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Vignette from Bon-Mots.
BEARDSLEY, (Aubrey).
Pen, indian ink and wash. 11 x 4 cm. Mounted, framed and glazed. One of the many small drawings for the short series Bon-Mots , published by Dent in 1893. They were done simultaneously with the huge suite of drawings for Le Morte Darthur . Their small scale and lightness of subject allows him to show off his airy (and sometimes blackly comic) side,... [more]
Department: Modern Books and Manuscripts:
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In a new edition edited by Danis Rose and John O'Hanlon. Houyhnhnm
Press 2010
The fruit of an astonishing feat of scholarship. Presented in a remarkable
new two volume edition, with note by Seamus Deane, foreword by Hans
Walter Gabler, introduction by David Greetham.
Designed by Martino Mardersteig and printed at Verona by Stamperia
Valdonega. To obtain a copy please click
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in 1853, Maggs Bros. Ltd., is one of the world's
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and rare books. Serious about books without ever being stuffy, we
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At Maggs Bros we consider our most important service to be the advice
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The story of one of the world's greatest social movements told through
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Featured Collection: Japanese Photography from the Pre-War Period
Maggs are very pleased to be able to offer two important collections
relating to Japanese photography from the pre-War period. The first
is a group of 135 titles comprising over 1000 photo-books and magazines
spanning the rich history of this most challenging period of Japanese
artistic photography. The second is a collection of 70 original photographs
from the same period. We have published a fully illustrated catalogue
in a limited edition of 450 copies giving detailed bibliographical
information on each title as well as providing background information.
To obtain a copy please click here
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But what can a man see of a library being one day in it? James Boswell |
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Published previously only in a rare lithographic facsimile in 1831
this is the first scholarly publication of the modest, vellum-bound
notebook now known as the 'Roman Sketchbook' and catalogued at Chatsworth
House as 'Album 6'. The text has been fully reproduced in photographic
facsimile and accurately transcribed [more...]
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