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New York: Pantheon, 1948. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. navy cloth. Very good. 300 pages. Sixty-two illustrations. Index. An account of the history, achievement and problems of Art Museums in the USA. A final chapter covers Latin-American art and museums.A supplement lists the art museums in the USA.

Chicago: Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1946. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. boards. Very good. 247 pages. 232 illustrations with forty-one in color. 1948 Christmas Greeting from the publisher laid-in.

London: William and James Pain, 1786. First edition. Hardcover. Modern marbled boards, quarter black calf, raised bands, green leather spine label lettered in gilt. Fine. (ii) + 14 pages. Folio, 45 x 28.5 cm, Forty two engraved plates. William Pain 's last book, assisted by his son James, the later became a pupil of John Nash and a practicing architect in Ireland. This was one of the few 18th century pattern books to enable the experienced builder to follow a design through from groundwork to execution. It devotes one third of its plates to four complete designs for town houses, the rest to their fixtures and fittings. Pain's works were very influential in spreading the Adamesque as a vernacular style, especially in America. . ARCHER. 239.1. COLVIN. pp.606-607. SCHIMMELMAN. 97. WIEBENSON. III-C-24. Scattered light foxing to a few plates, most are generally clean.

New York: Japan Society of New York, 1939. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. beige linen cloth. Backstrip darkened, otherwise Near fine. 72 pp. Ten full-page plates, a few in color. Bibliography. Printed in red and black in a Limited Edition, oneof 1000 copies by Peter Beilenson. Collotype reproductions by Arthur Jaffe. With detailed commentary on each plate by the author.

Np: Np, Nd. Very good. 23 x 17 cm. color stipple engraving.

London: Robert Triphook, 1813. Hardcover. Contemporary half calf, blue cloth decorated in blind in raised floral motif, marbled endpapers and all edges marbled. 2 vols. Very good. 492, 700 pages. 24.5 x 19 cm, First modern edition, and first reprint since 1580, and the best edition of this important source book for Shakespeare (amongst others), printed from the early editions. These early tragedies herein adumbrate a large portion of the Elizabethan drama. Haslewood has added some biographical notes, including collations of all the early editions, and notes on the variations of the text. Painter, clerk of Queen Elizabeth's Ordinance compiled the collection of stories, and like others amassed a personal fortune through embezzlement, endemic in the Elizabethan civil service. An austerely, wide margined but finely printed work. Book labels, very clean and fresh internally, slight toning first few endpapers Vol.I, modest extremity rubbing, tight binding, raised bands gilt decorated.

Venetia: Appresso Marc Antonio Brogiollo, 1642. leather_bound. Orig. limp vellum, spine lettered in brown. Very good in fine custom slipcase. quarter vellum spine and marbled boards. Folio, 33 x 22 cm. a2, B-G4, H-I4, AA-KK4, AAA6, BBB-EEE4, 4A-4R4, including title and final blank. Illustrated title page, some margin stains and browning. Initial decorated letters throughout. Not in FOWLER. Palladio's palaces and villas were imitated for 400 years all over the Western world; he was the first architect to systematize the plan of a house and consistently to use the ancient Greco-Roman temple front as a portico, or roofed porch supported by columns.

Np, 1903. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. vellum spine and dark gray boards. Fine in tattered original glassine. 42 pages. 26.5 x 18 cm. Engraved frontispiece of Farmer. The first women to become president of a major educational institution, Wellesley College at age 26. In the early 1890's she became the first president of the new University of Chicago. Throughout her academic career she was a staunch advocate of higher education for women during the late 19th century. Palmer's life was commemorated at a service at Harvard University in 1903 attended by college presidents whom she knew and other notable individuals in higher education. Unopened, printed at the Merrymount Press by D.B. Updike.

Florence: Niccolo Pagni F.E. Comp, 1824. Third edition. Paperback. Stiff blue wrappers, title hand lettered. Near fine. Morghen, Raffaello. 154 pages. 8vo, 21 x 13 cm. "One of the most celebrated engravers of modern times.............The whole of his works have been fully described by his scholar, Palmerini (in this work), to whom it was his custom to give an impression, in every state of the plates, from the first outline to the finished proof." [see: BRYAN Vol.III, p. 366]. Modest text age-toning.

New Haven: E. H. Pardee, 1880. Hardcover. Orig. brown cloth decorated in blind with front cover lettered in gilt. Very good. 15.5 x 10 cm. More than 25 leaves with over 70 mounted, mostly chromolithographs, embossed color card samples with prices written in pencil. The images carry the Victorian sentimentality of the time; with inscriptions -- "Hope sustain thee ever, Love and best wishes, I love thee dearly, Kindest regards, Remember your friend," et al. Elaborate raised embossing in gilt and a kaleidoscope of colors with most card sizes approx. 9 x 5 cm. A few of the cards with lace embroidered frames. Edges of some paper background sheets frayed at front cover margins. Images are clean, a few quires loose.

Paris: Verve, 1948. First edition. Orig. colored wrappers over stiff boards with the original glassine overwrapper lacking small pieces at backstrip head. Very good. Picasso, Pablo. Unpaginated. 35 x 27 cm. Dedicated to Picasso and his work at Antibes. Abundantly illustrated: eighteen tipped-in full-color plates and 21 black and white plates. Text in French. VERVE, p.182 ".... one of the unique qualities of "Verve" Nos. 19/20: a unity of time and place that gives this form of presentation -- known in English as a `work in progress' its singular character. Remnants of two small cello stains on title page, nick to backstrip head. Interior contents clean and fresh.

Paris: Verve, 1948. First edition. Stiff Boards. Orig. colored wrappers over stiff boards. Picasso, Pablo. Unpaginated. 35 x 27 cm. Dedicated to Picasso and his work at Antibes. Abundantly illustrated: eighteen tipped-in full-color plates and 21 black and white plates. Text in French. VERVE, p.182 ".... one of the unique qualities of "Verve" Nos. 19/20: a unity of time and place that gives this form of presentation -- known in English as a `work in progress' its singular character. Remnants of two small cello stains on title page, nick to backstrip head. Interior contents clean and fresh.

Rome: Editions Graphis Arte, 1990. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. illustrated white boards. Fine in near fine dust wrapper nicked at head in very good illustrated publisher slipcase. 364 pages. 29.5 x 24.5 cm. Limited edition, copy 657 of 2000. Text in French by Christian Parisot, Jeanne Modigliani & Fulvio Venturi. Profusely illustrated in color and black and white on high quality glossy stock. Bibliographie. Catalogue Raisonne.

London: B. T. Batsford, 1958. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. crimson cloth. Near fine. 191 pages. 25 x 19.5 cm. Photographs and plans to scale -- 149 in total, Contemporary design of the mid-century in England, USA, and Europe. Glossary. Index. Owner inscription.

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1969. Hardcover. Orig. quarter gold stamped green morocco with marbled green paper boards. Fine in fine matching marbled slipcase. Parker, Agnes Miller. 452 pages. 24.5 x 16 cm. Limited edition, copy 1461 of 1500 signed by Agnes Miller Parker. Designed by John Dreyfus, printed at the Spiral Press. Backstrip leather label printed in gilt. NEWMAN & WICHE 418.

Boston: Estes And Lauriat, 1887. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. light brown cloth, front cover and spine lettered and illustrated, backstrip lettered in gilt. Near fine. viii, 966 pages. 21,5 x 15 cm. Extensive Index at rear includes two page color ad for Gordon & Dilworth. Interior surprisingly clean, illustrated with woodcuts. Owner inscription second free endpaper.

Genova: Le Mani, 2000. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. green cloth lettered in gilt. Fine in fine dust wrapper. 445 pages. 32 x 25 cm. 401 illustrations, mostly in color printed on quality glossy stock. A series of scholarly articles. Comprehensive Bibliography. Index of Names. Text in Italian.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1925. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. black cloth, pictorial paper front cover in colors. Near fine. Parrish, Maxfield. 47 pages. Folio, 35 x 29 cm. Susan Meyer, AMERICA'S GREAT ILLUSTRATORS p.120, notes, "Only a mind rich in fantasy could have produced the unforgettable creatures populating his many children's books: The Reluctant Dragon in "Dream Days," Humpty Dumpty in "Mother Goose in Prose," Prince Agib and Sinbad in "The Arabian Nights," Pompdebile in "The Knave of Hearts."......His characterizations, combined with his strong sense of design, made him the most popular advertising and cover design artist of his time." Clean, copy of a children's classic; interior bright and clean, nicks to backstrip extremities and corners.

Racine: Artists And Writers Guild, 1925. Stiff Boards. Orig. spiral bound illustrated stiff wrappers. Near fine. Parrish, Maxfield. 28 pages. Folio, 32 x 26 1/2 cm. Fifteen full-page color plates and eight color illustrations in the text. Susan Meyer, AMERICA'S GREAT ILLUSTRATORS p.120, notes, "Only a mind rich in fantasy could have produced the unforgettable creatures populating his many children's books: The Reluctant Dragon in "Dream Days," Humpty Dumpty in "Mother Goose in Prose," Prince Agib and Sinbad in "The Arabian Nights," Pompdebile in "The Knave of Hearts."......His characterizations, combined with his strong sense of design, made him the most popular advertising and cover design artist of his time." Interior and covers fresh, firm and very clean, slight crease to front cover upper and lower corners.

Racine: Artists And Writers Guild, 1925. Stiff Boards. Orig. spiral bound illustrated stiff wrappers. Fine. 28 pages. Folio, 32 x 26 1/2 cm. Fifteen full-page color plates and eight color illustrations in the text. Susan Meyer, AMERICA'S GREAT ILLUSTRATORS p.120, notes, "Only a mind rich in fantasy could have produced the unforgettable creatures populating his many children's books: The Reluctant Dragon in "Dream Days," Humpty Dumpty in "Mother Goose in Prose," Prince Agib and Sinbad in "The Arabian Nights," Pompdebile in "The Knave of Hearts."......His characterizations, combined with his strong sense of design, made him the most popular advertising and cover design artist of his time." Interior and covers fresh, firm and very clean, as new copy.