Search Results: Titles starting with B from SOPHIE SCHNEIDEMAN RARE BOOKS

Bosham, 2022. Original moveable alphabetical sculpture of A B C cast in bronze powder and resin on a teal blue base. One of 25 signed on the base by the artist.||The artist has developed his Alphabet series of cut outs and sculptures into these tactile moveable ‘Bauhaus’ letters on a vibrant teal blue base. | The development of Ron King’s Alphabet series

2005. Colour wood engraving printed by the artist, one of an edition of 200 signed, numbered and titled by the artist. Image size 12.5 x 6 cm (5 x 2 ins). Paper size 23 x 16 cm. Printed on Monadnock paper.||Also known as the Dark Blue-Winged Olive, engraved for Mayflies of the Driftless Region, written and hand printed by the artist in 2005.“’Dry Fly Entomology’ by Frederic M. Halford, published in London in 1897, was the inspiration for ‘Mayflies of the Driftless Region’. Halford, the Victorian innovator and popularizer of modern fly-fishing, scientifically described and surveyed the principal British mayflies of his time, but he did not claim his work as a comprehensive entomological treatise. Instead, ‘Dry Fly Entomology’ was aimed at providing anglers with a basic, working understanding of the nature of aquatic insects. ‘Mayflies of the Driftless Region’ can make no such claim: it is not a field guide. Instead, it is a study of mayflies by an artist....I have created 13… Read More

Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1950. With several hand-coloured facsimile reproductions. Biographical essay on the work of the Arden Press founder and printer at Shakespeare Head Press, with excerpts of Newdigate’s ‘Book Production Notes’, which originally appeared in the ‘London Mercury’ between 1920-1937. Sm. 4to., original cream linen over blue paper boards, printed title label to upper cover, lettering in gilt to spine, with the extra cover label bound in at rear. Slight offsetting to endpapers, a few faint spots to spine.||With the book label of D.G. Bridson.|

1933. Original artwork for BP Plus in black ink with use of air-brush technique to create a floating effect. Signed with the artist’s monogram. On the verso is the original B.P. Ltd archive label stamp which states “Designed by E. McK Kauffer 12 Mar 1933”.||| Original design used for BP Plus advertising poster

1933. Original artwork for BP Ethyl in black ink with use of collage, china white and air-brush technique. On the verso is the original Shell Mex and B.P. Ltd archive label and stamp ‘Designed by E MCK. Kauffer 6 May 1934.Mounted and framed. ||| Original design used for BP advertising poster

1933. Original artwork for BP Plus in black ink with use of collage, china white and air-brush technique. Signed with the artist’s monogram. On the verso is the original Shell Mex and B.P. Ltd archive label and stamp 31/3/33 and confirms that the design was used.Together with an earlier pencil drawing for the same poster with a stamp on the verso “Designed by E. McK. Kauffer, 14 Mar. 1933”.Both mounted and framed. ||| Original design used for BP Plus advertising poster plus an earlier drawing for the same design

1933. Original artwork for BP Plus in black ink with use of china white and air-brush technique, with some evidence of the pencil grid used by the artist. Signed with the artist’s monogram. On the verso is the original Shell Mex and B.P. Ltd archive label and stamp which states “Designed by E. McK Kauffer 12 Mar 1933” and confirms that the design was used.||| Original design used for BP Plus advertising poster

New York: Grolier Club, 1982. One of 450 copies. The catalogue of an exhibition at the Grolier Club. Introduction by Herbert H. Johnson followed by 35 essays on some of Rogers’s most important book designs by various other designers and printers including Jerry Kelly, Brooke Crutchley, Will Carter, Joseph Blumenthal, Adrian Wilson, Hermann Zapf and Martino Mardersteig, among others. Printed at the Press of A. Colish. 8vo., original quarter brown cloth over tan paper covered boards, printer’s devices stamped in brown to covers, gilt lettering to spine. A handsome copy in a mildly chipped and toned original glassine wrapper.|||

Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1940. A reprint of a letter originally written by Bruce Rogers to Frederic Goudy in 1919, presented here with an introduction by Goudy. One of 350 copies. The introduction set in Goudy’s University of California Old Style type and the letter set in Rogers’s Centaur type. Designed by Samuel T Farquhar and A.R. Tommasini and printed for Rogers, Goudy and their friends. 12mo., original quarter vellum over marbled paper boards, gilt lettering to vellum. Edges of boards very slightly rubbed.|||

1999. Original wood engraving and linocut. Edition of 45, numbered, titled and signed in pencil by the artist. Image size 75 x 108 mm. Paper size 190 x 260 mm. Mounted. Printed in yellow and black.||Anne Desmet became very interested in the aspirational qualities of tower-building in ancient Rome and medieval Italy – and that sparked an ongoing interest in the idea of the Tower of Babel from the Bible and what that story expresses about human aspirations and desires. Anne Desmet was born and brought up in Liverpool and gained her BFA and MA in Fine Art from Oxford and a Postgraduate Diploma in Printmaking from Central School of Art and Design. In 2011 she became the third wood engraver to be elected as a member of the Royal Academy of Arts in its 250 year history. Desmet’s works are in numerous public and private collections across the World including the Ashmolean Museum and the Whitworth Art Gallery. She has completed several important commissions including pieces for the British Museum,… Read More

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1939. One of 1500 copies, signed by the illustrator. Wood engravings by John Farleigh, under the direction of Shaw. 4to., original full green cloth with green and gilt leather labels on spine and upper cover, original card slipcase. The spine label is faded to brown and the slipcase is faded with some wear.||With the advertising card for this publication, The Monthly Letter of the Limited Editions Club from July, 1939, Number 119. with the title “If there are Four Hitlers". Also included is a pamphlet of the Limited Editions Club on the artwork of John Farleigh and Shaw’s comments on his artwork for the book.|

[Stockholm]: Midnight Paper Sales, 1998. One of 200 numbered copies, this no. 38. 7 multicolour wood engravings by Gaylord Schanilec. Signed by the author and the artist. Handset in Garamond Monotype, with Ratdolt titling. Printed on Zerkall paper. Pp. 42. 12mo., bound in quarter red cloth with printed paper boards, in the original slipcase with wood engraved label to one side. Very slightly rubbing to top edge, otherwise an excellent copy.||With the original prospectus inserted loose.Novelist Pete Hautman is a player. Early one morning the rest of us were moving as quickly as we could toward home. Pete, however, stood thoughtfully analyzing the game—who won, who lost, and why. ‘Bad Beat’ takes place in Zink’s club 34, a familiar bar with a card game going on upstairs. In the course of the story we learn the meaning and implications of the term "bad beat". An addendum to the book: Joe Crow’s Rules For Poker and Life represents Hautman’s observations about the game of Poker, and… Read More

2005. Colour wood engraving printed by the artist, one of a special edition of 32 printed on Gampi Torinoko paper, signed, numbered and titled by the artist. Image size 7.8 x 9 cm (3 x 3.5 ins). Paper size 26.4 x 16.8 cm.||Also known as Blue-winged Olive, engraved for Mayflies of the Driftless Region, written and hand printed by the artist in 2005.“’Dry Fly Entomology’ by Frederic M. Halford, published in London in 1897, was the inspiration for ‘Mayflies of the Driftless Region’. Halford, the Victorian innovator and popularizer of modern fly-fishing, scientifically described and surveyed the principal British mayflies of his time, but he did not claim his work as a comprehensive entomological treatise. Instead, ‘Dry Fly Entomology’ was aimed at providing anglers with a basic, working understanding of the nature of aquatic insects. ‘Mayflies of the Driftless Region’ can make no such claim: it is not a field guide. Instead, it is a study of mayflies by an artist....I have created 13… Read More

2005. Colour wood engraving printed by the artist, one of an edition of 200, signed, numbered and titled by the artist. Image size 6.5 x 6.5 cm (2.5 x 2.5 ins). Paper size 23 x 14 cm. Printed on Monadnock paper. ||Also known as Blue-winged Olive, engraved for Mayflies of the Driftless Region, written and hand printed by the artist in 2005.“’Dry Fly Entomology’ by Frederic M. Halford, published in London in 1897, was the inspiration for ‘Mayflies of the Driftless Region’. Halford, the Victorian innovator and popularizer of modern fly-fishing, scientifically described and surveyed the principal British mayflies of his time, but he did not claim his work as a comprehensive entomological treatise. Instead, ‘Dry Fly Entomology’ was aimed at providing anglers with a basic, working understanding of the nature of aquatic insects. ‘Mayflies of the Driftless Region’ can make no such claim: it is not a field guide. Instead, it is a study of mayflies by an artist....I have created 13… Read More

1995. Original wood engraving on Gampi vellum paper. One of 25 artist’s proofs, numbered, titled and signed in pencil by the artist. Image size 165 x 247 mm. Paper size 253 x 375 mm. Mounted. ||This work was commissioned by Bailliol College, Oxford in 1995 and is one of a set of 25 artist’s proofs. Desmet is engaged with the evolution of the urban landscape and its testimony to the aspirations and experiences of humanity. Her work ranges from small scale, detailed examinations to sweeping, often fantastical, panoramas viewed from a bird’s eye perspective as can be seen in this remarkable image.She was born and brought up in Liverpool and gained her BFA and MA in Fine Art from Oxford and a Postgraduate Diploma in Printmaking from Central School of Art and Design. In 2011 she became the third wood engraver to be elected as a member of the Royal Academy of Arts in its 250 year history. Desmet’s works are in numerous public and private collections across the World including the Ashmolean Museum… Read More

New York: Edmond Byrne Hackett, The Brick Row Bookshop, 1923. One of 400 copies. Set in Original Old Style Italic type within typographic borders by Bruce Rogers and printed by William Edwin Rudge. Pp. 10. 8vo., original blue-green paper covered boards, printed title label to upper cover. A fresh, bright copy.|||

Mission, British Columbia: Barbarian Press, 1998. One of 400 copies. 6 tipped-in examples of page specimens, wood engravings by Robert Gibbings and Wesley Bates and press devices by Louis Turpin and Barry Moser, together with a one sheet prospectus [8 x 21.5 cms] for ‘Inishbream’ printed in 3 colours, inserted loose. Set in Bembo roman and Fairbanks italic types with various display faces. Designed and printed on Curtis rag paper by Crispin and Jan Elsted with Natasha Herman. 8vo., [16.5 x 25.5 cms], original sewn blue paper wrappers. Very good.||| An illustrated prospectus of Barbarian Press books

1924. Original wood engraving. One of 100, signed, titled and numbered in pencil. 155 x 130 mms. Mounted.||With the original label from the Redfern Gallery dated Dec. 27 1929 and naming the purchaser as Dr R. Robison.|

Printed by Command House of Lords Press London, 1933. One of a small unspecified number, printed at the Press of the Woolly Whale, New York. 16mo., original string bound cream printed wrappers, very good.||An amusing verse accompanied by a note from the editors, stating ‘that they have been unable to establish that the foregoing lines are from the pen of Rudyard Kipling’. |

1994. Colour wood engraving, one of an edition of 220, signed, numbered and dated in pencil by the artist. Image size 16 x 10.5 cm (4 x 6 ins). Paper Size 25 x 17 cm. ||Engraved for the book A House in the Country, printed and published by the artist under his imprint Midnight Paper Sales. The book is comprised of four essays by Mary Logue documenting the trials of renovating her old Swedish farmhouse, and her observations on small-town life in rural America.|