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Paris: Organe Officiel Illustre de LíUnion International des des Beaux-Art, des Lettres, des Sciences et de líIndustrie, 1907. First edition. First edition. Original scarce number of this Parisian revue, pictorial covers, No. 29. pp. [523]-[554] This number includes 5 original woodcuts by Kandinsky. Roethel Reference: Der Rhein (The Rhine) 1903 printed in front cover and page 527. (R#12) Shiffe (Ships) 1903 (R#11) Zweikampf (Duel) 1903 (R#22) Springbrunnen (fountain) 1907 (R#72) Die Jagd ( The Hunt) 1903 (R#23) printed in back cover. Les Tendances Nouvelles the Parisian art revue, founded with the aim of enabling artists to freely shared their work to the public from different circles and countries. Les Tendances Nouvelles is an important publication intended to expose the audience to the beauty and to the philosophic co-operative nature of the Art, in the unity of all its expressions. Rich of artistic contributions from many artists and authors on the vanguard of that time, the revue represent… Read More

Paris: Organe Officiel Illustre de LíUnion International des des Beaux-Art, des Lettres, des Sciences et de líIndustrie, 1908. First edition. First edition. Original scarce number of this Parisian revue, pictorial covers, No. 40. pp. [847]-[882]. This number includes 3 original woodcuts by Kandinsky. Roethel Reference: kirche (Church) 1907 (R#55) Sitzende M‰dchen (Sitting Girl) 1907 (R#67) Reiterin und kind (Horsewoman and child) 1907 (R#74) Les Tendances Nouvelles the Parisian art revue, founded with the aim of enabling artists to freely shared their work to the public from different circles and countries. Les Tendances Nouvelles is an important publication intended to expose the audience to the beauty and to the philosophic co-operative nature of the Art, in the unity of all its expressions. Rich with artistic contributions from many artists and authors on the vanguard of the art world at that time, the revue represents the artistic expression of the 20th century. It was founded on May… Read More

Paris: Organe Officiel Illustre de LíUnion International des des Beaux-Art, des Lettres, des Sciences et de líIndustrie, 1909. First edition. First edition. Original scarce number of this Parisian revue, pictorial covers, No. 49. pp. [1143]-[1174].This number includes 1 original woodcut by Kandinsky. Roethel Reference: Vogel (Bird) 1907 (R#65) Les Tendances Nouvelles the Parisian art revue, founded with the aim of enabling artists to freely shared their work to the public from different circles and countries. Les Tendances Nouvelles is an important publication intended to expose the audience to the beauty and to the philosophic co-operative nature of the Art, in the unity of all its expressions. Rich of artistic contributions from many artists and authors on the vanguard of that time, the revue represent the artistic expression of the 20th century. It was founded on May 1904 and ended on August 1914. Covers slightly torn at spine, else near fine internally.

Paris: Organe Officiel Illustre de LíUnion International des des Beaux-Art, des Lettres, des Sciences et de líIndustrie, 1909. First edition. First edition. Original scarce number of this Parisian revue, pictorial covers, No. 48. pp. [1111]-[1142]. This number includes 1 original woodcut by Kandinsky. Roethel Reference: Schalmei (shawm) 1907 (R#54). Les Tendances Nouvelles the Parisian art revue, founded with the aim of enabling artists to freely shared their work to the public from different circles and countries. Les Tendances Nouvelles is an important publication intended to expose the audience to the beauty and to the philosophic co-operative nature of the Art, in the unity of all its expressions. Rich of artistic contributions from many artists and authors on the vanguard of that time, the revue represent the artistic expression of the 20th century. It was founded on May 1904 and ended on August 1914. Foxing to covers and a few leaves, otherwise near fine internally.

Bielefeld and Leipzig: Velhagen & Klasing, 1897. First Edition. First Edition. 4to. Fabulous Art Nouveau book printed in Germany at the Turn of the Century featuring distinctive Jugendstil design elements. Original publisher's white cloth with bold Art Nouveau style boldly gilt-stamped cover design and lettering. The endpapers are printed in striking repeating gilt printed design. With 204 illustrations throughout after paintings, etchings and drawings. With attractive contemporary woodcut bookplate. AEG. Fine condition.

Hannover: Druck von A. Molling, 1919. First edition. First edition. Original pictorial paper covered boards with superb cover illustration by Aubrey Beardsley. Full-page frontispiece illustration, also Beardsley. Bookseller's catalog (Hans Kaiser), Germany, printed in German. 24pp. Near fine. Scarce.

London: Macmillan, 1877. First edition. First edition. Blue gray cloth with black and gilt designs on front cover and spine. 176pp. 13 full-page plates by E.V.B. (Eleanor Vere Boyle). Corners bumped, near fine copy of a scarce title to find in presentable condition.

London: Vale Press, 1898. First Edition Thus. First Edition Thus. Two volumes. Fine Condition. An utterly magnificent, elaborately inlaid binding (both covers and spine) by the renowned English (and later American) bookbinder, Alfred de Sauty, who is widely regarded as one of the finest bookbinders of the early 1900ís, originally working as a finisher for Riviere. De Sauty then designed bindings for the prestigious Hampstead Bindery, taught bookbinding in England, and later emigrated to the U.S. to become the head of the esteemed bindery at R. R. Donnelley in Chicago (see below). In this exquisite binding for the Vale Press Keats (1898) we find an intricately and finely designed inlaid binding with OVER 250 individual inlaid pieces of varying colored morocco in a highly appealing design. The covers are filled with gathered leaves and grape clumps forming and emanating from the sides, and all coming together in a central, interwoven group. There are gilt-stamped winding vines, as well as attractive… Read More

London: Hacon and Ricketts, The Vale Press, 1902. First editions thus. First editions thus. Tall 8vo. Two separate titles, five total volumes (two Keats, three Shelley). A superb set of both Vale Press titles, sold here together, since bound similar, and obviously stored safely together by the same owner, as all five volumes in fine condition. Bound in publisher's original beige smooth buckram cloth. Borders, initials and decorations, including a full-page decorative title in each volume of the Shelley, and double-page title spread in the Keats, by Charles Ricketts. Spine as near to original hue as ever seen. Browning to prelims in the Keats, but no browning in the three Shelley volumes, amazingly. Shelley all three volumes unopened.The finest set we have seen in some time.

[Chicago]: printed at the Auvergne Press by William H. Winslow and Chauncey L. Williams, 1896. First Edition. First Edition. Slim 8vo. Original red cloth, lettered in gilt. Only 65 Copies Printed, this Copy #12. Association Copy: Presented by the publishers W. H. Wilson and Chauncey Williams to the famed illustrator and designer, Will Bradley on front free fly: "To Mr. Will Bradley This Little Book, the first work of the Auvergne Press, December 20th, 1896." The intricate and highly interpretive title-page design and illustration is the first book illustration by Frank Lloyd Wright to appear in print, commissioned by the publishers for this book. In 1895, Wright had designed a uniquely Arts & Crafts home for Chauncey L. Williams. That same year Williams partnered with Washington Irving Way to form Way & Williams. Chauncey's cofounder at Auvergne, William Herman Wilson, lived kiddy-corner to Williams, and less than two miles from Wright's home and studio in Oak Park. Approaching the publication of… Read More

Berkeley: Published at the Sign of the Live-Oak, 1904. First Edition. First Edition. Publisher's beige cloth (with interesting and repeating cross-hatch stitch design), attractive cover illustration of a mirror-image of elf in stylized garden, green lettering on spine. Illustrated with title page woodcut design and repeating headpieces to all pages by Louise Keeler, the wife of the author. Some wear to covers, very good.

One page letter by Charles S. Keene, 1823-1891, prolific English artist and illustrator, said to be one of the foremost English illustrators in black and white. "239 King's Road, Chelsea, Dear Boutcher, I was sorry I could not show up on Sunday but I had several engagements... I've been so chivied with work this week that it slipped my memory- pray then excuse me for this, Yours ever, Charles S. Keene."

New York & Cincinnati: The Abingdon Press, 1922. First edition. First edition. Exquisite full deep red elaborately gilt, by Leonard Mounteney, renowned finisher for the prestigious RiviËre Bindery who apprenticed at the bindery of G. & J. Abbott in Nottingham and studied ornamental design at the Battersea Polytechnic. He worked as an exhibition finisher for Riviere before emigrating to Chicago, where he worked with Alfred de Sauty at the R. R. Donnelley bindery. Bound in rich crimson pigskin with front and back covers similarly gilt with elaborate wide corner tools connected with straight fillet line on the innermost border. The front cover displays a large hand-tooled log fire with dancing flames conceived with various gouge tools and segments. Full gilt spine with five raised bands containing gilt dots at their apex, and four decorative gilt panels. Attractive wide dentelles with five fillet rolls and corners, stunning scarlet silk moire panels and flyleaf. The binding is signed on the lower… Read More

Berlin: Otto von Holten, The Einhorn Presse, 1922. Thick folio, 15 x 9 1/2 inches. 327pp + 8pp. Original publisher's ivory colored cardboard composition binding with elaborate all-over blind embossing and gilded cover and spine titles. Illustrated endpapers. One of 1005 copies, numbered and monogrammed by Lechter himself in the colophon. Fabulous full-page and smaller heading illustrations, etc, throughout by Melchior Lecter. TEG, others untrimmed. According to the colophon, the book was printed by Otto von Holten from May, 1914- May, 1922, and signed and numbered by Melchior Lechter by hand, and this copy bears his monogram "ML" and "No. 67," in red. With original silk page marker. Covers with edge-wear and some chipping, front cover and spine discolored, but a near fine copy internally of a beautiful and scarce Melchior Lechter title.

London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co, 1898. First edition thus. First edition thus. Attractively bound in full russet brown morocco by Zaehnsdorf, with designs on both cover and similar motif on spine. Covers with four curved panels containing gilt fleurons connected by gouges, surrounding an arabesque design to the center of the boards. Spine with swirls of gilt tooling, interspersed and terminating in gilt fleurons. Gilt-tooled turn-ins with smaller fleurons, surrounding a burgundy doublure, tooled with gouges and fillets. Watered silk flyleaves, with dual gilt rules and small floral tools in each corner. Limited to 50 copies on large paper, of which this is #39, and signed by the printer. Printed at the Chiswick Press. Tissue-covered frontispiece. Binder's name in gilt on the front doublure, with their "exhibition quality" stamp in gilt on the rear silk flyleaf. Measures approx. 5.5" x 8". Some light rubbing to edges and joints (no cracks, hinges sound). Corners bumped.

New York: New York Review of Books, 1965. First edition. First edition. 4to. Original gray printed wrappers. Contents and explanation page plus 13 illustrations laid into folder of famous personalities of the period including The Beatles, Jack Kerouac, Picasso, etc. executed by David Levine, noted caricaturist of the period. Levine has inscribed his name under the Jack Kerouac drawing (#5). Slight shelf-wear, plates are fine.

London: Macmillan & Co, 1897. Beautifully bound by William Worsfold, (1856-1929) in a distinctly Art Nouveau style. Full rich crushed green cloth with tulip, leaf and vine design on all four corners of both covers, single filet ruled border, spine with five raised bands and with intricate all-over stippling design on five out six panels, carrying over the tulip design on the covers. Marbled endpapers with superb dentelles also carrying the same gilt-stamped design motif as covers, and signed on the front dentelle at bottom, "Bound by Worsfold." Worsfold was a successful bookbinder in Soho, with operations dating back to 1889, where he set up shop in Soho at 12 Frith Street. Worsfold followed in the path of his family tradition, which dates back to 1803 in London, where bookbinding services were rendered. With the decorative bookplate of Aberdeen publisher John Morgan, and with inked (red) inscription by Morgan to actuary of the Aberdeen Savings Bank Thomas Jaffrey (b. 1861), dated 1906. A gorgeous… Read More

Chicago: Blue Sky Press, 1901. Original color decorated paper covered boards with attractive Art Nouveau tree and rose design. Special Illumined Edition, Limited to 100 Copies, Signed by Publisher, Langworthy, printed on Shandon paper. Superb color title and exquisitely illumined in sparing, pastel colors in decorative initials throughout. A fine copy. Together with an announcement for How Jaques Came into the Forest Arden, 4pp, with large decorative woodcut as well as another announcement for the same book, with hand-colored decorative initial. All fine. Scarce thus.

London: John Lane, Bodley Head, 1908. Gorgeous binding by Bumpus in full blue morocco with dozens of elaborate green, dark brown, ochre and red leather onlays forming an elegant and wide blossom and vine pattern surrounding the outer half-inch perimeter of the front cover and coming together in the center with additional onlaid designs via a braid motif. Spine similarly detailed. Wide dentelles with bold gilt parallel ruling (five lines each). AEG. Signed in gilt pallet at rear, "Bumpus Ltds, Oxford." One very small nick to petal onlay on cover, a fine example of Bumpus craftmanship.

New York: Barse & Hopkins, 1914. First Edition. First Edition. Oblong 4to. In original publisher's beige laid paper wrappers with cover lettering boldly stamped in gilt, red silk ribbon ties at top, and publisher's two-part box (tattered). Ten card paper leaves, with full-page color illustrations by Ethyl Davis Seal. Calendar is in fine condition. Scarce.