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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.
Post 8vo (22cm). (32)pp. Illustrations – portraits of Barnett Freedman, Eric Gregory, Eric Humphries, James Shand, Oliver Simon, Jan Tschichold, Berthold Wolpe, etc., a colour illustration by E. McKnight Kauffer, facsimiles and tipped-in facsimile Curwen Press flyers. Original cloth; very good in a just lightly used dust-jacket.

£15

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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.
Foolscap 4to (23cm). (64)pp. Illustrations throughout, many in a second colour. Original boards; a fine and bright copy in the just slightly rubbed but still very clean and fresh dust-jacket.

£15

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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.
Medium 8vo (25cm). viii,(192)pp. Original cloth; just a touch dusty, but a very good copy.

£25

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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.
Demy 4to (29cm). (xl),(452)pp. Facsimiles. Original boards; edges just a touch dusty, but otherwise a very good copy in a very good dust-jacket.

£40

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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.
Demy 8vo (22cm). xii,(282),[ii]pp. Plates. Original cloth gilt; just a hint of rubbing; a few plates a little loose (but all present); a very good and bright copy.

£25

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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.
Royal 8vo (26cm). (lxiv),160pp. Portraits. Numerous illustrations. Original cloth gilt; very good.

£20

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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.
Royal 8vo (27cm). [iv],(164)pp. Numerous illustrations. Colour plates. Original cloth; very good in a very good dust-jacket.

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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.
Post 4to (27cm). x,(186),[iv]pp. Numerous illustrations. Seven colour plates. Original pictorial wrappers; very good.

£20

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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.
Demy 4to (29cm). (408)pp. Illustrations throughout. Original rexine; very good in a sunned and faintly creased dust-jacket.

£25

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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.
Crown 4to (26cm). (168),[viii]pp. Plates, some coloured. Illustrations. Facsimiles. Original boards; a very good copy in the dust-jacket.

£30

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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.
Demy 8vo (22cm). (viii),(216)pp. Numerous full-page illustrations. Original decorative cloth, blocked in an elaborate pattern; endpapers slightly tanned; a few faint signs of age and use, but a very good copy.

£25

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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.
Crown 4to (26cm). 144pp. Colour plates. Ninety-two illustrations. Original cloth; very good in dust-jacket.

£25

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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.
Demy 8vo (23cm). xvi,110,[ii]pp. Eight colour plates and the complete set of the six loosely inserted colour-stop masks. Illustrations and diagrams. Original decorative cloth; mild tanning of endpapers; top edge slightly spotted, but a very good copy.

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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.
Oblong demy 4to (24 x 26cm). (144)pp. Illustrations throughout. Original cloth-backed patterned boards; very faint spotting of top edge, but a very good copy in a slightly sunned dust-jacket.

£20

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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.
Crown 4to (26cm). (134),[ii]pp. Fourteen colour plates. Original cloth; mild marking to endpapers, but a very good copy in a just lightly bruised dust-jacket.

£25

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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.
Elephant 8vo (161 x 174mm). xvi,(750),[ii]pp. Seven plates, some coloured, including a Baxter print of Ovingham and a double-page “patent illuminated map” of Jerusalem by William Hughes. Numerous wood engravings in text, some coloured. Bound in a smart later (late twentieth-century) half-calf; marbled sides and endpapers; text a little shaken, but firm in binding; a few slight marks, but overall a very good copy. Occasional interesting pencilled annotation from a widely-read and knowledgeable former owner, sadly unidentifiable.

£250

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London : Privately Printed at the Chiswick Press, 1916. First edition : one of just thirty numbered copies produced for private circulation. Title-pages and facsimiles of the relevant text on engraving and etching from “The Thyrde and Last Parte of the Secretes of the Reverende Maister Alexis of Piemont” (1566), “A Profitable Boke Declaring Dyvers Approoved Remedies” (1583), “The Jewell House of Art and Nature” (1594), and “A Booke of Secrets” (1596) – the four earliest accounts in English of the subject. Levis also includes the earliest English illustration of an engraving instrument, reproduced from John Bate’s “The Mysteryes of Nature and Art” (1634).
Medium 8vo (23cm). [40]pp. Facsimiles. Bound in a neat later binder’s cloth, with morocco label; very faintly rubbed; a few minor marks and spots, but a very good copy. Ownership labels of Stanley Scott of Dulwich and Chard on rear endpaper.

£100

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[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.
Demy 8vo (23cm). (372)pp. Plates. Illustrations. Diagrams. Original patterned boards; very good in a just lightly used and slightly nicked dust-jacket. Ownership inscription of Beryl G. Miller.

£25

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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.
Royal 8vo (26cm). (140),[iv]pp. Colour plates. Original pictorial wrappers; edges just lightly spotted, but otherwise very good in the dust-jacket – the jacket itself a little spotted.

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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.
Crown 4to (26cm). (x),(54)pp. Full-page illustrations. Original fawn cloth, lettered in blue; some spotting; a touch shaken, but a good copy of an attractive work.

£25

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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.
Demy 4to (28cm) . xvi,(528)pp. Numerous illustrations. Original cloth; a few faint spots to top edge, but a very good and bright copy.

£40

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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.
Crown 4to (26cm). (xvi),(288)pp. Five colour plates. Numerous monochrome illustrations. Original orange cloth, blocked and lettered in gilt; top edge black; a very good and bright copy in the dust-jacket.

£40

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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.
Crown 4to (26cm). 112pp. Illustrated throughout. Original boards; a very good copy in a just slightly used dust-jacket.

£15

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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.
Crown 8vo (20cm). xxvi,146,[iv]pp. Over 170 plates and illustrations. Original decorative cloth; lightly rubbed and a little sunned; slight spotting of edges and lower cover; some spotting throughout; but a good and sound copy.

£25

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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.
Royal 4to (31cm). (xxiv),(340)pp. Illustrations throughout, two in colour – and including a fine sequence of full-page images. Original blue cloth gilt; a few edge-spots, but a very good and bright copy in the original acetate dust-jacket.

£50

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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.
Royal 4to (30cm). (xxiv),(340)pp. Illustrations throughout, two in colour – and including a fine sequence of full-page images. Original wrappers; lightly sunned; a few slight marks; edges a touch dusty, but a good copy.

£25

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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.
Medium 8vo (24cm). [viii],216pp. Illustrations. Original cloth gilt; a very good copy in a just slightly dusty dust-jacket.

£20

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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.
Medium 8vo (25cm). xx,(268)pp. Plates. Numerous illustrations. Original cloth gilt; top edge gilt; a few slight marks and spots, but a very good copy. Neat ownership inscription.

£25

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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.
Imperial 8vo (28cm). [2],(xxii),(304)pp. Numerous plates. Original cloth; top edge a touch dusty, but a very good, sound and unworn copy in a price-clipped but otherwise very good dust-jacket.

£30

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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.
Demy 8vo (23cm). [viii],106,[iv]pp. Five collotype plates. Original stiff card wrappers, top edge gilt; floral cotton endpapers; a few faint spots, but a very good copy in the original parchment dust-jacket, printed in red and black, and with a design by Thomas Bewick on the upper panel; the parchment a little soiled and discoloured.- but still attractive.

£40

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