Eric Impey (9 results)

Softcover. Light green ill. wraps. 284 pp. 122 color and bw plates. Contents as follows: Burghley House / Rand Castile -- Discovery in the Great House / Lady Victoria Leatham -- Some Cecils of Burghley / Eric Till -- Brief account of the Burghley House inventory of 1688 and the Devonshire schedule of 1690 / Eric Till -- Collecting oriental porcelains in Britain in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries / Oliver R. Impey -- Oriental porcelains : a European enthusiasm / Gordon Lang -- Japan and Europe : early encounters / Yoshinobu Tokugawa -- History of Japanese porcelains and export trade / Hiroko Nishida. Study provides a unique and valuable record of Japan's remarkable influence on European 17th and 18th century culture. The pieces in the Burghley Collection are among the earliest documented collections of Oriental art in Europe. Catalogue entries are fully annotated. Published to accompany the exhibition held in New York: Japan House Gallery, May 15 to July 27, 1986; two additional venues. VG, slight wear to cover's corners, endpapers slightly faded.

Soft cover. Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. FAIR copy due to the fact that it is MISSING the back cover. No markings. Oblong format, scarce publication, 39 pages. Part history, part explanation of secrets as the author describes how he became acquainted with various famous magicians or those who knew famous magicians and then explains one effect for each performer. Illustrated with drawings. Cites: Martin Chapender, Chung Ling Soo, Lafayette, Imro Fox, Charles Arbre, Bernard Segall and Prof. Anderton with two items described for Soo and Anderton.

PAPERBACK BROWN. Condition: GOOD. General wear, creased cover and corner, torn base of spine, soiled edge and fore edge, soiling in front endpapers, contains BW illustrations, DATE PUBLISHED: 1930 EDITION: 47.

Condition: Good. Brown wrappers, illustrated, 47 pages. Crease lines and small chips, one corner bent, else in good condition.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Unstated. Conjurer's Choice by Impey, Eric Cecil Griffin, 1930, unstated edition Soft cover in good condition. Text is clean and unmarked, binging tight, some tanning of pages due to paper used and age. Owners name and date 1931 inside cover. Cover is clean and show little signs of wear. This is a hard to find early book on magic tricks. Several original effects and how to improve on them. B&W illustrations, 48 pages and 2 pages of ads. 50. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. English text.; Hardcover (with dust jacket); 23.5 x 29 cm.; 1.5 kg.; 284 pages with colour and black and white illustrations.; Used with signs of wear. The exterior shows edge wear, scuffs and scratches. The spine is chipped at the top and has a tear at the bottom. Interior in very good condition apart from a wear mark on first page, most likely due to a removed sticker. Good copy overall.; Catalogue from an exhibition shown at Japan House Gallery, New York from May 15-July 27, 1986 and at The High Museum of Art, Atlanta from December 2, 1986- February 1, 1987. The exhibition traveled to Japan through December 1988.; Burghley House is the magnificent Elizabethan home of the Marquess of Exeter at Stamford, England built by William Cecil, the great Minister and Lord High Treasurer to Queen Elizabeth I. The House, which King William III said in 1690 was "too large for a subject!" has among its outstanding collections of paintings, furniture, tapestries, and silver, a rare and superb group of Chinese, Japanese, and European porcelains. The Burghley porcelain collection is distinguished by its early Japanese wares, and is unique among the surviving private and royal porcelain collections in Europe for a number of pieces that can be identified in the House's Inventory of 1688, drawn up by the secretary to the fifth Earl of Exeter, or in the 1690 written bequest of Elizabeth, dowager Countess of Devonshire. The inventories, which only came to light in 1982 after centuries of neglected storage in the archives, are Europe's earliest known record of Japanese porcelains. The porcelains selected here from the Burghley collection tell much about the British canons of taste and achievements in connoisseurship from the Elizabethan through Victorian eras, and shed light as well on the history of Chinese and Japanese export ware and its influence on European culture.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. English text.; Paperback.; 23 x 28 cm.; 1.2 kg.; 284 pages with colour and black and white illustrations.; Used with signs of wear. The exterior shows edge wear, two small bumps on the top and bottom of the spine and a wear mark at the bottom left side of the back cover. Interior shows three ex-library stamps on the first three pages, and the top right side shows signs of have bent on all pages. The outside text block shows a wear mark at the bottom right side. Good copy overall.; Catalogue from an exhibition shown at Japan House Gallery, New York from May 15-July 27, 1986 and at The High Museum of Art, Atlanta from December 2, 1986- February 1, 1987. The exhibition traveled to Japan through December 1988.; Burghley House is the magnificent Elizabethan home of the Marquess of Exeter at Stamford, England built by William Cecil, the great Minister and Lord High Treasurer to Queen Elizabeth I. The House, which King William III said in 1690 was "too large for a subject!" has among its outstanding collections of paintings, furniture, tapestries, and silver, a rare and superb group of Chinese, Japanese, and European porcelains. The Burghley porcelain collection is distinguished by its early Japanese wares, and is unique among the surviving private and royal porcelain collections in Europe for a number of pieces that can be identified in the House's Inventory of 1688, drawn up by the secretary to the fifth Earl of Exeter, or in the 1690 written bequest of Elizabeth, dowager Countess of Devonshire. The inventories, which only came to light in 1982 after centuries of neglected storage in the archives, are Europe's earliest known record of Japanese porcelains. The porcelains selected here from the Burghley collection tell much about the British canons of taste and achievements in connoisseurship from the Elizabethan through Victorian eras, and shed light as well on the history of Chinese and Japanese export ware and its influence on European culture.

Soft Cover. Condition: Fair / Good. pp [6] + 138 Undated - likely to be 1935 Textblock sound , wrapper worn , part of spine lost Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Wraps. 8vo. 7 folding quarto sheets, printed recto only. Original publisher's printed brown card covers. With the bookplate of the late Christopher Brinson, a collector of books on magic, researcher and author of works on magic (Arcady Press). The bookplate shows a sphinx with pyramids in the background and conjuring tools in the foreground including a magic wand. With the stamp of The Magic Library and bookplate of a Magic Circle member. Yapped edges of covers slightly creased and chipped, otherwise very good.