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Today I worked well - the picture fell off the brush. The artistry of Leslie Cole
Told for the first time by Malcolm Yorke with a note on the interesting life of Brenda Cole
Wakefield The Fleece Press 2010
200pp + colophon; 132 plates, the majority full-page in colour; Square 4to. 230 x280mm Cloth backed boards with paste down label on the spine. in the style of Simon Lawrence's previous studies of Ardizzone & Ravilious. Best known for his wartime work, Cole's watercolour technique was much influenced by Ravilious, his tutor (with Bawden) at the RCA. Fine.
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Transfer Treasures: Watercolours
Wakefield The Fleece Press 2014
Fleece Press published these together in a very long accordion-fold book measuring 275mm square and extending to a gigantic 8 metres long. They are hard-bound in a design using the water colours, and held in a slipcase with a label. The artist has drawn a title page specially for the book, and has signed each of the 250 copies on the colophon. The images are of the transferware pottery – plates, mugs and jugs – found on her dresser. Loosely inserted in this copy is the original prospectus for the book with colour paste down illustrations.
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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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Untitled "The Town and the City"
nd 1985
510mm x630mm Colour litho on paper. Number 50 of 195
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Vance Jerry and The Weather Bird Press
with Contributions by Vance Gerry, Simon Lawrence, David Butcher, Patrick Reagh, James Lorson and John Randle, & with a Checklist of Publications compiled by David Butcher.
Risbury The Whittington Press 2018
[10] + 86+, [2]pp of plates, XII pages of numbered plates. Total edition of 235 copies set in 13-point Poliphilus, and Ariston display types, and printed at Whittington on Zerkall mould-made paper. The pochoir reproductions and the black-and-white images printed digitally by Promprint. Many illustrations in colours. This one of 155 'C' copies half-bound in cloth and one of Vance's pattern papers, in a slipcase and two facsimile letters in a pocket at the rear. Fine copy.
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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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Wilfredo Lam
Madrid, Poligrafa 1983
284pp illustrated with colour and b/w plates. . 4to. Very good with very good dust wrapper.
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William Blake's Illuminated Books
Stock ID: 22537More details Price: £250.00
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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.
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Woodcuts and Words
Church Hanborough Oxford Previous Parrot Press 1994
52 pages, illustrations; 290mm x 210mm. 1 portfolio ([4] leaves). Set in Melior, printed litho by The Didcot Press, on Zerkell mould made paper. Bound by the Fine Bindery in slipcase. Limited to 242 copies of whihc there are 198 copies. Number 62 of 242 signed by Michael Brown and Rigby Graham on the Colophon. Uncommon.
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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. 310mm x 231mm. Not issued with a dust wrapper. 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.
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Young America 1965: Thirty American Artists Under Thirty-Five
New York Published for the Whitney Museum of Art by Frederick A. Praeger [1965]
Unpaginated and 50 black and white illustrations. Small 4to Off-white cloth, Slightly browned dust wrapper with titles and listing artists featured.
Stock ID: 22646More details Price: £35.00

