London John Lane, The Bodley Head 1946

Illustrated with 15 reversible heads and 30 associated verses. paper covered boards with original unclipped dust wrapper. Dust wrapper a little worn at corners, base and head of the spine else good. Quirky collaboration by the famed British artist, designer and illustrator, Rex Whistler and his brother who wrote the verses. The drawings area of people which, when turned upside down, show a different but related person.

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.

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 Alec Tiranti 1967

26 pp of text printed on matt brown paper, 243 black and white photographs, 1 in colour. Boards, 8vo, slight loosening of pages from binding. D/W. A title in the 'Chapters in Art' series this is a interesting snapshot of the major potters in the mid 1960s as well as a reflection on the post war revival in hand made British pottery.

York 1948-1974

A complete run of the first 100 issues of this publication (numbers 5, 12, 34 and 39 in duplicate) plus no. 107. Each consists of brief articles and entries for upcoming exhibitions and events, as well as records of the gallery's purchases, commissions and loans, illustrated with b/w photographs. The first volume was issued to coincide with the opening of the gallery after damage sustained in WW II. Together these items provide a fascinating record of a major regional gallery during the mid-20th C.

New York Rizzoli 1994

239pp. Nicely illustrated with colour prints and full page size of the painter's work. 4to. Very good with dust wrapper protected with glassine wrapper over. Essays contributed by Morphet including an interview with the artist. Catalogue of works, and a second essay by Richard Wollheim.

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.

London Yale University Press, Paul Mellon Centre for British Art 2015

412 Pages, 180 colour + 120 b-w illus. 4to 241 × 279 mm, Very good in dust wrapper. Beautifully illustrated with Palmer's visionary and enchanted landscapes. William Vaughan, scolar and expert on Palmer, has drwn ons on unpublished diaries and letters, offering a fresh interpretation of one of the most attractive and sympathetic, yet idiosyncratic, artists of the 19th century.

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

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.