Fraser haldane (13 Ergebnisse)

Softcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: N/A. 60pp, numerous small, elegant black and white wood cut illustrations throughout. Light card over card covers, lightly soiled. Backstrip chipped at base. Significant wear to bottom front corner. Tanned patch on endpaper. Very minor spotting on prelim pages. 12mo. Includes biographical essay on Lovat by Haldane Macfall. Fraser, C Lovat (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Hardcover without dust jacket. Reprint of the 1930 original. Black cloth boards are faintly marked and sunned at spine. Page block and page edges are tanned, faint marks to page block foot and small scuff to upper corner of front pastedown. Previous owner's name penned to FEP, otherwise contents clean and unmarked. Spine is tight and contents are clean. AD. Used.…

Gebunden. Zustand: New.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. First impression of the true first edition, in the first issue purple cloth binding, as called for. Illustrated and decorated with woodcuts and drawings throughout by Lovat Fraser, Gaudier-Brzeska, Haldane Macfall and Gordon Craig. Tissue-guarded frontispiece showing 'The Splendid Wayfaring' by Gordon Craig. Decorative chapter-heads and first letter-heads and tail-pieces. Top edge of text-block gilt. The book is dedicated to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince of Sweden. ***Very good in purple cloth covered boards with gilt titles and gilt decoration and borders to spine and front and rear boards. Spine faded. Edges of boards slightly rubbed and faded. Light foxing and offsetting to prelims and rear pages. Light sporadic foxing to fore-edge and bottom edge of text-block. Interior pages clean. No inscriptions. Spine tight. No slipcase. ***246mm x 196mm. x111 prelim pages including foreword and contents plus 200 pages, plus one full-page black and white illustration to rear. ***Haldane Macfall's book is about the philosophy of art. It is an attractive cloth gilt decorative binding and is illustrated throughout with woodcuts and illustrations by Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, the renowned French sculptor (1891-1915), Claud Lovat Fraser (1890-1921), and Edward Henry Gordon Craig (1872-1966), who was designer and theatre director and was a wood engraver. Haldane Macfall (1860-1928) was an artist and art historian. ***Contents: Foreword; The Personal Note; I. Of Life; II. Of Art; III. Of Craftsmanship; IV. Of Beauty; V. Of the Mighty Acreage of the Garden of the Arts, and of the Vast Significance that dwell therein; VI. Of Impressionism; VII. Of the Intellect and the Senses in Art; VIII. Of the Splendour of the Passions; IX. Of Art for Art's Sake; X. Of the Brain-Thief; XI. Of Criticism and the Milk of Asses; XII. Of Decay; XIII. Of the Dealing in Antiquities; XIV. Of the Great Dead; XV. Of the Academic of Mind; XVI. Of Style; XVII. Of the Law; XVIII. Liberty the Breath of Art; XIX. Of Authority and the Law-giver; XX. Of the Receivers of Art; XXI. Of Subject; XXII. Of the Breed of the Conquerors; XXIII. Of Splendid Rebels; XXIV. Of the Province of the Art of the Drama to Amuse; XXV. Of the Manifold Dangers that Threaten the Art of the Drama; XXVI. Of the Puritan in us all; XXVII. Of the Power of the Drama; XXVIII. Of the Hope of Salvation for the Puritan; XXXIX. Of the Golden God of the Puritan - Thrift; XXX. Of the Might of the Theatre; Envoi. ***'But the largest and widest life is for him who dare the fullest adventure - who has become partaker in all that life can live. And by the arts alone shall he know the fullest life; and by lack of the arts shall he know the meanest. ***The arts, in the full meaning of the word, is the supreme man. ***It is well, therefore, to try and realise what is Art, and what is an artist.' (Quote from the foreword by the author). ***First impression of the true first edition, very hard to find first issue, in the purple cloth boards, as called for, in collectable condition. Of interest to collectors of antiquarian illustrative books and the illustrations of Lovat Fraser, Gaudier-Brzeska, Gordon Craig and Haldane Macfalll. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc. Lovat Fraser, Gaudier-Brzeska, the Author - Haldane Macfall, and Gordon Craig (illustrator). …

Hardback. Printed pages: 83. Zustand: Very Good Minus. 1st Edition. Quarter black cloth with yellow paper covered boards. Paper title label to spine (chipped), illustrated title label to front board. Bumping and wear to corners. Light marking to boards, small tear to paper on front board. Light foxing to endpapers, small tape repair to lower corner of front pastedown endpaper. A little light foxing to plates, a couple have very slight marking. Limited edition, number 205 of 350 copies. Complete with all 18 tipped in colour plates. Scarce. Overall condition is Very Good Minus. Size: 8.5 x 11.25 inches (22 x 28.5 cm).…

Hardcover. First edition. 183 pages. 28 x 21 cm. Twenty full-page plates, some in color and numerous text illustrations. A commemorative by the author, affectionate and moving. Fraser died in 1924 at the age of thirty-one at the height of a brilliant career as an illustrator, set designer and painter. Decorated endpapers. Spine at head with centimeter loss. Laid-in loose, small illustrated bookplate, "Grace Lovat Fraser's Book." Orig. cloth and illustrated boards, paper spine label. Very good. Fraser, Lovat Claud (illustrator).…

Hardback. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. First edition. 1st 1923. Very good condition with no wrapper. A biography of Lovat by one of his closest friends. Large format. Blue cloth spine, white pictorial boards. Decorated endpapers. Colour & b/w illustrations. Spine bumped and faded. Corners worn. Covers just slightly grubby. Name in ink to half-title page. A few hinges pulled but contents generally clean. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched. Fraser, Claud Lovat (illustrator). …

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. An excellent biographical account of the life and work of artist Claud Lovat Fraser, illustrated in colour. Claud Lovat Fraser (1890-1921) was an English artist and author, known for his designs after the first world war, which included for 'As You Like It' and 'The Beggar's Opera'. His career was cut short by his tragically early demise.Written by Haldane MacFall, an art critic and historian. He had collaborated with Claud Lovat Fraser, and also written biographies on the likes of Henry Irving, Whistler, Henrik Ibson and Francois Boucher.Illustrated with twenty-one plates, including those in colour and two portraits of the subject. With vignette illustrations throughout.A wonderful biographical work exploring the life and art of Lovat Fraser. In a quarter cloth binding. Externally generally smart; some minor wear to the edges and boards. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Very Good. Claude Lovat Fraser (illustrator). book.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. First Edition. London, Dent, 1923. Quarto, 184 pages with numerous illustrations plus 18 pages of plates (8 plates in colour). Quarter-cloth and pictorial papered boards a little rubbed and spine-sunned; extremities a little bumped; rear cover creased at the lower corner; flyleaves slightly foxed; a very good copy with the dustwrapper sunned, foxed, creased, chipped and torn with a little loss.…

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. First edition. A first edition copy The Book of Lovat, with colour illustrations. A first edition copy.Claud Lovat Fraser was an English artist, designer and author and this volume gives an impression of him, his art, career and significance written by a close friend of the artist, Haldane Macfall.With twenty plates and a frontispiece and many other in-text illustrations.Collated, complete.With a previous owner bookplate to the front free endpaper with the initials GOM. In the publisher's original quart cloth and hardback boards. Externally, smart with some light marks to the boards and rubbing to the rear extremity and spine label. With a previous owner bookplate to the front free endpaper with the initials GOM and inscription to the half title page. Internally, firmly bound with bright and clean pages. Very Good. Claud Lovat Fraser (illustrator). book.…

hardcover. Zustand: fine. First. Photographs and illustrations in black & white and color. 4to, cloth backed pictorial boards, d.w. London: Dent, 1923. First Edition A fine, bright copy, lacking the dust wrapper. Laid in is a 1924bookseller's catalogue of the printed work of Fraser, including original drawings.…

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good Indeed. First edition. The first edition of this illustrated biography of British artist Claud Lovat Fraser. First edition of The Book of Lovat Claud Fraser by Haldane Macfall in the original publisher's quarter cloth binding.This biography traces the life of Lovat through four themes; 'The Man', 'As Artist', 'As Decorator, Maker of Books, Trade Tracts, Posters and Cards', and 'As the Poet Honeywood'.Lovat was a well renowned English artist and author.With twenty one plates, eight of which are in colour. Collated, complete.Pages 163-166 not issued as with all copies. In the original publisher's quarter cloth binding. Externally, smart. The cloth is faded to the spine. There is some bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities. Internally, firmly bound. The pages are very bright and clean. Very Good Indeed. Claude Lovat Fraser (illustrator). book.…

First Trade edition, Royal 4to., 184 pp., portrait frontispiece and 20 full-page illustrations including 8 in colour, additional vignettes within text, short biography and 'Personal Note' from the author, publisher's cloth-backed illustrated paper-covered boards, a little rubbed and age-toned, corresponding dust-jacket with even wear and professional restorations to upper edge, otherwise internally fine. Claud Lovat Fraser (1890-1921), English artist, designer and author, trained at the Westminster School of Art where his tutors included Walter Sickert and from here he found an influential friend and supporter in the art critic Haldane MacFall. Through MacFall he also gained an introduction to the Actor Manager Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree, proprietor of His Majesty's Theatre in Haymarket. Tree in turn, at MacFall's instigation, commissioned him to supply the illustrations for Thoughts and Afterthoughts, his volume of reminiscences; Fraser became more and more acquainted with the theatre world, marrying the American born actress, Grace Inez Crawford and her career interests contributed to Fraser's increased involvement in theatre and costume design. He saw considerable active service during World War I and it was felt this undermined his long term health and contributed to his early death, aged only 31. …