Nash paul illus (5 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. Wraps. Large 4to. 36 by 28 cms. Monthly journal of the graphic arts. One of only five issues published. pp 43, Copiously illustrated, including Paul Nash, Robert Gibbings, Blampied, Eric Kennington, Gunga, G L Brockhurst, Benvenuto Disertori. With an influential article, 'Picassine Poisoning', by 'Tis', i.e. Herbert Furst, the art critic and editor of this quarterly magazine. The article criticises Picasso's 'purely intellectual' art. Thick illustrated tan paper wrappers, yapp edges a little creased and rubbed, with a few tiny tears; text block slightly loose in wrappers,though individual leaves are not loose; otherwise internally tight and clean. VG. Uncommon.…

hardcover. Zustand: Very good+ copy. 1st. 4to, 65 pp., Limited to 310 numbered copies printed by Oliver Simon at the Curwen Press on Zanders' hand-made paper, Slight rubbing at spine tips; light soiling to patterned paper-covered boards. Illus. by Paul Nash (illustrator).

Hardcover. Zustand: Nearly Fine. Limited edition. Royal quarto. liii, [3], 71, [1, blank], 32 (The Drawings; The Plates in Colour), [1, colophon] pp. Title in red and black; 5 color plates in facsimile collotype; 9 line block prints (on 5 pages). Full vellum (lightly soiled; small defect at the upper joint), richly ornamened and ruled in gilt and blind; spine lettered in gilt; top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed. Covers slighly bowed; a touch of light foxing at the front end-leaf, else a fine copy. Signed, limited edition, printed at the Shakespeare Head Press, Stratford-upon-Avon. The text is based on the First Folio edition of Shakespeare, with occasional concessions to modern orthography. An unnumbered out-of-series copy, it is, like the 106 numbered copies of the deluxe edition, printed on Batchelor's Kelmscott handmade paper and bound in vellum by Zaehnsdorf, with the signatures of the illustrator Paul Nash, the author of the introduction Harley Granville-Barker, and the art editor Albert Rutherston facing the publisher's advertisement. (An additional 550 unsigned, numbered trade copies were issued in linen-backed boards and printed on cotton rag paper.) The illustrations by Paul Nash comprise set designs and a leaf with costumes for some of the characters. The line blocks were prepared by Emery Walker. One of seven plays in The Players' Shakespeare series, published between 1923 and 1927: Cymbeline; The Merchant of Venice; Macbeth; Loves Labour's Lost; A Midsommer Nights Dreame; Julius Caesar; King Lear. Provenance: Bookplate of Luella and Sam Maslon.…

Zustand: Very Good. [Berkshire, England]: The Golden Cockerel Press, 1928. First U.K. Edition, Limited to 400 copies of which this is no. 26. Octavo (22.8cm); 34pp. 3 plates including frontispiece. No dust jacket. Marbled paper quarter bound with blue cloth along the spine. Top edge gilt, all other edges deckled. Includes gilt stamped title and author on spine as well. Slight bowing on front board and scuffing along head and tail edges of spine and margins of front cover but otherwise Very Good. Damp staining to boards bleeding into bottom gutter of terminals. Pages slightly darkened along the fore edge but otherwise unmarked. All wood-engravings, including the frontispiece and the colophon rooster, are protected with full-page tissue guards. First translation from French to English of Abd-er-Rhaman's choice between the Christian and Muslim heavens after his death.…

First edition, limited to 525 copies of which 500 were made available for sale. Higginson A16. Octavo. Woodcut vignette to title and 6 similar illustrations to the text by Paul Nash. Original Paul Nash designed patterned boards, black cloth backstrip, spine lettered in gilt, fore and bottom edges untrimmed, Bookseller's ticket to front pastedown. Corners very lightly bumped and rubbed. An excellent copy.…