The Sketches of Rubens by Van Puyvelde, Leo - 1947

The Beechhurst Press, 1951. HARDCOVER. VG / NONE. 13x11x3. VERY-GOOD HARDBACK. NO OVERSEAS OR PRIORITY DELIVERY EXCEPT BY SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT

New York: Beechhurst Press, 1951. First American edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. First American Edition. 1951. Folio. 97pp. + 104 Plates, Full-Color pastedown on flyleaf. Very Good in Very Good dustjacket. Light shelfwear, mild soil to edges. Some wear to dustjacket, occasional chipping/small tears with light loss to corners and spine-ends. Contents unmarked.

London: Kegan Paul Trench and Trubner, 1947. First. . Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. 4to.

Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner, 1947. Hardcover. Good/Acceptable. 1947. Second Printing. 97 pages. Plain dust jacket over blue cloth covered boards with gilt. Section of illustrated plates to the rear. Pages remain clear with minimal tanning and foxing, mild to end-papers and text-block edges. Minor pencil marking to front paste-down. Binding remains firm. Plates are bright and clear. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Mild crushing to spine ends. Book has a slight forward lean. Gilt lettering is bright and clear. Unclipped jacket has heavy edge-wear with some areas of loss, heavy tears, chips and creasing. Moderate tanning to spine.

NY: The Beechhurst Press. Near Fine in Very Good+ dustjacket. 1954. Hardcover; Second Printing. Name and date on front endpaper, else sharp and clean. ; With 104 plates and catalogue raisonne. 97 pages of text. ; 4to .

London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner, 1947. First English Edition. Hardcover. Good. 4to 11" - 13" tall. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound, internally clean hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, neat and tidy paste-downs; not ex-library, with neither highlighting nor underlining. Light half-toning to endpapers, else clean, unmarked and tightly bound. Bound in a two-tone, light blue paper over boards, blue cloth-backed, and with sharp and distinct gilt lettering to spine. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, showing moderate wear thereto, but protected by a plastic coat and not price-clipped. 104 plates included in black-and-white and printed on high-gloss paper, and with catalogue raissonne following of these preparatory sketches. Translated from the French of the Second Printing (the original, true First Edition having been written in Dutch), by Eveline Winkworth. Nine chapters, covering the models, sketches for engravers, colour, handling, style, composition and form, then a… Read More

London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1947. Hardcover. Tight clean book in green paper-covered boards with cloth spine; moderate spotting confined to endpapers; text crisp and bright and unmarked; stamp to front endpaepr; 97 pages of text and 104 plates; 9.25 x 11.75" .

Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co Ltd, London, 1947. Reprint. Hardcover (1/4 Cloth 3/4 Boards). Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Illustrator: Rubens. A preliminary word, by author, table of the collections. The text is illustrated with 104 black-and-white reproductions of the sketches at the rear of the book. 1/4 Black coloured cloth covered boards with gilt coloured titles. 3/4 Olive coloured boards. The result of 25 years of research on the Flemish artist Peter Paul Rubens – a small catalogue of the sketches of this artist. Rubbing of the book edges and a little softening also present; with, bumping and rubbing of the book corners. Some browning and foxing of the boards with very light age toning and faint foxing of the text block edges. Offset tanning and heavy foxing to the end pages and to the few pages either side of the end pages. Previous owners name to the top right hand corner of the free front end page. Second Printing. Size: 4to 9¾" - 12" tall.… Read More

London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co, 1947. Reprint, large 4to, 97pp + 104 plates, prelims substantially foxed with mild rubbing to board extrems o/w VG Copy, no DJ. Reprint. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Rubens. (RUBENS) PUYVELDE, Leo van. THE SKETCHES OF RUBENS. London: Kegan Paul, (1947). 4to. Quarter-cloth, dust jacket. 97, (3) pages, plates. Second printing. A scholarly treatment of Rubens' sketches, with 104 illustrations. Short tea on rear cover of lightly used dust jacket, else fine.