Painting the Town; A British Council Exhibition: Silkscreen Exhibition Poster by (Ken Meharg and Bob Linney) X3 Posters

Paris: Editions Marquet, 1975. Estampe. Illus. by Jean-Michel Folon. Très bon. Aucune reliure. Signé par l'illustrateur. Ed. originale. Sérigraphie originale signée et numérotée, éditée par Jacques Marquet, circa 1975. Feuille : 66 x 50,5 cm. Image : 53 x 38 cm. Tirée sur Arches, signée à la mine de plomb et numérotée 224/300. Quelques pâles rousseurs marginales, sans gravité..

1687 RARE John Smith ART of Oil Painting Painters English Horology GOLD
'The Art of Painting' is a rare 17th-century treatise on painting with oils by English clockmaker John Smith. This work was an immensely popular work throughout the end of the 17th-century into the mid-1700s. In fact, it went through a number of editions through the end of Smith's lifetime.

While the title would suggest this is merely a work from an artistic view, it covers a variety of topics including how to work with gold and silver gilding. Other topics include
How to mix oils
Achieving correct color
Oil paint preservation
Proper use of tools
Item number: #5322
Price: $950
SMITH, John
The art of painting in oyl : wherein is included each particular circumstance relating to that art and mystery, containing the best and most approved rules for preparing, mixing, and working of oyl-colours : the whole treatise being so full compleat, and so exactly fitted to the meanest capacity, that all persons whatsoever, may be able by these… Read More

London: F.C.Moon, 1842. First Edition . No Binding. Very Good. Elephant Folio. David Roberts. Drawn by DAVID ROBERTS. Lithographed by Louis Haghe. Elephant folio. Original tinted FIRST EDITION LITHOGRAPH. Hand-colored. Size of image: 51 cm x 35,5cm ( 20,8 " x 14,48") + full margins with title, untrimmed. Faintest age-toning on few parts of margins, actually hardly visible (see photo). Very clean and very good condition with excellent imprint and stunning colors. Acid free mounting complimentary on request . International certificate of authenticity will be supplied. --ORIGINAL- LITHOGRAPHIE DER ERSTAUSGABE. Handkolorit. Ausser minimaler kaum sichtbarer heller Br?unung in wenigen Teilen der Aussenr?nder sehr sch?n und frisch erhalten.

1830 1ed Great Britain Illustrated Westall Architecture Bridges Cathedrals RARE

'Great Britain Illustrated' is a brilliant collection of illustrated views of landscapes and sites around England and Great Britain. Illustrator William Westall traveled extensively throughout the British Isles where he painted architecture, cathedrals, mountains, harbors, cities and buildings, bridges, and much more. Each of Westall's drawings are supplemented by descriptions by Thomas Moule.
This 1830 first edition includes 118 engravings – an impressive, and valuable work!
Item number: #16925
Price: $750
WESTALL, William [illust.]
Great Britain Illustrated. A Series of original Views
London: Charles Tilt, 1830. First edition

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Collation: Complete with all pages
o vi, 118
o 118 illustrations on 59 plates
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Language: English
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Binding: Leather; tight and secure
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Size: ~11.25in X 9in (28.5cm x 23cm)
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New York: Westside Committee to Free Angela, 1971 Two pieces of Angela Davis ephemera: 1) An original pictorial flyer/ broadside from the Westside Committee to Free Angela Davis, displayed in a two-way glass frame. A small nick to top edge and light wear, else in fine condition; 2) An original printing of the People's Petition Demanding Bail for Angela Davis (New York: National United Committee to Free Angela Davis), in fine condition and displayed in the two-way glass frame on the verso of the Dance for Freedom flyer.

Very good copy of the second edition of John Kay's idiosyncratic portraits of celebrities and eccentrics in Georgian Edinburgh.With 358 (of 360) engraved copperplates bound in four volumes. (Plates 84, Right Hon. Charles Hope, and 108, Robert Craig Esq., in Volume 2 apparently never bound in.)With many amusing caricatures of late eighteenth century Edinburgh society, including economist Adam Smith, aeronaut Vincent Lunardi, riding master Angelo Tremamundo, philosopher Thomas Paine, author William Smellie, engraver Andrew Bell, actress Sarah Siddons, golfer Alexander McKellar, apothecary Mortar Willie, anatomist John Barclay, idiots and aristocrats, giants and little people, volunteer soldiers, lawyers, judges, chimney sweeps, sedan-chairmen, and scenes of cockfighting, cudgelling, election violence, transvestitism and ballooning. The appendix has portraits of Toussaint Louverture, John Kay himself, William Wallace, John Knox, Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, Napoleon, Mary Queen of Scots, George III,… Read More

Lovely copy of a rare book on Indian flora by talented amateur female artist Lena LowisWith 30 elegant botanicals by Lena Lowis, lithographed by David Blair, and printed by M. & N. Hanhart. Among the exotic flowers portrayed are poinsettia, flame lily, bougainvillea, hibiscus, clustervine, coralbush, Rangoon creeper, Nepal trumpet flower, white orchid tree, elephant creeper, oleander, Darwin pea, bottlebrush and Eastern prickly pear.No publication date, but preface dated 1878.Lena Lowis (1845-1919) was a talented writer and botanical illustrator. She was born Selina Caroline Shakespear in Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh, India, the daughter of British Indian Army officer, Col. Sir Richmond Shakespear. She married Lt. Col. Ninian Lowis of the Bengal Staffs Corps and moved to England in 1868.David Blair (1820-1899?), was a botanical artist and lithographer who also worked on Transactions of the Linnean Society (1875), Berthold Carl Seemann and James Britten's Journal of Botany, British and Foreign (1872-8),… Read More

Very good volume of 17 numbers of this rare 18th century art magazine.

With calligraphic title page and 50 (of 51) copperplates after artists such as Paul Sandby, C. Monnet, Charles le Brun, Philippe de Champaigne, Giovanni Casanova, Charles Eisen, etc., engraved by Joshua Collyer, William Walker, Charles Grignion, Michael Angelo Rooker, T. Cook, J. Hall, W. Sharp and others.

"In each number of which will be given a Portrait of some Celebrated Personage, some interesting Historical Subject and some curious Perspective View executed by the most capital artists of Great Britain and calculated to enrich the Cabinets of the Curious or to ornament the Apartments of Persons of Real Taste."

Each number had three plates, a portrait, a historical or mythological scene and a bucolic landscape. Missing one plate (of Perseus), never bound in.

The portraits include writers, philosophers, scientists, statesmen, clergy and aristocrats such as Geoffrey Chaucer, Alexander Pope, Racine, Moliere, Corneille, Sir… Read More

Berlin- London: Rembrandt Verlag, Marlborough Fine Art, 1967. Limited/Numbered PRIVATE PRESS. Original Cloth Box. Very Good. Big Folio. Henry Moore. Title page, 4pp and colophone.+80 coloured plates. ONE 0F 180 COPIES OF THE GERMAN EDITION (COPY NR. 24) SIGNED BY HENRY MOORE. Without the original lithograph called for. Remark in the colophone: " Die Lichtdrucke wurden in der graphischen Anstalt Ganymed , Berlin hergestellt." - Original folio red linen case with some light wear and small 3cm tear on head of spine, Otherwise a very good clean and fresh copy.

Very good copy of Volume LXXIII (73) of the whole series (Volume 3 of the Third Series) of Curtis's Botanical Magazine, 1847.
Complete with all 70 (13 folding) hand-coloured botanical plates (No. 4275-4344).
All plates drawn and lithographed by the prolific botanical artist Walter Hood Fitch.
Includes many exotic flowers and plants including the giant Victoria water lily, Java rhododendron, peyote cactus, mottlecah eucolyptus, hibiscus, pitcairnia, jalap, pitcher plant, etc. With several species of orchids including Cattleya, Vanda, Anguloa, Bulbophyllum, Phalaenopsis and Dendrophylax.
The dynamic illustrations of flowers and leaves take up the whole plate, and are crammed with details of the seeds and fruits.
Sir William Jackson Hooker (1785-1865) was one of the great botanists, professor at Glasgow University and later director of Kew Gardens in 1841. He edited Curtis's Botanical Magazine from 1826 onwards, and brought in talented young fabric printer Walter Hood Fitch in 1834.
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