Fine Prints of the Year 1927 An Annual Review of Contemporary Edited by MALCOLM C. SALAMAN, HON. R.E. WITH ABOUT 100 ILLUSTRATIONS PRICE 30/ Size, Medium Quarto (11) × 9 in.) THE VOLUMES FOR 1923 AND 1924 ARE OUT OF PRINT; OF THOSE FOR 1925 AND 1926 ONLY A FEW COPIES ARE LEFT Famous Etchings FROM DÜRER TO WHISTLER WITH 12 PHOTOGRAVURE PLATES (ENGRAVED SURFACE ABOUT 9 by 6 ins.) AND DESCRIPTIVE NOTES THE ETCHINGS OF SIR D. Y. CAMERON, R.A. By ARTHUR M. HIND (Slade Professor of Fine Art in the University of Oxford) WITH 100 PLATES, INCLUDING 16 IN PHOTOGRAVURE FOR nearly a quarter of a century D. Y. Cameron has been a name to conjure with among collectors of etchings. He is now equally well known for his painting; but from 1887, when his first print was published, until 1900, his work was almost exclusively devoted to etching, and it was this art which won him fame, and secured him the devotion of so large a circle of admirers at home and abroad. An excellent catalogue raisonné by Mr. Frank Rinder, giving reproductions in small of all the etchings, was published in 1912; but apart from the fact that the Catalogue is now out of print, there is undoubtedly room for a book with larger reproductions of about a hundred carefully selected etchings. Besides including a representative selection from the artist's earlier work, the reproductions in the present volume cover a large proportion of the plates which have appeared since the publication of Mr. Rinder's Catalogue. Among these are some of remarkable power which have been recently completed after an interval of six years, in which Sir David Cameron had entirely laid aside the needle and dry-point in favour of the brush. The introductory essay is contributed by Professor A. M. Hind, and a chronological list of Cameron's etchings is included. PRESS NOTICES. No one could write a more interesting, critical and just estimate of Cameron's etched work than is contained in the thirty pages of introduction with which this fascinating book begins. -Times Literary Supplement. A handsome addition to any library table. . . .-Glasgow Herald. ... It is a book to linger over, to prize and to display. . . .-Boston Evening Transcript. Typography, paper, format generally, are as perfect as anything that has been issued from the press of late years....-The Queen. PRICE TWO GUINEAS Size, Medium Quarto (11) × 9 in.) Large-paper Edition, with hand-made paper, limited to 200 numbered Portfolios of Great Masters EACH PORTFOLIO CONTAINS A FOREWORD AND EIGHT MOUNTED PLATES IN COLOURS (Colour surface about 9 x 7 in.) PIETER DE HOOCH, HANS HOLBEIN and JOHN CONSTABLE ("Corot" and "Vermeer" are out of print) JOHN CONSTABLE By E. V. LUCAS WITH 64 PLATES, INCLUDING 16 IN COLOURS MRi R. LUCAS, whose pleasure in the painters that he likes is a very infectious thing and is appealing to more readers every day, has come to the study of Constable with wholehearted enthusiasm. His book is a blend of biography and criticism, giving us both the man in his home life and the artist and his place in art history. Naturally there is a review of the condition of landscape painting when Constable, to use Mr. Lucas's phrase, first brought "excitement" into it. His great predecessors and exemplars are examined, notably Wilson and Gainsborough, Claude and Ruysdael, and we see both how he was influenced by them and where he differed and became idiosyncratic. We are shown how Constable in his own turn became an influence, and how, by his fidelity to the fact-the passionate sincerity of his devotion to nature-he created the new landscape painting which, never surpassed, came to its finest derivative flower among the Barbizon men. A novel feature of Mr. Lucas's monograph is a commentary on the pictures by Constable at the National Gallery, the Tate Gallery and at South Kensington. The works selected for reproduction are splendid examples of Constable's art and many of them are reproduced for the first time. PRESS NOTICES Mr. Lucas has succeeded very well in weaving Constable's life as a man and his development as a painter..,..-Times Literary Supplement. -Glasgow Herald. A special compliment must be paid to the numerous and beautifully executed illustrations. PRICE THREE GUINEAS Size, Royal Quarto (12 × 10 in.) Edition-de-luxe, with hand-made paper, limited to 100 numbered copies signed by the Author. Price Seven Guineas. IN DAUMIER THE MAN & THE ARTIST By MICHAEL SADLEIR WITH 100 ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOURS & MONOCHROME N this handsome presentation of the art of Honoré Daumier emphasis is deliberately laid on his achievement as painter both in oil and in water-colour, for the very reason that in the past this aspect of his genius has been unduly neglected. The illustrations have been chosen in order both to represent the main line of Daumier's development and the highest points of his achievement. of a great artist.-Sunday Times. PRESS NOTICES Mr. Sadleir has written a brilliant study of one of the most powerful and original painters of the nineteenth century magnificently produced. . . . this handsome volume is a worthy memorial The most vital, most imaginative potent essay on the subject in our language.... We commend. Mr. Sadleir's significant, spirit-liberating essay, not only to those who recognise the power and subtle fundamentality of Daumier's art at its best, but to students in general.-Glasgow Herald. It is a worthy memorial of a great genius.-Yorkshire Post. PRICE THREE GUINEAS Size, Royal Quarto (12 x 10 in.) Edition-de-luxe, with hand-made paper, limited to 100 numbered THE WATER-COLOURS OF TURNER, COX & DE WINT By A. P. OPPÉ WITH 34 MOUNTED PLATES IN FACSIMILE COLOURS MOST OST, if not all, of the drawings chosen have never been reproduced in colours before. The volume, therefore, provides indispensable material for the student of these masters, as well as an endless delight for the lover of the beautiful in landscape and in art. The selection covers the various phases of each artist's style and the stages of his development. Mr. Oppé, well known as an authority on early English water-colours, contributes an introductory essay. PRICE TWO GUINEAS |