Commentaries Plates (18 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. Sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear; not ex-library, with neither underlining nor highlighting anywhere. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, showing only very minor wear, laminated, dust jacket not being price-clipped. 158 illustrations, 127 in full color, and 29 in duotone, of the museum's holdings in the Ancient Mediterranean and then Near and Far East cultures. Contributions by the editors and by the curators of the museum. [5], 6-192 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition, stated. The book is square and unmarked; corners sharp, spine ends bumped; slight fading to the spine. The dust jacket is not price-clipped (original price $35.00); edgewear at spine ends and corners; fading to the spine; Brodart protected.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st. Cloth, 303 pages, illustrations (some colour); 31 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! Additional shipping charges may be requested for international & priority orders. A massive coffee-table book. Richly illustrated with colour plates. *** "The PaineWebber art collection, housed in the PaineWebber offices in Manhattan, is home to one of the greatest private collections of contemporary art. Never before publicly exhibited or published, this private collection offers a remarkable survey of international art of the past forty-five years. The collection is strikingly avant-garde and represents work in all media, including paintings, drawings, prints, photographs, and sculpture. While the collection includes a number of works by such well-established artists as Georg Baselitz, Louise Bourgeois, Jasper Johns, Anselm Kiefer, and Cy Twombly, there is also a strong focus on the artists of the 1980s-- Cindy Sherman, David Salle, and Francesco Clemente-- as well as on younger emerging artists, such as Gunther Forg, Guillermo Kuitca, Lorna Simpson, and Kiki Smith. While many corporate collections avoid controversial, emotional, or political art, the selection guided by Donald B. Marron, the businessman who pioneered the establishment of this museum-quality collection for PaineWebber, is remarkably free of such self-censorship with a daring vitality in the choice of works. This volume encompasses more than 350 works of art, many never before published. Each work is augmented by a companion text that serves to contextualize and explicate the work and the artist. In addition, there are several special commissions included by artists including Susan Rothenberg and Frank Stella. Photographs by noted artist Louise Lawler depict the installation of the art works as viewed every day by PaineWebber employees. PaineWebber's collection is in part founded on the idea that art should be as accessible as possible in everyday circumstances. The experience of working next to a Roy Lichtenstein painting or an Andy Warhol print is different from a brief museum visit, and in his essay, art critic Jack Flam analyzes how the lives of PaineWebber employees are affected by the regular, close proximity of the great art of the twentieth century. The PaineWebber Art Collection brings together this unprecedented collection into a distinguished catalogue of work, accessible to the public for the very first time. / Jack Flam is the former art critic for the Wall Street Journal and a noted authority on contemporary art. His previous books include Richard Diebenkorn: Ocean Park Paintings (Rizzoli/Gagosian Gallery). Monique Beudert and Jennifer Wells are, respectively, past and current curators of the PaineWebber collection. Donald B. Marron is chairman and CEO of PaineWebber. Mr. Marron is a past president and serves as a vice-chairman of the Board of Trustees of The Museum of Modern Art, New York." - Publisher. Size: 4to. Collectible.

Condition: Gut. Erstauflage / First edition. Bll. + 192 S. inkl. Bibliographie, u. mit ganzseit. farbig. Tafeln. Papier innen einwandfrei. * Utagawa Hiroshige (gebor. 1797 in Edo - heute Tokio -, gest. 12. Oktober 1858) war einer der Meister des japanischen Farbholzschnitts am Ende der Edo-Zeit. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 1960 Gr.-4°, O(Pfirsichfarb.)-GanzLnw. (cloth) mit weißgepr.-Titelung u. OIll.-Umschlag (Umschl. mit wenig. Läsuren). Gut bis sehr gut erhalten.

Rohan Master (illustrator). Quarto bound in red cloth in publisher-issued slipcase. Color plates. Condition: very slight wear to slipcase; damp-stain to lower three inches of cloth spine and small portions of front & rear covers; minor soiling to spine; staining does not encroach to interior of book or endpapers. Very good in near fine slipcase. 247 pages.

Hardback. Condition: Near Fine. 1st US Edition. Tall Quarto Size [approx 26x38cm]. Near Fine copy in a Very Good dustjacket. DJ now protected in our clear archival purpose-made plastic sleeve. An excellent copy. Illustrated with colour and black & white reproductions. Foreword by Maggie Bickford. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 192 pages.

Condition: Good. 2 coilumes in pictorial slipcase, numerous (double page) illustrations in colour, 8vo.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. New, First Edtn, light orange cloth over boards w white font on cover, blk font on spine, dust jacket unclipped, new now under archival wrap.192 pages, 102 illustrations (91 full-color plates). 10'' x 14 1/2''. This edition includes a selection of the finest examples of Hiroshige's bird and flower prints executed in the 1830s from the renowned Abby Aldric h Rockefeller Collection which is now housed at the Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design.Oversized - addtl shipping may apply w buyer approval.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 'Reproduced from the illustrated book Fugaku Meiji by Hokusai in the Mitchell Collection, The New York Public Library.'--T.p. verso. 224 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. First UK edition, first printing. Brown cloth boards, unclipped dust jacket (now in a removable protective sleeve). Slight shelf wear to edges, no inscriptions, tight and square binding. Photographs available on request. All books dispatched same or next working day in robust packaging.

Hardcover. Condition: vg. First edition. Folio. 192pp. Original illustrated dust-jacket over orange cloth with blue lettering on spine and white lettering on front cover. Endlessly experimenting with design, composition, and color, Hiroshige captured in these paintings, as no where else in his work, his poetic and idyllic sense of nature. This exquisite volume offers a most accessible introduction to the work of Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858), master Japanese print maker and artistic force during the Edo period, an exciting era in Japanese art. Bird and flower painting kacho-e is a sub-genre of the ukiyo-e style. Though naturalistic, ukiyo-e "aims to capture the spirit or essence of the object depicted, not strictly its material form." The 91 spectacular color plates, reproduced from the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Collection at the Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, highlight Hiroshige's refined color sense, economy of composition and delicate, never-sentimental renderings. Haiku or kyoka translations accompany most plates, and an informative introduction by Bogel gives a short history of the Edo period, describing its roots and symbolism, and placing Hiroshige and his influence in historical context. Previous owner's blind stamp on half-title (Norman Hurst). Dust-jacket, binding and interior in very good condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good condition. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 256 pp. Reproduced from the series of prints in the Brooklyn Museum of Art. LCC: 862257.

Hard. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st. First edition. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY: Braziller, 1988, first printing. Folio, 10 1/4" x 14 1/2", 192pp., illustrated with 91 full color plates. Fine in near fine. price clipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Fascinating collection of examples of the grotesque in art since 1450. Originally published, as 'Quatre sie?cles de surre?alisme : l'art fantastique dans la gravure'. Paris , Belfond, 1973. 224 p. : chiefly ill. ; 31 cm. First UK edition, first printing. Green cloth boards, unclipped dust jacket. Small hole to front cover, slight shelf wear to edges, no inscriptions, tight and square binding. Photographs available on request. All books dispatched same or next working day in robust packaging.

First edition, first printing Very close to fine and bright in like illustrated dustjacket with crisp bright text throughout. Beautiful edition throughout. Becoming scarce. Gift quality.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. English text.; Hardcover (with dust jacket).; 25.5 x 37 cm.; ; 2.1 kg.; 256 pages with 119 color plates.; Used with signs of wear on the exterior and interior. The dust jacket shows edge wear, several wear marks, scuffs and scratches on the front cover, spine and back cover. The top and bottom of the spine is scuffed and slightly chipped, tear at the top right side of the back cover. Interior with minor signs of wear.; This edition of One Hundred Famous Views of Edo uses an original typeface designed by Alpha Omega especially for this book. The typeface is called Hiroshige, in honor of the artist of this series. The type is designed to create an active interplay between the text and the full-page illustrations, with an Asian, calligraphic flair.; Hiroshige's One Hundred Famous Views of Edo, actually composed of 118 splendid woodblock landscape and genre scenes of mid-nineteenth-century Tokyo, is one of the greatest achievements of Japanese art. The series, reproduced here in its entirety for the first time in a Western edition, contains many of Hiroshige's best-loved and most extraordinary prints. It is a celebration of the style and world of Japan's finest cultural flowering at the end of the shogunate. Like Venice and Florence in the 14th and 15th centuries, or Paris in the age of the Impressionists, the city of Edo, with its superb landmarks and its festive display of a uniquely elegant urban life, exerts a special and compelling fascination. Hiroshige, perhaps the most brilliant of the ukiyo-e printmakers, revealed the panorama of his city's activities with subtle and vivid visual anecdotes: fireworks seen from the river, fashionable geishas on parade, the kabuki district at night, intimate moments in the gardens and teahouses. But more than a historical document, the views are really vignettes presented from a remarkable variety of vantage points-aerial perspectives, multiple viewpoints, framed repoussoirs - and incorporate the natural beauty and atmospheric effects of every season crisp autumn moonlight, cherry blossoms and irises in the spring, summer rain on the waterways, and temples in the winter snow. It is a tour de force of artistic vision and printmaking craftsmanship that epitomizes the inventiveness of ukiyo-e art. This volume is printed in Japan and has been reproduced from an exceptionally fine, first-edition set in the Brooklyn Museum of Art to insure maximum fidelity to the original prints. The set is completed by a supplementary design and table of contents. In his introduction, Henry D. Smith II explains the world of Edo in its twilight before the Meiji Restoration and the beginnings of a modem urban society. Each plate is accompanied by a commentary that discusses its artistic and cultural interest in detail. For anyone interested in Japan, the One Hundred Famous Views of Edo is perhaps the finest guide and one of the greatest legacies Imaginable.

132 Pp. 28 coloured plates with description Translated from the Czech by Peter Kussi. Previous owner's inscription otherwise fine Blue leather with gilt stars decorations to top front & back covers in illustrated slip case Reproduced from Add.Ms. 24189 in the British Library by courtesy of the British Library Board.

First edition Fine and bright golden boards in like illustrated dustjacket with crisp bright text throughout. A beautiful book throughout with large color full page illustrations and text. Gift quality all around. New and bright all around, gift quality. Will require extra shipping and handling.

Leather bound. Condition: Near fine. Published in 1677, a later edition of Clement Edmonds' English translation of The Commentaries of C. Julius Caesar, decorated with illustrated plates. (illustrator). Later Edition. Small folio, [48], 1-332pp. Measures 8.5" x 13". Bound in modern brown calf, title in gilt on spine. New endpapers. Solid text block, light toning along edges of leaves, a few short tears to corners. A very clean, near fine example. Two bookplates of previous owners affixed to front endpaper. Includes 13 full-page plates, some as fold-outs, and a copper-engraved frontispiece of Julius Caesar by Van Howe. (ESTC R16632) (Wing C199, C200) (Cockle 71). This piece, originally published in Latin in 1469, combines stories of Caesar's wars with the Celtic and German peoples in Gaul, and Caesar's war against Gnaeus Pompeius and the Roman Senate. The first edition of this English translation by Clement Edmonds was released in 1600. (Cockle 71) Full Title: The Commentaries of C. Julius Caesar, Of his Wars in Gallia; And the Civil Wars betwixt him and Pompey. Translated into English; With many Excellent and Judicious Observations thereupon. As also the Art of our Modern Training, or Tactick Practice. By Clement Edmonds Esquire, Remembrancer of the City of London. Whereunto is adjoyned the Eighth Commentary of the Wars in Gallia; with some short Observations upon it. Together with the Life of Caesar, And an Account of his Medals; Revised, Corrected, and Enlarged. Full Collation available upon request.