Sculptures and Drawings by Moore, Henry - 1949

"Drawings by Mervyn Peake." [London]: The Grey Walls Press, [1949]. (Introduction by Mervyn Peake). First published in 1949. pp. 11 + 62 b. & w. plates (some with colour). Hardcover, green/grey cloth with black title on spine (corners square, covers pretty clean but for a smudge to front lower corner, spine bumped & bottom a bit frayed, covers bowed outwards, top edge foxed, interior is clean & unmarked, though the paper throughout has darkened). d.w., unclipped (spine darkened, spine chipped some to both top & bottom, some wear and a few tiny tears, a large mark of foxing on upper corner, but several large portions of foxing are visible only on the inside of the dust jacket, also are a few marks on the covers).Very good condition (Dust jacket in good condition).Size: 9 7/8" x 7 1/2" (25cm x 19cm).The title page says "Drawings by Mervyn Peake." On the dust jacket and the book spine the title is "The Drawings of Mervyn Peake." The first issue had a gilt title on the spine. Other printings have black or… Read More

NY: Abrams, 1996. First edition. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY: Abrams, 1996, first printing. Folio, 10 1/4" x 12 1/8", 256pp., 222 illustrations, 128 plates in full color. Fine in mylar sleeved, fine dust jacket. . 1st. Hard. Fine/Fine. Folio.

New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Jackets lightly soiled and toned on . the reverse.. 1965. First Printing. Hardcover. Compiled and with a commentary by Ronald Paulson. N Vol 1 Introduction and Catalogue xiv, 351pp / Vol 2 The Engravings xvii, unpaginated. Cream cloth. Endpaper map, abbreviations key, notes, appendices, indexes, and black and white plates. Each print known to have been made or supervised by Hogarth is included, as well as important variant states, from unfinished proofs to the alterations made by the artist in the last years of his life. (from the front jacket flap) ; Oblong 4to 11" - 13" tall .

San Geronimo, CA: R. J. Lambert, ca. 1976. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG+. Small folio, 60pp (glossy paper), stapled wrappers. 1 of 500 stated copies of the second issue of this L.A. art scene mag, includes 3 pages on the famous 1976 COUM Transmissions performance at L.A.I.C.A. with photos and a note from Genesis and Cosey. Also a page contributed by the avant-garde Chicano conceptual/performance art group Asco. Light storage wear/rubbing to covers (typical for this title) and a little light spotting, no markings.

Red half calf, marbled boards. Gilt titles on the spine.
Modern Painters (1843–1860) is a five-volume work by the eminent Victorian art critic, John Ruskin, begun when he was 24 years old based on material collected in Switzerland in 1842. Ruskin argues that recent painters emerging from the tradition of the picturesque are superior in the art of landscape to the old masters. The book was primarily written as a defence of the later work of J. M. W. Turner. Ruskin used the book to argue that art should devote itself to the accurate documentation of nature. In Ruskin's view, Turner had developed from early detailed documentation of nature to a later more profound insight into natural forces and atmospheric effects. In this way, Modern Painters reflects "Landscape and Portrait-Painting" (1829) in The Yankee by American art critic John Neal by distinguishing between "things seen by the artist" and "things as they are". Ruskin added later volumes in subsequent years. Volume two (1846) placed emphasis on… Read More

"Drawings by Mervyn Peake." [London]: The Grey Walls Press, [1949]. (Introduction by Mervyn Peake). First published in 1949. pp. 11 + 62 b. & w. plates (some with colour). Hardcover, green/grey cloth with black title on spine (corners square, covers pretty clean but for a smudge to front lower corner, spine bumped & bottom a bit frayed, covers bowed outwards, top edge foxed, interior is clean & unmarked, though the paper throughout has darkened). d.w., unclipped (spine darkened, spine chipped some to both top & bottom, some wear and a few tiny tears, a large mark of foxing on upper corner, but several large portions of foxing are visible only on the inside of the dust jacket, also are a few marks on the covers).Very good condition (Dust jacket in good condition).Size: 9 7/8" x 7 1/2" (25cm x 19cm).The title page says "Drawings by Mervyn Peake." On the dust jacket and the book spine the title is "The Drawings of Mervyn Peake." The first issue had a gilt title on the spine. Other printings have black or… Read More

NY: Abrams, 1996. First edition. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY: Abrams, 1996, first printing. Folio, 10 1/4" x 12 1/8", 256pp., 222 illustrations, 128 plates in full color. Fine in mylar sleeved, fine dust jacket. . 1st. Hard. Fine/Fine. Folio.

New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Jackets lightly soiled and toned on . the reverse.. 1965. First Printing. Hardcover. Compiled and with a commentary by Ronald Paulson. N Vol 1 Introduction and Catalogue xiv, 351pp / Vol 2 The Engravings xvii, unpaginated. Cream cloth. Endpaper map, abbreviations key, notes, appendices, indexes, and black and white plates. Each print known to have been made or supervised by Hogarth is included, as well as important variant states, from unfinished proofs to the alterations made by the artist in the last years of his life. (from the front jacket flap) ; Oblong 4to 11" - 13" tall .

Brown leather spine with gilt decoration, banding and title on the spine. Mottled marble boards.
Volumes 1 and 2. Renewed and First Edition

San Geronimo, CA: R. J. Lambert, ca. 1976. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG+. Small folio, 60pp (glossy paper), stapled wrappers. 1 of 500 stated copies of the second issue of this L.A. art scene mag, includes 3 pages on the famous 1976 COUM Transmissions performance at L.A.I.C.A. with photos and a note from Genesis and Cosey. Also a page contributed by the avant-garde Chicano conceptual/performance art group Asco. Light storage wear/rubbing to covers (typical for this title) and a little light spotting, no markings.