http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue Joshua Heller Rare Books Wed, 25 Apr 2012 21:33:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 en hourly 1 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/nocturne-the-art-of-james-mcneill-whistler-by-denys-sutton http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/nocturne-the-art-of-james-mcneill-whistler-by-denys-sutton#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:10:14 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=2343

The Life of Eric Gill — Robert Speaight

Tributes to Edward Johnson, Calligrapher. By Sydney Cockerell, Noel Rooke, James Wardrop, Alfred Fairbank, Irene Wellington and Bridget Johnston.

James Moran — The Double Crown Club: A History of Fifty Years

]]> ([tag]James McNeill Whistler[/tag]) Nocturne: The Art of James McNeill Whistler. By Denys Sutton. Country life limited. London. 1963. Frontispiece, 153p. Plates, index. 10” x 7.5” Blue cloth over boards; titling in gilt on the front cover and spine. Cover edges faded; else fine. No dust jacket.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/nocturne-the-art-of-james-mcneill-whistler-by-denys-sutton/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/the-artist-and-the-book-in-france-the-20th-century-livre-d%e2%80%99artiste-by-w-j-strachan http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/the-artist-and-the-book-in-france-the-20th-century-livre-d%e2%80%99artiste-by-w-j-strachan#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:08:33 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=2340

Twentieth Century Type Designers. New Edition. By Sebastian Carter

Edward Hodnett — Five Centuries of English Book Illustration.

Wyndham Lewis the Artist: From Blast to Burlington House. By Wyndham Lewis.

]]> ([tag]W.J.  Strachan[/tag]) The Artist and the Book in France: The 20th Century Livre d’artiste. By W.J. Strachan. Peter Owen. London. 1969. First edition. 368p. includes Index. 11.5” x 8.75”. Black and white and color illustrations throughout. Brown buckram boards with gilt title on spine and gilt decorative device on front board. Illustrated dust jacket. Extremely good. “The Artist and the Book in France is ... a publication of major importance. It is the first comprehensive study of the livre d’artiste intended for the general reader as well as the art specialist. The author traces the early origins of the genre, examines its history and development through the ... century and discusses and illustrates the work of more than a hundred artists, ... He deals in detail with such subjects as the texts chosen for illustration, the individual elements of the book, ateliers and printers, bibliophile societies, patrons and collectors, the technical aspects of production and the various autographic processes. “Mr. Strachan has unrivalled knowledge of his subject, having spent much time ... visiting artists in their Paris studios, collecting and exhibiting their work, and writing and lecturing on it. He [was] made a ‘Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres’ by the French government.” - Dust jacket.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/the-artist-and-the-book-in-france-the-20th-century-livre-d%e2%80%99artiste-by-w-j-strachan/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/portrait-of-g-b-s-george-bernard-shaw-by-feliks-topolski http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/portrait-of-g-b-s-george-bernard-shaw-by-feliks-topolski#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:05:36 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=2337

Paul Nash: The portrait of an Artist. By Anthony Bertram

George Grosz: His life and work. By Uwe M. Schneede.

The Engraved Work of F.L. Griggs: Etchings & Drypoints,1912-1928. Catalogue by Russell George Alexander.

]]> ([tag]George Bernard Shaw[/tag]) Portrait of G.B.S. [By] [tag]Feliks Topolski[/tag]. With an Introduction by Hesket Pearson. Eyre & Spottiswoode. London. 1946. 12p. Color frontispiece, 31 plates.  9.75” x 6.75”. Printed on Arnold and Foster’s mould made paper by the Chiswick Press. Reproductions of drawings in pen, brush, charcoal and pencil, and oil paintings. Cloth boards; title in gilt within red frame on front. Dust jacket. No. 882 in an edition of 1015 copies. Occasional spotting throughout; edges soiled. Good. Feliks Topolski (1907–1989) was a Polish-born British artist, who moved to Britain in the mid-1930s. During the Second World War, Topolski became an official war artist and painted scenes of the Battle of Britain and other battlefields. After the war he made a celebrated painting about the first meeting of the United Nations. Feliks Topolski’s own experiences were initially captured in pencil and ink drawings with his prolifically produced and independently published Topolski’s Chronicles. The Chronicles were produced fortnightly from 1953–79 and acted as a medium to communicate his art and observations to a wide audience. They were produced without advertisements or subsidies, and since his death in 1989 Topolski’s Chronicles have gained great respect as a pictorial and political record spanning nearly thirty years of world history. Topolski painted a number of portraits of contemporaries, including the authors H.G. Wells, Graham Greene, John Mortimer and Evelyn Waugh, and the politicians Harold Macmillan and Aneurin Bevan. He also painted a number of murals, contributed to BBC programs, such as ‘Face to Face’ and designed theatrical sets. Between 1975 and his death he worked on a 600 ft mural in railway arches on London's South Bank, depicting events and people of the 20th century.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/portrait-of-g-b-s-george-bernard-shaw-by-feliks-topolski/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/the-complete-graphic-works-of-ben-shahn-by-kenneth-w-prescott http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/the-complete-graphic-works-of-ben-shahn-by-kenneth-w-prescott#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:02:27 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=2335

John DePol: A Catalogue Raisonné of his Graphic Work 1935-1998

Ruth Mortimer — Harvard College Library Department of Printing & Graphic Arts Catalogue of Books and Manuscripts. Part II: Italian Sixteenth Century Books. Vol. I & Vol. II.

The Complete Prints of Leonard Baskin. A Catalogue Raisonné 1948-1983

]]> ([tag]Ben Shahn[/tag]) The Complete Graphic Works of Ben Shahn. By [tag]Kenneth W. Prescott[/tag]. Quadrangle/The New York Times Book Co. 1973.  250p., includes Index.  9.5” x 12.25”. Illustrations in black and white throughout. Brown cloth boards; gilt tile on spine. Illustrated dustjacket. Fine. Ben Shahn (1898-1969) was an American painter and graphic artist, whose work showed a leaning towards social criticism and justice. He was also an artist and photographer for the Farm Security Administration during the Depression. Shahn received many honors, awards and honorary degrees, including from Harvard and Princeton. The importance of his work has been recognized internationally.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/the-complete-graphic-works-of-ben-shahn-by-kenneth-w-prescott/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/british-wood-engraved-book-illustration-1904-1940-a-break-with-tradition-by-joanna-selborne http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/british-wood-engraved-book-illustration-1904-1940-a-break-with-tradition-by-joanna-selborne#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:59:31 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=2333

Expressionist Book Illustration in Germany, 1907-1927. By Lothar Lang.

Edward Hodnett — Five Centuries of English Book Illustration.

Twentieth Century Type Designers. New Edition. By Sebastian Carter

]]> ([tag]Joanna Selborne[/tag]) British Wood Engraved Book Illustration 1904-1940: A Break with Tradition. [By] Joanna Selborne. Clarendon Press. Oxford. 1998. 433p., includes Index. 11.25" x 9”. Black and white illustrations. Black buckram spine with gilt title on spine. Illustrated dust jacket. As new. “Joanna Selborne is an independent scholar with special interest in prints and printmaking. “This book reveals the methods by which [Twentieth-century British wood-engraved book illustrators] broke with nineteenth-century illustrative practices. The author surveys the subject in relation to the cultural and historical background, and within the context of mainstream developments in the visual arts, placing emphasis on the working relationship of illustrators with both private presses and  commercial publishers. Detailed study of unpublished material, ... throws new light on the work and practices of the more innovative wood-engravers.” - Dust jacket.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/british-wood-engraved-book-illustration-1904-1940-a-break-with-tradition-by-joanna-selborne/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/rossetti-dante-and-ourselves-by-nicolete-gray http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/rossetti-dante-and-ourselves-by-nicolete-gray#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:57:17 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=2331

A History of Lettering: Creative Experiment and Letter Identity. By Nicolete Gray

Andrew Brown — The Inferno. From The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri

The Work of William Morris — By Paul Thompson

]]> (Dante Gabriel Rossetti) Rossetti, Dante and Ourselves. By [tag]Nicolete Gray[/tag]. Faber and Faber. London. 1947. 55 plates. 8.75” x 6”. Purple cloth boards. Dust jacket. Jacket smudged, slightly chipped, else fine. The subjects of this book are [tag]Dante Gabriel Rossetti[/tag], 1828-1882, and [tag]Dante Alighieri[/tag], 1265 -1321.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/rossetti-dante-and-ourselves-by-nicolete-gray/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/the-wood-engravings-of-gwen-raverat http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/the-wood-engravings-of-gwen-raverat#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:55:23 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=2329

Dorothea Braby — The Way of Wood Engravings

Eric Gill — Set of Engravings

The Wood Engravings of Robert Gibbings with Some Recollections by the Artist. Edited by Patience Empson. Introduction by Thomas Balston

]]> ([tag]Gwen Raverat[/tag]) The Wood Engravings of Gwen Raverat. Selected with an Introduction by Reynolds Stone. Faber & Faber. London. [1959.] Gray cloth boards. Clipped dust jacket. Slight spotting to endpapers, else very good. Gwen Raverat (1885-1957) was a wood engraver who made prints as well as illustrating books. "Gwen Raverat's engravings have never been collected together before. This book contains a large selection of her work, and includes many little known designs, printed with all the skill and care habitual at the University Press, Cambridge." - Dust jacket.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/the-wood-engravings-of-gwen-raverat/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/pen-drawing-and-pen-draughtsmen-by-joseph-pennell http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/pen-drawing-and-pen-draughtsmen-by-joseph-pennell#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:51:41 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=2327

Mervyn Peake. by John Watney. Michael Joseph

Paul Nash: The portrait of an Artist. By Anthony Bertram

Eric Gill — Art-Nonsense and Other Essays

]]> ([tag]Joseph Pennell[/tag]) Pen Drawing and Pen Draughtsmen. By Joseph Pennell. Macmillan & Company. London. 1889. xxiii, 318p., illustrations, index. 11” x 14”. Bound in Japanese vellum over boards, titling in black on the front cover and spine. Light spotting; minor shelf wear, generally a lovely copy.      5.00 A classic and important work. “Their Work and Their Methods - A Study of the Art Today with Technical Suggestions.” - Sub-title..]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/pen-drawing-and-pen-draughtsmen-by-joseph-pennell/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/mervyn-peake-by-john-watney-michael-joseph http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/mervyn-peake-by-john-watney-michael-joseph#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:50:42 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=2325

Pen Drawing and Pen Draughtsmen. By Joseph Pennell.

High House Press — Shaftesbury: The ‘Shaston’ of Thomas Hardy.

Wyndham Lewis the Artist: From Blast to Burlington House. By Wyndham Lewis.

]]> ([tag]Mervyn Peake[/tag]) Mervyn Peake. by John Watney. Michael Joseph. London. 1976. 225., illustrations. 9.5” x 6.25”. Green buckram boards; title in silver on spine. Fine. Mervyn Peake (1911 - 1968) had a prolific output as a painter and writer of children’s books, nonsense verse, and work as a war artist, poet, and illustrator. Such classic texts as Treasure Island, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, The Ancient Mariner, Swiss Family Robinson, The Hunting of the Snark, Bleak House and others were illustrated by him, resulting in idiosyncratic interpretations immediately recognisable as his own. It is generally accepted that the Gormenghast trilogy as a whole offers one of the most original and sustained flights of imaginative writing of the 20th century; Mervyn Peake is best remembered for this timeless and highly influential work.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/mervyn-peake-by-john-watney-michael-joseph/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue Joshua Heller Rare Books Wed, 25 Apr 2012 21:33:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 en hourly 1 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue Joshua Heller Rare Books Wed, 25 Apr 2012 21:33:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 en hourly 1 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/nocturne-the-art-of-james-mcneill-whistler-by-denys-sutton http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/nocturne-the-art-of-james-mcneill-whistler-by-denys-sutton#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:10:14 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=2343

The Life of Eric Gill — Robert Speaight

Tributes to Edward Johnson, Calligrapher. By Sydney Cockerell, Noel Rooke, James Wardrop, Alfred Fairbank, Irene Wellington and Bridget Johnston.

James Moran — The Double Crown Club: A History of Fifty Years

]]> ([tag]James McNeill Whistler[/tag]) Nocturne: The Art of James McNeill Whistler. By Denys Sutton. Country life limited. London. 1963. Frontispiece, 153p. Plates, index. 10” x 7.5” Blue cloth over boards; titling in gilt on the front cover and spine. Cover edges faded; else fine. No dust jacket.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/nocturne-the-art-of-james-mcneill-whistler-by-denys-sutton/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/the-artist-and-the-book-in-france-the-20th-century-livre-d%e2%80%99artiste-by-w-j-strachan http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/the-artist-and-the-book-in-france-the-20th-century-livre-d%e2%80%99artiste-by-w-j-strachan#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:08:33 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=2340

Twentieth Century Type Designers. New Edition. By Sebastian Carter

Edward Hodnett — Five Centuries of English Book Illustration.

Wyndham Lewis the Artist: From Blast to Burlington House. By Wyndham Lewis.

]]> ([tag]W.J.  Strachan[/tag]) The Artist and the Book in France: The 20th Century Livre d’artiste. By W.J. Strachan. Peter Owen. London. 1969. First edition. 368p. includes Index. 11.5” x 8.75”. Black and white and color illustrations throughout. Brown buckram boards with gilt title on spine and gilt decorative device on front board. Illustrated dust jacket. Extremely good. “The Artist and the Book in France is ... a publication of major importance. It is the first comprehensive study of the livre d’artiste intended for the general reader as well as the art specialist. The author traces the early origins of the genre, examines its history and development through the ... century and discusses and illustrates the work of more than a hundred artists, ... He deals in detail with such subjects as the texts chosen for illustration, the individual elements of the book, ateliers and printers, bibliophile societies, patrons and collectors, the technical aspects of production and the various autographic processes. “Mr. Strachan has unrivalled knowledge of his subject, having spent much time ... visiting artists in their Paris studios, collecting and exhibiting their work, and writing and lecturing on it. He [was] made a ‘Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres’ by the French government.” - Dust jacket.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/the-artist-and-the-book-in-france-the-20th-century-livre-d%e2%80%99artiste-by-w-j-strachan/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/portrait-of-g-b-s-george-bernard-shaw-by-feliks-topolski http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/portrait-of-g-b-s-george-bernard-shaw-by-feliks-topolski#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:05:36 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=2337

Paul Nash: The portrait of an Artist. By Anthony Bertram

George Grosz: His life and work. By Uwe M. Schneede.

The Engraved Work of F.L. Griggs: Etchings & Drypoints,1912-1928. Catalogue by Russell George Alexander.

]]> ([tag]George Bernard Shaw[/tag]) Portrait of G.B.S. [By] [tag]Feliks Topolski[/tag]. With an Introduction by Hesket Pearson. Eyre & Spottiswoode. London. 1946. 12p. Color frontispiece, 31 plates.  9.75” x 6.75”. Printed on Arnold and Foster’s mould made paper by the Chiswick Press. Reproductions of drawings in pen, brush, charcoal and pencil, and oil paintings. Cloth boards; title in gilt within red frame on front. Dust jacket. No. 882 in an edition of 1015 copies. Occasional spotting throughout; edges soiled. Good. Feliks Topolski (1907–1989) was a Polish-born British artist, who moved to Britain in the mid-1930s. During the Second World War, Topolski became an official war artist and painted scenes of the Battle of Britain and other battlefields. After the war he made a celebrated painting about the first meeting of the United Nations. Feliks Topolski’s own experiences were initially captured in pencil and ink drawings with his prolifically produced and independently published Topolski’s Chronicles. The Chronicles were produced fortnightly from 1953–79 and acted as a medium to communicate his art and observations to a wide audience. They were produced without advertisements or subsidies, and since his death in 1989 Topolski’s Chronicles have gained great respect as a pictorial and political record spanning nearly thirty years of world history. Topolski painted a number of portraits of contemporaries, including the authors H.G. Wells, Graham Greene, John Mortimer and Evelyn Waugh, and the politicians Harold Macmillan and Aneurin Bevan. He also painted a number of murals, contributed to BBC programs, such as ‘Face to Face’ and designed theatrical sets. Between 1975 and his death he worked on a 600 ft mural in railway arches on London's South Bank, depicting events and people of the 20th century.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/portrait-of-g-b-s-george-bernard-shaw-by-feliks-topolski/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/the-complete-graphic-works-of-ben-shahn-by-kenneth-w-prescott http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/the-complete-graphic-works-of-ben-shahn-by-kenneth-w-prescott#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:02:27 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=2335

John DePol: A Catalogue Raisonné of his Graphic Work 1935-1998

Ruth Mortimer — Harvard College Library Department of Printing & Graphic Arts Catalogue of Books and Manuscripts. Part II: Italian Sixteenth Century Books. Vol. I & Vol. II.

The Complete Prints of Leonard Baskin. A Catalogue Raisonné 1948-1983

]]> ([tag]Ben Shahn[/tag]) The Complete Graphic Works of Ben Shahn. By [tag]Kenneth W. Prescott[/tag]. Quadrangle/The New York Times Book Co. 1973.  250p., includes Index.  9.5” x 12.25”. Illustrations in black and white throughout. Brown cloth boards; gilt tile on spine. Illustrated dustjacket. Fine. Ben Shahn (1898-1969) was an American painter and graphic artist, whose work showed a leaning towards social criticism and justice. He was also an artist and photographer for the Farm Security Administration during the Depression. Shahn received many honors, awards and honorary degrees, including from Harvard and Princeton. The importance of his work has been recognized internationally.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/the-complete-graphic-works-of-ben-shahn-by-kenneth-w-prescott/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/british-wood-engraved-book-illustration-1904-1940-a-break-with-tradition-by-joanna-selborne http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/british-wood-engraved-book-illustration-1904-1940-a-break-with-tradition-by-joanna-selborne#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:59:31 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=2333

Expressionist Book Illustration in Germany, 1907-1927. By Lothar Lang.

Edward Hodnett — Five Centuries of English Book Illustration.

Twentieth Century Type Designers. New Edition. By Sebastian Carter

]]> ([tag]Joanna Selborne[/tag]) British Wood Engraved Book Illustration 1904-1940: A Break with Tradition. [By] Joanna Selborne. Clarendon Press. Oxford. 1998. 433p., includes Index. 11.25" x 9”. Black and white illustrations. Black buckram spine with gilt title on spine. Illustrated dust jacket. As new. “Joanna Selborne is an independent scholar with special interest in prints and printmaking. “This book reveals the methods by which [Twentieth-century British wood-engraved book illustrators] broke with nineteenth-century illustrative practices. The author surveys the subject in relation to the cultural and historical background, and within the context of mainstream developments in the visual arts, placing emphasis on the working relationship of illustrators with both private presses and  commercial publishers. Detailed study of unpublished material, ... throws new light on the work and practices of the more innovative wood-engravers.” - Dust jacket.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/british-wood-engraved-book-illustration-1904-1940-a-break-with-tradition-by-joanna-selborne/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/rossetti-dante-and-ourselves-by-nicolete-gray http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/rossetti-dante-and-ourselves-by-nicolete-gray#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:57:17 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=2331

A History of Lettering: Creative Experiment and Letter Identity. By Nicolete Gray

Andrew Brown — The Inferno. From The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri

The Work of William Morris — By Paul Thompson

]]> (Dante Gabriel Rossetti) Rossetti, Dante and Ourselves. By [tag]Nicolete Gray[/tag]. Faber and Faber. London. 1947. 55 plates. 8.75” x 6”. Purple cloth boards. Dust jacket. Jacket smudged, slightly chipped, else fine. The subjects of this book are [tag]Dante Gabriel Rossetti[/tag], 1828-1882, and [tag]Dante Alighieri[/tag], 1265 -1321.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/rossetti-dante-and-ourselves-by-nicolete-gray/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/the-wood-engravings-of-gwen-raverat http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/the-wood-engravings-of-gwen-raverat#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:55:23 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=2329

Dorothea Braby — The Way of Wood Engravings

Eric Gill — Set of Engravings

The Wood Engravings of Robert Gibbings with Some Recollections by the Artist. Edited by Patience Empson. Introduction by Thomas Balston

]]> ([tag]Gwen Raverat[/tag]) The Wood Engravings of Gwen Raverat. Selected with an Introduction by Reynolds Stone. Faber & Faber. London. [1959.] Gray cloth boards. Clipped dust jacket. Slight spotting to endpapers, else very good. Gwen Raverat (1885-1957) was a wood engraver who made prints as well as illustrating books. "Gwen Raverat's engravings have never been collected together before. This book contains a large selection of her work, and includes many little known designs, printed with all the skill and care habitual at the University Press, Cambridge." - Dust jacket.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/the-wood-engravings-of-gwen-raverat/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/pen-drawing-and-pen-draughtsmen-by-joseph-pennell http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/pen-drawing-and-pen-draughtsmen-by-joseph-pennell#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:51:41 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=2327

Mervyn Peake. by John Watney. Michael Joseph

Paul Nash: The portrait of an Artist. By Anthony Bertram

Eric Gill — Art-Nonsense and Other Essays

]]> ([tag]Joseph Pennell[/tag]) Pen Drawing and Pen Draughtsmen. By Joseph Pennell. Macmillan & Company. London. 1889. xxiii, 318p., illustrations, index. 11” x 14”. Bound in Japanese vellum over boards, titling in black on the front cover and spine. Light spotting; minor shelf wear, generally a lovely copy.      5.00 A classic and important work. “Their Work and Their Methods - A Study of the Art Today with Technical Suggestions.” - Sub-title..]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/pen-drawing-and-pen-draughtsmen-by-joseph-pennell/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/mervyn-peake-by-john-watney-michael-joseph http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/mervyn-peake-by-john-watney-michael-joseph#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:50:42 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=2325

Pen Drawing and Pen Draughtsmen. By Joseph Pennell.

High House Press — Shaftesbury: The ‘Shaston’ of Thomas Hardy.

Wyndham Lewis the Artist: From Blast to Burlington House. By Wyndham Lewis.

]]> ([tag]Mervyn Peake[/tag]) Mervyn Peake. by John Watney. Michael Joseph. London. 1976. 225., illustrations. 9.5” x 6.25”. Green buckram boards; title in silver on spine. Fine. Mervyn Peake (1911 - 1968) had a prolific output as a painter and writer of children’s books, nonsense verse, and work as a war artist, poet, and illustrator. Such classic texts as Treasure Island, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, The Ancient Mariner, Swiss Family Robinson, The Hunting of the Snark, Bleak House and others were illustrated by him, resulting in idiosyncratic interpretations immediately recognisable as his own. It is generally accepted that the Gormenghast trilogy as a whole offers one of the most original and sustained flights of imaginative writing of the 20th century; Mervyn Peake is best remembered for this timeless and highly influential work.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/mervyn-peake-by-john-watney-michael-joseph/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/nocturne-the-art-of-james-mcneill-whistler-by-denys-sutton http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/nocturne-the-art-of-james-mcneill-whistler-by-denys-sutton#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:10:14 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=2343

The Life of Eric Gill — Robert Speaight

Tributes to Edward Johnson, Calligrapher. By Sydney Cockerell, Noel Rooke, James Wardrop, Alfred Fairbank, Irene Wellington and Bridget Johnston.

James Moran — The Double Crown Club: A History of Fifty Years

]]> ([tag]James McNeill Whistler[/tag]) Nocturne: The Art of James McNeill Whistler. By Denys Sutton. Country life limited. London. 1963. Frontispiece, 153p. Plates, index. 10” x 7.5” Blue cloth over boards; titling in gilt on the front cover and spine. Cover edges faded; else fine. No dust jacket.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/nocturne-the-art-of-james-mcneill-whistler-by-denys-sutton/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue Joshua Heller Rare Books Wed, 25 Apr 2012 21:33:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 en hourly 1 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/nocturne-the-art-of-james-mcneill-whistler-by-denys-sutton http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/nocturne-the-art-of-james-mcneill-whistler-by-denys-sutton#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:10:14 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=2343

The Life of Eric Gill — Robert Speaight

Tributes to Edward Johnson, Calligrapher. By Sydney Cockerell, Noel Rooke, James Wardrop, Alfred Fairbank, Irene Wellington and Bridget Johnston.

James Moran — The Double Crown Club: A History of Fifty Years

]]> ([tag]James McNeill Whistler[/tag]) Nocturne: The Art of James McNeill Whistler. By Denys Sutton. Country life limited. London. 1963. Frontispiece, 153p. Plates, index. 10” x 7.5” Blue cloth over boards; titling in gilt on the front cover and spine. Cover edges faded; else fine. No dust jacket.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/nocturne-the-art-of-james-mcneill-whistler-by-denys-sutton/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/the-artist-and-the-book-in-france-the-20th-century-livre-d%e2%80%99artiste-by-w-j-strachan http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/the-artist-and-the-book-in-france-the-20th-century-livre-d%e2%80%99artiste-by-w-j-strachan#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:08:33 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=2340

Twentieth Century Type Designers. New Edition. By Sebastian Carter

Edward Hodnett — Five Centuries of English Book Illustration.

Wyndham Lewis the Artist: From Blast to Burlington House. By Wyndham Lewis.

]]> ([tag]W.J.  Strachan[/tag]) The Artist and the Book in France: The 20th Century Livre d’artiste. By W.J. Strachan. Peter Owen. London. 1969. First edition. 368p. includes Index. 11.5” x 8.75”. Black and white and color illustrations throughout. Brown buckram boards with gilt title on spine and gilt decorative device on front board. Illustrated dust jacket. Extremely good. “The Artist and the Book in France is ... a publication of major importance. It is the first comprehensive study of the livre d’artiste intended for the general reader as well as the art specialist. The author traces the early origins of the genre, examines its history and development through the ... century and discusses and illustrates the work of more than a hundred artists, ... He deals in detail with such subjects as the texts chosen for illustration, the individual elements of the book, ateliers and printers, bibliophile societies, patrons and collectors, the technical aspects of production and the various autographic processes. “Mr. Strachan has unrivalled knowledge of his subject, having spent much time ... visiting artists in their Paris studios, collecting and exhibiting their work, and writing and lecturing on it. He [was] made a ‘Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres’ by the French government.” - Dust jacket.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/the-artist-and-the-book-in-france-the-20th-century-livre-d%e2%80%99artiste-by-w-j-strachan/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/portrait-of-g-b-s-george-bernard-shaw-by-feliks-topolski http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/portrait-of-g-b-s-george-bernard-shaw-by-feliks-topolski#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:05:36 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=2337

Paul Nash: The portrait of an Artist. By Anthony Bertram

George Grosz: His life and work. By Uwe M. Schneede.

The Engraved Work of F.L. Griggs: Etchings & Drypoints,1912-1928. Catalogue by Russell George Alexander.

]]> ([tag]George Bernard Shaw[/tag]) Portrait of G.B.S. [By] [tag]Feliks Topolski[/tag]. With an Introduction by Hesket Pearson. Eyre & Spottiswoode. London. 1946. 12p. Color frontispiece, 31 plates.  9.75” x 6.75”. Printed on Arnold and Foster’s mould made paper by the Chiswick Press. Reproductions of drawings in pen, brush, charcoal and pencil, and oil paintings. Cloth boards; title in gilt within red frame on front. Dust jacket. No. 882 in an edition of 1015 copies. Occasional spotting throughout; edges soiled. Good. Feliks Topolski (1907–1989) was a Polish-born British artist, who moved to Britain in the mid-1930s. During the Second World War, Topolski became an official war artist and painted scenes of the Battle of Britain and other battlefields. After the war he made a celebrated painting about the first meeting of the United Nations. Feliks Topolski’s own experiences were initially captured in pencil and ink drawings with his prolifically produced and independently published Topolski’s Chronicles. The Chronicles were produced fortnightly from 1953–79 and acted as a medium to communicate his art and observations to a wide audience. They were produced without advertisements or subsidies, and since his death in 1989 Topolski’s Chronicles have gained great respect as a pictorial and political record spanning nearly thirty years of world history. Topolski painted a number of portraits of contemporaries, including the authors H.G. Wells, Graham Greene, John Mortimer and Evelyn Waugh, and the politicians Harold Macmillan and Aneurin Bevan. He also painted a number of murals, contributed to BBC programs, such as ‘Face to Face’ and designed theatrical sets. Between 1975 and his death he worked on a 600 ft mural in railway arches on London's South Bank, depicting events and people of the 20th century.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/portrait-of-g-b-s-george-bernard-shaw-by-feliks-topolski/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/the-complete-graphic-works-of-ben-shahn-by-kenneth-w-prescott http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/the-complete-graphic-works-of-ben-shahn-by-kenneth-w-prescott#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:02:27 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=2335

John DePol: A Catalogue Raisonné of his Graphic Work 1935-1998

Ruth Mortimer — Harvard College Library Department of Printing & Graphic Arts Catalogue of Books and Manuscripts. Part II: Italian Sixteenth Century Books. Vol. I & Vol. II.

The Complete Prints of Leonard Baskin. A Catalogue Raisonné 1948-1983

]]> ([tag]Ben Shahn[/tag]) The Complete Graphic Works of Ben Shahn. By [tag]Kenneth W. Prescott[/tag]. Quadrangle/The New York Times Book Co. 1973.  250p., includes Index.  9.5” x 12.25”. Illustrations in black and white throughout. Brown cloth boards; gilt tile on spine. Illustrated dustjacket. Fine. Ben Shahn (1898-1969) was an American painter and graphic artist, whose work showed a leaning towards social criticism and justice. He was also an artist and photographer for the Farm Security Administration during the Depression. Shahn received many honors, awards and honorary degrees, including from Harvard and Princeton. The importance of his work has been recognized internationally.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/the-complete-graphic-works-of-ben-shahn-by-kenneth-w-prescott/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/british-wood-engraved-book-illustration-1904-1940-a-break-with-tradition-by-joanna-selborne http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/british-wood-engraved-book-illustration-1904-1940-a-break-with-tradition-by-joanna-selborne#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:59:31 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=2333

Expressionist Book Illustration in Germany, 1907-1927. By Lothar Lang.

Edward Hodnett — Five Centuries of English Book Illustration.

Twentieth Century Type Designers. New Edition. By Sebastian Carter

]]> ([tag]Joanna Selborne[/tag]) British Wood Engraved Book Illustration 1904-1940: A Break with Tradition. [By] Joanna Selborne. Clarendon Press. Oxford. 1998. 433p., includes Index. 11.25" x 9”. Black and white illustrations. Black buckram spine with gilt title on spine. Illustrated dust jacket. As new. “Joanna Selborne is an independent scholar with special interest in prints and printmaking. “This book reveals the methods by which [Twentieth-century British wood-engraved book illustrators] broke with nineteenth-century illustrative practices. The author surveys the subject in relation to the cultural and historical background, and within the context of mainstream developments in the visual arts, placing emphasis on the working relationship of illustrators with both private presses and  commercial publishers. Detailed study of unpublished material, ... throws new light on the work and practices of the more innovative wood-engravers.” - Dust jacket.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/british-wood-engraved-book-illustration-1904-1940-a-break-with-tradition-by-joanna-selborne/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/rossetti-dante-and-ourselves-by-nicolete-gray http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/rossetti-dante-and-ourselves-by-nicolete-gray#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:57:17 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=2331

A History of Lettering: Creative Experiment and Letter Identity. By Nicolete Gray

Andrew Brown — The Inferno. From The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri

The Work of William Morris — By Paul Thompson

]]> (Dante Gabriel Rossetti) Rossetti, Dante and Ourselves. By [tag]Nicolete Gray[/tag]. Faber and Faber. London. 1947. 55 plates. 8.75” x 6”. Purple cloth boards. Dust jacket. Jacket smudged, slightly chipped, else fine. The subjects of this book are [tag]Dante Gabriel Rossetti[/tag], 1828-1882, and [tag]Dante Alighieri[/tag], 1265 -1321.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/rossetti-dante-and-ourselves-by-nicolete-gray/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/the-wood-engravings-of-gwen-raverat http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/the-wood-engravings-of-gwen-raverat#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:55:23 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=2329

Dorothea Braby — The Way of Wood Engravings

Eric Gill — Set of Engravings

The Wood Engravings of Robert Gibbings with Some Recollections by the Artist. Edited by Patience Empson. Introduction by Thomas Balston

]]> ([tag]Gwen Raverat[/tag]) The Wood Engravings of Gwen Raverat. Selected with an Introduction by Reynolds Stone. Faber & Faber. London. [1959.] Gray cloth boards. Clipped dust jacket. Slight spotting to endpapers, else very good. Gwen Raverat (1885-1957) was a wood engraver who made prints as well as illustrating books. "Gwen Raverat's engravings have never been collected together before. This book contains a large selection of her work, and includes many little known designs, printed with all the skill and care habitual at the University Press, Cambridge." - Dust jacket.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/the-wood-engravings-of-gwen-raverat/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/pen-drawing-and-pen-draughtsmen-by-joseph-pennell http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/pen-drawing-and-pen-draughtsmen-by-joseph-pennell#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:51:41 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=2327

Mervyn Peake. by John Watney. Michael Joseph

Paul Nash: The portrait of an Artist. By Anthony Bertram

Eric Gill — Art-Nonsense and Other Essays

]]> ([tag]Joseph Pennell[/tag]) Pen Drawing and Pen Draughtsmen. By Joseph Pennell. Macmillan & Company. London. 1889. xxiii, 318p., illustrations, index. 11” x 14”. Bound in Japanese vellum over boards, titling in black on the front cover and spine. Light spotting; minor shelf wear, generally a lovely copy.      5.00 A classic and important work. “Their Work and Their Methods - A Study of the Art Today with Technical Suggestions.” - Sub-title..]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/pen-drawing-and-pen-draughtsmen-by-joseph-pennell/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/mervyn-peake-by-john-watney-michael-joseph http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/mervyn-peake-by-john-watney-michael-joseph#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:50:42 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=2325

Pen Drawing and Pen Draughtsmen. By Joseph Pennell.

High House Press — Shaftesbury: The ‘Shaston’ of Thomas Hardy.

Wyndham Lewis the Artist: From Blast to Burlington House. By Wyndham Lewis.

]]> ([tag]Mervyn Peake[/tag]) Mervyn Peake. by John Watney. Michael Joseph. London. 1976. 225., illustrations. 9.5” x 6.25”. Green buckram boards; title in silver on spine. Fine. Mervyn Peake (1911 - 1968) had a prolific output as a painter and writer of children’s books, nonsense verse, and work as a war artist, poet, and illustrator. Such classic texts as Treasure Island, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, The Ancient Mariner, Swiss Family Robinson, The Hunting of the Snark, Bleak House and others were illustrated by him, resulting in idiosyncratic interpretations immediately recognisable as his own. It is generally accepted that the Gormenghast trilogy as a whole offers one of the most original and sustained flights of imaginative writing of the 20th century; Mervyn Peake is best remembered for this timeless and highly influential work.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/mervyn-peake-by-john-watney-michael-joseph/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/the-artist-and-the-book-in-france-the-20th-century-livre-d%e2%80%99artiste-by-w-j-strachan http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/the-artist-and-the-book-in-france-the-20th-century-livre-d%e2%80%99artiste-by-w-j-strachan#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:08:33 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=2340

Twentieth Century Type Designers. New Edition. By Sebastian Carter

Edward Hodnett — Five Centuries of English Book Illustration.

Wyndham Lewis the Artist: From Blast to Burlington House. By Wyndham Lewis.

]]> ([tag]W.J.  Strachan[/tag]) The Artist and the Book in France: The 20th Century Livre d’artiste. By W.J. Strachan. Peter Owen. London. 1969. First edition. 368p. includes Index. 11.5” x 8.75”. Black and white and color illustrations throughout. Brown buckram boards with gilt title on spine and gilt decorative device on front board. Illustrated dust jacket. Extremely good. “The Artist and the Book in France is ... a publication of major importance. It is the first comprehensive study of the livre d’artiste intended for the general reader as well as the art specialist. The author traces the early origins of the genre, examines its history and development through the ... century and discusses and illustrates the work of more than a hundred artists, ... He deals in detail with such subjects as the texts chosen for illustration, the individual elements of the book, ateliers and printers, bibliophile societies, patrons and collectors, the technical aspects of production and the various autographic processes. “Mr. Strachan has unrivalled knowledge of his subject, having spent much time ... visiting artists in their Paris studios, collecting and exhibiting their work, and writing and lecturing on it. He [was] made a ‘Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres’ by the French government.” - Dust jacket.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/the-artist-and-the-book-in-france-the-20th-century-livre-d%e2%80%99artiste-by-w-j-strachan/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue Joshua Heller Rare Books Wed, 25 Apr 2012 21:33:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 en hourly 1 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/nocturne-the-art-of-james-mcneill-whistler-by-denys-sutton http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/nocturne-the-art-of-james-mcneill-whistler-by-denys-sutton#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:10:14 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=2343

The Life of Eric Gill — Robert Speaight

Tributes to Edward Johnson, Calligrapher. By Sydney Cockerell, Noel Rooke, James Wardrop, Alfred Fairbank, Irene Wellington and Bridget Johnston.

James Moran — The Double Crown Club: A History of Fifty Years

]]> ([tag]James McNeill Whistler[/tag]) Nocturne: The Art of James McNeill Whistler. By Denys Sutton. Country life limited. London. 1963. Frontispiece, 153p. Plates, index. 10” x 7.5” Blue cloth over boards; titling in gilt on the front cover and spine. Cover edges faded; else fine. No dust jacket.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/nocturne-the-art-of-james-mcneill-whistler-by-denys-sutton/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/the-artist-and-the-book-in-france-the-20th-century-livre-d%e2%80%99artiste-by-w-j-strachan http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/the-artist-and-the-book-in-france-the-20th-century-livre-d%e2%80%99artiste-by-w-j-strachan#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:08:33 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=2340

Twentieth Century Type Designers. New Edition. By Sebastian Carter

Edward Hodnett — Five Centuries of English Book Illustration.

Wyndham Lewis the Artist: From Blast to Burlington House. By Wyndham Lewis.

]]> ([tag]W.J.  Strachan[/tag]) The Artist and the Book in France: The 20th Century Livre d’artiste. By W.J. Strachan. Peter Owen. London. 1969. First edition. 368p. includes Index. 11.5” x 8.75”. Black and white and color illustrations throughout. Brown buckram boards with gilt title on spine and gilt decorative device on front board. Illustrated dust jacket. Extremely good. “The Artist and the Book in France is ... a publication of major importance. It is the first comprehensive study of the livre d’artiste intended for the general reader as well as the art specialist. The author traces the early origins of the genre, examines its history and development through the ... century and discusses and illustrates the work of more than a hundred artists, ... He deals in detail with such subjects as the texts chosen for illustration, the individual elements of the book, ateliers and printers, bibliophile societies, patrons and collectors, the technical aspects of production and the various autographic processes. “Mr. Strachan has unrivalled knowledge of his subject, having spent much time ... visiting artists in their Paris studios, collecting and exhibiting their work, and writing and lecturing on it. He [was] made a ‘Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres’ by the French government.” - Dust jacket.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/the-artist-and-the-book-in-france-the-20th-century-livre-d%e2%80%99artiste-by-w-j-strachan/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/portrait-of-g-b-s-george-bernard-shaw-by-feliks-topolski http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/portrait-of-g-b-s-george-bernard-shaw-by-feliks-topolski#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:05:36 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=2337

Paul Nash: The portrait of an Artist. By Anthony Bertram

George Grosz: His life and work. By Uwe M. Schneede.

The Engraved Work of F.L. Griggs: Etchings & Drypoints,1912-1928. Catalogue by Russell George Alexander.

]]> ([tag]George Bernard Shaw[/tag]) Portrait of G.B.S. [By] [tag]Feliks Topolski[/tag]. With an Introduction by Hesket Pearson. Eyre & Spottiswoode. London. 1946. 12p. Color frontispiece, 31 plates.  9.75” x 6.75”. Printed on Arnold and Foster’s mould made paper by the Chiswick Press. Reproductions of drawings in pen, brush, charcoal and pencil, and oil paintings. Cloth boards; title in gilt within red frame on front. Dust jacket. No. 882 in an edition of 1015 copies. Occasional spotting throughout; edges soiled. Good. Feliks Topolski (1907–1989) was a Polish-born British artist, who moved to Britain in the mid-1930s. During the Second World War, Topolski became an official war artist and painted scenes of the Battle of Britain and other battlefields. After the war he made a celebrated painting about the first meeting of the United Nations. Feliks Topolski’s own experiences were initially captured in pencil and ink drawings with his prolifically produced and independently published Topolski’s Chronicles. The Chronicles were produced fortnightly from 1953–79 and acted as a medium to communicate his art and observations to a wide audience. They were produced without advertisements or subsidies, and since his death in 1989 Topolski’s Chronicles have gained great respect as a pictorial and political record spanning nearly thirty years of world history. Topolski painted a number of portraits of contemporaries, including the authors H.G. Wells, Graham Greene, John Mortimer and Evelyn Waugh, and the politicians Harold Macmillan and Aneurin Bevan. He also painted a number of murals, contributed to BBC programs, such as ‘Face to Face’ and designed theatrical sets. Between 1975 and his death he worked on a 600 ft mural in railway arches on London's South Bank, depicting events and people of the 20th century.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/portrait-of-g-b-s-george-bernard-shaw-by-feliks-topolski/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/the-complete-graphic-works-of-ben-shahn-by-kenneth-w-prescott http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/the-complete-graphic-works-of-ben-shahn-by-kenneth-w-prescott#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:02:27 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=2335

John DePol: A Catalogue Raisonné of his Graphic Work 1935-1998

Ruth Mortimer — Harvard College Library Department of Printing & Graphic Arts Catalogue of Books and Manuscripts. Part II: Italian Sixteenth Century Books. Vol. I & Vol. II.

The Complete Prints of Leonard Baskin. A Catalogue Raisonné 1948-1983

]]> ([tag]Ben Shahn[/tag]) The Complete Graphic Works of Ben Shahn. By [tag]Kenneth W. Prescott[/tag]. Quadrangle/The New York Times Book Co. 1973.  250p., includes Index.  9.5” x 12.25”. Illustrations in black and white throughout. Brown cloth boards; gilt tile on spine. Illustrated dustjacket. Fine. Ben Shahn (1898-1969) was an American painter and graphic artist, whose work showed a leaning towards social criticism and justice. He was also an artist and photographer for the Farm Security Administration during the Depression. Shahn received many honors, awards and honorary degrees, including from Harvard and Princeton. The importance of his work has been recognized internationally.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/the-complete-graphic-works-of-ben-shahn-by-kenneth-w-prescott/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/british-wood-engraved-book-illustration-1904-1940-a-break-with-tradition-by-joanna-selborne http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/british-wood-engraved-book-illustration-1904-1940-a-break-with-tradition-by-joanna-selborne#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:59:31 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=2333

Expressionist Book Illustration in Germany, 1907-1927. By Lothar Lang.

Edward Hodnett — Five Centuries of English Book Illustration.

Twentieth Century Type Designers. New Edition. By Sebastian Carter

]]> ([tag]Joanna Selborne[/tag]) British Wood Engraved Book Illustration 1904-1940: A Break with Tradition. [By] Joanna Selborne. Clarendon Press. Oxford. 1998. 433p., includes Index. 11.25" x 9”. Black and white illustrations. Black buckram spine with gilt title on spine. Illustrated dust jacket. As new. “Joanna Selborne is an independent scholar with special interest in prints and printmaking. “This book reveals the methods by which [Twentieth-century British wood-engraved book illustrators] broke with nineteenth-century illustrative practices. The author surveys the subject in relation to the cultural and historical background, and within the context of mainstream developments in the visual arts, placing emphasis on the working relationship of illustrators with both private presses and  commercial publishers. Detailed study of unpublished material, ... throws new light on the work and practices of the more innovative wood-engravers.” - Dust jacket.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/british-wood-engraved-book-illustration-1904-1940-a-break-with-tradition-by-joanna-selborne/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/rossetti-dante-and-ourselves-by-nicolete-gray http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/rossetti-dante-and-ourselves-by-nicolete-gray#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:57:17 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=2331

A History of Lettering: Creative Experiment and Letter Identity. By Nicolete Gray

Andrew Brown — The Inferno. From The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri

The Work of William Morris — By Paul Thompson

]]> (Dante Gabriel Rossetti) Rossetti, Dante and Ourselves. By [tag]Nicolete Gray[/tag]. Faber and Faber. London. 1947. 55 plates. 8.75” x 6”. Purple cloth boards. Dust jacket. Jacket smudged, slightly chipped, else fine. The subjects of this book are [tag]Dante Gabriel Rossetti[/tag], 1828-1882, and [tag]Dante Alighieri[/tag], 1265 -1321.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/rossetti-dante-and-ourselves-by-nicolete-gray/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/the-wood-engravings-of-gwen-raverat http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/the-wood-engravings-of-gwen-raverat#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:55:23 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=2329

Dorothea Braby — The Way of Wood Engravings

Eric Gill — Set of Engravings

The Wood Engravings of Robert Gibbings with Some Recollections by the Artist. Edited by Patience Empson. Introduction by Thomas Balston

]]> ([tag]Gwen Raverat[/tag]) The Wood Engravings of Gwen Raverat. Selected with an Introduction by Reynolds Stone. Faber & Faber. London. [1959.] Gray cloth boards. Clipped dust jacket. Slight spotting to endpapers, else very good. Gwen Raverat (1885-1957) was a wood engraver who made prints as well as illustrating books. "Gwen Raverat's engravings have never been collected together before. This book contains a large selection of her work, and includes many little known designs, printed with all the skill and care habitual at the University Press, Cambridge." - Dust jacket.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/the-wood-engravings-of-gwen-raverat/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/pen-drawing-and-pen-draughtsmen-by-joseph-pennell http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/pen-drawing-and-pen-draughtsmen-by-joseph-pennell#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:51:41 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=2327

Mervyn Peake. by John Watney. Michael Joseph

Paul Nash: The portrait of an Artist. By Anthony Bertram

Eric Gill — Art-Nonsense and Other Essays

]]> ([tag]Joseph Pennell[/tag]) Pen Drawing and Pen Draughtsmen. By Joseph Pennell. Macmillan & Company. London. 1889. xxiii, 318p., illustrations, index. 11” x 14”. Bound in Japanese vellum over boards, titling in black on the front cover and spine. Light spotting; minor shelf wear, generally a lovely copy.      5.00 A classic and important work. “Their Work and Their Methods - A Study of the Art Today with Technical Suggestions.” - Sub-title..]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/pen-drawing-and-pen-draughtsmen-by-joseph-pennell/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/mervyn-peake-by-john-watney-michael-joseph http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/mervyn-peake-by-john-watney-michael-joseph#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:50:42 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=2325

Pen Drawing and Pen Draughtsmen. By Joseph Pennell.

High House Press — Shaftesbury: The ‘Shaston’ of Thomas Hardy.

Wyndham Lewis the Artist: From Blast to Burlington House. By Wyndham Lewis.

]]> ([tag]Mervyn Peake[/tag]) Mervyn Peake. by John Watney. Michael Joseph. London. 1976. 225., illustrations. 9.5” x 6.25”. Green buckram boards; title in silver on spine. Fine. Mervyn Peake (1911 - 1968) had a prolific output as a painter and writer of children’s books, nonsense verse, and work as a war artist, poet, and illustrator. Such classic texts as Treasure Island, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, The Ancient Mariner, Swiss Family Robinson, The Hunting of the Snark, Bleak House and others were illustrated by him, resulting in idiosyncratic interpretations immediately recognisable as his own. It is generally accepted that the Gormenghast trilogy as a whole offers one of the most original and sustained flights of imaginative writing of the 20th century; Mervyn Peake is best remembered for this timeless and highly influential work.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/mervyn-peake-by-john-watney-michael-joseph/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/portrait-of-g-b-s-george-bernard-shaw-by-feliks-topolski http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/portrait-of-g-b-s-george-bernard-shaw-by-feliks-topolski#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:05:36 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=2337

Paul Nash: The portrait of an Artist. By Anthony Bertram

George Grosz: His life and work. By Uwe M. Schneede.

The Engraved Work of F.L. Griggs: Etchings & Drypoints,1912-1928. Catalogue by Russell George Alexander.

]]> ([tag]George Bernard Shaw[/tag]) Portrait of G.B.S. [By] [tag]Feliks Topolski[/tag]. With an Introduction by Hesket Pearson. Eyre & Spottiswoode. London. 1946. 12p. Color frontispiece, 31 plates.  9.75” x 6.75”. Printed on Arnold and Foster’s mould made paper by the Chiswick Press. Reproductions of drawings in pen, brush, charcoal and pencil, and oil paintings. Cloth boards; title in gilt within red frame on front. Dust jacket. No. 882 in an edition of 1015 copies. Occasional spotting throughout; edges soiled. Good. Feliks Topolski (1907–1989) was a Polish-born British artist, who moved to Britain in the mid-1930s. During the Second World War, Topolski became an official war artist and painted scenes of the Battle of Britain and other battlefields. After the war he made a celebrated painting about the first meeting of the United Nations. Feliks Topolski’s own experiences were initially captured in pencil and ink drawings with his prolifically produced and independently published Topolski’s Chronicles. The Chronicles were produced fortnightly from 1953–79 and acted as a medium to communicate his art and observations to a wide audience. They were produced without advertisements or subsidies, and since his death in 1989 Topolski’s Chronicles have gained great respect as a pictorial and political record spanning nearly thirty years of world history. Topolski painted a number of portraits of contemporaries, including the authors H.G. Wells, Graham Greene, John Mortimer and Evelyn Waugh, and the politicians Harold Macmillan and Aneurin Bevan. He also painted a number of murals, contributed to BBC programs, such as ‘Face to Face’ and designed theatrical sets. Between 1975 and his death he worked on a 600 ft mural in railway arches on London's South Bank, depicting events and people of the 20th century.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/portrait-of-g-b-s-george-bernard-shaw-by-feliks-topolski/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue Joshua Heller Rare Books Wed, 25 Apr 2012 21:33:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 en hourly 1 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/nocturne-the-art-of-james-mcneill-whistler-by-denys-sutton http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/nocturne-the-art-of-james-mcneill-whistler-by-denys-sutton#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:10:14 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=2343

The Life of Eric Gill — Robert Speaight

Tributes to Edward Johnson, Calligrapher. By Sydney Cockerell, Noel Rooke, James Wardrop, Alfred Fairbank, Irene Wellington and Bridget Johnston.

James Moran — The Double Crown Club: A History of Fifty Years

]]> ([tag]James McNeill Whistler[/tag]) Nocturne: The Art of James McNeill Whistler. By Denys Sutton. Country life limited. London. 1963. Frontispiece, 153p. Plates, index. 10” x 7.5” Blue cloth over boards; titling in gilt on the front cover and spine. Cover edges faded; else fine. No dust jacket.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/nocturne-the-art-of-james-mcneill-whistler-by-denys-sutton/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/the-artist-and-the-book-in-france-the-20th-century-livre-d%e2%80%99artiste-by-w-j-strachan http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/the-artist-and-the-book-in-france-the-20th-century-livre-d%e2%80%99artiste-by-w-j-strachan#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:08:33 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=2340

Twentieth Century Type Designers. New Edition. By Sebastian Carter

Edward Hodnett — Five Centuries of English Book Illustration.

Wyndham Lewis the Artist: From Blast to Burlington House. By Wyndham Lewis.

]]> ([tag]W.J.  Strachan[/tag]) The Artist and the Book in France: The 20th Century Livre d’artiste. By W.J. Strachan. Peter Owen. London. 1969. First edition. 368p. includes Index. 11.5” x 8.75”. Black and white and color illustrations throughout. Brown buckram boards with gilt title on spine and gilt decorative device on front board. Illustrated dust jacket. Extremely good. “The Artist and the Book in France is ... a publication of major importance. It is the first comprehensive study of the livre d’artiste intended for the general reader as well as the art specialist. The author traces the early origins of the genre, examines its history and development through the ... century and discusses and illustrates the work of more than a hundred artists, ... He deals in detail with such subjects as the texts chosen for illustration, the individual elements of the book, ateliers and printers, bibliophile societies, patrons and collectors, the technical aspects of production and the various autographic processes. “Mr. Strachan has unrivalled knowledge of his subject, having spent much time ... visiting artists in their Paris studios, collecting and exhibiting their work, and writing and lecturing on it. He [was] made a ‘Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres’ by the French government.” - Dust jacket.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/the-artist-and-the-book-in-france-the-20th-century-livre-d%e2%80%99artiste-by-w-j-strachan/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/portrait-of-g-b-s-george-bernard-shaw-by-feliks-topolski http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/portrait-of-g-b-s-george-bernard-shaw-by-feliks-topolski#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:05:36 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=2337

Paul Nash: The portrait of an Artist. By Anthony Bertram

George Grosz: His life and work. By Uwe M. Schneede.

The Engraved Work of F.L. Griggs: Etchings & Drypoints,1912-1928. Catalogue by Russell George Alexander.

]]> ([tag]George Bernard Shaw[/tag]) Portrait of G.B.S. [By] [tag]Feliks Topolski[/tag]. With an Introduction by Hesket Pearson. Eyre & Spottiswoode. London. 1946. 12p. Color frontispiece, 31 plates.  9.75” x 6.75”. Printed on Arnold and Foster’s mould made paper by the Chiswick Press. Reproductions of drawings in pen, brush, charcoal and pencil, and oil paintings. Cloth boards; title in gilt within red frame on front. Dust jacket. No. 882 in an edition of 1015 copies. Occasional spotting throughout; edges soiled. Good. Feliks Topolski (1907–1989) was a Polish-born British artist, who moved to Britain in the mid-1930s. During the Second World War, Topolski became an official war artist and painted scenes of the Battle of Britain and other battlefields. After the war he made a celebrated painting about the first meeting of the United Nations. Feliks Topolski’s own experiences were initially captured in pencil and ink drawings with his prolifically produced and independently published Topolski’s Chronicles. The Chronicles were produced fortnightly from 1953–79 and acted as a medium to communicate his art and observations to a wide audience. They were produced without advertisements or subsidies, and since his death in 1989 Topolski’s Chronicles have gained great respect as a pictorial and political record spanning nearly thirty years of world history. Topolski painted a number of portraits of contemporaries, including the authors H.G. Wells, Graham Greene, John Mortimer and Evelyn Waugh, and the politicians Harold Macmillan and Aneurin Bevan. He also painted a number of murals, contributed to BBC programs, such as ‘Face to Face’ and designed theatrical sets. Between 1975 and his death he worked on a 600 ft mural in railway arches on London's South Bank, depicting events and people of the 20th century.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/portrait-of-g-b-s-george-bernard-shaw-by-feliks-topolski/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/the-complete-graphic-works-of-ben-shahn-by-kenneth-w-prescott http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/the-complete-graphic-works-of-ben-shahn-by-kenneth-w-prescott#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:02:27 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=2335

John DePol: A Catalogue Raisonné of his Graphic Work 1935-1998

Ruth Mortimer — Harvard College Library Department of Printing & Graphic Arts Catalogue of Books and Manuscripts. Part II: Italian Sixteenth Century Books. Vol. I & Vol. II.

The Complete Prints of Leonard Baskin. A Catalogue Raisonné 1948-1983

]]> ([tag]Ben Shahn[/tag]) The Complete Graphic Works of Ben Shahn. By [tag]Kenneth W. Prescott[/tag]. Quadrangle/The New York Times Book Co. 1973.  250p., includes Index.  9.5” x 12.25”. Illustrations in black and white throughout. Brown cloth boards; gilt tile on spine. Illustrated dustjacket. Fine. Ben Shahn (1898-1969) was an American painter and graphic artist, whose work showed a leaning towards social criticism and justice. He was also an artist and photographer for the Farm Security Administration during the Depression. Shahn received many honors, awards and honorary degrees, including from Harvard and Princeton. The importance of his work has been recognized internationally.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/the-complete-graphic-works-of-ben-shahn-by-kenneth-w-prescott/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/british-wood-engraved-book-illustration-1904-1940-a-break-with-tradition-by-joanna-selborne http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/british-wood-engraved-book-illustration-1904-1940-a-break-with-tradition-by-joanna-selborne#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:59:31 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=2333

Expressionist Book Illustration in Germany, 1907-1927. By Lothar Lang.

Edward Hodnett — Five Centuries of English Book Illustration.

Twentieth Century Type Designers. New Edition. By Sebastian Carter

]]> ([tag]Joanna Selborne[/tag]) British Wood Engraved Book Illustration 1904-1940: A Break with Tradition. [By] Joanna Selborne. Clarendon Press. Oxford. 1998. 433p., includes Index. 11.25" x 9”. Black and white illustrations. Black buckram spine with gilt title on spine. Illustrated dust jacket. As new. “Joanna Selborne is an independent scholar with special interest in prints and printmaking. “This book reveals the methods by which [Twentieth-century British wood-engraved book illustrators] broke with nineteenth-century illustrative practices. The author surveys the subject in relation to the cultural and historical background, and within the context of mainstream developments in the visual arts, placing emphasis on the working relationship of illustrators with both private presses and  commercial publishers. Detailed study of unpublished material, ... throws new light on the work and practices of the more innovative wood-engravers.” - Dust jacket.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/british-wood-engraved-book-illustration-1904-1940-a-break-with-tradition-by-joanna-selborne/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/rossetti-dante-and-ourselves-by-nicolete-gray http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/rossetti-dante-and-ourselves-by-nicolete-gray#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:57:17 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=2331

A History of Lettering: Creative Experiment and Letter Identity. By Nicolete Gray

Andrew Brown — The Inferno. From The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri

The Work of William Morris — By Paul Thompson

]]> (Dante Gabriel Rossetti) Rossetti, Dante and Ourselves. By [tag]Nicolete Gray[/tag]. Faber and Faber. London. 1947. 55 plates. 8.75” x 6”. Purple cloth boards. Dust jacket. Jacket smudged, slightly chipped, else fine. The subjects of this book are [tag]Dante Gabriel Rossetti[/tag], 1828-1882, and [tag]Dante Alighieri[/tag], 1265 -1321.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/rossetti-dante-and-ourselves-by-nicolete-gray/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/the-wood-engravings-of-gwen-raverat http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/the-wood-engravings-of-gwen-raverat#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:55:23 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=2329

Dorothea Braby — The Way of Wood Engravings

Eric Gill — Set of Engravings

The Wood Engravings of Robert Gibbings with Some Recollections by the Artist. Edited by Patience Empson. Introduction by Thomas Balston

]]> ([tag]Gwen Raverat[/tag]) The Wood Engravings of Gwen Raverat. Selected with an Introduction by Reynolds Stone. Faber & Faber. London. [1959.] Gray cloth boards. Clipped dust jacket. Slight spotting to endpapers, else very good. Gwen Raverat (1885-1957) was a wood engraver who made prints as well as illustrating books. "Gwen Raverat's engravings have never been collected together before. This book contains a large selection of her work, and includes many little known designs, printed with all the skill and care habitual at the University Press, Cambridge." - Dust jacket.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/the-wood-engravings-of-gwen-raverat/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/pen-drawing-and-pen-draughtsmen-by-joseph-pennell http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/pen-drawing-and-pen-draughtsmen-by-joseph-pennell#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:51:41 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=2327

Mervyn Peake. by John Watney. Michael Joseph

Paul Nash: The portrait of an Artist. By Anthony Bertram

Eric Gill — Art-Nonsense and Other Essays

]]> ([tag]Joseph Pennell[/tag]) Pen Drawing and Pen Draughtsmen. By Joseph Pennell. Macmillan & Company. London. 1889. xxiii, 318p., illustrations, index. 11” x 14”. Bound in Japanese vellum over boards, titling in black on the front cover and spine. Light spotting; minor shelf wear, generally a lovely copy.      5.00 A classic and important work. “Their Work and Their Methods - A Study of the Art Today with Technical Suggestions.” - Sub-title..]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/pen-drawing-and-pen-draughtsmen-by-joseph-pennell/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/mervyn-peake-by-john-watney-michael-joseph http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/mervyn-peake-by-john-watney-michael-joseph#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:50:42 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=2325

Pen Drawing and Pen Draughtsmen. By Joseph Pennell.

High House Press — Shaftesbury: The ‘Shaston’ of Thomas Hardy.

Wyndham Lewis the Artist: From Blast to Burlington House. By Wyndham Lewis.

]]> ([tag]Mervyn Peake[/tag]) Mervyn Peake. by John Watney. Michael Joseph. London. 1976. 225., illustrations. 9.5” x 6.25”. Green buckram boards; title in silver on spine. Fine. Mervyn Peake (1911 - 1968) had a prolific output as a painter and writer of children’s books, nonsense verse, and work as a war artist, poet, and illustrator. Such classic texts as Treasure Island, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, The Ancient Mariner, Swiss Family Robinson, The Hunting of the Snark, Bleak House and others were illustrated by him, resulting in idiosyncratic interpretations immediately recognisable as his own. It is generally accepted that the Gormenghast trilogy as a whole offers one of the most original and sustained flights of imaginative writing of the 20th century; Mervyn Peake is best remembered for this timeless and highly influential work.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/mervyn-peake-by-john-watney-michael-joseph/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/the-complete-graphic-works-of-ben-shahn-by-kenneth-w-prescott http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/the-complete-graphic-works-of-ben-shahn-by-kenneth-w-prescott#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:02:27 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=2335

John DePol: A Catalogue Raisonné of his Graphic Work 1935-1998

Ruth Mortimer — Harvard College Library Department of Printing & Graphic Arts Catalogue of Books and Manuscripts. Part II: Italian Sixteenth Century Books. Vol. I & Vol. II.

The Complete Prints of Leonard Baskin. A Catalogue Raisonné 1948-1983

]]> ([tag]Ben Shahn[/tag]) The Complete Graphic Works of Ben Shahn. By [tag]Kenneth W. Prescott[/tag]. Quadrangle/The New York Times Book Co. 1973.  250p., includes Index.  9.5” x 12.25”. Illustrations in black and white throughout. Brown cloth boards; gilt tile on spine. Illustrated dustjacket. Fine. Ben Shahn (1898-1969) was an American painter and graphic artist, whose work showed a leaning towards social criticism and justice. He was also an artist and photographer for the Farm Security Administration during the Depression. Shahn received many honors, awards and honorary degrees, including from Harvard and Princeton. The importance of his work has been recognized internationally.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/the-complete-graphic-works-of-ben-shahn-by-kenneth-w-prescott/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue Joshua Heller Rare Books Wed, 25 Apr 2012 21:33:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 en hourly 1 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/nocturne-the-art-of-james-mcneill-whistler-by-denys-sutton http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/nocturne-the-art-of-james-mcneill-whistler-by-denys-sutton#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:10:14 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=2343

The Life of Eric Gill — Robert Speaight

Tributes to Edward Johnson, Calligrapher. By Sydney Cockerell, Noel Rooke, James Wardrop, Alfred Fairbank, Irene Wellington and Bridget Johnston.

James Moran — The Double Crown Club: A History of Fifty Years

]]> ([tag]James McNeill Whistler[/tag]) Nocturne: The Art of James McNeill Whistler. By Denys Sutton. Country life limited. London. 1963. Frontispiece, 153p. Plates, index. 10” x 7.5” Blue cloth over boards; titling in gilt on the front cover and spine. Cover edges faded; else fine. No dust jacket.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/nocturne-the-art-of-james-mcneill-whistler-by-denys-sutton/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/the-artist-and-the-book-in-france-the-20th-century-livre-d%e2%80%99artiste-by-w-j-strachan http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/the-artist-and-the-book-in-france-the-20th-century-livre-d%e2%80%99artiste-by-w-j-strachan#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:08:33 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=2340

Twentieth Century Type Designers. New Edition. By Sebastian Carter

Edward Hodnett — Five Centuries of English Book Illustration.

Wyndham Lewis the Artist: From Blast to Burlington House. By Wyndham Lewis.

]]> ([tag]W.J.  Strachan[/tag]) The Artist and the Book in France: The 20th Century Livre d’artiste. By W.J. Strachan. Peter Owen. London. 1969. First edition. 368p. includes Index. 11.5” x 8.75”. Black and white and color illustrations throughout. Brown buckram boards with gilt title on spine and gilt decorative device on front board. Illustrated dust jacket. Extremely good. “The Artist and the Book in France is ... a publication of major importance. It is the first comprehensive study of the livre d’artiste intended for the general reader as well as the art specialist. The author traces the early origins of the genre, examines its history and development through the ... century and discusses and illustrates the work of more than a hundred artists, ... He deals in detail with such subjects as the texts chosen for illustration, the individual elements of the book, ateliers and printers, bibliophile societies, patrons and collectors, the technical aspects of production and the various autographic processes. “Mr. Strachan has unrivalled knowledge of his subject, having spent much time ... visiting artists in their Paris studios, collecting and exhibiting their work, and writing and lecturing on it. He [was] made a ‘Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres’ by the French government.” - Dust jacket.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/the-artist-and-the-book-in-france-the-20th-century-livre-d%e2%80%99artiste-by-w-j-strachan/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/portrait-of-g-b-s-george-bernard-shaw-by-feliks-topolski http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/portrait-of-g-b-s-george-bernard-shaw-by-feliks-topolski#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:05:36 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=2337

Paul Nash: The portrait of an Artist. By Anthony Bertram

George Grosz: His life and work. By Uwe M. Schneede.

The Engraved Work of F.L. Griggs: Etchings & Drypoints,1912-1928. Catalogue by Russell George Alexander.

]]> ([tag]George Bernard Shaw[/tag]) Portrait of G.B.S. [By] [tag]Feliks Topolski[/tag]. With an Introduction by Hesket Pearson. Eyre & Spottiswoode. London. 1946. 12p. Color frontispiece, 31 plates.  9.75” x 6.75”. Printed on Arnold and Foster’s mould made paper by the Chiswick Press. Reproductions of drawings in pen, brush, charcoal and pencil, and oil paintings. Cloth boards; title in gilt within red frame on front. Dust jacket. No. 882 in an edition of 1015 copies. Occasional spotting throughout; edges soiled. Good. Feliks Topolski (1907–1989) was a Polish-born British artist, who moved to Britain in the mid-1930s. During the Second World War, Topolski became an official war artist and painted scenes of the Battle of Britain and other battlefields. After the war he made a celebrated painting about the first meeting of the United Nations. Feliks Topolski’s own experiences were initially captured in pencil and ink drawings with his prolifically produced and independently published Topolski’s Chronicles. The Chronicles were produced fortnightly from 1953–79 and acted as a medium to communicate his art and observations to a wide audience. They were produced without advertisements or subsidies, and since his death in 1989 Topolski’s Chronicles have gained great respect as a pictorial and political record spanning nearly thirty years of world history. Topolski painted a number of portraits of contemporaries, including the authors H.G. Wells, Graham Greene, John Mortimer and Evelyn Waugh, and the politicians Harold Macmillan and Aneurin Bevan. He also painted a number of murals, contributed to BBC programs, such as ‘Face to Face’ and designed theatrical sets. Between 1975 and his death he worked on a 600 ft mural in railway arches on London's South Bank, depicting events and people of the 20th century.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/portrait-of-g-b-s-george-bernard-shaw-by-feliks-topolski/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/the-complete-graphic-works-of-ben-shahn-by-kenneth-w-prescott http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/the-complete-graphic-works-of-ben-shahn-by-kenneth-w-prescott#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:02:27 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=2335

John DePol: A Catalogue Raisonné of his Graphic Work 1935-1998

Ruth Mortimer — Harvard College Library Department of Printing & Graphic Arts Catalogue of Books and Manuscripts. Part II: Italian Sixteenth Century Books. Vol. I & Vol. II.

The Complete Prints of Leonard Baskin. A Catalogue Raisonné 1948-1983

]]> ([tag]Ben Shahn[/tag]) The Complete Graphic Works of Ben Shahn. By [tag]Kenneth W. Prescott[/tag]. Quadrangle/The New York Times Book Co. 1973.  250p., includes Index.  9.5” x 12.25”. Illustrations in black and white throughout. Brown cloth boards; gilt tile on spine. Illustrated dustjacket. Fine. Ben Shahn (1898-1969) was an American painter and graphic artist, whose work showed a leaning towards social criticism and justice. He was also an artist and photographer for the Farm Security Administration during the Depression. Shahn received many honors, awards and honorary degrees, including from Harvard and Princeton. The importance of his work has been recognized internationally.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/the-complete-graphic-works-of-ben-shahn-by-kenneth-w-prescott/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/british-wood-engraved-book-illustration-1904-1940-a-break-with-tradition-by-joanna-selborne http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/british-wood-engraved-book-illustration-1904-1940-a-break-with-tradition-by-joanna-selborne#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:59:31 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=2333

Expressionist Book Illustration in Germany, 1907-1927. By Lothar Lang.

Edward Hodnett — Five Centuries of English Book Illustration.

Twentieth Century Type Designers. New Edition. By Sebastian Carter

]]> ([tag]Joanna Selborne[/tag]) British Wood Engraved Book Illustration 1904-1940: A Break with Tradition. [By] Joanna Selborne. Clarendon Press. Oxford. 1998. 433p., includes Index. 11.25" x 9”. Black and white illustrations. Black buckram spine with gilt title on spine. Illustrated dust jacket. As new. “Joanna Selborne is an independent scholar with special interest in prints and printmaking. “This book reveals the methods by which [Twentieth-century British wood-engraved book illustrators] broke with nineteenth-century illustrative practices. The author surveys the subject in relation to the cultural and historical background, and within the context of mainstream developments in the visual arts, placing emphasis on the working relationship of illustrators with both private presses and  commercial publishers. Detailed study of unpublished material, ... throws new light on the work and practices of the more innovative wood-engravers.” - Dust jacket.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/british-wood-engraved-book-illustration-1904-1940-a-break-with-tradition-by-joanna-selborne/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/rossetti-dante-and-ourselves-by-nicolete-gray http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/rossetti-dante-and-ourselves-by-nicolete-gray#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:57:17 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=2331

A History of Lettering: Creative Experiment and Letter Identity. By Nicolete Gray

Andrew Brown — The Inferno. From The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri

The Work of William Morris — By Paul Thompson

]]> (Dante Gabriel Rossetti) Rossetti, Dante and Ourselves. By [tag]Nicolete Gray[/tag]. Faber and Faber. London. 1947. 55 plates. 8.75” x 6”. Purple cloth boards. Dust jacket. Jacket smudged, slightly chipped, else fine. The subjects of this book are [tag]Dante Gabriel Rossetti[/tag], 1828-1882, and [tag]Dante Alighieri[/tag], 1265 -1321.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/rossetti-dante-and-ourselves-by-nicolete-gray/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/the-wood-engravings-of-gwen-raverat http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/the-wood-engravings-of-gwen-raverat#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:55:23 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=2329

Dorothea Braby — The Way of Wood Engravings

Eric Gill — Set of Engravings

The Wood Engravings of Robert Gibbings with Some Recollections by the Artist. Edited by Patience Empson. Introduction by Thomas Balston

]]> ([tag]Gwen Raverat[/tag]) The Wood Engravings of Gwen Raverat. Selected with an Introduction by Reynolds Stone. Faber & Faber. London. [1959.] Gray cloth boards. Clipped dust jacket. Slight spotting to endpapers, else very good. Gwen Raverat (1885-1957) was a wood engraver who made prints as well as illustrating books. "Gwen Raverat's engravings have never been collected together before. This book contains a large selection of her work, and includes many little known designs, printed with all the skill and care habitual at the University Press, Cambridge." - Dust jacket.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/the-wood-engravings-of-gwen-raverat/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/pen-drawing-and-pen-draughtsmen-by-joseph-pennell http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/pen-drawing-and-pen-draughtsmen-by-joseph-pennell#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:51:41 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=2327

Mervyn Peake. by John Watney. Michael Joseph

Paul Nash: The portrait of an Artist. By Anthony Bertram

Eric Gill — Art-Nonsense and Other Essays

]]> ([tag]Joseph Pennell[/tag]) Pen Drawing and Pen Draughtsmen. By Joseph Pennell. Macmillan & Company. London. 1889. xxiii, 318p., illustrations, index. 11” x 14”. Bound in Japanese vellum over boards, titling in black on the front cover and spine. Light spotting; minor shelf wear, generally a lovely copy.      5.00 A classic and important work. “Their Work and Their Methods - A Study of the Art Today with Technical Suggestions.” - Sub-title..]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/pen-drawing-and-pen-draughtsmen-by-joseph-pennell/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/mervyn-peake-by-john-watney-michael-joseph http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/mervyn-peake-by-john-watney-michael-joseph#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:50:42 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=2325

Pen Drawing and Pen Draughtsmen. By Joseph Pennell.

High House Press — Shaftesbury: The ‘Shaston’ of Thomas Hardy.

Wyndham Lewis the Artist: From Blast to Burlington House. By Wyndham Lewis.

]]> ([tag]Mervyn Peake[/tag]) Mervyn Peake. by John Watney. Michael Joseph. London. 1976. 225., illustrations. 9.5” x 6.25”. Green buckram boards; title in silver on spine. Fine. Mervyn Peake (1911 - 1968) had a prolific output as a painter and writer of children’s books, nonsense verse, and work as a war artist, poet, and illustrator. Such classic texts as Treasure Island, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, The Ancient Mariner, Swiss Family Robinson, The Hunting of the Snark, Bleak House and others were illustrated by him, resulting in idiosyncratic interpretations immediately recognisable as his own. It is generally accepted that the Gormenghast trilogy as a whole offers one of the most original and sustained flights of imaginative writing of the 20th century; Mervyn Peake is best remembered for this timeless and highly influential work.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/mervyn-peake-by-john-watney-michael-joseph/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/british-wood-engraved-book-illustration-1904-1940-a-break-with-tradition-by-joanna-selborne http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/british-wood-engraved-book-illustration-1904-1940-a-break-with-tradition-by-joanna-selborne#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:59:31 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=2333

Expressionist Book Illustration in Germany, 1907-1927. By Lothar Lang.

Edward Hodnett — Five Centuries of English Book Illustration.

Twentieth Century Type Designers. New Edition. By Sebastian Carter

]]> ([tag]Joanna Selborne[/tag]) British Wood Engraved Book Illustration 1904-1940: A Break with Tradition. [By] Joanna Selborne. Clarendon Press. Oxford. 1998. 433p., includes Index. 11.25" x 9”. Black and white illustrations. Black buckram spine with gilt title on spine. Illustrated dust jacket. As new. “Joanna Selborne is an independent scholar with special interest in prints and printmaking. “This book reveals the methods by which [Twentieth-century British wood-engraved book illustrators] broke with nineteenth-century illustrative practices. The author surveys the subject in relation to the cultural and historical background, and within the context of mainstream developments in the visual arts, placing emphasis on the working relationship of illustrators with both private presses and  commercial publishers. Detailed study of unpublished material, ... throws new light on the work and practices of the more innovative wood-engravers.” - Dust jacket.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/british-wood-engraved-book-illustration-1904-1940-a-break-with-tradition-by-joanna-selborne/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue Joshua Heller Rare Books Wed, 25 Apr 2012 21:33:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 en hourly 1 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/nocturne-the-art-of-james-mcneill-whistler-by-denys-sutton http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/nocturne-the-art-of-james-mcneill-whistler-by-denys-sutton#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:10:14 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=2343

The Life of Eric Gill — Robert Speaight

Tributes to Edward Johnson, Calligrapher. By Sydney Cockerell, Noel Rooke, James Wardrop, Alfred Fairbank, Irene Wellington and Bridget Johnston.

James Moran — The Double Crown Club: A History of Fifty Years

]]> ([tag]James McNeill Whistler[/tag]) Nocturne: The Art of James McNeill Whistler. By Denys Sutton. Country life limited. London. 1963. Frontispiece, 153p. Plates, index. 10” x 7.5” Blue cloth over boards; titling in gilt on the front cover and spine. Cover edges faded; else fine. No dust jacket.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/nocturne-the-art-of-james-mcneill-whistler-by-denys-sutton/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/the-artist-and-the-book-in-france-the-20th-century-livre-d%e2%80%99artiste-by-w-j-strachan http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/the-artist-and-the-book-in-france-the-20th-century-livre-d%e2%80%99artiste-by-w-j-strachan#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:08:33 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=2340

Twentieth Century Type Designers. New Edition. By Sebastian Carter

Edward Hodnett — Five Centuries of English Book Illustration.

Wyndham Lewis the Artist: From Blast to Burlington House. By Wyndham Lewis.

]]> ([tag]W.J.  Strachan[/tag]) The Artist and the Book in France: The 20th Century Livre d’artiste. By W.J. Strachan. Peter Owen. London. 1969. First edition. 368p. includes Index. 11.5” x 8.75”. Black and white and color illustrations throughout. Brown buckram boards with gilt title on spine and gilt decorative device on front board. Illustrated dust jacket. Extremely good. “The Artist and the Book in France is ... a publication of major importance. It is the first comprehensive study of the livre d’artiste intended for the general reader as well as the art specialist. The author traces the early origins of the genre, examines its history and development through the ... century and discusses and illustrates the work of more than a hundred artists, ... He deals in detail with such subjects as the texts chosen for illustration, the individual elements of the book, ateliers and printers, bibliophile societies, patrons and collectors, the technical aspects of production and the various autographic processes. “Mr. Strachan has unrivalled knowledge of his subject, having spent much time ... visiting artists in their Paris studios, collecting and exhibiting their work, and writing and lecturing on it. He [was] made a ‘Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres’ by the French government.” - Dust jacket.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/the-artist-and-the-book-in-france-the-20th-century-livre-d%e2%80%99artiste-by-w-j-strachan/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/portrait-of-g-b-s-george-bernard-shaw-by-feliks-topolski http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/portrait-of-g-b-s-george-bernard-shaw-by-feliks-topolski#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:05:36 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=2337

Paul Nash: The portrait of an Artist. By Anthony Bertram

George Grosz: His life and work. By Uwe M. Schneede.

The Engraved Work of F.L. Griggs: Etchings & Drypoints,1912-1928. Catalogue by Russell George Alexander.

]]> ([tag]George Bernard Shaw[/tag]) Portrait of G.B.S. [By] [tag]Feliks Topolski[/tag]. With an Introduction by Hesket Pearson. Eyre & Spottiswoode. London. 1946. 12p. Color frontispiece, 31 plates.  9.75” x 6.75”. Printed on Arnold and Foster’s mould made paper by the Chiswick Press. Reproductions of drawings in pen, brush, charcoal and pencil, and oil paintings. Cloth boards; title in gilt within red frame on front. Dust jacket. No. 882 in an edition of 1015 copies. Occasional spotting throughout; edges soiled. Good. Feliks Topolski (1907–1989) was a Polish-born British artist, who moved to Britain in the mid-1930s. During the Second World War, Topolski became an official war artist and painted scenes of the Battle of Britain and other battlefields. After the war he made a celebrated painting about the first meeting of the United Nations. Feliks Topolski’s own experiences were initially captured in pencil and ink drawings with his prolifically produced and independently published Topolski’s Chronicles. The Chronicles were produced fortnightly from 1953–79 and acted as a medium to communicate his art and observations to a wide audience. They were produced without advertisements or subsidies, and since his death in 1989 Topolski’s Chronicles have gained great respect as a pictorial and political record spanning nearly thirty years of world history. Topolski painted a number of portraits of contemporaries, including the authors H.G. Wells, Graham Greene, John Mortimer and Evelyn Waugh, and the politicians Harold Macmillan and Aneurin Bevan. He also painted a number of murals, contributed to BBC programs, such as ‘Face to Face’ and designed theatrical sets. Between 1975 and his death he worked on a 600 ft mural in railway arches on London's South Bank, depicting events and people of the 20th century.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/portrait-of-g-b-s-george-bernard-shaw-by-feliks-topolski/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/the-complete-graphic-works-of-ben-shahn-by-kenneth-w-prescott http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/the-complete-graphic-works-of-ben-shahn-by-kenneth-w-prescott#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:02:27 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=2335

John DePol: A Catalogue Raisonné of his Graphic Work 1935-1998

Ruth Mortimer — Harvard College Library Department of Printing & Graphic Arts Catalogue of Books and Manuscripts. Part II: Italian Sixteenth Century Books. Vol. I & Vol. II.

The Complete Prints of Leonard Baskin. A Catalogue Raisonné 1948-1983

]]> ([tag]Ben Shahn[/tag]) The Complete Graphic Works of Ben Shahn. By [tag]Kenneth W. Prescott[/tag]. Quadrangle/The New York Times Book Co. 1973.  250p., includes Index.  9.5” x 12.25”. Illustrations in black and white throughout. Brown cloth boards; gilt tile on spine. Illustrated dustjacket. Fine. Ben Shahn (1898-1969) was an American painter and graphic artist, whose work showed a leaning towards social criticism and justice. He was also an artist and photographer for the Farm Security Administration during the Depression. Shahn received many honors, awards and honorary degrees, including from Harvard and Princeton. The importance of his work has been recognized internationally.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/the-complete-graphic-works-of-ben-shahn-by-kenneth-w-prescott/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/british-wood-engraved-book-illustration-1904-1940-a-break-with-tradition-by-joanna-selborne http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/british-wood-engraved-book-illustration-1904-1940-a-break-with-tradition-by-joanna-selborne#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:59:31 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=2333

Expressionist Book Illustration in Germany, 1907-1927. By Lothar Lang.

Edward Hodnett — Five Centuries of English Book Illustration.

Twentieth Century Type Designers. New Edition. By Sebastian Carter

]]> ([tag]Joanna Selborne[/tag]) British Wood Engraved Book Illustration 1904-1940: A Break with Tradition. [By] Joanna Selborne. Clarendon Press. Oxford. 1998. 433p., includes Index. 11.25" x 9”. Black and white illustrations. Black buckram spine with gilt title on spine. Illustrated dust jacket. As new. “Joanna Selborne is an independent scholar with special interest in prints and printmaking. “This book reveals the methods by which [Twentieth-century British wood-engraved book illustrators] broke with nineteenth-century illustrative practices. The author surveys the subject in relation to the cultural and historical background, and within the context of mainstream developments in the visual arts, placing emphasis on the working relationship of illustrators with both private presses and  commercial publishers. Detailed study of unpublished material, ... throws new light on the work and practices of the more innovative wood-engravers.” - Dust jacket.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/british-wood-engraved-book-illustration-1904-1940-a-break-with-tradition-by-joanna-selborne/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/rossetti-dante-and-ourselves-by-nicolete-gray http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/rossetti-dante-and-ourselves-by-nicolete-gray#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:57:17 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=2331

A History of Lettering: Creative Experiment and Letter Identity. By Nicolete Gray

Andrew Brown — The Inferno. From The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri

The Work of William Morris — By Paul Thompson

]]> (Dante Gabriel Rossetti) Rossetti, Dante and Ourselves. By [tag]Nicolete Gray[/tag]. Faber and Faber. London. 1947. 55 plates. 8.75” x 6”. Purple cloth boards. Dust jacket. Jacket smudged, slightly chipped, else fine. The subjects of this book are [tag]Dante Gabriel Rossetti[/tag], 1828-1882, and [tag]Dante Alighieri[/tag], 1265 -1321.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/rossetti-dante-and-ourselves-by-nicolete-gray/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/the-wood-engravings-of-gwen-raverat http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/the-wood-engravings-of-gwen-raverat#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:55:23 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=2329

Dorothea Braby — The Way of Wood Engravings

Eric Gill — Set of Engravings

The Wood Engravings of Robert Gibbings with Some Recollections by the Artist. Edited by Patience Empson. Introduction by Thomas Balston

]]> ([tag]Gwen Raverat[/tag]) The Wood Engravings of Gwen Raverat. Selected with an Introduction by Reynolds Stone. Faber & Faber. London. [1959.] Gray cloth boards. Clipped dust jacket. Slight spotting to endpapers, else very good. Gwen Raverat (1885-1957) was a wood engraver who made prints as well as illustrating books. "Gwen Raverat's engravings have never been collected together before. This book contains a large selection of her work, and includes many little known designs, printed with all the skill and care habitual at the University Press, Cambridge." - Dust jacket.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/the-wood-engravings-of-gwen-raverat/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/pen-drawing-and-pen-draughtsmen-by-joseph-pennell http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/pen-drawing-and-pen-draughtsmen-by-joseph-pennell#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:51:41 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=2327

Mervyn Peake. by John Watney. Michael Joseph

Paul Nash: The portrait of an Artist. By Anthony Bertram

Eric Gill — Art-Nonsense and Other Essays

]]> ([tag]Joseph Pennell[/tag]) Pen Drawing and Pen Draughtsmen. By Joseph Pennell. Macmillan & Company. London. 1889. xxiii, 318p., illustrations, index. 11” x 14”. Bound in Japanese vellum over boards, titling in black on the front cover and spine. Light spotting; minor shelf wear, generally a lovely copy.      5.00 A classic and important work. “Their Work and Their Methods - A Study of the Art Today with Technical Suggestions.” - Sub-title..]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/pen-drawing-and-pen-draughtsmen-by-joseph-pennell/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/mervyn-peake-by-john-watney-michael-joseph http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/mervyn-peake-by-john-watney-michael-joseph#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:50:42 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=2325

Pen Drawing and Pen Draughtsmen. By Joseph Pennell.

High House Press — Shaftesbury: The ‘Shaston’ of Thomas Hardy.

Wyndham Lewis the Artist: From Blast to Burlington House. By Wyndham Lewis.

]]> ([tag]Mervyn Peake[/tag]) Mervyn Peake. by John Watney. Michael Joseph. London. 1976. 225., illustrations. 9.5” x 6.25”. Green buckram boards; title in silver on spine. Fine. Mervyn Peake (1911 - 1968) had a prolific output as a painter and writer of children’s books, nonsense verse, and work as a war artist, poet, and illustrator. Such classic texts as Treasure Island, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, The Ancient Mariner, Swiss Family Robinson, The Hunting of the Snark, Bleak House and others were illustrated by him, resulting in idiosyncratic interpretations immediately recognisable as his own. It is generally accepted that the Gormenghast trilogy as a whole offers one of the most original and sustained flights of imaginative writing of the 20th century; Mervyn Peake is best remembered for this timeless and highly influential work.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/mervyn-peake-by-john-watney-michael-joseph/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/rossetti-dante-and-ourselves-by-nicolete-gray http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/rossetti-dante-and-ourselves-by-nicolete-gray#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:57:17 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=2331

A History of Lettering: Creative Experiment and Letter Identity. By Nicolete Gray

Andrew Brown — The Inferno. From The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri

The Work of William Morris — By Paul Thompson

]]> (Dante Gabriel Rossetti) Rossetti, Dante and Ourselves. By [tag]Nicolete Gray[/tag]. Faber and Faber. London. 1947. 55 plates. 8.75” x 6”. Purple cloth boards. Dust jacket. Jacket smudged, slightly chipped, else fine. The subjects of this book are [tag]Dante Gabriel Rossetti[/tag], 1828-1882, and [tag]Dante Alighieri[/tag], 1265 -1321.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/rossetti-dante-and-ourselves-by-nicolete-gray/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue Joshua Heller Rare Books Wed, 25 Apr 2012 21:33:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 en hourly 1 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/nocturne-the-art-of-james-mcneill-whistler-by-denys-sutton http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/nocturne-the-art-of-james-mcneill-whistler-by-denys-sutton#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:10:14 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=2343

The Life of Eric Gill — Robert Speaight

Tributes to Edward Johnson, Calligrapher. By Sydney Cockerell, Noel Rooke, James Wardrop, Alfred Fairbank, Irene Wellington and Bridget Johnston.

James Moran — The Double Crown Club: A History of Fifty Years

]]> ([tag]James McNeill Whistler[/tag]) Nocturne: The Art of James McNeill Whistler. By Denys Sutton. Country life limited. London. 1963. Frontispiece, 153p. Plates, index. 10” x 7.5” Blue cloth over boards; titling in gilt on the front cover and spine. Cover edges faded; else fine. No dust jacket.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/nocturne-the-art-of-james-mcneill-whistler-by-denys-sutton/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/the-artist-and-the-book-in-france-the-20th-century-livre-d%e2%80%99artiste-by-w-j-strachan http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/the-artist-and-the-book-in-france-the-20th-century-livre-d%e2%80%99artiste-by-w-j-strachan#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:08:33 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=2340

Twentieth Century Type Designers. New Edition. By Sebastian Carter

Edward Hodnett — Five Centuries of English Book Illustration.

Wyndham Lewis the Artist: From Blast to Burlington House. By Wyndham Lewis.

]]> ([tag]W.J.  Strachan[/tag]) The Artist and the Book in France: The 20th Century Livre d’artiste. By W.J. Strachan. Peter Owen. London. 1969. First edition. 368p. includes Index. 11.5” x 8.75”. Black and white and color illustrations throughout. Brown buckram boards with gilt title on spine and gilt decorative device on front board. Illustrated dust jacket. Extremely good. “The Artist and the Book in France is ... a publication of major importance. It is the first comprehensive study of the livre d’artiste intended for the general reader as well as the art specialist. The author traces the early origins of the genre, examines its history and development through the ... century and discusses and illustrates the work of more than a hundred artists, ... He deals in detail with such subjects as the texts chosen for illustration, the individual elements of the book, ateliers and printers, bibliophile societies, patrons and collectors, the technical aspects of production and the various autographic processes. “Mr. Strachan has unrivalled knowledge of his subject, having spent much time ... visiting artists in their Paris studios, collecting and exhibiting their work, and writing and lecturing on it. He [was] made a ‘Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres’ by the French government.” - Dust jacket.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/the-artist-and-the-book-in-france-the-20th-century-livre-d%e2%80%99artiste-by-w-j-strachan/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/portrait-of-g-b-s-george-bernard-shaw-by-feliks-topolski http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/portrait-of-g-b-s-george-bernard-shaw-by-feliks-topolski#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:05:36 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=2337

Paul Nash: The portrait of an Artist. By Anthony Bertram

George Grosz: His life and work. By Uwe M. Schneede.

The Engraved Work of F.L. Griggs: Etchings & Drypoints,1912-1928. Catalogue by Russell George Alexander.

]]> ([tag]George Bernard Shaw[/tag]) Portrait of G.B.S. [By] [tag]Feliks Topolski[/tag]. With an Introduction by Hesket Pearson. Eyre & Spottiswoode. London. 1946. 12p. Color frontispiece, 31 plates.  9.75” x 6.75”. Printed on Arnold and Foster’s mould made paper by the Chiswick Press. Reproductions of drawings in pen, brush, charcoal and pencil, and oil paintings. Cloth boards; title in gilt within red frame on front. Dust jacket. No. 882 in an edition of 1015 copies. Occasional spotting throughout; edges soiled. Good. Feliks Topolski (1907–1989) was a Polish-born British artist, who moved to Britain in the mid-1930s. During the Second World War, Topolski became an official war artist and painted scenes of the Battle of Britain and other battlefields. After the war he made a celebrated painting about the first meeting of the United Nations. Feliks Topolski’s own experiences were initially captured in pencil and ink drawings with his prolifically produced and independently published Topolski’s Chronicles. The Chronicles were produced fortnightly from 1953–79 and acted as a medium to communicate his art and observations to a wide audience. They were produced without advertisements or subsidies, and since his death in 1989 Topolski’s Chronicles have gained great respect as a pictorial and political record spanning nearly thirty years of world history. Topolski painted a number of portraits of contemporaries, including the authors H.G. Wells, Graham Greene, John Mortimer and Evelyn Waugh, and the politicians Harold Macmillan and Aneurin Bevan. He also painted a number of murals, contributed to BBC programs, such as ‘Face to Face’ and designed theatrical sets. Between 1975 and his death he worked on a 600 ft mural in railway arches on London's South Bank, depicting events and people of the 20th century.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/portrait-of-g-b-s-george-bernard-shaw-by-feliks-topolski/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/the-complete-graphic-works-of-ben-shahn-by-kenneth-w-prescott http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/the-complete-graphic-works-of-ben-shahn-by-kenneth-w-prescott#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:02:27 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=2335

John DePol: A Catalogue Raisonné of his Graphic Work 1935-1998

Ruth Mortimer — Harvard College Library Department of Printing & Graphic Arts Catalogue of Books and Manuscripts. Part II: Italian Sixteenth Century Books. Vol. I & Vol. II.

The Complete Prints of Leonard Baskin. A Catalogue Raisonné 1948-1983

]]> ([tag]Ben Shahn[/tag]) The Complete Graphic Works of Ben Shahn. By [tag]Kenneth W. Prescott[/tag]. Quadrangle/The New York Times Book Co. 1973.  250p., includes Index.  9.5” x 12.25”. Illustrations in black and white throughout. Brown cloth boards; gilt tile on spine. Illustrated dustjacket. Fine. Ben Shahn (1898-1969) was an American painter and graphic artist, whose work showed a leaning towards social criticism and justice. He was also an artist and photographer for the Farm Security Administration during the Depression. Shahn received many honors, awards and honorary degrees, including from Harvard and Princeton. The importance of his work has been recognized internationally.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/the-complete-graphic-works-of-ben-shahn-by-kenneth-w-prescott/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/british-wood-engraved-book-illustration-1904-1940-a-break-with-tradition-by-joanna-selborne http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/british-wood-engraved-book-illustration-1904-1940-a-break-with-tradition-by-joanna-selborne#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:59:31 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=2333

Expressionist Book Illustration in Germany, 1907-1927. By Lothar Lang.

Edward Hodnett — Five Centuries of English Book Illustration.

Twentieth Century Type Designers. New Edition. By Sebastian Carter

]]> ([tag]Joanna Selborne[/tag]) British Wood Engraved Book Illustration 1904-1940: A Break with Tradition. [By] Joanna Selborne. Clarendon Press. Oxford. 1998. 433p., includes Index. 11.25" x 9”. Black and white illustrations. Black buckram spine with gilt title on spine. Illustrated dust jacket. As new. “Joanna Selborne is an independent scholar with special interest in prints and printmaking. “This book reveals the methods by which [Twentieth-century British wood-engraved book illustrators] broke with nineteenth-century illustrative practices. The author surveys the subject in relation to the cultural and historical background, and within the context of mainstream developments in the visual arts, placing emphasis on the working relationship of illustrators with both private presses and  commercial publishers. Detailed study of unpublished material, ... throws new light on the work and practices of the more innovative wood-engravers.” - Dust jacket.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/british-wood-engraved-book-illustration-1904-1940-a-break-with-tradition-by-joanna-selborne/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/rossetti-dante-and-ourselves-by-nicolete-gray http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/rossetti-dante-and-ourselves-by-nicolete-gray#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:57:17 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=2331

A History of Lettering: Creative Experiment and Letter Identity. By Nicolete Gray

Andrew Brown — The Inferno. From The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri

The Work of William Morris — By Paul Thompson

]]> (Dante Gabriel Rossetti) Rossetti, Dante and Ourselves. By [tag]Nicolete Gray[/tag]. Faber and Faber. London. 1947. 55 plates. 8.75” x 6”. Purple cloth boards. Dust jacket. Jacket smudged, slightly chipped, else fine. The subjects of this book are [tag]Dante Gabriel Rossetti[/tag], 1828-1882, and [tag]Dante Alighieri[/tag], 1265 -1321.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/rossetti-dante-and-ourselves-by-nicolete-gray/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/the-wood-engravings-of-gwen-raverat http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/the-wood-engravings-of-gwen-raverat#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:55:23 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=2329

Dorothea Braby — The Way of Wood Engravings

Eric Gill — Set of Engravings

The Wood Engravings of Robert Gibbings with Some Recollections by the Artist. Edited by Patience Empson. Introduction by Thomas Balston

]]> ([tag]Gwen Raverat[/tag]) The Wood Engravings of Gwen Raverat. Selected with an Introduction by Reynolds Stone. Faber & Faber. London. [1959.] Gray cloth boards. Clipped dust jacket. Slight spotting to endpapers, else very good. Gwen Raverat (1885-1957) was a wood engraver who made prints as well as illustrating books. "Gwen Raverat's engravings have never been collected together before. This book contains a large selection of her work, and includes many little known designs, printed with all the skill and care habitual at the University Press, Cambridge." - Dust jacket.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/the-wood-engravings-of-gwen-raverat/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/pen-drawing-and-pen-draughtsmen-by-joseph-pennell http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/pen-drawing-and-pen-draughtsmen-by-joseph-pennell#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:51:41 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=2327

Mervyn Peake. by John Watney. Michael Joseph

Paul Nash: The portrait of an Artist. By Anthony Bertram

Eric Gill — Art-Nonsense and Other Essays

]]> ([tag]Joseph Pennell[/tag]) Pen Drawing and Pen Draughtsmen. By Joseph Pennell. Macmillan & Company. London. 1889. xxiii, 318p., illustrations, index. 11” x 14”. Bound in Japanese vellum over boards, titling in black on the front cover and spine. Light spotting; minor shelf wear, generally a lovely copy.      5.00 A classic and important work. “Their Work and Their Methods - A Study of the Art Today with Technical Suggestions.” - Sub-title..]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/pen-drawing-and-pen-draughtsmen-by-joseph-pennell/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/mervyn-peake-by-john-watney-michael-joseph http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/mervyn-peake-by-john-watney-michael-joseph#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:50:42 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=2325

Pen Drawing and Pen Draughtsmen. By Joseph Pennell.

High House Press — Shaftesbury: The ‘Shaston’ of Thomas Hardy.

Wyndham Lewis the Artist: From Blast to Burlington House. By Wyndham Lewis.

]]> ([tag]Mervyn Peake[/tag]) Mervyn Peake. by John Watney. Michael Joseph. London. 1976. 225., illustrations. 9.5” x 6.25”. Green buckram boards; title in silver on spine. Fine. Mervyn Peake (1911 - 1968) had a prolific output as a painter and writer of children’s books, nonsense verse, and work as a war artist, poet, and illustrator. Such classic texts as Treasure Island, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, The Ancient Mariner, Swiss Family Robinson, The Hunting of the Snark, Bleak House and others were illustrated by him, resulting in idiosyncratic interpretations immediately recognisable as his own. It is generally accepted that the Gormenghast trilogy as a whole offers one of the most original and sustained flights of imaginative writing of the 20th century; Mervyn Peake is best remembered for this timeless and highly influential work.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/mervyn-peake-by-john-watney-michael-joseph/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/the-wood-engravings-of-gwen-raverat http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/the-wood-engravings-of-gwen-raverat#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:55:23 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=2329

Dorothea Braby — The Way of Wood Engravings

Eric Gill — Set of Engravings

The Wood Engravings of Robert Gibbings with Some Recollections by the Artist. Edited by Patience Empson. Introduction by Thomas Balston

]]> ([tag]Gwen Raverat[/tag]) The Wood Engravings of Gwen Raverat. Selected with an Introduction by Reynolds Stone. Faber & Faber. London. [1959.] Gray cloth boards. Clipped dust jacket. Slight spotting to endpapers, else very good. Gwen Raverat (1885-1957) was a wood engraver who made prints as well as illustrating books. "Gwen Raverat's engravings have never been collected together before. This book contains a large selection of her work, and includes many little known designs, printed with all the skill and care habitual at the University Press, Cambridge." - Dust jacket.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/the-wood-engravings-of-gwen-raverat/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue Joshua Heller Rare Books Wed, 25 Apr 2012 21:33:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 en hourly 1 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/nocturne-the-art-of-james-mcneill-whistler-by-denys-sutton http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/nocturne-the-art-of-james-mcneill-whistler-by-denys-sutton#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:10:14 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=2343

The Life of Eric Gill — Robert Speaight

Tributes to Edward Johnson, Calligrapher. By Sydney Cockerell, Noel Rooke, James Wardrop, Alfred Fairbank, Irene Wellington and Bridget Johnston.

James Moran — The Double Crown Club: A History of Fifty Years

]]> ([tag]James McNeill Whistler[/tag]) Nocturne: The Art of James McNeill Whistler. By Denys Sutton. Country life limited. London. 1963. Frontispiece, 153p. Plates, index. 10” x 7.5” Blue cloth over boards; titling in gilt on the front cover and spine. Cover edges faded; else fine. No dust jacket.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/nocturne-the-art-of-james-mcneill-whistler-by-denys-sutton/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/the-artist-and-the-book-in-france-the-20th-century-livre-d%e2%80%99artiste-by-w-j-strachan http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/the-artist-and-the-book-in-france-the-20th-century-livre-d%e2%80%99artiste-by-w-j-strachan#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:08:33 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=2340

Twentieth Century Type Designers. New Edition. By Sebastian Carter

Edward Hodnett — Five Centuries of English Book Illustration.

Wyndham Lewis the Artist: From Blast to Burlington House. By Wyndham Lewis.

]]> ([tag]W.J.  Strachan[/tag]) The Artist and the Book in France: The 20th Century Livre d’artiste. By W.J. Strachan. Peter Owen. London. 1969. First edition. 368p. includes Index. 11.5” x 8.75”. Black and white and color illustrations throughout. Brown buckram boards with gilt title on spine and gilt decorative device on front board. Illustrated dust jacket. Extremely good. “The Artist and the Book in France is ... a publication of major importance. It is the first comprehensive study of the livre d’artiste intended for the general reader as well as the art specialist. The author traces the early origins of the genre, examines its history and development through the ... century and discusses and illustrates the work of more than a hundred artists, ... He deals in detail with such subjects as the texts chosen for illustration, the individual elements of the book, ateliers and printers, bibliophile societies, patrons and collectors, the technical aspects of production and the various autographic processes. “Mr. Strachan has unrivalled knowledge of his subject, having spent much time ... visiting artists in their Paris studios, collecting and exhibiting their work, and writing and lecturing on it. He [was] made a ‘Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres’ by the French government.” - Dust jacket.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/the-artist-and-the-book-in-france-the-20th-century-livre-d%e2%80%99artiste-by-w-j-strachan/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/portrait-of-g-b-s-george-bernard-shaw-by-feliks-topolski http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/portrait-of-g-b-s-george-bernard-shaw-by-feliks-topolski#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:05:36 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=2337

Paul Nash: The portrait of an Artist. By Anthony Bertram

George Grosz: His life and work. By Uwe M. Schneede.

The Engraved Work of F.L. Griggs: Etchings & Drypoints,1912-1928. Catalogue by Russell George Alexander.

]]> ([tag]George Bernard Shaw[/tag]) Portrait of G.B.S. [By] [tag]Feliks Topolski[/tag]. With an Introduction by Hesket Pearson. Eyre & Spottiswoode. London. 1946. 12p. Color frontispiece, 31 plates.  9.75” x 6.75”. Printed on Arnold and Foster’s mould made paper by the Chiswick Press. Reproductions of drawings in pen, brush, charcoal and pencil, and oil paintings. Cloth boards; title in gilt within red frame on front. Dust jacket. No. 882 in an edition of 1015 copies. Occasional spotting throughout; edges soiled. Good. Feliks Topolski (1907–1989) was a Polish-born British artist, who moved to Britain in the mid-1930s. During the Second World War, Topolski became an official war artist and painted scenes of the Battle of Britain and other battlefields. After the war he made a celebrated painting about the first meeting of the United Nations. Feliks Topolski’s own experiences were initially captured in pencil and ink drawings with his prolifically produced and independently published Topolski’s Chronicles. The Chronicles were produced fortnightly from 1953–79 and acted as a medium to communicate his art and observations to a wide audience. They were produced without advertisements or subsidies, and since his death in 1989 Topolski’s Chronicles have gained great respect as a pictorial and political record spanning nearly thirty years of world history. Topolski painted a number of portraits of contemporaries, including the authors H.G. Wells, Graham Greene, John Mortimer and Evelyn Waugh, and the politicians Harold Macmillan and Aneurin Bevan. He also painted a number of murals, contributed to BBC programs, such as ‘Face to Face’ and designed theatrical sets. Between 1975 and his death he worked on a 600 ft mural in railway arches on London's South Bank, depicting events and people of the 20th century.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/portrait-of-g-b-s-george-bernard-shaw-by-feliks-topolski/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/the-complete-graphic-works-of-ben-shahn-by-kenneth-w-prescott http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/the-complete-graphic-works-of-ben-shahn-by-kenneth-w-prescott#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:02:27 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=2335

John DePol: A Catalogue Raisonné of his Graphic Work 1935-1998

Ruth Mortimer — Harvard College Library Department of Printing & Graphic Arts Catalogue of Books and Manuscripts. Part II: Italian Sixteenth Century Books. Vol. I & Vol. II.

The Complete Prints of Leonard Baskin. A Catalogue Raisonné 1948-1983

]]> ([tag]Ben Shahn[/tag]) The Complete Graphic Works of Ben Shahn. By [tag]Kenneth W. Prescott[/tag]. Quadrangle/The New York Times Book Co. 1973.  250p., includes Index.  9.5” x 12.25”. Illustrations in black and white throughout. Brown cloth boards; gilt tile on spine. Illustrated dustjacket. Fine. Ben Shahn (1898-1969) was an American painter and graphic artist, whose work showed a leaning towards social criticism and justice. He was also an artist and photographer for the Farm Security Administration during the Depression. Shahn received many honors, awards and honorary degrees, including from Harvard and Princeton. The importance of his work has been recognized internationally.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/the-complete-graphic-works-of-ben-shahn-by-kenneth-w-prescott/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/british-wood-engraved-book-illustration-1904-1940-a-break-with-tradition-by-joanna-selborne http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/british-wood-engraved-book-illustration-1904-1940-a-break-with-tradition-by-joanna-selborne#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:59:31 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=2333

Expressionist Book Illustration in Germany, 1907-1927. By Lothar Lang.

Edward Hodnett — Five Centuries of English Book Illustration.

Twentieth Century Type Designers. New Edition. By Sebastian Carter

]]> ([tag]Joanna Selborne[/tag]) British Wood Engraved Book Illustration 1904-1940: A Break with Tradition. [By] Joanna Selborne. Clarendon Press. Oxford. 1998. 433p., includes Index. 11.25" x 9”. Black and white illustrations. Black buckram spine with gilt title on spine. Illustrated dust jacket. As new. “Joanna Selborne is an independent scholar with special interest in prints and printmaking. “This book reveals the methods by which [Twentieth-century British wood-engraved book illustrators] broke with nineteenth-century illustrative practices. The author surveys the subject in relation to the cultural and historical background, and within the context of mainstream developments in the visual arts, placing emphasis on the working relationship of illustrators with both private presses and  commercial publishers. Detailed study of unpublished material, ... throws new light on the work and practices of the more innovative wood-engravers.” - Dust jacket.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/british-wood-engraved-book-illustration-1904-1940-a-break-with-tradition-by-joanna-selborne/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/rossetti-dante-and-ourselves-by-nicolete-gray http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/rossetti-dante-and-ourselves-by-nicolete-gray#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:57:17 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=2331

A History of Lettering: Creative Experiment and Letter Identity. By Nicolete Gray

Andrew Brown — The Inferno. From The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri

The Work of William Morris — By Paul Thompson

]]> (Dante Gabriel Rossetti) Rossetti, Dante and Ourselves. By [tag]Nicolete Gray[/tag]. Faber and Faber. London. 1947. 55 plates. 8.75” x 6”. Purple cloth boards. Dust jacket. Jacket smudged, slightly chipped, else fine. The subjects of this book are [tag]Dante Gabriel Rossetti[/tag], 1828-1882, and [tag]Dante Alighieri[/tag], 1265 -1321.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/rossetti-dante-and-ourselves-by-nicolete-gray/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/the-wood-engravings-of-gwen-raverat http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/the-wood-engravings-of-gwen-raverat#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:55:23 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=2329

Dorothea Braby — The Way of Wood Engravings

Eric Gill — Set of Engravings

The Wood Engravings of Robert Gibbings with Some Recollections by the Artist. Edited by Patience Empson. Introduction by Thomas Balston

]]> ([tag]Gwen Raverat[/tag]) The Wood Engravings of Gwen Raverat. Selected with an Introduction by Reynolds Stone. Faber & Faber. London. [1959.] Gray cloth boards. Clipped dust jacket. Slight spotting to endpapers, else very good. Gwen Raverat (1885-1957) was a wood engraver who made prints as well as illustrating books. "Gwen Raverat's engravings have never been collected together before. This book contains a large selection of her work, and includes many little known designs, printed with all the skill and care habitual at the University Press, Cambridge." - Dust jacket.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/the-wood-engravings-of-gwen-raverat/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/pen-drawing-and-pen-draughtsmen-by-joseph-pennell http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/pen-drawing-and-pen-draughtsmen-by-joseph-pennell#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:51:41 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=2327

Mervyn Peake. by John Watney. Michael Joseph

Paul Nash: The portrait of an Artist. By Anthony Bertram

Eric Gill — Art-Nonsense and Other Essays

]]> ([tag]Joseph Pennell[/tag]) Pen Drawing and Pen Draughtsmen. By Joseph Pennell. Macmillan & Company. London. 1889. xxiii, 318p., illustrations, index. 11” x 14”. Bound in Japanese vellum over boards, titling in black on the front cover and spine. Light spotting; minor shelf wear, generally a lovely copy.      5.00 A classic and important work. “Their Work and Their Methods - A Study of the Art Today with Technical Suggestions.” - Sub-title..]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/pen-drawing-and-pen-draughtsmen-by-joseph-pennell/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/mervyn-peake-by-john-watney-michael-joseph http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/mervyn-peake-by-john-watney-michael-joseph#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:50:42 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=2325

Pen Drawing and Pen Draughtsmen. By Joseph Pennell.

High House Press — Shaftesbury: The ‘Shaston’ of Thomas Hardy.

Wyndham Lewis the Artist: From Blast to Burlington House. By Wyndham Lewis.

]]> ([tag]Mervyn Peake[/tag]) Mervyn Peake. by John Watney. Michael Joseph. London. 1976. 225., illustrations. 9.5” x 6.25”. Green buckram boards; title in silver on spine. Fine. Mervyn Peake (1911 - 1968) had a prolific output as a painter and writer of children’s books, nonsense verse, and work as a war artist, poet, and illustrator. Such classic texts as Treasure Island, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, The Ancient Mariner, Swiss Family Robinson, The Hunting of the Snark, Bleak House and others were illustrated by him, resulting in idiosyncratic interpretations immediately recognisable as his own. It is generally accepted that the Gormenghast trilogy as a whole offers one of the most original and sustained flights of imaginative writing of the 20th century; Mervyn Peake is best remembered for this timeless and highly influential work.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/mervyn-peake-by-john-watney-michael-joseph/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/pen-drawing-and-pen-draughtsmen-by-joseph-pennell http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/pen-drawing-and-pen-draughtsmen-by-joseph-pennell#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:51:41 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=2327

Mervyn Peake. by John Watney. Michael Joseph

Paul Nash: The portrait of an Artist. By Anthony Bertram

Eric Gill — Art-Nonsense and Other Essays

]]> ([tag]Joseph Pennell[/tag]) Pen Drawing and Pen Draughtsmen. By Joseph Pennell. Macmillan & Company. London. 1889. xxiii, 318p., illustrations, index. 11” x 14”. Bound in Japanese vellum over boards, titling in black on the front cover and spine. Light spotting; minor shelf wear, generally a lovely copy.      $235.00 A classic and important work. “Their Work and Their Methods - A Study of the Art Today with Technical Suggestions.” - Sub-title..]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/pen-drawing-and-pen-draughtsmen-by-joseph-pennell/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue Joshua Heller Rare Books Wed, 25 Apr 2012 21:33:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 en hourly 1 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/nocturne-the-art-of-james-mcneill-whistler-by-denys-sutton http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/nocturne-the-art-of-james-mcneill-whistler-by-denys-sutton#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:10:14 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=2343

The Life of Eric Gill — Robert Speaight

Tributes to Edward Johnson, Calligrapher. By Sydney Cockerell, Noel Rooke, James Wardrop, Alfred Fairbank, Irene Wellington and Bridget Johnston.

James Moran — The Double Crown Club: A History of Fifty Years

]]> ([tag]James McNeill Whistler[/tag]) Nocturne: The Art of James McNeill Whistler. By Denys Sutton. Country life limited. London. 1963. Frontispiece, 153p. Plates, index. 10” x 7.5” Blue cloth over boards; titling in gilt on the front cover and spine. Cover edges faded; else fine. No dust jacket.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/nocturne-the-art-of-james-mcneill-whistler-by-denys-sutton/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/the-artist-and-the-book-in-france-the-20th-century-livre-d%e2%80%99artiste-by-w-j-strachan http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/the-artist-and-the-book-in-france-the-20th-century-livre-d%e2%80%99artiste-by-w-j-strachan#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:08:33 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=2340

Twentieth Century Type Designers. New Edition. By Sebastian Carter

Edward Hodnett — Five Centuries of English Book Illustration.

Wyndham Lewis the Artist: From Blast to Burlington House. By Wyndham Lewis.

]]> ([tag]W.J.  Strachan[/tag]) The Artist and the Book in France: The 20th Century Livre d’artiste. By W.J. Strachan. Peter Owen. London. 1969. First edition. 368p. includes Index. 11.5” x 8.75”. Black and white and color illustrations throughout. Brown buckram boards with gilt title on spine and gilt decorative device on front board. Illustrated dust jacket. Extremely good. “The Artist and the Book in France is ... a publication of major importance. It is the first comprehensive study of the livre d’artiste intended for the general reader as well as the art specialist. The author traces the early origins of the genre, examines its history and development through the ... century and discusses and illustrates the work of more than a hundred artists, ... He deals in detail with such subjects as the texts chosen for illustration, the individual elements of the book, ateliers and printers, bibliophile societies, patrons and collectors, the technical aspects of production and the various autographic processes. “Mr. Strachan has unrivalled knowledge of his subject, having spent much time ... visiting artists in their Paris studios, collecting and exhibiting their work, and writing and lecturing on it. He [was] made a ‘Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres’ by the French government.” - Dust jacket.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/the-artist-and-the-book-in-france-the-20th-century-livre-d%e2%80%99artiste-by-w-j-strachan/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/portrait-of-g-b-s-george-bernard-shaw-by-feliks-topolski http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/portrait-of-g-b-s-george-bernard-shaw-by-feliks-topolski#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:05:36 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=2337

Paul Nash: The portrait of an Artist. By Anthony Bertram

George Grosz: His life and work. By Uwe M. Schneede.

The Engraved Work of F.L. Griggs: Etchings & Drypoints,1912-1928. Catalogue by Russell George Alexander.

]]> ([tag]George Bernard Shaw[/tag]) Portrait of G.B.S. [By] [tag]Feliks Topolski[/tag]. With an Introduction by Hesket Pearson. Eyre & Spottiswoode. London. 1946. 12p. Color frontispiece, 31 plates.  9.75” x 6.75”. Printed on Arnold and Foster’s mould made paper by the Chiswick Press. Reproductions of drawings in pen, brush, charcoal and pencil, and oil paintings. Cloth boards; title in gilt within red frame on front. Dust jacket. No. 882 in an edition of 1015 copies. Occasional spotting throughout; edges soiled. Good. Feliks Topolski (1907–1989) was a Polish-born British artist, who moved to Britain in the mid-1930s. During the Second World War, Topolski became an official war artist and painted scenes of the Battle of Britain and other battlefields. After the war he made a celebrated painting about the first meeting of the United Nations. Feliks Topolski’s own experiences were initially captured in pencil and ink drawings with his prolifically produced and independently published Topolski’s Chronicles. The Chronicles were produced fortnightly from 1953–79 and acted as a medium to communicate his art and observations to a wide audience. They were produced without advertisements or subsidies, and since his death in 1989 Topolski’s Chronicles have gained great respect as a pictorial and political record spanning nearly thirty years of world history. Topolski painted a number of portraits of contemporaries, including the authors H.G. Wells, Graham Greene, John Mortimer and Evelyn Waugh, and the politicians Harold Macmillan and Aneurin Bevan. He also painted a number of murals, contributed to BBC programs, such as ‘Face to Face’ and designed theatrical sets. Between 1975 and his death he worked on a 600 ft mural in railway arches on London's South Bank, depicting events and people of the 20th century.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/portrait-of-g-b-s-george-bernard-shaw-by-feliks-topolski/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/the-complete-graphic-works-of-ben-shahn-by-kenneth-w-prescott http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/the-complete-graphic-works-of-ben-shahn-by-kenneth-w-prescott#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:02:27 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=2335

John DePol: A Catalogue Raisonné of his Graphic Work 1935-1998

Ruth Mortimer — Harvard College Library Department of Printing & Graphic Arts Catalogue of Books and Manuscripts. Part II: Italian Sixteenth Century Books. Vol. I & Vol. II.

The Complete Prints of Leonard Baskin. A Catalogue Raisonné 1948-1983

]]> ([tag]Ben Shahn[/tag]) The Complete Graphic Works of Ben Shahn. By [tag]Kenneth W. Prescott[/tag]. Quadrangle/The New York Times Book Co. 1973.  250p., includes Index.  9.5” x 12.25”. Illustrations in black and white throughout. Brown cloth boards; gilt tile on spine. Illustrated dustjacket. Fine. Ben Shahn (1898-1969) was an American painter and graphic artist, whose work showed a leaning towards social criticism and justice. He was also an artist and photographer for the Farm Security Administration during the Depression. Shahn received many honors, awards and honorary degrees, including from Harvard and Princeton. The importance of his work has been recognized internationally.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/the-complete-graphic-works-of-ben-shahn-by-kenneth-w-prescott/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/british-wood-engraved-book-illustration-1904-1940-a-break-with-tradition-by-joanna-selborne http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/british-wood-engraved-book-illustration-1904-1940-a-break-with-tradition-by-joanna-selborne#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:59:31 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=2333

Expressionist Book Illustration in Germany, 1907-1927. By Lothar Lang.

Edward Hodnett — Five Centuries of English Book Illustration.

Twentieth Century Type Designers. New Edition. By Sebastian Carter

]]> ([tag]Joanna Selborne[/tag]) British Wood Engraved Book Illustration 1904-1940: A Break with Tradition. [By] Joanna Selborne. Clarendon Press. Oxford. 1998. 433p., includes Index. 11.25" x 9”. Black and white illustrations. Black buckram spine with gilt title on spine. Illustrated dust jacket. As new. “Joanna Selborne is an independent scholar with special interest in prints and printmaking. “This book reveals the methods by which [Twentieth-century British wood-engraved book illustrators] broke with nineteenth-century illustrative practices. The author surveys the subject in relation to the cultural and historical background, and within the context of mainstream developments in the visual arts, placing emphasis on the working relationship of illustrators with both private presses and  commercial publishers. Detailed study of unpublished material, ... throws new light on the work and practices of the more innovative wood-engravers.” - Dust jacket.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/british-wood-engraved-book-illustration-1904-1940-a-break-with-tradition-by-joanna-selborne/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/rossetti-dante-and-ourselves-by-nicolete-gray http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/rossetti-dante-and-ourselves-by-nicolete-gray#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:57:17 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=2331

A History of Lettering: Creative Experiment and Letter Identity. By Nicolete Gray

Andrew Brown — The Inferno. From The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri

The Work of William Morris — By Paul Thompson

]]> (Dante Gabriel Rossetti) Rossetti, Dante and Ourselves. By [tag]Nicolete Gray[/tag]. Faber and Faber. London. 1947. 55 plates. 8.75” x 6”. Purple cloth boards. Dust jacket. Jacket smudged, slightly chipped, else fine. The subjects of this book are [tag]Dante Gabriel Rossetti[/tag], 1828-1882, and [tag]Dante Alighieri[/tag], 1265 -1321.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/rossetti-dante-and-ourselves-by-nicolete-gray/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/the-wood-engravings-of-gwen-raverat http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/the-wood-engravings-of-gwen-raverat#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:55:23 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=2329

Dorothea Braby — The Way of Wood Engravings

Eric Gill — Set of Engravings

The Wood Engravings of Robert Gibbings with Some Recollections by the Artist. Edited by Patience Empson. Introduction by Thomas Balston

]]> ([tag]Gwen Raverat[/tag]) The Wood Engravings of Gwen Raverat. Selected with an Introduction by Reynolds Stone. Faber & Faber. London. [1959.] Gray cloth boards. Clipped dust jacket. Slight spotting to endpapers, else very good. Gwen Raverat (1885-1957) was a wood engraver who made prints as well as illustrating books. "Gwen Raverat's engravings have never been collected together before. This book contains a large selection of her work, and includes many little known designs, printed with all the skill and care habitual at the University Press, Cambridge." - Dust jacket.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/the-wood-engravings-of-gwen-raverat/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/pen-drawing-and-pen-draughtsmen-by-joseph-pennell http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/pen-drawing-and-pen-draughtsmen-by-joseph-pennell#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:51:41 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=2327

Mervyn Peake. by John Watney. Michael Joseph

Paul Nash: The portrait of an Artist. By Anthony Bertram

Eric Gill — Art-Nonsense and Other Essays

]]> ([tag]Joseph Pennell[/tag]) Pen Drawing and Pen Draughtsmen. By Joseph Pennell. Macmillan & Company. London. 1889. xxiii, 318p., illustrations, index. 11” x 14”. Bound in Japanese vellum over boards, titling in black on the front cover and spine. Light spotting; minor shelf wear, generally a lovely copy.      5.00 A classic and important work. “Their Work and Their Methods - A Study of the Art Today with Technical Suggestions.” - Sub-title..]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/pen-drawing-and-pen-draughtsmen-by-joseph-pennell/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/mervyn-peake-by-john-watney-michael-joseph http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/mervyn-peake-by-john-watney-michael-joseph#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:50:42 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=2325

Pen Drawing and Pen Draughtsmen. By Joseph Pennell.

High House Press — Shaftesbury: The ‘Shaston’ of Thomas Hardy.

Wyndham Lewis the Artist: From Blast to Burlington House. By Wyndham Lewis.

]]> ([tag]Mervyn Peake[/tag]) Mervyn Peake. by John Watney. Michael Joseph. London. 1976. 225., illustrations. 9.5” x 6.25”. Green buckram boards; title in silver on spine. Fine. Mervyn Peake (1911 - 1968) had a prolific output as a painter and writer of children’s books, nonsense verse, and work as a war artist, poet, and illustrator. Such classic texts as Treasure Island, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, The Ancient Mariner, Swiss Family Robinson, The Hunting of the Snark, Bleak House and others were illustrated by him, resulting in idiosyncratic interpretations immediately recognisable as his own. It is generally accepted that the Gormenghast trilogy as a whole offers one of the most original and sustained flights of imaginative writing of the 20th century; Mervyn Peake is best remembered for this timeless and highly influential work.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/mervyn-peake-by-john-watney-michael-joseph/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/mervyn-peake-by-john-watney-michael-joseph http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/mervyn-peake-by-john-watney-michael-joseph#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:50:42 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=2325

Pen Drawing and Pen Draughtsmen. By Joseph Pennell.

High House Press — Shaftesbury: The ‘Shaston’ of Thomas Hardy.

Wyndham Lewis the Artist: From Blast to Burlington House. By Wyndham Lewis.

]]> ([tag]Mervyn Peake[/tag]) Mervyn Peake. by John Watney. Michael Joseph. London. 1976. 225., illustrations. 9.5” x 6.25”. Green buckram boards; title in silver on spine. Fine. Mervyn Peake (1911 - 1968) had a prolific output as a painter and writer of children’s books, nonsense verse, and work as a war artist, poet, and illustrator. Such classic texts as Treasure Island, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, The Ancient Mariner, Swiss Family Robinson, The Hunting of the Snark, Bleak House and others were illustrated by him, resulting in idiosyncratic interpretations immediately recognisable as his own. It is generally accepted that the Gormenghast trilogy as a whole offers one of the most original and sustained flights of imaginative writing of the 20th century; Mervyn Peake is best remembered for this timeless and highly influential work.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/mervyn-peake-by-john-watney-michael-joseph/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue Joshua Heller Rare Books Wed, 25 Apr 2012 21:33:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 en hourly 1 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/nocturne-the-art-of-james-mcneill-whistler-by-denys-sutton http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/nocturne-the-art-of-james-mcneill-whistler-by-denys-sutton#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:10:14 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=2343

The Life of Eric Gill — Robert Speaight

Tributes to Edward Johnson, Calligrapher. By Sydney Cockerell, Noel Rooke, James Wardrop, Alfred Fairbank, Irene Wellington and Bridget Johnston.

James Moran — The Double Crown Club: A History of Fifty Years

]]> ([tag]James McNeill Whistler[/tag]) Nocturne: The Art of James McNeill Whistler. By Denys Sutton. Country life limited. London. 1963. Frontispiece, 153p. Plates, index. 10” x 7.5” Blue cloth over boards; titling in gilt on the front cover and spine. Cover edges faded; else fine. No dust jacket.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/nocturne-the-art-of-james-mcneill-whistler-by-denys-sutton/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/the-artist-and-the-book-in-france-the-20th-century-livre-d%e2%80%99artiste-by-w-j-strachan http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/the-artist-and-the-book-in-france-the-20th-century-livre-d%e2%80%99artiste-by-w-j-strachan#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:08:33 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=2340

Twentieth Century Type Designers. New Edition. By Sebastian Carter

Edward Hodnett — Five Centuries of English Book Illustration.

Wyndham Lewis the Artist: From Blast to Burlington House. By Wyndham Lewis.

]]> ([tag]W.J.  Strachan[/tag]) The Artist and the Book in France: The 20th Century Livre d’artiste. By W.J. Strachan. Peter Owen. London. 1969. First edition. 368p. includes Index. 11.5” x 8.75”. Black and white and color illustrations throughout. Brown buckram boards with gilt title on spine and gilt decorative device on front board. Illustrated dust jacket. Extremely good. “The Artist and the Book in France is ... a publication of major importance. It is the first comprehensive study of the livre d’artiste intended for the general reader as well as the art specialist. The author traces the early origins of the genre, examines its history and development through the ... century and discusses and illustrates the work of more than a hundred artists, ... He deals in detail with such subjects as the texts chosen for illustration, the individual elements of the book, ateliers and printers, bibliophile societies, patrons and collectors, the technical aspects of production and the various autographic processes. “Mr. Strachan has unrivalled knowledge of his subject, having spent much time ... visiting artists in their Paris studios, collecting and exhibiting their work, and writing and lecturing on it. He [was] made a ‘Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres’ by the French government.” - Dust jacket.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/the-artist-and-the-book-in-france-the-20th-century-livre-d%e2%80%99artiste-by-w-j-strachan/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/portrait-of-g-b-s-george-bernard-shaw-by-feliks-topolski http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/portrait-of-g-b-s-george-bernard-shaw-by-feliks-topolski#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:05:36 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=2337

Paul Nash: The portrait of an Artist. By Anthony Bertram

George Grosz: His life and work. By Uwe M. Schneede.

The Engraved Work of F.L. Griggs: Etchings & Drypoints,1912-1928. Catalogue by Russell George Alexander.

]]> ([tag]George Bernard Shaw[/tag]) Portrait of G.B.S. [By] [tag]Feliks Topolski[/tag]. With an Introduction by Hesket Pearson. Eyre & Spottiswoode. London. 1946. 12p. Color frontispiece, 31 plates.  9.75” x 6.75”. Printed on Arnold and Foster’s mould made paper by the Chiswick Press. Reproductions of drawings in pen, brush, charcoal and pencil, and oil paintings. Cloth boards; title in gilt within red frame on front. Dust jacket. No. 882 in an edition of 1015 copies. Occasional spotting throughout; edges soiled. Good. Feliks Topolski (1907–1989) was a Polish-born British artist, who moved to Britain in the mid-1930s. During the Second World War, Topolski became an official war artist and painted scenes of the Battle of Britain and other battlefields. After the war he made a celebrated painting about the first meeting of the United Nations. Feliks Topolski’s own experiences were initially captured in pencil and ink drawings with his prolifically produced and independently published Topolski’s Chronicles. The Chronicles were produced fortnightly from 1953–79 and acted as a medium to communicate his art and observations to a wide audience. They were produced without advertisements or subsidies, and since his death in 1989 Topolski’s Chronicles have gained great respect as a pictorial and political record spanning nearly thirty years of world history. Topolski painted a number of portraits of contemporaries, including the authors H.G. Wells, Graham Greene, John Mortimer and Evelyn Waugh, and the politicians Harold Macmillan and Aneurin Bevan. He also painted a number of murals, contributed to BBC programs, such as ‘Face to Face’ and designed theatrical sets. Between 1975 and his death he worked on a 600 ft mural in railway arches on London's South Bank, depicting events and people of the 20th century.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/portrait-of-g-b-s-george-bernard-shaw-by-feliks-topolski/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/the-complete-graphic-works-of-ben-shahn-by-kenneth-w-prescott http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/the-complete-graphic-works-of-ben-shahn-by-kenneth-w-prescott#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:02:27 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=2335

John DePol: A Catalogue Raisonné of his Graphic Work 1935-1998

Ruth Mortimer — Harvard College Library Department of Printing & Graphic Arts Catalogue of Books and Manuscripts. Part II: Italian Sixteenth Century Books. Vol. I & Vol. II.

The Complete Prints of Leonard Baskin. A Catalogue Raisonné 1948-1983

]]> ([tag]Ben Shahn[/tag]) The Complete Graphic Works of Ben Shahn. By [tag]Kenneth W. Prescott[/tag]. Quadrangle/The New York Times Book Co. 1973.  250p., includes Index.  9.5” x 12.25”. Illustrations in black and white throughout. Brown cloth boards; gilt tile on spine. Illustrated dustjacket. Fine. Ben Shahn (1898-1969) was an American painter and graphic artist, whose work showed a leaning towards social criticism and justice. He was also an artist and photographer for the Farm Security Administration during the Depression. Shahn received many honors, awards and honorary degrees, including from Harvard and Princeton. The importance of his work has been recognized internationally.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/the-complete-graphic-works-of-ben-shahn-by-kenneth-w-prescott/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/british-wood-engraved-book-illustration-1904-1940-a-break-with-tradition-by-joanna-selborne http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/british-wood-engraved-book-illustration-1904-1940-a-break-with-tradition-by-joanna-selborne#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:59:31 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=2333

Expressionist Book Illustration in Germany, 1907-1927. By Lothar Lang.

Edward Hodnett — Five Centuries of English Book Illustration.

Twentieth Century Type Designers. New Edition. By Sebastian Carter

]]> ([tag]Joanna Selborne[/tag]) British Wood Engraved Book Illustration 1904-1940: A Break with Tradition. [By] Joanna Selborne. Clarendon Press. Oxford. 1998. 433p., includes Index. 11.25" x 9”. Black and white illustrations. Black buckram spine with gilt title on spine. Illustrated dust jacket. As new. “Joanna Selborne is an independent scholar with special interest in prints and printmaking. “This book reveals the methods by which [Twentieth-century British wood-engraved book illustrators] broke with nineteenth-century illustrative practices. The author surveys the subject in relation to the cultural and historical background, and within the context of mainstream developments in the visual arts, placing emphasis on the working relationship of illustrators with both private presses and  commercial publishers. Detailed study of unpublished material, ... throws new light on the work and practices of the more innovative wood-engravers.” - Dust jacket.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/british-wood-engraved-book-illustration-1904-1940-a-break-with-tradition-by-joanna-selborne/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/rossetti-dante-and-ourselves-by-nicolete-gray http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/rossetti-dante-and-ourselves-by-nicolete-gray#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:57:17 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=2331

A History of Lettering: Creative Experiment and Letter Identity. By Nicolete Gray

Andrew Brown — The Inferno. From The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri

The Work of William Morris — By Paul Thompson

]]> (Dante Gabriel Rossetti) Rossetti, Dante and Ourselves. By [tag]Nicolete Gray[/tag]. Faber and Faber. London. 1947. 55 plates. 8.75” x 6”. Purple cloth boards. Dust jacket. Jacket smudged, slightly chipped, else fine. The subjects of this book are [tag]Dante Gabriel Rossetti[/tag], 1828-1882, and [tag]Dante Alighieri[/tag], 1265 -1321.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/rossetti-dante-and-ourselves-by-nicolete-gray/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/the-wood-engravings-of-gwen-raverat http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/the-wood-engravings-of-gwen-raverat#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:55:23 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=2329

Dorothea Braby — The Way of Wood Engravings

Eric Gill — Set of Engravings

The Wood Engravings of Robert Gibbings with Some Recollections by the Artist. Edited by Patience Empson. Introduction by Thomas Balston

]]> ([tag]Gwen Raverat[/tag]) The Wood Engravings of Gwen Raverat. Selected with an Introduction by Reynolds Stone. Faber & Faber. London. [1959.] Gray cloth boards. Clipped dust jacket. Slight spotting to endpapers, else very good. Gwen Raverat (1885-1957) was a wood engraver who made prints as well as illustrating books. "Gwen Raverat's engravings have never been collected together before. This book contains a large selection of her work, and includes many little known designs, printed with all the skill and care habitual at the University Press, Cambridge." - Dust jacket.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/the-wood-engravings-of-gwen-raverat/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/pen-drawing-and-pen-draughtsmen-by-joseph-pennell http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/pen-drawing-and-pen-draughtsmen-by-joseph-pennell#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:51:41 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=2327

Mervyn Peake. by John Watney. Michael Joseph

Paul Nash: The portrait of an Artist. By Anthony Bertram

Eric Gill — Art-Nonsense and Other Essays

]]> ([tag]Joseph Pennell[/tag]) Pen Drawing and Pen Draughtsmen. By Joseph Pennell. Macmillan & Company. London. 1889. xxiii, 318p., illustrations, index. 11” x 14”. Bound in Japanese vellum over boards, titling in black on the front cover and spine. Light spotting; minor shelf wear, generally a lovely copy.      5.00 A classic and important work. “Their Work and Their Methods - A Study of the Art Today with Technical Suggestions.” - Sub-title..]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/pen-drawing-and-pen-draughtsmen-by-joseph-pennell/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/mervyn-peake-by-john-watney-michael-joseph http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/mervyn-peake-by-john-watney-michael-joseph#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:50:42 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=2325

Pen Drawing and Pen Draughtsmen. By Joseph Pennell.

High House Press — Shaftesbury: The ‘Shaston’ of Thomas Hardy.

Wyndham Lewis the Artist: From Blast to Burlington House. By Wyndham Lewis.

]]> ([tag]Mervyn Peake[/tag]) Mervyn Peake. by John Watney. Michael Joseph. London. 1976. 225., illustrations. 9.5” x 6.25”. Green buckram boards; title in silver on spine. Fine. Mervyn Peake (1911 - 1968) had a prolific output as a painter and writer of children’s books, nonsense verse, and work as a war artist, poet, and illustrator. Such classic texts as Treasure Island, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, The Ancient Mariner, Swiss Family Robinson, The Hunting of the Snark, Bleak House and others were illustrated by him, resulting in idiosyncratic interpretations immediately recognisable as his own. It is generally accepted that the Gormenghast trilogy as a whole offers one of the most original and sustained flights of imaginative writing of the 20th century; Mervyn Peake is best remembered for this timeless and highly influential work.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/mervyn-peake-by-john-watney-michael-joseph/feed 0 http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/paul-nash-paintings-and-watercolours-catalogue-of-an-exhibition-essays-by-andrew-causey-and-margot-eates http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/paul-nash-paintings-and-watercolours-catalogue-of-an-exhibition-essays-by-andrew-causey-and-margot-eates#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:49:27 +0000 wstahl http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/?p=2323

Paul Nash: The Master of the Image. By Margot Eates

Paul Nash: The portrait of an Artist. By Anthony Bertram

(Paul Nash) Saint Hercules and Other Stories. By Martin Armstrong

]]> ([tag]Paul Nash[/tag]) Paul Nash: Paintings and Watercolours. Catalogue of an exhibition. Essays by Andrew Causey and Margot Eates. With a Foreword by Sir Normal Reid. The Tate Gallery. London. 1975. Frontispiece, 116p., illustrations. 10” x 7.75”. Bound in blue cloth over boards; dust jacket. Fine.]]> http://joshuahellerrarebooks.com/catalogue/paul-nash-paintings-and-watercolours-catalogue-of-an-exhibition-essays-by-andrew-causey-and-margot-eates/feed 0