RUSKIN, John.

The stones of Venice … With illustration drawn by the author. Fourth edition.

Orpington, Kent, George Allen, 1886.

A deluxe copy, one of 220 copies, of the fourth expanded edition, printed on Van Gelder laid paper with the plates on India paper.

£375

[SALON DE 1850.]

Explication des ouvrages de peinture, sculpture, architecture, gravure et lithographie des artists vivants exposés...

Paris, 1850.

Catalogue for the Salon of 1850, the exhibition of contemporary French artists in Paris. The submissions of architectural drawings get the most detailed treatment although the first medal in the architecture section was not awarded.

£75

[SALON DE 1857.]

Explication des ouvrages de peinture, sculpture, architecture, gravure et lithographie des artists vivants exposés...

Paris, 1857.

Catalogue for the Salon of 1857.

£75

[SALON DE 1863.]

Explication des ouvrages de peinture, sculpture, architecture, gravure et lithographie des artists vivants exposés...

Paris, 1863.

Catalogue for the Salon of 1863.

£65

[SALON DE 1876.]

Explication des ouvrages de peinture, sculpture, architecture, gravure et lithographie des artists vivants exposés...

Paris, Imprimerie National, 1876.

Catalogue for the Salon of 1876.

£75

SASSOON, Siegfried. 

Nativity. 

London, Faber & Gwyer, 1927. 

First edition of this striking collaboration between Siegfried Sassoon and Paul Nash. 

£175

TAYLOR, W. B. Sarsfield.

The origin, progress, and present condition of the Fine Arts in Great Britain and Ireland.

London: Whittaker & Co., 1841.

£75

‘TELL’, pseud. [i.e. Jacob EPSTEIN].

A rude Book.

Hartford, Edwin Valentine Mitchell, 1926.

First edition, one of 500 copies printed in the United States, of these satirical sketches of Churchill, Shaw, Beerbohm &c. by the celebrated sculptor Jacob Epstein, our copy owned by the political cartoonist Robert Osborn and accompanied by a scathing review written during his undergraduate years...

£350

TENNYSON, Alfred, and Eleanor FORTESCUE-BRICKDALE, illustrator.

The Idylls of the King … Illustrated in Colour...

London, Hodder & Stoughton, [1911].

Deluxe edition of Tennyson’s Idylls of the King illustrated by Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale (1872–1945), no. 124 of 250 copies signed by the artist.

£600

THENOT, Jean Pierre.

Vollständige Anweisung zur Aquarellmalerei und zum Tuschen ... 1. Heft (all published).

Leipzig, Kirchner, 1837.

First German edition, originally published the preceding year in Paris. A charming watercolour manual.

£350

VIAS, Balthasar de.

In clarissimum virum Nicolaum Claudium Fabricium de Peiresc ... Epicedion.

Marseille, Claude Garcin, 1642.

Uncommon first edition of Balthasar de Vias’s elegant neo-Latin elegy commemorating the life of his friend the scholar, antiquary, and collector Nicolas Claude Fabri de Peiresc (1580–1637) of Aix-en-Provence, the most learned man of his time; our copy contains the extremely rare ‘Encomiasticon’...

£3250

[VILLAMENA, Francesco.]

A fan leaf drawing of a street fight in Rome.

[Italy, late eighteenth century.]

A fine fan leaf drawing, Italian school, late eighteenth century, copied from a print by Francesco Villamena of c. 1601. It depicts a street fight between Spanish and French factions in Rome with a view of the villa Mattei in the background. The original copper engraving by Villamena was dedicated...

£2200

VOLOSHIN, Maksimilian Aleksandrovich.

O Repine [On Repin] …

Moscow, “Ole-Lukoie”, 1913.

First edition thus: three pieces written earlier in the year and published in journals on the work of Ilya Repin (1844–1930), often regarded as Russia’s national artist. At the end is an extract from a lecture (1885) by Landtsert on the painting ‘Ivan the Terrible and his Son’. Voloshin (1877–1932)...

£450

WAAGEN, Gustav Friederich.

Verzeichnis der Gemälde-Sammlung des Königlichen Museums zu Berlin.

Berlin, 1837.

Sixth edition of Waagen’s catalogue of the Berlin picture gallery, with fifteen new paintings.

£150