Art

  • Hollar's England, a mid-seventeenth-century view by [HOLLAR] PARRY, Graham
    [HOLLAR] PARRY, Graham
    Hollar's England, a mid-seventeenth-century view

    Salisbury Michael Russell 1980

    144 pp 121 numbered black and white illustrations Quarto with dw, top end corners scuffed but otherwise good. The author sets out the life of Hollar as the artist of 17th century topographical views especially of London and the large-scale format of the book means the drawings can be seen in great detail.

    Stock ID: 23696
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  • Jack Vettriano : A Retrospective by [VETTRIANO]
    [VETTRIANO]
    Jack Vettriano : A Retrospective . [Published to accompany the eponymous exhibition at Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, 21 September 2013 - 23 February 2014].

    Glasgow, Heartbreak Publishing Ltd with Glasgow Museums 2013

    Exhibition catalogue 200pp; many full-page illustrations with captions. Square-format soft covers. Very good copy.

    Stock ID: 23687
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  • Japonisme in Art by [General Editor; CHISABUO, Yamada] The Society for the Study of Japonisme
    [General Editor; CHISABUO, Yamada] The Society for the Study of Japonisme
    Japonisme in Art An International Symposium

    Tokyo Committee for the Year 2001 1980

    First Edition. 331pp with numerous black and white images and 9 coloured plates. Green cloth covered boards with silver title on spine. Original dust wrapper. Octavo. A collection of essays from leading scholars and specialists in the field of Japonisme in art as addressed at the international symposium in Tokyo on "The Mutual Influences between Japanese and Occidental Arts." Very good. Dust wrapper very slightly age worn along top edge else a very nice copy of this scarce book.

    Stock ID: 22933
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  • [MIRO] LANCHNER, Carolyn.
    Joan Miro

    New York, The Museum of Modern Art New York, 1993

    484 pp, quarto in good condition with dust jacket. Book published with major single artist exhibition at MOMA and is the ultimate catalogue of the work of this artist. Extensive colour plates and chronology.

    Stock ID: 23561
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  • John Nash: The Painter as Illustrator by (NASH John) LEWIS John (with foreword by Wilfid Blunt)
    (NASH John) LEWIS John (with foreword by Wilfid Blunt)
    John Nash: The Painter as Illustrator

    Godalming Pendomer Press 1978

    Printed on Basingwerk Parchment by the Compton Press in collaboration with Skelton's Press. Quarter cloth over decorated boards with gilt-blocked label to the spine. Beautiful marbled end papers. Lacks original marbled slipcase. 136pp. Illustrated with b/w plates and four colour plates. 4to. Unnumbered and unsigned copy from the limited run produced and sold with slipcase and additional portfolio of woodcuts (this missing from this copy). Upper board has sprung slightly and has a faint mark on the bottom right corner, else a very good copy and very bright internally. This is the first book on Nash's work as an illustrator.

    Stock ID: 22927
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  • [PENNELL]
    Joseph Pennell Catalogue of an Exhibition of Lithographs and Etchings

    Bradford The Corporation of Bradford 1913

    1913 15 pp in wrappers with 14 black and white illustrations of the exhibits. Very good copy. The American artist Pennell's exhibition was called 'The Wonder of Work' and was held at the Corporation Art Gallery in Bradford. Catalogue includes an introduction and notes by the artist.

    Stock ID: 23699
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  • Kandinsky by [KANDINSKY] HAHL-KOCH, Jelena;
    [KANDINSKY] HAHL-KOCH, Jelena;
    Kandinsky

    London Thames and Hudson 1983

    431pp illustrated. 4to. Very good with good dust wrapper. First edition of this very good monograph.

    Stock ID: 22536
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  • REDDICK, Peter.
    Land Sea & Sky

    Wakefield Fleece Press 2009

    [40]pp. frontispiece and 23 further wood-engravings. Oblong 8vo, original quarter terracotta cloth with boards marbled in copper and gold, edges untrimmed. Fine. One of 140 copies , (from an edition of 160 copies) printed on Magnani paper, title-page and captions to facing verso of each illustration printed in shades of brown. A very attractive book from the Press, comprising illustrations featured in various Folio Society publications but of better definition here.

    Stock ID: 23515
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  • Le Crete Senesi by TILSON Joe
    TILSON Joe
    Le Crete Senesi

    London Alan Cristea Gallery 1995

    Illustrated cardboard folder containing 8 loose leaf cards. 8vo. Very good. A series of two larger and five smaller screen prints and woodblocks inspired by the hills around Sienna: Sasso, Gabbro, Serre, Monaci, Murlo, Castello and Orcia. Signed by Tilson on introductory page.

    Stock ID: 15582
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  • Leicestershire by Limited editiion, signed. [GRAHAM Rigby]
    Limited editiion, signed. [GRAHAM Rigby]
    Leicestershire

    The Gadsby Gallery / Sycamore Press Ltd 1990

    Texts by Bill Gadsby. Gadsby commissioned Graham in 1975 to produce 20 paintings of Leicestershire to compliment his words and record the County. The project expanded and the resulting book contains over one hundred and fifty paintings, drawings and prints by Graham. Folio. 365mm x 385mm Green cloth boards, contrasting black leather backed spine with gilt titling to the spine. Limited to 150 copies. This number 122 signed by Graham on colophon. Decorated end papers. The book was issued with a slipcase, not present with this copy Very good copy. Small scuff on upper area green board affecting about 2 cm of the green cloth. Produced in part as a homage…

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    The Gadsby Gallery / Sycamore Press Ltd 1990

    Texts by Bill Gadsby. Gadsby commissioned Graham in 1975 to produce 20 paintings of Leicestershire to compliment his words and record the County. The project expanded and the resulting book contains over one hundred and fifty paintings, drawings and prints by Graham. Folio. 365mm x 385mm Green cloth boards, contrasting black leather backed spine with gilt titling to the spine. Limited to 150 copies. This number 122 signed by Graham on colophon. Decorated end papers. The book was issued with a slipcase, not present with this copy Very good copy. Small scuff on upper area green board affecting about 2 cm of the green cloth. Produced in part as a homage to the lithographer John Flower who in the early 19th century produced a record of the buildings and landscapes of the County.

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    Stock ID: 23669
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  • Leon Underwood. His Wood Engravings by The Fleece Press UNDERWOOD, Leon.
    The Fleece Press UNDERWOOD, Leon.
    Leon Underwood. His Wood Engravings

    Wakefield The Fleece Press 1986

    [48]pp. Frontispiece, 2 small vignettes and 16 full page wood engravings, postcard showing a copy of this book specially bound by John Pearson loosely inserted. Quarto. Green quarter morocco, patterned paper boards in paper created by Sage Reynolds of New York. Preserved in a in custom made cloth covered drop-back box case A fine copy. Limited edition, no. 153 of 200 copies.

    Stock ID: 13368
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  • Light box by WEIL Daniel
    WEIL Daniel
    Light box

    London Architectural Association Box 1 1985

    32pp text-booklet ('sketchbook'), + collection of material comprising piece of silk screened fabric, tin & copper-plate, 'chessboard' & two circuit boards. 320x320mm in presentation purple box with decorative gilt title on front. Vg. With introductory essays by: Dawn Ades, Nigel Coates, J. Christopher Joner, John Thackara. Collection of material for Daniel Weil's 'Light Box' installation. Mechanism of opening box slightly damaged because of poor assembly when made. Hard to find. The box explores the 1980s works of the 1980s. Best known for his deconstructed radio in a clear bag which challenged the idea of audio equipment always being in a black box.

    Stock ID: 21523
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  • Lost Magic Kingdoms by [SIGNED BY PAOLOZZI ON INNER FRONT WRAPPER] [PAOLOZZI]
    [SIGNED BY PAOLOZZI ON INNER FRONT WRAPPER] [PAOLOZZI]
    Lost Magic Kingdoms

    London British Museum Publications 1985

    160 pp with 48 colour and 150 monochrome illustrations. 4to. Very good copy. The catalogue of an exhibition at the Museum of Mankind curated by Paolozzi showing both his own work and the items from the huge ethnological collection of the British Museum that have influenced him. Signed by the artist with inscription.

    Stock ID: 23664
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  • [RIE & COPER] COATTS, Margot [Ed.]
    Lucie Rie & Hans Coper, Potters in Parallel

    Herbert Press 1997

    160 pp, archive black and white prints together with colour photographs of the works of art. Good condition in wrappers. Published to celebrate a retrospective exhibition of both artists at the Barbican Art Gallery. Contributors include Edmund de Waal and Emmanuel Cooper.

    Stock ID: 23681
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  • [LAMB] MACKIE, George.
    Lynton Lamb, Illustrator

    London, The Scolar Press 1978

    104 pp, quarto with dust jacket in good condition. Includes over 150 illustrations by the distinguished designer and illustrator, Lynton Lamb (1907-77).

    Stock ID: 23557
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  • [MARX] MOSS, Graham [Introduction]
    Marco's Animal Alphabet.

    Oldham Incline Press Limited 2000

    Unpaginated. Twenty-seven original linocuts by Enid Marx, hand coloured following a plan devised by Peter Allen. Bound in s blue cloth, with paper backed boards a design reconstructed from one of the patterned papers she created in the late 1920s for The Little Gallery in London. Fine copy in a slip case. 390 x 285mm. The linocuts published in this book were completed in 1979. Over the next few years, they appeared occasionally in exhibitions of her work, but a formal edition of the prints was never made, and they are appearing here, in their "proper" book format, for the first time. Linocuts printed on a heavy, acid-free paper, Fabriano Artistico, made from 100%…

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    Oldham Incline Press Limited 2000

    Unpaginated. Twenty-seven original linocuts by Enid Marx, hand coloured following a plan devised by Peter Allen. Bound in s blue cloth, with paper backed boards a design reconstructed from one of the patterned papers she created in the late 1920s for The Little Gallery in London. Fine copy in a slip case. 390 x 285mm. The linocuts published in this book were completed in 1979. Over the next few years, they appeared occasionally in exhibitions of her work, but a formal edition of the prints was never made, and they are appearing here, in their "proper" book format, for the first time. Linocuts printed on a heavy, acid-free paper, Fabriano Artistico, made from 100% cotton fibres and retaining their deckled fore-edge. Limited edition. No 18 of 145 standard copies that were for sale. Loosely inserted prospectus for the book and a note on headed paper from the Incline Press from Graham Moss explaining to subscribers that the book would be printed on his return from America.

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    Stock ID: 23507
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  • Mary Fedden by Signed by Mary Fedden [FEDDEN] GOODING, Mel
    Signed by Mary Fedden [FEDDEN] GOODING, Mel
    Mary Fedden

    London Scolar Press; 1st Edition 1995

    96pp illustrated in colour. 4to. Very good with dust wrapper. Dust wrapper a little bumped on top edge of spine. Bookplate of Jose and Michael Manser on front free end paper. Dedicated copy from Mary Fedden, written on half title page.

    Stock ID: 22149
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  • [CARDEW] CLARK, Garth.
    Michael Cardew, a portrait

    Kodansha International 1976

    228 pp, 24 colour plates, 58 duotone plates, 59 monochrome text photos, 8vo, boards. Dust wrapper has small tear and rubbed edges. Good.

    Stock ID: 23679
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  • [GROSS] FRANCIS, Julian.
    My Brush is My Sword Anthony Gross, War Artist.

    Wakefield The Fleece Press 2022

    172pp illustrated with colour and b/w plates including some fold outs. Maps printed as end papers. Oblong 4to. 235cm x 285cm Quarter cloth, Louise Brockman's fine marbled paper covered boards. Limited edition to 330 copies. Loosely inserted is the prospectus for the publication which is an accordian style fold out with tipped in colour images. Records the work of Anthony Gross as a war artist. Reviews his travels and works from the Home Front in Britain, Europe, North Africa, the Middle East, the Indian subcontinent and Burma. Fine.

    Stock ID: 23527
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  • National Exhibition Children's Art 1964 organised by the Sunday Mirror. by HUDSON, Tom. [Introduction]
    HUDSON, Tom. [Introduction]
    National Exhibition Children's Art 1964 organised by the Sunday Mirror.

    Unpaginated 674 numbers listed. Includes black and white and colour illustrations. Good copy.

    Stock ID: 22899
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