MARILYN BRAITERMAN

Marilyn Braiterman
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endpapers. Binder’s ticket on lower turn-in. In original gray
buckram folding box with gilt-lettered salmon calf labels and
padded suede lining. Perfect condition.
One of 250 copies (of a total edition of 260) signed by the
author. Etched title page and 20 etched plates of common herbs,
each signed in pencil by the artist, Betty Shaw-Lawrence.
Notes on the history and use of herbs “in Furtherance of
Loveliness and Love”.
Angela James is a Fellow of Designer Bookbinders and a past
president of the Society. This unique binding reflects her early
training in textiles and enhances the theme of the book. $2750
SEE COLOR INSERT
21. (BING COLLECTION) Collection S.Bing. Objets d’Art
et Peintures du Japon et de la Chine. (Paris 1906). Folio,
decorated board portfolio with ties, containing six fascicles
(complete) in decorated paper wrappers. Fine.
The collection of Samuel Bing was sold in Paris in May 1906
in the auction galleries of Durand-Ruel. It included Japanese
and Chinese painting, sculpture, fabrics, metal work, lacquer,
inro, netsukes, combs, masks, fans, accessories of arms and
armor, porcelain and stoneware. Hundreds of illustrations
include heliogravure plates and text illustrations.
Samuel Bing was the owner of the Paris gallery “L’Art
Nouveau Bing”, which was in large measure responsible
for the rage for Japonisme in France and an influence on
Impressionism and Art Nouveau. $1500
ORIGINAL PRINTS BY STEINLEN AND OTHERS
22. (BOURGEOIS, LÉON, preface) La Misère Sociale de la
Femme, d’après les écrivains et les artistes du XVIIe au XXe
siècle. Paris: Devambez, 1910. Folio, white printed wrappers
over boards; gilt-lettered. Rip to front wrapper professionally
repaired; internally fresh. One of 220 copies on Arches. Text
by Pierre Louys, Camille Lemonnier, Jean Richepin and others.
Published for the benefit of “L’Oeuvre des Libérées de Saint-
Lazare”, an organization helping poor women and prostitutes.
Ten original prints by Charles Cottet (etching), André
Devambez (lithograph), Abel Faivre (lithograph), Gaston La
Touche (etching), Charles
Léandre (lithograph on
chine), Auguste Lepere
(wood engraving), Bernard
Naudin (etching), Alfred
Roll (lithograph), Steinlen
(lithograph) and Jean
Veber (lithograph). Also
25 full page and smaller
reproductions in black
and white or color by
Carpaccio, Callot, Goya,
Gavarni, Manet, Moreau,
Rops, Toulouse-Lautrec
and others. All on the fallen
woman theme. Carteret,
IV, 283: “édition estimée”.
$1950
WOMAN POET OF THE ROMANTIC PERIOD
23. BURY, LADY CHARLOTTE ( NÉE CHARLOTTE
SUSAN MARIA CAMPBELL) The Three Great Sanctuaries
of Tuscany, Valombrosa, Camaldoli, Laverna: A Poem, With
Historical and Legendary Notices... Illustrated by Engravings
of the Scenery from Original Drawings, by the Late Reverend
Edward Bury. London: John Murray, 1833. Oblong folio,
original brown cloth, leather label, rebacked with matching
cloth; boards and cloth restored; one plate with marginal stain.
Hand stamp of the private San Francisco book collection,
Woodward’s Gardens, on the verso of the plates.
Lady Charlotte Bury, daughter of the Duke of Argyll and ladyin-waiting
to the queen, was a writer of romantic novels, best
known for her anonymous Diary Illustrative of the Times of
George IV.
An elaborate production of her poem about Italy, illustrated
with six sepia aquatint plates engraved by Thomas Lupton after
the drawings of her clergyman husband. of the sanctuaries and
the surrounding Tuscan countryside. Etched frontispiece by
Lupton and Thomas Landseer and a mounted engraved portrait
of Lady Bury on India paper. Jackson, Romantic Poetry by
Women, page 49 (under Campbell). $700
24. (BUSBY, THOMAS
LORD) Costume of the Lower
Orders in Paris. (London,
circa 1820). 12mo, green
morocco spine and marbled
boards, spine banded and
gilt-lettered; little rubbed but
very nice. Hand colored title
page and 28 hand colored
engraved plates mounted on
sheets. The folding plate of a
dog dealer is bound flat across
two pages. Costumes of the
street merchants of Paris. The
engraved title incorporates
an image of a man sticking a
poster to a wall. Abbey, Travel,
107. Colas 493. $1750