. pp. 12> 4 black & white reproductions of her paintings. Foreword by A. Dunoyer de Segonzac. Wrappers, Very Good.

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Book number: 43181

Catalogue: Art and Illustration

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BELL, Vanessa

A Memorial Exhibition of Her Paintings.

Arts Council, 1964. 4to. pp. 16> 6 illustrations. Introduction by Ronald Pickvance. Wrappers, Very Good.

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Book number: 43182

Catalogue: Art and Illustration

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WAR ARTISTS' ADVISORY COMMITTEE

Photographic Catalogue of Paintings and Drawings. World War 2.

Unpublished, c. 1946. 2 Volumes. Folio, each 380 x 280 mm. and containing 210 mounted photographs of paintings and drawings, each photograph around 240 x 180 mm. and smaller. The bindings worn and loose, spines lacking. Headed by Sir Kenneth Clark, The stated aim of the WAAC, and the War Artists Advisory Scheme, which it ran, was "to draw up a list of artists qualified to record the war at home and abroad. In co-operation with the Services Departments, and other Government Departments...to advise on the selection of artists on this list for war purposes and on the arrangements for their employment." Apparently a contemporary catalogue of a selection of drawings and paintings commissioned by the WAAC during World War 2, it contains a small selection from the 5,570 works produced by over 400 artists, some directly employed by the WAAC, and some whose work was submitted to the committee and subsequently purchased. Around 3,000 works now reside with the Imperial War Museum, the rest scattered in galleries throughout Britain and overseas, apart from a 111 which were lost on their way to South America when their boat was sunk. The artists here represented include many of the best known of the period: Edward Ardizzone, John Armstrong, Keith Armstrong, Robert Austin, Joseph Bato, Edward Bawden, Sam Black, Muirhead Bone, Stephen Bone, Henry Carr, Bernard Casson, William Clause, Charles Cundall, Robin Darwin, Francis Dodd, Evelyn Dunbar, Reginald Grenville Eves, Michael Ford, Barnett Freedman, Hubert Freeth, Ethel Gabain, Anthony Gross, James Gunn, Kathleen Guthrie, Bernard Hailstone, Clifford Hall, Thomas Hennell, Norman Hepple, Edmond Kapp, Henry Lamb Akenola Lasekan, Alexander MacPherson, P.G. Maloba, John Mansbridge, James Miller, Henry Moore, Cuthbert Orde, Charles Pears, Roland Pitchforth, Eric Ravilious, William Rawlinson, William Roberts, Michael Rothenstein, P. Schwabe, Julius Stafford-Baker, Graham Sutherland, Alfred Thomson, Jack Yeats plus a few others whose signatures do not appear or which are indecipherable. There are multiple examples by Edward Ardizzone, Edward Bawden, Cuthbert Orde and others.

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Book number: 44416

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HAROLD CURWEN

Processes of Graphic Reproduction in Printing.

Faber and Faber, 1947. New Editiojn, printed at the Curwen press. 8vo. pp. xvi, 143> illustrations. Very Good in dust wrapper designed by Barnet Freedman, which has a couple of small closed tears.

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Book number: 45069

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GEORGE A. FOTHERGILL

Bookplates.

1907 - 28. Folio. 24 bookplates, 8 notepaper headings, 4 sheets of letter samples, 7 miscellaneous items including a Christmas card. All mounted in a full leather album, recently rebacked, each item mounted on a large sheet with extensive manuscript explanatory notes by the artist on the opposite page. "The complete Collection of my Book-plates, eighteen [sic] in all, done by me during the years 1907 to 1928, together with designs for Note-paper headings, Initial Letters, a Testimonial, and 2 New Years' cards & a Christmas Card (1929) George Fothergill." The artist's record of his work including designs for his own bookplate, many signed in pencil, in some cases the examples are proof pulls of 3 or 5 copies. The extensive descriptions and explanations of the designs give testimony to the care he gave in finding the most appropriate image and his attention to detail. The first bookplate, his own, with the motto "So Farre, No Farther" records "Although done for a book-plate, I do not think I ever had more than two or three prints pulled from the block. The same. however, was used for the inscription portion of a large plate entitled "A Curiosity of Heraldry, or George A. Fothergill riding his latest hobby.

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Book number: 44343

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FRY, Roger

Portraits by Roger Fry.

Courtauld Institute Galleries, 1976. 8vo. pp. 31, addenda slip re ex-catalogue self portrait> 5 illustrations. Introduction by Frances Spalding. Wrappers discoloured otherwise Very Good.

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Book number: 43183

Catalogue: Art and Illustration

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A.L. HIRSCHFELD

Manhattan Oases. New York's 1932 Speak-easies, with a Gentleman's Guide to Bars and Beverages by Gordon Kahn. With an introduction by Heywood Broun.

New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1932. 1st Edition. 4to. pp. 82. Original blue cloth, faded and spine label chipped, a little silverfish damage to head of first blank. With the original dust wrapper which is rather ragged and in a sorry state. This copy's redeeming feature is the dated ownership signature of the English novelist and wildlife writer Henry Williamson [1895 - 1977], whose library was recently dispersed.

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Book number: 44337

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MICA PAINTINGS

55 Original Indian Paintings on Mica. Costume, Trade, Characters, etc.

c. 1840 A collection of 55 lovely gouache paintings on mica, each 105 x 75 mm. corner mounted into a contemporary album. Unusually, the mica is in good order with no cracking> the images still bright.

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Book number: 43480

Catalogue: Art and Illustration

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JOHN PIPER

Brighton Aquatints> with an Introduction by Lord Alfred Douglas.

Curwen Press, 1939. Oblong Folio. pp. 12 monochrome aquatints with accompanying text on blue paper. Original cloth backed boards,a little worn along the edges, internally fine. The standard edition of which only 200 copies were issued.

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Book number: 44892

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HENRY SHAW

The Arms of The Colleges of Oxford. With Historical Notices of the Colleges by the Rev. John W. Burgon.

Oxford: Spiers and Son, 1855 [-1857 or later] Large 4to. pp. unpaginated, [200], 20 hand coloured lithographic plates, heightened with gold and silver. Later full crushed morocco, tope edge gilt. Originally published in parts over three years, the final part dated 1857 at the end of the text. "In November 1855 [Shaw] began publishing The Arms of the Colleges of Oxford in ten monthly quarto parts, each containing two plates and descriptive text by the Rev. J.W. Burgon. The complete work was published by Spiers & Son of Oxford and is dated 1855. The plates are among the finest he ever did: the shield and surrounding gothic frame are drawn on stone and most richly hand-coloured. The typography is characteristic of the Chiswick Press, but no printer's imprint appears. Each shield bears the monogram 'HS' incorporated into the design and each is dated between 1852 and 1862. The original work was expensive at 8 guineas, and it was a Bohn remainder in 1861 at 94/6d." (McLean, Victorian Book Design, p.68). Uncommon, the Library Hub listing 5 locations.

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Book number: 44252

Catalogue: Art and Illustration

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ARTS & CRAFTS EXHIBITION SOCIETY

Catalogue of the First Exhibition.

The New Gallery, 1888. Small 8vo. pp. 180. Original wrappers, designed by Walter Crane, spine and part of front wrapper with restoration. The first exhibition catalogue for one of the most influential movements of the late Victorian age. Its first president, Walter Crane wrote "We desired first of all to give opportunity to the designer and craftsman to exhibit their work to the public for its artistic interest and thus to assert the claims of decorative art and handicraft to attention equally with the painter of easel pictures, hitherto almost exclusively associated with the term art in the public mind. Ignoring the artificial distinction between Fine and Decorative art, we felt that the real distinction was what we conceived to be between good and bad art, or false and true taste and methods in handicraft, considering it of little value to endeavour to classify art according to its commercial value or social importance, while everything depended upon the spirit as well as the skill and fidelity with which the conception was expressed, in whatever material, seeing that a worker earned the title of artist by the sympathy with and treatment of his material, by due recognition of its capacity, and its natural limitations, as well as of the relation of the work to use and life." Rare, we have been able to trace only a single copy offered at auction within the last 50 years. This copy, marked "Under Revision" on the upper wrapper and half title, appears to be an early or proof edition, prior to its general release. The pagination differing from copies digitalised on-line. The same number of exhibits are included, but the list of guarantors differs, and this lacks the detailed index included with the final version.

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Book number: 45079

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