Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1972. Profusely illustrated with black and white 296pp. 4to, blue cloth (spine ends lightly bumped) dust wrapper (surface rubbing to wrapper). Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1972. A near fine copy in a very good dust wrapper. More
New York: Viking, 1972. Color illustrations. Thin 4to, pictorial boards, d.w. New York Viking , (1972). First Edition. Fine copy in a chipped & price-clipped dust wrapper. More
![Item #281291 A' Dilettanti delle Bell' Arti [title page]. Giovanni Battista BETTI](https://argosybooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/281291.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1520284592)
Florence: 1779. Engraving. Image size 7.25 x 7.75 inches. Sheet size 9 x 11.5 inches. Title page from A Dilettanti delle Bell'Arti, a rare decorated alphabet book. In very good condition. Shows some staining. Stitching holes at left edge. Numeral 1 in pencil at right top corner. Beautiful composition. More
Florence: 1779. Engraving. Image size 7.25 x 7.75 inches. Sheet size 9 x 11.5 inches. The letter I, Iride, from A Dilettanti delle Bell' Arti, a decorated alphabet book. In very good condition. Shows some light staining. Stitching holes at left edge. Numeral 10 in pencil at right top corner. The first edition of an inventive engraved alphabet book in which each floridly elaborate letter stands independently in a landscape where it is accompanied by a figure from Greek or..... More
Florence: 1779. Engraving. Image size 7.25 x 7.75 inches. Sheet size 9 x 11.5 inches. The letter Q, Quinto Curzio Vero, in a dynamic flaming scene, from A Dilettanti delle Bell' Arti, a decorated alphabet book. In very good condition. Shows some light staining. Stitching holes at left edge. Numeral 17 in pencil at right top corner. The first edition of an inventive engraved alphabet book in which each floridly elaborate letter stands independently in a landscape where it is..... More
Florence: 1779. Engraving. Image size 7.25 x 7.75 inches. Sheet size 9 x 11.5 inches. The letter S, Il Dio Sonno, from A Dilettanti delle Bell' Arti, a decorated alphabet book. In very good condition. Shows some staining. Stitching holes and small chip at left edge. Numeral 19 in pencil at right top corner. The first edition of an inventive engraved alphabet book in which each floridly elaborate letter stands independently in a landscape where it is accompanied by a...... More
Florence: 1779. Engraving. Image size 7.25 x 7.75 inches. Sheet size 9 x 11.5 inches. The letter U, Urania, from A Dilettanti delle Bell' Arti, a decorated alphabet book. Depicts Urania, the muse of astronomy. In very good condition. Shows some light staining. Stitching holes at left edge. Numeral 24 in pencil at right top corner. The first edition of an inventive and rare engraved alphabet book in which each floridly elaborate letter stands independently in a landscape where it..... More
Florence: 1779. Engraving. Image size 7.25 x 7.75 inches. Sheet size 9 x 11.5 inches. The letter X, Titiro, from A Dilettanti delle Bell' Arti, a decorated alphabet book. In very good condition. Shows some light staining. Stitching holes at left edge. Numeral 22 in pencil at right top corner. The first edition of an inventive engraved alphabet book in which each floridly elaborate letter stands independently in a landscape where it is accompanied by a figure from Greek or..... More
Florence: 1779. Engraving. Image size 7.25 x 7.75 inches. Sheet size 9 x 11.5 inches. The letter Y, Scherzo, from A Dilettanti delle Bell' Arti, a decorated alphabet book. In very good condition. Shows some light staining. Stitching holes at left edge. Numeral 23 in pencil at right top corner. The first edition of an inventive engraved alphabet book in which each floridly elaborate letter stands independently in a landscape where it is accompanied by a figure from Greek or..... More
Charles Hunsberger, 1970. Etching. 15 x 11 inches, BFK watermark. Printed on the inner panel of a large 22 inch bifolium. Image measures 4 1/2 x 3 3/4 inches. Boldly signed and numbered in pencil, 28/50. Philadelphia: Printed by Charles Hunsberger, 1970. Very Scarce. Letter I by Federico Castellon is part of a wonderful collaboration between two artists, with each responsible for thirteen alternate letters, and a self-portrait. Federico Castellon (1914-1971), was a surrealist printmaker, illustrator, painter, and sculptor. He..... More
Charles Hunsberger, 1970. Etching. 15 x 11 inches, Rives watermark. Printed on the inner panel of a large 22 inch bifolium. Image measures 4 1/2 x 3 5/8 inches. Boldly signed and numbered in pencil, 28/50. Philadelphia: Printed by Charles Hunsberger, 1970. Very Scarce. Letter U by Federico Castellon is part of a wonderful collaboration between two artists, with each responsible for thirteen alternate letters, and a self-portrait. Federico Castellon (1914-1971), was a surrealist printmaker, illustrator, painter, and sculptor. He..... More
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1991. Illustrated richly in color by Chwast. Unpaginated. Slender, square 4to, white pictorial boards, d.w. (small chip to top fore-corner of front panel). New York: Harcourt, (1991). Second printing signed by Chwast to front free end paper. Some bumping to top fore-corners of and lightly to bottom edge of front cover. A near fine copy in a very good(+) dust wrapper. 1991 Parents' Choice Award gold foil sticker to front d.w. panel. More
New York: Privately Printed, 1994. Designed, Printed & Illustrated in Conjunction with The Center For Book Arts. 4to, plain wrappers with printed card dust wrapper. (New York), 1994. Limited Edition. Fine. Both type and color woodblock illustrations were printed letterpress on handmade paper. Of an edition of 60 copies, this is marked AP & signed by Maureen cummings. "Aureole to Zingaresca represents years of fortuitous lexigraphical trouvailles. It is the book of a bibliotaph gone berserk, a fabulist's treasure trove..... More
New York: Thames & Hudson, 1995. 339 illustrations in b/w and blue. 320 pages. Small 4to, blue cloth, d.w. (very light top spine end/corner wear). New York: Thames & Hudson, (1995). Lightly sunned on bottom edge, otherwise fine in a near fine dust wrapper. More
London: Warne, 1908. 24 color plates by Dulac. The alphabet featuring a letter-based limerick to accompany each illustration; pictorial endpapers. Slim 4to, beige cloth backed pictorial boards, spine and fly leaves slightly darkened, corners worn. All plates are bright and clean. London: Warne, 1908. First Edition. Gift inscription by a previous owner on verso of fly-leaf., still a very good(+) copy. More
Zurich: Belser, 1985. Facsimile of a book in the Vatican Library. 50 pages, with 21 illustrations in 6 colors. Small slim 8vo, marbled boards. Accompanied by a text volume in German, of the same size & binding. (Zurich: Belser, 1985). Fine, in publisher's board slipcase. Scarce. The first treatise and illustration of Roman capital letters to appear in the Renaissance. Vat. Lat. 6852. More
Venice: Appresso Piazzesi Legatore, 1975. Designed by Robert Frontier and printed in red & black with title page vignette and 26 ornamental initials from the alphabet attributed to Capcassa and Tridino. The accompanying text are humorous poems. Tall 8vo. Vellum-backed red patterned paper boards by Legatoria Piazzesi. Printed on handmade paper at the Scuola Emiliana Tipografica Artigianelli. [Venice]: Appresso Piazzesi Legatore, 1975. Limited edition - number 239 of 300 copies, signed by the author and designer. A near fine copy..... More
David Gatti, 2001. The alphabet, illustrated with 26 animal drawings by David Gatti. thin 12mo, plane brown paper covers, illustrated wrappers. N.P. David Gatti, (2001). A fine copy of this scarce and lovely title. More
London: Routledge, 1859. With Illustrations in black & white engraved by Edmund Evans. 25 pages, 12mo, cloth backed pictorial boards, soiled rubbed at the edges & worn at the corners; some childish pencilings on the back blank flyleaf inner hinges neatly reinforced. London: Routledge, Warnes and Routledge, (1859). A worn but charming and scarce book. Full page engravings for flowers beginning with each letter of the alphabet, verse below. More
New York: Cheim & Read, 2013. Essay by Robert Storr. 20 full-page color plates. Thin folio, pictorial wrappers. New York: Cheim & Reid, (2013). A fine copy. Printed as one of 1500 copies to accompany the exhibition of the same name. More
Boston: Small, Maynard, 1899. 26 plates printed in black, white and red (one margin chipped at vottom). Slim square 8vo, cloth-backed decorative boards (worn at edges). Boston: Small, Maynard, 1899. First Edition. Overall a very good copy, internally clean. More
Boston: Small, Maynard, 1899. 26 plates printed in black, white and red. Slim square 8vo, cloth-backed decorative boards (tips of corners lightly rubbed). Boston: Small, Maynard, 1899. First Edition. Very good(+). More
Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1931. An alphabet book illustrated with 23 (X, Y & Z are not shown) very slightly racy color plates of flappers aboard an ocean liner, each accompanied by a humorous verse. Olong 12mo, original color wrappers (one inch of paper loss at head of spine; internally clean). J. B. Lippincott: Philadelphia, 1931. First softcover edition. A very good copy of this uncommon book. More
New York: James Gregory, 1864. Illustrated throughout with 26 wood-engraved prints, all with tissue guards. 32 pages, unpaginated. Short slim 4to, original white glossy pictorial stiff wrappers, lightly faded and soiled, rebacked in plain brown cloth. A charming children's alphabet book satirical in nature with rhymes. Each letter begins a rhyme with an illustration and together they tell the story of the origin, manufacture, & use of a hair dressing that was supposed to cure baldness. New York: James g...... More
Vienna: Graeser, 1897. Verschiedener Kunstepochen. Folio folder with cloth ties. 11pp of text in German, followed by 54 (of 56) single-sided plates, some in full color with gilt accents, some with spot color, all loose as issued in the cloth-backed printed board case. Wien: Carl Graeser, 1897. Zweite auflage. A very good(+) copy, but lacking plates number 5 & 45. K.K. Osterr. Museum fur Kunst und Industrie. More
Dear Sir, For three days I received Reynard the Fox (goethe, Arnold). The package was in good order and the book in perfect health. It fits very well my Reynard (and fable) collection. Thanks.
I am very glad to let you know that the copy of Daniel Bell's The End of Ideology arrived yesterday in Brazil. Thank you very much for your kind attention and promptness.