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Some Examples of the Work of American Designers.

[ Bowles, J.M., ed.]. Joseph Moore Bowles was an editor, publisher, and the director of the Art Center, New York. He was a member of the American Institute of Graphic Arts and the editor of publications including Modern Art, The Collector and Art Critic, and Interior Decoration. He was also the founder of ÒÔThe Stowaways,Õ a dining club of artists, printers, writers, and similar vagabondsÓ with nearly a hundred members by 1922. Quarto. [144] pp., mostly illustrations in color and black-and-white, color plates reproducing advertisements and illustrations from books, typography examples, and seven leaves with mounted paper samples showing different ink colors on different papers. With full-page biographies of the nearly thirty artists and designers whose work is compiled here. Also, with a list of papers featured in the book. PublisherÕs brown boards printed with floral border in black and titled in red and black. Some edgewear. Brown endpapers. Foxing and some offsetting to versos of some leaves. A very good, bright copy. First edition of this salesmanÕs sample catalogue compiling artwork, paper and ink samples, typography, and designs by artists including Bruce Rogers, Frederic Goudy, Louise Ames Norman, Charles B. Falls, Claire Avery, W.P. Schoonmaker, Edward Penfield, Adolph Triedler, Earl Horter, Robert Wildhack, Thelma Cudlipp, No mi Peressin, and Ralph Fletcher Seymour. ÒJoseph M. Bowles, Printer at Large.Ó The American Printer (April 20, 1922), pp. 34-35.
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Histoire de l’art des styles du costume.

[ Fashion ]. Eynac, Josette. We could not locate any information on Josette Eynac, the student who illustrated this album, though she was clearly a capable artist. 9 x 12 in. 48] pp. With twenty-eight pages of beautifully painted fashion designs (dresses, hats, Greek chitons, etc.) from throughout history, some with background elements (furniture and architecture) and two with real fabric accents pasted down, and two pages of manuscript text explaining architectural and sculptural styles. Some of the fashion designs are captioned in manuscript. Also, with eight tracing paper leaves illustrated in ink overlaying matching designs below, one with pencil annotations noting types of fabric and other design elements. Original blue stiff paper folder with ribbon binding at spine. Some soiling to folder. Some offsetting and some foxing. Very good. architecture styles of historical periods in various geographical regions to the fashion styles of those periods. Styles illustrated include those of Greece, Rome, Egypt, and Persia; late medieval Europe; the reign of Louis XIV; traditional Japanese attire; and fashionable 1920s dress. The background illustrations include a Roman archway, seventeenth-century furniture, and even a classical Greek vase that frames an illustration of three women. The fashion illustrations reflect certain design elements in the background illustrations (for example, the patterned fabric in the ancient Egyptian fashions match the decorative style of the columns in the background of the illustrations).
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Les fables d'Esope

Les fables d’Esope, avec cent vingt-trois figures dÕapr s Barlow. Collection de gravures piquantes et dÕapologues ing nieux pour lÕamusement et lÕinstruction de la jeunesse.

Aesop. Barlow (ca. 1626 Ð 1704), a painter, etcher, and illustrator, is known as Òthe father of British sporting paintingÓ and was ÒBritainÕs first wildlife painter, beginning a tradition that reached a high-point a century later, in the work of George Stubbs. He was furthermore a pioneer in the history of comics by creatingÊA True Narrative of the Horrid Hellish Popish PlotÊ(c. 1682), a picture story about the life of Titus Oates and the Popish Plot, which is told in a series of illustrated sequences where the story is written underneath them and the characters depicted on those images use speech balloons to talkÓ (Tate Britain website). BarlowÕs edition of Aesop was published by William Godbid in 1666. Few copies of the first edition remain, as many of them were destroyed (along with the printerÕs premises) in the Great Fire of London the same year the edition was published. Two volumes in one, oblong octavo. xvi, 95; iv, 149 in. With 123 full-page engravings by Francis Barlow (including the two frontispieces, one for each volume). Early marbled boards with green roan spine stamped in gilt. Quite clean throughout despite occasional dampstaining and foxing. A very good, wide copy of a scarce edition. First edition from this publisher. Some OCLC records bear dates of 1801 or 1802 for this same edition, though the date on the title-page is Òan X,Ó i.e., 1810. The illustrations are copied from the original images by Barlow, which were first published in 1666. This attractive edition of Aesop features the stories retold for the Òamusement and instruction of the youth.Ó OCLC records only five copies of this Tardieu edition: four in the United States (Harvard, University of Southern Mississippi, Princeton, UCLA) and one in Germany (Staats- und Universit tsbibliothek Hamburg).
  • $1,250
  • $1,250
[Manuscript atlas.] First Course of Maps. Convent of the Holy Child Jesus. St. LeonardÕs-on-Sea.

[Manuscript atlas.] First Course of Maps. Convent of the Holy Child Jesus. St. LeonardÕs-on-Sea.

[ Connelly, Cornelia ]. Eyre, Julia Mary. Connelly was born in Philadelphia and spent the first twenty-five years of her life as a Protestant. She married Pierce Connelly, an Episcopal priest, in 1831, and the couple both converted to Catholicism in 1835. Their marriage was tumultuous, involving multiple crises of faith by Pierce, who was pursuing Catholic priesthood, and the deaths of two of their young children. In 1845, the couple moved to England, with Pierce taking the position of chaplain to Lord Shrewsbury. In England, Connelly began drawing up rules for a new religious order, which she established as the Society of the Holy Child Jesus in Derby in October of 1846. In 1848, Connelly relocated the orderÕs mother house to St. LeonardÕs-on-Sea in Sussex, leading to the establishment of the convent there. The Society was approved in 1887 by Pope Leo the XIII, and, over the course of the next century, Sisters of the order opened schools and convents in the United States (1862), Nigeria (1930), Ghana (1947), Chile (1967), Chad (1992), and the Dominican Republic (1995). In 1959, Connelly was proposed for beatification, and she was proclaimed Venerable by Pope John III in 1992. 6 x 9 in. [43] ff. With forty hand-drawn, partially colored maps annotated in calligraphic hand. Also, with a manuscript title-page with large calligraphic initial in red, blue, and gold and a page illustrated with the arms of Great Britain, France, Portugal, Spain, and the Papal States. The maps illustrated here include both physical and political maps of Europe, Britain, several individual European nations, South America, the Indian subcontinent, and Palestine. Plus, maps of Asia, Africa, Australia, Central America, Russia, the United States, and more. Full green morocco stamped with gilt initials ÒJ.M.E.Ó Gilt spine with raised bands in five compartments. Binding somewhat sunned and bumped, with some scratches and some wear at edges of boards. Still a clean, bright item, remarkably fresh and attractive. Very good. Date estimated from paper watermark (J. Whatman, 1863). This unique, beautifully illustrated manuscript atlas was produced by a student at the Convent of the Holy Child Jesus, a Catholic teaching convent and religious order founded by the American-born educator Cornelia Connelly, nŽe Peacock (1809 Ð 1879). At the convent, which Connelly opened in St. LeonardÕs-on-Sea 1848 after leaving St. MaryÕs Church in Derby, students were instructed not just in theology but also in geology and other sciences, Greek and Latin philosophy, art, dance, and music. The impressive artistry and attention to detail present in these maps clearly speak to the educational standards established by Connelly in the convent, where young women trained to be teachers as well as nuns. The date of the present item suggests that Julia Mary Eyre may have been instructed by Connelly herself, or at least by the Sisters working under her direct supervision. ÒBrief History of the Society.Ó Society of the Holy Child Jesus (webpage). ÒConvent of the Holy Child Jesus, Magdalen Road, St LeonardÕs-on-Sea, school diariesÓ (catalogue description). The National Archives (webpage).
  • $1,850
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A Late Offering of Quince

A Late Offering of Quince

[Laguna Verde Press. Ritchie, Ward]. A foreword explains the origin of RitchieÕs ÒPeter Lum QuinceÓ pseudonym: ÒThe author obviously assumed his pseudonym from the Peter Quince created by Shakespeare. However, the irreverent printer, more interested in creating a pleasing title pageÉinserted the random letters LUM to balance the length of the wood engraving Paul Landacre had made for the title page. With like irreverence the printer removed the letter r from hearth in the bookÕs title, ÔFifteen Poems for the Heath Broom.Õ The judgement of the printer was vindicated when the book was selected as one of the Fifty Books of the Year by the American Institute of Graphic Arts. Again Quince, now 85, offers fifteen poems with some early engravings by the late Paul Landacre.Ó Jake Chernofksy served as the editor and publisher of AB BookmanÕs Weekly between 1973 and his retirement (and subsequent suspension of the magazineÕs publication) in 1999. Chernofksy took over the management of the magazine from its founder, Sol Malkin, who had established the publication as Antiquarian Bookman in 1948. Chernofsky worked to regularize the magazineÕs publication (upping the circulation from forty weekly issues to fifty), expanded the staff, and provided a critical resource for booksellers for two decades. Along with Margaret Goggin, Lee Ash, and Frederich Praeger, Chernofsky was also involved with the establishment of the Colorado Seminar (now CABS-Minnesota), and taught one of the first CABS courses in 1979 Ð an extremely popular course on Òhow to pack books.Ó Chernofsky took over the seminar from Goggin in 1995. Octavo. 41 pp. Illustrated by Paul Landacre with woodcut headpieces and an array of small geometric woodcuts on title-page. Text printed in black by Ward Ritchie on an Albion handpress. Illustrations in red, orange, green, brown, and blue. Black paper wrappers with printed paper label. Wrappers a bit scuffed. Still a fine copy, inscribed on the half-title by Ritchie to Jake Chernofsky, longtime editor of AB BookmanÕs Weekly. One of fifty copies printed by Ward Ritchie on an Albion hand press. This is RitchieÕs penultimate publication. It is a collection of his own poetry, published under his long-standing pseudonym, Peter Lum Quince. This is the thirty-first publication of the Laguna Verde Imprenta. Silver, Joel. ÒExit Interview: Jake Chernofsky.Ó RBM: A Journal of Rare Books Manuscripts and Cultural Heritage (March 2000), pp. 77-82.
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An Anticipated History of the dramatis personae & events at the new Heavenly Monkey studio

An Anticipated History of the dramatis personae & events at the new Heavenly Monkey studio, 2016-2018.

[ Heavenly Monkey ]. This advance ÒhistoryÓ shares five planned projects from Heavenly Monkey: Anne BromerÕs XI LXIVMOS: Memoirs of a Bibliomidget (2015), Barbara HodgsonÕs Mrs. Delaney Meets Herr Haeckle (2016), Harold BuddÕs Aurora Tears (2016), Francesca LohmannÕs An Accumulated Alphabet (2017), and Josh BellÕs Sci-Fi Violence (2016, though possibly not published). In October of 2015, Rollin Milroy wrote in the Heavenly Monkey blog, ÒThe cover paper is Roma Fabriano. ItÕs a bizarre sheet in a patently non-HM color (pink), purchased for pennies on the dollar at the bankruptcy sale. The laid sheet (probably machine-made, doubtfully mould) has an exaggerated screen side that makes it useless for printing. It's been in the studio for ages. But the color matches nicely with HMÕs newly acquired stock of bronze ink, which will be re-appearing in the upcoming Harold Budd projectÓ (10/12/15). Later in the month, he wrote, regarding the cover overlay paper, ÒItÕs a lovely handmade gampi, with the printed title positioned to perfectly overlay the same line on the Roma wrap. Because the gampi is so thin, itÕs a little tricky fitting it around the book & getting it to stay in place - keeping the two lines in register - while sewingÓ (10/29/15). 7 x 10 in. [6] ff. With a leaf from the deluxe edition of XI LXIVMOS: Memoirs of a Bibliomidget (2 x 2 Ó) and a blue-and-gold marbled paper leaf. Also, with four engraved devices printed in bronze, gold, and silver. Printed on handmade Barcham Green Bodleian paper. Pink Roma Fabriano paper wrappers titled in black with handmade gampi paper overlay (also titled, exactly overlaying the printed title on the pink leaf). Black endpapers. Fine. One of twelve deluxe large paper copies (on Barcham Green paper, with the leaf from XI LXIVMOS). In a total edition of Òfifty-ishÓ copies. The colophon notes that Heavenly Monkey has relocated to a new studio in Chinatown, Vancouver, British Columbia.
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De lÕinfluence des femmes sur la littŽrature franaise, comme protectrices des lettres et comme auteurs.

StŽphanie-FŽlicitŽ, Madame de Genlis (1746 Ð 1830) was a prolific author of educational works for children and romance novels. In 1772, she became a lady-in-waitingÊtoÊLouise Marie AdŽla•de de Bourbon, wife of the DukeÕs sonÊPhilippe dÕOrlŽans, Duke of Chartres, and began a brief affair with Chartres. She was appointed governess to his daughters in 1777 and assigned to teach his sons in 1781, an unusual decision that spoke to GenlisÕ abilities as an educator. Genlis had published her first educational works, a series titled ThŽ‰tre de lՎducation (1779 Ð 1780), around the same time, which had been inspired by a series of theater productions she had written with Madame de Montesson (1738 Ð 1806). The plays starred their children and were attended by aristocrats including Diderot and dÕAlembert. Octavo. lx, 373 pp. Later nineteenth century quarter calf over marbled boards. Gilt spine. Marbled edges. Some toning throughout. A very good, wide copy. First edition. This study of the influence of over forty French women authors begins with Radegund (ca. 520 Ð 587) and ends with Sophie Cottin (1770 Ð 1807). Genlis also wrote the childrenÕs works Les Annales de la vertuÊ(1781) andÊAdle et ThŽodoreÊ(1782), as well as the popular romance Mademoiselle de Clermont (1802). Her works were read (though not always admired) by many important woman writers including Jane Austen, Fanny Burney, and Anna Letitia Barbauld, the latter of whom favorably compared GenlisÕ Adle et ThŽodore to RousseauÕs Emile.