Richards Ravilious Eric (31 results)

Hardback. Condition: New. A facsimile edition of the classic High Street, which pairs the timeless illustrations of Eric Ravilious with a fascinating text by architectural historian J. M. Richards. First published in 1938, this charming book introduces the British high street. Shops include the family butcher, the cheesemonger, the baker and confectioner and the oyster bar, as well as specialized establishments such as the plumassier, the clerical outfitter and the submarine engineer. Only 2,000 copies of the original book were printed before the lithographic plates were destroyed in the London Blitz. As a result, it has become one of the most collectible of all artists' books from this period. This beautiful facsimile edition features all 24 of Ravilious's colour illustrations, and includes an essay by Gill Saunders, Senior Curator of Prints at the Victoria and Albert Museum, that sets the book in its historical context.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Ravilious, Eric (illustrator). Dust jacket shows heavy wear amd scuffing. Pages are clean and intact. Cover and edges show heavy wear.

hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Ravilious, Eric (illustrator). Facsimile edition, 2012. Hardcover with dust jacket. Pages unmarked, gentle wear.

Condition: Like New. Ravilious, Eric (illustrator). Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. An apparently unread copy in perfect condition. Dust cover is intact with no nicks or tears. Spine has no signs of creasing. Pages are clean and not marred by notes or folds of any kind.

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 112 pages. 9.33x6.26x0.87 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Ravilious, Eric (illustrator). Dust jacket shows light shelf wear and tear.

Gebunden. Condition: New. A facsimile edition of the classic High Street, which pairs the timeless illustrations of Eric Ravilious with a fascinating text by architectural historian J. M. Richards. First published in 1938, this charming book introduces the .

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Ravilious, Eric (illustrator). Book is in near fine condition. No dust jacket. Pictorial hardcover. Beautiful colour illustrations.

Hardback. Condition: Fine. Ravilious, Eric (illustrator). Colour illustrations. Fine, in Fine Dust Jacket. Not price-clipped. DJ protected by high-grade removable clear cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Ravilious, Eric (illustrator). Book and dust jacket are in very good+ condition. Beautiful colour illustrations.

Hardback. Condition: New. A facsimile edition of the classic High Street, which pairs the timeless illustrations of Eric Ravilious with a fascinating text by architectural historian J. M. Richards. First published in 1938, this charming book introduces the British high street. Shops include the family butcher, the cheesemonger, the baker and confectioner and the oyster bar, as well as specialized establishments such as the plumassier, the clerical outfitter and the submarine engineer. Only 2,000 copies of the original book were printed before the lithographic plates were destroyed in the London Blitz. As a result, it has become one of the most collectible of all artists' books from this period. This beautiful facsimile edition features all 24 of Ravilious's colour illustrations, and includes an essay by Gill Saunders, Senior Curator of Prints at the Victoria and Albert Museum, that sets the book in its historical context.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Ravilious, Eric (illustrator). Book and dust jacket are in near fine condition. Beautiful colour illustrations.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Ravilious, Eric (illustrator). Illustrated Edition. 2016 V& A publications London Edition 2nd Impression. Near fine clean tight copy in near fine unclipped dustjacket.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Ravilious, Eric (illustrator). Book and dust jacket are as new. Beautiful colour illustrations.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Ravilious, Eric (illustrator). 1st Edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Ravilious, Eric (illustrator). Reprint. Bound in clean and unworn colour illustrated cloth with clear titles to front board and spine, this dated 2012 V & A Reprint is VG in VG jacket(unclipped). 111pp with Foreword, 24 Chapters, each relating to particular Trade, and each trade illustrated with full-page colour illustration by Ravilious. Also, Afterword by Gill Saunders. Condition all VG.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. RAVILIOUS, Eric (Illus.); RICHARDS, J.M. (Text). The Story of High Street. Sparham: The Mainstone Press, 2008. Limited edition of 750 copies, a handsome production to mark the 70th anniversary of the original edition of High Street, first published in 1938 by Country Life Books. Conceived as a children's book of shops, it features 24 lithographs by Eric Ravilious depicting a variety of wonderful local shops of the pre-war era - cheesemongers, oyster bars, wedding cakes, letter makers, theatrical properties, model ships and railways, submarine engineers, fireworks, amusement arcades, and more. High Street is one of the most famous and beloved English illustrated books of the twentieth century. Eric Ravilious (1903-1942) was a painter, illustrator, lithographer, wood-engraver, and designer, who is now regarded as one of the finest English artists of the twentieth-century. Ravilious served as a war artist and was killed on a search and rescue flight from Iceland in September 1942. This edition is a reprint of the original edition, including reproductions of all 24 plates from the first issue. It also includes two major essays and an eclectic range of illustrations and preparatory drawings. In the first essay, The Making of High Street , art historian Alan Powers places the book in historical context, providing illuminating insights into its conception, production and publication. The second essay, High Street at Seventy by James Russell, describes the quest to identify and locate each of the shops depicted by Ravilious. 4to, original blue cloth, colour label to front board (reproducing Ravilious s watercolour sketch of the Submarine Shop ). 280pp, col plates+ text illustrations. Fine copy in original slipcase (also fine). ISBN: 9780955277726.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Eric Ravilious (illustrator). Gray cloth with a design by Ravilious in black, folio, (ixx) 113 pages plus index, profusesly illustrated with the complete wood engravings of Eric Ravilious. 421 full size engravings, 6 folding. Endpapers with a repeat wood engraved pattern by Ravilious. Copy nymber II 162 printed on Basingwerk parchment paper at the Curwen Press. Bound by Henry Brooks Ltd. A fine copy in a very lightly scuffed, near fine black cloth slipcase.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Ravilious, Eric (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 24 colour lithograph plates by Eric Ravilious. No dust jacket with small wear to spine edges. Beautiful rare book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good +. Dust Jacket Included. Ravilious, Eric (illustrator). First Edition. Original pictorial paper covered boards in the scarce original glassine dustwrapper with printed card flaps. Cover illustrations and 24 full page colour lithographs by Eric Ravilious. A UK first edition, first impression. The book is tight. There are no previous ownership inscriptions. The boards are unfaded. The corners and lower edges are rubbed. There is light chipping to the spine ends. The pages are generally clean - the endpapers are spotted. The closed page edges are a little dusty and are flecked.There are no loose or dog-eared pages. The binding is tight, the hinges are solid. The glassine wrapper is intact - it has been clipped. The edges are chipped and show some loss. Uncommon. A very nice copy. Paypal accepted.

Condition: Very good. Octavo. Very good, almost like new, in very good dust jacket.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. 24 colour lithographs by Ravilious, as well as Black and White decorative illustration on title page. From the library of John Carter (author of the influential ABC for Book Collectors), with his bookplate and a short pencil note by him on FFEP. Very Good (light rubbing to extremities) in the scarce glassine wrapper, with inner paper flaps (wrapper is delicate, with strip missing from the bottom edge).

FIRST EDITION, large 8vo, pp. 100, [2]. Twenty-four colour lithograph illustrations included in pagination. Original colour-printed boards, glassine dustjacket with card flaps. Head of spine a bit worn, fragile dustjacket with some chipping to top edge and some loss to bottom of front panel. One of the most iconic illustrated books of the 20th century, depicting a glowing collection of shop premises from an era already passing into history, High Street was produced in an edition of around 2,000 copies and was never reprinted in this form, since the lithograph stones for the illustrations (and probably at least some unsold copies) were destroyed when the Curwen Press premises were hit during the Blitz. A high-quality facsimile was finally produced in the 2010s. This copy retains its incredibly fragile and consequently even rarer dustjacket, made of glassine with glued-on flaps, the front one printed with the jacket copy.

Eric Ravilious (illustrator). Number 152 of the 500 first issue hessian-bound copies, housed in a black slipcase. The book is introduced by J. M. Richards, a longstanding friend of Ravilious' and it was designed at the Royal College of Art by John Carrod. The Curwen Press printed the book on Basingwerk Parchment, using pale blue for the preliminary pages and the index, and cream for the 113 numbered leaves profusely filled with 421 Ravilious designs, three of these are folding pages, as are those containing the index at the rear. The cover features a design for a christmas card from 1934, and the image on the back board is from The Legion Book (1929), [xxiv], 113 leaves, [12]. First Limited Edition. Bound in hessian cloth with black illustrations and titles to boards and spine and illustrated endpapers. Folio 43 x 31 cm The book is in very good condition with a little toning to the spine and some very light pencil notes by a former owner to some pages and the index, otherwise exceptionally clean, binding firm and square. The slipcase is also in very good condition, with a little scuffing and some rubbing at the corners.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good binding. First Edition. Octavo. 100, [2] pp., illus. First edition. As issued, in printed paper over flexible boards; this copy discreetly rebacked with 80% of the original backstrip laid down. Light rubbing to the binding; foxing to the fore-edge with occasional foxing to the margin of a few leaves. Joanna Selborne in her study of early 20th century book illustration describes Ravilious as "one of the foremost artists and designers of his generation, leaving a remarkably varied body of work ranging from wood-engravings, watercolours, and lithographs, to murals, furniture, and decorated china. . . . His prints, especially those for book illustration and for commercial projects, mark him as one of the most original and influential practitioners between the wars" p. 276. These 24 full-page, color lithographs by Ravilious comprise a remarkable series depicting shops and stalls that were initially presented to Christopher Sandford at the Golden Cockerel Press to see if he had interest in a possible book. According to Selborne, "Sandford was slow to respond and these were eventually taken up by Noel Carrington and published, together with a wood-engraved frontispiece and J.M. Richards's text" p. 287. Despite the extremely subtle reback, this remains a very nice copy of a desirable book. Selborne, Joanna. British Wood-Engraved Book Illustration, 1904-1940, p. 276-291.

Folio (420 x 295mm), no.145 of 500 copies printed; pp.(262) including 113 leaves of engravings (some folding) printed on rectos only, fold-out index & colophon leaves; 421 engravings of various sizes including some originally unused and published here for the first time; a fine copy in original buckram, lettered in gold along backstrip, large Ravilious device in black on upper cover, patterned endpapers; Perhaps the most important book of the Royal College of Art Press. Ravilious Wood Engraving Private Press.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition thus. Illustrated through out. V&A Publishing, 2012. Near fine in d/w.

First edition, first impression. Published in an edition thought to be 2,000 copies, High Street was never reprinted, as the original lithograph stones were destroyed during the Blitz when the Curwen Press premises in Plaistow, East London, received two direct hits. The Country Life warehouse was also a victim of the London Blitz, hence the rarity of this publication. As a result of the bombing at that warehouse, copies of Mervyn Peake's Captain Slaughterboard Drops Anchor (1939) were also, famously, lost. Ravilious's beautiful and evocative book "had a long gestation, starting from an idea of Helen Binyon's [a contemporary of Ravilious at the Royal College of Art] for an alphabet of shops, but also resembling certain of the lithographed 'Père Castor' children's books from Paris that Ravilious collected, such as Faites votre marché, by Natalie Parin, of 1935, which was intended to be instructive as well as decorative. Ravilious deliberately looked for odd shops with special and often Victorian visual appeal" (Powers, p. 22). A review of the book in the Manchester Guardian noted "High Street. is in a category by itself. Mr. Eric Ravilious presents two dozen attractive coloured drawings of different kinds of shops, while Mr. J. M. Richards, lifting the veil of secrecy, tells us what goes on in each case behind the scenes". Alan Powers, Eric Ravilious: Imagined Realities, 2012; Manchester Guardian, 9 December 1938. Octavo. Monochrome vignette title page and 24 original colour lithographs by Ravilious. Original lithographic boards printed in brown, blue and black, spine lettered in black. Edges rubbed, spine tips with light wear, otherwise a very good copy.