Introduction James Laver (41 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. Reprint Edition. Dust jacket is rubbed and slightly faded, with minor edge wear. Inside flaps of dust jacket are yellowed, and front flap is creased. Minor stains on top and bottom edge of book. ; Reprint of 1906 edition.

paperback. Condition: Very Good. Stapled pamphlet. Part 2, number 4. Very Good paperback with light shelfwear - NICE! Standard-sized.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. First Paperback Edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good -. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edition. Illustrated, 144 page guide to "collecting". Pages are a bit age-toned; dust jacket has significant edge wear, has an inked price on the top edge, and is faded. Book.

Second printing 1969. This book shows 96 reproduced black-and-white plates, each with a brief description. -- Softcover, 7.3x9.8 inches. Condition: very good minus (spine has 1-inch missing/partly-repaired, and rubbed edges; shop label pasted to title-page). -- Pages are bright and crisp.

paperback. Condition: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned. Ex library copy with the usual markings. Covers have some edge tears and chips. Tan and thumbing to contents. A good reading copy.…

Cloth(Hrdcvr). Condition: G/VG. Totowa, N. J.: Rowman and Littlefield. G/VG. (1973). . Cloth(Hrdcvr). First published in Great Britain in 1906. Reprint of that edition. Traces the development of all the processes of printing in colour.Appendix: coloured books with plates by Baxter, Rowlandson adn Alken; coloured books published by Ackermann. . 8vo., xxiv, 340pp., Very gently cracked . Black&White/Color Plates (illustrator).…

First 8vo, cloth. 44 pp, 28 illustrations (4 in color). The pages are rippled (but not stuck together, and there is minor fraying at the points and at the head and foot of the spine. No dj.

Condition: Good. Original gilt lettered cloth, price clipped dust jacket, illustrations in b/w.; Spine dust jacket sunned; small tear dust jacket repaired.

Soft cover. Condition: Book Good +/Near VG. First Edition - Softcover. 24 pages. large softback with beige/cream printed covers, blue titles to front, text on light grey paper. Covers have light/very light wear to corners with crease to bottom rear corner, heavy wear to spine-ends with 2cm split to top & 1cm split to bottom, heavy rubbing confined to spine edge, slight wear to edges. Excellent colour tipped-in plates within text. Text is very clean & in nice condition.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Not Issued. Sandglass Sheet (X I: 36) Laid In. The Book Is Bound Within Boards With Marbled Paper Over One Quarter Burgundy Cloth. Gilt Lettering And Rules Within A Black Title Block On The Spine. The Top Edges Are Dyed Burgundy. The Spine Of The Book Has Minor Fading. The Burgundy Paper Covered Slip Case Has Some Fading At The Opening And Top. Tremois,Pierre-Yves (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Reprint of the 1906 edition. Quarto. B&W illustrations. Condition: DJ price-clipped; some darkening to top & fore-edges of book block; else NF/NF. 340 pages.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 24pp, with 10 gloriously full colour tipped in illustrations of paintings depicting music in painting. In light card wrappers with paper dust jacket. Small folio. Covers a little rubbed at edges. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight barring some mild signs of fingering. Dust jacket is lightly rubbed and bumped at edges, scuffed at spine ends, and lightly spotted around the leading edges. The bright and stunning tipped in illustrations include Edward Burne-Jones' The Mirror of Venus and Rubens' the Judgement of Paris. With an introductory essay on portrayals of Venus in paintings by James Laver and notes accompanying each example.…

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Drawn and Described By Iris Brooke. Original blue/green cloth covered boards have faded otherwise very good in pictorial dust jacket. Charming color illustrations and line drawings. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hard Cover. Condition: Fair +. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Red hardback with worn and torn dustjacket. Character studies of The Young Disraeli; Lord George Gordon; Joseph Nollekens; Dr. Samuel Parr; Baron Stockmar. With 32 illustrations 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. Gray cloth with red spine lettering. Dust jacket with edge wear, chips and old tape repairs. Some period undecipherable notations on front blank page. Same page has the number 000003 stamped in upper right corner. Internally a very clean and tight copy. Feliks Topolski (illustrator).…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Stapled booklet with a few minor marks on the back cover. Rex Whistler, containing eight colour plates and seventeen sepia illustrations (illustrator).

large 8vo [25 x 19 cm]; xxiv, 340 pp, frontis, 28 plates, index. original green cloth, gilt spine title lettering, dj (price clipped), fine and clean, unmarked. There are two detailed chapters on the origins of coloured printing and of the methods of book illustration from 1500 to 1800. These are followed by 22 detailed chapters on individuals, publishers and the development and improvement of methods and techniques to the twentieth century. There are appendices on colored books with plates by Baxter, Ackerman, Rowlandson, Alien. A picture of this book is available on request.…

8vo. 18pp, colour frontis, 10 double-sided colour and b/w plates (some double-page), head-piece. Original grey cloth lettered in blue. Extremes lightly rubbed; cloth a little soiled; very light spotting to eps.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition Thus. 8vo. First paperback edition. Soft cover. 139 pp. With 480 illustrations. Spine tilted and creased, damp stain to upper rear corner, wear to foot of front joint.

Hard Cover in Dust Jacket. Condition: Very Good Plus. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Large format, 10" x 12". Some spotting to top and bottom edges of boards, former owner notes back of frontispiece; dust jacket missing some pieces along edges and has a few tears and creases (yet displays reasonably well). 128 pages with B&W reproduction of Topolski's drawings, two in colour.…

"Treasures of Art Series." Fo. 13[1]pp, 8 colour plates, each with accompanying text leaf. Contemporary maroon cloth gilt, patterned eps. Ex-library with usual evidence including oval ink-stamps to plate margins.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First edition. Small quarto hardback. 18 pp. plus 40 plates in colour and black and white Near Very Good condition in Good, unclipped dust jacket which has colour illustration of the Temptation of St. Anthony on front and back (small loss of material along top edge) Original owner's name and date on inside cover.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Limited Edition. Number 463 of an unspecified number (probably 1500) if copies. Small quarto in brick red colored cloth binding. B&W illustrations. There are two bookplates in this copy - the one inside the front cover is that of Joan & Walter Wanger, she was the actress Joan Bennett, and he was a movie producer. Condition: some dampstaining to the lower portions of the front and rear covers; front inner hinge starting; else good. Pages: xxxvi, 304.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 2nd Edition. Original grey cloth, dust jacket, colour frontispiece, numerous (full page) illustrations in b/w, 4to.; Dust jacket missing.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardback in jacket. 24x18.5cm. 12 pages plus 16 colour plates. Clean & tight book. No inscriptions. Flat pages. Jacket has a little edge wear. Front flap is not price-clipped: 7s. 6d. Jacket is now under clear removable covers. Dispatched ROYAL MAIL FIRST CLASS with TRACKING next working day or sooner securely boxed in cardboard. ref zx-ZNDS.…

Paperback. Condition: VG-. 1st Edition. Book is in very good minus condition with minor but noticeable signs of wear and/or age.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 2nd Edition. NO JACKET. Hardback 1946. 2nd edition. 31x25cm. 128 pages. Clean & tight. No inscriptions. NO JACKET. Dispatched ROYAL MAIL FIRST CLASS with TRACKING next working day or sooner securely boxed in cardboard. ref zdd. Feliks Topolski (illustrator).

Original cloth. Condition: Very Good. Good+ dust. First Edition. With coloured plates after James Pollard. Endpapers somewhat browned. Slight wear to spine, covers & corners. Large tear in front cover dustjacket. Some loss to bottom spine dustjacket. Slight chipping to head and bottom spine dustjacket. Some wear to dustjacket.; Folio; 118 pages.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Royal8vo, first edition, pp,12, sixteen coloured plates, light blue titled blue cloth,pictorial unclipped dust-jacket which has a little edge-wear, 1951 neat inscription to the leading free endpaper.