Authors starting with N from Antiquarian Bookseller

San Francisco: John Howell, 1980. Tall 4to, xxii, 135pp. With color frontispiece & 42 plates, of which 34 are in color. Original gilt cloth, dust-jacket, fine. FIRST EDITION of this excellent introduction to California painting, with a foreword by Alfred Frankenstein and biographical information and references relating to the artists. ... more information

San Francisco: John Howell, 1980. Tall 4to, xxii, 135pp. With color frontispiece & 42 plates, of which 34 are in color. Original gilt cloth, dust-jacket. Dust jacket with slight wear and browned to edges; original prospectus loosely inserted. Fine in a very good dust jacket. First edition of this excellent introduction to California painting, with a foreword by Alfred Frankenstein and biographical information and references relating to the artists. ... more information

[San Francisco]: Chase & Rae, Printers, [c. 1914]. Two parts in one. 8vo, original printed tan wrappers, in new folding box with Plexiglas lid. [iv], 232 pp. Wrappers smudged, particularly at upper front wrapper; pervasive interior light dampstaining, with some spotting at terminal leaves; but a sound, solid copy of a most uncommon work. "Second Edition, Revised, Corrected and Enlarged by the Author" (as stated on the verso of the first title-page), and the first edition to include The Capti... more information

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1935. 8vo, 81pp. 4 illustrations. Red cloth. Gilt to backstrip. Some bumping to corners. Very good. First edition. Briefly mentions Blake and reproduces 4 plates. ... more information

The Hague; Paris: Mouton, 1975. 8vo, 164 pages. Paper covers, a little light soiling. See Bentley, Blake Books, 2275. ... more information

Traiecti ad Rhenum (Utrecht): Typis Gisberti Zylii, 1665. 12mo, *12 A-Aa12, [600] pp. unpaginated. With an engraved general title. Old stiff vellum, yapp edges, front hinge cracked but holding, 19th-century ink note re the Roxburghe sale copy dated 1839. Dibdin (II, p. 244, 4th ed.) sings the praises of this Boecler edition which he calls Òthe tue reading of [this] author and corrected the text in many places, from a Leyden manuscript; he also inserted FreinsheimÕs conjectures and was the fir... more information

[Great Britain]: Crucible, [The Aquarian Press], [1987]. 8vo, 480 pp. Paper covers, very light wear. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement pages 585-86. ... more information

[Great Britain]: Crucible, [The Aquarian Press], [1987]. 8vo, 480 pp. Paper covers, very light wear. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement pages 585-86. ... more information

Metuchen, New Jersey & London: The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 1978. 8vo, viii, 245pp. Original red cloth stamped in gilt to top board and backstrip; frontispiece portrait from a drawing of Dibdin, and illustrated throughout in black and white by means of facsimiles within the text. Fine. First edition. The Great Bibliographers Series, No. 3, from The Scarecrow Press, Inc. Thorough and well illustrated look at the works of Dibdin, only recently surpassed by that of Windle & Pippin. ... more information

Los Angeles: The Zamorano Club, 1988. 4to, 21pp. Original light gray printed wrappers with paper label; frontispiece and illustrated throughout in black-and-whtie, with color illustrations on half-title page and p. 10 of the text. Fine condition as issued. First edition thus. Printed at the Bellerophon Press, Santa Barbara, 1988. ... more information

New York and London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1907. 8vo, xviii; 355 pp. 16 full-page tipped-in illustrations including frontispiece with tissue guard. All pages with decorative borders by Francis I. Bennett. White paper-covered boards with gilt lettering to upper board and backstrip and raised gilt decorative emblem to upper board. Mild browning. Pages top-edge gilt with other edges rough. A very good copy. First edition with these wonderful illustrations by Newell, the illustrator perhaps most... more information

London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, and Green, 1865. 8vo, xxiv, 379 pp. Old half blue calf, red morocco label, a little scuffed but good. First revised edition of the Apologia Pro Vita Sui 1864, ÒNewmanÕs long life [1801Ð1890] spanned the major crisis of Christianity in England in the nineteenth century, and with almost every part of it he had been deeply involved. He had gone up to Oxford in 1817, an evangelical Calvinistic Low Churchman, and this he remained throughout the period ... more information

Boston: The Atlantic Monthly Press, 1918. 8vo, xxi, 355pp. plus color frontispiece and 90 black-and-white illustrations. Original beige cloth with brown paper-covered boards, paper label affixed to backstrip, top edge gilt; frontispiece in color with tissue guard, and profusely illustrated throughout by means of 90 facsimile illustrations from photographs, paintings and drawings, many of which are separate plates outside the pagination, while others are facsimiles within the text. Some light rubbing to bac... more information

London: Longman, 1962. 8vo, 224pp. Numerous black and white illustrations, one by Blake (Pity). Black cloth, illustrated dust-jacket. Minor sings of use. Very good. First edition. Not much on Blake but an interesting short section comparing him to Turner, and a few other references. Newton was an eminent British art historian whose best known book was ÒThe Meaning of BeautyÓ. ... more information

Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1925. 8vo, xviii, 451pp. plus frontispiece and 78 illustrations. Original quarter brown cloth with beige paper-covered boards, paper label stamped in brown affixed to backstrip, top edge gilt; frontispiece in color, and 78 illustrations (many of which are separate plates outside of the pagination) from paintings, drawings and photographs in black and white. Two bookplates affixed to front pastedown, some rubbing and staining to boards, bumping to corners, some offsetting... more information

Boston: The Atlantic Monthly Press, 1921. 8vo, xx, 267pp. plus color frontispiece and 71 plates. Original cloth-backed boards with paper label to backstrip, top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed; frontispiece from BlakeÕs Urizen in color with tissue guard, illustrated throughout by means of 71 black-and-white illustrations, both in the form of separate plates as well as facsimiles within the text. First trade edition. Includes a chapter entitled, ÔA Sane View of William Blake,Õ as well ... more information

London: Whittington Press, 1980. Folio, 57 proof prints in b&w on hand-made paper. Fine. Full description on request: this group of proofs includes 34 plates for the alphabet, one proof for the Almanac, and 22 for the London Types. Also offered is the text, in the original orange wrappers, to London Types. These plates are perfect examples of some of NicholsonÕs best work, suitable for display or framing. ... more information

Philadelphia: Mitchell and Ames, 1816-17. 6 vols. in 12, 8vo, with engraved title-page and 164 plates (complete), one folding, one torn at a corner, and one torn with some loss of image. SubscribersÕ list at the end of the last volume. Original half green roan, red labels lettered in gilt, pasteboard covers with green design over (once) cream boards. A fine set of custom bindings with the binderÕs label in every volume. First American edition, rare in and of itself, this set especially so as... more information

London: Harrap, [1922]. Small 8vo, [154] pp. Original gray cloth. First edition. Bentley, Blake Books, 2285: Òa popular, ill-informed biography...Ó ... more information

London: Harrap, [1922]. Small 8vo, [154] pp. Half green morocco, rubbed and bumped. First edition. Bentley, Blake Books, 2285: "a popular, ill-informed biography..."Ê ... more information