Search Results: Illustrated Books from Riverrun Books & Manuscripts

New York: Random House / Maecenas Press, 1970. In fine condition save some light wear to the folding case. Two large oblong folios (12 x 16 inches). 22 pp. 347 plates. Original linen-backed gilt-decorated cloth in original purple velvet lined folding case. FIRST EDITION. The title refers to the 347 engravings that Picasso made at Mougins from March 16 to October 5, 1968. "Neither Dürer, Rembrandt nor Daumier—all admittedly great and productive printmakers—approaches Picasso either in mastery of the wide variety of graphic techniques or in sheer outpouring of ideas or images Never has there been a sustained achievement equal to that captured in these pages. All the prints included here were produced in an incredibly short time, always with superb mastery of the medium. Viewed in toto, these images, dreams and visual poems by the greatest artist of our time seem almost limitless. There is no point in comparing Picasso to other artists; he stands Olympian and alone. Though not himself immortal,… Read More

[Paris]: Musées de Sens, Éditions du Linteau, 2002. 4to. 139, [2] pp. Black-and-white illustrations, deluxe issue with original etching. Text and plates laid loose as issued in original printed wrappers, red printed chemise and slipcase. Fine. FIRST EDITION, LIMITED DELUXE ISSUE, number 1 of 60 copies with an original etching by Gilles Narrey signed in pencil, from an edition of 700 copies.

Mexico: Fidencio S. Soria, nd. Large folding plates are torn at the attachment, else a very good copy; light wear to binding. 4to. 30 pages. 63 plates, with two large folding plates. Brown cloth, original printed wrappers bound in.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1937. Joints and spine bands rubbed, owner's name on frony flyleaf. 4to. 321pp. Color plates by N. C. Wyeth. Early 20th-century blue half morocco, spine gilt, top edges gilt.

Amsterdam: Mason d'editions "De Spieghel, 1946. A very-good plus copy, the front cover with fading and pale tidemark at bottom, some intermittent and unobtrusive foxing. 8vo. 43, [1] pages. Black silhouettes by Nelly Bodenheim. Original quarter black cloth, pink pictorial boards. A charming series of songs, illustrated with silhouettes. Bodenheim was born in Amsterdam where she was trained at the Rijksacademie voor Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam, and then she followed lessons from the painter Jan Veth. Her illustrations (often for children's books) were generally black & white silhouettes but she is also known for color lithography.

London: William Pickering, 1836. 2 volumes, 4to (270 x 180 mm; 105/8 x 71/8 in.). Half-titles, titles printed in red and black, 61 steel engravings in two states, many printed on india paper. Contemporary dark green morocco by Hering, wide borders gilt, fish tool cornerpieces gilt, spines in 6 compartments with 5 raised bands, gilt-lettered in two, fish tool gilt in the rest, edges gilt. Some occasional spotting; some light wear, spines somewhat dry and slightly darkened. Provenance: William George Prescott (1800-1865) British banker (bookplate); Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe (1865-1922) British newspaper and publishing magnate (bookplate). DELUXE EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED LARGE-PAPER COPY, WITH THE ADDITION OF A SECOND SUITE OF PLATES, nearly all on india paper on thick paper mounts. First Nicolas edition. This deluxe issue is enhanced by the addition of a second suite of plates, nearly all on india paper on thick-paper mounts. "One of the best, possibly the very best of ... [the 146 editions… Read More

Berlin: Georg Reimer, 1862. Inkstamp on title, plate 34 separated from guard, some light wear at sheet edges, somehat shaken and leaned, but overall a clean copy in original condition. Large folio (580 x 410 mm; 22.5 x 16 inches). vii, [2], [2]-127 pages. 96 lithographs mounted on guards, of which 12 double-page, and two tri-fold. Publisher's cloth-backed boards, untrimmed. FIRST EDITION, of the first volume in the 'Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum': "The most extensive corpus of Latin inscriptions is the Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum (CIL). Initiated by Theodor Mommsen in 1853, its first volume was published a decade later, and new parts of the corpus are still being prepared and published over 150 years later... From the start, it had the ambitious aim of publishing all Latin inscriptions, as an extension of the project initiated in 1815 by the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences for publishing all Greek classical inscriptions as Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum" (Cambridge Manual of Latin Epigraphy).

London: Robert Jennings, 1824. First edition. Hinges tender, and some light wear to bindings, some intermittent spotting, but generally a very handsome and well-preserved set. Three volumes, 4to (373 x 268 mm). 80 engraved plates, of which 70 are hand-colored, with historiated hand-colored initials for each chapter throughout. Contemporary grey calf, blind-tooled borders, spines with gilt bands and red leather lettering-pieces, all edges gilt. Provenance: Jasper Hall (bookplate); Henry J. B. Clements (bookplate, sold Sotheby's 1 November 1966, lot 975). One of the first works to view the subject of ancient arms and armor from an historical perspective. "This most superb archeological work is animated with numerous novelties, curious and historical disquisitions, and brilliant and recondite learning... Plates as fine as the monuments of Westminster Abbey. Really and truly the work is admirably executed, and deserves every eulogy" (Edinburgh Review, quoted in Lowndes). Includes a glossary of military… Read More

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1957. A very good copy in a bright jacket, price-clipped. Child's ownership name and date in year of publication on front endpaper. Folio. Illustrated by Hilary Knight. Original cloth; dust jacket. FIRST EDITION, first printing.

Milan: Achille Mauri, 1968. Thermoformed plastic multiple: 11.75 x 11.75 inches; 30 x 30 cm. Some minor age darkening at the edges, generally in fine condition, without cracks or abrasions. The book: 44 pages. Text by Vincenzo Agnetti. In Italian, French, and German. Photographs by Giorgio A. Colombo, Franco Angeli, Ugo Mulas, and Uliano Lucas. Original printed wrappers. Both enclosed in original publisher's printed cardboard box. One of 1000 copies of this multiple and catalogue, issued together in 1968 by Mauri. The multiple shares the characteristic play with light and shade created by Castellani's monochrome painted canvases stretched over nails. "Enrico Castellani strives for immateriality, to the point that even the paint materials lose their physical-empirical, sensual character, a means of emphasizing the intended otherness of the pictorial object. Castellani does not operate with concrete cultural references or archaic, mythical metaphors, for he is more concerned with creating… Read More

Newcastle: E. Walker for T. Bewick and Son, 1818. A very good copy, internally clean and fresh, joints restored and with some light wear to binding. 8vo. xxiv, 376 pages. 188 fable cuts and 136 tailpieces in text. Contemporary English polished calf, the sides and spines decorated in blind and gilt, marbled edges, by Whitehead and Sons, Leeds (with their ticket on pastedown). A handsome copy of Bewick's extensively and exquisitely illustrated fables. Roscoe 45.

Garden City: Doubleday, Page, 1925. Some light soiling to spine, generally in fine, bright condition. Without the slipcase. Folio (30 x 22.5 cm). 153, [1] pages. Original double-page color lithograph by Wilson signed in pencil (tissue guard preserved) and full-page color illustrations by Wilson throughout. Quarter vellum paper, brown boards, gilt, top edges gilt, others untrimmed. First edition, deluxe limited issue, number 93 of 250 copies signed by Rogers, Wilson, Marquis and Morley and with an original lithograph. A collection of poems in praise of drink.

New York: Thames & Hudson, 2013. A fine copy. Two volumes, 4to. Original pictorial boards; slipcase. FIRST EDITION.

Leyden: Andries Dyckhuysen, 1707. 8vo (153 x 97 mm). Engraved allegorical title and four engraved plates. (Some soiling and wear at sheet edges.) Contemporary vellum (worn). The Edward Tufte copy, with his book label. First Dutch edition, after the original French edition of 1658. Bourgeois was a French Royal midwife to Maria de Medici and authored several works on the subject. Pregnancy and birth are being described, as are medical explanations of miscarriage, infertility and illnesses that occur during pregnancy. The four plates show 26 figures representing the various stages of fertilization and development in the womb. A pupil of French physician and obstetrician Ambroise Pare, Bourgeois introduced and organized a professional method for the instruction and education of midwifes for the first time. Waller 1364.

Paris: Robert-J. Godet, 1943. Number 366 of 500 numbered copies on Lafuma from an edition of 531. Some light soiling to wrappers, offsetting at end from bookmark. 4to (282 x 222mm). Six plates by Pablo Picasso. With the Paul Eluard inserted leaf. Printed wrappers. With the very rare wrap-around band with printed text: "Une jour la Chèvre-Feuille me déclara: ‘Vous écrivez en vers libres parce que c'est plus facile.'" With printed slip pasted on colophon: "Les exemplaires numérotés de 226 à 525 ont été souscrits par Guy Le Prat, Éditeur.

Paris: nrf, 1948. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. A fine copy. Small folio. Original pictorial tan wrappers, lettered in black, untrimmed, glassine dust wrapper and publisher's yellow board slipcase. Copy no. 212 of 380 copies. Illustrated with 113 woodcuts by Jean Hugo. (BA).

Paris: Editions Jeanne Walter, 1929. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. A very good copy. 4to. Original beige wrappers, lettered in black and green, untrimmed; tissue dust wrapper (a trifle soiled on rear); in publisher's colorful board chemise and slipcase with leather spine label (slight wear at edges). One of 280 copies on vélin d'Arches (this copy unnumbered but inscribed by Jeanne Walter). Illustrated with colored lithographs by Jean Hugo. (BA).

Paris: Firmin-Didot, 1888. First edition. Some minor white paint residue along board edges (not visible when shelved), light toning to foot of vol.6 spine, otherwise very clean and fresh. 4 (of 6) volumes, folio (16 x 11 1/4 inches). Title printed in red and black. Plates, including fine chromolithograps. Each volume present is complete as issued. Modern quarter plium morocco over cloth, the spines in six compartments with five raised bands, gilt-lettered in two, a richly gilt arabesque in the remaining. A fine though partial set, the plates in very fine condition with colors fresh and bright, heightened with gum arabic. 'THE MOST IMPORTANT GENERAL SURVEY ON COSTUME' (Colas). Racinet's is the most famous of the 19th-century books on dress, and the first fashion book to use color lithography. It is a wide-ranging survey of costume through time, an encyclopaedic work in the tradition of the costume books that began to appear from the 16th-century in the wake of the age of exploration. Publication… Read More

London and New York: Frederick Warne & Co, 1909. Second edition. 8vo. 64 pp. Color illustrations by Greenaway. Original half green cloth; glazed pictorial boards. Lacks front free endpaper, shaken, covers rubbed and with some pale staining; last leaf browned. Jane Taylor (1783-824) is the English poet and novelist best known for writting the lyrics to the song "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star". Most editions, because the first and second are undated, are optimistically described as first editions. The present edition, published by Warne, is the second; the first of 1882 must bear the imprint of George Routledge & Sons. Schuster and Engen 109, 2a.

Coloniae: Prostant apud Iacobum à Meurs Amstelodami, 1655. Binding with wear at extremites; pale dampstain throughout the text. Volume 1 only: 12mo (15 x 8.8 cm). [8], 683, [29] pages. Text in double-columns. Engraved title signed I.v. Meaurs and 52 engraved emblems in text. COntemporary mottled calf, spine gilt. Provenance: early shelfmark of S. Maurity in manuscript on upper sheet edges. Jacobus van de Walle's laudetory poem is at the beginning on pages [6-10]. The second volume contained an additional 52 engraved emblems. Engelgrave was a Belgian theologian, brother of the preceding, was born at Antwerp in 1610. He joined the society of Jesus in 1628; became successively director and then prefect of the lower classes; directed for fifteen years several convents; became rector of the colleges of Oudenarde, Cassel, and Bruges. The present work was put on the Index at Rome on 27 July 1686, but it was reprinted several times.