2013, ISBN: 9780719557378

Hardcover

Woodbridge : Antique Collectors' Club, 2004. First Edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especi… More...

Woodbridge : Antique Collectors' Club, 2004. First Edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new.. Physical description; 592 p. : ill. (some col.), port. (some col.) ; 28 cm. Summary; This is the first major book on English blue and white porcelain since the early 1970s. Not only is it the latest and most up-to-date work, but it includes types not previously studied and extends the range of wares into the early years of the nineteenth-century. It is a unique, comprehensive study. The number of instructive illustrations exceeds seven hundred, including helpful comparison photographs and details of identifying features - footrims, handle forms, manufacturing characteristics and marks. Apart from introductory chapters on collecting blue and white and on the introduction and development of this popular mode of decoration, this unique coverage comprises details of over twenty distinct makes, including the relatively newly researched eighteenth century factories at Isleworth, Limehouse and Vauxhall. The inclusion of the several post-1790 factories covers new ground. The section on fakes and reproductions will also prove instructive and helpful. Subjects; Blue and white ware — England — Collectors and collecting. Blue and white ware — England — History. Porcelain, English — 18th century. Porcelain, English — 19th century., Woodbridge : Antique Collectors' Club, 2004, 5, E-196: W. W. Norton & Company. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 2013. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. 4to. W. W. Norton & Company, New York. 2013. 320 pgs. Illustrated with 280 color photographs. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in cloth with titles present to the spine. Boards lightly rubbed and worn. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks, binding tight and solid. A lavish look at the work, over nearly half a century, of one of the last of the great old-guard decorators. One of the deans of American interior decoration, William Hodgins follows in the footsteps of the legendary Billy Baldwin and also Sister Parish and Albert Hadley, for whom he worked early in his career. Based in Boston since the late 1960s, Hodgins’s work encompasses residential commissions from New England to Florida, as far west as California, and overseas. His interiors have been celebrated in the pages of Architectural Digest, House & Garden, House Beautiful, and other magazines and books. This is the first publication entirely devoted to his oeuvre, which spans five decades. Hodgins’s rooms are beautiful, thoughtful, and poetic; they are airy, light-filled spaces. They are also, in his words, as “extraordinarily luxurious as they can be in a quiet, understated way. ” Handsome architectural detailing and a soothing palette work their magic and create visual flow; Hodgins is a master artist, his designs reminiscent of Merchant-Ivory films. A Hodgins interior is governed by white, and the decorator invokes the slightest of subtleties and different shades of white. For Hodgins, whites “reflect the quality of life and light in a room. ” They “glow behind the art and furniture, ” are restful, timeless, and age gracefully. Yet Hodgins is also noted for his judicious use of exquisitely clear and jewel-like colors: this skillful combination makes his interiors special, inviting, and comfortable. Among the forty notable commissions covered in this generously illustrated book are the private quarters of the American ambassador’s residence in Paris (1997) , a pied-a-terre in a 1920s Beaux-Arts apartment building on San Francisco’s Nob Hill, several prewar cooperative apartments in New York City, and a considerable number of houses and apartments in the Boston and Washington, DC, areas and in Palm Beach, Florida. The majority of his commissions have been carried out for repeat and loyal clients, many of whom have commissioned him to decorate multiple homes. This presentation of his work will be valued not only by professional decorators but also by everyone seeking the best in interior design. E-196; 11.6 X 9.5 X 1.2 inches; 320 pages ., W. W. Norton & Company, 2013, 3, London: Longmans Green & Co., 1881. Hardcover. Very Good. The "New Edition" of 1881. Blue and gilt decorated cloth. Shelf wear to tips, corners, and edges of the book; a few pages proud with gutter repairs. According to the OCLC the book was "Deemed by the "Wall Street Journal" as one of the five best books about female adventurers, "A Voyage in the Sunbeam" is a collection of Annie Brassey's journal entries of her voyage around the world with her family (husband and four children), crew (38 members), two dogs, three birds, and a "charming Persian kitten" (who disappeared early into the voyage) aboard a 157-foot steam-powered yacht. Starting at noon on July 1, 1876, they sailed from England and visited South America, the South Pacific, Asia, and the Middle East, returning back home on May 26, 1877. A best-seller in its day, with its descriptions of exotic locales and ship life, this book was even used as a textbook in the United States." From the preface Thomas Brassey writes of his wife Anne: "Still less would any sufficient record of the scenes and experiences of the long voyage have been preserved if not for her painstaking desire not only to see everything thoroughly, but to record her impressions faithfully and accurately." From Wikipedia: "A Voyage in the Sunbeam, describing their journey round the world in 1876–77 with a complement of 43, including family, friends and crew, ran through many English editions and was translated into at least five other languages. Her accounts of later voyages include Sunshine and Storm in the East (1880); In the Trades, the Tropics, and the Roaring Forties (1885); and The Last Voyage (1889, published posthumously). She had published privately earlier works including A Flight of the Meteor, detailing two cruises in the Mediterranean on their earlier yacht Meteor and A Voyage in the Eothen a description of their travels to Canada and the United States in 1872. She was also involved with the publication of Colonel Henry Stuart-Wortley's 1882 Tahiti, a Series of Photographs. In July 1881 King Kal kaua of Hawaii, who had been greatly pleased with her description of his kingdom, was entertained at Normanhurst Castle, and invested Lady Brassey with the Royal Order of Kapiolani." Every effort is made to ship all books and other items within 24 hours. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible. The Book Shed has a been a member of the Vermont Antiquarian Bookseller's Association since 1997. An online bookseller with a bookshop sensibility! , Longmans Green & Co., 1881, 3, New York: Luther James, 1838. Second edition. c.1836. Full calf, gilt decorated spine, marbled edges. Thick cr.8vo. pp. 504. About Very Good. Light rubbing and edgewear; internally near fine with several sections shaken (or slightly off score on fore-edge side). "Embracing a view of their person, character, employments, amusements, religion, dress, habitations, modes of warfare, food, arts, agriculture, literature &c. &c. Derived from the researches of recent travellers of acknowledged enterprise, intelligence and fidelity; and imbodying (sic) a great amount of entertaining and instructive information"...in short, a detailed early 19th century travel guide from New England Congregational minister (Yale) who popularized "a place for everything and everything in its place" in his piece, "Brother Jonathan's Wife's Advice to Her Daughter on her Marriage", 1841 .., New York: Luther James, 1838., 0, It is a fictionalized autobiography, using the name Eugene Gant for Wolfe's, detailing the protagonist's early and mid-twenties, during which time the character attends Harvard University, moves to New York City and teaches English at a university there, and travels overseas with the character Francis Starwick. Francis Starwick was based on Wolfe's friend, playwright Kenneth Raisbeck. The novel was published by Scribners and edited by Maxwell Perkins.The narrative of Of Time and the River closely follows the events of Wolfe's own life from 1920 to 1925. The novel, which ran to 912 pages in its first edition, is divided into eight books, the titles of which are borrowed from myths and legends that provide insight into the various stages of Eugene's pilgrimage. When the story opens, Eugene is preparing to board a northbound train that will take him from his hometown of Altamont, Catawba (modeled after Wolfe's hometown of Asheville, North Carolina) to Harvard University, where he intends to study writing in a graduate program. Along the way, Eugene stops to visit his dying father in a Baltimore hospital; Wolfe's account of Old Gant's traumatic death from cancer later in the novel is considered one of the work's most powerful scenes. After three years at Harvard, Eugene returns to Altamont for a summer, awaiting news from a Broadway producer to whom he has submitted one of his plays.This book is difficult to assert its history, this is what I was able tofind from the lIbrary of Congress.Description 7 p. l., 3-912 p. 22 cm. LC classification S3545.O337 O4 1935 LC copy PS3545.O337 O4 1935 Copy 3 Copy 3. Dust jacket. Purchase, Sept. 16, 1943 (DLC #3773B26).PS3545.O337 O4 1935 Copy 4.PS3545.O337 O4 1935 Copy 7 Copy 7. Dust jacket. Gift of Herman Finkelstein, Dec. 30, 1980.Related namesHerman Finkelstein Collection (Library of Congress). DLC SubjectsYoung men--United States--Fiction. Form/GenreAutobiographical fiction. Bildungsromane. Notes"First printing, February, 1935 ... third printing, March, 1935.", Scriner's and Sons.New York, 1935, 3, [Tokyo 1939], Hokuseido. Green cloth, silver stamped spine, 13 x 19.5 cm., bright, clean & solid copy, dust jacket in a Mylar protector, 238p., about as good as it gets. * * [FIRST & ONLY LIMITED EDITION OF 500 COPIES] * * . *** **** *** . . THE FIRST TIME PUBLISHED IN BOOK FORM . . . EDITED BY ONE OF HEARN'S STAR JAPANESE PUPILS . . . ICHIRO NISHIZAKI . . . [FIRST & ONLY LIMITED EDITION OF 500 COPIES] . * Produced for the first time in book form, some of the sketches and essays that Lafcadio Hearn wrote for the Cincinnati and New Orleans newspapers in during his "American days." . Covering some 37 sketches and essays that Hearn wrote for the Cincinnati and New Orleans newspapers during what is called his "American days." Excellent insight to early Hearn thought and writings. . *** These were hitherto unpublished writings in English, edited by Nishizaki Ichiro now in book form for the first time. . *** Per publisher's note: this was issued in a "Five Volume Series issued in 1939," each volume uniformly bound in green cloth with silver spine titles & bamboo decorations, each with a different title & contents. Each volume was edited by Ichiro Nishizaki, one of Hearn's old star pupils. . The series contains five separate volumes with uniform bindings, decorations with titles: . THE NEW RADIANCE AND OTHER SCIENTIFIC SKETCHES . BUYING CHRISTMAS TOYS AND OTHER ESSAYS . ORIENTAL ARTICLES . LITERARY ESSAYS . BARBAROUS BARBERS AND OTHER STORIES. . *** NOTE: This series of Hearn's American Articles were first published in December 1939 in an [FIRST & ONLY LIMITED EDITION OF 500 COPIES ] . The sale of these abroad was interrupted by the advent of an American trade embargo against Japan and the start of World War II. Followed by the fire-bombing of Tokyo, this series was largely destroyed during the early period of the war. The book inventory of Hokuseido and its press were also burned to the ground. . *** Color photos are posted to our website. Inquire for other titles by or about Hearn, and this series at our website. . *** CONDITION: Generic: bound in the publisher's original green cloth, with silver stamped titles & bamboo design on the spine, top edge black, all edges cleanly trimmed as issued. . When present, the book was issued in a yellow dust jacket with blue printing, not present on all copies. . Individual copies vary, please carefully read each copy description prior to ordering. . Copy 3: It is the former copy of the eminent writer and Hearn biographer, K.P. KIRKWOOD, and has his discreet blue stamped name in upper right corner of the first fly leaf. Please see our book number 850953: UNFAMILIAR LAFCADIO HEARN, posted to our website for details, this was published in a FIRST & ONLY LIMITED EDITION OF 500 COPIES. . In brilliant dust jacket in Mylar protector, book in superb condition. . *** BIBLIOGRAPHY: . Not in: P.D. & Ione Perkins: LAFCADIO HEARN A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF HIS WRITINGS. * BAL: 8042 * ., 0, John Murray Publishers Ltd, Feb 2003. New edition. Paperback. Wherever this book falls open, it fascinates. Jump from Lost wax casting - via Limewood to lignum vitae. Decide to skip Lignite - how CAN this be interesting, isn't it just bad coal? But hang on did you know it has been used since antiquity to imitate jet, although unlike jet will not take a high polish. \nSome of the topics have a reassuring familiarity. Kilns, yes we know what they are, even used one in the school pottery classes. But that was just an electric box and here we have the rest of the story, ranging from Mesopotamia to China, via Stoke on Trent, and covering salt glazing, reduction firing, dragon kilns, beehive kilns, not to mention cross draught, down draught, up draught and bottle kilns. The smallest of which, it turns out, were used at Meissen in the early 18th century to achieve the high temperatures at which hard paste porcelain is fired.\nOther topics - Rose Engine Turning, Depletion Gilding and Shell Gold - would be hard for even the diehard knowall to claim prior knowledge of. But if this book becomes as universally popular as it should, we will soon all know that the latter substance is merely gold leaf that has been ground in honey, kept in mussel shells and used as paint, or dried into drops and sold as 'shell gold'. \nIn part the pleasure of the book is that it seems to have been written by people with a real working familiarity with the subjects, materials and techniques they describe. Not that it becomes a how to do it workshop manual in any sense at all. More that it has the quality of a guided tour round the workshops of a skilled craftsman. Mysteries exposed and astonishing skills and ingenuity revealed at every turn.\nThis may explain the clarity of the entries. How often has one looked up some slightly complicated process in an encyclopedia or reference book, only to retreat dazed, confused and none the wiser. The descriptions - or rather explanations -throughout this book are crystal clear and leave you completely satisfied and enlightened.\nIt is well known, of course, that Dictionaries are the dullest books available. Apart from Technical dictionaries, that is, which are so boring that only nerds and anoraks read them. Or maybe they never read them but just collect them. This dictionary, despite being fairly technical, highly authoritative and relatively specialist, is not going to languish unread in anyone's collection. It is quite difficult to put down. It may not have a plot but there is never a dull moment (or a dreary paragraph).\nOne of the reassuring qualities of the traditional technologies and crafts which form the subject of this book is their relative accessibility, compared to the sheer incomprehensibility of modern technology, or rather of the gene and the microchip, which is what it mostly is. It is nice to see how a lathe works just as it is irritating not to be able to see or ever hope to really understand how our computers work.\nThe sheer variety of the topics which fall into the book's well contained subject area is entertaining in itself. Without a skip or a jump we pass coolly from Norman Slab - a kind of window glass- via Nubuck, which I think I had some shoes of , to Nylon, which I didn't realize only appeared on ladies thighs as late as 1939, to Oak, which has been imported from the Baltic since the 13th century - were our English hearts of oak actually Lithuanian then? To Obsidian which of course I knew made the inlaid eyes of Egyptian mummies didn't you. Oh really. All right then.\nPerhaps the time has come to consider the recreational potential of the serious, but brilliantly executed reference book, as a neglected literary form. How can 572 closely printed pages of solid technical detail possibly compete for anyone's attention with a zap across the tv channels or a surf on the web. Well for surfability this book takes a lot of beating. You can zap it for hours, and if you don't have hours you can just pick it up and let it fall open at, well anything for a rewarding few seconds. Like the Guinness book of Records, perhaps, but rather less predictable. And maybe more useful.\nOf course nothing is perfect and there are two problems with the book . Firstly, the size of the print may be ok for a quick dip and check but is not ideal for sustained reading. Then there is the 'And the did you know' factor.\nYou pick up 'Materials and Techniques in the Decorative Arts - an Illustrated Dictionary ' for five minutes and put it down two hours later (with red eyes) saying : "Did you know, and did you know and did you know." So it could lose you quite a few friends., John Murray Publishers Ltd, 0<

ISBN: 9780719557378

Paperback. Very Good., 3