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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: $835.00

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

Seller ID: 2938

Binding: half calf

Condition: Near fine

Amsterdam : Scheltema en Holkema's Boekhandel, 1903. First Edition. Large 8vo (7 3/8” x 8 7/8”). 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 cover design includes the titles within an intertwined floral lozenge printed in reddish-brown over olive-brown paper. The endpapers are covered in a woodcut design by Dijsselhof of repeating birds on a field of intertwined foliate moti...
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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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PEG WOFFINGTON

By: [THOMSON, HUGH (binding design and illustrations)]; READE, CHARLES; DOBSON, AUSTIN (introduction).

Price: $175.00

Publisher: London, George Allen: 1899

Seller ID: 3306

Binding: Publisher's Cloth

Condition: Very Good +

London: George Allen, 1899. First Thus. First Thus. C8vo (7 1/4“ x 5 1/4”). pp. li; [298]. Introduction by Austin Dobson. Hugh Thomson binding design of the titles surrounded by cherubs, butterflies and surmounted by a small portrait of Peg Woffington in gold on green cloth.

Frontis. and over 70 b/w line block illustrations by Hugh Thomson, including headpieces, tailpieces, historiated initials and textual vignettes. a.e.g.

This novel is based on Charles Reade’s 1852 play "Masks and Faces", which has Margaret “Peg” Woffington as the central character. Mrs. Wof...
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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

PEG WOFFINGTON

AN ISLAND GARDEN