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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: 22514More details Price: £110.00 -
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.
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Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil-Paintings [Volume One 1895-1914] and Volume Two 1915-1951]
London Sotheby's Publications 1987
i 644, ii 604pp 4to. Illustrated in colour and black and white. Fine in dust wrappers.
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Constructing Modernity The Art & Career of Naum Gabo
New Haven & London Yale University Press 2000
528 pp Extensively illustrated with colour and black and white photographs and images. 4to. Boards in slightly worn dust wrapper. A very useful and comprehensive account of the life and work of a key 20th century Constructivist sculptor.
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Contemporary British Studio Pottery: Forms of Expression
Marlborough, Wiltshire The Crowood Press 2023
238 pp, with many colour illustrations. Quarto with dust jacket in fine condition. A beautifully produced book exploring the interaction, through the work of twenty- four potters, between the ancient language of pots and the contemporary.
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Cuts
Published by Previous Parrot Press, Church Hanborough, Witney, 1992
Fine. Edwin Smith (illustrator). 37 pages ( 6 page introduction with remainder taken up with cuts by Edwin Smith, near fine condition in decorated paper covered boards. Number 160 of an edition of 178 copies signed by Olive Cook. Signed by Author(s). No dust wrapper as issued. Lovely copy. Pages uncut. Loosely inserted prospectus for Anne Cathcart's Book of the Month.
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Dada and Surrealism
London: Octopus Books, 1980
176pp illustrated with b/w and colour plates. 4to. Very good with dust wrapper. Useful overview of these art movements.
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David Blackburn
A Landscape Vision
London Dulwich Picture Gallery 1986
48pp. 32 Black and white, and colour images accompanying an introduction by Giles Waterfield - director of the Dulwich Picture Gallery, and an essay by John Sheeran. Quarto. Decorated card wraps. Fine.
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Designing for Ditchling
Ortshostat Edition 2015
64pp illustrated. 4to. Striking red cloth. Fine.
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Dictionary of British Book Illustrators – The Twentieth Century
London John Murray 1983
336 pp Fully illustrated (350) in black and white. 8vo boards with dw. Very good copy. The first reference work on 20th century book illustration covering over 800 illustrators in alphabetical order.
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Du Cubisme a l'Art Abstrait
Documents inédits publiés par Pierre Francastel et suivis d'un catalogue de l'oeuvre de R. Delaunay par Guy Habasque.
Paris, S.E.V.P.E.N., 1957
415 p. + 24 plates (8 colour) with 25 ill.; 4 additional ill. in text from drawings. Paper wrapper with dust wrapper which has a colouR Dealunay design on upper wrapper. Previously unpublished papers of Robert Delaunay organised in four parts. The last section is a catalogue of the work of R. Delaunay by Guy Habasque With an introduction by Robert Delaunay. Includes interviews, historic notes about the paintings, lists of works, lists of interviews, etc. Dust wrapper is fragile. It is slightly browned and clipped at head and base of spine with a small c 10mm square missing from upper wrapper. Previous owner's name on end paper.
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Eduardo Paolozzi
Lund Humphries 2014
2014 304pp illustrated in colour and black and white. 4to. Very good with very good dust wrapper. Organised around the various types of work in which Paolozzi became involved; sculpture, painting, film, music, print and the Independent Group.
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Edward Bawden Designs on life
Essex Museums 1989
Concertina fold out form; 28pp illustrated. Title on bund holding the whole publication together. Elusive publication with great illustrations throughout. Great book design. £95
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Elizabeth Blackadder
Oxford Phaidon, 1988
96 pages with 99 illustrations including 32 in colour. With Chronology, Selected Bibliography and Index. Large 4to. Attractive dust wrapper. Very good copy. Useful overview of Blackadder's work.
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Eric Ravilious The Story of High Street.
Mainstone Press 2008
188pp illustrated in colour and b/w. Quarto. Blue cloth with a decorative label and slipcase. Page size 265x195mm. Decorative end papers. Limited to 750 copies. Laid in prospectus for the book.
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Eskimo Graphic Art / L'art graphique des Esquimaux
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Fifty Years A B Dick Company 1884-1934
Published by Privately Printed, Chicago, 1934
Unpaginated. Includes colour portrait of A B Dick, full page photogravure plates of the mimeograph machines and the offices of the firm + decorations by Rockwell Kent. 4to. Gilt decorated cloth. Gold end papers. Very good copy. Printed at the Lakeside Press Limited. Dedicated to Albert Blake Dick, this company history commemorates fifty years of Progress and Achievement. It was produced as a Golden Anniversary souvenir of the firm. A. B. Dick Company was a major American manufacturer of copy machines and office supplies in the late 19th century and 20th centuries.
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From Leipzig to London: The Life and Work of the Émigré Artist Hellmuth Weissenborn
New Castle, Delaware, Oak Knoll Press 2012
184pp, quarto with 54 black and white illustrations. Book with dust jacket in very good condition. The first full biography of the artist who began his life and trained in Leipzig, left Germany in 1939 and continued in London with a career of printmaking, teaching, typography and publishing.
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Gilgamesh
Avon. C.T. The Limited Editions Club, 1974
Number 1853 of 2000, signed by the illustrator. Large 4to. In publisher's slipcase. Slightly sunned on spine else very good copy. 106 pages + superb coloured illustrations by Irving Amen. Introduction by Leonard Cotterell.
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Goya and the Black Paintings
London Faber and Faber 1964
95pp text, 137 colour illustrations, 56 pages of full colour plates, with detail reproductions of specific paintings, some pull outs to give a sense of scale. Appendix by Xavier de Salas Large 4to. Very good in slightly worn dust wrapper and in original slip case as issued. Hard to find.
Stock ID: 22147More details Price: £295.00







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