Pages on Art by RICKETTS, Charles - 1913

. Very Good. . Constable, 1913 1st, bright clean copy, no markings, no dustjacket, Professional booksellers since 1981 . 1913. Hardcover.

Constable, London, 1913. 1st Edition. HARDCOVER. 1st printing. 8vo in dark steel blue cloth, gilt lettering and decoration to spine, blind embossed lettering and border to front cover, 265pp, portrait frontispiece with tissue guard __CONDITION : An unusually well preserved FINE very clean and tight unmarked and barely read copy (gilt spine lettering dulled, page-block edges slightly tanned). An excellent copy. ... __We always ship in PROTECTIVE CARD PARCELS

London, Constable, 1913. . 8vo. viii+268pp. Frontispiece portrait of the author with tissue guard. Original cloth in dustwrapper. a near fine copy. . First edition. Includes a chapter on Australian painter, Charles Conder. Dustwrapper excellent and very scarce. With contemporary news clippings.

London: Constable and Company Ltd, 1913. Hardcover. Very good/Good plus. Hardcover. Octavo. 266pp. Blue-green cloth with spine lettering in light green. Untrimmed. Essays on Watteau, Puvis De Chavannes, August Rodin and others. Light general wear, off-setting to endpapers. Rear hinge has been repaired. Dust jacket has light soil, corner tear and small edge tears. Charles Ricketts (1866-1931) "was a British artist, illustrator, author and printer, known for his work as a book designer and typographer and for his costume and scenery designs for plays and operas...He wrote three books of art criticism, two volumes of short stories and a memoir of (his friend, Oscar) Wilde. - wikipedia.

London: Constable & Company Ltd, 1913. Pp. viii+266, frontispiece portrait with tissue guard; green cloth, spine lettered and decorated in gilt (quite dulled), upper board lettered and ruled in blind; fore and bottom edges uncut; dust wrapper, slightly soiled, edges lightly creased and rubbed, with a couple of tiny splits and one longer (3cm) closed tear at head of lower backstrip fold; free endpapers and half-title page slightly offset, hinges tender at a couple of points, a few short edge splits; Constable & Company Ltd, London, 1913. First edition. *Essays on Charles Conder, Charles Shannon, Watteau, Rodin, Fantin-Latour, a.o. The frontispiece is a photogravure by Emery Walker, after a photograph by M. Arbuthnot.

LONDON, CONSTABLE, 1913. FINE.