Banksy Captured by Steve Lazarides - 2019

London: Lawrence and Bullen, 1891.. Large octavo. Original publisher's vellum over boards, lettered in red and black. Head- and tail- pieces after engravings by Linton. Title-vignette. Attractive bookplate (and remains of another) on front pastedown, vellum slightly bowed and smudged, but a very good or better copy. First British edition, limited issue. One of thirty-five numbered copies on Japon vellum, specially bound, from a total edition of 330. Linton is credited on the half-title as editor and illustrator, but he of course was the composer of the poems as well. Scarce in this issue. NCBEL III:533.

1908. No Binding. Very Good/No Jacket. Hugh Thomson. This is the original watercolour, by Hugh Thomson, used for the picture of Eashing in chapter XI of the book by Eric Parker. The image is 11 X 8.5" and is framed and glazed by Edward Walker & Co of Coleraine, N.I., where Hugh Thomson originated. The image is clean and tidy although the inside of the glass has some spots on it and the picture would benefit from reglazing. This is a heavy item and will attract additional P&P if sent outside the UK so kindly contact me for a P&P quotation before ordering. Frame size 20 X 15". This is the original watercolour, by Hugh Thomson, used for the picture of Eashing in chapter XI of the book by Eric Parker.

London: Henry G. Bohn, 1846. In a signed contemporary Dawson Bros. Binders fine binding, full dark brown crushed morocco, covers and back bordered in gilt rules, gilt lettering to applied leather label, gilt ruled dentelles, all edges gilt, edges of covers ruled in gilt. Near Fine, rubs at bottom edge and top corners, Frontispiece and 22 full page illustrations with tissue guards drawn from life by Henry Howard, drawn on stone by M. Gauci & J. Lane, the plates Fine. SCARCE in handsome period fine binding and in such lovely condition. . Second Edition Revised. Morocco. Near Fine/No Jacket, As Issued. Tall 8vo.

London: William Heinemann, 1919. Near Fine, small corner bumps and small creasesat spine ends, small contemporary prior owner name in pencil front end page, in a Very Good dust jacket, old external tape mends at spine ends. The lovely drawings of a 12 year old girl, Pamela Bianco, accompanied by the poems that Walter de la Mare was inspired by them to write. . First Edition. Decorative Paper Covered Board. Near Fine/Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Venice, CA: L A Louver, 2005. Signed by David Hockney on the front paste-down. First edition / First printing. Illustrated laminated boards. Fine. Issued without dust jacket, a clear archival jacket is supplied.

Venice, CA: L A Louver, 2005. Signed by David Hockney on the front paste-down. First edition / First printing. Illustrated laminated boards. Fine. Issued without dust jacket, a clear archival jacket is supplied.

Very good volume of 17 numbers of this rare 18th century art magazine.

With calligraphic title page and 50 (of 51) copperplates after artists such as Paul Sandby, C. Monnet, Charles le Brun, Philippe de Champaigne, Giovanni Casanova, Charles Eisen, etc., engraved by Joshua Collyer, William Walker, Charles Grignion, Michael Angelo Rooker, T. Cook, J. Hall, W. Sharp and others.

"In each number of which will be given a Portrait of some Celebrated Personage, some interesting Historical Subject and some curious Perspective View executed by the most capital artists of Great Britain and calculated to enrich the Cabinets of the Curious or to ornament the Apartments of Persons of Real Taste."

Each number had three plates, a portrait, a historical or mythological scene and a bucolic landscape. Missing one plate (of Perseus), never bound in.

The portraits include writers, philosophers, scientists, statesmen, clergy and aristocrats such as Geoffrey Chaucer, Alexander Pope, Racine, Moliere, Corneille, Sir… Read More

Very good copy of Pinkerton's collection of rare portraits of Scottish royalty, clergy and celebrities.

Complete with 63 finely engraved copperplates.

With portrait of cross-dressing Frances Stuart as frontispiece, engraved title page dated 1797, list of subscribers, advertisement to Part I, advertisement to Part III dated 1796, and 56 other portraits (one folding) and six engraved plates of royal seals.

With three portraits of Mary, Queen of Scots, and King James IV, two portraits of King James V, and individual portraits of Alexander III, David I, Malcom I, Robert II, Robert III, James I, James II, James III, James VI (later James I of England) and Scottish queens Mary of Guise, Margaret of Denmark, Anne of Denmark.

Among the other interesting characters are the Scottish polymath James Crichton, aka the Admirable Crichton, and Frances Stuart, Duchess of Richmond, a famous beauty at the court of King Charles II of England, cross-dressing as a man, as well as statesmen, clergy, martyrs, etc.… Read More

Very good copy of the mid-19th century reprint of the Lancashire Hogarth's book of caricatures, originally published in 1773
Complete with portrait of the artist, engraved title page, and 44 engraved plates printed on 25 pages
The plates show quite an extraordinary parade of 18th century scenes in pubs, hairdressers, shops, dentists and living rooms. A drunk vomits into a bowl at a bar, a wife beats a husband, a demon steals from a preacher, ugly bumpkins gurn, drunken rustics brawl, foppish politicians read the Magna Carta, a judge molests a female witness, a barber fleeces a Macaroni, a sailor is cheated of his prize money, etc.
There are four plates of dentists using tongs and string to extract teeth from unhappy patients. There are even a few portraits of famous people: Lord Bute Pl. 17, diplomat John Russell, Duke of Bedford, in Pl. 18, botanists Daniel Solander and Joseph Banks with Plato in Pl. 20, and a group of rogues and scoundrels in the book trade in northern England and Scotland in Pl.… Read More

Very good copy of the second edition (first published in 1817) of this popular educational book by woman writer Mary Anne Venning
Complete with 60 charming handcoloured wood engravings of costumes of the world
There are fine gentlemen and ladies of London and Paris, Bohemian peasants, Catalonians dancing the Fandango (possibly flamenco?), Hungarian hussars, itinerant Savoyards, Laplanders (Saami) riding reindeer-driven sleds, Greeks, Russians, Armenians and Turks.
There are many fascinating plates of African peoples from Mamluks and Copts in Egypt, native peoples of Tunisia, Senegal, Cazegut (Bissagos Islands), Cacongo (Angola), Issinia (Guinea), Congo, Jagga (Chaga) people of Tanzania, Khoikhoi from South Africa, Zulus from Natal, etc.
There are also several Native American peoples including Iroquois of Canada, natives of Virginia and California, Carib of Martinique, Aztecs of Mexico, Inca of Peru, natives of Guianna (Guyana) and Yaghan people of the Land of Fire (Tierra del Fugo).
Also includes… Read More