352 pp, 10 1/4" H, integral ribbon bookmark, reproduction marbled endpapers. "The album with the reavling title 'Theatre of Love' or 'Jestings on Love' brings together 143 magnificent copperplate engravings - from elaborately conceived love emblems and allegories to illustrations of proverbs, the Muses and the Virtues and Vices. The pictures, all of them devoted to the theme of love, are accompanied by explanatory lines of verse. The album was compiled around 1620 by an unknown collector, who probably presented it to his beloved as a token of his romantic affection. The engravings themselves ... View More...
191 pp, 12" H. Bright red cloth with blindstamped Babar on front board, white lettering on spine, yellow endpapers. Profusely illustrated with b&w photographs, b&w and colour reproductions. "Babar was created by the painter Jean de Brunhoff, who produced the first seven books of the series between 1931 and 1937, the year of his untimely death. In 1946 his artist son Laurent took up where Jean had left off. He wrote and illustrated his first Babar book when he was twenty-one and has now done thirty Babar books. In bringing Babar back, Laurent was holding on to an enchanted childhood as well ... View More...
135 pp, 10 3/16" H x 11" D. Profusely illustrated in colour and b&w. "(T)he new collection of illustrations from the creator of 'Mythopoeikon'. Its extraordinary images explore and celebrate the border between reality and illusion; a realm of wild wonders and bizarre beings, brought to life through a combination of paint, etchings and highly unconventional photographic techniques. 'Hallelujah Anyway's' more than one hundred and fifty stunning full colour illustrations will take you to the farthest shores of the imagination." Interior - previous owner's small stamp on inside of front cover... View More...
104 pp, 10 7/8" H. Colour illustrations. "The Hans Christian Andersen Medal for illustration is aptly named, for it is the highest international award, recognizing lifetime achievement and contribution to the field of illustration for children. It seems fitting that as Lisbeth Zwerger was accepting this Medal in 1990, she was already at work on this book which honors the namesake of the award." Contents: The Sandman; The Jumpers; Thumbeline; The Tinderbox; The Rose Tree Regiment; The Naughty Boy; The Swineherd; The Emperor's New Clothes; The Princess and the Pea; The Nightingale; The Little... View More...
ix, 138 pp + limitation page, 8 3/4" H. Blue cloth with dark blue paper title labels on spine and front board. No. 21 of an edition of 1200 copies. 68 fables, each with a reproduction of a b&w engraving by Thomas Bewick (1753-1828) at top of page, followed by a short verse, the fable in prose, then the moral. Preceded by nine page "Life of Aesop" by Oliver Goldsmith. Many pages as yet unopened. Very light browning in margins of pages, browning to edges of text block and edges of boards, heavy browning to spine. View More...
