Book Arts & Illustration from Wykeham Books

Dr. W. Junk B.V., The Hague, first edition, 1976. Cloth, gilt cover device, 4to, 28 cm,. ix, 134, xvii, 605 pp, ills (some colour). Contents include: I STUDIES: Introduction; Printing in Colours; The Colourists; Colouring: Quality, Cost Price and Delivery Time; The Publishing Houses of J.C. Sepp & Zoon, E. Maaskamp, Frans Buffa & Zonen Publishing and Marketing;… Read more about this item

Victoria and Albert Museum, London, first edition, 1982. Illustrated wrappers, small 8vo, 22 cm,. 84 pp, ills. 1,005 entries. The catalogue lists and dates over 1,000 exhibits including books from Stone's collection; engraved letterheadings, bookplates, cards, devices, coats of arms etc.; books illustrated or decorated by Stone and ephemera; blocks and gravers, designs for stamps, coins, banknotes, etc.; letters;… Read more about this item

Viking Press, New York, first US edition, 1967. Cloth, folio,. 372 pp, 502 ills. With an introduction by John Rothenstein. From the blurb - "-The great revival of interest in the art of Aubrey Beardsley and the success of recent retrospective exhibitions of his work have demonstrated the need for a single volume presenting all his better-known prints… Read more about this item

Ingpen & Grant, London, first edition, 1935. Cloth, top edge gilt, 4to,. viii, 288 pp. Covers English books with coloured lithographs or aquatints published in the first half of the 19th century. Excludes works on botany and ornithology. Small mark to front board, otherwise Near Very Good.

Julia MacRae, London, first edition, 1989. Cloth, 4to,. 320 pp, ills. (some colour). From the blurb: "The work of fifteen significant modern illustrators is assessed in depth in this major art book. Douglas Martin has talked with each of the artists included and much of the comment about background, influence and technique is quoted direct, giving the text… Read more about this item

Dawsons of Pall Mall, 1972 reprint of the 1952 first edition (which was limited to 500 copies). Cloth, 4to,. colour frontispiece, xx, 399 pp, 34 plates, 54 text illustrations. 556 entries. Abbey's classic bibliographical catalogue of "colour-plate" books on the scenery of Great Britain and Ireland. From his preface: "I have, for over a quarter of a century, been… Read more about this item

E. P. Publishing Ltd, London, 1972 reprint of 1908 first edition with a new foreword by Helen Courtney-Lewis. Cloth, 8vo, 21 cm,. v-vi, [1], xviii, 276 pp, plates. From the blurb: "George Baxter was born in Lewes in 1804 and undoubtedly he learned much from his father who was a printer, wood engraver and publisher. Baxter became a… Read more about this item

British Printing Machinery Association; Industrial & Trade Fairs 1980, London, exhibition catalogue, 1980. Illustrated laminated wrappers, 8vo,. 139, [2] pp, plates (some colour). Includes a valuable essay "British Coloured Books 1738-1898" by Ruari McLean. From the introduction: "Whilst a number of examples of different processes will be on view, the chief glory will be a substantial selection of… Read more about this item

David & Charles, Newton Abbot, first edition, 1980. Cloth, 8vo, 26 cm,. 256pp, chiefly ills, facs. From the blurb - "George Cruikshank (1782-1878) developed into perhaps the greatest of British book illustrators. His working life of over seventy years began as his father’s assistant in political and social caricature in 1806 and, with no formal artistic training, by… Read more about this item

Ingpen & Grant, London, first edition, 1935. Cloth, top edge gilt, 4to,. viii, 288 pp. Covers English books with coloured lithographs or aquatints published in the first half of the 19th century. Excludes works on botany and ornithology. Covers a little rubbed, corners bumped, otherwise Good.

Praeger Publishers, New York, first US edition, 1971. Cloth, 4to, 26 cm,. xv, 287 pp, 91 ills, 5 colour ills. The first and still the best general survey of Victorian illustrated books, by an expert collector and dealer. Muir includes chapters on : 1 The Background; 2 Catnachery [ ie the Catnach press], Chapbooks and Children's Books;… Read more about this item

Martino Publishing, Mansfield Centre, 2004 reprint of 1931 first edition. Cloth, 8vo, 24 cm,. xxxii, 466 pp, ills. From the introduction - " This catalog, besides being the record of a collection of Japanese and Chinese books, is made with two distinct purposes in view: to give side lights on the development of Japanese prints, and to show… Read more about this item

The Bodley Head, London, first UK edition, 1974. Two-tone cloth, gilt cover-device, 4to, 31 cm,. xiv, 192, [1] pp, 125 plates. Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Pierpont Morgan Library, Sept. 11-Dec. 2, 1973 With an essay by Joseph Blumenthal. From the blurb - "The Bodley Head, by arrangement with David R. Godine of Boston, is… Read more about this item

Trianon Press, Paris, first edition, 1976. One of 480 numbered ordinary copies from a total edition of 538. Quarter-morocco and marbled boards, 4to,. 5 facsimile plates, 8 pp. From the Commentary: "The Book of Los was the first of the two small books executed by Blake mainly as etchings on copper to be printed as ordinary intaglio plates.… Read more about this item

Reinhold Pub. Corp. New York, first edition, [1967]. Cloth, 4to, 29 cm,. 159, [1] pp, profusely illustrated. Contents include: Introduction. -- The art of the layout. -- Typography. -- Printing methods. -- Paper. -- The anatomy of the book. -- Design approaches. -- Binding. -- Jackets and paperback covers. -- Trade book design. -- Textbooks, references, and manuals.… Read more about this item

Antique Collectors' Club, Woodbridge, first edition, 1978. Cloth, 4to, 274 x 208 mm,. 520 pp, 12 colour plates, numerous black-and-white ills. From the blurb: "Drawings and engravings were the only means of book or magazine illustrations until the camera took over at the end of the nineteenth century. The impact of the illustrated magazine on the Victorian household… Read more about this item

Scarecrow Press, Metuchen, N.J. first edition, 1993. Cloth, gilt cover-title on contrasting panel, 8vo, 22 cm,. xxx, 559 pp. This book "is a record of 19th- and 20th-century (1850's - 1991) English-language books containing movable illustrations. Included are 1,600 titles in which an action by the reader produces motion in the illustration. These are books with three-dimensional or… Read more about this item

J.M. Dent & Sons, London, first edition, 1962. Edition limited to 975 copies. Cloth, gilt cover device, 8vo,. xiv, 170 pp, ills. 394 entries. One of the leaders of the revival of wood-engraving in the 1920s, Gibbings was for nine years director of the Golden Cockerel Press. The first part of the volume is a descriptive bibliography of the… Read more about this item

David & Charles, Newton Abbot, first edition, 1979. Cloth, small 4to, 25 cm,. 224 pp, over 50 ills. From the blurb: "The years between 1730 and 1870 were the great age of the topographical print, from the copper plates illustrating explorers' journeys into remote Wales and the Lake District and the many volumes of antiquities of the British… Read more about this item

Privately Printed At the Curwen Press, London, first edition, 1952. Limited edition of 500 copies. Cloth, original morocco spine-label, top edge gilt, large 4to,. colour frontispiece, xx, 399 pp, 34 plates, 54 text illustrations. 556 entries. This first edition - much superior to later reprints - of Abbey's classic bibliographical catalogue of "colour-plate" books on the scenery of Great… Read more about this item