Thomas Cornell Illustrator (5 results)

Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. [30] pp., portrait frontis., chiefly bw plates, stapled wraps, 25 cm. : Bright, sharp pages. Touch of foxing to rear endpages, light bumping/sunning to wraps. : Well packaged, ships with tracking.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Softcover. Scarce. One of 100 copies inscribed by the printer to the illustrator. This third work from the Tragos Press purports to be a May, 1961 letter from Benjamin F. Kersey, a private in the Maine Volunteers during the Civil War who died of diphtheria later that year. It is addressed to Aaron Tarr of Alna, Maine, recounting his experiences as a member of the Maine Volunteers. Handset by John Welwood and with three striking black and brown text illustrations by Maine artist, Thomas Cornell. In gray paper covers with black and white title label to front cover. There are 10 pages on folded double leaves. Slight wrinkling and small bumps to covers with a small light brown stain at the bottom of the rear cover. Very good condition. Measures 4.5 x 6 inches. PRI/013124. Signed.…

Leather bound. Condition: Fine. Limited Edition. 12-1/2" x 8-3/4 48 untrimmed leaves lay within an Arno Wener full tan morocco chemise, housed in quarter leatherand cloth traycase. Text is laid in unbound, uncut signatures printed by Harold McGrath on German made Nideggen paper, with a suite of 21 etchings by Cornell printed by Emiliano Sorini in New York on Fabriano paper, each signed in pencil, titles printed blind. Unnumbered "printer's copy" (designated thus in Baskin's hand on the colophon leaf and signed) in addition to the 300 numbered copies constituting the published edition.An account of the trial of the noted French Revolutionary and Socialist martyr, Gracchus [Francoise-Noel] Babeuf. Babeuf, a leading advocate for democracy and the abolition of private property, served as publisher of the Tribun du Peuple. After the notable trial given fine press treatment here, and despite the help of his Jacobin friends, was executed in 1797 for his role in the Conspiracy of Equals to overthrow the Directoire: the first attempt to install a socialist government. From the estate of the printer's sister, Pearl Baskin Rabinowitz. Thomas Cornell (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Edited & translated with an essay on Babeuf by John Anthony Scott, with 21 etched portraits by Thomas Cornell. Loose as issued in unbound and uncut signatures, in full leather portfolio, limited to 300 copies, with and additional suite of etchings signed and numbered, in cloth portfolio, limited to an edition of 50. Sets 1 through 50 have the additional suite of prints all signed, titled and dated in pencil. This is set 34 identified on the colophon page and the additional suite of prints all numbered 34/50. Colophon page woodcut by Leonard Baskin. Quarto loose uncut signatures in a leather cover housed in a beige portfolio. The etchings in the text are printed on blue Fabriano laid paper, and laid into the text. The additional suite of prints is quarto in a separate matching beige portfolio. Housed overall in a beige cloth clam shell box with a leather spine. Overall excellent condition, minor wear on the outer clam shell box. Inventory #4937-1. This book requires special handling in shipping. From the colophon: "Three hundred copies of this book were printed at the Gehenna Press in Northhampton, Mass., the work finished during March 1964. The type throughout is Baskerville, The paper is Nideggen made in Germany. Harold McGrath was the pressman. The suite of etchings were printed by Emiliano Sorini in New York. . .".…

FIRST EDITION, no.131 of 300 copies, signed by Leonard Baskin; pp.(4)84 + colophon; twenty-one etched portraits printed on blue Fabriano paper by Emiliano Sorini, New York, each signed by Thomas Cornell, text on German Nideggen hand-made paper; a fine copy, unbound as issued in full tan morocco folder and matching morocco-backed clam-shell box. 'First Revolutionary Communist', French political agitator and revolutionary, Francois Noel (Gracchus) Babeuf (1760-1797) led the 'Conspiracy of Equals' against the Directory in the first attempt to establish a socialist state. The plot was denounced and a wave of arrests made in May, 1796. A High Court of Justice was held in Vendome in October and Babeuf executed. Brook 36. French Revolution Etched Plates Private Press.…