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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.

£40

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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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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 : 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.

£20

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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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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 : 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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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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