Biographical Anecdotes of William Hogarth; with a Catalogue of His Works Chronologically Arranged; and Occasional Remarks de John Nichols ) - 1782

London: A & C Black, 1904. First edition. Hard cover in original patterned cloth. Published London: A & C Black, 1904. 4to., 9" x 10 3/4", xxvi+153pp., illustrated with 125 black and white and color, full page plates, all with tissue guards, top edge gilt. Four inch split to rear outer hinge cloth, some soil and fade to the covers and spine. Pages and plates clean and bright, internally very good. . 1st. Hard. Good/No Jacket. 4to.

London: E T Brain & Co 2 volumes, bound as one. Published London: E T Brain & Co, c. 1850's. 4to., 8 3/4" x 10 3/4", double frontis plates+ iv+145; double frontis plates+iv, 147-280. All plates present. Ex-library in library binding. Text and plates very good plus, clean, bright, no foxing or discoloration. . Hard. Very Good/No Jacket, As Issued. 4to.

A radical working class group of queer graphic artists who took the agitation prop poster form to its limit.Each page is a graphic /art entirety.A powerful statement of the cutting edge radicalism of its time. Some pages shown in the V&A Museum
Printed on coated art paper each page (or opening) is an graphic entity that can be photocopied and used as a fly poster. It followed the format of 'Flyposter Frenzy' by Matthew Fullwer.
Copy now sold to support a working class artist's initiatives.

A oversized catalogue of this significant show of the same name. Publication includes essay by Glyn Banks of 'Art in Ruins', and two poster poems on separate pages by Deborah Levy ('After Magritte' and 'After Warhol') illustrated. Contains original screen prints. Some pages In Colour.One copy with white card cover, another with brown card cover, both with silk screen by Hercules FishermanDetails and images made for those with a serious interest in this rare item. Difficult to assess value as so rare. Offers welcome! Ask for more details or photos.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1988. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First Printing. A wonderful copy of this magnificent book- SIGNED, with silver ink-splash, INSCRIBED to the previous owner & DATED, and with an accompanying drawing. A Fine copy in Fine unclipped dustjacket.

London: John Lane Company/The Bodley Head, 1924. This is a very good hardcover copy in the original binding: brown paper-covered boards and cream cloth spine with black leather spine label, titled in gilt. Very clean inside and out. A few previous owner marks, one an interesting circular handstamp on the front pastedown identifying it as belonging to the De Forests at 640 Madison Avenue. Perhaps the family of Lockwood De Forest. His siblings were prominent in the art worlds of the late 19th and early 20th century. One became a trustee of the Metropolitan Museum, another was an art historian, and both lived in New York. The other mark is a neat but not legible handstamp, a name in script, that appears on the backs of several plates. Also a number on the spine which was covered with a tiny white square of paper. No other marks, and not an x-library copy, but a privately owned copy. Some expert conservation on the inner hinges, now virtually invisible. 79 illustrations in color and black & white.… Leer más

Boston and Oxford: Boston Library / Ashmolean, 1966. SIGNED first edition, limited to 600 copies. Copy number 148. Hard cover in original cloth. Published Boston and Oxford: Boston Library / Ashmolean, 1966, first printing. 4to., 8 7/8" x 11 1/4", xi+364pp., illustrated with 156 b/w reproductions. Signed by author on copyright page. Includes a chapter on the artist's life, an illustrated and annotated catalogue of engravings, a catalogue of 1443 watercolors, drawings, furniture designs, architectural work, the artist's technical notes, a bibliography of books and articles on Griggs and of books and articles illustrated by Griggs, index. Some dust spotting along top edge, previous owner name on flyleaf, else near fine, on markings or wear. . Signed by Author. 1st. Hard. Near Fine/No Jacket, As Issued. 4to. Limited Edition.

Good copy of this beautifully illustrated book of classic fables with realistic animal studiesComplete with 56 etchings, drawn and engraved "from the life" by Samuel Howitt, with title page and list of platesPlate 32, The Dog in the Manger, bound opposite the title page as the frontispieceSamuel Howitt (1756–1822) was an English painter, illustrator and etcher, famous for his scenes with animals, hunting, horse-racing, sporting and landscapes. He is best known for his illustrations to Captain Thomas Williamson's Oriental Field Sports (1807). Other works include Thoughts on Hunting (1798), Miscellaneous Etchings of Animals (1803), British Field Sports (1807); The Angler's Manual (1808), Groups of Animals (1811), The British Sportsman (1812) and Foreign Field Sports (1819).Blue buckram spine, marble boards bumped and darkened, new endpapers, tissue guards, all plates with varying degrees of spotting and foxing, mostly outside the image, one with 10cm tear within image, first 25 plates with small… Leer más

London: The Religious Tract Society, 1884. Full-leather binding with Coat of Arms. Sea Pictures drawn with Pen and Pencil, printed by W. Clowes & Sons for The Religious Tract Society, n.d. (1884), 10.5 x 8", 216 pages. === Frontcover with central crowned coat-of-arms and monogram "E.R.", backcover with another coat-of-arms, both covers within gilt border, gilt board edges, gilt and ribbed spine w. morocco letterpiece, all edges marbled, very nice marbled endpapers. 27 x 20 cm. A bit chafed and rubbed, but a nice armorial binding in good condition.w. wood-engraved. frontispiece printed in colours and numerous. (full-p.) wood-engraved. illustrations., 4to (sl. foxed).

A very good copy of a scarce edition of the Dance of Death.Complete with handcoloured woodcut frontispiece and 10 other woodcuts by an unknown artist (perhaps Wenceslaus Hollar).One of "400 copies plain" from an edition of 460 (60 copies were issued with handcolour). The 11 subjects are: The Count (handcoloured), The Pope Crowning an Emperor, Emperor, Empress, Queen, Bishop, Abbess, Canoness, Soldier, Physician and Preacher. According to the author, "the blocks illustrating this work are a series found in a northern printing office many years ago. They seem to be of considerable age." Elsewhere, he identifies the owner to be Joseph Temple, a Hull printer and newspaper publisher. According to the exhaustive Dance of Death website dodedans.com, the woodcuts here follow the 1816 re-issue of Wenceslaus Hollar's reworking of Arnold Birckmann's copies of Holbein's woodcuts. The engravings lack any artist's initials or signatures.Thomas Tindall Wildridge (1858-1928) was a librarian, antiquarian, artist and… Leer más