Jan Steen by F. Schmidt Degener, H.E. Van Gelder - 1927

London: John Lane, 1927. Hardbound. VG- overall, light wear at extremities, a few sheets loose, edges untrimmed. Orange cloth. vi, 82 pp. 40 bw plates with printed tissue-guards. A nice copy, despite the loose plate.

Amsterdam (Elsevier) 1927. Hardcover, large format.

John Lane, 1927-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good. vi, 82 pages xl plates 33 x 26 cm. Hardcover and dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Clean, unmarked pages. Wear to dj. forty reproductions in photogravure of the artist's principal works, with a critical study by F. Schmidt Degener ... and notes on the illustrations by Dr. H.E. van Gelder ... Translated by G.J. Renier. Each plate accompanied by guard sheet with descriptive letterpress. Jan Havickszoon Steen (c. 1626 1679) was a Dutch genre painter of the 17th century. This is an oversized or heavy book, which requires additional postage for international delivery outside the US.

John Lane; The Bodley Head, 1927. Hardcover. Good/Acceptable. 1927. First Edition. 82 pages. Red dust jacket over red cloth. Contains black and white photographic plates. Deckled edges. Rough cut edges. Clean pages with mild tanning and heavy foxing throughout. Tightly bound with mild thumb-marking throughout. Previous owner's inscription to front endpaper. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Mild crushing to spine ends. Boards are notably warped. Unclipped jacket has heavy edgewear with some areas of loss, heavy tears, chips, and creasing. Heavy tanning to spine. Notable rubbing and marking all over. Mild pen scribbles present.

BODLEY HEAD, 1927. 1927. Hardcover. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. Ex-Library Usual Stamps Marks. BLIND STAMP LIB MARKS , SPINE SUNNED , SLT FADING TO BOARDS, MARK TO FRON COVER; 48781 .

London: John Lane. The Bodley Head Limited. Very Good in Good+ dust jacket. 1927. First Edition. Hardcover. Original Brick coloured cloth boards with bright gilt titling on the spine, and black titling to the front. Slight edgewear/rubbing/bumping to the Head/Tail of the spine and a little light rubbing to the corners but overall the boards are VG/Near Fine. A little light foxing to the page fore-edges. Pink to the Top edge. In the original publisher's plain lettered dustjacket. The dustjacket is not price clipped, but has some repaired closed tears and chipping with a little loss. The d/j is about 98% complete however and only has a little loss to the top of the spine. This book is from the collection of the late Artist Arthur Giardelli and he has written his name and location in ink on the top of the front pastedown! . Some light foxing in the book but overall negligible. Internally NO other Inscriptions or Marks. (vi) + 82 Text pages + 40 unpaginated tissue guarded, captioned… Read More

Sans Date (v. 1925). Paris, Les Editions G. Crès & Cie. broché, avec couverture rempliée,. Faibles rousseurs en pages liminaires, sinon très bel état, notamment des 40 planches.. in-4. avec 40 planches de reproductions en héliogravure, sous serpentes légendées ; couverture illustrée du dessin d'un autoportrait de Steen.

London: John Lane : the Bodley Head. As New. Hardcover. *** FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request *** - *** IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - AS NEW, THE TEXT BLOCK IS PRISTINE, CLEAN, UNMARKED, AND IN EXCELLENT CONDITION - .No publication date cited. -- with a bonus offer-- .