Studio (The). Vols 1to 180. by HOLME, Geoffrey (Editor), CUNDALL, H M

Vinegia: Vincenzo Vaugris. [Architettura-Prima edizione] (cm.16,5) ottima piena pergamena sec. XVIII. Titolo calligrafato al dorso.-- cc. 12 nn., (di cui l' ultima bianca), cc. 248, c. 1 con la marca tipografica. La dedica del traduttore Pietro Lauro Modenese è a Bonifacio Bevilacqua. prima edizione in qualsiasi lingua moderna e prima traduzione italiana di questo capolavoro dell' architettura rinascimentale. L' Editio Princeps del " De Re Aedificatoria " apparve nel 1485 a Firenze e ripropone in dieci libri la struttura del testo di Vitruvio. I primi tre libri riguardano il progetto e l' esecuzione; nel 4° e 5° si esaminano le grandi opere come città, ponti ecc. Nell' 8° e 9° si gtratta dell' apparato ornamentale, nel 10° si tratta di restauro e idraulica. Opera fondamentale non solo per l' architettura ma anche per il pensiero rinascimentale nel suo insieme. Qualche lieve traccia di polvere alla prima e ultima carta, altrimenti… Read More

Paris: Javal and Bordeaux, 1930. Limited Edition. JOUVE, Paul. Illustrated by one of the leading painters in France, this superb work brings Kipling's classic Jungle Book story into the realm of fine 20th century French publishing. Limited edition of 125 copies, bound in snakeskin-style folding case, protected by matching slipcase (some wear), 340 mm x 265 mm, 130 unbound pages as issued, 21 plates, printed on imperial Japan paper, an excellent copy.

Paris: Fernand Hazan, 1948. Soft cover. Near Fine. 4.5" x 7" 4th volume in the Bibliotheque Aldine des Arts Series. In glassine wrapper. Signed by Henri Matisse on the title page to 'a Monsieur Lionel Aucoin.' [12] p.p., plus 20 colour illustrations. Text in French. The book is enclosed in a stamped and typewritten envelope from Matisse at his apartment at 132 Montparnasse Paris, 52, France to collector Mr. Lionel Aucoin at 49 Chestnut Street in Spencer, Massachusetts with French stamps. Light rubbing to spine, covers. Small tears to edges of glassine wrapper Covers slightly yellowed but Interior clean. Envelope slightly browned, bruised at edges, but otherwise near fine.

La Mélodie Acide, (1980). Twelve of 14 original stone lithographs by Joan Miro housed with limitation page in printed portfolio and protected by exterior paperboard portfolio. Loose as issued. Signed on plate (plate signed) and hand numbered out of 1500. Limitation page in French and English. This set is No. 1477/1500.
"The series was printed using the original plates for the portfolio LA MELODIE ACIDE, published in January 1980....The present edition consists of 1,500 prints on Arches paper of the 14 original plates, numbered from 1/1,500 to 1,500/1,500, and with the artist's signature on each of the plates."
This set is INCOMPLETE with 12 of the 14 plates. Plates measure 13 x 10 inches and are in excellent condition. Exterior paperboard portfolio is heavily torn at the flap and lightly soiled overall.
Photos are of the portfolio and prints we have here at Barbed Wire Books. Please don't hesitate to contact Barbed Wire Books with any questions.

A fine archive of three original drawings by the English "mouth artist" John Carter, two letters by his biographer, a copy of the revised edition of Carter's Memoir, and related materials. A fine collection of three original drawings by John Carter (31 July 1815 - 2 June 1850), an English mouth artist, together with a memoir and two autograph letters discussing Carter's work by William James Dampier, Carter's first biographer. The collection also includes a heliotype after a drawing by Carter as well as a list of subscribers to Dampier's memoir. The small collection was apparently presented by Dampier to one of his friends. Original drawings by carter are rare, as most "of his work, now widely dispersed and probably unrecognized, is of course only known from nineteenth century reproductions" (Trevor Disley) John Carter was born in Coggeshall, Essex, "of humble parents", as Dampier notes. At school "he showed a disposition to scribble the figure of a man, a horse, or a bird, upon his desk or copy… Read More

London. The Shakespeare Press, by W. Nichol, for John Major, Fleet-Street. 1828. Lavishly bound in full scarlet tri-gilt ruled straight grain morocco. Gilt-ruled spine compartments with ornate gilt-tooled fleural motifs. Gilt-ruled raised bands. Gilt titles. Exceptionally ornate gilt-tooled Inner Dentelles. Marbled endsheets. t.e.g. 4to. 6.5" x 10.0". Illustrated throughout with full page Copper Plate Engravings. The most authoritative work on early English painting, here presented in a most breathtaking binding. Very Fine flawless set.

Vinegia: Vincenzo Vaugris. [Architettura-Prima edizione] (cm.16,5) ottima piena pergamena sec. XVIII. Titolo calligrafato al dorso.-- cc. 12 nn., (di cui l' ultima bianca), cc. 248, c. 1 con la marca tipografica. La dedica del traduttore Pietro Lauro Modenese è a Bonifacio Bevilacqua. prima edizione in qualsiasi lingua moderna e prima traduzione italiana di questo capolavoro dell' architettura rinascimentale. L' Editio Princeps del " De Re Aedificatoria " apparve nel 1485 a Firenze e ripropone in dieci libri la struttura del testo di Vitruvio. I primi tre libri riguardano il progetto e l' esecuzione; nel 4° e 5° si esaminano le grandi opere come città, ponti ecc. Nell' 8° e 9° si gtratta dell' apparato ornamentale, nel 10° si tratta di restauro e idraulica. Opera fondamentale non solo per l' architettura ma anche per il pensiero rinascimentale nel suo insieme. Qualche lieve traccia di polvere alla prima e ultima carta, altrimenti… Read More

Benois, Alexandre 1870-1960. Watercolour and pencil on laid paper with partial watermark "MBM." 320 x 240 mm. Signed by the artist with initials and dated 1932 in pencil at lower left. With pencilled notes in Benois's hand. Very slightly soiled; 35 mm. tear to blank right margin repaired; remnants of mounting paper to upper corners of verso. Possibly a preparatory drawing for the Tsaritsa's costume. Rimsky-Korsakov's last opera, Coq d'Or (The Golden Cockerel) was first performed in Moscow at the Solodovnikov Theatre (Sergey Ivanovich Zimin's private opera company), on September 24/October 7, 1909. It is in a prologue, three acts, and an epilogue by Nikolay Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov to a libretto by Vladimir Nikolayevich Bel'sky after the eponymous imitation folk tale in verse by Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin, based in turn on 'The House of the Weathercock' and 'Legend of the Arabian Astrologer' from The Alhambra by Washington Irving. "The Golden Cockerel is the only one of Rimsky- Korsakov's 15… Read More

Sydney: Art in Australia, 1920. A beautiful copy of Lindsay's famous work covering the meaning of life and art, drawing on philosophical concepts. Signed on front endpaper by Lindsay with a full page original etching tipped in "All who would examine the problem of Life must first remove from it the problem of Existence. It is the confusion between these two things that has confused all human morality. By Existence one comprehends the body, and all that serves to supply its needs, to keep its machinery active. By Life one understands all that goes beyond the body, the impulse that we vaguely call the mind, the soul, the intellectual process. The body is the poor relation of the mind, the servant, the vehicle. In serving its needs, one supplies movement; in servings its senses, one supplies material for the intellectual process. Between these functions, high and low, one must seek a direction for Man's destiny. To find that direction is to find the High Morality. In short, to find the direction of… Read More

Paris: Javal and Bordeaux, 1930. Limited Edition. JOUVE, Paul. Illustrated by one of the leading painters in France, this superb work brings Kipling's classic Jungle Book story into the realm of fine 20th century French publishing. Limited edition of 125 copies, bound in snakeskin-style folding case, protected by matching slipcase (some wear), 340 mm x 265 mm, 130 unbound pages as issued, 21 plates, printed on imperial Japan paper, an excellent copy.