Search Results: Authors starting with I from Sims Reed Rare Books

London.: Harvey and Darton., 1828.. Publisher's cloth, faded, loss to spine, inner hinge cracked, foxed throughout.. 4to.. pp. xii, x-xiii, 18 + portrait and 4 plates. With 20 round colour samples mounted down the side of the text. 'It was at the suggestion of Lady Balcarres that the painter undertook the new role of author-instructor. Her daughter, who had made good progress in art without tuition, had quickly derived benefit from Ibbetson's few lessons. His Painting in Oil was published in 1803...The book - written at Ambleside - was in the press when his Edinburgh friend, George Thomson, writes with humour and with characteristic enthusiasm: 'As far as I can pretend to judge, it will be extremely useful to young artists, who should in that case raise a Statue to you large enough to be placed on top of Skiddaw.'' (R.M. Clay).

Paris., 1893 – 1894.. Later burgundy cloth-backed marbled paper boards, original publisher's printed illustrated wrappers preserved.. 11 issues. Folio. (396 x 294 mm).. Each issue with title and cover illustration, printed text in French throughout and advertisements to rear cover and with 33 illustrations by Toulouse-Lautrec, Bonnard, Ibels, Willette, Vallotton, Hermann-Paul and others. An excellent, complete set of the very scarce fin-de-siècle illustrated revue 'L'Escarmouche' with additional important ephemera and original material.Directed by Georges Darien, the writer, satirist and artist, the anarchist 'L'Escarmouche' was short-lived even by the standards of the day, appearing weekly for only three short months from November 1893 to January 1894 (a very rare final number, included here, was issued as an afterthought and without illustration apart from the cover by Ibels, in March 1894). Noted rather more for its illustration than any literary merit, 'LEscarmouche' featured covers by… Read More

Paris.: Les Editions Lapina., 1928.. Original wrappers, slip case.. 8vo.. 5 original etchings on Verge de Rives by Louis Icart, one additional original etching, the portrait of the author, by L. Madrassi. From the edition limited to 1162 copies.

St. Petersburg.: Expédition pour la Confection des Papiers d'Etat., 1905.. Loose in later portfolio with leather title label to spine, original pictorial blue paper front wrapper with vignette and text in red and black and rear wrapper with publisher's vignette preserved and laid down.. Large folio. (780 x 575 mm).. Leaf with printed dedication in red and black ('à Sa Majesté l'Impératrice Alexandra Féodorowna'), leaf with printed title in red and black and publisher's vignette (matching the front wrapper), two leaves of text with head- and tail-piece, leaf with list of plates adn outline head-piece and 18 lithograph plates, 4 uncoloured, the remainder coloured or partially coloured, 3 folding on two or three leaves; each plate numbered at upper right and with printed title and artist's credit. Parallel text in Russian and French throughout. (Sheet size: 758 x 545 mm). The large and early Russian monograph on the Gour-Emir mausoleum in Samarkand.Produced by the Russian Commission Impériale… Read More

Cologne., 1970.. Original publisher's printed illustrated wrappers.. 4to. (209 x 291 mm).. Monochrome illustrations throughout. Single issue of Interfunktionen, from the edition limited to 1000 copies. Inextricably linked with the Joseph Beuys-era Kunstakademie Düsseldorf and the LIDL Akademie, Interfunktionen published theory, criticism and artists’ projects and facilitated a brand of European-American relations in art that had not been previously explored.This issue contains contributions from Dennis Oppenheim, Robert Smithson, Jan Dibbets, Gilbert & George, John Baldessari, Hamish Fulton and Tomas Schmit.

Berlin-Zehlendorf.: Rembrandt Verlag., 1926.. Original publisher's full green calf, gilt vignette to front board, title gilt to spine, lower edge and spine faded and worn, original plain paper dust-jacket.. 4to. (255 x 178 mm).. Half-title, etched portrait frontispiece of Holz by Isenstein, signed by both Isenstein and Holz, printed title in red and black with publisher's vignette (repeated on the cover) and Holz's verse, final leaf with justification and Holz's signature. From the edition limited to 250 numbered copies on 'echt Butten' signed by Holz on the justification in pencil and with the etched portrait frontispiece of Holz by Kurt Harald Isenstein signed in pencil by the artist.