ALKEN, Henry.

A Touch at the Fine Arts.

London. Thomas M'Lean. 1824. 4to. Colour lithograph frontispiece, title, preface leaf and 11 colour ... (more)

Alken's satirical collection of plates illuminating the terminology of artistic criticism. Each ... (more)

£800

ref: 33268

ARNATT, Keith.

Art & Project Bulletin 23. Keith Arnatt 1220400 - 0000000.

Amsterdam. 1970.

Between 1968 and 1989 Geert van Beijeren and Adriaan van Ravesteijn published 156 issues of the ... (more)

£60

ref: 35852

BANTING, John.

A Blue Book of Conversation.

London. Editions Poetry. 1946. 8vo. pp. v, 57. Illustrated with decorative title and twenty-five plates, of which one is double-page. All of the plates are printed in blue after designs by Banting. Original cloth with yellow printed dust-jacket.

First edition, from the library of André Breton. 'A Blue Book of Conversation is a series of ... (more)

£900

ref: 22768

BEARDSLEY, Aubrey.

Set of eight engravings to illustrate Lysistrata.

London. n.p. c.1905. Large 4to. (Sheet size 35 x 27.5 cm). With 8 plates by Aubrey Beardsley. Issued without text. Loose as issued in original purple wrappers, with title printed on front.

Rare large paper printing of the plates from Beardsley's fin-de-siècle erotic masterpiece. Aubrey ... (more)

£3,500

ref: 37585

BEARDSLEY. Jonson, Ben.

Volpone; or, the Foxe, a new edition.

London. Leonard Smithers. 1898. 4to. Cover, frontispiece and five initial letters by Beardsley. Original blue cloth binding, with gilt design by Beardsley, slightly worn on base of spine.

From the edition of 1,100 copies.

£450

ref: 20676

BELL, Clive.

Poems.

London. Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press. 1921. 8vo. pp. 29, (1 leaf with ads. recto). Original publisher's printed wrappers with red clover pattern and red letterpress to front wrapper.

First edition - limited to 350 copies - this copy entirely unopened. Clive Bell, husband of ... (more)

£600

ref: 33349

BLAKE. Keynes, Geoffrey.

William Blake's Water-colour Designs for the Poems of Thomas Gray.

London. The Trianon Press for the William Blake Trust. 1972. 3 vols. large 4to. 32, 116 colour plates printed by collotype and hand-stencil process on rectos only, 4 monochrome plates. Publisher's morocco-backed marbled boards and matching slip-cases.

The series of water-colours is reproduced here for the first time in facsimiles of remarkable ... (more)

£1,500

ref: 37641

BOYDELL.

A Collection of Prints, from Pictures Painted for the Purpose of Illustrating the Dramatic Works of Shakespeare, by the Artists of Great Britain.

London. Published by John & Josiah Boydell &c. 1803; 1805. 2 vols. in 1. Elephant folio. Engraved ... (more)

[PROVENANCE: Bookplate of Sir Weetman Dickinson Pearson Bart. of Paddockhurst, Sussex (1856 ... (more)

£7,500

ref: 40715

BRANGWYN.

A large collection of original watercolours, drawings, sketches and notes by Frank Brangwyn; with many relating to the Pollard exhibition of 1930, the decoration of Temple Lodge, Hammersmith, and work at Ilkley School; as well as numerous furniture and assorted designs.

c.1930.

One of the most important groups of drawings in this major collection are Brangwyn's designs for the ... (more)

£36,000

ref: 19668

BROOKSHAW, George.

Groups of Flowers, Drawn and Accurately Coloured After Nature, with Full Directions for the Young Artist; Designed as a Companion to the Treatise on Flower Painting [Together with:] Groups of Fruit [And:] Six Birds.

London. Thomas McLean. 1819. 3 vols. in 1. Folio. (370 x 275 mm). Printed title to each part ... (more)

Second editions of three of Brookshaw's works to promote the art of drawing. 'I may perhasp be ... (more)

£2,000

ref: 40719

BUCKLAND WRIGHT.

Cupid's Pastime.

Printed by A.A.M. Stols for J.B.W. Editions. 1935. Thirteen copper engravings including a complete set of the artist's proofs for the six plates used in the published book. All with the studio stamp on the verso. (Most 11/5 x 6.5 or 5 x 6.5 cm).

From the edition limited to 31 copies marked A to Z and AA to EE. The collection includes 3 ... (more)

£3,000

ref: 34580

BUCKLAND WRIGHT. Mallarmé, Stephane.

L'apres-midi d'un faune. The translation by Aldous Huxley. Drawings by John Buckland Wright.

London. Golden Cockerel Press. 1956. 28.5 x 17.5 cm. pp. 14. 4 large full page wash drawings, and 5 smaller sketches. 4 copper engravings. Green morocco, with a design in gilt on the front cover, the 4 engravings in a separate cloth covered envelope, the 2 parts housed in a slipcase. With the ex libris of James L. Thielman on the front pastedown.

Limited to 200 copies. This example is from the 'Special' copies numbered 1 - 100 bound in full ... (more)

£750

ref: 40005

BUCKLAND WRIGHT. [Keats, John]

Keats' Sonnets.

Maastricht. The Halcyon Press for A.A.M Stols. 1930. An archive of 13 original drawings and 32 proof ... (more)

Buckland Wright worked with Stols on 15 books of which this is the first. Looking back in 1941 on ... (more)

£8,000

ref: 34577

CAMERON & STRANG.

Six Etchings by D. Y. Cameron and W. Strang.

London. Seeley and Co. Ltd. 1906. Folio. (Sheet size 265 x 370 mm.). pp. (4). Title, list of ... (more)

The plates are as follows:
Cameron:
Perth Bridge.
Arran.
Strang:
The Prodigal Son.
Lifting potatoes.
Tinkers.
The Mother.

£900

ref: 22918

CAMERON.

Collection of Twenty Original Engravings by D. Y. Cameron.

Sheet size 22.5 x 16.5 cm Each print individually mounted, and initialled in the plate by the artist.

A fine selection of Cameron prints, in the main illustrating renowned buildings in Winchester ... (more)

£1,600

ref: 27350