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William Eggleston
London: Thames and Hudson 2002
Unpaginated. c.200pp of beautifully presented colour and b/w photographic plates plus c.10pp catalogue, bibliography, list of exhibitions. Square 4to in white boards, with tiny bump on upper board bottom edge else very good indeed. Published to accompany an exhibition held in Paris by the Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain. Scarce.
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William Etty, Art & Controversy
York and London York Museums Trust and Philip Wilson Publishers 2011
256 pp, comprehensively illustrated in colour. 4to. Very good, Wrappers. Published to mark a major exhibition throwing fresh scholarship on and a reappraisal of Etty's work.
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William Morris & his Palace of Art: Architecture, Interiors and Design at Red House (National Trust Series)
London, Philip Wilson.
272pp illustrated. 4to. Fine in dust wrapper. Comprehensive new study of Red House, Bexleyheath; the only house commissioned by William Morris and the first independent architectural work of his close friend, Philip Webb. Beautifully illustrated edition. The house was created 1860-1865 and records the interiors and designs of that period following recent research on the collaborative ventures of Morris, Philip Webb Burne Jones, Rossetti and their immediate circle
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William Morris: The Marxist Dreamer
two volume set
Hassocks, Sussex Harvester and New Jersey, Humanities Press 1977
800pp. Used - Very Good in slightly worn dust wrappers with illustration of Kelmscott on each. In cardboard slipcase as issued. Spines sun faded. Translated by Frank Gubb with a preface by Robin Page Arnot
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William Richard Lethaby
The Architectural Press 1986
320pp illus. with b/w plates and line ills. Major assessment of Lethaby's multi faceted carer as an architect, conservationist and educationalist. Square 4to. Very good in dust wrapper.
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William Roberts Some Early Abstract & Cubist Work 1913-1920
London A Canale Production 1957
16pp text + 12 pages of b/w plates. One of 400 copies, unnumbered. 4to. Yellow lettered boards. Very good copy. Some striking Vorticist images are included in this lovely publication.
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Winchcombe Pottery, the Cardew-Finch Tradition
Edinburgh White Cockade Publishing 1998
168 pp, colour and black and white photographs[JR1] . 8vo, boards, d/w good. An account of one of the pioneer studio potteries, revived by Michael Cardew in 1926 and continued by Ray Finch.
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Windows: a Book About Stained & Painted Glass
London, B T Batsford 1909,
3rd edotopn. 420pp +300 plates and text illustrations. (32pp catalogue of Batsford publications). Tall 8vo. Gilt decorated blue cloth with arts and crafts style decorative gilt lettering on upper board. Decorated end papers. Fine in dust wrapper. Authoritative study of stained glass. Uncommon to find in the dust wrapper.
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Windows for Coventry
Stock ID: 22722More details Price: £20.00
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Wine List Decorations 1961 – 1963
Bristol, John Harvey and Sons Limited 1963
100 pp 8vo, Cloth. Gilt lettering. Spine slightly sunned. Designed by the typographic designer John Lewis with wood illustrations by David Gentleman, decoration by Asgeir Scott, illustrations by Edward Ardizzone and maps by Sheila Waters. The book is a compilation of the illustrations and maps sent to their clients by the wine dealers Harveys. This charming small book contains a pamphlet advertising the letters from Ardizzone to Lewis concerning his commission for the Harveys Wine List which were published in 2016 by the Reading Room Press.
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Worlds and Windows
London & New York Anthony D'Offray and Robert Miller 1990
6-page introductory essay by Rosenblum + 130 full page colour reproductions of works in the Worlds and Windows series. Original publishers' blue cloth, lettered gilt on spine and on front cover. 310mm x 231mm. Not issued with a dust wrapper. Copiously illustrated in colour and black and white throughout. Inscribed in red ink "With love from Gilbert and George" on free end paper. From the collection of Johnathan and Maggie Silver.
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York Minster, The Great East Window
(Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi: Great Britain) (Vol 2)
Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1995
161pp + 20pp of colour plates at back. c120 b/w photographic plates in text. 4to, original decorated dustjacket, fine. A detailed catalogue of the stained and painted glass in the Great East Window of York Minster. All photography is beautifully clear and both the black and white and colour images are stunning in their clarity and quality.
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York Minster through the Centuries
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Yoshijiro Urushibara
Leiden, the Netherlands Hotei Publishing 2017
206 pp. Illustrated. 4to. Decorated wrappers, very good. A catalogue raisonné of an artist who brought together the traditional woodcut print technologies of Japan and Western art.
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Young America 1965: Thirty American Artists Under Thirty-Five
New York Published for the Whitney Museum of Art by Frederick A. Praeger [1965]
Unpaginated and 50 black and white illustrations. Small 4to Off-white cloth, Slightly browned dust wrapper with titles and listing artists featured.
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Young Meteors
British Photojournalism: 1957-1965
London Jonathan Cape 1998
159pp b/w + colour photographic plates. 4to pictorial wrappers. Very good. Shows the work of a new generation of British photographers. Martin Harrison is widely regarded as the leading authority on the art of fashion photography. His previous books include Appearances: Fashion Photography Since 1945 (1991), David Bailey: Birth of the Cool (1999), Lillian Bassman (1997), Patrick Demarchalier: Exposing elegance (1998), and numerous others.
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Your inheritance - uncomic strip
Architectural Press nd c1941
Unpaginated c80pp. Small 8vo. Decorated wrappers. Detached and a little faded. Also advertises a competition (1940) run by the Housing Centre for ideas on improving the state of the environment in Britain. Attractive item from the authors of the Architectural Review although none are named directly. The subject of the uncomic strip is a piece of land.
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Zodiac 4. International Magazine of Contemporary Architecture/ Revista internazionale d'architettura contemporanea.
Sarrinen Brutalism BBPR Rainer Scarpa Focus
Milano Edizioni di Comunità c1957 n.d.
208pp, Illustrated occasional journal. The fourth one. Soft cover; Illustrated. Blue wrappers with wrap around bund with title. A little chipped. Text in English, Italian, French & German; Striking advertisements for contemporary design firms, magazines and products. Very good protected by rather worn and torn cardboard slipcase. Main theme is Men and the ideas of Modern Ornament and Brutalism with contributions on the latter from Maxwell Fry, Alison and Peter Smithson amongst others.
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Zodiac 5 International Magazine of Contemporary Architecture
Milano C Olivetti and Co 1959
214pp illus with b/w photographs + period adverts. Perfect bound. Laminated yellow wrappers with example of fantastic architecture. 4to. 27x21cms . Key articles by Le Corbusier on Frank Lloyd Wright with fold out concertina illustrations. Denmark (contributions by Bruno Alfieri, Enzo Fratelli, Keld Helmer-Petersen and others ) and Fantastic Architecture by Ulrich Conrads and Hans Sperlich. Spine split Small tear in front wrap hinge else good copy. Texts in English, Italian, French.
Stock ID: 22134More details Price: £35.00



