Prints History of an Art, Rizzoli 1981 hc + dj & slipcase, 278 pages 338 illust.

Prints History of an Art. No other dates are given. Hardcover with dust jacket and slipcase, 278 pages. 86 reproductions in full color and 252 illustrations in black and white. The earliest were woodcuts, probably made in Upper Bavaria and Austria; by about 1440 the centre of woodcutting had shifted to the Upper Rhine, gradually spreading out from there.

Passion for Tarpon Andy Mill with apparent Signature

Dust jacket has half-inch closed tear at top of spine. Front cover of book has rub mark on bottom edge (see image). NO DVD. Apparent author’s signature opposite title page (see Image) not verified. Other than these items, the book is like new with clean and bright text and images. d4

Art Nouveau Graphics, edited Walters, Academy Ed. London, St. Martin’s Press ’72

Art Nouveau Graphics, edited by Thomas Walters. Academy Editions London, St. Martin’s Press New York 1972. First published in Great Britain in 1971; first published in the United States in 1972. From the dust jacket blurb: “This wide-ranging collection of Art-Nouveau graphics reproduces work of artists from England, the major Continental countries and the United States. Over ninety pictures, with eight pages in colour, illustrate the work of fifty artists including Mucha, Beardsley, Grasset, Eckman, and Vienna Secession members.” Index of artists on the last page. Good book in good dust jacket; in fact the book would be very good were it not for a small water stain at the top edge to the right of the spine. It is practically unnoticeable except on pages 44-49, where it spread beyond the top corner/edges. This is most noticeable on pp. 46-47 – see photos. Otherwise the interior is very good, as are the boards and spine.