Cassell's Pigeon Book - "American Owls, Blue, Black, and White" Pigeons
Cassell, Petter, & Galpin, 1870 - 1880. Chromolithograph print of 3 pigeons. Browning to margins, else clean and bright. Size of print: about 8.25 x 10.75 inches. Fine. More
Cassell, Petter, & Galpin, 1870 - 1880. Chromolithograph print of 3 pigeons. Browning to margins, else clean and bright. Size of print: about 8.25 x 10.75 inches. Fine. More
Cassell, Petter, & Galpin, 1870 - 1880. Chromolithograph print of 4 pigeons. Browning to margins, else clean and bright. Size of print: about 8.25 x 10.75 inches. Fine. More
Cassell, Petter, & Galpin, 1870 - 1880. Chromolithograph print of 4 pigeons. Browning to margins, else clean and bright. Foxing to margins. Size of print: about 8.25 x 10.75 inches. Fine. More
Cassell, Petter, & Galpin, 1870 - 1880. Chromolithograph print of 3 pigeons. Browning to margins, else clean and bright. Foxing to margins. Size of print: about 8.25 x 10.75 inches. Fine. More
Cassell, Petter, & Galpin, 1870 - 1880. Chromolithograph print of 4 pigeons. Browning to margins, else clean and bright. Size of print: about 8.25 x 10.75 inches. Fine. More
Cassell, Petter, & Galpin, 1870 - 1880. Chromolithograph print of 3 pigeons. Browning to margins, else clean and bright. Size of print: about 8.25 x 10.75 inches. Fine. More
Cassell, Petter, & Galpin, 1870 - 1880. Chromolithograph print of 3 pigeons. Browning to margins, else clean and bright. Foxing to margins. Size of print: about 8.25 x 10.75 inches. Fine. More
Cassell, Petter, & Galpin, 1870 - 1880. Chromolithograph print of 4 pigeons. Browning to margins, else clean and bright. Size of print: about 8.25 x 10.75 inches. Fine. More
Cassell, Petter, & Galpin, 1870 - 1880. Chromolithograph print of 4 pigeons. Browning to margins, else clean and bright. Foxing to margins. Large chipping / open tear to right margin of print; illustration not affected. Inch long closed tear to margin that extends to bottom corner of image. Size of print: about 8.25 x 10.75 inches. Fine. More
Cassell, Petter, & Galpin, 1870 - 1880. Chromolithograph print of 3 pigeons. Browning to margins, else clean and bright. Size of print: about 8.25 x 10.75 inches. Fine. More
Cassell, Petter, & Galpin, 1870 - 1880. Chromolithograph print of 3 pigeons. Browning to margins, else clean and bright. Size of print: about 8.25 x 10.75 inches. Fine. More
Cassell, Petter, & Galpin, 1870 - 1880. Chromolithograph print of 4 pigeons. Browning to margins, else clean and bright. Size of print: about 8.25 x 10.75 inches. Fine. More
Cassell, Petter, & Galpin, 1870 - 1880. Chromolithograph print of 4 pigeons. Browning to margins, else clean and bright. Size of print: about 8.25 x 10.75 inches. Fine. More
n.p. Cheloniidae Press, 1979. A stunning black and white print of a majestic bald eagle in flight. This is the last available print of a sold out edition of 50. Signed and dated by renowned artist and printer Alan James Robinson. He founded the Cheloniidae Press, later the Press of the Sea Turtle, in 1979. His books and art have won numerous awards and can be found in many public and private collections. The eagle is shown from the side with his head extended and wings held wide. In fine condition. Image is 17.5 x 23.5 inches; in mat it is 21.5 x 25 inches. ORIGART/072517. Fine. More
Northampton MA: Cheloniidae Press, n.d. State Proof signed by the artist. A stunning original print, never published and the only copy ever printed, created by renowned artist and printer Alan James Robinson. He founded the Cheloniidae Press, later the Press of the Sea Turtle, in 1979. His books and art have won numerous awards and can be found in many public and private collections. The image depicts an owl flying in the dark of night. Most of the surface is a profound black, with the hunting owl visible by moonlight. The print is 17.5 x 23 inches and measures 22 x 27 inches with the mat. In fine condition.ORIGART/072017. More
2017. Hardcover. Number xvii of xx copies of the deluxe edition, signed and numbered by the book artist. There were also two hundred copies in the regular edition. Abigail Rorer attended the Rhode Island School of Design concentrating on etching and lithography. After graduation she taught art in several schools for a few years until leaving to concentrate on pen and ink book illustrations and etchings. She had always been drawn to woodcuts and wood engraving through the work of the German Expressionists and Leonard Baskin. Although she had only done a few woodcuts in high school and none in college, she had a desire to learn wood engraving and was fortunate to have met the noted wood engraver Barry Moser through a mutual gallery. He very graciously explained how one wood engraves and the tools needed to make a print. She purchased the necessary materials and had at it. Learning the art of wood engraving is basically a case of practice, practice, practice and looking at the work of other engravers. In 1989 Abigail established The Lone Oak Press in Petersham, Massachusetts. The press publishes limited edition, letterpress printed books and broadsides illustrated with her relief engravings and etchings. All of the images are printed by Abigail from the original blocks and plates with many of the images being multi-block color engravings incorporating reduction printing and frequently having some hand coloring. The design of a number of the books and all of the bindings are collaborations with others more knowledgeable in those aspects of bookmaking. Abigail has also taken up the fine art of silverpoint drawing, a medieval art form. [From the press website: "The idea for this book was conceived after a visit to Newfoundland and the famous gannet rookery at Cape St. Mary’s by wood engraver Abigail Rorer, proprietor of The Lone Oak Press. Abigail was taken by the beauty of the birds, so magnificent in their white plumage with black detailing, their fierce eyes and lethal bill and decided to illustrate and publish a small book honoring these incredible seabirds." The result is this beautiful book with Abigail's exquisite illustrations of these amazing birds. This deluxe edition has a special binding of the book with a white leather spine and a white leather circle with a bird image on the blue paper cover. The engravings and text are printed on Zerkall Book paper using Van Dijck and Goudy Open types. The engravings are multi-block with some hand-coloring. Amy Borezo of Shelter Bookwors designed the binding and bound the books. Housed in a blue cloth clamshell case with title label to spine, along with an extra suite of signed prints, and an original silverpoint drawing of gannets encased in a special folder. Each silverpoint drawing is different. In fine condition. Book measures 5.25 x 7 inches. Unpaginated [about 18 pages] PRI/030524. Fine. More
Simi Valley, CA: Pie in the Sky Press, 2022. Hardcover. Number 16 of 30 copies, signed and numbered by the book artist. Rebecca Chamlee is a book artist, printer, writer, and bookbinder who has published innovatively designed, letterpress printed, limited-edition fine press, and artist’s books under the imprint of Pie In The Sky Press since 1986. Her work is in prominent special and private collections throughout the U.S. and has been exhibited widely. As a self-taught naturalist and citizen scientist, Rebecca’s artist’s books examine the intersection of her artistic and scientific interests by collecting and cataloging the natural world. Rebecca retired in 2023 as an associate professor at Otis College of Art and Design where she taught bookbinding, letterpress printing, and artist’s book classes and headed the Book Arts minor program for over 20 years [from the artist's website]. Chamlee writes about her book: "During the long months of isolation in 2020 and 2021, I began documenting the many birds that came to my backyard feeders and noted their unique behaviors. With a telephoto lens, I was able to record detailed and intimate images of my avian visitors. As often happens, the passion I felt for the birds grew into the idea for an artist’s book. Dreams of Flight, the nesting season is an interconnected story of three different species of birds that nested in my suburban yard during the spring nesting seasons of 2020–21. The book was created entirely at home. Printed in the colors of the birds on the Vandercook Universal III power press in the living room studio using Deepdene and 20th Century type with assorted wood type from the Pie in the Sky Press collection. The original images were captured through the window over the press with a Nikkor 200-500mm f5.6 lens mounted on a Nikon D850 camera and printed with photo polymer plates made by Boxcar Press." The blue binding with an abstract gilt image of a bird's wing is a flutter book structure, a type of accordion where the fore-edges of the pages are pasted together but the spine is not. A tan cloth magnetic spine supports the backbone of the book and can be removed for reading and display. Printed on cotton cloud paper that was handmade to order by Tom Balbo. The endsheets are Hahnemuhle Bugra. The text paper is Wa-Mix Kozo and Clairefontaine Simili Japon with sewn-in wings of cloud paper and colored Bugra to match the birds. The book is housed in a blue bookcloth-covered clamshell box and includes a suite of three prints printed in four colors on 320gsm Izumi paper, enclosed in handmade St. Armand Papeterie blue paper folder. The box is housed in a protective blue stiff paper clamshell box with a slightly smudged title label on the cover. In fine condition. Measures 6 x 10 x .75 inches. Box measures 8.75 x 10.75 x 1.5 inches. Unpaginated [24 pages]. ARTB/030424. Fine. More