Lapp Princess Press : A Small Press and Artist Books from the late 1970s (Exhibition : 2007)
In this project, Humphrey prefaces his drawn images with a page of ten adjectives--raw, robust, ripe, somber, erotic, joyous, tender, strong, intimate, harsh. The images themselves, each enclosed in a drawn frame, bring to mind the thickly applied...
Morris, William, 1834-1896; Burne-Jones, Edward Coley, 1833-1898
Edition limited to 220 copies, 210 of which are for sale. CAI has no. 187. Bibliographical appendix: pp. i-xxx. "The drawings of Kelmscott Manor were made from photographs taken by
Mr. Frederick H. Evans, by whose kind permission they are here...
Clans; Tartans; Highlands (Scotland); Clans -- Scotland -- History
Publication information based on title page of Volume 1. Volumes 1-4 continuously paged; Volumes 5-8 continuously paged. CAI copy has added engraved t.p. in v. 1: The Scottish Highlands, Highland clans and Highland regiments. CAI copy has t.p. and...
At head of title: Botanical fine art weekly. Index to plates of flowers in Wild Flowers of America is contained in Volume 1., No. 18. This volume (Volume 1, No. 12) contains plates 177-192.
Through Shen-Kan is the account of a 1908-09 expedition to the Shensi and Kansu provinces of northern China. The expedition was funded by Robert Sterling Clark, one of the heirs to the Singer Sewing Machine fortune. Clark was joined by the...
"12 Collotype plates from 'Snapshot' pictures aboard the Catalonia during the crossing from England to America. Souvenir of Transatlantic crossing. These pictures were taken by Ware with a Kodak...Possibly this is Heliotype because Ware was the...
New Haven (Conn.); New Haven (Conn.) -- Poetry; Yale University. School of Art; St. Paul's Church (New Haven, Conn.)
Volume includes "23 collotype illustrations, 13 full page, 9 vignettes, 1 art, from scenery around New Haven, Conn. Randall's photographs and verse. The Prang Press, Boston, printed the book. The Prang Co., possibly America's premier...
China--History--May Thirtieth movement, 1925; Shanghai (China). Municipal Police; Shanghai (China : International Settlement); Communism--China; Zhongguo guo min dang; Child labor; Shanghai (China)--History--20th century; China--Politics and...
Letter from Arthur de Carle Sowerby in China to Robert Sterling Clark in which Sowerby provides a long treatise on current events in Shanghai in China, in particular the circumstances leading up to a protest during which Shanghai police fired on a...
Jacquard, Joseph-Marie, 1752-1834; Abbās I, Shah of Iran, 1571-1629; Rugs, Oriental
Author's armorial book-plate reproduced on t.-p. Ornamental lining-papers. Each colored plate accompanied by leaf with descriptive letterpress. Includes index. Bibliography: p. [387]-401. Allegory.--Contemporary arts.--Carpets, runners and...
Ornamental half-title. Added illustrated title-page. Engraved half title. The illuminated book of needlework, bound as part 2, has individual t.-p.: The illuminated ladies' book of useful and ornamental needlework. Published anonymously in 1840...
Embroidery; Tapestry; Textile fabrics; Lace and lace making; Wallpaper; Decoration and ornament
"This limited edition has been printed from type and the type distributed." "The material presented in the present volume constituted, for the most part, a series of articles which appeared in Good furniture magazine during the years 1915, 1916,...
