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![Fine Prints of the Year An Annual Review of Contemporary Etching and Engraving [1927]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/768/258/1457258768.0.b.jpg)
Fine Prints of the Year An Annual Review of Contemporary Etching and Engraving [1927]
by Salaman, Malcolm (Edited by)
London: Halton & Truscott Smith, Ltd.. 1927. Quarto Size [approx 24cm x 30.5cm]. Good condition. No dustjacket. Fading to spine and upper edge. Some rubbing to corners and spine ends. Illustrated with Black and White plates [100 pages]. Ribbon marker, albeit a little frayed at the end. viii, 19, xxviii pages + 100 pages of Plates. This is volume five in the Annual Review series. It contains reproductions of etchings, etc., issued or made in the year ending October 1927. Includes Directories of...
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£31.30
Etchers and Etching : Chapters in the History of the Art Together with Technical Explanations of Modern Artistic Methods
by Pennell, Ioseph [Joseph], N.A
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1924. Third edition [1924]. Good to very good condition. Comprehensive book on etchings, from making and collecting etchings, on tools and materials, on paper and technique, on cataloguing and storing, with special sections on the great etchers - Meryon, Whistler, Rembrant, Durer, Van Dyck, Blake, Goya, Rops, Turner, Haden, others. Illustrated. Tan cloth, 343 pages. Some light shelfwear and a couple of white paint smudges to the front cover, firm binding, clean pages...
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£30.92
Untitled (standing woman with outstretched arm)
by HOLLAR, Wenceslaus
1645. Etching. Inscribed lower right, F. Parm: inu: / W. Hollar fecit : 1645. Measures 4 5/8" x 3" Trimmed to neat line.<br/> <br/> Impressive etching of a female figure standing in classical pose, looking to the right with her left arm extended, wearing a loose robe held by her right hand. After Italian Mannerist painter Parmigianino. <br> <br> Wenceslaus Hollar also known as Wenzel Hollar (1607 - 1677) was an accomplished Bohemian graphic artist of the 17th century,...
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£529.04
Modern Masters of Etching: Alphonse Legros
by Salaman, Malcolm C
London: The Studio. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1926. First Edition. 1. Hard Cover. Publisher's full blue paper covered boards with white label on front cover. Twelve full-page etchings tipped in. With an introduction by Malcolm C. Salaman. . Head of spine is rubbed with some loss, paper covering of heel of spine is splitting, front hinge cracked, former owner's name and address on fep, tanning to edges of boards, else unmarked and clean. All twelve etchings are perfectly intact and...
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£81.39
Angling Sketches
by LANG, Andrew
London: Longmans, 1891. Limited. hardcover. very good(-). W.G. Burn-Murdoch. With 3 etchings and numerous illustrations by W.G. Burn-Murdoch. Tall 8vo, pale blue boards with parchment spine (worn at ends and joints repaired; title page starting). London: Longmans, 1891. First edition, large paper copy, number 27 of only 150 copies printed. Overall a very good(-) copy with etchings evenly toned from the tissue overlays.<br/> <br/>
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£162.78
This Realm, This England: The Citadel of a Valiant Race Portrayed by its Greatest Etchers
by Samuel Chamberlain (ed.)
Hastings House, New York, 1941. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Size: Quarto. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Heavy foxing front/rear pages, but body of book mostly clean and unfoxed. Edges foxed and browned. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Art & Design; Etching; England; Travel & Places. All our pictures...
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£18.26
Untitled (Plate 10)
by KAPROW, Allan
Milan: Galleria Schwarz, 1964. Etching. Signed in pencil in lower right, artist's proof. Image measures 5 5/8" x 4 1/4"<br/> <br/> Plate 10 by Allan Kaprow from "The International Anthology of Contemporary Engraving: The International Avant-Garde, Volume 5: America Discovered." This plate is the artist's proof for an edition of 60. Signed by Kaprow in the lower right corner. Printed by Atelier Georges Leblanc, Paris. MoMA 324.1967.10. In gray cardboard passe...
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£325.56
Modern Masters of Etching: C.R.W. Nevinson (Number 31)
by Salaman, Malcolm C
London: The Studio Ltd, 1932. Hardcover. Good. spine cloth missing; binding & mulling exposed. corners bumped & rubbed. covers sunned w/ significantly worn, tanned & scratched. plate edges tanned.. Gray-green paper boards with cream & decorated title block on front cover, 12 pp. of text plus 12 duotone etchings tipped in on plate pages. With an introduction by Malcolm C. Salaman. Plates attached & clean. Includes publisher's ephemera. Uncommon, in any condition.
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£48.83
Cherubs
by RIDINGER, Martin Elias
1748. Etching. Measures 9 7/8" x 12 7/8"<br/><br/> This lovely engraving by Martin Elias Ridinger shows two winged putti, or cherubs. One holds a bow, and another holds a torch. One of four prints in a series; possibly a study for a mural.<Br><Br>Martin Elias Ridinger was the son of the prolific German engraver Johann Elias Ridinger.<br/><br/>
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£162.78
Little Penthouse
by LEWIS, Martin
New York: Crafton Collection, 1931. Drypoint. 9 7/8 x 6 7/8 inches. Edition of 75. Signed in pencil, lower right. In archival silver leaf frame, 17 x 13 3/4 inches. Crafton Collection, New York: 1931<br/> <br/> New York City at night. A richly-inked impression with luminous highlights and shadows. Martin Lewis (1881-1962) was born in Victoria, Australia. He is known for his scenes of urban life in New York during the 1920s and 1930s. A seminal figure in the graphic arts of the 1930s, Lewis...
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£19,533.60
Untitled (Woman with dark plumed hat)
by HOLLAR, Wenceslaus
1646. Etching. Inscribed upper left, E. Parm: inu: W: Hollar fecit 1646, 4 January. 3 7/8 x 2 3/4 inches. Trimmed to neat line.<br/> <br/> Beautiful portrait of an elegant woman shown bust length, looking to the right, wearing a dark plumed hat, hoop earrings, pearl necklace with pendant, and ermine-trimmed cloak over blouse with pleated collar. After Italian Mannerist painter Parmigianino. <br> <br> Wenceslaus Hollar, also known as Wenzel Hollar, (1607 - 1677) was an...
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£529.04
Koala Mother and Baby
by TICE, Clara
unbound. Etching with hand coloring. Signed in pencil at lower right. Image measures 5.75 x 4". Folded sheet measures 10 x 6.5".<br/> <br/> This delightful print featuring a mother and baby Koala bear is an original by New York artist Clara Tice. Made in 1921, the image features a mother koala grabbing onto a eucalyptus tree with the joey on its back. Tice has depicted the pairs silver fur with a mix of precision and spontaneity that complement the dynamic lines composing their...
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£366.26
Ivliana Morella
by KRAUS, Georg Melchior
Weimar: Verlag des Gesellschaft, 1773. Etching. Measures 3" x 5". Trimmed to neat line.<br/> <br/> Beautiful portrait of Juliana Morell shown bust length, looking to the right, wearing a headscarf and cape with a pearl brooch. Juliana Morell (1594-1653) was a Catalan child prodigy, Dominican nun, and intellectual. While the details of her studies remain unconfirmed, she is considered by many to be the first woman to obtain a university degree, defending a thesis on ethics and...
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£203.48
Etchers and Etching: Chapters in the History of the Art Together with Technical Explanations of Modern Artistic Methods, 4th Edition (Volume II, Graphic Arts Series)
by PENNELL, Ioseph
New York: The Macmillan Company. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1936. Hardcover. Stated fourth edition of Joseph Pennell's presentation of notable etchings as produced by some of the better practioners of the art form. This edition with a preface by Elizabeth Robins Pennell, as well as three other prefaces. The text and art are presented on heavy, buff-colored leaves. This work is vol. II in the publisher's Graphic Arts Series. --- In beige buckram cloth-covered boards with titling in dark...
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£17.09
Charles Meryon and His Eaux-Fortes Sur Paris. Being a lecture delivered to the Print Collectors' Club on Thursday 11th March 1931
by HARDIE, Martin C.B.E
London: Print Collectors' Club, 1931. MERYON, Charles.. A collection of dark and moody Parisian scenes by master French printmaker, Charles Meryon (1821 -1868) paired with an accomplished essay by the curator of prints of prints and drawing at the Victoria and Albert Museum, Martin Hardie. Limited edition - this is number 422 of 500 - printed at The Baynard Press. Small quarto, 80 pages, introductory text followed by 22 plates in collotype, quarter bound cloth, original printed papered boards, some...
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£26.08
Modern Masters of Etching: Frank Brangwyn, R.A.
by Malcolm C Salaman [Intro.]
London: The Studio, 1924. First edition. Hardback. Very Good/Very Good. 10" by 13". Frank Brangwyn. A first edition collection of numerous tipped in etchings from artist Frank Brangwyn. The first edition of this work, in the very scarce publisher's original price unclipped dust wrapper. With an introduction from Malcolm Charles Salaman, an English author, journalist and critic.Illustrated throughout with numerous tipped in plates of etchings from Frank Brangwyn, a Welsh artist, painter, watercolourist,...
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£120.00
Paul Helleu Peintre et Graveur
by MONTESQUIOU, Robert de
Paris: Floury, 1913. First. hardcover. fine. Helleu, Paul. Illustrated with 100 plates, about half in color and some mounted, each protected with lettered tissue. 114 pages of text in French. Short thick 4to, handsomely rebound in 3/4 burgundy over wood veneer with tan morocco spine label; original decorative wrappers bound-in. Paris: H. Floury, 1913. First trade edition. A fine copy of this uncommon book, complete with all images including the frontispiece "Le Chevelure Dore" which seems to...
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£529.04
Etchers and etching: Chapters in the history of the art, together with technical explanations of modern artistic methods
by Pennell, Ioseph
New York: MacMillan Company, 1926. Hardcover. VG spine end&corners rubbed. light tanning to pg edges. pastedowns & flyleafs tanned. dustjacket has numerous chips & tears to all edges; chunk missing from spine end; overall very worn.. tan cloth boards w/ green lettering. brown paper dustjacket w/ black lettering. 343 pgs w/ illustrations & plates. content as follows: Of etchings -- Of the making of etchings -- Of the collecting of etchings -- Of the great etchers -- Of Charles Meryon -- Of James McNeill...
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£24.42
Le Jardin des Supplices; Suite des Images Composees, Dessinees, Gravees a l'Eau-Forte et Coloriees a la Main
by MIRBEAU, Octave & COLUCCI, Gio
Paris: La Connaissance, 1925. Limited. paperback. near fine. Colucci, Gio. Illustrated with 14 etchings colored in pochoir, numerous culs-de-lampe, letters and designs, all by Colucci. A separate thin volume contains an extra suite of all plates and figures in b/w, plus 4 in color. Thick 4to, original printed wrappers with glassine; both volumes laid into the publisher's illustrated board folder (edgeworn and neatly re-backed in brown cloth). Paris: La Connaissance, 1925. From a total printing of...
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£2,441.70
Modern masters of etching: Frank Brangwyn, R.A.; part one / introduction by Malcolm C. Salaman
by Salaman, Malcolm C
London : The Studio Ltd, 1924. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine copy in the original printed boards. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: Unnumbered pages. Subjects: Etchers - 20th Century - United Kingdom.
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£34.18
Modern Masters of Etching: Joseph Pennell (Number 28)
by Salaman, Malcolm C
London: The Studio Ltd, 1931. Hardcover. G- (Outer spine material is gone and book is holding together but is loose; ex-gallery with label on front cover and a few interior marks; otherwise moderately aged; all 12 plates are present and are clean; a candidate for rebinding or a reading and admiring copy only.). Gray-green paper boards with cream & decorated title block on front cover, 12 pp. of text plus 12 duotone etchings tipped in on plate pages. Considers some of the work of American artist Joseph...
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£39.07
Cherubs
by RIDINGER, Martin Elias
1748. Etching. Measures 9 7/8" x 12 7/8"<br/><br/> This lovely engraving by Martin Elias Ridinger shows three winged putti, or cherubs, holding up a blanket. One of four prints in a series; possibly a study for a mural.<Br><Br>Martin Elias Ridinger was the son of the prolific German engraver Johann Elias Ridinger.<br/><br/>
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£162.78
Telephone (Plate 15)
by SEGAL, George
Milan: Galleria Schwarz, 1962. Etching. Signed in pencil in lower right, artist's proof. Image measures 5 5/8" x 4 1/4"<br/> <br/> Plate 5 by George Segal from "The International Anthology of Contemporary Engraving: The International Avant-Garde, Volume 5: America Discovered," 1964. Signed and dated '62 in the lower right corner. Printed by Atelier Georges Leblanc, Paris. MoMA 324.1967.15. In cardboard passe partouts mount with protective plastic window, in good...
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£284.86
On the Riva; from Pennell's window
by PENNELL, Joseph
1883. Etching. 8 x 10 1/4 inches. Signed in pencil within neat line lower right.<br/> <br/> Beautiful view in Venice featuring the pavement running alongside a canal known as a Riva. Some foxing and toning, abrasions lower left, margins trimmed and chips to margins. Professionally restored and lined. Joseph Pennell (1857-1926), was an artist, author and illustrator. He taught at the Art Student's League in New York City and designed several iconic military posters.<br/> <br/>
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£406.95
Contemporary Australian Printmakers
by KEMPF, Franz
Melbourne: Lansdowne Press, 1976. First Edition. This rich visual survey of the genre is accompanied by the Print Council's "Directory of Australian Printmakers", a very practical art history resource. Quarto, plates in colour and black & white; original black papered boards, near fine copy in a dust-jacket.
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£26.08
