ALVA. Recent Paintings and Drawings. Foreword by ... Introduction by Maurice Collis. Bodley Head 1951.
1st Ed. Slim 4to. [32]pp. 20 plates including colour frontis. and 16 tipped in of which 9 are in colour. Minor spotting to front f.e.p., sm. split at tail of upper hinge, original black cloth backed light grey boards with black lettering to upper board, lightly soiled and rubbed with some sl. surface loss in parts, sl. wear at corners, head and tail of spine sl. bumped.
With 1966, 16pp. pamphlet ‘Les Métamorphoses d’Alva’ by Waldemar George loosely inserted and Inscribed by the Artist to verso of title page - ‘To ... and Charles with love Alva.’
£50.00 [ref: 292869]
LEON BAKST. Academy Editions 1973.
1st UK Ed. 4to. 248pp. 277 ills., including 32 pages in full colour. Some light marginal age toning, good in sl. chipped d/w. browned to edges and spine.
£25.00 [ref: 291554]
FELICE BOSELLI. Pittore di Natura Morta. Cassa di Risparmio di Piacenza 1973.
1st Ed. Thick 4to. [xvi] + 686pp. 34 tipped in cold. plates, 612 b/w. ills. Italian text. Good in lightly rubbed d/w. sl. chipped and repaired with selotape to corners and head and tail of spine.
Felice Boselli (1650–1732) Italian painter of the Baroque period, active mainly in Piacenza. The pupil of Michelangelo Nuvolone in whose studio he met the still-life painter Angelo Maria Crivelli also called il Crivellone, who became influential in his style. Known for still-life paintings of live and dead game, including animals, birds, and fish.
£100.00 [ref: 212223]
CHARDIN. Translated from the French by Eithne McCarthy. Thames and Hudson 1996.
1st English Ed. Large 4to. 293pp. + [i]. 292 ills., 146 in colour. Sm. ownership inscription, good in d/w. very lightly faded to spine.
£25.00 [ref: 291037]
THE LIFE AND WORKS OF GIORGIO GIULIO CLOVIO, Miniaturist, With Notices of His Contemporaries, and of the Art of Book Decoration in the Sixteenth Century. Bernard Quaritch 1891.
xxviii + 400pp. 18 plates. Light browning, from the library of Professor David Davies University College London, ex-libris Colonel Malcolm of Poltalloch, gilt lettered leather backed cloth, boards faded and marked, sl. surface loss to leather of lower board.
One of a Limited Edition of 300 Copies.
With the armorial bookplate of Lieutenant-Colonel John Wingfield Malcolm, 1st Baron Malcolm of Poltalloch, (1833–1902) British soldier and Conservative politician.
£40.00 [ref: 283451]
COROT. Paris Libraire Floury 1930.
4to. [vi] + 161pp. 104 plates, ills. Marbled e.ps., ex.-libris W[alter] and P.J. Kupfer, half morocco with marbled boards, gilt lettering to spine, t.e.g.
£25.00 [ref: 275119]
DEGAS. With translations from the French by Richard Howard. Thames & Hudson 1988.
1st UK Ed. 4to. 288pp. 324 ills. including 121 in colour, a couple folding. Fore and top edge of leaves spotted intruding internally in a few places, good in d/w. faded to spine.
£25.00 [ref: 292766]
DÜRER. The Complete Engravings, Etchings, and Woodcuts. Alpine Fine Arts Collection (UK) Ltd. N.d. c.[1980].
Reprint. Large 4to. [lx] + 385pp. + [iv] + [xi] list of ills. + [v] blank. 385 ills. Top edge of leaves spotted, good in sl. chipped d/w. faded to spine.
Originally published in 1964.
£35.00 [ref: 292765]
DÜRER. Paintings. Prints. Drawings. Translated by Nancy M. Gordon and Walter L. Strauss. Frederick Muller Ltd. 1982.
1st UK Ed. Large 4to. 400pp. Profusely illus. throughout including many in colour. Illus. e.ps., very good in d/w., in sl. marked black slipcase sl. split to lower back edge.
£35.00 [ref: 292905]
L’OEUVRE GRAVÉ DE GAUGUIN. H. Floury, Éditeur, Paris 1927.
2 vols. Sm. 4to. xxx + [iv] text. Port. frontis., brown & black lettered title pages, 96 b/w phototype plates with tissue guards and accompanying text, 7 text ills. French text. Light marginal browning, hinges neatly repaired, contemporary mottled leather, edges sl. rubbed with sl. wear at corners, rebacked in later calf with raised bands and 2 gilt lettered red leather title labels to spines, t.e.g.
No. 426 of A Limited Edition of 600 Copies.
£250.00 [ref: 290298]