Price List of Artists' Materials
Philadelphia: Janentzky & Co., 1879. Paperback. Green wraps with white spine and red lettering; 179 pp.; illustration. More
Philadelphia: Janentzky & Co., 1879. Paperback. Green wraps with white spine and red lettering; 179 pp.; illustration. More
New York: D. Appleton & Co. Publishers, 1866. Hardcover. Three-quarters reddish cloth with brown board spine, gilt letters on front cover, unpaginated, BW engravings. Title on front cover: Gems of Penmanship by Williams & Packard. A 19th-century study book of styles, fonts, flourishes, and techniques of lettering. Makes you realize..... More
London: Printed for G. Conyers at the Golden Ring, and J. Sprint at the Blue Bell in Little-Britain, 1701. Second. Hardcover. Leather boards with a spine that appears to have been reinforced at some point; debossed illustration on the cover; missing frontispiece; 166, [2] pp. This rare, important historical work..... More
New York: D. Van Nostrand, 1888. First Edition. Hardcover. Light blue folding protective case with mounted title cards; dark purple boards with gilt lettering; viii, 143 pp.; 10 prints mounted on 5 leaves. More
London: Hamilton, Adams and Co., 1855. First Edition. Hardbound. 3/4 brown leather with 4 raised bands and simple gilt design on bands and gilt lettering in compartments. Marbled endpapers, deckled edges. 176 pp. 26 color, 43 woodcuts. A very nice copy of an early and important art technique treatise, with..... More
London: George Rowney & Co. Hardcover. Tan library buckram. Section wrappers bound in. 66 pp + 32 pp + 24 pp + bw plates. Originally issued in sections. Part I. Elementary Form and Perspective. Part II. Elementary Shading, studies of cottages, rustic buildings, &c. Part III. Elementary Foliage, Studies of..... More
Hartford, Connecticut: H.J. Rodgers, 1872. Hardcover. Green boards with gilt lettering; 235 pp.; richly illustrated. More
Philadelphia: T. Dobson, 1814. Hardcover. Quarter-bound brown cloth spine and light blue paper-covered boards with mounted title block on spine with black lettering; 396 pp. (untrimmed). THIS IS VOLUME II ONLY OF this important work on the methods and processes of dyeing by Edward Bancroft, "Fellow of the Royal Society..... More
Atlanta, Georgia: Tappi Press, 1996. Hardcover. Red cloth over boards; 868 pp.; Numerous bw charts and diagrams. Everything you ever wanted to know about pulp bleaching--what it is, a history of the process, its associated chemistry and technology, the properties of bleached pulp, and pulp bleaching and the environment. More
Wien: Schroll, 1919. Hardcover. Brown leather boards with five raised bands and gilt lettering; marbled endpapers; XVIII, 739 pp.; richly illustrated. Text in German. More
New York: M. T. Richardson, 1883. Hardcover. Brown cloth over boards; Gilt titling and illustration to front cover; 181 pp.; 4 bw plates; 73 bw figures. Full title as on title page: The Complete Carriage and Wagon Painter. A Concise Compendium of the Art of Painting Carriages, Wagons and Sleighs..... More
no place: no publisher, 1947. Hardbound. Red library buckram. (4) pp., 30 plates, 2 sheets. Original plates by Johann Gottfried Schadow, text and revision by Harold Swartz. Wordcat locates 1 copy. A large folio publication. More
Pittsfield, Massachusetts: Knowles & Maxim, 1882. Hardcover. Oblong black boards with gilt illustrations, green cloth spine and corners. 82 unnumbered pp. Many BW illustrations. Despite its condition, this is still a beautiful instructional book on the dying art of penmanship. This book describes in detail how to write in cursive..... More
Philadelphia, PA: The Company, 1880. Paperback. Brown wraps with black illustration and lettering; 25 pp.; richly illustrated. Scarce. More
London: B.T. Batsford, 1878. 2nd Edition, Revised. Hardcover. Three-quarter bound black and brown-marbled boards; 84 pp.; 80 plates. Added to this edition is an "appendix, consisting of a further series of original designs." -- title page. More
London: M. A. Nattali, 1844. Hardcover. Dark Green Boards; 109 pp. with 10 bw plates and occasional bw figures. Covers etching, soft-ground etching, line engraving, chalk and stipple, aquatint, mezzotint, lithography, wood engraving, medallic engraving, electrography, and photography. Each section includes the history, process, manner of working, tools, and several..... More
South Framingham, MA: J. C. Clark Printing Co., 1888. Softcover. Small, beige paper wraps with brown lettering. 168 pp. with bw illus. of all kinds. Catalogue of all manner of items: Paints, brushes, protractors, easels, sketching boards, paint boxes, engraving supplies, ink, India ink, sketch books, palette knives, and anything..... More
Paris: Grund, 2003. Hardcover. Color-illustrated boards with yellow and white lettering, matching dust jacket. 159 pp. Profusely illustrated in color. Text in French. This book deals with techniques for the restoration of paintings on canvas, exposed in a way, didactic and abundantly illustrated, and is addressed to all those who..... More
Amsterdam: Hendrik Gartman, 1801. Softbound. Original paper-covered stiff wraps. 356 pp. no illustrations. In a linen/marbled paper clamshell box. A very early and exceedingly rare treatise (in Dutch) on art techiniques, both for the fine and applied arts. Apparently the first edition, as the Victoria and Albert has a 2-volume..... More
London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1847. Hardcover. Brown cloth over boards; 561 pp. More
Cologne: Könemann, 1999. English edition. Hardcover. Blue color illus. dust jacket. Black boards. 422 pp. Many color illus. Thorough guide to the damage of paintings, as well as the causes of different types of damage. It also surveys historial and current restoration and preservation treatments by working up from the..... More
Albany: J. Munsell, 1864. Third Edition. Hardcover. Light pink boards with mounted title card on the spine; vii, 174 pp.; richly illustrated. Scarce. More
Cedar Rapids, Iowa: WDG Publishing, 2001. Hardcover. Gold boards with gilt letters on spine & front cover, Navy blue & color illus. dust jacket, 206 pp., 233 color illus.; four pp. of foil samples. "The invention of the Iowa Foil Printer -- a safe, nonintimidating device that allows one artist..... More
Cedar Rapids, Iowa: WDG Publishing, 2001. Hardcover. Gold boards with gilt letters on spine & front cover, Navy blue & color illus. dust jacket, 206 pp., 233 color illus.; four pp. of foil samples. Very warmly inscribed by the author to Will Barnet. "The invention of the Iowa Foil Printer..... More
Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1876. Paperback. Light blue folded case with mounted title card and cloth ties; brown wraps with black illustration and red and black lettering; 74 pp.; richly illustrated. Text in French. More