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Hans Fischer was a Swiss painter well known as the author and illustrator of the children’s book Pitschi, the kitten who always wanted to be…

Reveil’s engraving of Flaxman’s drawings for Hesiod, showing characteristic Flaxman flowing classical lines. In 1817, Blake had finished his version of engravings from Flaxman’s original…

The first volume is the illustrated text of the play and the second volume, which has a 10 page preface by Gerard d’Houville (aka Marie…

A short but interesting biography of the Irish beauty who fascinated Louis XV and was Boucher's model. Sandford writes furiously about one reviewer who he…

A grandly printed and illustrated edition. The binding is suitably splendid and is signed by both Petit and Le Comte. Flety notes that there were…

The edition on paper was Hornby's second attempt at this work, the first being printed on Japanese vellum. Due to the ink's very slow drying…

A fine copy of a famous work with an impeccable provenance:
1) shaped leather-gilt bookplate of Quentin Bauchart; 2) printed bookplate of Robert Shackleton (Bodley’s Librarian…

Georges Pavis (1886-1951), painter, illustrator and humourist was particularly famous for his 1920s illustrations for the reviews Rire and La Vie Parisienne. He also illustrated…

Foujita was a notable Japanese-French painter and printmaker born in Tokyo who, on moving to France, became friends with Picasso, Gris, Modigliani and Matisse. He…

The letters between Portuguese nun Mariana Alcaforada and French officer Noel Bourton, Comte de Chamilly, who served as a colonel in the campaign of 1663-1668…

The lithographs are of Great Bardfield in Essex where Bawden lived in an artists’ community along with Ravilious, Michael Rothenstein, Walter Hoyle, George Chapman, Sheila…

A really lovely book in praise of the countryside.

Inscribed by the artist on the colophon: ‘With the best wishes of Philip Reed’.
The colophon declares that Miss Roberta Roe, the child of the printers,…

A remarkable set of very accomplished and beautiful drypoints of a single nude model by Frank Martin, one time Professor of Engraving and Etching at…

Inserted loose is a printed prospectus and a ‘with compliments’ slip from the Whittington Press.

The mimes, with full directions, include ‘The Stations of the Cross’, ‘The Rosary’, ‘St. George and the Turkish Knight’, ‘Harlequinade’ and ‘Sir Galahad’.