Authors starting with S from Ars Libri Ltd

Tokyo, 1912.. 2 vols. 39, 38ff. 70 full-page color prints. Orig. dec. wraps., stitched, with color prints on each cover (forming a diptych when the two volumes are aligned). Later fitted cloth case (ties with ivory clasps). We quote at length from Jack Hillier’s discussion in “The Art of the Japanese Book”: “Ota Saburo was a protégé of an artist who has been called ‘the father of oil painting in Japan’ and was one of those instrumental in introducing and fos... more information

Berlin/Frankfurt (Ullstein), 1963.. xxi, (1), 216pp. Prof. illus. 4to. Cloth. ... more information

New York (Collier Books), 1975.. xiv, (2), 221pp. Prof. illus. 4to. Wraps. ... more information

Berlin (Aufbau-Verlag), 1949.. 19, (7)pp., 30 plates with facing captions. 4to. Boards, 1/4 cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the artist. ... more information

Gütersloh (Sigbert Mohn Verlag), 1962.. 28, (4)pp., 80 plates with facing captions. 4to. Cloth. D.j. Glassine jacket. ... more information

New York (Oxford University Press), n.d.. (10)pp., 100 halftone plates. Cloth (light soiling). D.j. ... more information

N.p., n.d. [Bologna, circa 1680].. 10 etched plates, through-numbered. Platemark: 117 x 185 mm. (circa 4 1/2 x 7 1/2 inches). Oblong 4to. Eighteenth-century pastepaper flexible boards. Vigorous designs for foliate arabesques by the Bolognese artist Domenico Santi (1621-1694), called Il Mengaccino. One of the best pupils of the painter and printmaker Agostino Mitelli, Santi specialized in quadratura painting and other decoration for the churches and palaces of Bologna, as well as in etching and engraving. H... more information

London (Phaidon), 2000.. (8)pp., 46 color plates with facing captions. 4to. Boards, 1/4 cloth. ... more information

Santa Fe (Twin Palms Publishers), 2005.. (16)pp., 50 color plates with facing captions. Oblong folio. Cloth. D.j. Parallel texts in English and French ... more information

New York (Random House), 1977.. 184, (2)pp. Prof. illus. Lrg. 4to. Cloth. ... more information

Zürich, 1807.. 16pp. Aquatint frontis. after Schellenberg. Engraved portrait vignette. 4to. Orig. blue printed wraps. Library stamp, light wear. ... more information

Hamburg, 1921.. Broadside, with woodcut text printed in black, hand-colored in red and yellow, on buff-colored wove paper; verso blank. 460 x 397 mm. (18 1/8 x 15 5/8 inches). Folio. The prospectus for Schreyer’s “Kreuzigung,” the folio pressbook-score for his expressionist Passion play of this title, produced under the auspices of Schreyer’s Kampfbühne. Grandly designed and printed in the manner of the book, it gives details of the edition as part of a larger appeal to his public,... more information

New York (Moffat, Yard & Company), 1909.. (8)pp., 36 plates. Oblong folio. Boards. New fitted cloth calmshell box. The sheets of the first edition with the illustrated cover in facsimile. ... more information

Erlangen/München (Verlag Klaus G. Renner), [1979].. 77, (3)pp. Prof. illus. Wraps. D.j. Edition limited to 600 copies. ... more information

New York (Simon and Schuster), 1959.. (14)pp., 127 plates (partly color). Lrg. 4to. Boards. ... more information

New York (Simon and Schuster), 1962.. (60)pp., 162 plates (77 color). Sm. oblong folio. Boards, 1/4 cloth. ... more information

Campione d’Italia, 1991.. 80pp. 50 color plates. 4to. Wraps. ... more information

Stuttgart (Verlag von Paul Neff), n.d.. (4) ff., 17 plates, loose in portfolio, as issued. Oblong folio. Orig. publisher’s decorated cloth. (Slight waterstaining inside front cover.) From the library of Wilhelm Suida. ... more information

Berlin (Verlag Der Sturm), [1922].. 32pp. Orig. dec. green wraps., designed by Schwitters. The new Anna Blume: poems and prose from 1918-1922. Covers somewhat faded. ... more information

Paris (Librairie Les Pas Perdus), 1951.. 77, (1)pp. 8 full-page plates in text. Dec. wraps., especially designed by Max Ernst for this publication. An unnumbered copy from the tirage of 500 on papier Alfama, from the limited edition of 550 in all. Unopened. Front cover detached. From the library of Jacob Bean. ... more information