(SULLY, THOMAS). BIDDLE, Edward & FIELDING, Mantle. The Life and Works of Thomas Sully. (1783-1872). Phila., 1921. 1st ed. 4to Illus. 411pp. Orig. 3/4 cloth and boards. One of 50 large paper copies signed by the authors. A very good copy.
DONALDSON, Thomas. The George Catlin Indian Gallery in the U.S. National Museum (Smithsonian Institution) with Memoir and Statistics. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1886. 1st ed. 2 Vols. 1-348;349-939pp. Plates, maps (mostly folding). Later cloth, brown morocco spine labels. A very good copy. HOWES D-416. A history of the George Catlin.....
PENNELL, Elizabeth Robins, and PENNELL, Joseph. Lithography and Lithographers: Some Chapters in the History of the Art by Elizabeth Robins Pennell together with Descriptions and Technical Explanations of Modern Artistic Methods by Joseph Pennell. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1915. 1st ed. 4to. xx,319. Frontis., plates. With three original lithographs by.....
PENNELL, Joseph. The Glory of New York. With an Introduction by Elizabeth Robins Pennell. New York: William Edwin Rudge, 1926. 1st ed. Folio. [4],12. 24 color plates. Orig. gilt-pictorial cloth. Cloth very gently rubbed, tiny bookplate, else near fine. One of 355 numbered copies. This marked "Press copy." Appreciation of.....
PLATT, CHARLES A. Monograph of the Work of Charles A. Platt. N.Y.: Architectural Book Publishing Co., 1913. 1st ed. Elephant folio. [2], ix leaves of text. 183 plates (printed on one side of each leaf only) containing 283 illus. from photos, plans and drawings. Orig. cloth. Very good.
URE, Andrew. A Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines; Containing a Clear Exposition of Their Principles and Practice. N.Y., 1853. 2 vols. 1st U.S. ed. xiv, 1118; 998pp. Illus. Orig. cloth. Near fine. Ure's compendious dictionary contains listings on substances such as arrow root, beer, bones, mordant, and pitch, as.....
CHAMBERLAIN, Samuel. Tudor Homes of England, with Some Examples from Later Periods. Illustrated with Sketches in Pen, Pencil and Drypoint, and Photographs by the Author. Measured Drawings by Louis Skidmore. N.Y.: Architectural Book Publishing Co., Inc., [1929]. Folio. 246pp. Orig. cloth. Very good. Consists largely of beautiful illustrations with 9pp.....
(CALIFORNIA). PETERS, Harry T. California on Stone. Garden City, Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1935. 1st ed. Large 4to. 227pp. plus many plates, some tinted, some colored. Orig. cloth, d/j. Fine. Limited to 501 copies. Lithography in early California. An important and beautiful study.
PETERS, Harry T. Currier & Ives Printmakers to the American People A Chronicle of the Firm, and of the Artists and their Work, with Notes on Collecting; Reproductions of 142 of the Prints and Originals, Forming a Pictorial Record of American Life and Manners in the Last Century; and a......
SALAMAN, Malcolm C. The Etchings of James McBey. London: Halton & Truscott Smith, 1929. 1st ed. 4to. vii,32pp. Frontis., 96 plates. Orig. vellum-backed gilt-pictorial cloth, T.e.g., red silk book ribbon. Mild sunning to spine, else very good or better. One of 100 numbered copies signed by McBey. Frontispiece is an.....
DUNLAP, William. History of the Rise and Progress of the Arts of Design in the United States. N.Y., 1834. 1st ed. Two vols. viii, 435; viii, 480pp. Orig. cloth-backed boards. Howes D-571.
LOCKWOOD, Alice G.B. Gardens of Colony and State, Gardens and Gardeners of the American Colonies and of the Republic Before 1840. [N.Y.]: Charles Scribner's Sons for the Garden Club of America, 1931. Folio. 1st ed. Two vols. Profusely illus. 464; 444pp. A fine set in orig. cloth.
BORNEMAN, Henry S. Pennsylvania German Illuminated Manuscripts. A Classification of Fraktur-Schriften and an Inquiry Into Their History and Art. With Reproductions in Color. Norristown, Pa.: Pennsylvania German Society, 1937. Large, oblong 4to. Illus. with 38 full-page plates. A very good copy in orig. cloth. Extremely scarce. By far the best.....
(WREN, CHRISTOPHER). [DIRCKS, Rudolf, ed.]. Sir Christopher Wren, A.D. 1632-1723: Bicentenary Memorial Volume Published under the Auspices of the Royal Institute of British Architects. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1923. 1st ed. 4to. xvi,280pp. Portrait frontis., illus., portraits, plates. Facsimile endpapers. Orig. gilt-armorial vellum, T.e.g, non-priceclipped d/j. Some wear to d/j.....
FOWLER, O.S. Home for All, or, The Gravel Wall and Octagon Mode of Building, New, Cheap, Convenient, Superior and Adapted to Rich and Poor.... N.Y., 1854. 192pp. plus xii pp. advts. 3 plates. Plans. Orig. red cloth with gilt pictorial design. Top of spine chipped, else very good.
LEIPNIK, F. L. A History of French Etching from the Sixteenth Century to the Present Day. London: John Lane The Bodley Head, [1924]. 1st ed. 4to. xviii,214pp. Frontis., plates. Orig. cloth, gilt-lettered vellum spine label, T.e.g. Library bookplate and pocket removed, small stamp on title page, else very good. One.....
PETERS, Harry T. America on Stone. The Other Printmakers to the American People. A Chronicle of American Lithography other than that of Currier & Ives, from its beginning, shortly before 1820, to the years when the commercial single-stone hand-colored lithograph disappeared from the American Scene. A Prologue being a survey.....
(CASSATT, MARY). BREESKIN, Adelyn D. The Graphic Work of Mary Cassatt: A Catalogue Raisonne. N.Y.: H. Bittner & Co., 1948. 1st ed. Small folio. Profusely illus. Orig. cloth-backed patterned boards in publisher's slipcase. Fine in d/j.Limited to 550 copies.
[CENTENNIAL EXHIBITION]. Masterpieces of the Centennial International Exhibition. Volume I: Fine Art by Edward Strahan. Volume II: Industrial Art by Professor Walter Smith. Volume III: History, Mechanics, Science by Joseph M. Wilson. Phila.: Gebbie & Barrie, [1876]. 1st ed. 4to. Three vols. Profusely illus. with engraved plates and reproductions. 366;.....
STAUFFER, David. American Engravers Upon Copper And Steel. New York: Grolier Club, 1907. Two volumes. xxxi, [3], 391, [1];x,566,[1]pp. plus illustrations. Half title in each volume. Half tan cloth and paper boards, black gilt morocco labels. Hinges cracked but holding. One signature loose in second volume. Internally clean. Very good.....
ULMANN, Doria. A Portrait Gallery of American Editors Being a Group of XLIII Likenesses. With Critical Essays by the Editors and an Introduction by Louis Evan Shipman. New York: William Edwin Rudge, 1925. 1st ed. Folio. xii,177pp. 43 plates. Orig. cloth-backed boards, T.e.g. A few small library stamps, else very.....
UTAMARO, Kitagawa. Twelve Wood-Block Prints of Kitagawa Utamaro Illustrating the Process of Silk Culture. With an Introductory Essay by Jack Hillier. Reproduced in Facsimile from the Originals in the Collection of Edwin & Irma Grabhorn. San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1965. Folio. Unpaginated. Color illus. Orig. vellum backed.....
(SWINBURNE, ALGERNON CHARLES). WISE, Thomas James. A Swinburne Library. A Catalogue of Printed Books, Manuscripts and Autograph Letters by Algernon Charles Swinburne. 4to. Original buckram, t.e.g. Illustrated. photogravure frontispiece portrait. London: Printed for private circulation only, 1925. First edition. Limited to 170 copies. A fine copy.
WOODWARD, Geo. E. and WOODWARD, F.W. Woodward's Graperies and Horticultural Buildings. N.Y., 1865. 1st ed. 139pp. Illus. Original blind-stamped cloth. A very good copy.
CLARKE, Hermann F. John Coney, Silversmith, 1655-1722. Boston, 1932. Illus. Uncut. Limited to 365 copies. Famous early Massachusetts silversmith. Fine in slipcase.