London Privately Printed 1855

ix, 10-61pp. 8vo.FLimsy blind stamped cloth without titles. 220mm x 138mm. Gilt edged book block. Very good. Cover edges a little bumped in places and some of the gatherings a little shaky. Bookplate of Robin de Beaumont on front end paper. Dedication from the author, artist Richard Lane ARA, to his daughter Laura, on her fifteenth birthday.November 30 1855. Text written in rhyming verse. Lane was lithographer to Queen Victoria and Prince Albert.

New York George Braziller. Printed at the Meriden Gravure Company Meriden Connecticut and bound by Haddon Craftsmen Inch Scranton Pennsylvania 1964

Unpaginated. Illustrated with one colour lithograph and b/w line illustrations. Long 4to. 18o x 230mm. Striking lettered cloth in slipcase with paste down giving details of the book. Slip case rather soiled. The book itself is very good. The poem originally appeared in The Nation and is reproduced with permission of the magazine editors. Lettered and illustrated by Ben Shahn. A poem about the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. This copy was produced for distribution in the UK and distributor given as Cory Adams & Mackay, 39 Sloane Street, London SW1, priced at 35/-. Company was disolved in 1968

London John Lane, The Bodley Head 1946

Illustrated with 15 reversible heads and 30 associated verses. paper covered boards with original unclipped dust wrapper. Dust wrapper a little worn at corners, base and head of the spine else good. Quirky collaboration by the famed British artist, designer and illustrator, Rex Whistler and his brother who wrote the verses. The drawings area of people which, when turned upside down, show a different but related person.

Washington Government Printing Office 1902

[2] title + [13] numbered 501-513. Small 4to pamphlet. Edges sl. chipped else very good. A lecture on the development of art, specifically the shaping of materials, within the Victorian scientific paradigm of progressive cultural and material evolution. A lovely period piece.

London Royal Academy 1975

44 b/w plates. 4to. Print wrappers. Loosely inserted paper clippings about Roberts, a post card and photocopy from the National portrait gallery about Roberts c10pp stapled. Very good Wrappers slightly worn at head and base of spine. A previous owner has added some slipped in colour plates of some of the illustrations in the catalogue.

Henley-on-Thames Aiden Ellis Publishing Limited 1971

70pp + 72 colour and black and white, single-sided plates interspersed throughout the text pages. Grey cloth covered boards with white titling on spine and upper board. Dust wrapper a little grubby with tear to upper left edge and spine. Internally a very neat copy. A comprehensive overview of the artists life and work, including lists of exhibitions, locations of his work in public collections, bibliography and biography. Introduction by sculptor and Lanyon's contemporary from St Ives, Naum Gabo.

Galerie Louise Leiris, 1959

Unpaginated. c50 pages, profusely illustrated, mostly b&w, some colour; essay by Michel Leiris ( in French ) Square small 4to. 70x70mm. Decorated wrappers in colour. Base of wrapper slightly torn and a little browned. Some scattered foxing on verso of wrapper else good copy.

London Studio International 1969

186pp illustrated with b/w plates and colour frontis. 4to. Wrappers. Very good copy. Graphics and catalogue cover design: Ken Hughes Catalogue Design: Malcolm Lauder. Jasia Reichardt's 1969 exhibition Play Orbit was a literal articulation of Herbert Read's commitment to play, featuring toys and games as works to be considered as art, however within the concept of 'play' arguably lies an assumption of a more direct act of participation. In 1968 she was curator of the landmark Cybernetic Serendipity exhibition, also at the ICA.

London Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd 1965

[vi], 174pp, [xxxviii]. Black and white photographs throughout by Ken Heyman. Plus colour catalogue of Pop Art examples after the text. Foreword by Samuel Adams Green, Director of the Philadelphia Institute for Contemporary Art. First UK edition. Brown cloth covered boards with gilt title on spine. Original dustwrapper protected in cellophane wrap. Book and d/w near fine. The first major work to address the then most controversial of all modern art movements. An interesting analysis of the influence of Pop Art on the mainstream of modern art and contemporary culture.

London Sotheby Parke 1982

1118 pages with over 1000 illustrations (some in colour). A catalogue raisonné of Kandinsky's oil paintings, comprising over 1000 works; all the descriptive text is in English. Black cloth covered boards with gilt titling. Dust wrappers. Spines slightly sunned else very good. From the collection of Jonathan Silver.

Sidcot Anthony Baker, The Gruffyground Press 1977

8pp. B/w woodcuts by Richard Shirley Smith. 160 mm × 237 mm. 110 copies produced. Printed in black in Bell roman and italic on pale blue Portals mould-made laid paper. Bound in an unprinted French-folded dark blue Japanese Mingei handmade laid paper cover. Very good. Paper wraps a little sun bleached. Very scarce to find a copy of this which is bound, after publisher Anthony Baker shunned the publication for its poor printing quality. Most of the copies of this publication remain uncollated, unfolded sheets, without covers.

Manchester At the College of Science and Technology 1961

7 x 8pp 8vo gathering for an illustrated version of Sohrab and Rustum: An Episode is a narrative poem with strong tragic themes by Matthew Arnold, first published in 1853. These gatherings produced with illustrations at the printing department of the College of Science and Technology. Illustrations by Margaret Turner. Produced by Christopher Day and John Naylor. Colophon indicates there was to be a numbered edition of this publication. Preserved in white paper wrapper contemporary with the pages publication. Unbound.

London The Arts Council 1955

16pp. Exhibition pamphlet, stapled, with card wraps. 8 b/w plates, foreword, essay by Palmer, biographical notes and list of work in the exhibition. Wraps a little rubbed and worn, name of former owner on upper right corner of front cover. Very good. A short but useful introduction to Spencer Frederick Gore, first president of the Camden Town Group.

School Prints 1946

no 12 First Series. Gerald Cooper attended the RCA and worked s a sculptor, painter and teacher. He became principal of Wimbledon School of Art and is known for his meticulous drawings of flowers.

Princeton and Oxford Princeton University Press 2001

185pp. 31 color plates, 55 black-and-white illustrations. Decorated boards with cloth spine and gilt titling, in dust wrapper. Book and d/w both fine. A comprehensive study of the Hudson River School in the nineteenth century.

London Simon & Schutster Ltd 1989

xix + 807pp with 2 gatherings of black and white photographs, largely taken by Warhol himself. Black cloth boards with silver titling on spine and original dustwrapper. Very good, with slight sun mark along top edge of boards. Spans the period from 1976 to Warhol's early death in 1987. Warhol, who had phoned his long-time friend and collaborator, Hackett, every morning since '76, to recount the events of the previous 24 hours left Hackett with over twenty thousand resulting manuscripts of which this book is a selection. An illuminating social document and inside view into the art world and social happenings of the period.

Wakefield The Fleece Press 1991

156 pp. Illustrated with engravings of printers at work. Quarter red cloth, printed paper boards. Rear pocket contains a wood engraving signed by Lawrence. Square quarto. Fine copy in cloth slipcase with a little wear. One of 250 unnumbered copies. From the library of Michael Harvey.

London, Thames & Hudson 1985

234 pages with 1 fold out, b/w and colour illustrations, 1 genealogical table, 1 map. Small folio. Very good in slipcase. £30

London Strahan & Co. Publishers 1870 (1861)

3rd edition, with illustrations. viii + 141pp + 12pp list of publications by Weales and 32pp Crosby Lockwood titles. Decorated end papers with further information on the Weale's series of publications. Green stamped cloth boards with gilt title and paper title label on spine. Paper label, rubbed and missing in places and inside hinges cracked, else a good copy. Bookseller's label (Wm. Henry Greer) paste down in top left corner of inside upper board.

London, Thames and Hudson, 1962

257pp with 257 b/w and 24 colour illustrations Square 4to. Very good copy in sl. worn and scuffed dust wrapper with one inch piece missing from spine top. Nonetheless a striking copy. A comprehensive review of the Russian contribution to the modern movement.