Search Results: the bookplate designs of rex whistler by lee brian north

160pp. Pages on verso. 8vo. Original boards in slip case. Book plate on front paste down. Black and white illustrations. A very good copy.. Only 350 copies.

Middlesex: Private Libraries Association, 1973. Limited. hardcover. fine. Rex Whistler. Black & white frontispiece + 41 additional full page plates. Slim tall 8vo, grey cloth. (Middlesex): Private Libraries Association, 1973. Limited Edition -- One of 650 copies. Fine.<br/> <br/>

Middlesex: Private Libraries Association For The Bookplate Society. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. No signatures. Some fading at head of spine. Spotting to top page edges. ; 39 pages + 41 plates. Grey cloth boards with gilt and black spine label. Page dimensions: 248mm x 149mm. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall .

Pinner, Middlesex: Private Libraries Association, 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Limited to 350 copies with frontispiece bookplate tipped in, from a total print run of 1,000. The British artist Reginald John "Rex" Whistler (1905-44) played an important role in the renaissance of bookplate design, and was equally successful in plates of simple dignity as he was in highly finished and elaborate designs on a very small scale. He was killed in action in Normandy during World War II. Octavo: 39 p. with the frontispiece and 41 plates. Original blue cloth binding, with black and gilt titles. A fine copy in the acetate dust wrapper, housed in the publisher's slipcase.

[Pinner, Middlesex] Private Libraries Association for the Bookplate Society, 1973., 1973. First edition. Tall 8vo. Tipped-in frontispiece and 41 other reproductions of bookplates. Gray cloth, stamped in gilt and black. Fine. Publisher's black cloth slipcase. Clear acetate dust jacket, as issued. One of 350 special copies, with tipped-in frontispiece bookplate.. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine.

Ravelston. Private Libraries association. 1973. Bound in gilt titled cloth. Small 4to. 1 of 350 copies with frontispiece bookplate tipped-in. Profusely illustrated with 41 monochrome plates. Included with this volume is a small collection of bookplates designed for the Crerar library. A Very Fine copy in Very Good original publishers slipcase.

Private Libraries Association, 1973 This gorgeous limited edition - one of only 350 copies with an original Rex Whistler bookplate tipped in - is a prime example of fine small press editions. Smooth acid free paper, elegantly designed by David Cambers, with a superb text by Brian North Lee. It is contained in a black slipcase, the book itself is protected in stiff acetate, and the binding is in sewn sections. A great and scholarly tribute to a very great designer and artist. What a loss to British Art! RW was killed during a tank battle in the second world war at only 39 years old. There is an attractive blind stamp of a former owner on the front endpaper.. Limited Edition.. Hardcover. Fine/Fine.