richards ravilious eric (10 Ergebnisse)

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

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

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Ravilious, Eric (illustrator). The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

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

Zustand: 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. Zustand: 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.

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.

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.