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  • [RAVILIOUS, Eric] STRONG, L.A.G.
    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 by PAOLOZZI, Eduardo
    PAOLOZZI, Eduardo
    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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  • NOEL, Roden. Illustrated by PITTS, J. Martin.
    The Waternymph and the Boy

    Llandogo, Near Monmouth Old Stile Press 1997

    Limited edition no 149 of 225 copies. Signed by Martin Pitts. Unpaginated. Poem by Noel 9 1834-1894 interpreted through images by Pitts. Martin Pitts' name has been associated with The Old Stile Press since the very beginning. He made linocuts for the first book made by the Press and then, a succession of further projects with his images. Roden Noel lived from 1834 to 1894. In this poem he mixes elements of the story of Salmacis & Hermaphroditus from Ovid's Metamorphoses with memories of moods, settings and atmospheres from his Irish childhood, combining, as John Addington Symonds wrote, "full sensuous feeling for the material world with an ever-present sense of the spirit…

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    Llandogo, Near Monmouth Old Stile Press 1997

    Limited edition no 149 of 225 copies. Signed by Martin Pitts. Unpaginated. Poem by Noel 9 1834-1894 interpreted through images by Pitts. Martin Pitts' name has been associated with The Old Stile Press since the very beginning. He made linocuts for the first book made by the Press and then, a succession of further projects with his images. Roden Noel lived from 1834 to 1894. In this poem he mixes elements of the story of Salmacis & Hermaphroditus from Ovid's Metamorphoses with memories of moods, settings and atmospheres from his Irish childhood, combining, as John Addington Symonds wrote, "full sensuous feeling for the material world with an ever-present sense of the spirit informing it and bringing all its products into vital harmony." Pitts' images here are printed in dark honey-coloured ink highlighted with white ink on a light honey coloured Ingres paper giving the whole book construction an ephemeral feel. Printed cloth covered flimsy boards with gilt lettered spine, blue end papers and ribbon ties. From the collection of Bruce Wannell with his bookplate which was specially made by Mark Hearld in York. Very good copy.

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  • The Way of the Cross. An Interpretation by Frank Brangwyn, R.A. with a Commentary by Gilbert Keith Chesterton. by CHESTERTON, G. K.
    CHESTERTON, G. K.
    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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  • [GIBBINGS, Robert] EMPSON, Patience [ editor ] BALSTON, James. [Introduction]
    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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  • [GIBBINGS, Robert (1889-1958)] EMPSON, Patience. editor, [BALSTON, Thomas. introduction].
    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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  • [SCOTT, Patrick]
    Three Painters: Basil Rákóczi, Kenneth Hall, Patrick Scott, with a Preface by Herbert Read. Introduction by Herbrand Ingouville-Williams

    Dublin Three Candles Press 1944

    With a coloured frontispiece and eighteen tipped-in plates (six by each artist). 4to. Black covered boards with hollow spine decorated with title of book. The of the spine and are edges. Dust wrapper present but worn and with verso of dust wrapper torn and worn. This was Patrick Scott's first publication and is very scarce. The painters were members of The White Stag Group – a coterie of foreign and native artists (including Patrick Scott, Kenneth Hall and Basil Rakozci). Their ambition and attitude provided a much-needed focus for the isolated cosmopolitan desperate to escape the inertia of war-bound Dublin. Their energy and broadminded attitude to the visual arts must have given some Irish…

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    Dublin Three Candles Press 1944

    With a coloured frontispiece and eighteen tipped-in plates (six by each artist). 4to. Black covered boards with hollow spine decorated with title of book. The of the spine and are edges. Dust wrapper present but worn and with verso of dust wrapper torn and worn. This was Patrick Scott's first publication and is very scarce. The painters were members of The White Stag Group – a coterie of foreign and native artists (including Patrick Scott, Kenneth Hall and Basil Rakozci). Their ambition and attitude provided a much-needed focus for the isolated cosmopolitan desperate to escape the inertia of war-bound Dublin. Their energy and broadminded attitude to the visual arts must have given some Irish artists a sense of continuing the project of modernism which the war had disrupted elsewhere. The Three Candles Press was founded by Colm Ó Lochlainn (1892–1972), who was noted for the quality of his typography. Hard to find.

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  • Thumb-nail Sketches of the Royal Jubilee Exhibition by TEMPLAR, Herbert P.
    TEMPLAR, Herbert P.
    Thumb-nail Sketches of the Royal Jubilee Exhibition as seen from Chorlton-cum-Hardy

    Manchester sold by John Heywood, Deansgate and in the Exhibition 1887

    Lithographed by the Proprietor S. M. Strang Manchester. 32pp each page has line illustration drawn by Herbert P Templar with satirical text and opposite is an advert. Newsprint paper, blue upper wrapper sporting lettering and with a sketch of the exhibition building. Cloth strip over stapled binding. Staple rusted. Some scattered foxing. Sold at the time of the exhibition for one penny. In 1887, the Botanical Gardens were joined by an enormous exhibition of art, science and industry, to commemorate Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee. Following in the footsteps of the 1857 'Art Treasures' exhibition thirty years before. Another ephemeral publication in the same series was also made called…

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    Manchester sold by John Heywood, Deansgate and in the Exhibition 1887

    Lithographed by the Proprietor S. M. Strang Manchester. 32pp each page has line illustration drawn by Herbert P Templar with satirical text and opposite is an advert. Newsprint paper, blue upper wrapper sporting lettering and with a sketch of the exhibition building. Cloth strip over stapled binding. Staple rusted. Some scattered foxing. Sold at the time of the exhibition for one penny. In 1887, the Botanical Gardens were joined by an enormous exhibition of art, science and industry, to commemorate Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee. Following in the footsteps of the 1857 'Art Treasures' exhibition thirty years before. Another ephemeral publication in the same series was also made called "People we met at the exhibition"

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  • Unit One: The Modern Movement in English Architecture, Painting and Sculpture by READ, Herbert (ed.)
    READ, Herbert (ed.)
    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] JORAY Marcel [Intro]
    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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  • Signed by the illustrator René Ben Sussan [VOLPONE] JOHNSON, Ben [ KRONENBERGER, Louis. Introduction ]
    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 by Signed by Richard Long [LONG] LONG Richard, FULTON, Hamish and SEYMOUR, Anne.
    Signed by Richard Long [LONG] LONG Richard, FULTON, Hamish and SEYMOUR, Anne.
    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] FOUCHET, Max-Pol
    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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  • [BLAKE, William] DORRBECKER, D. W. [ Introduction and edited by]
    William Blake's Illuminated Books

    The William Blake Trust and Tate Gallery, 1998

    The complete six volume set. 303 + 209 + 287 + 368 + 286 + 231pp, bibliographies, colour plates, etc. Stiff card wrappers. A very good set with only the most minor wear. Volume : 1) Jerusalem. The Emanation of the Giant Albion. 2) Songs of Innocence and of Experience. 3) The Early Illuminated Books. All religions are One. There is No Natural Religion. The Book of Thel. The Marriage of Heaven and Hell. Visions of the Daughters of Albion. 4) The Continental Prophecies. America: a Prophecy. Europe: a Prophecy. The Song of Los. 5) Milton a Poem and the Final Illuminated Works: The Ghost of Abel. On Homers Poetry (and)…

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    The William Blake Trust and Tate Gallery, 1998

    The complete six volume set. 303 + 209 + 287 + 368 + 286 + 231pp, bibliographies, colour plates, etc. Stiff card wrappers. A very good set with only the most minor wear. Volume : 1) Jerusalem. The Emanation of the Giant Albion. 2) Songs of Innocence and of Experience. 3) The Early Illuminated Books. All religions are One. There is No Natural Religion. The Book of Thel. The Marriage of Heaven and Hell. Visions of the Daughters of Albion. 4) The Continental Prophecies. America: a Prophecy. Europe: a Prophecy. The Song of Los. 5) Milton a Poem and the Final Illuminated Works: The Ghost of Abel. On Homers Poetry (and) On Virgil. Laocoön. 6)The Urizen Books. The First Book of Urizen. The Book of Ahania. The Book of Los. Slipcase very good. The collected edition. From the library of Jonathan Silver.

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  • William Roberts Some Early Abstract & Cubist Work 1913-1920 by [ROBERTS]
    [ROBERTS]
    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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  • (WILLIAM ROBERTS) WHITE, Gabriel. (foreword) ALLEY, Ronald. (introduction)
    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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  • SCHUTTE, Thomas [WESTER, Anders - edited by]
    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 by Signed copy GILBERT & GEORGE
    Signed copy GILBERT & GEORGE
    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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  • GOODRICH, Lloyd
    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: 22646
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