This striking image (presumably from the 1930s) features numerous symbols of heavy industry - steam trains, silos, a ship, the elevated loading spout pouring out grain - with the powerfully-built plant operator imposed in front of all of them. It may have been a study for a mural; a lightly..... More
Monaco, Editions André Sauret, 1976. The catalogue raisonné of engravings and lithographs by Paul Delvaux from 1966 to 1976. More
London, Ernest Brown & Phillips, The Leicester Galleries, 1927 (second printing - '2nd Edition' is printed at the head of the front cover). 'Exhibition No. 427 February 5th-21st, 1927'; Shaw's preface runs to seven pages, Lawrence's (five pages) is an extract 'from a note on Mr Kennington's Arab portraits written..... More
Geneva, Editions d'Art Albert Skira S.A., 1981 (facsimile edition)/ 1933 to 1939. The first number appeared in June 1933; numbers 3 and 4 were a double issue, as were numbers 12 and 13, the last to be published, in May 1939. [3 items]. More
Melbourne, M.L. Hutchinson, [1906]. Twelve verses by Annie Isobel Rentoul, with illustrations by her daughter Ida Sherbourne Rentoul (later Outhwaite). Ida Rentoul Outhwaite's second book (after 'Mollie's Bunyip', 1904). Muir 6333. More
Berne, Editions Kornfeld et Klipstein, 1975 (revised third edition)/ 1968, 1971, and 1979. The text throughout is in French, English and German. These three volumes comprise the complete catalogue raisonné of Picasso's graphic works on paper; Volume III in the series is 'Catalogue of the Printed Ceramics, 1949-1971'. [3 items]..... More
Paris, Éditions de la revue 'Verve', 1955. 'Cet ouvrage contient un ensemble de dessins provenant des carnets de travail de Georges Braque' (verso of the title page). More
Paris, printed by Draeger for High-Life Tailor, [1909]. The story is a tale purportedly from the 'Thousand and One Nights' entitled 'Histoire du Tailleur de Bagdad et du Secret Merveilleux'. The preliminary drawings prefigure the published version, but vary in many ways from the final product. A copy of the..... More