Search Results: Authors starting with S from SOPHIE SCHNEIDEMAN RARE BOOKS

Ditchling : S. Dominic’s Press, [1918]. 4pp. One sheet folded as issued. Slightly dusty with a few spots.|||

Ravenna: Pietro de Paoli e Gio. Battista Giovannelli, 1638. Second edition, being the first complete edition with both parts, the first part had been published on its own the year before. Woodcut arms of Cardinal Oorato Visconti, the dedicatee of the work on title page, 89 woodcut text diagrams and illustrations and woodcut historiated initials. [a1-6], A4 - V4{Q2 and Q3 have been bound in the wrong order}. 4to., bound in 19th century quarter leather with dark marbled boards and Gordon Craig’s monogrammed ownership label on the upper cover, and on the front pastedown, spine lettered in gilt with gilt rules. Spine rather rubbed, title page with a small paper restoration in blank margin and to woodcut, otherwise a good copy.||First complete edition of the first book exclusively devoted to stage design, stage architecture, machinery and special effects. The first part was first published the year before in 1637, the inaugural year of the Teatro di Sole in Pesaro, designed by Sabbattini. Sabbattini… Read More

Paris: Chez l’artiste, 16, rue Cassini, 1926. 2 volumes. No. 371 of 450 printed on papier vergé d’Arches, but this a rare hand-coloured copy. 33 engravings by Sylvain Sauvage, engraved in collaboration with Emile-Henri Feltesse, including an engraving on each wrapper, all expertly hand-coloured in gouache. Tall thin 8vo., loose in the original wrappers, each volume with its own maroon cloth backed chemise and both in the matching maroon cloth edged slipcase. Slipcase and chemises with a little wear or rubbing at edges, a little darkening to the wrappers but otherwise very good.||Sylvain Sauvage (1888-1948), whose real name was Felix Roy, was an illustrator and engraver who published his own artist’s books with the imprint of his home in Paris as well as creating illustrations for other publishers. Sauvage had originally intended to produce illustrations to the whole of the memoirs of Casanova but the task was too great so he settled on the erotic story of Casanova and the Nun of Murano - hence… Read More

Paris: A l’Image des trois colombes, 6, rue Cassini, pres L’Observatoire, 1926. This copy hors commerce, reserved and inscribed on the limitations page by Sylvain Sauvage for Pierre Bellanger and corresponding with the 10 copies on Japon with an original signed pencil and watercolour drawing an unused plate inspired by the drawing, a suite of progressive proofs, and a suite of the plates in sanguine and one in black, (the latter isn’t mentioned in the limitation) 25 delicately coloured copper engravings by Sauvage including 5 in the text. Sm. 4to., in the original wrappers with colour copper plate by Sauvage on upper cover, housed together with the suites in the original blue cloth backed, blue paper covered chemise and slipcase. Slipcase and chemise with a little rubbing to edges, title written in ink on the chemise, the book and plates are in splendid condition.||A beautiful example of Art Deco illustration, one of a very few printed on japon and this copy enriched with an unexpected extra… Read More

London: Folio Society, 1957. Engravings by Frank Martin. Printed in black and blue. 13.9 x 20.4 cms. Sm. 8vo, bound by Sayaka Fukada in full dark green morocco with and inlaid vellum cross over both sides and spine, with gilt and platinum tooling with tracks across both sides and spine and onto the dark green morocco and printed paper doublures with secondary patterned paper endpapers, speckled edges, housed in a complimentary structured solander box using the same patterned paper using feathered paper on the outside of the linen, platinum lettering on spine.||Sayaka Fukada began her artistic life as a professional photographer in Japan. She is a superb and much sought after conservator and her superb designer bindings are in collections in the UK and USA.|

1987. Colour wood engraving printed by the artist. Edition of 60. Signed, dated and numbered by the artist. Image Size 9 cm x 12.5 cm (5 x 3.5 ins). Paper Size 26.5 cm x 19 cm.||Engraved for a book ‘High Bridge’ printed and illustrated by Gaylord Schanilec and written by Clayton Schanilec, published in 1987.On February 24, 1985, 24,000 people gathered on the banks of the Mississippi River in Saint Paul, Minnesota to witness the demolition of a 97 year old bridge that connected their communities for generations. When it came down in a well-orchestrated collapse of steel, there was scattered applause and then silence. No one present had ever see this valley without the bridge.‘High Bridge’ documents the passing of the bridge, contrasting images of demolition with accounts of its construction. The images are a sequence of ten wood engravings printed in 5 to 7 colours. These compositions blend together in a cinemagraphic-like style, affording views of the bridge as if on a walk.This image is now… Read More

Wisconsin: Midnight Paper Sales, 2017. One of 100 copies. 9 colour wood engravings by Gaylord Schanilec plus a wood engraving by Thomas Bewick printed from the original block. Poem by Schanilec handset and printed by him in Bodoni metal type. Unopened as issued making the bird prints as hard to spot as are the birds. 8vo., bound in stiff paper covers of Degener Black and O’Malley Crackle papers. As new.||A remarkable book with some really interesting wood engravings held almost encaged within unopened pages - Schanilec writes “As it turned out my mid-life vessel the “Hungry Mind” (Lac des Pleurs, 2015) didn’t get me to the other side, and A Little Book of Birds led to yet more water. The idea of birds captive within unopened pages was originally intended as a challenge for book collectors= to open the unopened pages - or not. As years passed the birds slowly emerged and their captivity began to mean something else. I thought this book might free the birds. It did not.”The poem reads ‘A… Read More

Wisconsin: Midnight Paper Sales, 2020. Colour wood engraving, one of an edition of only 74, signed, titled and numbered in pencil by the artist. Image size 11.5 x 7.7 cms. Paper size 21 x 13 cm.||From ‘Bokeh: A Little Book of Flowers’, the third book in Schanilec’s trilogy, the other two are his Little Book of Birds and Ninja Press’s Departures. |

Wisconsin: Midnight Paper Sales, 2017. Original colour wood engraving, one of an edition of only 75, signed, titled and numbered in pencil by the artist. Image size 12.3 x 6.7 cms. Paper size 21 x 14.7 cm.||Engraved for Schanilec’s book ‘Little Book of Birds’.|

1993. Original wood engraving. Artist's Proof. Edition of 25. Signed, and dated 1993. Image size 153 x 190 mm. Paper size 265 x 293 mm. |||

2005. Colour wood engraving printed by the artist, one of an edition of 195, signed, numbered and titled by the artist. Image size 10 x 9 cm (4 x 3.5 ins). Paper size 23 x 15 cm. Printed on Monadnock paper. ||Also known as Ephemerella needhami, engraved for ‘Mayflies of the Driftless Region’ written and hand printed by the artist in 2005.“’Dry Fly Entomology’ by Frederic M. Halford, published in London in 1897, was the inspiration for ‘Mayflies of the Driftless Region’. Halford, the Victorian innovator and popularizer of modern fly-fishing, scientifically described and surveyed the principal British mayflies of his time, but he did not claim his work as a comprehensive entomological treatise. Instead, ‘Dry Fly Entomology’ was aimed at providing anglers with a basic, working understanding of the nature of aquatic insects. ‘Mayflies of the Driftless Region’ can make no such claim: it is not a field guide. Instead, it is a study of mayflies by an artist....I have created 13… Read More

Wisconsin: Midnight Paper Sales, 2017. Colour wood engraving, one of an edition of only 58, signed, titled and numbered in pencil by the artist. Image size 11.3 x 7.6 cms. Paper size 21 x 14.7 cm.||From ‘Little Book of Birds’, part of Schanilec’s trilogy, the other two are his ‘Bokeh: A Little Book of Flowers’ and Ninja Press’s ‘Departures’.|

Wisconsin: Midnight Paper Sales, 2017. Colour wood engraving, one of an edition of only 71, signed, titled and numbered in pencil by the artist. Image size 10.5 x 7.5 cms. Paper size 21 x 14.7 cm.||From ‘Little Book of Birds’, part of Schanilec’s trilogy, the other two are his ‘Bokeh: A Little Book of Flowers’ and Ninja Press’s ‘Departures’.|

Wisconsin, 2013. Original colour wood engraving printed by the artist. Edition of 200 signed, dated, titled and numbered in pencil by the artist. Image size 43 x 25 cm (7.5 x 14 ins), Paper Size 41 x 58 cm.||An astonishing engraving of the White Bass for Schanilec’s book Lac des Pleurs, printed and published in only 100 copies by the artist under his imprint Midnight Paper Sales: a real magnum opus and a tribute in engraving and words to Lake Pepin by a modern day natural philosopher.In his boat Schanilec undertook a seven year odyssey studying the 22-mile length of the upper Mississippi River known as Lake Pepin where the Mississippi widens between Saint Paul, Minnesota and La Crosse, Wisconsin. This, the widest naturally occurring part of the river, was dubbed the “Lake of Tears” by Louis Hennepin in 1680, inspired by the tears of Indian men whose desire to kill the Frenchman was frustrated by their chief. |

2005. Colour wood engraving printed by the artist, one of an edition of 200 signed, numbered and titled by the artist. Image size 12.5 x 6 cm (5 x 2 ins). Paper size 23 x 16 cm. Printed on Monadnock paper.||Also known as the Dark Blue-Winged Olive, engraved for Mayflies of the Driftless Region, written and hand printed by the artist in 2005.“’Dry Fly Entomology’ by Frederic M. Halford, published in London in 1897, was the inspiration for ‘Mayflies of the Driftless Region’. Halford, the Victorian innovator and popularizer of modern fly-fishing, scientifically described and surveyed the principal British mayflies of his time, but he did not claim his work as a comprehensive entomological treatise. Instead, ‘Dry Fly Entomology’ was aimed at providing anglers with a basic, working understanding of the nature of aquatic insects. ‘Mayflies of the Driftless Region’ can make no such claim: it is not a field guide. Instead, it is a study of mayflies by an artist....I have created 13… Read More

2005. Colour wood engraving printed by the artist, signed, numbered and titled by the artist. Image size 10 x 9 cm (4 x 3.5 ins). Paper size 23 x 16 cm. Printed on Monadnock paper. ||One of the special edition of 26, printed on Gampi Torinoko paper, is also available, priced at £300.|

2001. Original colour wood engraving on Zerkall mould-made paper. One of an edition of 200, numbered, titled and signed by the artist. Image size 177 x 93 mm.Paper size 290 x 173 mm.||One of 11 engravings for ‘New York Revisited’, written by Kenneth Auchincloss and published by the Grolier Club, 2002 - a truly beautiful book printed by Gaylord Schanilec at his press in Wisconsin, Midnight Paper Sales. A great tribute to New York and New Yorkers. The book was intended as a modern day reply to a Grolier Club book on New York printed in 1915 however, it took on a new importance as its publication coincided with the attack on New York in September 2001.|

2007. Original wood print, one of an edition of 10, signed, dated and titled by the artist in pencil. Image size 20.5 x 45 cms (18 x 8 ins). Paper size 39.5 x 51 cms. Printed on Zerkall mould-made paper.||One of the remarkable wood prints from Gaylord Schanilec’s great book ‘Sylvae’, winner of the 2007 Gregynog Fine Press Prize. The book documents the journey of Ben Verhoeven and Gaylord Schanilec into the woods surrounding Midnight Paper Sales in western Wisconsin to create a work not only about these trees, but of these trees. In all 24 species have been catalogued through image, historical anecdotes, and notes taken during the cutting, milling, engraving and printing. The book’s 53 images consist primarily of wood prints of long grain and end grain specimens which have been taken from Schanilec’s property. In each case the image is manipulated through either colour, impression, engraving, or some combination of the above to emphasise certain characteristic of a species. The text varies… Read More

1987. Original black and white wood engraving. One of an edition of 74, initialled and numbered by the artist. Image size 102 x 78 mm. Paper size 292 x 230 mm.|||

Saint Paul: Midnight Paper Sales, 1983. Text and 5 woodcuts by Gaylord Schanilec, hand-cut and printed in an edition of 100, this no. 52. Printed in brown and black ink. 4to, original black cloth backed hand-made paper covered boards, printed paper label on spine. An extremely good copy.||Schanilec cut the type from cherry boards. The direct and raw text is based on a break up with his then girlfriend.|