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This is the most important contribution to fore-edge painting history in over 40 years and is sure to become the authoritative resource for fore- edge painting identification. . The text contains the first comprehensive annotated dictionary to contain the identification of all known fore-edge painters and binders. The book is profusely illustrated with colour reproductions. Containing two parts, the first will appeal to everyone with a fore-edge painting: a comprehensive annotated and illustrated dictionary of every artist and binder known to make and sign fore-edge paintings. This includes some additional binders and artists whose work can be grouped and identified, as well as including some binders who are suspect and possibly never made fore-edge paintings. An attempt is made to prove the work of every person and to give numerous examples. Included is the most comprehensive assessment of seventeenth century English fore-edge specimens up to the present.
100 ONE OF 100 SPECIALLY BOUND
97. FOLIO SOCIETY. ISHERWOOD, Christopher. Mr Norris Changes Trains. The Folio Society. 1990.
£498
8vo. In original Nigerian Goatskin with hand marbled boards by Ann Muir with slip case. A fine copy. With numerous illustrations by Beryl Cook.
First Folio Society edition limited edition of 100 specially bound copies signed by Beryl Cook.
98. FOLIO SOCIETY. JOYCE, James. Ulysses. Preface by Stephen James Joyce, introduction by Jacques Aubert, with etchings by Mimmo Paladino. The Folio Society. 1998.
£498
8vo., original publisher’s full blue goatskin binding blocked in black and gilt with a design by Jeff Clements. Illustrated with etchings by Mimmo Paladino. A fine copy in original cloth box.
Limited edition of 1760 numbered copies. Published to commemorate the centenary of the day on which the action of the book is set.
99. [FORE-EDGE PAINTING]. WEBER, Carl J. Fore-Edge Painting. A Historical Survey of a Curious Art in Book Decoration. Irvington-on-Hudson, New York: Harvey House. 1966.
£398
Royal 8vo. Original cloth; 35 plates, some in colour; a nice copy in slightly rubbed and torn dust-jacket.
First edition of this authoritative study.
100. [FORE-EDGE PAINTING]. WEBER, Jeff. Annotated Dictionary of Fore-Edge Painting Artist & Binders with a Catalogue Raisonne of Miss C.B. Currie. Los Angeles: Weber Rare Books. 2010.
£250
10 x 7 inches. [xii], 421 pages. Illustrated throughout, indexes. Cloth, dust- jacket. NEW.
Limited Edition of 1,000 copies, printed and designed by Patrick Reagh, Printers. Signed by the author.
The other part is a full history of the mysterious Ms C. B. Currie, one of the most important fore-edge artists from England in the twentieth century and the only artist to have numbered her editions. This project was challenging since no record of her entire fore-edge work exists and her own identity has been unknown until recently.
Born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Jeff Weber grew up on Stanford University campus, attended UCLA (BA in Middle Eastern History) and Indiana University (Masters of Library Science). He worked with Jake Zeitlin at Zeitlin & Ver Brugge Booksellers, Los Angeles (1978-1987), and started Jeff Weber Rare Books in 1987, specializing in the history of science & medicine, and the history of the book & printing. Weber is recognized as the foremost authority on the history of fore-edge paintings as a result of collecting, study, lectures and articles. In 2006 he issued a monograph on the fore-edge paintings of English book collector, poet and artist John T. Beer, the first man known to regularly sign his fore-edge paintings. This book became the first complete study of a fore-edge artist, includes a catalogue raisonné, and traces the movement of every book Beer painted, placing many in private & public collections.
101. FOULIS PRESS. RAMSAY, Allan. The Gentle Shepherd, A Pastoral Comedy. Glasgow. A Foulis. 1778.
£998
Royal 4to., in contemporary full mottled calf, boards with elaborate gilt panels with corner tools, rebacked preserving original rich gilt spine, contrasting red leather label, all edges gilt. Aquatint portrait frontispiece and 12 acquatint plates engraved by David Allan, pp18 of engraved music at rear. Corners rubbed, a little light browning to margins of plates, neat ink name dated 1848, generally a very good crisp copy.
“Ramsay’s play, The Gentle Shepherd first published in 1725, enjoyed massive success both in his lifetime and for several years after his death. This Scots pastoral drama is an entirely original creation, which develops the pastoral genre and fixes it within a Scottish context. Although the play belongs to the sentimental age, its value remains to this day: Ramsay presents his audience with skilful sections of lyric and song, and daringly attempts to revive the Scottish theatrical tradition under the strict codes of Calvinism. The Gentle Shepherd helps make possible John Home’s Douglas, Fergusson’s Scots pastorals and much of Burns’s work.”
The Foulis Press first published The Gentle Shepherd in 1743, and they printed it again in 1745, 1747, 1750, and 1752, before issuing this handsomely printed and illustrated edition in 1788. David Allan who illustrated this edition was sometimes called the “Scottish Hogarth”
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