Alphabet by William Nicholson (64 results)

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Hardback. Condition: New. William Nicholson was still in his twenties when he started working on books for the publisher William Heinemann that combined a hugely powerful woodcut style with peerlessly precise observation and sly humour. An Alphabet brings together a collection of portraits, from A is an Artist to Z is a Zoologist whose liveliness is only increased by the calligraphic vigour of Nicholson's print style. A great classic of British book illustration, unavailable for decades. Published simultaneously with two other works The Square Book of Animals and The Book of Blokes.

Illustrated in color. Folio, publisher's illustrated cloth in dust jacket. Facsimile edition. Fine in a dust jacket with some light use.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First printing of this later reprint. Quarto. Fully illustrated in color. Fine in a moderately rubbed and bumped, very good dust jacket with a lightly sunned spine.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Limited Edition. 'This edition of 300 copies, of which numbers 1-150 accompany the portfolios of plates. Printing completed March 1978. This is copy no: 252.' 252 is written in. Below it is the signature of Edward Craig. So this is Not accompanied by the portfolio of plates. It will be the Only signed copy for sale on the Internet. There is a List of Plates in Portfolio on the page following the signed limitation page. There are 11 numbered pages and 16 in total. The book was 'set in Caslon type and printed at Whittington Court on Rives mould-made paper by John & Rosalind Randle and Miriam Macgregor, and bound by Pat Hicks at the Whittington Press.' The paper is nicely thick. It is in excellent shape, nicely bright and free of any soiling. There's no creasing. No markings. And with the exception of Mr. Craig's signature, no one has written their name or anything else anywhere in the book. The pages are deckled or rough-cut. You can see the mustard-colored covers in the photos. They are very clean. There is a small crease at the front top right corner and rear bottom corner, also a little nick at the top edge of the front near the spine (no tear), and a light crease off the top edge of the front and rear cover. The black lettering on the front is very bright. The book is very solidly bound (there is a gold twine between page four and five which tells you how it's bound). Included with the book is a separate four page glossy prospectus with nine photographs. Edward Craig is the son of Edward Gordon Craig who learned to carve wood under the tutelage of William Nicholson and James Pryde. Edward Gordon Craig was also 'an English modernist theatre practitioner, an actor, a director and a scenic designer, as well as the author of an influential body of theoretical writings. The Gordon Craig Theatre, built in Stevenage (the town of his birth), was named in his honour in 1975. Edward Gordon Craig was the ' illegitimate' son of the architect Edward Godwin and the actress Ellen Terry.'. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Missing. William Nicholson (illustrator). In very good condition with light handling and a trace of soiling to the boards and spine. Lacking the dust jacket. Unpaginated.

26 coloured lithographs by William Nicholson First Edition , complete, corners rubbed, front hinge split and board loosely held, inside blank page ripped, internally clean, very good condition , quarter cloth with illustrated paper covered boards , quarto, 32 cm x 26 cm Hardback.

An uncoloured set numbered '127' (on the printed label on the inside panel the solander box) of an edition limited to 150 sets printed from the original woodblocks on a Columbian hand-press by John and Rosalind Randle and Miriam Mcgregor, of which 12 were coloured. The paper is Camber Sand hand-made from Hayle Mill and the solander boxes were made by Weatherby Woolnough. Each box contains (a) 26 sheets, each 390 x 285 mm, and each illustrating one letter of the alphabet; (b) an extra sheet, each 390 x 285 mm, for each of the letters 'E' and 'T' illustrated with Earl, Executioner, Trumpeter and Topers respectively; (c) seven sheets of unused illustrations, each 390 x 285 mm, namely 'J' for Jockey, 'L' for Lady, 'Q' for Quakeress, 'S' for Sportsman (two copies), 'U' for Usher and 'Z' for Zoologist (d) a title sheet and spare spine label; (e) a copy of Edward Craig's book 'William Nicholson's An Alphabet. An introduction to the reprint from the original woodblocks', also numbered '127' and signed by the author, being one of a total edition of 300 copies set in Caslon type and printed on quarto Rives mould-made paper, together with a prospectus with photograph illustrations; (f) a spare copy of the woodblock print affixed to the upper panel of the solander box; (g) an order form for 'An Almanac of Twelve Sports' & 'London Types'. The cloth covered solander box measures 440 x 320 mm. A set in Fine condition in a Fine solander box.

FIRST EDITION. 4to. (31 x 25 cm). Original pictorial boards, edges stained red. With an advertisement for An Almanac of Twelve Sports tipped in at rear. 26 full page lithographed illustrations. Light shelfwear to extremities of binding, offsetting and light spotting to endpapers, plates clean and crisp, generally an excellent example.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. No jacket. First American edition. Covers worn, but prints inside in excellent condition. All tissue guards present.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Slipcase. 1st Edition. Yellow Cloth, Lettered In Gilt On Black, In Slipcase. The De Luxe Edition Signed By Hockney And Spender (Only), Printed On Exhibition Fine Art Cartridge. Fine In Fine Slipcase. With A Special "Compliments" Card From Peter Scott At Benjamin Rota. Signed by Author(s).

, 26 coloured lithographs by William Nicholson, tipped in advert for An Almanac of Twelve Sports to rear First Edition , portions of spine missing, corners rubbed, front hinge split and board loosely held, pencil inscription to front free endpaper, small wormtrack at foot of front endpaper and title, internally clean, good condition , quarter cloth with illustrated paper covered boards , quarto, 32 cm x 26 cm Hardback ISBN:

FIRST EDITION. DELUXE LIMITED EDITION [50 copies - or less]*. Original cream cloth cloth portfolio (47.5 x 39 cm.), renewed silk ties, internal brown paper flaps carefully restored, contained in a modern half black morocco solander box, with blind stamped borders and gilt lettered label to spine. 26 full page hand-coloured woodblocks (25 x 20 cm.) , each signed by the artist (except "H" which is present but not signed) including the two plates "E for Executioner" and "T for Topers" which were suppressed for the trade editions, all loose as issued mounted on card (43 x 35.5 cm.). All the prints clean and bright with just minor toning at the extremities of the card mounts. *Colin Campbell (William Nicholson The Graphic Work, 1992) notes that the size of this edition was not formally announced by Heinemann, whose advertisements merely stated that a few copies were available. However, in a letter to Haldane Macfall dated December 20, 1897, William Heinemann says "we guarantee that only fifty of these [hand-coloured sets] are printed". In fact this may well be an exaggeration since in a letter dated 17 January 1956 from A.S. Frere (then Chairman of Heinemann) to Stanley Scott he states that "we have been able to find a record which reveals that the total number of the edition recorded as being finished was 30, of which 18 went to Russell, New York, 10 to Heinemann and 2 to Trade". The "Executioner" and "Topers" designs used to illustrate the letters "E" and "T" in this deluxe edition, designed for collectors, were deemed inappropriate for children and so were replaced in the Popular and Library lithographed editions by "Earl" and "Trumpeter". Campbell (25, A).

First edition. The ''Library Edition'' with the tipped-in colour lithographic title-page and twenty-six plates printed on laid paper and bound in full pictorial oatmeal cloth, all edges gilt. Folio. The Alphabet was also issued in two other versions: a de luxe edition of about 50 copies printed from the blocks and coloured by hand; a popular edition with the plates printed on cartridge paper and bound in cloth-backed boards. This is the first of the five picture books that Nicholson published with Heinemann. The first image, ''A was an Artist'', is a self portrait, while the second, ''B for Beggar'', is a portrait of James Pryde with whom Nicholson developed a striking poster style under the name the Beggarstaff Brothers. Two of the plates differ from those in the de luxe edition, as it was thought that ''E is for Executioner'' and ''T is for Toper'' might not be suitable for younger eyes; here they have become ''E is for Earl'' and ''T for Trumpeter''.Covers rubbed at the corners. Spine tanned and scuffed, heavily in places. Very good. The plates are fine.

Original lithograph after hand coloured woodcut (overall 31 x 24.5 cm, image size c.25 x 20 cm).

c.26 x 21 cm. Original lithograph after hand coloured woodcut.

c.26 x 21cm. Original lithograph after hand coloured woodcut.

c.26 x 21cm. Original lithograph after hand coloured woodcut.

Unbound. Condition: Fine. Broadside measuring 15" x 17". Archivally matted. Fine. Lithographic transfer from the original wood block print. A broadside featuring the title page from William Nicholson's *An Alphabet* used as an advertisement for the book's three variations of edition. It is referred to as a companion to *An Almanac of Twelve Sports* and offers an "ordinary edition," an edition printed on "Van Golder's hand-made paper," and a limited edition "printed direct from the Woodblocks and hand-coloured by the artist.".

25 x 20 cm. Original lithograph after hand coloured woodcut.

San Francisco, United States of America, 1975. In-4, rel. éd. pleine toile beige, titre en noir, ill. en noir sur le plat sup. sous jaquette ill., non paginé. 26 portraits qui illustrent les lettres de l'alphabet. Réimp. de l'éd. de 1898 à Londres. "Lorsqu?il entreprend la réalisation de son abécédaire, William Nicholson est déjà célèbre pour son travail d?affichiste et de graveur : entre 1894 et 1899, William Nicholson et son beau-frère James Pryde, duo connu sous le nom de Beggarstaffs (ou The Beggarstaff Brothers), renouvellent profondément l?art de l?affiche en rompant radicalement avec l?esthétique de l?ère victorienne finissante." (bibulyon hypotheses) /91B Pet. déchirure en tête inf. de la jaquette, bel ex.

Original lithograph after hand coloured woodcut (overall 31 x 24.5 cm, image size c.25 x 20 cm).

Original lithograph after hand coloured woodcut (overall 31 x 24.5 cm, image size c.25 x 20 cm).

Original lithograph after hand coloured woodcut (overall 31 x 24.5 cm, image size c.25 x 20 cm).

Original lithograph after hand coloured woodcut (overall 31 x 24.5 cm, image size c.25 x 20 cm).

Original lithograph after hand coloured woodcut (overall 31 x 24.5 cm, image size c.25 x 20 cm).

Original lithograph after hand coloured woodcut. Overall dimensions 31 x 25 cm, image size 25 x 10 cm.

Condition: 0. Hofstätter 82.- Erste Ausgabe. 'Nicholson brought a simplification of design to English illustrations' (The Artist & The Book 217).- Papierbedingt leicht gebräunt.- Nicholson, W. An Almanac of twelve Sports. Words by Rudyard Kipling. London, Heinemann, (1898). 16 leaves, 1 leaf (publisher's advertisement for 'An Alphabet'). With 12 large color lithographs. 4°. New half leather binding using the illustrated original covers (covers slightly rubbed, rear cover slightly stained). Hofstätter 82.- First edition. 'Nicholson brought a simplification of design to English illustrations' (The Artist & The Book 217).- Slightly browned due to the paper. Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 500.

Condition: Fine. Limited. One of 150 numbered sets. Includes 34 prints from original woodblocks, 2 from line-blocks based on prints in the portfolio edition, and 1 litho facsimile of an unfinished block. Prints are laid loose in a brown cloth-covered drop-back box with a hand-colored print of "The Ballad Seller" on the front, and matching spine label. Includes the 12-page book "William Nicholson's An Alphabet: An introduction to the reprint from the original woodblocks," one of 300 copies, 150 to accompany the set, numbered and signed by Edward Craig, author. The book is bound in yellow wraps, stamped on the interior with all of Nicholson's 26 alphabet prints. The sets include eight prints of discarded or unused blocks, and alternative versions of two letters (E and T) which had previously appeared only in the 1898 limited portfolio edition of William Heinemann. "The Ballad Seller" is shown full-length, before Nicholson cut the figure through the middle to allow space for the title of the book below. Whittington Press Bibliography 32 and 32b. 12 x 16 3/4 inches.