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The Brassfounder's Manual
Instructions for Modelling, Pattern-Making, Moulding, Alloying, Turning, Filing, Burnishing, Bronzing, Etc. Etc. With Copious Receipts and Tables and Notes on Prime Costs and Estimates
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.
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The Great Experiment: Russian Art 1863-1922
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.
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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.
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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.
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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"
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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.
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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.
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The Paintings and Drawings of Henry Ospovat 1877-1909
Stock ID: 22915More details Price: £45.00
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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
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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THE TOWNSEND JOURNALS: AN ARTIST'S RECORD OF HIS TIMES 1928-51
London Tate Gallery 1976
98pp, illustrated throughout in black and white. 4to. Red clotth. Very good with dust wrapper.
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The Unknown Craftsman: A Japanese Insight into Beauty
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.
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The Waternymph and the Boy
Stock ID: 20866More details Price: £120.00
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Three Painters: Basil Rákóczi, Kenneth Hall, Patrick Scott, with a Preface by Herbert Read. Introduction by Herbrand Ingouville-Williams
Stock ID: 22268More details Price: £325.00
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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.
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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
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.
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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.
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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
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.
Stock ID: 22535More details Price: £100.00