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Baltimore: Baltimore Museum of Art, 1926. Pamphlet. Green paper wraps with darker green lettering and border. 16 pp. with no illus. Catalogue from the exhibition held March to May 1926. 344 works in oils, "modernist" paintings, watercolors, miniatures, sculpture, etchings, industrial and decorative arts, architecture, photography, advertising, and printing/binding. Quite..... More
Paris: 1887. Hardcover. Small, navy cloth over boards with gilt lettering. Pages labelled [103]-138. Printed for the author and editor (though none are listed). Presumably a volume from a larger set. More
London: Printed for J. Dodsley, 1788. Original, not a reprint. Hardcover. Marbled blue paper/boards. 3/4 leather with gilt lettering and decoration. iv, 177, [3], 193-302, [2];200, [12] pages. Includes the history of Europe, state papers, characters, natural history, poetry, antiquities, misc., and more. Vol. XXVIII in the series. Quite interesting!..... More
Washington, DC: The Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1910. 63rd edition. Softcover. Tan paper wraps with dark brown lettering. 77 pp. with occasional bw plates/plans. Catalogue of sculptures in the collections of The Corcoran Gallery of Art. Included are casts from antique sculpture, the Renaissance, and modern sculpture. In addition, bronzes..... More
(Harrisburg, Pennsylvania): Clarence M. Busch, State Printer of Pennsylvania, 1893. ORIGINAL EDITION, NOT A REPRINT. Softcover. Tan stapled wraps with bw lettering and border. 218 pp. with 3 bw frontis pieces and numerous additional bw images. Pristine folding plan of the exposition. Publicity photo of Paderewski (and someone else on..... More
Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1900. Softcover. Tan paper wraps, 65 pp., 7 BW illus. Issued in conjunction with a 1900 exhibition of English and European portraits and landscapes assembled by Chicago businessman and art collector Robert Hall McCormick (1847-1917). The annotated catalogue addresses 72 pieces by 45 artists..... More
NY: Anderson Galleries, 1928. Softcover. Paper wraps. 97 pp. Bw illustrations. 239 lots for public sale. More
[Chicago?]: [1892?]. Hardcover. Brown flexible leather, gilt edges all around, 200+ pp., 24 BW illus. pp. A mostly blank pocket-sized day planner, evidently printed in honor of Chicago's World Columbian Exposition in 1893. Has the number "163" printed on the front flyleaf. The first section of 24 pages are printed..... More
Philadelphia: Lippincott's Press, 1872. Original Edition, not a reprint. Paperback. Pale blue wraps with black lettering. 39, [3] pp. with bw frontis engraving, tissue-guarded. The story of The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts (PAFA), situated in Philadelphia, which was erected in 1805, partially burned and rebuilt in 1845-6 and eventually..... More
Nendeln, Liechtenstein: Kraus Reprint, 1902, 1968. Reprint. Hardcover. Green cloth, red title block and gilt letters on spine, mylar dust jacket, 345 pp. Most texts are in English, with three in French, one in Spanish, one in German. A collection of 40 conference papers about various aspects of early American..... More
London: Cassell & Company, Limited, 1891. Hardcover. Tan embossed cloth with bevelled boards, gilt letters on spine & front cover; 430 pp. plus 54 pp. of total supplements per issue; numerous bw line engravings throughout text. The fourteenth volume of this highly-illustrated British monthly periodical of visual arts, published from..... More
Philadelphia: C. J. Peterson, 1872. KAVE. Hardcover. Dark gray cloth, brown leather spine and corners; gilt letters and decorations on spine; gilt outlines at corners and cloth edges; 446 + 450 pp. Numerous BW and color-tinted plates, many fold-outs. A popular American women's magazine of the nineteenth century, established as..... More
New York: 1924. Hardbound. Black library buckram. 165 pp., followed by ads and indexes, etc. From advertisements shown at the exhibition of the Art Directors Club, Art Center, New york April 5 to 30, 1924. Index of artists, advertising firms and companies at rear. More
London: George Bell & Sons, 1904. Hardcover. Green cloth with gilt lettering. In green cloth slipcase. xii +144 pp. BW plates. Edition of 600 copies. Cousins (1801 - 1887) was an English mezzotint engraver who used very painterly techniques. More
Philadelphia: Porter & Coates, 1870. Edition unclear, but copyright is 1870. Hardcover. Olive cloth binding with embossed design. Engraved frontis to the Half-title292 + (12 pp. ads) pp. Nice solid copy. More
Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1901. Softbound. Glassine wraps with brown ornate titles, yellow yarn binding, 24 pp. with deckled edges, frontis image of the art museum and several floor plan maps. Lists 63 works. American artists included, with their works, are Elihu Vedder: Lazarus/ Anna Klumpke: Portrait of Rosa..... More
London: Benn Brothers Ltd., 1922. Hardcover. Burgundy buckram, 157 pp., profuse bw illustrations. Contents are arranged by these headings: furniture, pottery and fabrics, kitchen equipment, metalwork, printing, signs and tablets, and shop fronts. More
Berlin: H. & R. Kunz, 1919. Softcover. Brown paper stapled wraps, 48 pp. Text is in German. A dissertation dealing with the treatment of cancer (possibly, specifically, colon cancer.) A tract of interest as a piece of medical history. More
New York: W. A. Townsend & Company, 1866. "New edition, revised, with additions." Hardcover. In green cloth boards, beveled edges, gilt sillouette of Washington, ruling and titling; likely rebound. Text block gilt edges. 376 pp. Three full-page engravings before title page, with tissue protectors. Illustrated by numerous other black and..... More
New York: Virtue & Yorston, 1871. "Published by Subscription Only" Hardcover. In purple cloth boards, beveled edges, stamped sillouette of Washington, ruling and titling; likely rebound. 446 pp. 150 black and white illustrations, including 3 full-page engravings before title page, with tissue protectors. A revision of "Mount Vernon and Its..... More
Leipzig: C. G. Boerner, 1914. Hardcover. Green library buckram, gilt letters on spine, original brown wraps with color illus. laid on, bound inside, 67 text pp., plus 38 pages of BW or duotone plates. Text is in German. Issued in conjunction with a 1914 auction of hand drawn art from..... More
London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1903. Hardcover. Cream vellum/boards with gilt lettering and design. 349 pp. + errata + xiii pp. Deckle edges. Several charts/tables, including one folding, which is separated into two pieces from wear and has a small tear across one section. Volume 5 only of the series..... More
New York: Kilgore Galleries, 1921. First, limited to 3,000 copies. Hardbound. Navy boards, [59], 13 bw plates. Contains a biography, a catalogue of his works, and 13 illustrations of his works. From the jacket of another book about him--Ilya Repin was Russia's foremost artist of the nineteenth century, yet his..... More
New York: G.P. Putnam & Sons, 1871. Hardcover. Green gilt embossed cloth. A.e.g. 133 pp. 48 engravings. Engravings and vignettes by Casilear, Darley, Chapman, William Hart, Thomas Nast, Chapman, Smillie, Huntington. Texts by Bryant, Curtis, Stedman, Bayard Taylor, Howells, Stoddard, Oconnor, Wm. Allen Butler with choice papers by Irving. More
New York: Gorham Manufacturing Company, 1888. Hardcover. Blue cloth over boards, beveled edges; silver illustration to front cover, stamped design on back cover; Silver titling to spine; 268 pp.; 82 bw figures. An in-depth study of makers of ecclesiastical, decorative, and domestic plate from all over the world, but particularly..... More
