Search Results: Titles starting with E from Design Books

Milan, Italy: Franco Maria Ricci, 1989. This is a very good hardcover copy bound in F.M.R.'s typical black silk cloth binding with a color plate tipped on the front cover. Covers have a few faint scuffs. Text in Italian and English. A history of the art nouveau textile producers E. Frette & Co. Limited to 1500 copies printed, of which this one is stamped 150 on the colophon (special limitation page). Lavishly illustrated with color plates. Lacking clamshell box. 12" square, 233 pages. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and sent with tracking. . Limited/Numbered. Hard Cover. Very Good.

Berlin: Bassenge, 2012. This is a very good softcover copy with almost no wear. Completely clean inside and out. This is a sale catalog for an auction held at Bassenge, Berlin on April 20, 2012. Sale number: Auktion 99. Text in German. The sale consisted entirely of items designed or created by E. R. Weiss. Numerous examples of his book bindings, typography, drawings, paintings and etchings. Two page essay by Markus Brandis. 237 lots in the sale. Almost all illustrated, most in color. Price estimates for each lot, but no prices realized sheets. Bibliography. Index. 10" high X 8" wide, 114 pages. This book will be securely packed and shipped with tracking. . Soft Cover. Near Fine.

Mexico City: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 2013. This is a very good softcover copy with just light wear. Slight bump to lower right corner. Completely clean inside and out. No marks. The spine is not creased, binding firm. Text almost all in Spanish, two essays in English. This book is a record of the 33rd Coloquio Internacional de Historia del Arte. Essays by over 30 scholars. Illustrated in black & white. Stated first edition published September 6, 2013. This is a limited edition of 500 copies. 9" high X 7" wide, 585 pages. Heavy book, foreign shipping will be extra. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking. . First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good.

Washington/London : Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts by the Smithsonian Institution Press, 1994. This is a fine hardcover copy in a near fine dust jacket with almost no wear. Completely clean. This monograph was prepared to document the extensive holdings of Thomas Eakins' photographic output, in the Charles Bregler Collection at the Pennsylvania Academy. The book documents 648 images in all, three quarters of Eakins known photographs. 173 photographs are reproduced here in black & white. Many of them are male nudes. Essays by Anne McCauley, Elizabeth Johns and Mary Panzer. Introduction by Susan Danly and Cheryl Lebold. Glossary of photographic terms. Bibliography. 10" square, 235 pages. Large heavy book, foreign shipping will be extra. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine.

Verona, Italy: Olivetti, 1975. This is a very good hardcover copy with a clear mylar cover. Signed by Hans Namuth and briefly inscribed on the half-title page. Completely clean inside and out. Spine a bit sunned. Illustrated throughout with black & white photographs by Hans Namuth. 12" high X 10" wide. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and sent with tracking. . Signed by Artist.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

Austin, Texas: The Jenkins Company , 1977. This is a very good softcover copy with just light cover wear. Completely clean. Illustrated in black & white. 597 items listed in this catalogue. 11" high X 8" wide. This book will be securely packed and shipped with tracking.. Soft Cover. Very Good.

New York: Cornell University Press,, 1972. This is a near fine hardcover copy with a near fine dust jacket, price-clipped, but complete, one short closed tear to rear cover top edge. Completely clean. Stated first edition. Illustrated throughout in black & white with 90 photographs + 5 figures in the text + 11 tables. From the jacket flap " Along the reaches near Bombay, the flanks of the Deccan plateau have been tunnelled, carved. and polished into a series of cathedral-like caves. These sanctuaries are among the most imposing and sophisticated works of Indian religious art and were, for Buddhist India. the equivalent of the great cathedrals of mediaeval Europe." Chronology. Glossary. Bibliography. 10" high X 7" wide, 240 pages. This book will be securely wrapped and shipped with tracking. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. This is a near fine hardcover copy in a near fine dust jacket with almost no wear. Completely clean inside and out. Fine study of the French Impressionists and their exhibitions, both official and unofficial, preceding the historic 1874 exhibition. Bibliography. 153 black & white illustrations. Bibliography. 10" high X 8" wide, 300 pages. . Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.

Jerusalem, Israel: British School of Archaeology , 1973. This is a very good softcover copy, an offprint in gray printed stapled wrappers, signed by the author and briefly inscribed on the top right hand corner of the front cover. Otherwise completely clean. Illustrated in black & white with 43 photographs of the metal wagons excavated in the Levant. 10" high X 8" wide, 25 pages + illus. This book will be securely packed and shipped with tracking. . Signed by Author. Soft Cover. Very Good.

London: Faber & Faber, 1974. This is a very good hardcover copy in a very good dust jacket with just light wear. Spine of jacket toned. Completely clean inside and out. Edited by Peter Thornton. One of the best references on Neo-Classicism, very comprehensive. 9 color plates + 499 black & white plates. Extensive notes to the plates. 11 appendices. Index.11" high X 9" wide, 432 pages. Large heavy book foreign postage will be extra. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking. . Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

Oxford, England: Printed for the Bibliographical Society at the Oxford University Press, 1903. This is a very good softcover copy in the original publisher's printed brown wrappers with just light wear. Right edge a little chipped. Very clean inside, pages uncut. This is Number X in the Illustrated Monographs issued by the Bibliographical Society. 40 plates printed in sepia or black & white. Spine creased, small paper label at bottom of spine. 11" high X 8 1/2" wide, 69 text pages + plates. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.. Original Wraps. Very Good.

Boston: Skinner Auctioneers, 2011. This is a fine softcover copy with no wear at all. Completely clean inside and out. This is a sale catalog for an auction held at Skinner's in Boston on October 30, 2011. Sale number: 2567B. The sale consisted of Rod MacKenzie's dauguerreotype collection. This is Part 1 only. 150 lots in the sale. All illustrated in color. Price estimates for each lot, no prices realized sheets. 9" high X 8" wide, 61 pages. This book will be securely packed and shipped with tracking. . Soft Cover. Fine.

Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1960. This is a very good hardcover copy in an almost very good dust jacket. The jacket is virtually all there, just a tiny chip to the lower edge of the front panel. Spine faded or sunned, and spine tips worn. The back panel has a few faint stains at the edge. Very clean inside, but one small abrasion inside the front cover. 27 black & white illustrations. Bibliography. 8 1/2" high X 6" wide, 326 pages.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

Oxford, England: Council of the Museum of Modern Art, 1982. This is a good softcover reference copy with the last 10 pages creased at the lower edge and corner. Completely clean inside. This is an exhibition catalog. Edited by John Hoole. Texts by Daniela Mrazkova and Vladimir Remes. Profusely illustrated in black & white. Surveys the work of about 16 photographers working in the period 1900 to 1939. Thumbnail biographical sketches of the artists. 11" high X 8" wide, 87 pages. . Soft Cover. Good.

New Delhi,: National Museum, , 1980. This is a very good hardcover copy with a very good dust jacket with just light wear. 36 color plates + 263 black & white illustrations. Maps. 11" high X 10" wide, 304 pages. Large heavy book, foreign shipping will be extra. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

Williamstown, Massachusetts : Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1982. This is a near fine softcover copy of this exhibition catalog with virtually no wear. Completely clean inside and out. Essay by Fernandez. Illustrations in black & white. 92 works in the exhibition. Chronology. Bibliography. 8" high X 11" wide, 32 pages. This book will be securely packed and shipped with tracking.. Soft Cover. Near Fine.

Northamptonshire, England : Sotheby's, 2005. This is a near fine softcover 2 volume set of this historic sale. Both catalogs are completely clean inside and out, no marks to lots or illustrations. Just a little wear to the top of the spine of volume 2. These are sale catalogs for an auction held in Northamptonshire, England on May 17-19, 2005. Sale code: L05500 "EASTON". Easton Neston was begun in the middle ages and expanded in subsequent centuries. Nicolas Hawksmoor was responsible for the Palladian style facade that became Easton Neston's trademark. William Kent contributed a chimney piece for the Saloon. Lengthy essay by James Miller on the history of Easton Neston and its' inhabitants. Bibliography. 310 lots in Part 1. Lots 320 to 623 in Part 2. All illustrated in color. 11" high X 9" wide. Heavy books, foreign shipping will be extra. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.. Soft Cover. Near Fine.

Stuttgart, Germany: Arnoldsche Verlagsanstalt GmbH, 1996. This is a very good hardcover copy with only light wear. Completely clean. Text in German and English. This monograph explores the famous art deco architectural masterpiece of Eckart Muthesius, the Maharaja's Palace at Indore. This book presents the first full length photographic documentation of Eckart Muthesius' work. All the illustrations are vintage black & white photographs from the period + some color plates of surviving fuirniture pieces. The furniture in the palace was designed by a who's who of famed designers of the day including Le Corbusier, Marcel Breuer, Eileen Gray, Ruhlmann, Louis Sognot, Ivan da Silva Bruns and Jean Puiforcat among others. Also includes drawings and a model reconstruction of the 'Project for a Country Residence', and several other projects. 11" high 9" wide, 176 pages. Large heavy book, foreign shipping will be extra. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy… Read More

Paris: Gallimard, 1970. This is a very good hardcover copy in the original clear acetate wrapper, corners slightly bumped. Wrapper has a short repaired tear. SIGNED by the artist, Max Ernst in ink on the dark red front endpaper and briefly inscribed to an American art historian and dated Paris, 1970. The art historian who participated in the production of several works on Max Ernst, subsequently inscribed the book and gifted it to a friend of his in the 1980's.Otherwise completely clean. Text in FRENCH. Illustrated in black & white. 9" high X 7" wide, 448 pages. Heavy book, foreign shipping will be extra. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.. Signed by Artist.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

Strasbourg : D'Emil Simon Fils , 1834. This is a very good hardcover copy in the original binding of brown marbled paper boards with an all-over green design. There is a large printed paper label with the title inset in an elaborately lithographed Gothic style frame. Tan paper covered spine of dark green cloth. The edges of the covers have a little wear. Inside there is an elaborately detailed title-page followed by 32 of 40 numbered plates. No evidence of plates being removed, as binding still very tight, but normally with 40 plates. All plates are black & white lithographs showing an amazing variety of typefaces and alphabets. Many are composed out of very imaginatively worked animals, plants, people or inventions forming the letters. A classic of this genre, here an incomplete copy with various faults, such as browning, tiny foxing, and 2 instances of later careful coloring of initials on different plates. Quite rare in the original binding. Large oblong folio, 11" high X 13 1/2"… Read More