THE BASES OF DESIGN
First edition of this illustrated compendium of Walter Crane's aesthetic influences and principles, compiled from his lectures at the Manchester School of Art.
First edition of this illustrated compendium of Walter Crane's aesthetic influences and principles, compiled from his lectures at the Manchester School of Art.
Signed limited first edition thus, illustrated by Favorsky, of this Pushkin comic poem with a striking modern design.
Gilded Age edition in an elaborately constructed vernacular dust jacket, with an original watercolor painted onto the front panel, and incorporating silk ribbons.
Limited edition, signed by the illustrator, of Lamb's diverting and digressive essay on the Pig, for whom he has much appetitive affection but no pity whatever.
First edition of Tennyson's never-staged play, an attractive copy with a hidden fore-edge painting.
Striking limited edition artist's book that contrasts the violent world of prize fighting with the measured, clean format of a fine press book.
Signed limited edition, one of 550 numbered copies signed by Woolf in her characteristic purple ink – this copy once part of Pearl S. Buck's library, with her collection bookplate.