William russell flint illus (14 resultados)

Selected and Edited by William MacDonald. xxviii, 220 pp. With Illustrations by W. Russell Flint and R. Purves Flint. 8vo, publisher's red gilt-decorated cloth. Sunning and slight bumping to cloth at the extremities of the spine; clean, tight and sound.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. c. 1914. Illus. with 12 cold. plates, incl. frontis. 8vo. dec. cl. t.e.g. Bds. and spine slightly faded and marked, inscr..

Condición: Good. First Edition thus. G: in good condition without dust jacket.Spine sunned. Extremities bumped. Ink inscription to fep. Scattered foxing and occasional sm. tears to tissue guards. Inner hinges cracked. Some related ephemera and ink annotation inserted. Teg. 260mm x 200mm (10" x 8"). 224pp. Tissue-guarded plates. Comprises Iolanthe; The Mikado; Rudigore an The Gondoliers. Heavy item - shipping supplement may apply for overseas. Green/gilt hardback cloth cover. …

First Edition. Limited and numbered edition: 281/875. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked paper boards. Spine bands and panel edges slightly dulled and rubbed as with age. Oxidation to covers. Remains well-preserved overall. Physical description; xvii, 49 p. : col. ill ; 26 cm. 1 Kg.

Red hardback cloth cover. Condición: Good. First Edition thus. G: in good condition without dust jacket. Ink inscription to fep. Scattered foxing. Some related ephemera and ink annotation inserted. Teg. 280mm x 200mm (11" x 8"). 208pp. Illustrated with coloured plates with captioned tissue-guards by W Russell-Flint. Pirates; Patience; Ida; Yeoman. Heavy item - shipping supplement may apply for overseas.…

First Edition. Limited and numbered edition: 281/875. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked paper boards. Spine bands and panel edges slightly dulled and rubbed as with age. Oxidation to covers. Remains well-preserved overall. Physical description; xvii, 49 p. : col. ill ; 26 cm. 1 Kg.

Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. Limited Edition. The Heroes, or Greek Fairy Tales for My Children, by Charles Kingsley, beautifully illustrated by Sir William Russell Flint with 12 full colour lithograph plates. First Limited Edition of 1912, printed at the Riccardi Press, on handmade paper. A very NR FINE copy, complete with dustwrapper and original advertisement from the Medici Society, some losses to DJ but well preserved in tissue paper, the volume itself is in pristine condition. Stunning lithographs throughout. Overseas postage may be increased.…

Limited edition. 127. [1]. 11" x 7.5" LIKE PRINTING IN A PREVIOUS AGE During his final year as the president of Britain's Royal Society of Painters in Watercolours, William Russell Flint contacted president of The Golden Cockerel Press, Christopher Sandford, to produce his illustrated edition of Robert Herrick's poems. Full of lush, sensual crayon drawings to match Herrick's risqué poems, printing Flint's project returned Sandford to the "nostalgic thrill of printing, as it were, in a previous age!" This collection features Herrick's most beloved poems, including "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time." This edition is limited to 550 numbered copies, of which numbers 1-105 are bound in sheepskin and accompanied by eight extra loose prints, of which this is 47. This copy is signed by the Flint on the limitation page. [Cock-a-Hoop 199]. Moderate toning to spine and extremities with spots of rubbing, light soiling to boards, still very good, in very good slipcase with moderate wear to extremities. Overall tight and internally clean copy. Issued in Sangorski & Sutcliffe full cream sheepskin, pictorially stamped in gilt, teg, turn-ins ruled in gilt, in publisher's marbled slipcase. Forty-two, two-tone collotype reproductions with eight individual prints loose laid in wrap-around band by William Russell Flint. (ilustrador). Signed.…

Limited edition, number 331 of 500 sets printed on handmade Riccardi paper. The illustrator recalled: "Medievalism was the vogue and when Lee Warner asked me to illustrate Malory's classic I leapt at the chance. The long tale is so rich in imagery, so stimulating and full of colour. The devotional magnificence gripped me" (Royal Academy, p. 43). For these illustrations, Flint (1880-1969) was awarded a silver medal at the 1912 Paris Salon. Works by Sir William Russell Flint, R.A., Royal Academy catalogue, 1962. 4 vols, large quarto. Mounted colour frontispieces, 44 plates, captioned tissue guards. Publisher's promotional leaflets loosely inserted to vol. I. Original limp vellum, spines and front covers lettered in gilt, green cloth ties, yap fore edges, top edges gilt, the rest uncut, cream silk bookmarkers. With publisher's slipcases. Spines lightly sunned, small split and faint damp stain to rear cover of vol. I, a few tiny marks to rear cover of vol. III: a near-fine set.…

Limited edition, number 149 of 500 sets printed on handmade Riccardi paper. The illustrator recalled: "Medievalism was the vogue and when Lee Warner asked me to illustrate Malory's classic I leapt at the chance. The long tale is so rich in imagery, so stimulating and full of colour. The devotional magnificence gripped me" (Royal Academy, p. 43). For these illustrations, Flint (1880-1969) was awarded a silver medal at the 1912 Paris Salon. Works by Sir William Russell Flint, R.A., Royal Academy catalogue, 1962. 4 vols, large quarto. Mounted colour frontispieces, 44 plates, captioned tissue guards. Publisher's promotional leaflets loosely inserted. Original limp vellum, spines and front covers lettered in gilt, green cloth ties, yap fore edges, top edges gilt, the rest uncut, cream silk bookmarkers. With dust jackets and publisher's slipcases. Vellum naturally discoloured, light foxing to endpapers and edges, bookmarkers frayed, contents crisp; jackets toned, spines browned, ends chipped, a handful of closed tears to extremities, flaps unpriced as issued; restoration to slipcases: a fine set in very good jackets and slipcases.…

First Flint edition, number 55 of 500 copies printed on handmade paper at the Riccardi Press; there were also 12 copies printed on vellum. William Russell Flint (1880-1969) is renowned for his watercolours of women. In this edition, the majority of the illustrations concentrate on female subjects: "Flint drew women wherever possible, using, for example, a woman to represent April in the General Prologue, female figures to illustrate the 'old gods' referred to at the opening of the Knight's Tale, and barmaids aplenty in the picture accompanying the Pardoner's Story of the revellers" (Echard, pp. 137-8). S. Echard, Printing the Middle Ages, 2013; Keith S. Gardner, Sir William Russell Flint. a Catalogue Raisonné., [1994], p. 119. 3 vols, quarto. Colour frontispieces, title pages printed in blue and black, 33 colour plates, all with captioned tissue guards, by William Russell Flint. Original brown quarter linen cloth, blue sides, paper labels to the spines and front covers lettered in black, top edges gilt, others untrimmed, green silk bookmarker in each volume, printed bookmarkers and Riccardi Press catalogue loosely inserted in two volumes. With dust jackets. Contemporary gift inscription in vol. I, contemporary bookplates in each volume. A few spots of wear to edges, a few spots of foxing; jacket spines toned, loss to head of spine and rear panel of vol. I, affecting text on rear panel, flaps unpriced as issued. A very good set. …

First Flint edition, number 365 of 500 copies printed on handmade paper. There were also 12 copies printed on vellum. Green stated that "no one has caught the magic and the music and the wonder of the old Greek legends as Kingsley did" (p. 132). Kingsley's collection is complemented in this edition by Flint's illustrations. Gardner notes that reprints of this title in the 1920s included only 9 of Flint's original 12 colour plates. The 15 stories feature Perseus, Theseus, and the Argonauts. Accompanying this copy are two contemporary promotional bookmarks from the Riccardi Press and the Medici Society. Keith S. Gardner, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Unsigned Limited Edition Works of Sir William Russell Flint, 1994, p. 116; Roger Lancelyn Green, Tellers of Tales, 1946; Ransom, p. 395. Quarto. Colour frontispiece and 11 coloured plates, with captioned tissue guards, all by Russell Flint. Original full limp vellum, spine and front cover lettered in gilt, original green cotton ties, top edge gilt, fore and bottom edges untrimmed, cream silk bookmarker. Housed in the original green slipcase. Vellum slightly warped, as usual, foot of spine a little rubbed; sunning to slipcase; a fine copy.…

First Flint edition, deluxe issue, number 42 of 100 copies issued with the additional suite of four colour plates, retained here in the original folder. There were also 875 copies of the trade edition and 12 copies printed on vellum and signed by the artist. William Russell Flint contributed to a number of early 20th-century editions of the Apocrypha. He was described by Charles Wheeler, the president of the Royal Academy, as an artist of "a steady hand, keen eye, and gay spirit in a shaky world" (ODNB). The introduction to this edition was provided by M. R. James. Although best-known now for his ghost stories, James had an extensive and eminent career as a biblical scholar, with a particular specialism in the apocryphal tales. His The Apocryphal New Testament (1924), a scholarly collection of all the known "apocryphal gospels, acts, epistles, and apocalypses was standard until J. K. Elliott's collection of the same name appeared in 1993" (ODNB). Ransom, p. 314. Quarto. Colour frontispiece and 3 mounted colour plates, text printed within green frames. Original japon, spine and front cover lettered in gilt, yapp edges, original cream cotton ties, top edge gilt, fore and bottom edges untrimmed, largely unopened. With four additional plates in the original envelope, as issued. Front board slightly sprung, sporadic faint foxing; a near-fine copy.…

First Flint edition, number 134 of 500 copies on handmade paper (with a further 17 printed on vellum). One of the first books in the "Riccardi Press Books" series. A contemporary advertisement noted that the books would be "no less excellent in typography than are the Medici Prints from the point of view of technical colour printing". Gardner, p. 113. Quarto. Colour frontispiece and 9 coloured plates, with captioned leaves and additional tissue guards, all by W. Russell Flint. Original full limp vellum, spine and front cover lettered in gilt, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, green cotton ties. Natural colour variance to vellum, as usual, some foxing; a very good copy.…