Fowler Wright Hugh John Piper (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. Piper, John (illustrator). 1st Edition. This is the deluxe edition, copy LXV of XCVI [96] copies that include a folder of printed work. [384 standard copies were issued, lacking the portfolio. A further 10 exemplary copies were issued with a designer bookbinding by Chris Hicks.] Signed on the colophon page in pencil by Hugh Fowler-Wright for the various authors. Typeset in Breughal by Charles Hall. Printed on Mohawk vellum cool-white paper by Northend Creative Print Solutions. Bound by Ludlow Bookbinders. 12.5 x 9 inches. Bound in illustrated, paper-covered hardboards, with with a bright red leather [leatherette?] spine, and with crisp gilt-stamped titling to the spine. Unbumped spine head and tail, and with sharp corners. Text block firmly bound in. Handsomely illustrated pastedowns/FEPs. 175 numbered pages. Book includes an extensive checklist and a select bibliography. With numerous crisp plates and illustrations, almost all of which are in color. Several are full-page and a few are double-page spreads. An immensely clean interior. No dust jacket, as issued. The accompanying portfolio is bound in red cloth, with a small color paper label to the front and with crisp gilt-stamped titling to the spine. The contents include 11 ephemera, such as a reprint from International Textiles, No. 8, 1944; Countrygoer's Heritage, 1945; Canterbury Cathedral poster, 1956; Painted Boats film poster, 1945. Also with a catalogue of contents of the special edition. All ephemera items appear pristine, except that John Piper, A Brief Biography, has a small semi-crease to the upper right corner. Note that 'Hove Museum and Art Gallery', seemingly a signed, limited edition poster 49/70, is a facsimile. The medium-duty slipcase, 12.75 x 9.25 x 2.25 inches, is of card stock bound securely with black cloth, and with a large and pristine color illustration to one of the sides. That same side is slightly concave, owing to the fact that the slipcase was constructed a bit wider than necessary to encase both the book and the portfolio. Almost certainly unread. A Fine copy accompanied by a Fine portfolio in a Near Fine slipcase. Deemed gift quality. 4 lbs. 11 oz. John Piper [1903-1992] was one of the greatest English painters of the 20th century. He was also perhaps the most versatile, hard-working and prolific. Foremost as a painter but adept in other media: as stage and costume designer, a designer of stained glass, mosaics and tapestries, a potter, poet, critic and pianist. He had an ongoing professional collaboration with John Betjeman and Kenneth Clark, among others.

Hardback. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. Piper, John (illustrator). First edition. 1st 2010. Nearly fine condition with no wrapper. John Piper's work as a graphic artist. Introduction by Alan Powers, commentaries on book illustration, dustjackets, magazines, periodicals & ephemera by Hugh-Fowler Wright. Limited Edition of 384 standard copies, signed by Hugh Fowler-Wright on behalf of the various authors. Large format. Red cloth spine with gilt title. Pictorial paper boards. Colour & b/w illustrations throughout. SIGNED in pencil by Hugh Fowler-Wright to page 173 (details of limited edition), this is copy 69 of 384. A few minor blemishes to text block. Contents clean. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched! SIGNED - please see description for details.

First edition hard back binding in publisher's original quarter venetian red cloth, colour printed sides to the book, gilt title stamped lettering to the spine. 4to. 12½'' x 9''. Hand written number 288 of 384 Limited Edition copies SIGNED by 'Hugh Fowler-Wright'. Contains 176 printed pages with 250 illustrations throughout, mostly in colour. In Fine unused condition, acetate protection. Member of the P.B.F.A. ISBN 9780955834325 ART [British].

First edition in publisher's original illustrated card wrap covers [soft back]. Oblong 6'' x 9½''. Contains 114 printed pages of text with colour and monochrome illustrations and photographs throughout. In Fine condition, no dust wrapper as issued. Member of the P.B.F.A. ART [British].