Ny Phaidon Dutton (8 results)

Cloth. Condition: Very Good Plus. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good Plus Dust Jacket. 256 pp. Tightly bound. Corners not bumped. Text is free of markings. One small, 1/8" very faint old stain top fore-edge.

1st printing of 1st US edition. A careful elaboration of the artist's intentions: the extension of thought into paint; 240 pages, well illustrated. Slight dust soiling along top edge otherwise very good+ trade hard cover book/ small closed tear at the base of the front dust jacket panel otherwise a very good+ dust jacket. Coffee table size book (requires additional postage).…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Stated 1st edition. 16 pages of text including biographical information. followed by 48 full page color plates. 9" x 12".

HC. 16pp, plates ISBN 0714816922 very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover). 40 color plates (illustrator).

hardcover. Condition: Good. Torn/worn dj. Good hardcover with some shelfwear; may have previous owner's name inside. Oversized.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Very large color plates in a quality dark blue cloth covers, bright gilt lettering on spine, 48 glossy color-illustrations on mostly religious subjects, some close-up details of other plates. A 16-page introduction and a biographical note. DJ glossy with a color-illustration of angels playing instruments other than harps on front, orange spine and back. DJ is badly worn at spine top edge, less so at spine bottom edge, 3/8" tear at top back spine indentaton, very light tiny scratches on both front and back. Fair DJ/Fine book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine in VG dust jacket. First edition. Slightly oversize hardcover, attractive floral print cloth binding, minor wear, clean, tightly bound; internally fine, unmarked. Dust jacket with surface scar to rear cover 4 x 1 inch approx., top edge), tiny tear, spine not sunned, not price clipped and now protected in a clear archival sleeve. 272 pages, 4 unnumbered leaves of plates; illustrations (some color), portraits Experienced full-time bookseller since 1994 (selling online since 1998). Images may be added by request. Questions welcome. …

brown hardcover ~ 4to ~ 4º (quarto). large book (7"x10"). dustwrapper in protective plastic book jacket cover. fine cond. binding square & tight. covers clean. edges clean. contents free of markings. dustwrapper in fine cond. not worn or torn or price clipped. nice clean copy. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no names, inking, underlining, remainder markings etc~. first edition. first printing (FPu1977 & NAP). 256p. 4 full page glossy full color plates. 181 glossy b&w illustrations. 2 appendices. glossary. notes. index of works. index of persons. biography. art history. religion. english literature. poetry. ~ This is the first full~scale art~historical evaluation of Blake's work. The author traces the artist's ideas as they are gradually developed through his art, and explores in depth the effects, personal and professional, of influential contemporaries such as Flaxman and Fuseli. The book encompasses all phases of Blake's art, including the highly complex Illuminated Books, hitherto the almost exclusive domain of the literary historian. Dr Bindman's interpretation of the ideas embodied in their design gives access to a greater understanding of the text than previously available, and he emphasizes the essential unity of Blake's apparently diverse activities as artist, poet, prophet and craftsman. The argument of this scholarly and challenging monograph is reinforced with nearly 200 illustrations, including 4 in colour, which reproduce many of Blake's major works as well as some of his lesser~known ones. …