Art - General from Capricorn Books

New York: Little Brown, 2018. 503 pp, 9 1/2" H. B&w photographs, reproductions. "From 'The Gashlycrumb Tinies' to 'The Doubtful Guest', Edward Gorey's wickedly funny, deliciously sinister little books have influenced our culture in countless ways, from Tim Burton's movies to Ann Sui's fashion to Neil Gaiman's 'Coraline' to Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events. Some call him… Read more about this item

London: William Heinemann, 1907. 233 pp, 8 1/4" H, red cloth with black lettering on spine, gilt lettering & black decoration on front board, blindstamped illustration on rear board. Monochrome drawing on title page by Arthur Rackham plus 21 plates comprising 16 tissue-covered colour plates (including frontispiece) and five b&w plates by Hoppner, Romney, Reynolds, Hogarth, Morland, Cotman, Gainsborough, Turner,… Read more about this item

London: Quiller, 1992. 117 pp, 9 1/2" H. B&w illustrations. "Marie Tussaud's achievement was phenomenal. In the first half of the nineteenth century it was hard for a woman to make a success of any kind of business without male partnership, money, or influence behind her. Marie had none of these, and yet proved herself a career woman ahead… Read more about this item

Secaucus, New Jersey: Wellfleet Press, 1980. 96 pp, 14 1/4" H. 40 colour and 50 b&w illustrations. Edward Lear is famous for his limericks and nonsense rhymes, but "the earliest years of his career were devoted to quite a different creative enterprise: a series of extraordinary bird paintings of a quality and style to rival the work of even… Read more about this item

New York: Hyperion, 1997. 224 pp, 11 1/4" H. Hologram on front cover, profusely illustrated throughout in colour and b&w. "(T)he newly revised 'Disney's Art of Animation' covers the history of animation at the Disney Studio from the birth of Mickey Mouse to Disney's latest animated film, 'Hercules'. (It) includes 'Aladdin, 'The Nightmare Before Christmas', 'The Lion King', 'Pocahontas',… Read more about this item

Hartford: Connecticut Historical Society, 1993. 232 pp, 12 1/4" H, teale boards with gilt lettering/border on spine, gilt lettering/decoration on front board. Map endpapers, many b&w photographs, 16 color plates. Errata slip tipped in at Foreword. The catalogue of an exhibition organized by the Connecticut Historical Society. Book has light cigarette odour, a few minor light scuff marks on… Read more about this item

Koln: Taschen, 2004. 352 pp, 10 1/4" H, integral ribbon bookmark, reproduction marbled endpapers. "The album with the revealing title 'Theatre of Love' or 'Jestings on Love' brings together 143 magnificent copperplate engravings - from elaborately conceived love emblems and allegories to illustrations of proverbs, the Muses and the Virtues and Vices. The pictures, all of them devoted to the… Read more about this item

Cambridge, Massachusetts: Belknap / Harvard University Press, 2019. 547 pp, 9 1/2" H. B&w and colour photographs, reproductions. "The impact of Walter Gropius can be measured in his buildings - Fagus Factory, Bauhaus Dessau, Pan Am - but no less in his students. I.M. Pei, Paul Rudolph, Anni Albers, Philip Johnson, Fumihiko Maki: countless masters were once disciples at… Read more about this item

U.S.A.: Blizzard Entertainment, 2010. 176 pp, 10 5/8" H. Profusely illustrated throughout in colour and sepiatone. Contents: Legacy of Destruction: Deathwing; The End of All Things: Twilight's Hammer; A Changing World: Kalimdor and the Eastern Kingdoms; Lock the Doors: Gilneas; Message in a Bottle: Kezan and the Lost Isles; Forgotten Depths: Vashj'ir; Mysteries in the Sand: Uldum; Realm of… Read more about this item

Glasgow: Morison Brothers, 1899. Unpaginated, 13 1/8" H x 10 1/2" D. Medium green cloth covered bevelled boards (spine faded to brown), with dark green lettering and gilt decoration on spine and front board, top edge gilt. Dark brown endpapers. From a limited edition of 500 copies, this one with "Review" written in place of a number and the initials… Read more about this item

Seattle: Thomas & Mercer, 2017. 553 pp, 9 1/4" H. B&w and colour illustrations - maps, photographs, reproductions. "(A) comprehensive and intriguing expose of one of the world's most chilling cases of serial murder - and the police force that failed to solve it. Vain and charismatic Walter Sickert made a name for himself as a painter in Victorian… Read more about this item

Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1968. 203 pp, 11 3/16" H. B&w and colour photographs. A pictorial look at Expo 67, the World's Fair held in Montreal in 1967. Contents: Introduction / A heaven-storming ambition: Tomorrow's World; The greatest show on earth: How the world saw the fair; An exultation of form and structure: Architecture's giant stride into tomorrow; The… Read more about this item

Washington, D.C.: Archaeological Institute of America, 1921. 268 pp + 284 pp, 10 7/8" H. Volumes XI (January-June 1921) and XII (July-December 1921), bound in one volume with brown leather spine and corners, teale blue cloth boards. Spine has five raised bands, gilt lettering/decorations (including college crest). Floral endpapers, red 'splatter' effect to text block edges. ** Ex-college library** … Read more about this item

Toronto: ECW Press, 2021. 436 pp, 8 1/2" H. Pictorial endpapers, colour reproductions. "Born into a patrician American family in the middle of the nineteenth century, Mary Hiester Reid was determined to be a painter and left behind women's design schools to enter the art world of men. After she married fellow artist George Reid, she returned with him… Read more about this item

Toronto: Gage, 1978. 304 pp, 4to (12 1/4" H). Profusely illustrated with b&w and colour reproductions. The life and work of Quebec artist, Jean Paul Lemieux. A slight lean to the spine. Dust jacket has some light browning on the inside edges, a few irregar very faint/thin line indentations on the panels.. Not Signed. No. 1399 of… Read more about this item

Toronto: The Society for Art Publications, 1974. 106 pp, 11 1/2" H. B&w and colour illustrations. Articles: Discovering the Shape of Canada, by John Warkentin; Mapping Time: Three New Works by Vera Frenkel, by Peter Perrin; The Moving Eye: Nancy Graves Sculpture, Film, and Painting, by Robert Arn; Reflections on/of Michael Snow, by John Noel Chandler; Claude Breeze: Canadian Atlas… Read more about this item

New York: Pynson Printers, 1939. The four volumes of the "New Graphic Series" of the Colophon, 10 5/8" H, pictorial front boards/spines - lacking the original glassine dust jackets. No. 1 - March 1939, 115 pp, with linoleum cut by Hans Alexander Mueller, wood engraving by Emil Ganso and additional illustration by George Cruikshank & Edward A. Wilson, plus… Read more about this item

London: Country Life, 1929. VII, 32 pp, 4to (12 1/4" H). Gray/purple cloth with paper title label on front board, purple marbled endpapers. 16 colour plates, including frontispiece (all present - clean, bright, with no tears or creases). All pages (text & illustrations) are printed on one side only on heavy stock (versos blank). Each illustration page… Read more about this item

Toronto: Musson 264 pp, 9 1/2" H. No date, but c1908. Medium brown cloth with gilt lettering on spine and front board, black illustration on front board, top edge gilt. Preface in French, all other text in English. 48 colour plates (including tissue-covered frontispiece) plus 12 sepia drawings - all present. Chapter headings: Of the Colour of Paris;… Read more about this item

New York: Argophile Press, 1958. xi, 241 pp, 8vo (9 1/4" H), gray cloth with black lettering on spine and front board, light gray endpapers. Number 4 of the first, limited edition of 75 copies, signed by Cummings. B&w illustrations. "This book consists of a cluster of epigrams, forty-nine essays on various subjects, a poem dispraising dogmata, and… Read more about this item