Foreword by bernard mctigue (4 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. Reprint. Very good or better in good dust jacket with some wear along top edge (wrinkling/creasing and shallow abrasion at top of spine. No jacket chips. No markings or bookplate. Reproduces Kate Greenaway's sketchbooks for this work. Illus. By The Author (illustratore). …

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. Bright yellow cloth embossed with a garden trellis and gilt title spine. 96 pp glossy text crisp and unmarked. Unclipped original dj in new mylar has no faults. No artist has caught the innocent charm of childhood as winningly as this Victorian spinster. Her children's books, with their winsome girls and boys dressed in quaint eighteenth-century frocks and breeches, took London by storm in the 1870s and '80s, and the rest of the world followed. The "Kate Greenaway style" influenced children's clothing for at least a generation and was worn by turn-of-the-century tots as dissimilar as American dancer Isadora Duncan and Kaiser Wilhelm of Germany. Among the 80 or more books, almanacs, diaries, and calendars illustrated by Kate Greenaway, Mother Goose or The Old Nursery Rhymes, published in 1881, has been one of the most enduring. It has been reissued countless times, the charming illustrations losing some of their brightness and clarity over the years, Now, after more than a century, the never-before-published complete facsimile pages of the artist's two sketchbooks, in which she predesigned her little masterpiece are presented here for the first time in a single volume, the work as crisp and colorful as the day it was made. Kate, ever the perfectionist, had plotted the design of her pages, executing watercolor illustrations almost as precisely as they would be in the actual book, with the text lightly penciled in. Occasionally there is a little marginal note with instructions to herself. Illus. By The Author (illustratore).…

4to [28 x 22,5 cm]; 127 pp, colored frontis, 44 color plates, 59 other, bibliog, index. original pictorial gilt cloth, gilt spine title lettering, dj, very light wear, else near fine and clean, unmarked. A beautifully illustrated book covering a 400 year history of botanical illustrations and botanical plate books with illustrations from the best books, including those of Redoute, W. J. Hooker, Besler, Merian, Thornton, etc. A picture of this book is available on request.…

4to [28 x 22,5 cm]; 127 pp, colored frontis, 44 color plates, 59 other, bibliog, index. original pictorial gilt cloth, gilt spine title lettering, dj, very light signs of use, else fine and clean, unmarked. A beautifully illustrated book covering a 400 year history of botanical illustrations and botanical plate books with illustrations from the best books, including those of Redoute, W. J. Hooker, Besler, Merian, Thornton, etc. A picture of this book is available on request.…