ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE BOOK OF JOB. Being All the Water-Colour Designs, Pencil Drawings and Engravings, Reproduced in Facsimile by Blake, William. Introduction by Laurence Binyon and Geoffrey Keynes - 1935

Paris: Gazettedes Beaux- Arts. Very Good. 1924-27. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition. Catalogue De L'oeuvre Grave. Introduction de F. Courboin. Tissue protected Etched & engraved plate illustrations. Tome #1, 1924, 1 to 299 illustrations; Tome #2, 1927, 300 to 652; Tome #3, 1927, 653 to 1428. Nicely bound in clean red buckram cloth. Bright gilt title on spines. Texts tight, clean & intact. Some uncut pages. Deckle page edges. Callot a master of techniques has produced images in a wide variety of subjects. French text. Covers have a slight inward bow. A few light flecks of foxing. Rare Section ; Etching & Engraved Illustrations; 4to 11" - 13" tall .

Rome: Desclee, Lefebvre & C., 1903. Testo only. First edition. Hard cover in original cloth and boards. Published Rome: Desclee, Lefebvre & C., 1903. Folio, 12" x 16", xix+549pp., illustrated with 54 reproductions within the text. Text in Italian. Libro Primo, Libro Secondo, Supplemento Primo, Supplemento Secondo. Splitting to the outer cloth along the hinges, some scuffing to rear cover, light foxing along front edge of portion of page block, else very good. Text clean, bright, unmarked, binding tight. Not ex-library. Scarce. . 1st. Hard. Very Good Minus/No Jacket. Folio.

Paris: Chez C. P. Landon. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1801. 1st Edition. First Printing. Hard Cover. 16 volumes, only, of 21. This set includes volumes 1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 8, 19, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 19, 20, and 21. Bound in full green morocco, spines in five compartments separated by raised bands, gilt lettering in two compartments, gilt imperial eagle and floral tooling in remainder, gilt and blind-stamped borders on covers surrounding gilt imperial eagles, a.e.g., rust endpapers. Illustrated with hundreds of full-page engravings of works of art in the museums and public buildings of France. Charles Paul Landon (1760 – 1826) was a French painter and popular writer on art and artists. It is chiefly for his writing on the arts that he made a reputation. He published nearly one hundred volumes during his lifetime. Landon was among the collaborators of the influential Journal des arts, des sciences et de la littérature. He was also a part-owner of the Gazette de France,… Read More

The First (and only) Edition published by the Sycamore Press,Leicester in 1980 and distributed by the Gadsby Gallery.Hard Cover.BOOK Condition:near FINE.Folio-over 12" - 15" tall.Quarter black leather with green cloth boards in excellent condition with no sunning of the spine.Gilt titling very bright.Book is housed in a near FINE orange cloth covered SLIPCASE.160pp, beautifully illustrated with full page tipped in colour plates,monotone and black & white line drawings. Limited to 150 copies,this being number 56 and SIGNED by Rigby Graham.An exquisite expensively produced work and one of the great topographical books of the twentieth century.See accompanying photos as an example of the quality of drawings in this title,especially the last two images of the magnificent end-papers.Accompanied by a CATALOGUE 'Graham's Leicestershire ' in near Fine condition which describes the book in production and lists some of the paintings which ended up being utilised in the book production. Also accompanied by a… Read More

Shanghai Commercial Press, Ltd, China, 1936 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. English and Chinese text; Hardcover (original blue cloth silk with gilt design - without dust jacket); 19.5 x 27.6 cm; 3.357 Kg; 4 volumes: 1. Bronze (101 pages); 2. Porcelain (3 parts) (244 pages); 3. Painting and Calligraphy (256 pages); 4. Miscellaneous (191 pages) (Tapestry and Embroidery, Jade, Cloisonné, Red Lacquer, Fans, Furniture and Writing Accessories, Archaeological Exhibits and Ancient Books); all with black and white illustrations.; Signs of wear in the hardcover cloth. Minor edgeworn. Minor scuffs on the front cover of the four volumes and on the back cover of the second and third volumes; The gilt designs on the front cover of the second and forth volume show minor yellowing marks. The interior is in very good condition with minor signs of wear.; REFERENCE EXHIBITION ON CHINESE ART.; Catalogue for the International Exhibition of Chinese Art held by the Royal Academy of Arts at Burlington House,… Read More

Venice: Giambatista Pasquali. Good with no dust jacket. 1767-1771. First Edition. Disbound. Lacking front board. Rear pastepaper board present, with remnant of early marbled paper covering. Some dampstains to margins of leaves. Some waviness and wrinkles to leaves. Some leaves detached from sewing. Complete. ; Two titles bound together as one. Both titles collated and complete. First title ("Trattato"): xii, 81, [1] pages. 47 leaves. Includes 8 full page plates within the pagination. Folio. Page dimensions: 340 x 250mm. Bound with ""Osservazioni di Antonio Visentini architetto Veneto che servono di continuazione al tratto di Teofil Gallaccini sopra gli errori degli architetti" by Antonio Visentini. Venice: Giambatista Pasquali, 1771. vii, [1], 141 pages + 1 plate "La Perfezione" following the title leaf. 76 leaves (last leaf blank) + frontispiece. Includes 61 full page plates within the pagination. Folio. Page dimensions: 340 x 250mm. Text is in Italian.… Read More

Rome: Desclee, Lefebvre & C., 1903. Testo only. First edition. Hard cover in original cloth and boards. Published Rome: Desclee, Lefebvre & C., 1903. Folio, 12" x 16", xix+549pp., illustrated with 54 reproductions within the text. Text in Italian. Libro Primo, Libro Secondo, Supplemento Primo, Supplemento Secondo. Splitting to the outer cloth along the hinges, some scuffing to rear cover, light foxing along front edge of portion of page block, else very good. Text clean, bright, unmarked, binding tight. Not ex-library. Scarce. . 1st. Hard. Very Good Minus/No Jacket. Folio.

Paris: Chez C. P. Landon. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1801. 1st Edition. First Printing. Hard Cover. 16 volumes, only, of 21. This set includes volumes 1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 8, 19, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 19, 20, and 21. Bound in full green morocco, spines in five compartments separated by raised bands, gilt lettering in two compartments, gilt imperial eagle and floral tooling in remainder, gilt and blind-stamped borders on covers surrounding gilt imperial eagles, a.e.g., rust endpapers. Illustrated with hundreds of full-page engravings of works of art in the museums and public buildings of France. Charles Paul Landon (1760 – 1826) was a French painter and popular writer on art and artists. It is chiefly for his writing on the arts that he made a reputation. He published nearly one hundred volumes during his lifetime. Landon was among the collaborators of the influential Journal des arts, des sciences et de la littérature. He was also a part-owner of the Gazette de France,… Read More

The First (and only) Edition published by the Sycamore Press,Leicester in 1980 and distributed by the Gadsby Gallery.Hard Cover.BOOK Condition:near FINE.Folio-over 12" - 15" tall.Quarter black leather with green cloth boards in excellent condition with no sunning of the spine.Gilt titling very bright.Book is housed in a near FINE orange cloth covered SLIPCASE.160pp, beautifully illustrated with full page tipped in colour plates,monotone and black & white line drawings. Limited to 150 copies,this being number 56 and SIGNED by Rigby Graham.An exquisite expensively produced work and one of the great topographical books of the twentieth century.See accompanying photos as an example of the quality of drawings in this title,especially the last two images of the magnificent end-papers.Accompanied by a CATALOGUE 'Graham's Leicestershire ' in near Fine condition which describes the book in production and lists some of the paintings which ended up being utilised in the book production. Also accompanied by a… Read More

Shanghai Commercial Press, Ltd, China, 1936 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. English and Chinese text; Hardcover (original blue cloth silk with gilt design - without dust jacket); 19.5 x 27.6 cm; 3.357 Kg; 4 volumes: 1. Bronze (101 pages); 2. Porcelain (3 parts) (244 pages); 3. Painting and Calligraphy (256 pages); 4. Miscellaneous (191 pages) (Tapestry and Embroidery, Jade, Cloisonné, Red Lacquer, Fans, Furniture and Writing Accessories, Archaeological Exhibits and Ancient Books); all with black and white illustrations.; Signs of wear in the hardcover cloth. Minor edgeworn. Minor scuffs on the front cover of the four volumes and on the back cover of the second and third volumes; The gilt designs on the front cover of the second and forth volume show minor yellowing marks. The interior is in very good condition with minor signs of wear.; REFERENCE EXHIBITION ON CHINESE ART.; Catalogue for the International Exhibition of Chinese Art held by the Royal Academy of Arts at Burlington House,… Read More