Art

  • The Gregory Fellows by READ, Herbert {introduction}
    READ, Herbert {introduction}
    The Gregory Fellows University of Leeds

    London The Arts Council 1964

    Unpaginated. 12pp illustrated with b/w plates. This catalogue reviews the work of the first eight Gregory Fellows appointed at Leeds University. They were Reg Butler, Martin Froy, Kenneth Armitage, Terry Frost, Hubert Dalwood, Alan Davie Trevor Bell and Austin Wright. The Gregory Fellows was the brainchild of Mr Eric Craven Gregory who established the fellowships in 1949 to promote contemporary art and sculpture. He was a Yorkshire business man and chair of the art publishing company, Percy Lund, Humphries & Co., Hard to find catalogue. Note in red ink on upper wrapper providing a name and address in neat hand.

    Stock ID: 22189
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  • PARRIS Leslie (compiler)
    The Loyd Collection of Paintings and Drawings at Betterton House, Lockinge near Wantage, Berkshire.

    London, Bradbury, Agnew 1967

    viii, 66 pages, 91 black and white plates. 4to in blue lettered cloth. A little wear to cloth and edges, else good. Catalogue of paintings and drawings originally from the Wantage Collection, now at Betterton House. A beautiful collection of works by artists including Canaletto, Constable, Degas and many others. The vast majority of items are accompanied by a b/w reproduction.

    Stock ID: 5922
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  • NODIER, Charles
    The luck of the Bean-Rows: A fairy tale for lucky children

    London Daniel O'Connor, 1921

    60pp illustrated by Claud Lovat Fraser with title-page vignette and 30 further colour-printed illustrations by Fraser of varying sizes. A charming fairy-tale by Charles Nodier. Translated into English. Very slightly worn at corner, head and base of spine and end paper a little browned. else a very good copy. Loosely inserted folded broadsheet A Garland of New Songs by L.F. Printed at the Curwen Press. Stamp on verso of half title "With the publisher's compliments"

    Stock ID: 22809
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  • The Materials of the Painter's Craft by LAURIE A.P
    LAURIE A.P
    The Materials of the Painter's Craft In Europe and Egypt from the earliest times to the end of the XVIIth century, with some account of their preparation and use

    London & Edinburgh T.N. Foulis 1910

    From the Arts and Crafts of the Nations series - General Editor: S.H.F. Capenny. xv + 444pp + [ivpp list of new art books from T.N. Foulis] Seven tipped in colour plates along with other b/w illustrations. Paper covered boards with brown cloth spine. Black lettering on upper board and gilt titles on spine. Quarto. Deckled edged pages. Slight foxing inside but book block generally very good indeed. Outer boards a little scuffed with a bump on the right edge of the upper board. Mark from what looks to be a sticker on the spine. Fourteen chapters addressing; Egyptian pigments, Classical Mediums, Fresco Painting, Illuminated Manuscripts, Oil Paint etc.

    Stock ID: 22940
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  • The Methods of Construction of Celtic Art by BAIN George
    BAIN George
    The Methods of Construction of Celtic Art

    Glasgow William MacLellan & Co. Ltd 1951

    166pp. Copious black and white illustrations and designs plus 40 plates at the end of the text including three in colour. Colour frontispiece of the Tara Brooch. All "Pictish Decorations" by George Bain. Cloth covered boards with gilt titling and embossed decoration on upper board. Quarto. Previous owners name written in neat hand, along with an earlier dedication to a Jean Fraser. Good. Some minor foxing internally, and upper hinge cracked. Boards age worn and marked or nicked in some places. A good copy nonetheless, of an important and influential book which contributed to a revival of interest in Celtic art.

    Stock ID: 22934
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  • [OPSOVAT] ANON
    The Paintings and Drawings of Henry Ospovat 1877-1909

    London The Baillie Gallery Bruton Street 1909

    Art Catalogue. Unpaginated. 4pp introduction which provides useful information on the life of the artist. List of works include drawings for Shakespeare's Sonnets and other illustrated works, 89 numbers + numbers listed 90-115 which are portraits and studies and finally a series of caricatures separately numbered 1-71. The catalogue also notes a number of books for sale at the gallery published respectively by John Lane and J M Dent illustrated by Opsovat. Wrappers slightly browned else good copy. Selling exhibition held soon after the artist's death. Effectively this is a catalogue for a memorial exhibition. He had exhibited at the Ballie Gallery during his lifetime. Opsovat was a painter, draughtsman, illustrator and…

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    London The Baillie Gallery Bruton Street 1909

    Art Catalogue. Unpaginated. 4pp introduction which provides useful information on the life of the artist. List of works include drawings for Shakespeare's Sonnets and other illustrated works, 89 numbers + numbers listed 90-115 which are portraits and studies and finally a series of caricatures separately numbered 1-71. The catalogue also notes a number of books for sale at the gallery published respectively by John Lane and J M Dent illustrated by Opsovat. Wrappers slightly browned else good copy. Selling exhibition held soon after the artist's death. Effectively this is a catalogue for a memorial exhibition. He had exhibited at the Ballie Gallery during his lifetime. Opsovat was a painter, draughtsman, illustrator and caricaturist. He was born in Russia of Jewish parents, moved with them and settled in Manchester where he studied at the Manchester School of Art, winning a scholarship in 1897 to the South Kensington Schools (Royal College of Art). Influenced by the Pre-Raphaelites, he is best known as an illustrator of Shakespeare, Matthew Arnold and Browning.

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  • GRAHAM Rigby and David ROGERS
    The Peddars Way

    Trevor Hickman at the Brewhouse Private Press, Leicester 1974

    Unpaginated c. 100pp, illustrated throughout with b/w drawings and photographs by Graham as well as brass rubbings, historical memorabilia etc. Cloth-backed boards with illustrations by Graham, vg indeed in protective glassine, this a little worn. Recording the travels of author, illustrator and binder along this ancient Norfolk coastal path. A synthesis of text and image, meditation and historical information, photograph and illustration, this is an evocative exploration of memory and place. No. 82 of 100 copies.

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  • The Pot Book by DE WAAL, Edmund. [editor] GRAIG Blanche [editor]
    DE WAAL, Edmund. [editor] GRAIG Blanche [editor]
    The Pot Book

    London Phaidon 2011

    319pp illustrated in colour. Large 4to. Laminated boards, dust wrapper. Organised in an A-Z format, traces the artisan pots of ealy CHinese Millennia to modern vessels of Hans Coper and Grayson Perry today.

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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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  • [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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    Stock ID: 22268
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  • Signed by the artist [HIM] SHAW, George Bernard.
    Two Plays for Puritans "The Devil's Disciple" and "Caesar and Cleopatra,"

    New York Limited Editions Club 1966

    Number 1169 signed by George Him on the colophon. xxxiv, 215, (3) pages. Decorated cloth, gilt and black lettered spine. In original slip case. Very good but slip case a little worn. Illustrations by George Him, who by this time had split from his partnership with the artist Jan Hewitt which ended in 1955 when Hewitt left to pursue a painting career.

    Stock ID: 21100
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  • Unit One: Spirit of the 30s by (UNIT ONE) RICHARDS Sir James (introduction)
    (UNIT ONE) RICHARDS Sir James (introduction)
    Unit One: Spirit of the 30s May - June 1984

    London The Mayor Gallery 1984

    Catalogue to accompany an exhibition to celebrate the half centenary of the first UNIT ONE exhibition held at the Mayor Gallery in Cork Street April 1934. 4to. Typographical cover based on a design by E McKnight Kauffer advertising Unit One in 1933. 98pp illus with b/w plates. Featuring the work of the original participants including Wells Coates, Colin Lucas, Edward Wadsworth, Ben Nicholson, Nash, Burra, Moore and Hepworth etc. Uncommon.

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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, Tristram 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.

    Stock ID: 22073
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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 dust wrapper slightly browned else good.

    Stock ID: 22505
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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.

    Stock ID: 22314
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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.

    Stock ID: 22263
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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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    Stock ID: 22537
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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.

    Stock ID: 21996
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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.

    Stock ID: 22531
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