Hardcover. New York, The American Life Foundation & Study Institute, rep., 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 71 pages plus index. Black & white illustrations. Oversized boards. Some chips and tears to dust jacket edges. Previous owner nameplate in front endpages, "July 1979" marked in ink on cover page. Otherwise internally very good.
Hardcover. New York, NY, Viking Press, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 134 pages, with full-color plates of engravings of both urban and natural landscapes from the 16th through the 19th centuries, along with essays. These engravings, from collections at the New York Library, illustrate the growth of the American nation during this time period. Well-bound, a clean copy. The edges of the dust jacket are slightly worn and there is a small nick on the back side.
Softcover. New York, Dover Publications, Inc., 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Tan laminated stapled covers with b&w illustration, 41 full page b&w prints of wood engravings. A clean, tight copy.
Softcover. New York, Dover Publications, Inc., 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Tan laminated stapled covers with b&w illustration, 41 full page b&w prints of wood engravings. A clean, tight copy.
Softcover. New York, American Photo-Engraving Association, 1st Thus, 1929, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 64 pages. Softcover. Measures: 12"H X 9"W. Previous owners stamp on inside front cover. Full color and black & white illustrations. Covers worn, with creases and most paper missing from spine. One brief notation in ink at top of page 54, otherwise clean, unmarked pages.
Softcover. Williamstown, Massachusetts, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1961, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Exhibition catalogue with black/white photographs and illustrations of Winslow Homer's painting, drawings, and engravings. Contains chronology of artist's life and work and pamphlet for the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Good condition; marks and discoloration due to aging on the covers and spine.
Hardcover. NY, The Museum of Modern Art, Reprint, 1952, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 72 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket has a few small chips and closed tears, but it has been repaired with clear tape to the best of our ability. Black cloth covers with gilt titles are clean and bright, as are interior pages. Binding is solid. Contains B&W illustrations throughout. This book is a monumental portfolio of 58 mixed-media print engravings that the French artist considered the masterwork of his life. Rouault combined photogravure, etching, dry point, and aquatint on heavy paper to achieve deep, dramatic tones of black and luminous light. A paste-in is present on the front end page with the previous owner's name, otherwise clean copy. Record # 34627
Hardcover. Paris, Librairie de L'Art, 1st, 1887, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 72 pages. Half cloth marbled boards. A study of a 17th Century Dutch genre and portrait painter. Illustrated with drawings and engravings in black & white. (Text in French.) Ex-library copy with usual marking. Some pages age faded. Cover worn at edges. Chipped at top and bottom of spine. Minor adhesive residue at bottom left corner of front cover.
Hardcover. NY, self-published, Ltd. Ed., 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Color frontispiece, 59 b&w engravings of notable Old Master paintings, each with tissue-guard. SIGNED BY BACHE and dated Nov 27/29 in his hand. Gray cloth, gilt design and lettering on spine, top edge gilt. Short bio of the financier and art collector Bache laid-in.
Hardcover. NY, Clarkson Potter, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, As essay and definitive catalog of his linoleum cuts, etchings, engraving & lithographs, po embossed stamp on title pg, ink # on front paste-down, dj edgewear, price clipped.
Hardcover. New York, NY, E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1st, 1955, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 201 pages. Hardcover. "Illustrated with eight colour plates and forty wood engravings by the author." Cover boards bound in blue cloth with agewear, gilt title on spine and design on front cover board. Dust jacket unclipped, with agewear. Pages and edges have some tanning throughout, and foxing at beginning and end pages.
Paperback. NY, M. Knoedler & Co., 1st wraps, 1934-39, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 5 catalogs, illust with black & white reproductions. 76-115 pages each. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Paperback editions.
Paperback. NY, M. Knoedler & Co., 1st wraps, 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Auction catalog from 1929. 73 black & white illust. Previous owner's signature front fly leaf. Paperback in very nice condition.
Paperback. NY, M. Knoedler & Co., 1st wraps, 1928/1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 2 auction catalogs from late 1920's. 71, 79 pages. Black & white illust. Paperbacks in very nice condition.
NY, American Artists Group, Rep., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 96 pages with black & white, color illustrations. Dust jacket with light chipping.
Hardcover. Cinncinati, OH, Rapid Electrotype, 1st Ed, 1921, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, A self promotional book by a printing company which offers a brief history of the engraving and printing process. Illustrated, decorated in 2 colors. 64 pgs.
Hardcover. Port Washington, Kennikat Press, Reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Volume III. Listing names H-M. 394 pages. Illustrated captioned plates. Green cloth. Black spine title label gilt. One volume only. Record # 220781
Softcover. Bergamo, Instituto Italiano D'Arti Grafiche, 1st, 1944, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 14 pages of text in Italian, 30 b&w plates of engravings from the 1700s by Pitteri. Large softcover with light edgewear.
Hardcover. Paris, Cercle du Livre Precieux, reprint, 1964-1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Complete six volume set, leather bound, limited to 3000 copies, #789. Modern mottled leather, raised bands, red and green leather spine labels, marbled endpapers, compartments decorated in gilt. Modern mottled leather, raised bands, red and green leather spine labels, marbled endpapers, compartments decorated in gilt. Most pages are plates with many fold-outs, red ribbon markers. An astonishing collection of engravings with accompanying keys (text in French) covering a wide range of subjects including Mathematical figures, astronomy, military formations and tactics, navigation, marine signaling, hydraulics and so on. Most of the plates fold out, sometimes with two folds. Facsimiles of the 1762-1772 set. Huge, heavy volumes that make overseas shipping prohibitive. Very good plus with only the front fly leaf in Volume 6 gone.
Hardcover. New York, Harpercollins, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 274 pages, illustrated throughout. Dust jacket edge wear and rub, price clipped, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. New York , Scribner, Welford & Armstrong, 1st US, 1877, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 276 pages, 240 b&w engravings of artifacts like enamels, furniture, pottery, vases, bowls, gold and silver work. Originally published in England at the South Kensington Museum. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf, front hinge cracked, otherwise very good. Green cloth with gilt lettering.
Hardcover. London / NY, Longmans, Green and Co./Scribner, 1st, 1882, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, 700 pages, 268 b&w engravings. Terra cotta cloth with gilt design, top edge gilt. Exceptional in this near fine condition.
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