1900 valenti angelo (2 risultati)

Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good Slipcase. OSCAR WILDE'S SALOME TRANSFORMED INTO A DECORATIVE BOOK. An especially attractive Heritage Press production of Wilde's one-act tragedy, conceived as an integrated work of book design by Valenti Angelo. Angelo surrounds the text with elaborate floral and Near Eastern-inspired ornament, full-page illustrations, decorative endpapers, and hand-applied illumination. The Lord Alfred Douglas translation is accompanied by Holbrook Jackson's introduction, which places Salome within Wilde's career and discusses the play's controversial publication and theatrical history. PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS: FRENCH-FOLDED LEAVES WITH DECORATION THROUGHOUT. Black cloth over boards with multiple blind-stamped borders and a large blind-stamped figure of Salome on both covers; gilt spine titles. Housed in the publisher's black slipcase. Slipcase approximately 10.5 inches tall. 51 pages. The text block is constructed from French-folded leaves, with the sheets folded at the fore-edge to create double leaves. Each opening is extensively decorated with Angelo's yellow and gold-toned ornamental borders, which change throughout the volume. Decorated endpapers; illustrated title-page spread; full-page color illustrations and decorative devices throughout. Angelo was responsible for both the illustration and overall book design. Contemporary descriptions record five full-page color illustrations in addition to the title vignette and other decoration. CONDITION: FINE IN A VERY GOODSLIPCASE. Binding tight and square, cloth clean, blind-stamped decoration distinct, and gilt spine titles bright. Interior clean and fresh, with the decorative pages and illustrations retaining strong color. Publisher's slipcase with light wear at the corners of the opening. HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE - VALENTI ANGELO AND THE BOOK AS DECORATIVE OBJECT. Salome, written by Wilde in French in 1891 and first published in 1893, became one of his most visually interpreted works, most famously through Aubrey Beardsley's illustrations for the English edition. PRODUCTION BUILT AROUND THE ARTIST'S DESIGN. For the Heritage Press edition, Valenti Angelo created an entirely different visual treatment, integrating illustration, typography, ornament, binding design, and hand illumination into the physical structure of the book. Angelo was a prolific designer and illustrator for both the Heritage Press and Limited Editions Club, and this edition is among the Heritage Press titles for which he supplied the complete decorative program. The result is particularly successful as an example of mid-century American illustrated book production: Wilde's decadent biblical drama recast through Angelo's highly stylized decorative vocabulary. SUBJECTS: Oscar Wilde, Salome, Valenti Angelo, Lord Alfred Douglas, Holbrook Jackson, Heritage Press, Book Design, Hand Illumination, Decorative Binding, Biblical Drama, Decadent Literature, Fine Printing, Fine Press, Illustrated Books, Drama, Decorative Book Arts, Heritage Press, Literary Classics.…

Condizione: Fine. First edition thus Valenti Angelo illustrated hard back binding in publisher's original black linen covers with impressed arabesque design by the artist to the front and rear boards, gilt title lettering to the spine, top edge dyed yellow, red and yellow illustrated end sheets. 8vo. 10'' x 6¼''. This limited edition was not numbered but it was printed only once. Contains colour frontispiece, 51 French fold pages that have lovely yellow decoration surrounding each page of text with a design of Persian arabesque printed on it in light red, 4 full-page colour illuminated illustrations. From the private library of Yehudi and Diana Menuhin with 'Ex libris' label to the front paste down and in Fine condition, in Poor torn and repaired slip case. Member of the P.B.F.A. ENGLISH LITERATURE. …