Search Results: Titles starting with F from Sky Duthie Rare Books

London: The Theosophical Publishing House., 1945. First edition. Publisher's original quarter light-blue cloth over beige paper-covered boards with titles in black to the upper board. Lacking the dustwrapper. Illustrated with five full-page black and white photographic plates. Two related newspaper cuttings loosely laid in. A near fine copy, the binding square and firm with a little toning to the edges of the boards and minor wear to the corners. The contents with a touch of toning to the front free endpaper where the newspaper cuttings have sat are otherwise clean and fresh throughout. An excellent copy. The first edition of this exploratory discussion regarding the famous photographs of the 'Cottingley Fairies', taken by Elsie Wright and Frances Griffiths in 1917 and 1920, by the theosophist Edward L. Gardner (1869-1969). Gardner served as the original investigator of these images, which supposedly captured the two girls' encounter with fairies at the bottom of their garden in Cottingley, near… Read More

London: Macmillan and Co., Limited., 1913. First edition. Quarto. Publisher's original blue-green cloth with embossed gilt vignette depicting fairies to the upper board, elaborate decoration in gilt to the upper board and spine, and titles in gilt to the spine. Top edge gilt. Illustrated with 32 beautiful colour plates by Warwick Goble, each with a captioned tissue guard. Contemporary gift inscription in ink to the front free endpaper, presenting the work to one Kathleen Bell on her tenth birthday. A very good copy indeed, the binding square and firm with a touch of cracking in places, a few small nicks to the spine ends, and a little rubbing to the corners and lower board. The contents with some light scattered foxing to the endpapers/half title and occasionally to page edges, and the odd minor mark to page margins are otherwise in very good order throughout. The plates remain clean, crisp and vivid. An attractive copy, difficult to find in such good condition. A sumptuous collection of classic… Read More

[Original artwork]., 1929.. Original ink and watercolour drawing on card depicting a fairy queen brushing her hair whilst looking in a mirror, surround by various fairy and pixie attendants. Signed, titled, and dated by the artist to the foot. The image measuring 31 x 19.5cm. Mounted but unframed (42.8 x 30.8cm including the mount). Condition is very good, the image remaining cleans and the colours bright and fresh. A beautiful, skilfully-executed fairy painting showing the stylistic influence of Edwardian 'Golden Age' illustrators such as Arthur Rackham, by the artist, miniaturist and calligrapher Enid Sybil Mills (1901-1985). Mills studied at St Martin's School of Art and the Central School of Arts and Crafts, where her teachers included Walter Bayes and Bernard Meninsky. She exhibited at the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours, the Royal Watercolour Society, and the Royal Miniature Society, of which she was elected a member in 1961.

[Original artwork]., 1937.. Original ink and watercolour drawing on card depicting Titania from Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream asleep surrounded by three standing fairies, with other fairy/pixie figures looking on, set within a garden of flowers. Signed, titled, and dated by the artist to the foot. The image measuring 37 x 26cm. Mounted but unframed (50.5 x 38cm including the mount). There is a light ink splash to the centre of the image (affecting the central fairy), otherwise condition is very good. A beautiful, skilfully-executed fairy painting showing the stylistic influence of Edwardian 'Golden Age' illustrators such as Arthur Rackham, by the artist, miniaturist and calligrapher Enid Sybil Mills (1901-1985).

Mills studied at St Martin's School of Art and the Central School of Arts and Crafts, where her teachers included Walter Bayes and Bernard Meninsky. She exhibited at the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours, the Royal Watercolour Society, and the Royal Miniature Society, of… Read More

[Original artwork]., 1921-1933.. Five original ink and watercolour drawings, plus one ink drawing, depicting various fairy subjects, with titles including "The Wedding of the Rose", "Autumn", "The Lost Fairies", and "The Elfin Artist", four on card, two on paper. Signed, titled, and dated by the artist to the foot. All unframed, three mounted. The images measuring 37 x 22.5cm; 26.5 x 18cm; 25 x 19cm; 15.2 x 11.7cm; 23.3 x 9.6; and 28.2 x 15cm. "Autumn" with toning to the paper, some light scattered foxing to the blank margins/mounts of the others, toning and chipping to the extremities of the mount of the largest watercolour, and the ink drawing with several vertical creases and scattered foxing - otherwise the images are in very good condition. A charming group of skilfully-executed fairy paintings showing the stylistic influence of Edwardian 'Golden Age' illustrators such as Arthur Rackham, by the artist, miniaturist and calligrapher Enid Sybil Mills (née Smith, 1901-1985). Mills studied at St… Read More

[c.1930].. Colour lithograph reproducing an original painting by Claude Flight. The image measuring 17.8 x 15cm. Signed in ink to the lower right margin and titled in ink to the lower left. Contained within the original glazed wooden frame, with label to the rear: "F. J. Ward / 3 Baker St. / London, W.1. / and at / 48 Gt. Russell St. / W.C.1. / (Helena Johnston)" (21.6 x 18.3cm including frame). There is a touch of fading to the ink signature/title. The lithograph is in very good condition, free from foxing and with the colours remaining bold and bright. The frame is also in very good order with just a few expected minor knocks and marks. An uncommon signed lithograph reproducing a painting of a stylised French rural scene by the artist Claude Flight (1881-1955), best known as a leading pioneer and promoter of linocut printmaking during the inter-war period.

[Various]., 1920-1932. Octavos. Each handsomely bound in contemporary half morocco over marbled boards; five raised bands to the spine; titles in gilt. Top edge gilt. Marbled endpapers. Each with the stylish Art Deco bookplate of Albert Andriesse to the front free endpaper; three additionally inscribed by Ella Andriesse. The titles comprise:RIZZI, Fortunato: Michelangelo Poeta. Milano: Fratelli Treves, 1924.ROLLAND, Romain: Vie de Michel-Ange, avec un portrait. Paris: Librairie Hachette, 1920.POURTALÈS, Guy de: Wagner: Histoire d'un Artiste. Paris: Librairie Gallimard, 1932.BARTHOU, Louis: La via amoureuse de Richard Wagner. 1925.MONNIER, Philippe: Venise XVIIIe Siècle. Paris: Perrin et Cie, 1920.Condition is very good; the bindings square and firm with a little fading and rubbing to the spines and shelf wear to the extremities. The contents with toning and the odd small mark or annotation are otherwise in very good order. Albert and Ella Andriesse-van den Bergh were a Dutch Jewish couple who… Read More

London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1896.. First edition. Large octavo. Handsomely bound by Mudie in contemporary brown morocco with elaborate gilt decoration to the boards incorporating dark-red morocco onlays and titles in gilt to the upper board; the spine with five raised bands, compartments richly decorated in gilt, incorporating the same morocco onlays, and titles in gilt. Gilt dentelles. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Illustrated with 46 sepia and black and white plates (the plates which reproduce paintings with captioned tissue-guards) and 7 in-text illustrations. xx + 459pp. A very good copy, the binding square and firm with a touch of cracking to the front hinge, rubbing to the joints and spine ends, a few minor scuffs to the boards and a little wear to the corners. The contents with some light scattered foxing, a clipped corner to one tissue-guard, and another tissue-guard standing slightly proud of the textblock, are otherwise in very good order - the plates remaining clean and sharp.… Read More

London: Macmillan and Co., 1892. First edition. Author's presentation copy, with printed presentation plate "From the Author" pasted to the front endpaper. Octavo. Publisher's original green cloth with titles in gilt to the spine. 155pp. A very good copy, the binding tight with a little darkening to the spine and wear to the extremities. The contents with toning to the endpapers are otherwise in very good order and clean throughout. A nice copy of the last work published in Tennyson's lifetime, gifted by the man himself.

Harmondsworth: Penguin Books., 1963.. Mick Jagger's copy, with his signature ("Mike Jagger") in pencil to the head of the half-title page. Reprint. Publisher's original card wrappers. 225pp. A few scattered pencil underlinings and a pencil annotation to p.44, apparently in another hand ("constitute part of social reality?"). An acceptable copy, the binding secure with a little splitting to the ends of the upper joint, a 4cm tear to the foot of the upper cover (with neat paper repair verso), and a little rubbing and wear to the extremities. The contents with a watermark to the margins of the fore-edge and bottom-edge of the textblock, some old ink marks to pp.62-63, and some expected toning are otherwise in good order. An unusual artefact from the early student days of the Rolling Stones front man Mick [Michael] Jagger, whilst he was studying at the London School of Economics. After leaving school in 1961, Jagger moved into a flat on Edith Grove, Chelsea with Keith Richards and Brian Jones. While… Read More