Ɵ Sculpture: 4 vols. Duthuit, Georges La Sculpture Copte . . . Author's Presentation copy to Sacheverell Sitwell, 1931, and three others related, 1940-1991. comprises:
DUTHUIT, Georges. (1891 - 1973). La Sculpture Copte. Statues - Bas-Reliefs Masques. Author's Presentation copy to Sacheverell Sitwell. Paris: les Editions G. Van Ouest, 1931. folio., (385 x 285mm), original brown paper wrappers, lettered in red and black to front and spine, inscribed and dated by the author in black ink to uncut half-title page, 'a Sacheverell Sitwell / son ami, /Georges Duthuit / 31 decembre 1931', 62pp. French text, 72 photo. illustrated plates;
MOORE, Henry. (1898 - 1976). Heads, Figures and Ideas. London & Greenwich, Connecticut: George Rainbird Limited and The New York Graphic Society, 1958. first edition, folio. (475 x 335mm), original illustrated paper covered blue boards with grey cloth spine, white lettering to front, red lettering to spine, patterned e/ps.,. lacks tipped-in auto-lithograph frontispiece, illustrated throughout with full page drawings on Chater's Chariot Offset Cartridge paper, printed at the Curwen Press, London;
EPSTEIN, Jacob. (1880 - 1959). Let There Be Sculpture An Autobiography. London: Michael Joseph Ltd., 1940. first edition, 8vo., (235 x 160mm), original publisher's cloth, silver lettering to spine, b/w. photo. illustrated throughout, 335pp;
John Skeaping 1901-1980 A Retrospective, 4 June to 5th July, 1991. Arthur Ackermann & Son Ltd., 1991. exhibition catalogue, 8vo., (254 x 210mm), soft wrappers, b/w. and colour photo. illustrated throughout, catalogue listing 154 works, 75pp.
Provenance:
The Art Library of Sir Sacheverell Sitwell, Weston Hall.
Condition Report:
1. Heads, Figures and Ideas - lacks tipped-in auto-lithograph frontispiece, illustrated grey paper boards with a few chips, spine a little bumped head/tail, o/w. clean, dustwrapper with tears and holes (with loss), clean internally.
2. La Sculpture Copte. Statues - Bas-Reliefs Masques. Author's Presentation copy to Sacheverell Sitwell - paper wrappers with a few marks to front, lower r.h. corner creased, many uncut edges have been opened, foxing to edges, and intermittent foxing internally to some pages, affecting a few of the plates.
3. Let There Be Sculpture An Autobiography - cloth clean but faded especially to spine, a few joints weakening but tightly bound, clean internally
4. John Skeaping 1901-1980 A Retrospective 4 June to 5 July, 1991 - a clean copy.
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