Frank Lloyd Wright Gannet William C (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Book design by Frank Lloyd Wright. A reissue of the 1898 edition. First printing thus. Near fine in a very good (a bit faded along the spine, foxing on verso), price clipped dust jacket.

Facsimile, 14 x 11.5", two-tone gilt-ruled cloth, unpaginated, covers with extremity bumping, bottom of spine chewed, spine abraded and darkened, hinges loose, contents nice except for a mildew smell. Acsimile of the Auvergne Press edition of 1896-97, with the small booklet of Wright's botanical photos tipped-in at front. SWAF.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Limited edition. Folio. A facsimile of the limited edition published in 1897. Printed on fine paper in red and black, and bound in quarter brown cloth, gilt, with green cloth sides. Complete with the booklet of 14 pages sewn to the front end paper containing illustrations reproducing Wright's photographs of dried weeds. A fine copy, scarce in its own right. Neat previous ownership seal on the front paste down (a registered architect seal). .…

Hardcover. Reprint. Unpaginated. 35 x 29.5 cm. This is the second publication of The Prairie School Press, the first being "A System of Architectural Ornament" by Louis Sullivan. A facsimile of the original edition with Wright's design faithfully adhered to, printed in red and black on eighty pound antique finished paper and bound as the original, with a small folio of Wright's nature photographs, handsewn in booklet form as was the original tipped inside the front cover. Laid-in, the original type written announcement of this work by the publisher. Interior contents clean and crisp. Orig. brown and green cloth. Fine. Wright, Frank Lloyd (illustrator).…

Quarter Calf. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Printed on hand-made paper with deckle edges. Double-page title in red and black, text printed within engraved frames, some full-page engraved illustrations, some ornaments printed in red, 12 photogravures of plants printed on Japan paper, bound as a booklet into green card wrappers with gold printing, and pasted on the front free endpaper as issued. (Some spotting to yapp edges, Japan paper spotted.) Original quarter calf and green paper covers, gilt frames on calf sides, the upper side also titled in gilt (dampstained, extremities rubbed, some soiling, some abrasion on upper cover). FIRST EDITION, DESIGNED AND PRINTED BY FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT. One of only 90 copies, this one number 78, signed by Wright and Winslow. The design of The House Beautiful established the form followed by most of Wright's subsequent books, and prefigures some of his famous stained-glass window designs. Auvergne Place, the house where this work was printed, was designed by Wright for Winslow and built in 1893; it had been Wright's first independent commission after leaving Adler and Sullivan. The photogravures reproduce dried weeds and plants which inspired Wright's illustrations.…