The Arts Council 1951

(4)pp + 54pp b/w plates. Long 4to. Decorated colour wraps.Introduction by Philip James. Catalogue of specially commissioned works for the Festival of Britain by British contemporary painters and sculptors. A little dusty. Slight wear to spine Trace of damp marks to some page edges but images not affected. Hard to find.

Privately printed by the author 2009

60pp, case bound with bookmark and luggage label ticket. Printed by The Society of Revisionist Typographers. Limited edition. [40 printed in the edition?] Colophon noting this is an artist's proof. Mss postcard from the author to Gavin, signed with note saying the book won a design award and another from the author wishing him a Happy Easter. Associates this particular typeface with places. Ex libris Gavin Stamp with his bookplate.

London The Studio 1899

The Studio Summer Number 1899. 44pp + 59 full page plates. 4to gilt lettered, red morocco, marbled endpapers. Boards a little rubbed with small chip to the spine else vg. Loosely inserted exhibition cards. bookplate of Samuel Davies Frodsham on the front pastedown. From the collection of Gavin Stamp, with a pencil ownership inscription on the fep. Written designed & contrived by the members of the Art Workers' Guild, and finally presented by them in the Guildhall of the City of London including Walter Crane. Custom made binding.

London Cassell & Company, 1883

55pp, colour illustrations. Small long quarto. Some light scattered foxing, but plates unaffected to make a good very good copy. A guide from the 1800s to the style of China painting, including 16 original coloured chromolitho plates. The publication of books by women designers reflects the increasing the visibility of Women Artists at the time. Lewis produced painted tiles for Doulton as accomplished finisher. She presents her practical guide to the materials and process of decorating china, with special attention to mixing and matching colours.

Harry N. Abrams Inc. (1969) 2004

Unpaginated 42pp. 18 b/w plates, decorated endpapers. Long 8vo illustrated boards with dw. Fine.

Harry N. Abrams Inc. (1970) 2004

Unpaginated 48pp. 20 b/w plates, decorated endpapers. Long 8vo illustrated boards with dw. Fine. Sequel to Donald and...

London V&A

4to. Decorated wrappers Fine. Ex libris with bookplate of GS on inside of front wrapper. Two pieces of correspondence inserted concerning the erection of a blue plaque to E McKnight Kauffer written to Emily Cole at English Heritage - this maybe from Simon Randall who also made the preliminary report on a blue plaque for him and which is loosely inserted.

London Victor Gollancz Ltd 1954

29pp, b/w ills. 8vo red cloth with illustrated dw. Two small tears to the upper wrapper else vg, wrappers preserved in archival sleeve. Ex Libris Gavin Stamp, with his bookplate on the front pastedown.

Leeds: Printed by W. S. Maney & Son Ltd. 1974

Limited Edition of 100 copies, this being No. 26. Paperback. Yellow wrappers, lightly rubbed along spine, light spots to some pages, in good+ condition. Octavo. , 42 pages of passages, SIGNED by Stephen Chaplin on the title page, the author was an artist and lecturer in Art in Leeds from 1961-1991

New York Playbill October 1978

98pp, b/w + colour ills, period ads. 8vo illustrated wrappers. Edward Gorey 'Gorey Stories' cover. Gorey Stories opened at The Booth Theatre, Broadway on October 30, 1978, for one night only.

USA The Ward Ritchie Press 1967

[4],24pp., photographic portrait frontispiece, illus. throughout., 12mo., wrappers. Perfect bound with title on spine and Eric Gill monogram on upper wrapper. Very good copy. Signed by David Kindersley and dated 14th April 1970 on half title. With bookplate of Gavin Stamp on inside of wrapper. Scarce.

London Falcon Press Limited 1946

10pp + 41pp plates including some in colour. Sm 4to. Good but in rather sunned and slightly creased and worn d/w. Previous owner's signature in ink to fep and dw. Kelly painted the English Countryside including many Country Houses incl. Cliveden, Belton and Castle Howard.

London Crane Kalman Gallery 1967

117pp. Long 8vo. White wrappers with pot on upper wrapper. Portrait frontis of Leach. Fine.

London Tate 2005

195pp, colour + b/w illustrations. Large 4to boards with pictorial dust wrapper. Minor creases to the edge of the wrappers else very good. published on the occasion of the major survey exhibition held at Kunsthalle Zurich, Kunstverein in Hamburg and Tate Lverpool

Edinburgh 1965. Wild Hawthorn Press

9pp, Unpaginated. Card covers spiral bound. Good copy. These are poems made from Satie s notes, in French, to the piano pieces Sports and Divertissments. An early example of work from Ian Hamilton Finlays -Wild Hawthorn Pre Black & white drawings with gold decoration by John Furnival,. Previous owners name in pencil on inside of front wrapper.

Published by King's College in the University of Durham on the occasion of an exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London 1959

Organised by Victor Pasmore, Harry Thurbon, Richard Hamilton and Tom Hudson in assocaion with Terry Frost, Alan Davie and Hubert Dalwood. 48pp illus. Decorated wrappers a little worn at head and base of the spine. Hard to find.

Victoria and Albert Museum, 1963 Second impression 1969

82pp, 220 b/w plates. Sm 4to. Decorated wraps. This book contains a representative selection of Gill's various achievements, depicting both religious and secular subjects, ranging in date from 1908 until the artist's death in 1940. Loosely inserted are three loosely inserted autographed letters, hand written and signed by David P written from Abbots End, Huntingdon concerning lettering that Eric Gill did for war memorials etc. Ex libris Gavin stamp with his book plate.

London Smith, Elder and Co. 1857

First ed. 248pp, publishers ads on end papers. Original 8vo printed boards, spine repaired. Published as part of the publisher's 'New Cheap Series'. Bookplate of Arthur Digby Besant, 1914 and Gavin Stamp, 1978. Arthur Digby Besant was the son of Annie Bessant and joined the Theosophical Society in 1893. Architectural bookplate on paste down opposite that of Gavin's.