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Description: One volume, 25.5 x 19.8 cm, bound in ochre morocco, raised bands, gilt lettering to spine, gilt fillet inside, marbled endpapers, T.E.G., printed on wove paper watermarked “Lafuma”, original wrappers and spine bound in; in a slipcase 26 x 20 cm. Front wrapper and title-page (red and black): LE MARIAGE | DE | DON QUICHOTTE | PAR | P.-J. TOULET | {publisher’s device} | ILLUSTRATIONS DE | (CHARLES) MARTIN | — | LA RENAISSANCE DU LIVRE | PARIS — 78, BOULEVARD SAINT-MICHEL || Collation: two blank leaves, front wrapper, π4 (blank, h.t./limitation, t.p., preface), 1-274, back wrapper, spine, two blank leaves, 112 leaves between the wrappers plus 9 plates extraneous to collation, incl. frontispiece – stencil-coloured photogravures after Charles Martin. Pagination: [8] 1-210 [2] [4], total 224 pages between the wrappers, ils. Limitation: Edition limited to 775 copies, of which 1 copy on Vieux Japon (№ 1), 24 on Japon Imperial (№2-25), and 750 on Vélin Lafuma (№ 26-775). This copy is № 625. Colophon: Printed on November 15, 1922 – text by Coulouma (Argeneuil), director H. Barthélemy, photogravures by Héliogravure de Schutzenberger (Paris), coloured by Charpentier. Contributors: Paul-Jean Toulet (French, 1867 – 1920) – author. Charles Martin (French, 1884 – 1934) – artist. Léon Maurice Schützenberger (French, 1863 – 1950) -
Softcover, in flapped pictorial wrappers, 28 x 21.7 cm, 16 entries, with colour illustrations. Catalogue # 5 of the sales exhibition on September 17-22, 2001 in NY; pagination: [1-3] 4-33 [3], ils. Contributor: Sebastian Izzard -
Description: 12mo, 17 x 11 cm, quarter brown morocco over marbled boards, marbled end-papers, raised bands and gilt lettering to spine, embossed stamp to t.p. “COLPORTAGE CHEMIN DE FER”. Title-page: AFFAIRE | PIERRE BONAPARTE | OU | LE MEURTRE D'AUTEUIL | AVEC PORTRAITS | DU PRINCE PIERRE BONAPARTE & DE VICTOR NOIR | Et nombreuses Gravures, telles que : | SCÈNE DU MEURTRE DANS LE SALON D'AUTEUIL. | LA CHAMBRE DE VICTOR NOIR, | VICTOR NOIR SUR SON LIT DE MORT, | LE PRINCE PIERRE A LA CONCIERGERIE, ETC. | — | Prix : 1 fr. 10 c., franco. | — | PARIS | A. CHEVALIER, EDITEUR | 61, RUE DE RENNES, 61 | 1870. Collation: 18mo; odd [1]-918; 5 x 18 = 90 leaves total. Pagination: [2] [3] 4-177 [178]; total 180 pages. Contributors: Armand Le Chevalier (French, 1802 – 1873) – publisher. Prince Pierre-Napoléon Bonaparte (French, 1815 – 1881) – character. Victor Noir [b. Yvan Salmon] (French-Jewish, 1848 – 1870) – character. -
Unbound volume in publisher’s wrappers, lettered in red “FELICIA | ou | mes fredaines”, in 29.7 x 23.6 cm purple and blue diaper cloth double-slipcase with a lettered label, 52 leaves folded in half, first and last blank leaves within the wrappers, pagination: [8] 1-186 [2] [4] (200 pages total); illustrated with 20 coloured etchings after watercolours by Louis Icart (signed), plates within collation, 8 b/w tail-pieces and coloured initials; the edition enriched with an original watercolour, an etched copperplate, and two suites of plates, one in black and one in sanguine. Edition printed on thick wove paper, margins untrimmed. Title-page (purple and black): ANDRÉA DE NERCIAT | Félicia | ou | Mes fredaines | ILLUSTRÉ | DE VINGT EAUX-FORTES ORIGINALES EN COULEURS | PAR | LOUIS ICART | GEORGES GUILLOT, ÉDITEUR | 7, RUE PERRONET | PARIS || Limitation: a print run of 500 copies numbered 1 to 500 plus 30 copies “exemplaires d’artiste, numbered I to XXX, of which this is number I. Catalogue raisonné:William R. Holland (1998): pp. 152-164. Ref.: [LIB-2785.2021] William R. Holland. Louis Icart: Erotica (A Schiffer book for collectors). — Atglen, PA: Schiffer Publishing Ltd., © 1998. Printed by Joseph Zichieri (text) and Manuel Robbe (etchings). Contributors: André-Robert Andréa de Nerciat (French, 1739 – 1800) – author. Louis Icart (French, 1888 – 1950) – artist. Solange et Georges Guillot, éditeurs – publisher (7, rue Perronet, Paris) Joseph Zichieri (Grench, mid-20th century) – printer. Ateliers en taille-douce de Manuel Robbe (French, 1872 – 1936) – engraver/printer. Watercolour:
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Hardcover, 28.8 x 22.3 cm, green cloth, gilt lettering to spine, pictorial dust jacket; pp.: [i-iv] v-xiv, 1-274, total 288 pp., ils. ISBN: 9780521392228, 9780521457330, 0521392225, 0521457335. Title-page: COLOR | AND | MEANING | Practice and Theory in Renaissance Painting | MARCIA B. HALL | CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS | Cambridge | New York Port Chester Melbourne Sydney || Marcia B. Hall (American, b. 1939) -
Hardcover volume, 22.2 x 17.5 cm, bound in green cloth, black lettering to spine, in a pictorial dust jacket, pp.: [1-4] 5-151 [152], ils. Title-page: С. ВАРШАВСКИЙ • Б. РЕСТ | РЯДОМ С ЗИМНИМ | «СОВЕТСКИЙ ХУДОЖНИК» | ЛЕНИНГРАД • 1969 || Half-title: Из истории Государственного Эрмитажа | ЭРМИТАЖ ПЕРЕД ОКТЯБРЕМ || Print run: 25,000 copies. Contributors: Sergei Petrovich Varshavsky [Сергей Петрович Варшавский] (Jewish-Russian, 1906 – 1980) – author. B. Rest [Б. Рест; Юлий Исаакович Шапиро] (Jewish-Russian, fl. 1940 – 1980) – author. -
Hardcover volume, 18.2 x 11.8 cm, bound in quarter black polished calf with gilt lettering “cartonnage romantique” design to spine, marbled boards, matching marbled endpapers, blue margins. Title-page: SCÈNES | DE LA BOHÊME | PAR | HENRY MURGER | {publisher’s device ML} | PARIS | MICHEL LÉVY FRÈRES, LIBRAIRES-ÉDITEURS | RUE VIVIENNE, 2 bis. | 1851 || Half-title: ŒUVRES | D’HENRY MURGER || Advertisement: Chez le même Éditeurs. | BIBLIOTHEQUE CONTEMPORAINE | (page of text) || Collation: π2 (h.t/advert., t.p. / blank), 1-33 (17)12, χ6; total 212 leaves without ffls (3 front, 2 back). Pagination: [2] – h.t. / blank, [2] – t.p. / blank, [i] ii-xiii [xiv blank], [1] 2-406; total 424 pages. Scènes de la bohême, in later editions Scènes de la vie de bohème. Translations: Into English: LIB-2719.2021. Henri Murger. The Bohemians of the Latin Quarter. (Scènes de la vie de Bohême) / Translated from the French. — London: Vizetelly & Co., 1883. Into German: LIB-2686.2021. Henri Murger. Die Bohème : Szenen aus dem Pariser Künstlerleben. — Leipzig: Insel-Verlag, 1906. Into Russian: LIB-3182.2023. А. Мюрже. Сцены из жизни богемы / Пер. с франц. и прим. Е. А. Гунста; вст. ст. С. И. Великовского; художник Н. А. Кравченко. — М.: Художественная литература, 1963. Contributors: Murger, Henri [Henry] (French, 1822 – 1861) – author. -
Three volumes, 33 x 26.5 x 7 cm each, uniformly bound in 2/3 vellum over marbled boards, outlined with gilt fillet, brown label with gilt lettering to flat spine with double fillet faux-bands, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, other untrimmed, publisher’s wrappers preserved, incl. spine; collotype plates with captioned glassine guards; armorial bookplate of Comte Alain de Suzannet to front pastedown in each volume. Two volumes of Première partie, wanting, contain La vie artistique : texte and La vie artistique : planches. Title-page (red and black): JACQUES CALLOT | PAR | J. LIEURE | Introduction de F. Courboin | Conservateur du Cabinet des Estampes à la Bibliothèque Nationale | — | DEUXIÈME PARTIE | CATALOGUE DE L’ŒUVRE GRAVÉ | TOME I (II, III) | — | PARIS | ÉDITIONS DE LA GAZETTE DES BEAUX-ARTS | 106, Boulevard Saint-Germain (6e) | 1924 (1927, 1927) || Vol. 1 (1924): [4] [1] 2-122 [2], wrappers, plates 1-299; printed on September 15, 1924, by André Lesot (Nemours) and D. Jacomet et Cie (Paris). Vol. 2 (1927): [4] [1] 2-106 [2], wrappers, plates 300-652. Vol. 3 (1927): [4] [1] 2-128 [4], wrappers, plates 653-1428; printed on September 5, 1926, by Imprimerie moderne des Beaux-Arts (Bois-Colombes) and D. Jacomet et Cie (Paris). Contributors: Jules Lieure (French, 1866 – 1948) – author. Jacques Callot (French, c. 1592 – 1635) – artist. Gazette des Beaux-Arts (f. 1859) – publisher. François Courboin (French, 1865 – 1926) – author. D. Jacomet et Cie (Paris) – printer. Daniel Jacomet (French, 1894 – 1966) – printer. André Lesot (French, 1874-1951) – printer. Imprimerie moderne des Beaux-Arts (Bois-Colombes) Comte Alain de Suzannet (French, 1882 – 1950) – provenance. -
Lithography poster on wove paper, 492 x 614 mm; black ink stamp “5036” to reverse, vertical centerfold. Image in frame; under the frame left: "J. B. Gadola, éditeur. Cours de Brosses 1, à LYON."; right: "Lith LAURANT & Cie r. de Bernardins 34, Paris." Title and text below the image. Jean-Baptiste Gadola (French, 1818 – 1870) – publisher. -
Set of 10 etchings (9 in passe-partout) printed in sanguine on the mother of pearl paper (japon nacre) from the album of 12 prints titled “Jeunesse”, presented by Gérard D'Houville (pen name of Marie de Régnier, née de Heredia) and published by La Tradition in 1945. It was a limited edition of 532 copies, some coloured on Arches paper and some as these set. Plates signed by the artist in pencil below the plate mark. The album cover is missing. Title-page: JEUNESSE | 12 EAUX-FORTES ORIGINALES | DE | MARIANNE CLOUZOT | PRÉSENTÉES | PAR | GÉRARD D'HOUVILLE | {publisher’s device} | LA TRADITION | 1945 || Dimensions: mat 330 x 255 mm; window 225 x 180 mm; sheet 280 x 220 mm; plate 220 x 170 mm. Contributors: Marianne Clouzot (French, 1908 – 2007) – artist Marie de Régnier [Marie de Heredia, Gérard d'Houville] (French, 1875 – 1963) – editor -
![Война мышей и лягушек. Батрахомиомахия / Пер. с древнегреческого, вводн. стат. и коммент. М.С.Альтмана. Иллюстр. А. И. Порет, переплет и обложка по ее же рисункам. С суперобложкой. — М.-Л.: Academia, 1936. — XV, [I], 21, [2] стр. (Античная литература под общей ред. Д. А. Горбова и В. О. Нилендера.](https://varshavskycollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/LIB-0985.2016-a-scaled-500x500.jpeg)
Description: white paper hardcover, lettered to front, 25.8 x 18 cm, in pictorial dust jacket; pagination: [i-vi] vii-xv [xvi] [2] 3-21 [3], errata slip bound in; one folding plate bound in after p.8. Title-page: ВОЙНА | МЫШЕЙ И ЛЯГУШЕК | (БАТРАХОМИОМАХИЯ) | Перевод с древнегреческого, | вводная статья | и комментарии | М. С. АЛЬТМАНА | ACADEMIA | 1936 || Opposite title: АНТИЧНАЯ ЛИТЕРАТУРА | под общей редакцией | Д. А. ГОРБОВА И В. О. НИЛЕНДЕРА | БАТРАХОМИОМАХИЯ | ACADEMIA | Москва – Ленинград || Title verso: ΒΑΤΡΑΧΟΜΥΟΜΑΧΊΑ | Иллюстрация А. И. Порет | Переплет и суперобложка | по ее же рисункам || Print run: 10,300 copies. Catalogue raisonné: Крылов-Кичатова № 798, p. 274. Contributors: Альтман, Моисей Семёнович (Russian-Jewish, 1896—1986) – translator, author Порет, Алиса Ивановна (Russian, 1902 – 1984) – artist. -
Pagination: [2] – letterpress title / blank, t.p. with contents / to readers, [1] 2-376 + 7 b/w and 16 coloured plates (total 23); this differs to Abbey’s description of 372 pages + 4 pages index, and 41 plates (lacking 18 plates). In No 73 lacking 3 plates: Quadrant Regent st., Morning dress and Full dress. In No 74 lacking 5 plates: Charles str., Brienz, head dresses, full dress, and muslin patterns. In No 75 lacking 5 plates: 4 with bank notes and Castle of Rinkenberg. In No 76 lacking 1 plate: Cavern St. Beat. In No 77 lacking 2 plates: Wetzar and Lake Thun. In No 78 lacking 2 plates: Crescent at Portland Place and Environs of Thun. Collation: 4to; letterpress title, [A]1 B-Z4 Aa-Zz4 3A-3C4 3D2. Binding: 23.5 x 15.5 cm; double fillet blind-ruled half-calf over pebbled cloth boards, raised bands ruled blind, crimson label with gilt lettering to spine. References: Martin Hardie (1906), p.310 [LIB-2623.2021]; R. V. Tooley (1935), p. 26 [LIB-2641.2021]; J. R. Abbey (1953), Cat. № 212, p. 174 [LIB-2622.2021]. -
Seventeen drypoint prints in purple plus one original ink sketch by Marcel Vertés (French, 1895 – 1961) – illustrations to the book by Pierre Louÿs Trois filles de leur mère, in a paper folder. Front : DIX-SEPT POINTES SÈCHES | D'UN ARTISTE INCONNU | POUR | TROIS FILLES | DE | LEUR MÈRE | {space} | AUX DÉPENS D'UN AMATEUR | NON MIS DANS LE COMMERCE || Pencil manuscript Vertés under “ARTISTE”, autograph vignette above “AMATEUR”, erased dedication inscription above “DÉPENS” À L’AMI [erased] X. Back: JUSTIFICATION DU TIRAGE | 17 EXEMPLAIRES SUR VÉLIN D’ARCHES CONTENANT | UNE SUITE DES DIX-SEPT POINTES SÈCHES EN | NOIR : UNE SUITE EN COULEURS COLORIÉE PAR | L’ARTISTE ; UN DESSIN ORIGINAL ET SA PLANCHE | DE CUIVRE ; DIX-SEPT CROQUIS ORIGINAUX | MARQUÉS A à Q. | 50 EXEMPLAIRES SUR VÉLIN D’ARCHES CONTE- | NANT UNE SUITE DES DIX-SEPT POINTES | SÈCHES ET TROIS CROQUIS ORIGINAUX | NUMÉROTÉS DE 1 à 50. | {space} | EXEMPLAIRE № {by hand} H. C. || Size : folder 28 x 17.5 cm; sketch 26.6 x 17.6 cm; prints 27.5 x 19 cm. Printed on wove paper with MBM watermark (Arches MBM Paper). Bookplate pasted to the makeshift extra folder with title: “EX-LIBRIS | Jacques | Crepineau”. Provenance: Jacques Crepineau (French, 1932 – 2017). Description by seller: [CURIOSA - VERTÈS (Marcel)]. Dix-sept pointes sèches d'un artiste inconnu pour Trois filles de leur mère. S.l. : Aux dépens d'un amateur, [1927]. — In-8, en feuilles. Dutel 2517*. Rare suite de 17 pointes-sèches libres réalisées par Marcel VERTÈS, probablement publiée par Marcel Cotinaud. Elle était destinée à accompagner l'édition originale de Trois filles de leur mère de Pierre Louÿs publiée un an plus tôt. Tirage à 67 exemplaires sur vélin d'Arches. Les épreuves sont tirées en violet. Exemplaire sans le feuillet de titre, ni celui de la justification. Il comprend un croquis original de l'artiste, non signé, ayant servi d'étude pour l'une des planches. Selon les tirages, chaque exemplaire devrait comprendre 17 croquis pour les 17 premiers, ou 3 pour les 50 autres, non n'en avons ici qu'un seul. Envoi de Vertès sur la couverture, accompagné d'un dessin original. Le nom du destinataire a été effacé. Manque la chemise et l'étui. Description by DUTEL v.3, p. 389, № 2517: In-4 (28 x 19) de 2 ff., 17 pointes sèches, étui, chemise. … publiée en 1927 probablement par Marcel Cotinaud (SV : publisher of Vertés was Paul Cotinaud)… Les planches sont tirées en violet (SV : like this one). Tirage : 17 ex. …avec une suite coloriée par l’artiste, un dessin, un cuivre et 17 croquis. 50 ex. … avec 3 croquis. Other names: Marcel Vertès, Marcel Vertes, Marcell Vértes -
Title-page: GRAHAM GREENE | DOCTOR FISCHER | OF GENEVA | or | THE BOMB | PARTY | {publisher’s device} | THE BODLEY HEAD | LONDON SYDNEY | TORONTO || Green publisher’s cloth with gilt lettering to spine, cream dust jacket, lettered on front, back and spine, unclipped (£4.50 NET | IN U.K. ONLY), [1-8] 9-139 [140] + 2 blank leaves. Printed by Clowes Ltd. (Beccles). © Graham Greene 1980. Dust jacket design by Michael Harvey. Graham Greene (British, 1904 – 1991). -
Description: 25.1 x 19.2 cm, collated 4to, quarter cream faux-parchment over blue cloth, gilt lettering to spine, in a slipcase with pasted pictorial titles, with different vignettes to front and back. Title-page: The pastoral loves of | Daphnis & Chloe | Done into English by George Moore | With Etchings by Marcel Vertès | Folio Society ✶ London ✶ 1954 | {vignette} || Collation: [A]4 B-M4, total 48 leaves, incl. frontispiece plus 6 leaves of plates reproduced by collotype after etchings by Marcel Vertès, extraneous to collation. Pagination: [1-6] (h.t., frontis., t.p./imprint) 7-95 [96]; total 96 pages, ils. Ref.: WorldCat. Catalogue raisonné: Vokaer (1967): № 61, p. 21. Print run: according to Vokaer – 3750 copies. Longus [Λόγγος] (Greek, 2nd century AD) – author. George Moore (Irish, 1852 – 1933)– translator. Marcel Vertès [Marcell Vértes] (Jewish-Hungarian-French, 1895 – 1961) – artist. Charles Batey (British, 1893 – ?) – printer. James Burn – binder -
Thin booklet in glossy pictorial wrappers, 29.8 x 24.7 cm, pp.: [1-4] 5-48, 24 leaves total, illustrated. Errata tipped in after the front wrapper. Title-page: Mirror | of the stage | The actor prints of | Kunisada | Ellis Tinios | The University Gallery Leeds || Colophon: Published in March 1996 for the exhibition Mirror of the Stage held at the University Gallery Leeds 24 April-30 May 1996. Introduction: "This book [exhibition catalogue] has been written as an introduction to nineteenth-century Japanese colour woodblock actor prints and to the achievements of the artist Kunisada in that field [as well as to accompany the exhibition of the same name]. It is divided into three sections. In the first, I examine four topics: the social and cultural milieu that gave rise to the production of prints as items of mass consumption; the aesthetic of the actor print; the economics of print production (including consideration of the numbers issued, the prices at which they were sold and their rates of survival); and the process by which prints were produced. The second section consists of sixteen colour plates with commentaries. In the final section, I survey Kunisada's career." Subject: Utagawa, Kunisada, — 1786-1864 — Exhibitions; Ukiyo-e — Exhibitions; Colour prints, Japanese — Edo period, 1600-1868 — Exhibitions. Contributors: Ellis Tinios Utagawa Kunisada [歌川 国貞] a.k.a. Utagawa Toyokuni III [三代歌川豊国] (Japanese, 1786 – 1865). Select illustrations (references in this collection):
SVJP-0226.2016: Superb Edo pictures illustrating dances, 1858.
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Softcover, pictorial wrappers, square 21 x 21 cm, 42 leaves, unpaginated, with illustrations in colour, 80 entries, with price list laid in; limited edition of 700 copies. Contributor: Israel Goldman -
Description: bound in light yellow cloth with red and orange geometrical design to front cover and black lettering to spine, in pictorial DJ “An dem kleinen Himmel | meiner Liebe | {colour vignette} | Heiter-amouröse Dichtung | Mit 24 farbigen Zeichnungen von | Max Schwimmer”; pp.: [1-6] 7-95 [96], total 48 leaves, with 22 offset colour full-page illustrations, DJ and title-page vignettes by Max Schwimmer; plates with pagination. Anthology of German love poetry from Caspar Stieler (1632 – 1707) to Wolfgang Tilgner (1932 – 2011). Title-page: An dem kleinen Himmel | meiner Liebe | Heiter-amouröse Dichtung | Mit 24 farbigen Zeichnungen | von Max Schwimmer | {vignette} | Verlag der Nation | Berlin || Contributors: Bruno Brandl (German, fl. c. 1969 – 1991)– editor. Max Schwimmer (German, 1895 – 1960) – artist. VEB Druckhaus “Maxim Gorki” (Altenburg) – printer. Verlag der Nation (Berlin) – publisher.
