James Laver Introduction (40 results)
- Hardcover
Seller: Willis Monie-Books, ABAA, Cooperstown, NY, U.S.A.Willis Monie-Books, ABAA
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. Reprint Edition. Dust jacket is rubbed and slightly faded, with minor edge wear. Inside flaps of dust jacket are yellowed, and front flap is creased. Minor stains on top and bottom edge of book. ; Reprint of 1906 edition.
Language: English
Published by His Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1947
- Softcover
Seller: Ultramarine Books, Brooklyn, NY, U.S.A.Ultramarine Books
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Add to basketPaperback. Condition: Very Good. London: His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1947. 100 illustrations, all b&w. The catalogue reproduces costume illustration (men's and women's), not actual clothing, from the collection of costume prints and books at the Victoria & Allbert Museum. Pictorial Wrapper (softcover). Very Good. Small 4to.… Museum Gallery Catalogue.
Published by Simon & Schuster, 1967
- Softcover
- First Edition
Seller: SuzyQBooks, Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A.SuzyQBooks
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Published by Roy Publishers, New York, 1956
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: UHR Books, Hollis Center, ME, U.S.A.UHR Books
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good -. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edition. Illustrated, 144 page guide to "collecting". Pages are a bit age-toned; dust jacket has significant edge wear, has an inked price on the top edge, and is faded. Book.
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Language: English
Published by London, Her Majesty's Stationery Office., 1951
- Softcover
Seller: Bucks County Bookshop IOBA, Doylestown, PA, U.S.A.Bucks County Bookshop IOBA
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Second printing 1969. This book shows 96 reproduced black-and-white plates, each with a brief description. -- Softcover, 7.3x9.8 inches. Condition: very good minus (spine has 1-inch missing/partly-repaired, and rubbed edges; shop label pasted to title-page). -- Pages are bright and crisp.
Language: English
Published by Rowman and Littlefield (1973), Totowa, N. J., 1973
- Hardcover
Seller: Riverow Bookshop, Owego, NY, U.S.A.Riverow Bookshop
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Cloth(Hrdcvr). Condition: G/VG. Totowa, N. J.: Rowman and Littlefield. G/VG. (1973). . Cloth(Hrdcvr). First published in Great Britain in 1906. Reprint of that edition. Traces the development of all the processes of printing in colour.Appendix: coloured books with plates by Baxter, Rowlandson adn Alken; coloured books published…by Ackermann. . 8vo., xxiv, 340pp., Very gently cracked . Black&White/Color Plates (illustrator).
Published by Nicholson & Watson 1944, 1944
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Joel Rudikoff Art Books, White Plains, NY, U.S.A.Joel Rudikoff Art Books
Contact seller4-star sellerFirst 8vo, cloth. 44 pp, 28 illustrations (4 in color). The pages are rippled (but not stuck together, and there is minor fraying at the points and at the head and foot of the spine. No dj.
Published by Curtain Press Ltd, 1947
- Softcover
Seller: Midtown Scholar Bookstore, Harrisburg, PA, U.S.A.Midtown Scholar Bookstore
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Add to basketpaperback. Condition: Very Good. Stapled pamphlet. Part 2, number 4. Very Good paperback with light shelfwear - NICE! Standard-sized.
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- Hardcover
Seller: Barksdale Books, Almere, NetherlandsBarksdale Books
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Condition: Good. Original gilt lettered cloth, price clipped dust jacket, illustrations in b/w.; Spine dust jacket sunned; small tear dust jacket repaired.
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Published by The Heritage Press, Avon, Connecticut, 1971
- Hardcover
Seller: Granada Bookstore, IOBA, Woodlawn, IL, U.S.A.Granada Bookstore, IOBA
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Not Issued. Sandglass Sheet (X I: 36) Laid In. The Book Is Bound Within Boards With Marbled Paper Over One Quarter Burgundy Cloth. Gilt Lettering And Rules Within A Black Title Block On The Spine. The Top Edges Are Dyed Burgundy. The Spine Of The Book Has Minor Fading. The…Burgundy Paper Covered Slip Case Has Some Fading At The Opening And Top. Tremois,Pierre-Yves (illustrator).
Published by London: Fitzhouse Books, 1990
- Hardcover
Seller: Betterbks/ COSMOPOLITAN BOOK SHOP, Burbank, CA, U.S.A.Betterbks/ COSMOPOLITAN BOOK SHOP
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Reprint of the 1906 edition. Quarto. B&W illustrations. Condition: DJ price-clipped; some darkening to top & fore-edges of book block; else NF/NF. 340 pages.
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Published by Faber & Faber, 1950
Seller: WeBuyBooks, Rossendale, LANCS, United KingdomWeBuyBooks
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Add to basketCondition: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned. Ex library copy with the usual… markings. Covers have some edge tears and chips. Tan and thumbing to contents. A good reading copy.
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Published by Faber and Faber, London, UK, 1947
- Softcover
Seller: BookAddiction (IOBA, IBooknet), Canterbury, United KingdomBookAddiction (IOBA, IBooknet)
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Add to basketSoftcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 24pp, with 10 gloriously full colour tipped in illustrations of paintings depicting music in painting. In light card wrappers with paper dust jacket. Small folio. Covers a little rubbed at edges. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight barring some mild signs of fing…ering. Dust jacket is lightly rubbed and bumped at edges, scuffed at spine ends, and lightly spotted around the leading edges. The bright and stunning tipped in illustrations include Edward Burne-Jones' The Mirror of Venus and Rubens' the Judgement of Paris. With an introductory essay on portrayals of Venus in paintings by James Laver and notes accompanying each example.
Published by Hastings House, 1959
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: monobooks, Waterford, MI, U.S.A.monobooks
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First edition 1959. Published by Hastings House/ Hardcover in two-tone cloth with DJ. Condition very good, square and tight book, very slight edgewear, corners not bumped, covers slightly sunned at edges, no names, no underlinings, no highlights, no bent…page corners, no foxing, not a reminder. DJ good, edgewear, tears and chips, some tears repaired with tape, price not clipped. 8vo, XV + 349 pages, 300 illustrations. ASIN: B0000CKUUN.
Published by A. & C. Black, Ltd, London, 1930
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: RON RAMSWICK BOOKS, IOBA, CARLSBAD, CA, U.S.A.RON RAMSWICK BOOKS, IOBA
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Add to basketHard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Drawn and Described By Iris Brooke. Original blue/green cloth covered boards have faded otherwise very good in pictorial dust jacket. Charming color illustrations and line drawings. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Published by Hutchinson & Co ( Publishers ) Ltd, London
- Hardcover
Seller: Oopalba Books, Sale, MANCH, United KingdomOopalba Books
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Add to basketHard Cover. Condition: Fair +. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Red hardback with worn and torn dustjacket. Character studies of The Young Disraeli; Lord George Gordon; Joseph Nollekens; Dr. Samuel Parr; Baron Stockmar. With 32 illustrations 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall.
Language: English
Published by Methuen & Co., London, 1941
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Diamond Island Books, Gorham, ME, U.S.A.Diamond Island Books
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. Gray cloth with red spine lettering. Dust jacket with edge wear, chips and old tape repairs. Some period undecipherable notations on front blank page. Same page has the number 000003 stamped in upper right corner. Internally a very clean and tight copy. F…eliks Topolski (illustrator).
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Published by Thames and Hudson,, London,, 1964
- Softcover
Seller: Crouch Rare Books, Godalming, United KingdomCrouch Rare Books
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Add to basketCondition: Very good. large 8vo size, colour illustrated wrappers just slightly rubbed on edges, contents very clean, overall very good.
Published by Published by the Curtain Press Limited, London, 1947
- Softcover
Seller: Ryde Bookshop Ltd, Isle of Wight, United KingdomRyde Bookshop Ltd
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Add to basketSoft cover. Condition: Very Good. Stapled booklet with a few minor marks on the back cover. Rex Whistler, containing eight colour plates and seventeen sepia illustrations (illustrator).
Flowers of Evil
Charles Baudelaire (poems); James Laver (editing, introduction & notes); Jacob Epstein (drawings)
Published by London: The Limited Editions Press, 1940
- Hardcover
Seller: Arnold M. Herr, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.Arnold M. Herr
Contact seller5-star sellerHardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Limited Edition. Number 463 of an unspecified number (probably 1500) if copies. Small quarto in brick red colored cloth binding. B&W illustrations. There are two bookplates in this copy - the one inside the front cover is that of Joan & Walter Wanger, she was the actress Joan Bennett, and h…e was a movie producer. Condition: some dampstaining to the lower portions of the front and rear covers; front inner hinge starting; else good. Pages: xxxvi, 304.
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Published by London: Nicholson & Watson with Ernest Brown and Phillips, 1944
- Hardcover
Seller: John Turton, Crook, United KingdomJohn Turton
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Add to basket8vo. 18pp, colour frontis, 10 double-sided colour and b/w plates (some double-page), head-piece. Original grey cloth lettered in blue. Extremes lightly rubbed; cloth a little soiled; very light spotting to eps.
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Published by Thames and Hudson, London, 1964
- Softcover
- First Edition
Seller: Minotavros Books, ABAC ILAB, Whitby, ON, CanadaMinotavros Books, ABAC ILAB
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Add to basketSoft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition Thus. 8vo. First paperback edition. Soft cover. 139 pp. With 480 illustrations. Spine tilted and creased, damp stain to upper rear corner, wear to foot of front joint.
Published by London: The Studio Ltd N.D, 1938
- Hardcover
Seller: John Turton, Crook, United KingdomJohn Turton
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Add to basket"Treasures of Art Series." Fo. 13[1]pp, 8 colour plates, each with accompanying text leaf. Contemporary maroon cloth gilt, patterned eps. Ex-library with usual evidence including oval ink-stamps to plate margins.
Published by The Grey Walls Press, London, 1948
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Alexander's Books, Royal Leamington Spa, United KingdomAlexander's Books
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Near Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First edition. Small quarto hardback. 18 pp. plus 40 plates in colour and black and white Near Very Good condition in Good, unclipped dust jacket which has colour illustration of the Temptation of St. Anthony on front and back (small loss of material… along top edge) Original owner's name and date on inside cover.
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Published by London, Methuen, 1946
- Hardcover
Seller: Klondyke, Almere, NetherlandsKlondyke
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Add to basketCondition: Good. 2nd Edition. Cloth, no dust jacket.
Published by . London, Fitzhouse Books, [1990], reprint of the 1906 first edition., 1990
- Hardcover
Seller: Horizon Books, Toronto, ON, CanadaHorizon Books
Contact seller5-star sellerlarge 8vo [25 x 19 cm]; xxiv, 340 pp, frontis, 28 plates, index. original green cloth, gilt spine title lettering, dj (price clipped), fine and clean, unmarked. There are two detailed chapters on the origins of coloured printing and of the methods of book illustration from 1500 to 1800. These are followed by 22 detailed chapters… on individuals, publishers and the development and improvement of methods and techniques to the twentieth century. There are appendices on colored books with plates by Baxter, Ackerman, Rowlandson, Alien. A picture of this book is available on request.
Language: English
Published by Batsford, London, 1951
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: SAVERY BOOKS, Brighton, East Sussex, United KingdomSAVERY BOOKS
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Add to basketHardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardback in jacket. 24x18.5cm. 12 pages plus 16 colour plates. Clean & tight book. No inscriptions. Flat pages. Jacket has a little edge wear. Front flap is not price-clipped: 7s. 6d. Jacket is now under clear removable covers. Dispatched ROYAL MAIL F…IRST CLASS with TRACKING next working day or sooner securely boxed in cardboard. ref zx-ZNDS.
Published by Curtain Press, GB, 1947
- Softcover
- First Edition
Seller: Richard Sylvanus Williams (Est 1976), WINTERTON, United KingdomRichard Sylvanus Williams (Est 1976)
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Add to basketPaperback. Condition: VG-. 1st Edition. Book is in very good minus condition with minor but noticeable signs of wear and/or age.
Language: English
Published by Methuen, London, 1946
- Hardcover
Seller: SAVERY BOOKS, Brighton, East Sussex, United KingdomSAVERY BOOKS
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. 2nd Edition. NO JACKET. Hardback 1946. 2nd edition. 31x25cm. 128 pages. Clean & tight. No inscriptions. NO JACKET. Dispatched ROYAL MAIL FIRST CLASS with TRACKING next working day or sooner securely boxed in cardboard. ref zdd. Feliks Topolski (illustrator).
Published by Faber and Faber, London, 1957
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Literary Cat Books, Machynlleth, Powys, WALES, United KingdomLiterary Cat Books
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Add to basketOriginal cloth. Condition: Very Good. Good+ dust. First Edition. With coloured plates after James Pollard. Endpapers somewhat browned. Slight wear to spine, covers & corners. Large tear in front cover dustjacket. Some loss to bottom spine dustjacket. Slight chipping to head and bottom spine dustjacket. Some wear to dustjacket.;…Folio; 118 pages.










