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The Hansom Cab and The Pigeons;
Being Random Reflections Upon the Silver Jubilee of King George V.
London Golden Cockerell Press
43 pages, one of 1000 unnumbered copies Limited Edition ,1st edition. Tall 8vo. Original blue lettered silver boards. With a wood engraved frontispiece and 5 further in-text illustrations by Eric Ravilious. No dust wrapper.
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The Metalization of a Dream
with a commentary by Lawrence Alloway.
London Lion and Unicorn Press 1963
no 205 of approximately 400 copies. 64pp + monochrome and colour reproductions Cloth spine with silver lettered titles, embossed boards with devices and with Paolozzi designs in silver across on upper and lower boards. Decorated end papers. Originally issued with clear acetate wrapper not present in this copy. The Metallization of a Dream is the title of a collaborative project between the critic Lawrence Alloway and the artist Eduardo Paolozzi, which resulted in the publication of this limited edition. The book was designed by John Munday in collaboration with the artist.
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The Waternymph and the Boy
Stock ID: 20866More details Price: £120.00
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The Way of the Cross. An Interpretation by Frank Brangwyn, R.A. with a Commentary by Gilbert Keith Chesterton.
London Hodder and Stoughton no date [1935]
23 pages of text commentary by Chesterton followed by 14 plates by Brangwyn, (12 May 1867 – 11 June 1956) each preceded by a leaf stating the title of the etching. Quarto, black boards with white lettered title to upper board and on spine Cloth rubbed at head and base of spine and on corners. Internally good. Fourteen stations of the cross are illustrated.
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The Wood Engravings of Robert Gibbings
London J. M. Dent 1959
xxvi + 355 pages, illustrated with b/w illustrations of the engravings. 4to. Black boards with Gilt titling to the Spine. Very good. The original overprinted acetate lettered wrapper present but this is slightly scuffed.
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The Wood Engravings of Robert Gibbings, with some recollections by the artist.
London J M Dent & Sons 1959
pp.[2] xliv; 355 [3]. Quarto (29 x 23cm), A large collection of over 1000 wood engravings by Gibbings. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine and a gilt device to upper. Top edge green, and light green end papers. With the original clear plastic wrapper overprinted with titles in red on upper wrapper, as issued. Some scuff marks to plastic wrapper else very good copy.
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Three Painters: Basil Rákóczi, Kenneth Hall, Patrick Scott, with a Preface by Herbert Read. Introduction by Herbrand Ingouville-Williams
Stock ID: 22268More details Price: £325.00
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Thumb-nail Sketches of the Royal Jubilee Exhibition
as seen from Chorlton-cum-Hardy
Stock ID: 21873More details Price: £80.00
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Unit One: The Modern Movement in English Architecture, Painting and Sculpture
London, Cassell 1934
124pp, 67 plates b/w photographs. 4to. Yellow cloth with brown lettering in dw which is preserved in good order in a glassine wrapper. Signature of former owner on front end paper. Iconic book which covers work by: Sculptors: Henry Moore, Barbara Hepworth; Painters: John Armstrong, John Bigge, Edward Burra, T ristram Hillier, Paul Nash, Ben Nicholson, Edward Wadsworth; Architects: Wells Coates, Colin Lucas. Unit One was a British grouping of Modernist artists founded by Paul Nash. Despite its brief period of activity, the group is regarded as influential in establishing the pre-eminence of London as a centre of modernist and abstract art and architecture in the mid-1930s.
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Vasarely
Plastic Arts of the 20th Century. Collection edited by Marcel Joray. Introduction by Marcel Joray. Texts and dummy by Victor Vasarely. Translated by Haakon Chevalier.
Basel Editions du Griffon Neuchatel 1965
Plastic arts of the 20th Century: 194pp illustrated with full page optical images. Complete with five plastic illustrated transparencies/overlays that are not bound in. Chronology of work at the end of the book. 4to. Lettered grey cloth boards. Very good. Head of dust wrapper very slightly bumped on upper side and dustwrapper slightly browned else good.
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Volpone or the Fox
Oxford The Limited Edition Club 1952
Pages uncut. Designed by Francis Meynell. Illustrated by René Ben Sussan with the plates hand-coloured through stencils by Maurice Beaufume in France. Of a total of 1500 copies,signed by the artist on the colophon page, this copy is not numbered. Largely unopened. Very good protected by plain rust coloured dust wrapper.
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Walking in Circles
London Thames and Hudson 1991
To accompany an exhibition at the Hayward Gallery. Long 4to. 263pp Illustrated throughout in black and white and colour. Very good with dust wrapper. Signed by Richard Long on half title. An Interview with Richard Long by Richard Cork. From the collection of Jonathan Silver.
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Wilfredo Lam
Madrid, Poligrafa 1983
284pp illustrated with colour and b/w plates. . 4to. Very good with very good dust wrapper.
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William Blake's Illuminated Books
Stock ID: 22537More details Price: £250.00
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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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Willliam Roberts ARA
Retropspective Exhibition.
London Arts Council 1965
Colour frontispiece (Trafalgar Square, 1952) 30pp, 23 b/w plates. Large 8vo yellow card wrappers, minor creases at the edges, else very good indeed. Cover design by Roberts. Profusely illustrated catalogue for the exhibition held at Tate Gallery - Nov 20th - Dec 19th, 1965, Laing Art Gallery - Jan 1st - 22nd, 1966, Whitworth Art Gallery - Jan 29th - Feb 19, 1966.
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With Tears in my Ears
Stockholm Jarla Partilager 2012
Unpaginated. Black paper wraps with white titling. Perfect bound. Chiefly full colour illustrations with some, fold out full page images. Catalogue of works included at the end of the volume. Printed on the occasion of the exhibition of the same name at the Jarla Partilager gallery, Stockholm. Limited edition run of 1000. Very fine in orginial cardboard (presentation) box.
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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. 310 by 231mm. 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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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.
Stock ID: 22646More details Price: £35.00