International Artists
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# 50278
MALORY, Sir Thomas; BEARDSLEY, Aubrey
Le Morte d’Arthur. The birth life and acts of King Arthur of his noble Knights of the Round Table, their marvellous enquests and adventures, the achieving of the San Greal, and in the end le morte Darthur with the dolourous death and departing out of this world of them all.
The text as written by Sir Thomas Malory and imprinted by William Caxton at Westminster the year MCCCCLXXXV and now spelled in modern style, embellished with many original designs by Aubrey Beardsley. With an introduction by Professor John Rhys and a note on Aubrey Beardsley by Aymer Vallance. London : Dent, 1927. Quarto: striking gilt …
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# 49328
GAULTIER, Théophile
Jean and Jeannette
With illustrations by Ad. Lalauze. Preface by Leo Clarate. Paris : Societe des Beaux Arts, 1890s. Quarto, in a magnificent binding of full levant morocco, upper and lower boards elaborately decorated in gilt and multiple inlaid leathers with a large central fleur de lys within a floral border, spine in compartments with raised bands, lettered …
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# 50276
STERNE, Laurence
Voyage sentimental en France et en Italie.
Traduction de Emile Blemont. Illustrations de Maurice Leloir. Paris : Librairie Artistique, 1884. Folio, finely bound in full crushed blue morocco by Canape R.D., filed in gilt with ornamental gilt corner pieces, spine in compartments with raised bands, ruled and lettered in gilt, slightly rubbed at edges, ruled gilt dentelles with ornamental detail, marbled endpapers, …
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# 50356
VOLTAIRE
Contes en vers et Premiers Contes en Vers.
Préface d’Eugène Marsan. Édition illustrée de six Eaux-Fortes originates à l’aquatinte par d’Henri Lafarge. Paris : Éditions Léo Delteil, 1925. Quarto, finely bound by Riviere in half crushed Morocco over marbled papered boards, ruled in gilt, spine in compartments with raised bands, gilt ornamentation and contrasting morocco title labels, some silver fishing and retouching to …
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# 34554
LEE, Sydney Williams (1841-1917)
Manuscript letter from architect Sydney Williams Lee to artist John Seymour Lucas, March 1879, with an offer to purchase “The Gordon Riots”, the painting which was acquired by the Art Gallery of New South Wales at the Melbourne Exhibition in 1881.
Manuscript in ink on wove writing paper, octavo bifolium (179 x 112 mm), [4] pp, written on the first side only; headed ‘4 Burston Road, Putney. March 5th 1879’; signed at the foot ‘Sydney W. Lee’; the note is addressed ‘My dear Lucas’ (John Seymour Lucas, English historical genre painter, 1849-1923); Lee offers to buy …
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# 50332
RACKHAM, Bernard
A book of porcelain. Fine examples in the Victoria & Albert Museum
Painted by William Gibb. London : Adam and Charles Black, 1910. Quarto, gilt-lettered green cloth, pp. xvi; 96, scattered foxing, tipped-in colour plates, an attractive work.
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# 50297
BRAY, Glenn (1948 - )
The blighted eye. Original comic art from the Glenn Bray collection (signed and inscribed copy)
Seattle : Fantagraphic Books, 2014. Quarto, illustrated cloth in dustjacket, pp. 410, extensively illustrated. Signed and inscribed by Glenn Bray to the title page in gold marker. ‘The Blighted Eye showcases Glenn Bray’s extensive collection of original comic art by cartoonists such as R. Crumb, Matt Groening, Charles Addams, Charles Schulz, Dan Clowes, Chris Ware …
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# 50357
HOBSON, R. L.
Worcester Porcelain.
A description of the ware from the Wall Period to the present day. Illustrated by ninety-two collotypes and seventeen chromolithographs. London : Bernard Quaritch, 1910. Folio, gilt-lettered blue cloth (bright and fresh), pp. xii; 208, numerous colour and black and white plates, lower endpaper creased, else a fine copy.
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# 50344
MENPES, Mortimer and Dorothy
Paris (deluxe edition)
London : Adam & Charles Black, 1909. Quarto, gilt-lettered decorated cloth over bevelled boards (a few light marks, spine slightly dulled), top edge gilt, others uncut; endpapers foxed; pp. xii, 185, illustrated with 75 colour plates, all with captioned tissue guards; occasional foxing, a very good copy of the edition de luxe, limited to 500 …
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# 50299
EDWARDS, Geoffrey
Art of Glass : Glass in the Collection of the National Gallery of Victoria
Melbourne : Macmillan Art Publishing and the National Gallery of Victoria, 1998. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, pp. 208, illustrated in colour. A fine copy. Jointly published by the National Gallery of Victoria and Macmillan Publishers Australia this book is the first publication to document in depth the nature, extent and history of the National Gallery …
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# 49992
MAUPASSANT, Guy de
Le vagabond.
Lithographies en couleurs par Steinlen. Paris : Société des Amis des Livres, 1902. Small folio, magnificently bound in full crushed morocco over bevelled boards, gilt rules and fillets, spine in compartments with prominent raised bands, lettered and ruled in gilt (a little rubbed on the bands), full morocco doublures with gilt rules and morocco fillets, …
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# 49991
GUYOT, Charles; RACKHAM, Arthur
Le printemps sur la neige, et d’autres contes du bon vieux temps
Illustrations de A. Rackham. Paris : l’Editions d’Art, 1922. Quarto, finely bound in half crushed levant morocco over marbled papered boards, ruled in gilt, the spine in compartments with prominent raised bands, lettered in gilt with ornamentation and contrasting morocco leather inlays, small chips to head and food of spine, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers, …
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# 49990
GOLDSMITH, Oliver
She stoops to conquer, or, the mistakes of a night. Illustrated by Hugh Thomson.
London : Hodder & Stoughton, 1912. Quarto, full cream vellum elaborately decorated and lettered in gilt (some mottling to spine), lacking the ribbon ties, top edge gilt, others uncut, offsetting to endpapers, presentation inscription to front free endpaper, pp. [iv]; 198, 24 tipped-in colour plates within captioned green borders and text illustrations by Thomson, limited …
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# 49132
WHITE, Mary
“Shanghae Flowers” (painted 1845 – 1847)
Album, 295 x 240 x 75 mm, thick embossed morocco bound boards, brass clasp, small bookseller’s label from Kensington, London to pastedown, later family inscriptions to endpaper, calligraphic title leaf in red and blue, heightened in gold ‘Shanghae Flowers. Presented to James White by his wife on his Birthday April X 1868’, two page manuscript …
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# 49519
THOMSON, John (1837 - 1921)
Through China with a camera
With nearly 100 illustrations. Westminster : A. Constable, 1898. Octavo, gilt-lettered cloth (corners a little bumped), pp. xiv; 284, photographic plates, a fine copy. Scottish-born photographer John Thomson moved to Hong Kong in 1868, after spending three years as a professional photographer with a studio in Singapore and another year in Bangkok. From his base in …
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# 48287
WHITE, Herbert C.
Peking the beautiful
Comprising seventy photographic studies of the celebrated monuments of China’s northern capital and its environs complete with descriptive and historical notes. By Herbert C. White, Art Director, Signs of the Times Publishing House, Shanghai. Introduction by Dr. Hu Shih, Celebrated Chinese scholar, philosopher, and leader of the Chinese Renaissance. Shanghai : The Commercial Press, 1927. …