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AUGUSTO, Artur. João carlos: um artista do livro. Lisboa. Edições Gleba, 1944. Limited edition. 4vo. 28pp. Original publisher's card wraps printed in black and tan. Top edge untrimmed, 16 full page woodcuts, bright and clean throughout. With the artist's presentation inscription 'To Cyril Kenney, friendly and sincerely, João Carlos, Lisboa 1957' to half-title. One of two hundred and fifty-three copies, this numbered 211. More > £ 175.00 Antiquates Ref. 30075
[GLASGOW INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION]. International exhibition glasgow 1888: fine arts section official catalogue. [Glasgow]. T. & A. Constable, 1888. First edition. Quarto. One of 370 large paper copies. [6], 157pp, [1]. Unopened in original publisher's vellum-backed red cloth boards, contrasting red morocco lettering-pieces, A.E.G. A trifle rubbed, spine dulled. Internally clean and crisp. Letterpress presentation leaf completed in manuscript, inscribed to Glaswegian art collector B. B. MacGeorge Esq. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 33282
CRUIKSHANK, Robert. [India paper proofs of the complete set of 22 etchings for Grimm's German Popular Stories]. London. Published by C. Baldwyn, 1823-6 Oblong quarto, dimensions 380 x 270mm. 22 india-paper proof etchings, including engraved-title and frontispiece, the final ten of which in undivided form; with an additional standalone plate, 'The Blue Light', added at end. Exquisitely bound in nineteenth-century pale blue gilt-tooled morocco, by Riviere. Slightest of rubbing to extremities, bumping to corners. More > £ 6,250.00 Antiquates Ref. 32655
CRUIKSHANK, George. [India paper proofs of the complete set of 12 plates for the Dickens' edited Memoirs of Grimaldi]. [London]. . [s.n., 1838] Quarto, dimensions 210 x 290mm. 12 india paper proof impressions. With an additional coloured portrait by H. Brown, and an address front in Grimaldi's hand, with his initials, bound in at front. Leaves mounted on linen guards. Finely bound in Victorian ('super extra') gilt tooled straight-grain crushed red morocco, ('in the Roger payne style') by Francis Bedford. T.E.G. Slightest of shelf-wear to extremities, else fine. More > £ 2,500.00 Antiquates Ref. 32652
CRUIKSHANK, George. [India paper proofs, before letters, of the 21 etched plates for Maxwell's History of the irish rebellion in 1798]. [London]. [s.n., 1845] Oblong folio, dimensions 370 x 270mm. 21 india paper proof impressions, before letters, captioned in pencil. With an additional carte de visite mounted at front, inscribed by the author. Finely bound in elaborately gilt-tooled nineteenth-century red crushed morocco, by Riviere. A.E.G, marbled endpapers. Fly-leaves a little spotted, lightest shelfwear to extremities, else fine. More > £ 2,500.00 Antiquates Ref. 32656
HOWARD, Frank. Imitative art; or the means of representing the pictorial appearances of objects, as governed by aerial and linear perspective. London. Darton and Clark, [1854]. 8vo. viii, 117pp, [1]. With an engraved frontispiece, 11 further engraved plates, and numerous in-text illustrations and diagrams. Without terminal leaf of publisher's advertisements. Contemporary half-calf, tooled in gilt and blind, contrasting red calf lettering-piece, marbled boards. Lightly rubbed and marked, with light surface wear to joints and edges. Inked gift inscription to Eliza Carter, 'from her affect. brother, Frank Carter', to head of FFEP. Occasional ... More > £ 100.00 Antiquates Ref. 34321
DOUCE, Francis. Illustrations of shakspeare, and of ancient manners: with dissertation in the clowns and fools of shakspeare; on the collection of popular tales entitled gesta romanorum; and on the english morris dance. London. Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1807. First edition. 8vo. In two volumes. xv, [1], 526; [4], 499pp, [1]. With a half-title to each volume, eight wood- and copper- engraved plates, and one folding hand-coloured copper-engraved plate depicting an 'ancient' scene of Morris dancing - all, somewhat curiously, duplicated (so that the plates are present in the same position in each volume). In addition, there are numerous woodcut vignettes throughout. Contemporary gilt-tooled vellum, all edges ... More > £ 500.00 Antiquates Ref. 25026
[GRAND TOUR]. Guide des collections egyptienne et etrusque et des statues en marbre et en bronze qui existent au musee bourbon a naples. Naples. L'imprimerie de l'observateur de Medecine, 1827. 27, [3], 48, [2], 20pp.

[Bound with:] Galerie impériale et royale de florence huitieme édition ornée des planches de la vénus des medicis de celle de canova et de l'apollon. Florence. Albizzi, 1825. First edition. 208pp. With three engraved plates.

8vo. Contemporary half-vellum, marbled paper boards, contrasting black calf lettering-piece. Heavily rubbed, discoloured, lettering-piece worn. Scattered spotting. More >
£ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 21081
GUICCIARDINI, Lodovico. [PINKERTON, John?]. Guicciardini's account of the ancient flemish school of painting. Translated from his description of the netherlands, published in italian at antwerp, 1567. With a preface, by the translator. London. Printed for I. Herbert, 1795. Second English edition. Quarto. xv, [1], 36pp. With half-title. Uncut in original paper-backed marbled paper wrappers, with evidence of being disbound from a larger volume, with some loss and stitching to spine. Some browning and spotting internally. More > £ 350.00 Antiquates Ref. 14794
[GOETHE], ARNIM, Bettina von. Goethe et Bettina correspondance inedite de Goethe et de Mme Bettina d'Arnim. Traduit de l'allemand par Seb. Albin. Paris. Au Comptoir des Imprimeurs Unis, 1843. First French editon. 8vo. Two volumes bound as one. [2], xvi, 348, [4], 364pp. Recent navy morocco backed mottled boards. Minor wear to extremities. Marbled endpapers, title-page laid-down due to tearing, loss to bottom corner of p.195-6, second half-title with repaired tear, some minor browning thought overall clean. More > £ 100.00 Antiquates Ref. 13989
RUSKIN, John. Giotto and his works in padua. [London]. Printed [by Levey, Robson and Franklin] for the Arundel Society, 1854. First edition. Quarto. 124pp. With two woodcut illustrated plates depicting the interior of the Arena Chapel at Padua and the Baptism of Christ respectively. Contemporary dark green gilt-tooled half-morocco, marbled paper boards. Very lightly rubbed. Marbled endpapers. Occasional light staining to text. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 26564
BIANCO, Pamela. MARE, Walter de la. Flora: a book of drawings. London. William Heinemann, [1919]. First edition. Quarto. [8], 43pp. Illustrated with eight colour plates and numerous line illustrations. Original publisher's pictorial paper boards, pictorial dustwrapper. Rubbed, bumped, and a trifle discoloured, dustwrapper worn, with substantial chipping and loss. Lightly spotted internally. More > £ 100.00 Antiquates Ref. 23355