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Leipzing: Alfred Hahn's Verlag, ca 1910. Cloth backed color pictorial paper covered boards. 32pp. Superb color illustrations nearly every page by Gertrud Caspari. Very good. (Item #522)
Leipzing: Alfred Hahn's Verlag, ca 1910. Cloth backed color pictorial paper covered boards. 32pp. Superb color illustrations nearly every page by Gertrud Caspari. Very good. (Item #522)
London: Tinsley Brothers, 1876. First edition. Two volumes. Original light blue blindstamped cloth. Woodcut devices throughout as head and tailpieces, chapter initials, by Walter Crane. Rare treatise on contemporary women artists such as Helen Allingham, Laura Theresa Alma-Tadema, Lucy Rossetti (Macox Brown), E.V.B. and many more. Spine on volume two..... (Item #939)
London: George Cruikshank, Sold by J. Robins and Co., 1826. First edition, first issue. Oblong folio. Original printed boards with cover illustration, thin calf spine. PRESENTATION COPY: "W. Blackwood Esq. with the Complm. Geo. Cruikshank" signed boldly along the top of the front cover (across 15 inches). 16pp, six full..... (Item #486)
Koln: Schaffstein, n.d. (ca. 1920). First edition. Quarto. Color pictorial cloth backed boards, color illustrated endpapers, title-page and color illustrations nearly every page by Ernst Kreidolf. Spine chipped, internally very good. A scarce Kreidolf title. (Item #85)
Leipzig: Alfred Hahns, Gebruder Dietrich, n.d. (ca. 1930). Oblong 8vo. Color pictorial paper covered boards, cloth spine. Printed on thick cardboard sheets. Full-page color illustrations throughout by ERIKA FISCHER. Some chipping to boards, overall very good. Delightful illustrations. (Item #292)
Paris: de l'imprmerie de P. Geuffier, 1806. Elephant folio. Early half calf, paper covered boards. Four-page introduction and 73 plates illustrating various architectural structures and themes. One of the classic architectural books of the period. Spine chipped with pieces missing, text very good with little signs of wear. Printed on..... (Item #482)
Original Elizabeth Shippen Green Watercolor entitled ìClematis XII.î Signed lower right: "ESGE To HC With Love, 1909." This is a full-size watercolor painted and given by Green to her friend and gardener, Henrietta Cozens of Cogslea (residence of J.W. Smith, E.S. Green, Violet Oakley and Cozens in early 1900ís). As..... (Item #437)
Nakladem: Czytelnik, 1949 (1946). Early Edition. Quarto. Original color pictorial paper covered boards with superb cover design by Ha-Ga. Fourteen full-page color illustrations by Ha-Ga (Anna Goslawska Lipinski) was an accomplished Polish book and magazine illustrator (1915-1975), born in Warsaw and studied at the Academy of Fine Arts. In this..... (Item #552)
Mainz: Joseph Scholz, n.d. (ca. 1925). First edition. Quarto. Cloth backed color pictorial paper covered boards. Superb full and half page color illustrations throughout by Hans Schroeder. 16pp. Very good. (Item #97)
Leipzig: Insel Verlag, 1907. Second edition. Attractive pictorial paper covered boards, quarter Japon paper spine, olive green endpapers. Superb illustrations by Vogeler, founder of the Worpswede Werkastatte. Slight discoloration to spine, else a fine copy of an attractive work. (Item #1071)
kaulbach, german. Suttgart and Tobingen: J.B. Gotta, 1846. First edition. Thick folio. Original brown leather binding with lavish gold illustrated cover and spine, designs and details. 36 superb engravings by Wilhelm Von Kaulbach. 257pp. Slight wear to edges and corners, occasional foxing and light discoloration otherwise a very good copy..... (Item #7)
Reichenberg: Edmund Ulllmann Verlag, n.d. (ca 1925). First edition. Large oblong quarto. Color pictorial paper covered boards, full-page color illustrations throughout by Kohler. A superb example of Jugendstil-style. Corners bumped, spine chipped and weakened, still a nice copy internally of a scarce and unusual children's title. Not found on recent..... (Item #92)
Leipzig and Munchen: Rotapfel Verlag, n.d. ca. 1925. First edition. Huge folio folders, cloth backed, pictorial cover. Seven very large tipped-in plates by Ernst Kreidolf. Corners, bumped, occasional soiling, but a nice clean copy of a book seldom found in presentable condition. (Item #77)
kreidolf, schaffstein. Koln: Schaffstein, 1902. First edition. 4to. Color pictorial paper covered boards with striking green stripes and checkerboard pattern. First edition. 10 superb full-page color illustrations, color title and vignette all by Ernst Kreidolf. Color pictorial endpapers. Top and bottom of spine slightly frayed, corners sl. bumped. A very..... (Item #9)
Cologne: H. Schaffstein, n.d. (ca. 1910). First edition. Quarto. Color illustrated paper covered boards, illustrated endpapers, 15 color lithographs by Ernst Kreidolf. Occasional soiling to covers, first page (i.e. endsheet) evenly creased, some thumbing, spine well chipped, a hard to find Kreidolf title. (Item #86)
Wien: M. Munk, [1914]. Exquisite Wiener Werkstatte influence with 12 striking full page color illustrations by Heinrich Lefler. Original stiff card wrappers with oval cover insert pasted onto card wrappers. A near fine copy. (Item #376)
Wien: Die Gesellschaft fur Vervielfaltigende Kunst, 1898. First edition. Elephant folio size (19 x 14 inches). Superb color cover illustration of three men in armor in highlighted silver and red-brown. With original 1897 announcement bound-in at front reproducing cover image. Illustrated throughout with full-page, large and small drawings, decorative borders..... (Item #395)
Prague: A. Haase, 1902. First edition. 4to. Original blue cloth with bold gilt-blocked and decorative cover illustration by Berthold Loffler, famed Jugendstil illustrator. Superb Wiener Werkstatte style illustrated endpapers. Elaborate title-page design, by Berthold Loffler. Cover has slight discoloring on margin, otherwise a near fine copy of an important, early..... (Item #386)
Darmstadt: H. Hohmann Verlag, n.d. (ca 1920). First edition. Oblong quarto. Thick card paper covered boards with designs, color illustrated half-title and seven superb interpretive illustrations in color by Pfeiffer. A very scarce Jugendstil title, not found on the internet in our latest search. About fine, with only very minor..... (Item #90)
New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1881. First printing. 4to. Cloth backed, paper covered boards with pictorial covers. Eight delightful full-page color plates, eight in light blue, numerous others, all by Pyle in distinctive early style reminiscent of Walter Crane toybooks. Among Pyle's earliest color illustrations, these portray the style..... (Item #40)
Munchen: Ulbert Langen, n.d. (ca. 1925). First edition. Quarto. Color pictorial paper covered boards. Superb color Jugendstil style illustrations throughout by Schulz. Spine paper chipped away, internally clean and bright. Scarce. (Item #87)
New York: Duffield & Co., 1915. First edition. 12 mo. Illustrated paper covered boards with color cover insert, cloth spine. With the twelve original illustrated color stamps, each pasted in to their appropriate positions. Head and tailpieces throughout by Smith. With the original publisher-issued stamp folder (wax paper) still affixed..... (Item #158)
Original Jessie Willcox Smith Watercolor Illustrations for The Water Babies, comprising one large sheet of six different mixed-media images (pen and ink and watercolor). Executed 1915-1916 and appearing in her famous Kingsley classic, The Water-Babies in 1916. On the verso is a written note, presumably in Smithís hand, stating: ìTitle-..... (Item #438)
Offered here is the J.W. Smith "Red Cross" poster, issued in 1918 by The American Red Cross. The poster measures 28 x 21 inches and is in very good condition with minor wear and very slight fraying to terminal edges. (Item #440)
London: Macmillan, n.d. (ca. 1910). First edition. Oblong quarto. Pictorial cloth. Delightful illustrations throughout in line by WINIFRED SMITH. Very good. (Item #290)