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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.
Stock ID: 22073More details Price: £850.00 -
Untitled "The Town and the City"
nd 1985
510mm x630mm Colour litho on paper. Number 50 of 195
Stock ID: 23568More details Price: £250.00 -
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: 22505More details Price: £80.00 -
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 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
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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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.
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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.
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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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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: 23927More details Price: £55.00 -
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

