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[ATTERBURY, Rowley Streatfeild, 1920-2011] : THE CONTRIBUTORS : BEING THE PAPER OF A TALK DELIVERED TO THE WYNKYN DE WORDE SOCIETY AT STATIONERS’ HALL ON 16TH MAY 1974. Westerham : Westerham Press, 1974. First edition : the American issue, with the New York imprint of the Sandstone Press on a sticker on the verso of the title-page. A talk by the owner of the Westerham Press on the most influential book designers and printers working in twentieth-century England. £15 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 21449 – or simply click on the button
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BIGGS, John R. (John Reginald), 1909-1989 : THE CRAFT OF WOODCUTS. London : Blandford Press, (1968). A reprint of the original 1963 edition. A very attractively produced and illustrated guide to the tools and techniques of woodcut, linocut, wood-engraving, printing, paper, etc. £15 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 20297 – or simply click on the button
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BRENNI, Vito J. (Vito Joseph), 1923-2012 : BOOK ILLUSTRATION AND DECORATION : A GUIDE TO RESEARCH. Westport : Greenwood Press, (1980). First edition. A bibliography of the published resources – over 2,000 citations of books, pamphlets, essays, theses, etc. Includes material on book decoration, manuals of illustration, methods of illustration, history of illustration, children’s books, science, medicine, music, geography, history, etc. £25 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 25285 – or simply click on the button
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BRIDSON, Gavin (Gavin Douglas Ruthven), 1936-2008 & WHITE, James J. : PLANT, ANIMAL & ANATOMICAL ILLUSTRATION IN ART & SCIENCE : A BIBLIOGRAPHICAL GUIDE FROM THE 16TH CENTURY TO THE PRESENT DAY. Winchester : St. Paul’s Bibliographies ... / Detroit : Omnigraphics, 1990. First edition. A detailed bibliography, including the key works; instructional works on nature drawing and painting; pattern books; instructions on microscopical drawing; histories of nature in art and natural history illustration; works on nature photography; photomicrography; plant drawing; nature printing; plant photography; animal drawing; anatomical drawing; medical photography, etc., together with artist biographies; exhibition catalogues; periodicals; books on colour, etc. £40 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 43829 – or simply click on the button
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BURGESS, Frederick William, 1855-1945 : OLD PRINTS AND ENGRAVINGS. London : George Routledge & Sons / New York : G.P.Putnam’s Sons, 1924. First edition. A well-illustrated and wide-ranging guide in the Home Connoisseur series – with chapters on the engravers; processes; terms; wood blocks; mezzotints; stipples; line engraving; aquatints; lithographs; colour prints; Baxter prints; Arundel prints; early book illustrations; frontispieces and title-pages; dedicatory plates; printers’ marks; bookplates; portraits; Japanese colour prints; sporting prints; military prints; costumes; trade cards; tickets, etc. £25 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 25453 – or simply click on the button
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CHAMBERS, David, 1930- : JOAN HASSALL : ENGRAVINGS & DRAWINGS. Pinner : Private Libraries Association, 1985. First edition. A fine survey of the illustrative work of Joan Hassall (1906-1988), with a bibliography of illustrated books, journals, dust-jackets, bookplates, illustrations, occasional blocks, etc. With an introductory memoir by Joan Hassall herself, an essay on her engraving technique by George Mackley, and an appreciation of her work by Chambers. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 30600 – or simply click on the button
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ENGEN, Rodney (Rodney K.), 1948- : LAURENCE HOUSMAN. Stroud : Catalpa Press, 1983. First edition. A full-scale illustrated study of Laurence Housman (1865-1959) and his work, together with a selection of contemporary critical essays, a checklist of his book and magazine illustrations, etc. The first volume in The Artist and The Critic series. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 27099 – or simply click on the button
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FELMINGHAM, Michael, 1935- : THE ILLUSTRATED GIFT BOOK 1880-1930 : WITH A CHECKLIST OF 2500 TITLES. Aldershot : Wildwood House, (1989). First paperback edition. A well-illustrated survey, with much on Aubrey Beardsley, Walter Crane, Edmund Dulac, Jessie M. King, Phil May, William Morris, Arthur Rackham, Heath Robinson, etc., with a checklist of all the major illustrators and their work. First published in 1988. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 29063 – or simply click on the button
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GARRETT, Albert, 1915-1983 : A HISTORY OF [BRITISH] WOOD ENGRAVING. London : Bloomsbury Books, (1986). Second edition. A well-illustrated study, originally published under the longer title in 1978. With much on Thomas Bewick, William Blake, John Buckland-Wright, Edward Gordon Craig, John Farleigh, Robert Gibbings, Eric Gill, David Jones, Clare Leighton, George Mackley, Iain Macnab, Paul Nash, etc. £25 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 35840 – or simply click on the button
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GILMOUR, Pat : ARTISTS AT CURWEN : A CELEBRATION OF THE GIFT OF ARTISTS’ PRINTS FROM THE CURWEN STUDIO. London : Tate Gallery, (1977). First edition : the hardback issue. An account of the Curwen Press, published to accompany the 1977 Tate exhibition. Includes a full catalogue of the exhibition (340 items), a checklist of the complete donation, a glossary of printing terms, etc. With colour plates by Edward Bawden, Claud Lovat Fraser, Barnett Freedman, David Hockney, McKnight Kauffer, John Nash, Paul Nash, John Piper, Eric Ravilious, Ceri Richards, etc. £30 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 28105 – or simply click on the button
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GLASS, Frederick J. (Frederick James), 1881-1930 : DRAWING DESIGN AND CRAFT-WORK FOR TEACHERS, STUDENTS, ETC. London : B. T. Batsford, [1920]. First edition. A beautifully illustrated and produced guide to the basics of design, with material on mass and silhouette, brushwork, light and shade, pattern, interlacing, scrolls, cartouches, lettering, heraldry, textures, colour, etc., as well as guidance on wood-block cutting, linocuts, wood-carving, stencilling, leatherwork, metalwork, inlaying, marquetry, etc. £25 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 42938 – or simply click on the button
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GOLDMAN, Paul : VICTORIAN ILLUSTRATED BOOKS 1850-1870 : THE HEYDAY OF WOOD-ENGRAVING. THE ROBIN DE BEAUMONT COLLECTION. Boston : David R. Godine, (1994). First American edition. With chapters on the literature; the explosion in popular publishing; publishers, editors, engravers and entrepreneurs; the readership; the artists; foreign influences, etc., with a checklist of the 592 items in the Robin de Beaumont collection (now in the British Museum). With a preface by Antony Griffiths and a preliminary essay by Robin de Beaumont. £25 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 26091 – or simply click on the button
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GRIFFITS, Thomas E. (Thomas Edgar), 1883-1957 : THE TECHNIQUE OF COLOUR PRINTING BY LITHOGRAPHY : A CONCISE MANUAL OF DRAWN LITHOGRAPHY. London : Faber & Faber, (1947). The third impression of the original 1940 edition. A most attractive guide to all aspects of lithography, with material on the materials (stones, plates, graining, polishing, textures, transfer papers, etc.), equipment, press work, artists’ work, etc. With an introduction by Frank Pick. SOLD |
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HOGARTH, Paul (Arthur Paul), 1917-2001 : ARTHUR BOYD HOUGHTON. London : Gordon Fraser, 1981. First edition. A richly illustrated study of the painter, illustrator and draughtsman Arthur Boyd Houghton (1836-1875), with notes on his work in public collections, a list of his work in books and magazines, etc. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 21161 – or simply click on the button
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JACKSON, C.E. (Christine Elisabeth), 1936- : BIRD ILLUSTRATORS : SOME ARTISTS IN EARLY LITHOGRAPHY. London : H. F.& G. Witherby, (1975). First edition. Includes individual chapters on the finest of the nineteenth-century ornithological illustrators – William Swainson, Edward Lear, John Gould, Henry Leonard Meyer, Josef Wolf, Joseph Smit, John Gerrard Keulemans, Edward Neale, William Foster, Claude Wilmott Wyatt, Frederick William Frohawk, Henrik Grönvold, Archibald Thorburn, and George Edward Lodge – with a preliminary essay, bibliography, index, etc. £25 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 25589 – or simply click on the button
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JACKSON, John, 1801-1848 [& CHATTO, William Andrew, 1799-1864] : A TREATISE ON WOOD ENGRAVING, HISTORICAL AND PRACTICAL. WITH UPWARDS OF THREE HUNDRED ILLUSTRATIONS, ENGRAVED ON WOOD, BY JOHN JACKSON. London : Charles Knight & Co., 1839. First edition. A monumental and attractive treatise on the whole history and practice of wood-engraving, with much on the antiquity of the process, the age of Durer, the revival under Thomas Bewick, the precise techniques and tools employed, etc. Jackson had served part of his apprenticeship under Bewick himself and was one of the finest practitioners of his time. His collaborator, William Andrew Chatto (father of the publisher), also wrote on the history of playing-cards, etc. £250 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 37772 – or simply click on the button
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LEWIS, Griselda, 1917-2014 – editor : HANDBOOK OF CRAFTS. [London] : Edward Hulton, 1960. First edition. Essays by various hands on all manner of craft work – Edward Bawden on lino cutting, David Gentleman on wood engraving, and further chapters on embroidery, patchwork, fabric collages, rugs, handweaving, upholstery, chair-caning, rush basket-work, toys, dolls, glove puppets, toy theatres and much more. £25 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 30596 – or simply click on the button
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McLEAN, Ruari, 1917-2006 – contributor : CATALOGUE OF EXHIBITIONS OF BRITISH COLOURED BOOKS 1738-1898 : INCLUDING A SELECTION FROM THE ROYAL LIBRARY AT WINDSOR GRACIOUSLY LOANED BY HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN. London : British Printing Machinery Association, 1980. First edition. The catalogue of the related 1980 exhibitions held at the National Exhibition Centre and elsewhere – describing 188 items in Birmingham, ninety-five in Aberystwyth, forty-nine in Cambridge, 100 in Manchester, etc. With an introductory essay by Ruari McLean. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 20548 – or simply click on the button
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MACNAB, Iain, 1890-1967 : THE STUDENT’S BOOK OF WOOD-ENGRAVING. London : Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, 1938. First edition. Notes on the renaissance of wood-engraving in the 1920s and its current possibilities, followed by lucid instructions on the craft itself – materials; handling the tools; preparing design and block; transferring; scraperboard; engraving; style; technique, etc. Superbly illustrated with examples from the masters: John Farleigh; Eric Gill; Gertrude Hermes; Blair Hughes-Stanton; Clare Leighton; Iain Macnab himself; Gwenda Morgan; Agnes Miller Parker; Clifford Webb, etc. £25 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 21112 – or simply click on the button
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MAHONY, Bertha E. (Bertha Everett), 1882-1969 & OTHERS : ILLUSTRATORS OF CHILDREN’S BOOKS : 1744-1945. Boston : Horn Book, (1970). A reprint of the original 1947 edition. An extensive overview of the subject, with chapters on the period before 1800; nineteenth-century England; early American illustration; Howard Pyle; foreign picture books; graphic processes; illustrators of children’s classics; animated drawing; twentieth-century developments, etc., supplemented with biographies of living illustrators worldwide, bibliographies, etc. £40 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 28591 – or simply click on the button
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MUIR, Percy (Percy Horace), 1894-1979 : VICTORIAN ILLUSTRATED BOOKS. New York : Praeger Publishers, (1971). First edition : the American issue. A well illustrated and wide-ranging survey, by one of the best of antiquarian booksellers, of (mainly British) illustrated books of the nineteenth century – with chapters on chapbooks; Thomas Bewick and George Cruikshank; line engraving; the periodicals; the Dalziels; the advent of colour; fin-de-siècle; foreign influence; America, etc. £40 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 24799 – or simply click on the button
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PEARSALL, Ronald, 1927-2005 : VICTORIAN SHEET MUSIC COVERS. Newton Abbot : David & Charles, (1972). First edition. A fully illustrated survey of this pervasive and ever-popular art form, with material on John Brandard, Alfred Concanen, R. J. Hamerton, Louis Jullien, George Leybourne, G. H. Macdermott, Alfred Vance, etc. £15 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 27168 – or simply click on the button
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PENNELL, Joseph, 1860-1926 : MODERN ILLUSTRATION. London : George Bell & Sons, 1898. Second edition. A masterly survey of late nineteenth-century book and magazine illustration from the influential Joseph Pennell. Individual chapters discuss techniques of reproduction, French illustration, English illustration, American illustration, etc. Heavily illustrated with examples of the work of all the leading exponents. First published in 1895, the present edition was issued in Gleeson White’ s “Practical Designing” series as a handbook for students. Printed at the Chiswick Press. £25 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 20196 – or simply click on the button
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RAY, Gordon N. (Gordon Norton), 1915-1986 : THE ILLUSTRATOR AND THE BOOK IN ENGLAND FROM 1790 TO 1914. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library / London : Oxford University Press, (1976). First edition : the hardback issue. A superbly produced and illustrated survey – with sections on all the major artists and illustrative processes, a checklist of 100 outstanding illustrated books of the period, a bibliography, indices of artists, authors, titles, etc., with formal bibliographical descriptions by Thomas V. Lange. Preface by Charles Ryskamp. £50 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 28611 – or simply click on the button
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RAY, Gordon N. (Gordon Norton), 1915-1986 : THE ILLUSTRATOR AND THE BOOK IN ENGLAND FROM 1790 TO 1914. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1976. First edition : the wrappers issue. A superbly produced and illustrated survey – with sections on all the major artists and illustrative processes, a checklist of 100 outstanding illustrated books of the period, a bibliography, indices of artists, authors, titles, etc., with formal bibliographical descriptions by Thomas V. Lange. Preface by Charles Ryskamp. £25 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 34752 – or simply click on the button
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SENDAK, Maurice (Maurice Bernard), 1928-2012 : CALDECOTT & CO. : NOTES ON BOOKS AND PICTURES. London : Reinhardt Books, (1989). First British edition. Essays, thoughts and interviews from the master on children’s books, their history and their illustrators – on Hans Christian Andersen, Edward Ardizzone, Jean de Brunhoff, Randolph Caldecott, Walt Disney, Claude Lovat Fraser, George MacDonald, Maxfield Parrish, Beatrix Potter, and many more. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 37385 – or simply click on the button
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THORPE, James, 1876-1949 : ENGLISH ILLUSTRATION : THE NINETIES. London : Faber & Faber, (1935). First edition. A masterly survey of that rich period of illustration in the 1890s – with much on Cecil Aldin, Fred Barnard, Lewis Baumer, Aubrey Beardsley, Max Beerbohm, Frank Brangwyn, Gordon Browne, Tom Browne, Harry Furniss, John Hassall, Phil May, H. R. Millar, Hugh Thomson, Jack B. Yeats, and many another. £25 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 34725 – or simply click on the button
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TWYMAN, Michael, 1934- : LITHOGRAPHY 1800-1850 : THE TECHNIQUES OF DRAWING ON STONE IN ENGLAND AND FRANCE AND THEIR APPLICATION IN WORKS OF TOPOGRAPHY. London : Oxford University Press, 1970. First edition. A pioneering study of the earliest professional draughtsmen and the methods of drawing on stone which were devised to suit their needs. With material on Rudolph Ackermann, Richard Parkes Bonington, Thomas Shotter Boys, William Day, Godefroy Engelmann, Louis Haghe, James Duffield Harding, Charles Joseph Hullmandel, Samuel Prout, and Alois Senefelder, as well as on acids, brushes, chalks, and techniques. £30 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 27285 – or simply click on the button
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VACHER, Francis, 1843-1914 : ENGRAVERS & ENGRAVING : BEING THE INAUGURAL ADDRESS ... Manchester : Privately Printed, [1887]. First edition. A tour of the methods of engraving – wood-engraving, dot manner, line engraving, chiaro-oscuro, etching, soft-ground etching, dry-point, mezzotint, aquatint, stipple, Blake’s manner, etc. – with reference to the great masters. The presidential address to the Birkenhead Literary & Scientific Society, Session XXXI, 1887-1888. £40 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 27326 – or simply click on the button
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