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.

Huddersfield Privately Published, 1923

109pp illustrated with b/w plates. Pale marbled end papers. Blue cloth, slightly rubbed else good copy. Hand-written on back of half title, " Presented to Edith E Webster by the author 22nd February 1925" Features the work of 11 artists + frontis which is bound in the Introduction. Artists are; G D Tomlinson, Samuel Howell, Peace Sykes, James Young, W> H. Midood, John Pearson, Charles France, Annie Wood, Henry Sykes, William Frederick Allot and Stephen E Hogley.

London Lund Humphries 2013

168pp, quarto with dust jacket in very good condition and 100 colour images. A major re assessment of a key English artist by the leading authority on Nash.

London, Tate Gallery 1975

116pp, 14 illustrations in colour and over 80 in black and white. Book with dust jacket in good condition. The catalogue of the first major exhibition of Nash's work since 1948.

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.

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.

Oxford, Studio One Gallery 1979

4to. Number 155 of only 500 copies. Publisher's black cloth lettered in gilt with illustrative floral colour label to upper cover. A good copy indeed, some light sun fading to spine. Black and white wood engravings by various female artists, including Agnes Miller Parker, Monica Poole and Rachel Reckitt throughout. £125

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.

Handmade book. Number 3 of 10. 16pp introduction + series of b/w illustrations are from woodcut prints. and the accompanying short poem was written by an anonymous monk who lived on the island. Hand bound, stiff paper wrappers with gold image on upper board. Anthony Ratcliffe is now a full-time printmaker after retiring from a senior lecturer post at Manchester School of Art.

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.

Peterham Mass. The Lone Oak Press, November 2015

Unpaginated Number 30 of 300 copies set in 14 point Van Dijck by Neil Winter and printed by Patrick Randle at Nomad Letterpress in Whittington on Zerkall mold made paper. Bound in decorated paper, based on a hinge design from the church. Preserved in slipcase. Fine. Signed on the colophon by both wood engravers. Abergail Rorer is a well-known American wood engraver and in this publication worked alongside Miriam Macgregor who lives at Whittington and produces work at the Whittington Press. Beautifully produced book.

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.

Beverley Hills Gagosian Gallery 2016

75pp, extensive colour photographs with one gate folded pullout. Long quarto. Decorated boards, white lettered cloth spine. Very good copy. The catalogue for the artist's exhibition at the Gagosian Gallery, his first show in Los Angeles. The introduction by Joan Simon is an overview of de Waal's career and the influences on his work including the poetry of Celan, the music of John Cage and the history of his own family recounted in 'The Hare with Amber Eyes'.

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.

Hanborough, Oxford, Inky Parrot Press 2018

161pp + colophon; illustrations in colour throughout; Fine. A fascinating study, beautifully produced in the Artist's Choice series style. Includes essays by Peter Davidson & Michael Hall. Loosely inserted is the Prospectus for the standard edition book, the prospectus for the special edition with formed part of 35 copies with a separate folder of colour prints, the original receipt for this copy and note on a card from Alan Power to the book's recipient. Number 86 of 196 signed by Alan Powers on the colophon.

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

Petersburg Press 1977

First edition. 52pp with 20 colour etchings by David Hockney. Inspired by Wallace Stevens who was inspired by Pablo Picasso. Very good condition in very good unclipped dust wrapper. Very slightly rubbed on corners and base of spine.