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KUNST EN SAMENLEVING (ART AND SOCIETY): WALTER CRANE'S CLAIMS OF DECORATIVE ART

By: DIJSSELHOF; GERRIT WILLEM (binding design and illustrations)]; CRANE, WALTER; VETH, JAN (translator; editor and adaptor)

Price: $750.00

Publisher: Amsterdam, Scheltema en Holkema's Boekhandel: 1903

Seller ID: 2938

Binding: half calf

Condition: Near fine

Large 8vo (7 ” x 8 ”). pp.171. Art Nouveau binding design executed completely in woodcut by Gerrit W. Dijsselhof on a half black calf over paper covered boards with a repeating crayfish motif in gold along the sides of the spine and on the corners blocked in gold leaf.

The endpapers are covered in a woodcut design by Dijsselhof of repeating birds on a field of intertwined foliate motifs. Printed on Van Gelder laid paper with deckled edges.

Includes a total of 35 woodcut head and tail pieces by Dijsselhof.

The importance of Walter Crane's "Claims of Decorative Art" can...
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THE ART BIBLE COMPRISING THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS

By: [FELL, HERBERT GRANVILLE (binding design)]

Price: $200.00

Publisher: London, George Newnes, Limited: 1901

Seller ID: 2545

Binding: cloth

Condition: Very good +

Thick 4to (6½” x 9 ”). pp. [1023]; 313. Signed Arts & Crafts binding design by Herbert Granville Fell in dark blue cloth decorated in gold with the titles in a central oblong panel surrounded by floral motifs, and hearts with an outer border decorated with pomegranate motifs; spine with titles and a panel of pomegranate motifs in gold. Beveled with speckled edges. Includes over 800 in-text illustrations by various artists.

Scarce; exceptionally so in this binding by H. Granville Fell.

Very good + with faint wear to the extremities.
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A WANDERER'S SONGS OF THE SEA

By: [KEELER, LOUISE MAPES BUNNELL (binding design)]; KEELER, CHARLES

Price: $250.00

Publisher: San Francisco, A. M. Robertson: 1902

Seller ID: 2989

Binding: Cloth

12mo (4½” x 7¼”). pp. 59. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON THE TITLE PAGE.

Signed binding design by Louise Keeler of a tall ship in full sail at sunset in gold, red, grey, dark brown, light brown, turquoise, dark blue and black on a paper onlay mounted on gold cloth with the titles in magenta.

A series of sea verse written while the author and his wife (the binding designer) were in Tahiti on assignment for the Oceanic Steamship Company.

The stunning binding design by Louise Keeler gives the illusion of stained glass with the use of rich colors in black outline. It should be ...
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NOTO AN UNEXPLORED CORNER OF JAPAN

By: [WHITMAN, SARAH WYMAN (binding design)]; LOWELL, PERCIVAL

Price: $750.00

Publisher: Boston, Houghton, Mifflin and Company: 1891

Seller ID: 2035

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Near fine

12mo (4 3/4” x 7 1/4”). pp. 261. Unsigned Whitman binding design of a historic Japanese Mon in red on black cloth with titles in Mrs. Whitman's rustic sans serif font in gold; t.e.g.

Noto is the mountainous peninsula and province on the west coast of Hondo, the main island of Japan. This is the story of Mr. Lowell's trip to Noto through the plains, mountains and the inland sea of Japan by train and jinrikisha.

Although at least one reference calls this design a lotus flower, this image is Mrs. Whitman's interpretation of a historic mandarin-orange flower, or Tachibana (Citrus...
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AN ISLAND GARDEN

By: [WHITMAN, SARAH WYMAN (cover design); HASSAM, CHILDE (illustrator)]; THAXTER, CELIA

Price: $2,250.00

Publisher: Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company: 1894

Seller ID: 2320

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Near fine

8vo (6¾” x 9¼”). First printing. pp. 126. Unsigned binding design by Sarah Wyman Whitman in gold on bright green cloth of five upright wild roses (Rosa acicularis) with stylized stems and leaves terminating in interlinked hearts at their base on woven green cloth. Binding design repeats in gold on rear cover; t.e.g.

Includes color frontis.,11 full page chromolithographic color illustrations, (each with captioned tissue guard) as well as title page, half-title and chapter head decorations after watercolor paintings by American Impressionist Childe Hassam.

An Island Garden w...
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Category: ARTS & CRAFTS BOOK DESIGN

KUNST EN SAMENLEVING (ART AND SOCIETY): WALTER CRANE'S CLAIMS OF DECORATIVE ART

THE ART BIBLE COMPRISING THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS

A WANDERER'S SONGS OF THE SEA

NOTO AN UNEXPLORED CORNER OF JAPAN

AN ISLAND GARDEN