ARTISTS BOOKS, 18TH AND 19TH CENTURIES.

Collection of early artists books:

Collection of early artists books: * EISEN, CHARLES. Zelis au Bain. Geneva: 1763. * ---. La Temple de Gnide. Paris: 1772. * ---. Irza et Marsis, ou l'isle merveilleuse, poeme en deux chants, suivi d'Alphonse, conte. Paris: 1776. * MILTON, JOHN. Paradise Lost. A Poem in Twelve Books. London: 1719. Tenth edition. * DELILLE, JACQUES. L'homme des champs. Paris: 1805. * MAZZINGHI, JOSEPH. and WILLIAM REEVE. Ramah Droog, or Wine Does Wonders. London: [1798]. * WATTEAU, ANTOINE. Livre nouveau de différents trophées. Frontispiece and 11 plates, all remargined; several unrelated plates loosely inserted. * YOUNG, EDWARD. Night Thoughts. London: 1798. 9 colored plates after Stothard. Cover detached. * BLAKE, WILLIAM. Illustrations to Young's Night Thoughts. [Austria: 1927]. Facsimile edition. * GILPIN, WILLIAM. Trois essais: Sur le beau pittoresque. Breslau: 1799. Worming to spine. * BOILEAU-DESPRÉAUX, NICOLAS. Oeuvres. Amsterdam, 1729. 2 volumes. Folio. * INGRES, J. La Semaine. Dessins faits a Rome. Paris: 1869. Inscribed by the engraver, Houssoulier. * HOUSSAYE, HENRY. Aspasie. Cléopâtre. Théodora. Paris: 1899. Limited edition, number 97 of 120. * HARRIS, J. Emblematic Prints. [London]: 1830. * Almanach dédié aux dames. Paris: 1823. 16mo. Rebacked. * Office de la Semaine Sainte ... dédié a la Reine pour l'usage de sa Maison. Paris: 1729. Armorial morocco gilt with the crest of Marie Leczinska, Queen Consort of France. * SMITH, THOMAS. The Young Artist's Assistant in the Art of Drawing. London: c.1829. * DU FRESNOY, CHARLES ALPHONSE. De Arte Graphica. The Art of Painting.... 1695. 1st Ed of John Dryden's trans. London: 1695. * DEGAS, EDGAR. Monotypes. Paris: 1948. * CHAGALL, MARC. The Chagall Posters, Series A. [Paris]: n.d.
All with wear to bindings, browning and spotting.