Search Results: Titles starting with P from Sims Reed Rare Books

Venice.: Ionnis Tacuini da Tridino., 1525.. Contemporary goatskin-backed bevelled wooden boards, front board with central circular relief vignette portrait of Ovid (see below) with text 'P . OVID . NAS / HEORIDES' and heightening in gilt, spine with decorative tooling and rules in blind, later paper label with manuscript title in red and remains of location label (?) at foot, remains of two leather clasps at fore edge, later wool-lined green cloth box with gilt title to spine and red leather label with gilt ex-libris to front cover.. Folio. (314 x 204 mm).. Printed title in red and black with elaborate woodcut border, verso with 'Lectoribus', 23 leaves with laudatory texts, commentaries, introductions and index and Ovid's Heroides illustrated with 22 woodcuts, one for each verse epistle: 20 as triptychs (each c.80 x 130 mm) illustrating each letter and two larger woodcuts (each c.105 x 160 mm) for Sappho to Phaon and 'In Ibin' together with woodcut diagram, final leaf with peroration and life of Ovid… Read More

Paris.: Albert Skira., 1943.. Loose as issued in original publisher's wrappers with label to front cover, original parchment-backed chemise with label to spine and slipcase.. Folio. (348 x 284 mm).. Half-title with large woodcut frontispiece verso, printed title in burgundy and black with large colour woodcut vignette and dedicatory verse verso, Rabelais' prologue and text illustrated with 179 colour printed woodcuts, including frontispiece, initials and ornamental tail-pieces, by André Derain; the woodcuts were printed by Roger Lacourière. André Derain's superb woodcuts - the only colour illustrations he made for a book - for François Rabelais' 'Pantagruel'.From the edition limited to 275 numbered copies, with this one of 200 ordinary examples on vélin d'Arches signed by Derain.André Derain's only book illustrations printed in colour and an outstanding example of the unusual process of polychrome printing from single blocks. Roger Lacourière, usually an intaglio printer, was so intrigued… Read More

Paris.: Hachette & Cie., (c.1858).. Loose in modern green straight-grained morocco-backed cloth box, title gilt to upper board and spine.. Oblong folio.. Printed title, lithograph frontispiece, leaf with 'Ordres des Planches et Notices de l'Atlas', folding 'Carte de l'Afrique Centrale et Orientale', 14 leaves with descriptive text for the plates printed recto only and 82 plates, numbered 1 - 82, of which 8 are original salt print photographs (seven of which have additional lithographs of the subjects printed on card or tissue and pasted over the photographs), 30 are engraved and the remaining 44 plates are lithographs (four colour, the remainder monochrome or tinted and 16 after photographs). Complete copy of Trémaux's Parallèle des Edifices with eight original photographs.Trémaux's work, an early and interesting use of photography in the recording of architectural remains and features, compares African builldings in Cairo, Tunis, ancient Carthage, Ethiopia, Sudan and elsewhere in Africa from… Read More

Paris.: Est en vente chez Jean Budry., 1924.. Stitched as issued in original blue publisher's printed paper wrappers with titles in gilt to front cover, advertisements in black to interior of rear cover.. Small 4to. (250 x 194 mm).. Printed text in French recto and verso throughout. Pierre Albert-Birot's important and very scarce single issue Apollinairean Surrealist review.'Paris', issued in a single number in 1924 by Pierre Albert-Birot, was issued the month after the publication of the first Apollinairean Surrealist manifesto (published on October 1st by Yvan Goll) and the first Bretonian Surrealist manifesto (published on October 15th). 'Paris' took the part of the Apollinairean Surrealists and opens with Roch Grey's analysis and impassioned defence of Apollinaire, his position and most crucially his definition of the term he had coined originally (see below). Roch Grey's contribution is dated 'Paris le 19 Octobre 1924, four days after the publication of Breton's manifesto. Also included are… Read More

Macerata.: Edizione Artestudio., 1972.. Original publisher's white paper wrappers, printed title to front wrapper of each vol., spines with title, publisher and artist, loose as issued in original cream board slipcase.. 7 vols. Square folio. (522 x 522 mm).. Each vol. with printed title, list of contents and justification printed recto only and a varying number of leaves (see below) each with printed leaf number verso with offset printed colour stripes (width 88 mm) showing the varying colour compositions for each of the represented colours ('Bleu', 'Jaune', 'Noir', 'Orange', 'Rouge', 'Vert' and 'Violet'). Daniel Buren's 1972 artist's book 'Passage' concerning the decomposition or recomposition of seven colours.From the edition limited to 110 unnumbered copies (including ten artist's proofs).Buren's multilingual punning title refers to the number of times that each sheet has been passed through the press, the act of the viewer's journey through each volume, and links, also, with his ongoing… Read More

Paris.: Editions Porteret., 1929.. Original publisher's illustrated printed wrappers.. 4to. (333 x 250 mm).. Illustrated with six original lithographs by Georges Rouault and numerous head- and tail-pieces. From the edition limited to 165 copies, with this one of 132 'ordinary' copies.Illustrated with 6 original lithographs - and numerous reproductions - by Georges Rouault as indicated on the title: 'Illustrés par l'auteur de six lithographies originales et de cinquante dessins en reproduction.'

Prague.: Družstevní práce., 1929.. Loose as issued in paper sleeve and card slipcase.. 8vo. (196 x 138 mm).. 5 hors-texte plates. Edition limited to 1040 copies, with this one of 50 copies numbered on the colophon and signed by Vančura on the title.Title page vignette and five full page illustrations by Toyen.

London.: Art For All. (Self-published)., 1970.. Original publisher's white printed wrappers, sealed in original envelope with stamp in red (see below) to front and 'GG' stamp to rear.. 8vo. (204 x 125 mm).. Printed text on cream paper and with 4 pages of sepia-toned photographic plates on glossy paper bound in the centre. A rare example of Gilbert & George's very first booklet sealed in the original envelope.Issued in an edition of 500 copies, each copy numbered in ink to the rear cover and with the stamped red 'GG' emblem on the final page of text, this copy remains sealed within the original envelope with the stamp 'DELICATE / BALANCES OF / VIEWING IN TIME' in red to the front cover at upper right and with the 'GG' stamp verso.The plates illustrate examples of G&G's early large-scale folded drawings which were executed after photographs of the artists.The artists' preface reveals the importance which they attached to this publication: 'It is our wish / that the reader should / come to regard… Read More

Brussels.: Lempertz., 1988.. 8vo. (209 x 148 mm).. Folded card invitation to the vernissage of the exhibition Per Kirkeby Tekeningen en beeldhouwwerken, Dessins et sculptures 1979-1986 at Lempertz on the 17th of September 1988. The exhibition ran from the 17th of September to the 15th of October 1988.

Berlin.: Galerie Seitz von Werder., 1999.. 8vo. (210 x 105 mm).. Invitation to the opening of the exhibition Per Kirkeby/Ludwig Wittgenstein "Bemerkungen über die Farben" und ausgewählte Arbeiten auf Papier at Galerie Seitz von Werder on the 12th of February 1999. The exhibition ran from the 12th of February to the 17th of April 1999. With paper obi around card.

Munich.: Fred Jahn., 1982.. 8vo. (210 x 147 mm).. Invitation to the exhibition Per Kirkeby Neue Bilder und Gouachen at Fred Jahn from the 10th to the 29th of May 1982.

Zurich.: Coutts Contemporary Art Foundation., 1997.. 4to. (295 x 210 mm).. Single sheet press release (No.22) from the Coutts Contemporary Art Foundation announcing Per Kirkeby at "Skulptur. Projekte in Münster". The sheet has been folded.

Cologne. : Galerie Michael Werner., 1980. . 8vo. (209 x 293 mm).. Single sheet, double folded, reproducing a work by Kirkeby contained in a printed envelope advertising the exhibition Per Kirkeby Neue Bilder at Galerie Michael Werner from the 8th of September to the 30th of September 1980. The envelope has been stamped and sent.

Munich.: Maximilian Verlag - Sabine Knust., 1990.. 8vo. (229 x 182 mm).. Leaflet invitation to the opening of the exhibition Per Kirkeby Radierungen 1990 at Maximilian Verlag - Sabine Knust on the 14th of September 1990. The exhibition ran until the 30th of October.

Cologne.: Museum Ludwig., 1987.. 8vo. (209 x 146 mm).. Single sheet printed on thin paper promoting the Per Kirkeby Retrospektive at Museum Ludwig from the 26th of June to the 16th of August 1987. The sheet has been folded.

Frankfurt.: Galerie Meyer-Ellinger., 1990.. 8vo. (230 x 167 mm).. Double folded card invitation to the opening of the exhibition Per Kirkeby Skulpturen, Druckgrafik at Galerie Meyer-Ellinger on the 8th of May 1990. The exhibition ran from the 8th of May to the 7th of July 1990. With 3 monochrome illustrations, biography of Kirkeby and exhibition history from 1985. The exhibition was a collaboration between Sabine Kunst Munich, Susanne Ottesen Copenhagen and Michael Werner Cologne.

Chicago.: Roger Ramsay Gallery., 1988.. Postcard (125 x 171 mm).. Postcard invitation to the preview and reception for the exhibition Per Kirkeby Paintings, Drawings and Prints at Roger Ramsay Gallery on the 4th of November 1988. The exhibition ran from the 5th of November to the 26th of November 1988.

Munich.: Maximilian Verlag - Sabine Knust., 1986.. 8vo. (158 x 210 mm). . Invitation to the exhibition Per Kirkeby Radierungen at Maximilian Verlag - Sabine Kunst from the 6th of November to the 3rd of December 1986.

Paris.: Gillespie Laage Salomon., 1985.. 8vo. (207 x 150 mm).. Card invitation to the vernissage of the exhibition Per Kirkeby Sculptures Peintures at Gillespie Laage Salomon on the 19th of October 1985. The exhibition ran to the 16th of November.

Mönchengladbach.: Städtisches Museum Abteiberg., 1986.. 8vo. (190 x 105 mm).. Printed card invitation to the exhibition Per Kirkeby Skulptur und Druckgrafik at the Städtisches Museum Abteiberg on the 4th of May 1986. The exhibition ran to the 29th of June.