Art History from The Owl at the Bridge

"First Edition: May 2006." "Published on the occasion of the exhibition [of the same title] at Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution, May 5-October 29, 2006." Contents include Manufacturing and Marketing in Europe, 1600-2000; The Sexual Politics of Cutlery; The Design of Table Tools and the Effect of Form on Etiquette and Table Setting; The Proliferation of Cutlery… Ler mais sobre este item

"This dictionary contains listings for 3,074 marine artists working during the last four centuries. The majority [were] active in the nineteenth century... The term 'marine artist' is here understood to indicate an individual engaged in any form of painting, drawing, or sketching of vessels, sea scenes, and coastal and harbor scenes... our deliberate emphasis [was] on pierhead painters..." Hardcover; xix,… Ler mais sobre este item

Portfolio box of black & white views of Florence-- reproductions published for the 200th anniversary of the artist's death in 1767. Title from label on front of box. Contents of this copy: Giuseppe Bouchard's 1755 map of Florence; dedication page; plates I, II, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX, X, XI, XII, XIII, XIV (S. Trinità), XIV (SS.… Ler mais sobre este item

TOME PREMIER / VOLUME 1 ONLY. 40 pages of text; 124 numbered plates; 33 cm. Series: Vies et Oeuvres des Peintres les Plus Célèbres. Both covers (embossed boards) detached, backstrip lacking; bookplate of James Thomson inside front cover; title & half-title foxed; internally clean & sturdy, essentially unused. Stock#ofc oversize 002.

"Howard Pyle created a whole school of art based upon the lively, realistic depiction of events in story, novel and history... He was artist, author, illustrator and teacher extraordinary, a colorful turn-of-the-century Renaissance man..." [9] pages of text, 43 color plates with identifications; softcover; minor wear; Good+. Stock#ofc0885.

series: Studies of the Warburg Institute. Edited by F. Saxl. Vol. 3. "...the widest survey of the field ever attempted so far, and thus achieving its aim as regards the history of culture..." xi, 209 pages; 25 cm. Bound in coarse tan linen with brown lettering; spine a bit darkened; ex-Rhode Island School of Design Library with… Ler mais sobre este item

Contents include Short-Title Catalogue of Emblem Books; Index of Printers, Booksellers, and Publishers; Indexes to Places of Publication; Chronological Indexes. vii, [2], 105 pages; 26.5 cm. Printed cream paper covers; minor shelfwear (essentially unused); Very Good+. Stock#ofc0876.

"Offset reprint of the edition published in 1964." Series: Sussidi Eruditi 16. Forewords to first & second editions by Mario Praz. "Although emblems and devices have been the object of some research, chiefly of a bibliographical nature, until the present there has been no comprehensive study which has sought to see them in the light of the… Ler mais sobre este item

"Some Notes on the Tasso Illustrated by Piazzetta." "In this note I should like to draw attention to the typographical aspects of the text, by pointing out features and variants which differentiate beyond any doubt the two editions." English & Italian on facing pages. 30 pages, 20 illustrations; 24 cm. Blue wraps printed in white; minor… Ler mais sobre este item

"The Phoenix Bibliographies VII. Gertrude Stein." Contents include Books and Pamphlets by Gertrude Stein; Books and Pamphlets with contributions by Gertrude Stein; Contributions to Periodicals; Translations into Foreign Languages of Works by Gertrude Stein; Musical Settings of Works by Gertrude Stein; Recordings of Gertrude Stein's Works; Ephemera and Miscellanea; The Published Works of Alice B. Toklas; A Book Attributed… Ler mais sobre este item

"Limited to 150 Copies." This is a facsimile reprint of the Arrow Editions (New York) publication of 1940. Contents include Preface: Descriptions of Gertrude Stein by Julian Sawyer; Books and Brochures; Contributions to Anthologies and Annuals; Contributions to Periodicals; Music and Records; Miscellanea; Index (pages 155-162). Bound in black boards with gold spine lettering; near Fine.… Ler mais sobre este item

Softcover; vii, 20 pages, frontispiece; 24 cm.; light tanning of spine & edges; Very Good. // together with Catalogue of the Dante Collection Presented by Willard Fiske. Additions 1898-1920. Compiled by Mary Fowler, Curator of the Dante and Petrarch Collections, 1907-1920. Ithaca, Cornell University Library, 1921. v, 152 pages; 26 cm. Paper covers worn, spine darkened; Good.… Ler mais sobre este item

Chapters: The purpose of zoological illustration; Techniques of zoological illustration; Zoological works in the time of Linnaeus; The great age of illustrated works; The modern period; Index, pages 202-204. "Note: each chapter is followed by a bibliography." xii, 204 pages, 103 illustrations; 22.5 cm. Bound in tan linen, brown spine lettering; small smudge on front lower corner;… Ler mais sobre este item

Distinction in Picture Books by Marcia Brown; The Book Artist: Ideas and Techniques, Lynd Ward; The European Picture Book, Fritz Eichenberg; Brief Biographies of the Illustrators; A Bibliography of the Illustrators Active from 1946 through 1956; A Bibliography of the Authors; indexes. xvii, 299 pages, black & white illustrations; 27.5 cm. Very Good in Good dust jacket. Stock#ofc0682.

Second printing. Contents include One Wonders by Marcia Brown; Color Separation by Adrienne Adams; The Artist and His Editor by Grace Allen Hogarth; Beatrix Potter: Centenary of an Artist Writer by Rumer Godden; Biographies of Illustrators Active 1957-1966 by Joanna Foster; A Bibliography of the Illustrators and Their Works by Ruth Giles Lontoft; The Kate Greenaway Medal in the… Ler mais sobre este item

"Joseph Keppler (1838-94), popular artist, satirist, and commentator, entertained a generation of American s with his colorful and witty political cartoons. A major event in publishing, this first biography of Keppler includes more than 170 color and black-and-white cartoons, most of which have not been seen in print since they first appeared." With a foreword by Jim Borgman.… Ler mais sobre este item

"There was nothing in the least egotistical about Arthur Rackham's modest entry in Who's Who, but the long list of books that he had illustrated served to remind me [DH] of my own childhood and of the great pleasure his work had given to me and to so many others, and it led me to wonder whether anything in the… Ler mais sobre este item

"Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art (London) Ltd. by Yale University Press, New Haven & London, 1975." "A biographical dictionary of 263 artists who practised between 1700 and 1800, with lists and details of all the books that they respectively illustrated." xiv, 120 pages, 45 black & white plates; 25 cm. Very… Ler mais sobre este item

Contents include History and Development, Elements of Design, The Problem of Dyes, The Construction of Carpets, The Rugs of Persia, Turkish Rugs, Turkoman Rugs, Rugs of the Caucasus. "The intention has been to include under one cover all the information necessary for the reader to identify and comprehend the background of most rugs he is likely to see or be… Ler mais sobre este item

Contents: The Rise of an Art Center: Cincinnati, 1788-1865; A Remarkable Reality and Directness: Frank Duveneck (1848-1919); Aesthetic Movement Furniture; The Academic Tradition; Cincinnati Ceramics: The Cradle of American Art Pottery; American Impressionism and the Queen City; Cincinnati Looks West: Henry Farny and Joseph H. Sharp; Arts and Crafts Metalwork; The Twentieth Century. Color pictorial paper covers; xii,… Ler mais sobre este item