Defoe Daniel Kauffer Mcknight (3 results)

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. E. McKnight Kauffer (illustrator). 1st Edition. LIMITED EDITION. NUMBER 40 OF 535. Original blue cloth binding with an embossed art nouveau illustration to the front board. A thin line stain running from the top to the bottom of the rear board. Spine is slightly sunned with embossed gilt title. Rough cut page edges. Full page colored frontispiece. There are a number of beautiful full page colored art nouveau illustrations. A beautiful work of art. Size: 8.0" x 10.0" 1st Printing Language: eng 1st Printing.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. The First UK printing of this illustrated edition published by Frederick Etchells & Hugh Macdonald, London in 1929. The BOOK is in Very Good++ or better condition. The limited issue of only 35 copies signed by Kauffer to the limitation page, this one unnumbered. Printed on T. H. Saunders mould-made paper, and bound in quarter morocco. There was also a trade edition of 500 copies unsigned on normal paper and bound in cloth. Original blue quarter morocco, titles to spine silver, blue buckram boards with Kauffer's design in silver to the front board, edges untrimmed. The morocco spine is slightly sunned and rubbed. Internally, apart from some offsetting to the endpapers, the book is clean and the binding remains tight. Frontispiece and 7 hand coloured illustrations by E. McKnight Kauffer, using the pochoir process. This deluxe signed issue is rare, with only two copies recorded at auction in the past 50 years. Kauffer was born in the U.S.A. but settled in England in 1914. He was a member of both Wyndham Lewis's 'Group X' and the' Cumberland Market Group'. Kauffer's real genius was in advertising art; he produced seminal posters for the London Transport Board and for the Great Western Railway, as well as book jackets and illustrations. A very attractive production. More images available on request. Ashton Rare Books welcomes direct contact. Signed by Illustrator(s).

Limited edition, number 280 of 500 unsigned, from a total edition of 535 numbered copies of which Nos. 1 to 35 are signed by the author and have been printed on T. H. Saunders mould-made paper. Kauffer was born in the United States but settled in England in 1914. He was a member of both Wyndham Lewis's Group X and the Cumberland Market Group. An accomplished painter, Kauffer's real genius was in advertising art; he produced seminal posters for the London Transport Board and for the Great Western Railway, as well as book jackets and illustrations. "Kauffer's sprightly, jazzy, designs were part of the social fabric of progressive, forward-looking Britain in his time" (ODNB). Octavo. Finely bound by the Chelsea Bindery in blue morocco, green morocco title label lettered in silver, two raised bands, multi-coloured onlay of Robinson Crusoe to the front board after the original cover design, turn-ins with silver rule either side, blue endpapers, silver edges. Frontispiece and 7 hand coloured illustrations by E. McKnight Kauffer, using the pochoir process. A fine copy.