Portrait photograph of Jacob Epstein
London: May 28, 1934. Variant of the portrait from the same session published in PORTRAITS: the Photographs of... Read More about Portrait photograph of Jacob Epstein
Price: $1,500
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Clipped signature “Gilbert A'Beckett”.
N. P: n.d. Read More about Clipped signature “Gilbert A'Beckett”
Price: $75
Chinese Woman: a pencil portrait.
Alexander (1767-1816) was particularly noted for his pencil and watercolor portraits of Chinese people, of which this frontal bust drawing is a fine, typical example. Many of these derive from his lengthy stay in Peking, beginning in 1792; on his return to London he became a professor of art, and..... Read More about Chinese Woman: a pencil portrait
Price: $1,250
Anastatic Drawing Society, for the years 1855-57, and 1860. The Ilam Anastatic Drawing Society, for 1862, Vol. XI (1871), Vol...
Ashby-De-La-Zouch; (Vols. XXII & XXIII) Ipswich: S.H. Cowell, 1855-1889. “The object of the Society is to delineate remains of Antiquity; e.g. ancient Ecclesiastical, Military, and Domestic Edifices, Sepulchral Monuments, Fonts, Brasses, Stained Glass, Tiles, Armour, Dress, Jewellry, Plate Embroidery, Furniture, Carvings, Illuminstions of ancient MSS, Copies of rare Prints, Portraits..... Read More about Anastatic Drawing Society, for the years 1855-57, and 1860. The Ilam Anastatic Drawing Society,...
Price: $1,500
Sporting Embellished by Large Engravings Illustrative of British Field Sports.
London: A.H. Baily, 1838. First edition. Read More about Sporting Embellished by Large Engravings Illustrative of British Field Sports
Price: $850
Engraving: Deer.
Published by the Twenty-One Gallery, 1929. 69/75 in pencil beneath the image. Final State. The deer were modeled after those he saw in Rome at the zoo in the Borghese Gardens (Ashmolean Catalogue). Read More about Engraving: Deer
Price: $650
Etching: Wayside Family.
Published by the Twenty-One Gallery, 1929. This is a trial Proof of the 3ed State. According to Dodgson the plate was unfinished and unpublished and a few impressions were printed. Read More about Etching: Wayside Family
Price: $400
Salus infirmorum.
1922. Unpublished. In addition to a few early impressions of the final state, twenty were printed in 1930. Read More about Salus infirmorum
Price: $750
Beardsley's Last Book
Volpone: or The Foxe. With a critical essay on the author by Vincent O'Sullivan together with an eulogy of the...
London: Leonard Smithers, 1898. One of 1000 copies on Art Paper, this copy un-numbered. Beardsley's Last Book. Beardsley had intended a series of 24 drawings for Jonson's Venetian comedy, but died before completing it, at the age of 26. Read More about Volpone: or The Foxe. With a critical essay on the author by Vincent O'Sullivan together with an...
Price: $500
Autograph manuscript draft, signed (“Max”), Sonnet to W.S. June 1914.
1914. A choice Beerbohm manuscript, a deft sonnet in honor of painter Walter Sickert (1860-1942), invoking Whistler and other figures of Max’s youth, and the music halls — “The Hoxton Palace of Varieties” — and reflecting upon the passage of time and enduring presence of Sickert, who was in 1914..... Read More about Autograph manuscript draft, signed (“Max”), Sonnet to W.S. June 1914
Price: $3,750
The Happy Hypocrite.
New York and London: John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1897. First edition, Bodley Booklets No. 1, printed by Will Bradley at the Wayside Press Springfield, Mass., with colophon date of December 1896. Read More about The Happy Hypocrite
Price: $200
Heroes and Heroines of Bitter Sweet.
[London]: [1931]. Beerbohm, Max. First edition, Number 134 of 900 copies. At the request of Charles Cochran, the producer of Noel Coward's 1929 operetta, Beerbohm did drawings of Coward, Cochran, and the principals: Peggy Wood, Georges Metaxa, and Ivy St. Helier. This was the last book of caricatures Beerbohm published..... Read More about Heroes and Heroines of Bitter Sweet
Price: $200
Lord Northcliffe Trains a One Penny Elephant
Lord Northcliffe (“The Times”).
[Rapallo?]: 1914. Lord Northcliffe Trains a One Penny Elephant. Lord Northcliffe as Ringmaster training an elephant with '1d' on its head; Northcliffe reduced the price of the Times to one penny in 1914. Read More about Lord Northcliffe (“The Times”
Price: $11,000
Mr. Asquith in Office (“Come one, come all, this rock shall fly / From its firm base as soon as...
1913. The caption is from Scott’s Lady of Lake. “H.H.A, imperturbably smoking a cigar with a copy of ‘Payne on Statics’ at his feet, is ringed by a shackled peer, a German soldier, a militant worker, a suffragette and Sir Edward Carson” (Hart-Davis). Read More about Mr. Asquith in Office (“Come one, come all, this rock shall fly / From its firm base as soon as...
Price: $16,000
Lord Londonderry.
1932. Excellent portrait in Beerbohms's characteristic style of Charles Vane-Tempest-Stewart, 7th Marquess of Londonderry (1878-1949), Conservative politician, sometime Minister of the Air and second cousin to Winston Churchill. Read More about Lord Londonderry
Price: $12,500
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The Old and the Young Self, inscribed [William Nicholson:] 'Who were that?' [James Pryde:] 'Who was those?'.
"The Old Selves contemplate the Siamese-twin figure of the Young Selves, each holding a stick, labelled BEGGAR-STAFF. The two had won fame as poster-artists called the Berggarsatff Brothers." Hart-Davis. Reproduced in Observations, 1925. Read More about The Old and the Young Self, inscribed [William Nicholson:] 'Who were that?' [James Pryde:] 'Who...
Price: $10,000
Fine Hayter Etching, 1827
St John.
1827. Fine Hayter Etching, 1827. Sir George Hayter was Court Portrait Painter to Queen Victoria and especially noted for his large canvases of classical subjects. His etchings are important contributions to Victorian printmaking. Read More about St John
Price: $250
Parables of Our Lord.
London: John Mitchell, [33 Old Bond Street], [c. 1853]. Read More about Parables of Our Lord
Price: $750
Original Watercolor by Katie Blackmore
Japanese Street Vendor Carrying Her Child.
Ca. 1930. Blackmore, Katie. Original Watercolor by Katie Blackmore. An exquisite and highly decorative sudy of a kimono-clad woman against a black india ink background. Katie Blackmore, R.B.A., (fl. 1920-1950) was noted for the delicacy of her detail as well as her keen sense of design, and both are amply..... Read More about Japanese Street Vendor Carrying Her Child
Price: $2,600
The Engraved Designs of William Blake.
London: E. Benn, 1926. First edition, edition de luxe printed on Van Gelder paper, no. 119 of 100 copies. William Brendon ands Son, Limited, Printers, Plymouth. A sumptuous production. Read More about The Engraved Designs of William Blake
Price: $225
One of 100 Copies
The Followers of William Blake: Edward Calvert, Samuel Palmer, George Richmond & Their Circle.
London: Halton & Truscott Smith, 1925. First Edition, No. 9 of 100 copies, signed by the author on the limitation page. One of 100 Copies. A sumptuous production. Read More about The Followers of William Blake: Edward Calvert, Samuel Palmer, George Richmond & Their Circle
Price: $500
William Blake, Mystic. A Study. Together with Young's Night Thoughts: Nights I & II. With Illustrations by William Blake and...
Liverpool: The Liverpool Booksellers, 1911. First edition. Read More about William Blake, Mystic. A Study. Together with Young's Night Thoughts: Nights I & II. With...
Price: $200
Blake's First Commercial Plates
The Speaker: or Miscellaneous Pieces selected form the Best English Writers...With a View to Facilitate the Improvement of Youth in...
London: Printed for J. Johnson, 1785. A New Edition, Corrected. (Fourth Edition, first was 1774, plates dated 1780). This edition was issued with and without plates. Only one plate is signed Blake. Blake's First Commercial Plates. Read More about The Speaker: or Miscellaneous Pieces selected form the Best English Writers...With a View to...
Price: $750
Illustrations of The Book of Job in Twenty-One Plates Invented and Engraved by William Blake.
London: J.M. Dent & Co. and G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1902. Blake, William. Facsimile issued in 1000 copies. Read More about Illustrations of The Book of Job in Twenty-One Plates Invented and Engraved by William Blake
Price: $400
Illustrations of The Book of Job in Twenty-One Plates Invented and Engraved by William Blake.
London: J.M. Dent & Co. and G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1902. Blake, William. Facsimile issued in 1000 copies. Read More about Illustrations of The Book of Job in Twenty-One Plates Invented and Engraved by William Blake
Price: $400