Augustus John Rothenstein (11 results)

Hardcover in black boards; without dustjacket, unpaginated; good condition; foxing to outer page edges and edges of a few pages. Foreign shipping may be extra.

hard cover with dustjacket. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Second edition. Illustrated with 90 plates in colour and black and white. 24 pages VG/G. Shelf and edge wear to price-clipped dust jacket with chipping and several tears. Gift inscription and small stain on front endpaper, overall very good condition.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good-. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 32 pp text with 48 tipped in colour plates and 8 bw, blue cloth with gilt titles ad decorations. EX Library with usual marks, spine ends and corners rubbed, tear to backstrip, cloth tanned and marked, text pages and mounts much tanned, tipped in plates generally clean and bright, bw plates not tanned but some show foxing. i.2Kg Outside UK may need extra postage. Artists include - John Nash, Take Sato, Lamorna Birch, Walter Sickert, Ruth Hollingsworth, Augustus John, William Rothenstein, Frank Brangwyn (illustrator).…

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 2 Vols, 1923 & 1923. Uniformly bound in grey cloth, corners and edges very slightly bumped and worn, title in gilt to both spine and front cover. Internally no inscriptions, top edge cut, remainder uncut. First Series, fourth impression, 1923, half title, portrait frontis by William Rothenstein, [6], (vii only), [1], 9-160 pp, 2 pls(portrait & copy of note), 111 poems. Second series, Second impression, 1923, half title, tissue guarded portrait frontis, [6], 7-157 pp, 1 pl (portrait), 112 poems. (Reilly - English Poetry of the first World war p. 105. Winchester Bibliographies A14e & A21c) Davies, William Henry, poet and writer. See ODNB. ROTHENSTEIN William. JOHN Augustus (illustrator). …

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First edition and impression large format hardback from 1944 in VG++ condition, there is a previous owner inscription to front endpaper, no other internal markings, the jacket has some loss and general wear, now in removable protective sleeve, please see pics, paypal accepted, any questions please get in touch.…

Hardback. Condition: Fine. First Limited Edition. A fine copy. Bound limited edition set of the portraits + Camel March taken from a proof set from the 1926 Subscribers edition of Seven Pillars of Wisdom, This is one of just 220 copies, The limitation page is hand-numbered in CHP customary reddish/brown ink, this copy being 214, bound by the Fine Bindery and printed by the Burlington Press in 1997. These are superb reproductions of the plates from the '26 SP in full colour. Bound in pale beige paper covered boards with title printed to front and with darker brown cloth spine. T.E. Lawrence commissioned illustrations for Seven Pillars of Wisdom from leading artists of the day. They were reproduced in colour in his lavish 1926 edition of the subscribers' abridgement. The most important of the illustrations were portraits. These showed readers not just faces, but also the exotic clothing worn by the Arab irregulars. The forty-one Seven Pillars Portraits are reproduced here full-page in the original colours, together with William Roberts' remarkable double-page 'Camel March'. Emir Feisal by Augustus John, oils, full colour. Kennington, Eric, Roberts, William, John, Augustus, Sargent, Dobson, Gill, Colin, Rothenstein, William, Nicholson, W. Spencer, G. (illustrator).…

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Publication: London, George Allen & Unwin Ltd / Phaidon Press, 1944 Formatting: 4to, pp. 26, [95]. Condition Report: Very Good. The binding remains firm and secure, with the dark cloth boards and contrasting spine exhibiting only minor edge-wear and light bumping to the extremities. The striking white stylized lettering on the front board is still bright and unrubbed. The spine shows some darkening and tanning typical of the age, though the black text remains highly legible. Internally, the cream pages exhibit moderate foxing and spotting, primarily concentrated on the endpapers, with natural toning visible along the page edges. A neat contemporary ink ownership inscription ("R. E. Sadler. / Rugby. (Coventry). / 14. X. 45.") rests on the front endpaper. The frontispiece, title page, and the internal text remain clean and highly presentable. Catalogue Note: First edition, issued in 1944. This comprehensive monograph is heavily illustrated, featuring 95 plates reproducing the works of the celebrated Welsh painter, alongside a frontispiece self-portrait. The volume bears the contemporary ink inscription of "R. E. Sadler. / Rugby. (Coventry)." dated October 14, 1945. Notably, this copy presents the publisher's striking original binding, lacking the dust jacket, featuring bold white typography printed directly onto the front board. Produced during the latter years of the Second World War, these large-format Phaidon monographs were intended to bring high-quality art reproductions to a wider public audience. The edition remains relatively common on the secondary market today, though copies are frequently encountered without the fragile original dust jacket. Authored by Sir John Rothenstein, the distinguished art historian and former director of the Tate Gallery, this mid-century Phaidon Press monograph offers a robust survey of Augustus John's extraordinary oeuvre. Celebrating the Welsh artist known for his brilliant draftsmanship and vivid portraits, the book features an introductory critical essay followed by nearly a hundred full-page reproductions. It stands as a handsome, enduring tribute to one of Britain's most flamboyant and talented post-impressionist painters. Augustus John (illustrator).…

Paperback. Condition: Acceptable. Ex-library book, usual markings. Well read copy with some spine wear. Colouring of page edges due to age. Quick dispatch from UK seller.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 672 p., [52] leaves of plates : ill., maps, ports. ; 24 cm. ; OCLC: 42472485 ; LC: D568.4; Dewey: 940.41 ; "Privately printed, 1926; first published for general circulation, 1935."/ Preface by A.W. Lawrence./ Portraits by Eric Kennington, Augustus John, William Roberts, John Singer Sargent, William Nicholson, Henry Lamb, William Rothenstein, R.M. Young, Colin Gill, Frank Dobson, and Gilbert Spencer, and illustration by Sydney Carline. ; Contents: Preface / by A.W. Lawrence -- Introduction: the foundations of Arab revolt -- Book I: My first visit to Arabia -- Book II: Feisal's first extension northward -- Book III: Concentration against the Medina Railway -- Book IV: The expedition against Akaba -- Book V: Exploiting the new base -- Book VI: The failure of the bridges -- Book VII: A winter campaign -- Book VIII: Orthodoxy arrives -- Book IX: Manoeuvring for a final stroke -- Book X: The liberation of Damascus -- Epilogue. ; Includes indexes.; "T.E. Lawrence "Lawrence of Arabia" recounts his role in the origin of the modern Arab world. At first a shy Oxford scholar and archaeologist with a facility for languages, he joined and went on to lead the Arab revolt against the Ottoman Turks while the rest of the world was enmeshed in World War I. With its richly detailed evocation of the land and the people Lawrence passionately believed in, its incisive portraits of key players, from Faisal ibn Hussein, the future Hashemite king of Syria and Iraq, to General Sir Edmund Allenby and other members of the British imperial forces, The Seven Pillars of Wisdom is an indispensible primary historical source. It helps us to understand today's Middle East, while giving us thrilling accounts of military exploits (including the liberation of Aqaba and Damascus), clandestine activities, and human foibles." ; tan colored cloth in beautifully illustrated dustjacket ; bookplate ; thick, heavy volume ; FINE/FINE. Book. …

Hardcover. Limited and numbered issue of 2008. This Castle Hill Press reproduction of the original Portraits for Seven Pillars of Wisdom was initially conceived to accompany the 1997 first Castle Hill Press limited edition of the full 1922 "Oxford Text" of Seven Pillars of Wisdom. This Portraits volume is a stunning visual accompaniment to any Seven Pillars of Wisdom text, featuring 41 full-page Seven Pillars Portraits, 26 in full color. These are the portraits originally commissioned by Lawrence himself for his magnificent and legendary 1926 Subscriber's edition.Castle Hill Press was headed by Lawrence's official biographer, Jeremy Wilson (1944-2017). Years after the 1997 edition of Seven Pillars and the accompanying issuance of the Portraits, Wilson's Castle Hill Press issued a limited number of this stand-alone Portraits volume. In 2008, 220 sets of portraits were issued thus, bound in quarter linen cloth over tan, laid paper-covered boards. The binding measures a substantial 11.375 x 8.125 inches (28.89 x 20.64 cm). The limitation page is hand-numbered in red ink, this copy being "215." This copy was acquired by us directly from the publisher and is in as new condition, unread and immaculately clean, inside and out.Seven Pillars of Wisdom is the story of T. E. Lawrence's (1888-1935) remarkable odyssey as instigator, organizer, hero, and tragic figure of the Arab revolt against the Ottoman Empire during the First World War, which he began as an eccentric junior intelligence officer and ended as "Lawrence of Arabia." This time defined Lawrence with indelible experience and celebrity, which he spent the rest of his short life struggling to reconcile and reject, to recount and repress. Lawrence famously resisted publication of his magnum opus for the general public during his lifetime. After numerous drafts, abandonments, and revisions, in 1922, a 335,000 word version was carefully circulated to select friends and literary critics - the famous "Oxford Text". George Bernard Shaw called it "a masterpiece".Nonetheless, Lawrence was unready to see it distributed to the public. In 1926, a further edited 250,000 word "Subscriber's Edition" was produced by Lawrence - but only slightly more than 200 copies were made, each lavishly and uniquely bound. The process cost Lawrence far more than he made in subscriptions. The portraits commissioned by Lawrence for the edition from Frank Dobson, Colin Gill, Augustus John, Eric Kennington, Henry Lamb, William Nicholson, William Roberts, William Rothenstein, John Singer Sargent, Gilbert Spencer, and R. M. Young were an essential part of the elaborate effort that produced the famous edition. Eric Henri Kennington (1888-1960), himself a veteran of the First World War, was by far the dominant artistic vision in these portraits, responsible for 24 of the 41 and serving as art editor for the 1926 Subscriber's Edition. Kennington actually traveled to the Middle East in order to draw his subjects from life, rather than from photographs, collecting portraits on a private journey through Trans-Jordan and the Hejaz. Known as a painter, print maker, and sculptor, Kennington was best regarded as "a born painter of the nameless heroes of the rank and file" whom he portrayed during both the First and Second World Wars. After the First World War, Kennington met T. E. Lawrence at an exhibition of Kennington's war art. It is a credit to Kennington's portraiture that he was even able to capture Lawrence's own fretful relationship with his own fame. After Kennington produced a bust of Lawrence, the subject wrote to the sculptor "It represents not me, but my top-moments, those few seconds in which I succeed in thinking myself right out of things." In 1935, Kennington served as one of Lawrence's pallbearers. Kennington's portraits, and those of his fellow artists, were considered by Lawrence an essential accompanying element to his text. It is difficult not to agree.…

Hardcover. Limited and numbered issue of 2008. This Castle Hill Press reproduction of the original Portraits for Seven Pillars of Wisdom was initially conceived to accompany the 1997 first Castle Hill Press limited edition of the full 1922 "Oxford Text" of Seven Pillars of Wisdom. This Portraits volume is a stunning visual accompaniment to any Seven Pillars of Wisdom text, featuring 41 full-page Seven Pillars Portraits, 26 in full color. These are the portraits originally commissioned by Lawrence himself for his magnificent and legendary 1926 Subscriber's edition.Castle Hill Press was headed by Lawrence's official biographer, Jeremy Wilson (1944-2017). Years after the 1997 edition of Seven Pillars and the accompanying issuance of the Portraits, Wilson's Castle Hill Press issued a limited number of this stand-alone Portraits volume. In 2008, 220 sets of portraits were issued thus, bound in quarter linen cloth over tan, laid paper-covered boards. The binding measures a substantial 11.375 x 8.125 inches (28.89 x 20.64 cm). The limitation page is hand-numbered in red ink, this copy being "136." This copy is in fine condition, the binding pristine, the contents immaculate.Seven Pillars of Wisdom is the story of T. E. Lawrence's (1888-1935) remarkable odyssey as instigator, organizer, hero, and tragic figure of the Arab revolt against the Ottoman Empire during the First World War, which he began as an eccentric junior intelligence officer and ended as "Lawrence of Arabia." This time defined Lawrence with indelible experience and celebrity, which he spent the rest of his short life struggling to reconcile and reject, to recount and repress. Lawrence famously resisted publication of his magnum opus for the general public during his lifetime. After numerous drafts, abandonments, and revisions, in 1922, a 335,000 word version was carefully circulated to select friends and literary critics - the famous "Oxford Text". George Bernard Shaw called it "a masterpiece".Nonetheless, Lawrence was unready to see it distributed to the public. In 1926, a further edited 250,000 word "Subscriber's Edition" was produced by Lawrence - but fewer than 200 copies were made, each lavishly and uniquely bound. The process cost Lawrence far more than he made in subscriptions. An essential part of the elaborate effort that produced the famous edition were the portraits commissioned by Lawrence for the edition from Frank Dobson, Colin Gill, Augustus John, Eric Kennington, Henry Lamb, William Nicholson, William Roberts, William Rothenstein, John Singer Sargent, Gilbert Spencer, and R. M. Young. Eric Henri Kennington (1888-1960), himself a veteran of the First World War, was by far the dominant artistic vision in these portraits, responsible for 24 of the 41 and serving as art editor for the 1926 Subscribers' Edition. Kennington actually traveled to the Middle East in order to draw his subjects from life, rather than from photographs, collecting portraits on a private journey through Trans-Jordan and the Hejaz. Known as a painter, print maker, and sculptor, Kennington was best regarded as "a born painter of the nameless heroes of the rank and file" whom he portrayed during both the First and Second World Wars. After the First World War, Kennington met T. E. Lawrence at an exhibition of Kennington's war art. It is a credit to Kennington's portraiture that he was even able to capture Lawrence's own fretful relationship with his own fame. After Kennington produced a bust of Lawrence, the subject wrote to the sculptor "It represents not me, but my top-moments, those few seconds in which I succeed in thinking myself right out of things." In 1935, Kennington served as one of Lawrence's pallbearers. Kennington's portraits, and those of his fellow artists, were considered by Lawrence an essential accompanying element to his text. It is difficult not to agree.…