Art

  • 45 Wood Engravers chosen by Simon Lawrence by LAWRENCE, John (introduction)
    LAWRENCE, John (introduction)
    45 Wood Engravers chosen by Simon Lawrence

    Wakefield The Fleece Press 1982

    [112]pp. b/w wood engravings. 4to. Quarter buckram with gilt decoration and title, marbled paper covers and green slipcase. Limited edition, standard copy, no. 209 of 350. Exquisite collection of illustrations made from original wood engragvings, created as a second volume following 'S.T.E. Lawrence: Boxwood Blockmaker', printing work of artists missed out from the first book. With an introduction by John Lawrence. Fine.

    Stock ID: 13372
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  • A Favoured Land, Yorkshire in Text and Image, The work of Marie Hartley, Joan Ingilby and Ella Pontefract by DIAPER, Hilary [Editor]
    DIAPER, Hilary [Editor]
    A Favoured Land, Yorkshire in Text and Image, The work of Marie Hartley, Joan Ingilby and Ella Pontefract

    Otley, Smith Settle, 1994

    78 pp, quarto in good condition. Extensive black and white illustrations and photographs. A catalogue of the work these three well known Yorkshire based women who illustrated and wrote a series of books featuring the Yorkshire countryside and landscape. This is a lovely appreciation of three remarkable women artists.

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  • A Golden Age: Art and Society in Hungary 1896-1914 by (BUDAPEST ART COLONIES) ERI, Gyongyi and JOBBAGYI, Zsuzsa
    (BUDAPEST ART COLONIES) ERI, Gyongyi and JOBBAGYI, Zsuzsa
    A Golden Age: Art and Society in Hungary 1896-1914

    London, Barbican /Corvina 1989

    197pp. With bw and colour illustrations. 4to. Cloth with gilt lettering on front and spine. Bright dw a little crockled at back. A collection of illustrated essays to accompany an exhibition organised by the Barbican Art Gallery. Loosely inserted exhibition guide. Excellent source documenting the output of the art colonies in and around Budapest at the turn of the century.

    Stock ID: 23289
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  • A Place, A State by RAINE, Kathleen
    RAINE, Kathleen
    A Place, A State A Suite of Drawings by Julian Trevelyan. Commentary by Kathleen Raine

    London, Enitharmon Press, 1974

    Half title, frontis, title page [2] + 17 b/w plates with facing commentary, each separately numbered. Colophon with limitation noted. 4to marbled boards, cloth spine, very good condition with slightly worn dustjacket. Trevelyan gave Raine a series of drawings he had done towards the end of the second world war. Thirty years later she provided a commentary alongside them. The drawings, reflect the privations of the war and anxieties about the new world after by an important English surrealist artist.

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  • A Potter's Portfolio: A selection of fine pots by [LEACH]
    [LEACH]
    A Potter's Portfolio: A selection of fine pots Introduced by Bernard Leach

    London Lund Humphries 1951

    28pp. 60 plates including five in colour. Folio. Open weave cloth. Small stain on upper board else good copy. One of Leach's key texts.

    Stock ID: 22976
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  • SMITH, Edwin [photographer]
    A View of the Cotswolds With essays, commentaries and a checklist by Shawn Kholacy, Ian Mckenzie-Kerr, Alan Powers, George Ramsden, Ediwn Smith, Veronica Watts and Rory Young

    Risbury Whittington Press 2005

    number 68 of 280 copies from an edition of 350. [vi] + 50pp. Printed on Bugra-Bütten mould made tan paper, frontis and 31 b/w photographic plates including 1 double page spread. Folio. Original grey cloth with tan paper covered boards, with a patterned paper designed by Edwin Smith. Silver lettering on backstrip. A wonderful record of Smith's work in a book conceived alongside his collaborator and widow, Olive Cook. It captures the landscape and spirit of the Cotswolds perfectly.

    Stock ID: 23535
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  • Addition [Folio IX] by HOLMES, Andrew.
    HOLMES, Andrew.
    Addition [Folio IX]

    London Architectural Association 1986

    28pp booklet + 20 silkscreen prints which assembled form a print 1525x1120mm. Large square 4to in presentation black box with white title on front. Vg. Published to coincide with an exhibition of paintings and drawings by Andrew Holmes. Published as as edition of one thousand numbered 1/1000 this being number 146. Holmes has used this Folio to continue his explorations by creating twenty silkscreen fragments which when put together create dramatic 4 x 5 foot detail of Richard Rogers' hi-tech Inmos building.

    Stock ID: 9923
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  • An Appreciation of Naum Gabo by FORGE Andrew [Foreword by REID, Sir Norman]
    FORGE Andrew [Foreword by REID, Sir Norman]
    An Appreciation of Naum Gabo

    Biddenden, Kent The Florin Press 1985

    1 of 500 first edition copies of this publication. 48pp. 11 tipped in colour plates. Red cloth covered boards with gilt title on spine. Long octavo. Published to coincide with and complement the opening of the tour of the exhibition 'The Appreciation of Naum Gabo' in Dallas, September 1985. Fine.

    Stock ID: 22942
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  • An Exhibition of Etchings Dry Points & Lithographs by James McNeill Whistler by Signed by Eduardo Paolozzi [WHISTLER]
    Signed by Eduardo Paolozzi [WHISTLER]
    An Exhibition of Etchings Dry Points & Lithographs by James McNeill Whistler

    London Conaghi & Co Limited 1971

    71pp, b/w plates. Sugar paper wrappers printed with black titles. Small 4to. Signed in back pen by Eduardo Paolozzi on the front end paper.

    Stock ID: 20580
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  • Ark. Number Thirteen
    Ark 13: The Journal of Design and Fine Art, Winter 1954

    London Royal College of Art, 1954

    Unpaginated. Illustrated. Oblong 12mo. 180x240mm. Original card covers. These slightly dusty. Contains Illustrated essays on 'Three Young Contemporaries' by John Minton, Len Deighton 'Impressions of New York', Bernard Myers on tattoos, Herbert Spencer on 'Recent Developments in Typography', colour lithographs by Tony Puig, colour lithographs of Under Milk Wood by Roy Morgan, wo colour lithographs by Anthony Whishaw. Includes many period ads.

    Stock ID: 22898
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  • FRYER, Katherine.
    Before the war…. And long ago

    Landego, The Old Stile Press 2000

    Preface by Nicholas McDowall. Unpaginated. [37]pp. Illustrated with wood engravings. Long 8vo. 200x270mm. Bound in decorated boards with glassine dust wrapper over. Decorated end papers. Type is Bulmer and the paper is 175gsm Zerkall mould made. Binding at the Fine Bindery. With loosely inserted additional signed print, number slipped in at the end dated 1999 "With the swans Cheltenham.". One of 100 copies. This is number 23, signed by the author.

    Stock ID: 23516
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  • Bernard Leach Hamada & their circle from the Wingield Digby Collection by [LEACH & HAMADA]
    [LEACH & HAMADA]
    Bernard Leach Hamada & their circle from the Wingield Digby Collection

    Oxford Phaidon Christies 1990

    192pp illustrated with colour and bw plates. 4to. Very good with very good dust wrapper.

    Stock ID: 22872
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  • Big Pic Box by HOLMES Andrew
    HOLMES Andrew
    Big Pic Box

    London Architectural Association Box 4 2004

    [14] pamphlet with introductory text and large colour images + 18 large colour plates. Large square 4to in presentation box with decorated colour title on front. Box is a little dusty with small nick on lower edge else very good copy. The 18 plates are each composed of nine Polaroid images that can be assembled in any arrangement to form a composite work, called Nine Times. The images on these plates were the most controversial of Holmes' work at the time of publication, in both form and content: unlikely combinations of fragments of contemporary living -- urban waste, trucks, flowers, animals and images culled from the TV screen.

    Stock ID: 21500
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  • Braco Dimitrijević by (ICA)
    (ICA)
    Braco Dimitrijević An exhibition organised by Sarah Kent 22nd.Sepember- 21st.October

    London Institute of Contemporary Arts 1979

    36 unpaginated pages numerous b/w illustrations with captions. Small 4to, staple bound illustrated wrappers. Small chip to the verso else a good copy. Well illustrated, contemporary catalogue of Dimitrijević's work, one of the pioneers of conceptual art.

    Stock ID: 18657
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  • [BRZESKA] COLE, Roger
    Burning to speak The Life And Art Of Henri Gaudier Brzeska.

    Oxford Phaidon 1978

    141pp.will illustrated. Cloth. 4to. Very good with good dust wrapper.

    Stock ID: 22264
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  • [INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART]
    Caprogrossi Exhibition 30 May-22 June 1957]

    London ICA, Dover Street 1957

    Introduction by Roland Penrose. Unpaginated 8pp including stiff card wrappers. 20 numbers listed. Printed on yellow paper internally, wrap around black and white illustrated wrappers by Caprogrossi. Exhibition in coloration with Carlo Cardazzo, Galleria del Naviglio, Milan and Galleria del Cavallino, Venice.

    Stock ID: 22904
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  • (HAMILTON PALACE COLLECTION)
    Catalogue of the collection of Pictures, Works of Art and Decorative Objects, the property of his Grace The Duke of Hamilton

    Christie Manson & Woods 1882

    234pp illustrated with sepia photographs. Very good copy indeed in bright red cloth with gilt lettering. Collection of this famous sale. This version the extra illustrated version with original sepia photographs of many of the key items.

    Stock ID: 23210
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  • Catalogue of the Exhibitions [1] Drawings by Augustus John R.A. [2] Paintings by Henry Lamb, by [JOHN Augustus and LAMB Henry]
    [JOHN Augustus and LAMB Henry]
    Catalogue of the Exhibitions [1] Drawings by Augustus John R.A. [2] Paintings by Henry Lamb,

    London, Ernest Brown & Phillips Ltd at the Leicester Galleries

    December 1933 16pp 43 numbers by John and 60 by Henry Lamb.

    Stock ID: 22832
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  • Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery & Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge by RACKHAM, Bernard
    RACKHAM, Bernard
    Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery & Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge 2 Volumes

    Cambridge The Antique Collectors' Club 1987 (1935)

    Volume I - Text and Coloured Plates: xlvii + 49 colour plates + 431pp. Volume II - Monochrome Plates: xv + 266pp. Blue cloth covered boards with gilt titles. Dustwrapper. Very good. Limited to 1000 copies. The Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection was originally published in 1935 and limited to just 350 copies of the 2 volume sets. Considered one of the great ceramic collections of the world, the Graisher collection was assembled by Dr J.W.L Glaisher and catalogued by Bernard Rackham, Keeper of Ceramics at the V&A and this printed catalogue remains a firm favourite amongst ceramics collectors and curators alike, worldwide.

    Stock ID: 22514
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  • [SKETCH SOCIETY]
    Catalogue of the Third Exhibition . January 1912.

    The Sketch Society 195 Piccadilly 1912

    61pp. 150mm. Paper covered boards with illustration on upper board. Advert for Newman artists materials on rear board. A little worn at all edge. Title page browned. Chairman of the Society was artist, James D Linton. List of members of the Society given at the end of the publication. There are 575 items listed and organized by artist. The Society ran between 1910-1913. It ran four exhibitions in total. These were held at the Royal Institute Galleries. The exhibitions were selling shows and the prices of each item is given in the catalogue. One copy listed on World Cat at the V&A.

    Stock ID: 22820
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