Guichard k m (6 resultados)

Condición: Very Good. 28, 1 map. . PB. Vg. Bull. BM(NH) (Ent.), Vol. 19(4): 223-250.

Condición: As New. 87, b/w photos. . PB. As new. 'Published privately for distribution to friends'. Author's memoirs. Edited by Brian North Lee. Kenneth Guichard (1914-2002) was a British entomologist who specialised in Hymenoptera.

14 pp., 25 figs, 8.

New taxa: Didineis hispanicus n. sp., Cerceris lorcai n. sp., Psenulus hidalgo n. sp. Ansfelden. 8 pp., 7 figs, 8.

New taxa: Belomicrus ottomanus n. sp., Belomicrus lucifer n. sp., Belomicrus beelebub n. sp., Belomicrus dimorpha n. sp., Belomicrusguelminensis n. sp., Belomicrus funereus n. sp., Belomicrus dromedarius n. sp., Belomicrus bimaculatus n. sp. 20 pp., 14 figs, 8.

Quarter-morocco and cloth, top edge gilt.large 4to, 34 cm, 81, 81 pp, ills. (the leaves with the signed etchings not present ). From the introduction - "This book is an attempt to clarify the boundaries of a subject which is beginning to claim the attention of collectors: the phenomenon known as the etching revival in Britain. . the brisk rise in saleroom prices of etchings makes it obvious that the time is now ripe for the re-appraisal which is bound to follow an eclipse of so much distinguished work in that medium which Rembrandt transformed. In writing this book, I have ventured to express my own opinions concerning the work of some artists. It might have been more prudent had I been entirely objective, merely listing facts and mentioning what has been already recorded. Such a procedure, apart from its dullness, would have begged the question of separating the geese from the swans, which is an unenviable task and liable to criticism. Nevertheless, I think I may claim a right to express an opinion, since nobody has written at length on British etching for about forty years. As I worked towards this book, I had of necessity to use my own judgment and I consider the right to judge was increased by my study of and concern for etchings during a period of their almost total neglect by everybody concerned with art. Sometimes, I literally rescued good examples of them from destruction and many more from a dubious fate, and on at least two occasions received evidence of etching bonfires. It is my hope that this book may be the prelude to a comprehensive re-assessment and fuller cataloguing of the work of earlier twentieth century British etchers." A defective copy in that the 3 leaves with signed etchings (the title-page, pp 85-86 and 87-88) have been neatly excised and are not present. The book would otherwise be Very Good, with a bookplate on the front pastedown endpaper.…