London Strahan & Co. Publishers 1870 (1861)

3rd edition, with illustrations. viii + 141pp + 12pp list of publications by Weales and 32pp Crosby Lockwood titles. Decorated end papers with further information on the Weale's series of publications. Green stamped cloth boards with gilt title and paper title label on spine. Paper label, rubbed and missing in places and inside hinges cracked, else a good copy. Bookseller's label (Wm. Henry Greer) paste down in top left corner of inside upper board.

London, Thames and Hudson, 1962

257pp with 257 b/w and 24 colour illustrations Square 4to. Very good copy in sl. worn and scuffed dust wrapper with one inch piece missing from spine top. Nonetheless a striking copy. A comprehensive review of the Russian contribution to the modern movement.

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.

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.

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"

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.

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.

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.

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.

London Tate Gallery 1976

98pp, illustrated throughout in black and white. 4to. Red clotth. Very good with dust wrapper.

Kodansha International Limited. [1972] 2nd edition 1973.

Adapted by Bernard Leach, Foreword by Shoji Hamada. 4to. Open weave handmade mulberry bark paper (Momigami), complete with original plastic slipcover. 230, (2) pp. Illustrations printed in gravure. Good copy. Plastic slipcover slightly browned. Hard to find classic of Japanese design.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.