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  • Unit One: The Modern Movement in English Architecture, Painting and Sculpture by READ, Herbert (ed.)
    READ, Herbert (ed.)
    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.

    Stock ID: 22073
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  • GENTLEMAN, David.
    Untitled "The Town and the City"

    nd 1985

    510mm x630mm Colour litho on paper. Number 50 of 195

    Stock ID: 23568
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  • [VASARELY] JORAY Marcel [Intro]
    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.

    Stock ID: 22505
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  • [WILFREDO LAM] FOUCHET, Max-Pol
    Wilfredo Lam

    Madrid, Poligrafa 1983

    284pp illustrated with colour and b/w plates. . 4to. Very good with very good dust wrapper.

    Stock ID: 22263
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  • [BLAKE, William] DORRBECKER, D. W. [ Introduction and edited by]
    William Blake's Illuminated Books

    The William Blake Trust and Tate Gallery, 1998

    The complete six volume set. 303 + 209 + 287 + 368 + 286 + 231pp, bibliographies, colour plates, etc. Stiff card wrappers. A very good set with only the most minor wear. Volume : 1) Jerusalem. The Emanation of the Giant Albion. 2) Songs of Innocence and of Experience. 3) The Early Illuminated Books. All religions are One. There is No Natural Religion. The Book of Thel. The Marriage of Heaven and Hell. Visions of the Daughters of Albion. 4) The Continental Prophecies. America: a Prophecy. Europe: a Prophecy. The Song of Los. 5) Milton a Poem and the Final Illuminated Works: The Ghost of Abel. On Homers Poetry (and)…

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    The William Blake Trust and Tate Gallery, 1998

    The complete six volume set. 303 + 209 + 287 + 368 + 286 + 231pp, bibliographies, colour plates, etc. Stiff card wrappers. A very good set with only the most minor wear. Volume : 1) Jerusalem. The Emanation of the Giant Albion. 2) Songs of Innocence and of Experience. 3) The Early Illuminated Books. All religions are One. There is No Natural Religion. The Book of Thel. The Marriage of Heaven and Hell. Visions of the Daughters of Albion. 4) The Continental Prophecies. America: a Prophecy. Europe: a Prophecy. The Song of Los. 5) Milton a Poem and the Final Illuminated Works: The Ghost of Abel. On Homers Poetry (and) On Virgil. Laocoön. 6)The Urizen Books. The First Book of Urizen. The Book of Ahania. The Book of Los. Slipcase very good. The collected edition. From the library of Jonathan Silver.

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    Stock ID: 22537
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  • William Etty, Art & Controversy by [ETTY] BURNAGE, Sarah, HALLETT, Mark, TURNER, Laura [Ed.]
    [ETTY] BURNAGE, Sarah, HALLETT, Mark, TURNER, Laura [Ed.]
    William Etty, Art & Controversy

    York and London York Museums Trust and Philip Wilson Publishers 2011

    256 pp, comprehensively illustrated in colour. 4to. Very good, Wrappers. Published to mark a major exhibition throwing fresh scholarship on and a reappraisal of Etty's work.

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  • William Roberts Some Early Abstract & Cubist Work 1913-1920 by [ROBERTS]
    [ROBERTS]
    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.

    Stock ID: 21996
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  • Winchcombe Pottery, the Cardew-Finch Tradition by WHEELER, Ron.
    WHEELER, Ron.
    Winchcombe Pottery, the Cardew-Finch Tradition

    Edinburgh White Cockade Publishing 1998

    168 pp, colour and black and white photographs[JR1] . 8vo, boards, d/w good. An account of one of the pioneer studio potteries, revived by Michael Cardew in 1926 and continued by Ray Finch.

    Stock ID: 23680
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  • GENTLEMAN, David. SCOTT, Asgeir. ARDIZZONE, Edward & WATERS, Sheila (illustrator)
    Wine List Decorations 1961 – 1963

    Bristol, John Harvey and Sons Limited 1963

    100 pp 8vo, Cloth. Gilt lettering. Spine slightly sunned. Designed by the typographic designer John Lewis with wood illustrations by David Gentleman, decoration by Asgeir Scott, illustrations by Edward Ardizzone and maps by Sheila Waters. The book is a compilation of the illustrations and maps sent to their clients by the wine dealers Harveys. This charming small book contains a pamphlet advertising the letters from Ardizzone to Lewis concerning his commission for the Harveys Wine List which were published in 2016 by the Reading Room Press.

    Stock ID: 23698
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  • Worlds and Windows by Signed copy GILBERT & GEORGE
    Signed copy GILBERT & GEORGE
    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.

    Stock ID: 22531
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  • Yoshijiro Urushibara by [URUSHIBARA] CHAPMAN, Hilary & HORNER, Libby.
    [URUSHIBARA] CHAPMAN, Hilary & HORNER, Libby.
    Yoshijiro Urushibara

    Leiden, the Netherlands Hotei Publishing 2017

    206 pp. Illustrated. 4to. Decorated wrappers, very good. A catalogue raisonné of an artist who brought together the traditional woodcut print technologies of Japan and Western art.

    Stock ID: 23927
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  • GOODRICH, Lloyd
    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: 22646
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