Aqua pictura. Illustrated by a series of original specimens... Exhibiting the works of the most approved modern water colour draftsmen, with their style & method of touch, engraved and finished in progressive examples
HASSELL John 1767-1825
Beautiful hand coloured aquatints! 2nd ed, c1818, title page and preface (2 leaves) and nineteen plates each with a page of descriptive text. Each of the plates come in four states; etched outline, aquatinted in India ink, the same with a…
Latter Days 1 (Complete)
HIROSHIGE Ando 1797-1858 (editors Dr Kiyoshi Shibui & Mr Sadao Kikuchi)
In white vinyl clamshell box, titles to top cover and spine in blue inks. 24 superbly printed colour plates, loose as issued, each mounted in a paper folder with plate number and title in green to lower corner, plates are bright and unmarked, 37*35…
Homeric Similes from the Iliad With the Greek Text and Pope's Translation of the Passages Selected and an Introduction by the Artist
HOMER c750BC. (POPE Alexander 1688-1744 - translator_)
Early Greek Poetry The Illustrators Personal Copy? In VG tall green cloth, gilt titles & tooling, corners rubbed. Spine, no title edges bumped. Internally, [2], [3], 4-12, [1], followed by 13 text leaves (ancient Greek 1 side & Pope's…
Artists Sketch Book 1890-1892 MS
JONES H.D. (H.D.J.)
Oblong quarto, sketch book. Original quarter morocco over blue morocco cloth, corners rubbed, Spine, no title, repaired cloth tear at base. Internally, 22 leaves with drawings & 15 blank. Sketches include: south elevation and two plans of a modest…
Rhymes of Ye Olde Sign Boards
LEWIN Frederick George
57 pp, 16 by 7 inches, 1st ed. In contemporary quarter blue cloth with illustrated cream paper over boards, corners and edges bumped and worn slightly, 2 cotton ties, small stain at head. Spine, no title. Internally, half title, [6], 7-57 pp,…
The Romantic and Picturesque Scenery of England and Wales, The romantic and picturesque scenery of England and Wales from drawings made expressly for this undertaking by P.J. de Loutherbourg : with historical and descriptive accounts of the several places of which views are given.
LOUTHERBOURG P.J. De [Philippe-Jacques] 1740-1812
18 STUNNING HAND COLOURED VIEWS First edition, first issue, i.e. without the frontispiece which appears in the second issue, folio, two titles and 36 ff text, all in English and French, eighteen coloured aquatint plates watermarked J.…
Thomas Rowlandson His Drawings and water-Colours
OPPE AP Adolf Paul 1878-1957) (Geoffrey Holme 1887-1954 editor)
In rather grubby cream vellum, beveled edges, a little worn and bumped at corners and edges, titles in gilt within brown lined box. Spine has raised bands, title in gilt to black leather labels, a little worn at edges. Internally, pink marbled…
The Garden of Gwaynynog, near Denbigh, North Wales
POTTER Beatrix 1866-1943
Original watercolour drawing [NP; ND; ca 1895]. IMage size: 51/2 * 813/16 inches; 140*223 mm. With an unfinished pencil sketch of the garden on the back. The garden of Gwaynynog was used as the setting for The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies (London:…
Prout's Microcosm. The Artist's Sketch-Book of Groups of Figures, Shipping, And other Picturesque Objects
PROUT Samuel 1783-1852
With twenty four lithographed plates First edition, in embossed gilt printed worn brown cloth, corners worn. Spine, gilt tooling & title, edges bumped. Internally, 4 pp (title intro), followed by 24 numbered lithographed plates, each with a…
Silver Wedding Vignette Sketches
RIMER John
84 original pen and ink drawings Oblong folio, full padded red morocco, brass bound with clasps, 84 original pen and ink drawings, finished in black/grey/ sepia and white water colour as heightening, each drawing oblong 4to mounted on the…
[Ruins of Luxor from the South west]
ROBERTS David 1796-1864
Litho Titled: Ruins of Luxor from the South west David Roberts. R.A. L Haghe lith. Original tinted half-page lithograph, published in 1846. Sheet 598*413 mm, Image 353*249 mm, No 19 to bottom L corner, some light spotting, tiny pinhole to 2…
Kyffin Williams 1918-2006
SINCLAIR Nicholas. JEFFREY Ian
Near Fine, 1st ed, 2004. In black cloth. corner bumped, edges brushed, silver titles to spine. NF DW. Internally, half title, [6], 7-127 pp, 82 coloured illustrations which include many full page, 12 B&W photographic topographical sites.…
Sketch Book of Maritime & Seashore subjects
SMITH Edward G
MS 19C sketch book depicting drawings & water colour of Marine and Sea-shore subjects mostly on the Welsh coast In half refurbished calf over brown morocco cloth, no title. Internally, forty two leaves, most with a sketch or two to both…
Recueil des Statues, Groupes, Fontaines, Termes, Vases, Et Autres magnifiques Ornemems du Chateau & Parc de Versailles.
THOMASSIN Simon 1655-1733
Illustrations of the garden sculpture at Versailles. VG, 1724, in quarter green calf over green cloth, corners rubbed. Spine, raised bands, gilt tooling & titles . Internally, frontis, title page in red & black inks, [2], (3-59) pp, [1], 1 map…
Affiches De Henri De Toulouse-Lautrec
TOULOUSE-LAUTREC Henri de 1864-1901. (ROTZLER Willy 1917-1994 editor)
Near Fine, 1946, 10 pls complete. In printed yellow wrappers, over stiff grey boards. Internally [4], 5-8 pp, [1], [1] pl list, [2] blanks, [2] followed by 10 (coloured, lithographed plates, pencil name to blank (Mylanie Kitchin?). First…