Italian Sketches and New Italian Sketches by John Addington Symonds

John Addington Symonds: A Biography, by Horatio F. Brown. Smith, Elder, & Co., London, 1903. 1st Ed Moroccan leather and cloth hardcover. Symonds was an English poet and literary cri...

Thomas Tompion His Life and Work by R.W. Symonds. New York: B.T. Batsford Ltd., 1951. First edition hardcover with dust jacket. 320 pp. Thomas Tompion (...

John Whalley: In New Light by John Whalley, Signed. Published by John Whalley Studio, ME, 2006. Signed 1st Ed hardcover no dust jacket. The Maine artist l...

Wild Flowers of New York, Vol. I and II. Albany: The University of The State of New York, 1923. Second printing hardcovers with no dust jacket as issued. 362 pages of text and 264 co...

Antique Silver and Silver Collecting by John Culme and John G. Strang. London: The Hamlyn Publishing Group Limited, 1973. First edition hardcover with dust jacket. 96 pp. A great resource book on collecting antique silver...

The Navajo and Pueblo Silversmiths by John Adair. 1962, University of Oklahoma Press. Hardcover with dust jacket. Probably no Native American handicraft are more widely admired than Navajo weaving and Navajo and Pueblo silver work. This book contains the most important and complete account of Indian jewelry fashioned by the Navajo, the Zuni, the Hopi, and other Pueblo peoples. The author has told the story of his several years' investigation of jewelry making among the Southwestern Indians. With the use of decorative plates the narrative is has a very visual experience. John Adair is a trained ethnologist who has lived and worked among these Indians. He has done an exhaustive examination of the principal museum collections of Navajo and Pueblo silver work, both early and modem, in Santa Fe, Colorado Springs, Chicago, New York, and Philadelphia. He visited trading posts in the Indian country and examined and photographed silver on the pawn racks and in important private collections. He lived for a time among the Navajo, watched them make their jewelry, and actually learned to work silver himself under one of the leading artisans, Tom Burnsides. Many of the photographs he made at the time are used as illustrations in this book. As field worker for the Indian Arts and Crafts Board, he studied the economics of Navajo and Pueblo silversmithing; and still later he became manager of the Navajo Arts and Crafts Guild, a tribal enterprise. The Navajo and Pueblo Silversmiths provides a full history of the craft and the actual names and localities of the pioneer craftsmen who introduced the art of the silversmith to them. Despite its present high stage of development, with its many subtle and often exquisite designs, the art of working silver is not an ancient one among the Navajo and Pueblo Indians. There are men still living today who remember the very first silversmiths. Mr. Adair gives full details of the methods and techniques of a primitive forge with homemade tools. He tells both of the fine pieces made for trade among the Indians themselves and of the newer, cheaper types of jewelry produced for sale to tourists. He discusses standards and qualities of Indian silver and describes the work of the Indian schools in helping preserve traditional design in the fine silver of today. His excellent photographs of some of the most notable pieces, old and new, provide examples for evaluation. This book will serve the layman, the ethnologist, and the dealer alike as a guide to establish proper values in Indian silver jewelry...

AUTHOR: SYMONDS, John Addington. TITLE: The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi. PUBLISHER: London: John C. Nimmo, 1890. DESCRIPTION: LIMITED EDITION. 2 vols., 9-1/4" x 7", limite...

Mark Twain's Sketches, new and old by Mark Twain *First Edition, 1875 Additional information: Binding: Hardcover Year Printed: 1875 Special Attribute...

AUTHOR: CLARKE, Joseph Clayton (KYD) (Charles Dickens). TITLE: John Browdie (from Nicholas Nickleby) PUBLISHER: England, [c. 1920] DESCRIPTION: ORIGINAL INK AND WATERCOLOR SKETCH...

This monograph reproduces sculptures and works on paper completed over the last five years by Jasper Johns (born 1930), who in February 2011 became the first visual artist to receive...

AUTHOR: SYMONDS, John Addington - translator. TITLE: The Life Of Benvenuto Cellini Written By Himself. PUBLISHER: NY: Brentano's, 1929. DESCRIPTION: 2 vols, 9-1/16" x 6-1/8", num...

AUTHOR: CLARKE, Joseph Clayton (KYD) (Charles Dickens). TITLE: The Half-Pay Captain (from Sketches By Boz). PUBLISHER: England, [c. 1920] DESCRIPTI...