E-Catalogues

 

E-catalogue 98: New Acquisitions

E-catalogue 98: New Acquisitions

With the return of travel comes the expanded possibility for seeking out new treasures and pleasures to offer to our customers. The following list reflects the sort of variety we encountered in our search for the rare and the unusual.

E-catalogue 97: Have a Very Gorey Christmas!

E-catalogue 97: Have a Very Gorey Christmas!

As the days tick down to the Holidays, we’d like to take a moment to suggest the perfect solution to your gift-giving needs: Edward Gorey. We know what you may be thinking: Gorey? The artist who designed the set for Dracula on Broadway? The author of such works as The Gashlycrumb Tinies and The Beastly Baby? 

The very same. 

After all, this is the same Edward Gorey who also illustrated many holiday-related titles, such as Polly Redford’s The Christmas Bower, and was the playful producer of a vast zoo of beanbag figures. In fact, if one contemplates the titles of the many books he published under his name, and his many anagrammatic pseudonyms, one will find a treasure-trove of very particular objects: who, on your gift list, wouldn’t thoroughly enjoy an Improvable Landscape, a Just Dessert, or a Retrieved Locket?

Nothing says the holidays quite like Edward Gorey.

E-catalogue 95: British Illustration, 1890-1930 (excluding Eric Gill)

E-catalogue 95: British Illustration, 1890-1930 (excluding Eric Gill)

In the language of images, there are common tongues that speak in words we know—shape, line, color—about what we cannot yet understand. The generation of British artists and illustrators working at the turn of the twentieth century through the interwar period achieved such a mastery. The likes of Arthur and Georgie Gaskin, Edward Burne-Jones, Kate Greenaway, and Paul Nash drew upon the heavy lore and artistic heritage of the British Isles, the hope of the new millennium, and the grief of war after war after war. The romance of their illustrations, from Burne-Jones’s sensitive work for the Kelmscott Chaucer, exemplified in proofed and published leaves presented here, to Gaskin’s familiar countryside vistas and intimate portraits, sends pangs of longing across time to the viewer today. In this catalogue, we invite you to explore the detail and devotion with which they translated the world, and find in it both comfort and fascination.

E-catalogue 94: Further Fables for our Times

E-catalogue 94: Further Fables for our Times

Fable books representing all the major fabulists from Aesop to La Fontaine, illustrated by such notables as Barlow, Bewick, and Calder, and ranging in size from miniatures to folios.

E-catalogue 93: New Acquisitions in Illustration

E-catalogue 93: New Acquisitions in Illustration

In the spirit of the indelibility of pictures on the human imagination, we present a selection of books that tell their stories through illustrations. The confluence of a couple of recently purchased small collections has presented us with the opportunity to not only offer a fine group of fantasy illustration, but also several choice Gorey bits, as well as a variety of children’s books illustrated with media ranging from woodcuts to chromolithography.

E-catalogue 92: Newly Acquired Literature

E-catalogue 92: Newly Acquired Literature

A recently-purchased collection presented us with the opportunity to re-examine and reassess books we have in stock and put together the following list of literary first editions. It is said that everything old is new again; may this literary excursion yield a previously undiscovered pathway of your own.