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.

Nomad Letterpress & Beaufort Bookshop, (nr Cheltenham) printed at the Whittington Press 2023

29, (2) pages. Illustrations by Hilary Paynter. Small oblong folio. Decorated paper covered boards, with paste down paper label on cover. Limited to 900 numbered copies, of which this is number 354 of 874 copies bound by Green Street Bindery using Bugra-Bütten covers. Printed on Zerkall mould-made paper using Walbaum and Stern typefaces using a Heidelberg Cylinder SBB. The illustrations are printed from lemonwood blocks engraved by the artist. These sheets are the last to come from the Zerkall Mill which was forced to close following the Ahr Valley floods in 2021.

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.

London Lund Humphries with John Taylor 1989

184pp including 68 full page color plates with 6 black and white illustrations. 4to. Fine in very good wrapper. Definitive text and record of David Jones' watercolours. Beautifully produced book.

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 Lund Humphries 2022

127pp, illustrated throughout with specially commissioned colour photography by Sylvain Deleu Quarto. Laminated boards. New. The first account of the life and work of a major British potter which places his work within the history of British Studio Pottery.

Norwich, Random Spectacular. 2021

140 pages text plus cover - printed in full colour throughout. With printed dust jacket. Square 250mm x 250mm.Collaboration between musician Richard Jobson and illustrator Jonny Hannah. Fine. Out of print.

London Tate Gallery 1976

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

Liverpool, The Wood Lea Press 1987

148 + [3]pp, with 164 b/w illustrations and four colour paste-downs. Cloth backed boards with lovely woodcut design in slipcase, Very good. A beautifully presented catalogue of Nash's 140 woodcuts, all of which were made between 1919 and 1935. With an introduction by John O'Connor and a loosely inserted presentation copy of a review from Hortus, bound in the same decorative paper. One of 750 copies, this is a lovely pieces of book design, and a valuable collection of some of Nash's less well-known work. Typed letter from Jeremy Greenwood, signed, concerning delay in publication loosely slipped in.

Inky Parrot Press 1996

Wood engraved plates & illustrations. Includes artists proof of the image Noah, loosely inserted. Boards. With folio of prints limited to 24 copies in separate folio, both housed in a pictorial slip case. The publication was produced in an edition of 76 copies of which 24 have an additional set of signed wood engravings of which this is one. Decorated paper covered slipcase. The book and portfolio is in very good condition. Slip case a little worn at edges and corners. The portfolio contains images names as; THE GARDENER; MERMAID OF ZENNORE; ALLEGORY; and THE DREAM four wood engravings, each signed, titled and numbered IX/XXIV in pencil Largest image size 175mm x 145mm.

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.

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.