The Gallery of Modern British Artists;
VG, 1st ed, c1840, 66 pls (of 65 tp). In contemporary gilt embossed morocco, corners & edges worn. Spine, gilt tooling, no titles, edges worn, some loss. Internally, not paginated, not dated but c1840, frontis, additional engraved title page,…
Artists Sketch Book of Bangor & Holyhead Scenes [Reeves Sketch Book]
An artists view of local life and scenes 1948-1949 Cloth spine over dark marbled boards, no title. Internally, thirty six pages of water colour paintings of local people, houses animals, and some events in the North Wales / Bangor / Rhosneigr…
Cottage & Landscape Scenery
30 plates (B&W), each illustration appearing in outline and fully shaded form. A very good copy in gilt lettered brown embossed cloth, rubbed at edges, with a Newman, 24 Soho Sq., ticket on the inner paste down. One corner a little bumped. This…
Sons of the Desert - Original Water Colour Drawings
ALKEN Henry [Thomas] 1785-1851
An Album of Original Water Colour Drawings by Henry Alken c1829 Oblong, in blue long grained morocco by Riviere & Son, elaborate gilt tooling & titles, edges & corners worn. Spine, raised bands, decorative gilt tooling & titles, edges…
Original Water Colour Drawings
ALKEN Henry 1785-1851
18 Stunning water colours by Henry Alken In a superb green long grain morocco (by Riviere and Son), elaborate gilt & blind tooling, gilt titles, corners rubbed. Spine, gilt titles & tooling, raised bands, edges brushed. Internally, gilt…
[An Album of sixteen water colour and pencil drawings of game birds]
ALKEN Henry 1785-1851
With Sixteen superb Water Colours An Album of sixteen water colour and pencil drawings of game birds, one unsigned, the others bearing the signature H. Alken." The drawings range from 2.5*4 inches to 10* 7.75 inches
The Beauties & Defects in the Figure of the Horse Comparatively Delineated in a series of Coloured Plates
ALKEN Henry 1785-1851
An exquisite Alken rarity [1816]. First edition. Quarto. Recent half calf, spine gilt in 6 compartments, with raised bands, black morocco label, all edges gilt; elaborate engraved title page, comprising an engraved roundel title, encompassed by…
Chepstow. Tintern Abbey. Llantony Abbey Abergavenny. [Artists Sketch Book]
BATTY Robert
Contemporary marbled boards, ms label, working metal clasp. Modern spine. Upper board MS label reads: 1807
English Landscape Scenery; An Advanced Drawing Book. Twenty-Four Sketches from Nature
CHILDS George
Not dated but c1845, first & only edition. VG. Oblong quarto, title page and twenty-four lithograph plates, each an identified scene. Original blind stamped and gilt lettered cloth, board edges rubbed, joints worn, some cloth loss. Yellow…
The young artist's companion; or, Drawing-book of studies and landscape embellishments : comprising a great variety of the most picturesque objects required in the various compositions of landscape scenery, arranged as progressive lessons
COX David 1783-1859
64 Illustrations: aquatint and etching, some hand-colouring First edition, in oblong, contemporary half red morocco over marbled boards, some gilt tooling, gilt titles to red morocco label to upper board, edges rubbed. Spine, gilt tooling, no…
The Young Artist's Companion; or, Drawing-book of studies and landscape embellishments : comprising a great variety of the most picturesque objects required in the various compositions of landscape scenery, arranged as progressive lessons
COX David 1783-1859
64 Illustrations: aquatint and etching, some hand-coloured First edition in oblong, modern half red morocco over contemporary marbled boards, some blind tooling, gilt titles to red morocco label to upper board, edges rubbed. Spine, gilt tooling…
A treatise on landscape painting and effect in water colours: from the first rudiments to the finished picture: with examples in outline, effect, and colouring.
COX David 1783-1859
One of the best of the early drawing books VG, 1st ed, 2nd issue, in modern red half red morocco over marbled boards. Spine, raised bands, gilt tooling & titles. Internally, title leaf, followed by 9-32 pp, 16 coloured aquatints, 16 uncoloured…
The Etchings of James McNeill Whistler
DODGSON Campbell 1867-1948. (HOLME Geoffrey - editor 1887-1954)
In quarter vellum over grey boards, some gilt edge tooling, gilt titles to brown cloth label, corners bumped. Spine, gilt tooling, edges bumped. Internally, half title,[4], (v-ix), [3], 36 pp, 96 full page plates, each with a title, plate number,…
Landscape with Original Etchings and Many Illustrations from Pictures and Drawings
HAMERTON Philip Gilbert 1834-1894
VG, 1885, 50 pls. Half title, [5], (vi-xvi), [1], 2-386 pp, [2], 50 pl (which include 7 explanatory pen sketches and then 43 mainly B&W illustrations of famous artists works - each with a leaf of descriptive text) - The Farmyard by Samuel…
The Camera; or, Art of Drawing in Water Colours: Camera, or, art of drawing in water colours : with instructions for sketching from nature : comprising the whole process of water-colored drawing : familiarly exemplified in drawing, shadowing, and tinting a complete landscape, in all its progressive states : and directions for compounding and using colours, sepia, indian ink, bister, & c
HASSELL J. [John] 1767-1825
THE PROCESS OF DRAWING IN WATER COLOURS EXPLAINED First edition, octavo, original boards with large printed paper label, neatly re-backed. Internally, folding frontis, [3], (iv) only, 5-32 pp. Folding 3 pls (all folding, 1 coloured aquatint,…