Authors starting with G from marilyn braiterman rare books

Philadelphia: Mathew Carey. 1808. 12mo. H Morocco and Boards. Very Good.. Philadelphia: Mathew Carey, 1808. 12mo, contemporary red straight-grain morocco and marbled boards; spine gilt-lettered and ruled. Some foxing and browning but a very nice copy. The fables were originally written for William Duke of Cumberland, the dedicatee, by the English poet and playwright. Illustrated with frontispiece and five engraved plates. Rosenbach 365: "The prefatory poem (by a mother for her children) earns for this ... more information

London: William Heinemann,. 1921. Small 4to. H Gilt-pictorial Cloth. Fine.. Fine. Small 4to, gilt-pictorial black cloth. Fine. One of 430 copies on handmade paper. Eight color plates tipped in on colored art paper and b/w vignettes throughout: scenes and costumes from the play staged in London by Fraser shortly before his death. Illustrated by C. Lovat Fraser. Binding is Cloth. Small 4to. Binding is GILT-PICTORIAL CLOTH. ... more information

Offenbach. 1925. 4to. H Printed Wrappers... Near Fine. Offenbach 1925. 4to, printed wrappers. Some wear to spine and edges. Number 205 of unspecified limitation. Bibliography of the Rudolfinischen Press of Gerstung and Rudolf Koch as well as bibliographies of other presses with which Gerstung was associated. The text is adapted from Rodenberg’s Deutschen Pressen. Tipped-in specimen pages, some in color, and other black and white full page illustrations: thirteen in all. ... more information

London: A. Millar,. 1767. 8vo. H Morocco and Marbled Boards. Very Nice. Very Good. London: for A. Millar and others, 1767. "New Edition". 8vo, recent brown morocco and marbled boards, spine banded, giltlettered and decorated. Quite a nice copy with minor aging, large bookplate on verso of front blank, small section missing from top edge of rear blank; index at rear dust-soiled. An early edition in which the name of the author does not appear except in facsimile on first page of text. Appendix of 1... more information

Paris: G. De Malherbe. 1894. 4to. S Wrappers... Fine.. Paris: G. De Malherbe (1894 or 1896). 4to, original printed gray wrappers, slightly soiled; plates fine. A ravishing series of twelve color plates, one for each month, designed for the calendar of La Belle Jardinière, a Parisian department store, depicting pretty young women tending their gardens; the gardens and the women’s clothes and activities change with the seasons. The plates are engraved on wood and printed on vellum in "Gillota... more information

Lyons. 1899. Folio. H Board Portfolio.. Fine. Lyon: Bernoux & Cumin (1899). Folio, original board portfolio with printed cover label describing the work, worn and split at folds; contents immaculate. One of 300 copies of this rendering of the French national anthem by one of the great Art Nouveau illustrators, Eugène Grasset. Printed title and four pictorial panels in the original mats bordered in tri-color ribbon , each measuring 13 by 9 inches, woven in fine silk with a technique based on the p... more information

Edinburgh. Oblong Folio. S Pictorial Boards.. Near Fine.. Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1885 and 1889. Oblong folio, pictorial boards. Neatly rebacked, boards darkened and spotted, mild toning to contents, images clean and coloring bright. Eleven gorgeous full page color lithograph plates of mostly 17th century shoes, each with facing page of historical description. Appendix with woodcut vignette illustrations. The Supplement contains historical text, two black and white plates of ancient shoes and four plates ... more information

Milan. 1805. Folio. H Vellum and Marbled Boards. Fine.. (Milan) Mediolani sumptibus auctoris typis datum (1805). Folio, later half- vellum and marbled boards. Short split at upper joint but binding strong, text clean and bright. Printed on thick paper with wide, untrimmed margins, strong impressions of the plates. With (xi), 63 pages, copper- engraved pictorial title by Joseph Aloja, engraved frontispiece portrait of Greppi, engraved dedication to Czar Alexander I, charts (some full page) and copper engravi... more information

Dourdan. 1900. Folio. H Board Portfolio.. Near Fine.. Dourdan: Émile Thézard (circa 1900). Folio, tan printed paper-covered boards; recent cloth spine; original cloth ties; plates (some with light edge wear) loose in portfolio as issued. Charming Art Nouveau designs for shop façades, signs and interiors, published under the direction of Henry Guédy, architect and editor of the design periodical "La Décoration Artistique" and other works on architectural ornament.... more information

Paris: Imprimerie Imperiale. 1808. Folio and 8vo. F 1st Edition. H Calf.. Fine.. Paris: De l’Imprimerie Impériale, 1808. Four volumes, complete. Three 8vo text volumes in recent calf, spines gilt, red morocco labels, contained in marbled slipcases. Atlas volume in modern quarter-calf and blue cloth boards with early 19th century gilt spine with red morocco labels laid down. Minor scattered spotting. A handsome set of the first edition of this comprehensive account. Atlas volume with 97 engravin... more information

Park Forest, Illinois: W. R. Hasbrouck. 1963. 4to. H Cloth... Fine.. Facsimile edition of the rare 1896-7 edition printed in River Forest , Illinois at the Auvergne Press. 4to, two-tone brown and green cloth, a little worn at spine ends and corners, internally fine. Bookplate removed. Limited to 1000 copies. The text by Gannett, a Unitarian minister, is a statement of the Arts & Crafts philosophy of the Ideal House. It is surrounded by Wright's pen and ink drawings in black and red of stylized plant... more information

New York: MITCHELL KENNERLEY. 1929. 4to. H Cloth... Fine.. Performing arts New York & London: Mitchell Kennerley, 1929. 4to, black cloth with gilt lettering and vignette. Fine in soiled pictorial box (repaired at spine and sturdy). The photographic studies we re made by Genth e during Isadora Duncans 1915-1918 visit to America at the height of her career. ... more information

Casterman. 1991. Thick Large 4to. H Cloth... Fine.. Thick large 4to, white linen with design in black. Fine in dust jacket. Profusely illustrated in color and black and white (some illustrations tipped-in). 264 pages. Author is/was Paris critic of the International Herald Tribune. ... more information

Paris: G. Cres,. 1931. 12mo. S Stiff Wrappers. Fine. Fine. In series "Collection Les Artistes Nouveaux". Good early study with 16 pages and 32 heliogravure plates. 12mo, stiff photographic wrappers. ... more information

London: Dent,. 1938. 8vo. S Wrappers. Fine.. Fine. 8vo, pink and blue wrappers in matching envelope. Fine, clean and crisp in lightly worn envelope. Illustrated by Tegetmeier, written by Eric Gill. Gill 37. Binding is Binding is Wrappers. ... more information

Paris: Editions Des Quatre Chemins. 1929. 4to. H Portfolio. Fine. 4to, gray and blue cloth and board portfolio, ribbon ties, paper cover label. One of 325 numbered copies. Fifteen beautiful pochoir colored plates heightened with silver and bronze of geometric forms inspired by cosmological symbols: sun, moon, earth and the signs of the zodia. Serge Gladky was a French Art Deco artist, architect and designer in an abstract and modernist style. An illustration can be found on my website, www.braitermanbooks.c... more information

Philadelphia: Porter & Coates.. 1870. 4to. H Cloth, Gilt.. Very Nice.. Fine. Philadelphia: Porter & Coates (1870). 4to, green cloth with bevelled edges and central gilt medallion with lettering "Mother Goose in a New Dress" repeated in blind on back c over. A little wear and mo dest foxing and smudging but a very nice copy.Title and 16 leaves with text on rectos only; 15 with large chromolithograph illustrations from original watercolors by Janette Ralson Chase. The watercol ors were desig... more information

Cincinnati. 1891. Oblong Small 4to. H Cloth and Boards.. Near Fine.. Near Fine. Color printed and embossed boards and black cloth spine (worn away in a few spots). Excellent copy of a splendid catalogue. Laid in are order blank, embossed envelope and small sheet with view of factory (new in 1891). Two color pictorial title pages (signed Cohen Co.Sc.Cin.Ohio), folding frontispiece, a leaf of harness trimmings printed in silver and gold, 76 pages of horses in harness printed in two colors, 54 pages of mostly ... more information

New York: Museum of Modern Art,. 1970. 8vo. S Stiff Pictorial Wrappers. Fine. Fine. 8vo, stiff pictorial wrappers with all-over color design by Guimard. With 36 pages on Guimard's architecture, architectural and personal accessories, graphics and furniture. ... more information

Paris A. Vincent .. 1953. 8vo. S Printed Wrappers. Fine.. Fine. Architecture & Landscape Design Paris: A. Vincent, 1953. Two volumes. Fine set of the second edition in original printed wrappers. With 148 fine heliogravure plates and 28 figures in the text il lustrating the art and composition of the garden from antiquity to the 20th century in England and Europe with a good section on Moorish gardens in Spain. ... more information