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Loyal Volunteers of London & Environs, Infantry & Calvalry, in their Respective by ROWLANDSON, Thomas

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Title: Loyal Volunteers of London & Environs, Infantry & Calvalry, in their Respective
Author: ROWLANDSON, Thomas
Seller: Heritage Book Shop, LLC (United States)
Description: London: R. Ackermann, 1798. ROWLANDSON, Thomas. . Loyal Volunteers of London & Environs, Infantry & Calvalry, in their Respective . Uniforms. Representing the whole of the Manual, Platoon, & Funeral Exercise, in 87 Plates. Designed & etched by T. Rowlandson, and dedicated by permission to His Royal Highness the Duke of Glocester. London: R. Ackermann, 1798. Full Description: ROWLANDSON, T[homas]. Loyal Volunteers of London & Environs, Infantry & Calvalry, in their Respective Uniforms. Representing the whole of the Manual, Platoon, & Funeral Exercise, in 87 Plates. Designed & etched by T. Rowlandson, and dedicated by permission to His Royal Highness the Duke of Glocester. [London: R. Ackermann, 1798-1799]. First edition, early issue (with most of the plates heightened in gold and a few additionally in silver). Folio (13 3/4 x 10 3/4 inches; 350 x 270 mm.). viii, [4, subscriber's list], [88] pp. Complete with eighty-eight numbered figures on eighty-six plates and the hand-colored engraved title showing cherubs, masks and a coat of arms. So complete with all eighty-seven hand-colored aquatint plates. Descriptive text for each plate. Some of the pages watermarked 1794. Beautifully bound by Bedford in full bright green morocco. Boards ruled in gilt with floral corner devices. Spine richly stamped and lettered in gilt in compartments. Gilt board edges and dentelles. Maroon coated endpapers. Top edge gilt, others uncut. Spine is faded to a golden brown. One plate (#49) with some mild toning around border, not affecting illustration. Plate 60 with a tiny closed tear repaired at bottom margin, not affecting image. A wonderful copy of this sumptuous color-plate book, exceptionally clean.. An excellent copy of this remarkable military record which even in 1923 was described as 'scarce and difficult to obtain'. Commissioned by Ackermann, who could see that with the increasing encouragement being given to the Volunteer Movement within the military there was a potential market (particularly those who were bank-rolling these units), for a very deluxe 'drill manual'. The plates not only provide an invaluable historical record of the uniforms but they also show in great detail the nature of the drills of the time. Abbey, Life, 379. Tooley 416. Colas 2586. HBS 69194. $6,000.

Fest des Lebens und der Kunst. Eine Betrachtung des Theaters als höchsten Kultursymbols (Celebrations of Life and Art. Contemplating Theatre as Highest Cultural Symbol) by Behrens, Peter

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Title: Fest des Lebens und der Kunst. Eine Betrachtung des Theaters als höchsten Kultursymbols (Celebrations of Life and Art. Contemplating Theatre as Highest Cultural Symbol)
Author: Behrens, Peter
Seller: Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller (United States)
Condition: g+
Description: Darmstadt: C. F. Winter'schen Buchdruckerei, 1900. First edition. Softcover. g+. Quarto. 25 (1)pp. Re-cased with new endpapers, retaining original gilt-illustrated gray original wraps. Black publisher's device and lettering on cover framed by gilt Jugenstil flowers. Illustrated title page and decorative dedication page. Text pages with delicate Jugendstil frames, printed in pale blue, heightened crimson initial and linear paragraph breaks, text in brown. Dedicated to the Künstler-Kolonie Mathildenhöhe near Darmstadt. Behrens was a member of the Kolonie. "They fret, those false prophets, for their wisdom is proven wrong: there will be no new style in art, it has to evolve from the old, one can't invent it. As for the last point they were correct. Now there are signs, that it will come, not emerged from the old, but that it is here already, at least a beginning. One has to have open eyes, be good hearted, believe in beauty. Only then one will realize that something is emerging, that corresponds deeper to our life than those bizarre sought after forms which appear "modern" externally but are flimsy goods of people, mostly, who will turn the New quickly into a money machine..." Scathing Behrens critique of contemporary conditions and theater, favoring amphitheatrical configurations. Jugendstil manifesto and critique of the naturalist theater of the 19th century. 'The actor's task is to give more than just an exact rendition of nature... become the creator of culture on stage, become an artist who is his own material... creates that which is more than nature, is noble.' Building on Wagner's idea of the Gesamtkunstwerk (Total work of art) Behrens suggests for the theater (the Highest Cultural Symbol) to integrate all arts under a single roof. Behrens wrote the essay in June of 1900 and it was printed and typographically designed at the C.F. Winter'schen Printing Shop in Darmstadt. Aynsley, Graphic Design in Germany, page 61: "(Behrens) gave equal consideration to typographic composition, letter initials and illustrations, as well as paper quality and binding." Text in German. Light wear along edges of wraps and chipping along spine of re-cased wraps with small indentation on front cover at upper edge of gilt flowers on left half of cover. Light age-toning of block.

America. a Prophecy by Blake, William

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Title: America. a Prophecy
Author: Blake, William
Seller: John Windle Antiquarian Bookseller (United States)
Description: 1947. [New York: 1947]. 8vo, [19] pp. Woodblock prints on yellow paper. Quarter red cloth, black paper boards. Illustration affixed to front. Very good. § An odd reproduction, printed on yellow paper, with a color plate from 'Visions' on the upper cover and another color plate tipped in opposite the title-page. Bentley, BB, 8B (the first 'A' issue had an introduction by Ruthven Todd and a title-page).

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