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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: 23696More details Price: £30.00 -
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: 23687More details Price: £22.00 -
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: 22933More details Price: £85.00 -
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: 23561More details Price: £85.00 -
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: 22927More details Price: £120.00 -
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: 23699More details Price: £20.00 -
Kandinsky
London Thames and Hudson 1983
431pp illustrated. 4to. Very good with good dust wrapper. First edition of this very good monograph.
Stock ID: 22536More details Price: £165.00 -
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: 23515More details Price: £120.00 -
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: 15582More details Price: £28.00 -
Leicestershire
Stock ID: 23669More details Price: £450.00 -
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: 13368More details Price: £320.00 -
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: 21523More details Price: £350.00 -
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: 23664More details Price: £48.00 -
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: 23681More details Price: £35.00 -
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: 23557More details Price: £45.00 -
Marco's Animal Alphabet.
Stock ID: 23507More details Price: £300.00
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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: 22149More details Price: £75.00 -
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: 23679More details Price: £25.00 -
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: 23527More details Price: £160.00 -
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: 22899More details Price: £20.00
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