Wales Museum of Modern Art 1977

Long 4to. b/w plates. To accompany an exhibition. Introductory statement by the photographer with his photographs and an essay on the work of Richard Wilson the artist (1713-1782) against which the photographs were juxtaposed.

Edinburgh Mainstream Publishing 1990

191pp colour + b/w ills. 4to cloth with illustrated wrappers. Ex libris Gavin Stamp, with his bookplate on the font pastedown.

nd c1960

Portrait format, 160x235mm. It illustrates the wrought iron gates with landscape park behind. The photograph was taken for an article in Horizon Magazine. The magnificent iron gates are dated 1719 and bear the coat-of-arms of the Myddelton family of Chirk Castle. They are the work of the Davies Brothers, Robert and John of Croesfoel Forge, near Bersham, Wrexham and were erected between 1719 and 1721.

nd c1960

Landscape format. 235x160mm. Made for a magazine article in Horizon Magazine. The magnificent iron gates are dated 1719 and bear the coat-of-arms of the Myddelton family of Chirk Castle. They are the work of the Davies Brothers, Robert and John of Croesfoel Forge, near Bersham, Wrexham and were erected between 1719 and 1721. Pencil note on verso in Edwin Smith's hand writing noting location.

Lausanne La Guide du Livre 1950

Foreword by Jean Cocteau. 75 photogravure plates with facing texts. 4to. Stiff photographic wrappers with original glassine wrappers. Text in French. Near fine copy.

London Faber and Faber 1979

125 + [2]pp, b/w photographs. 4to. Original paper covered boards, grey cloth spine with black lettering. Very good in good dw. Increasingly hard to find essay on the Pennine landscape.

nd c1880

110 albumen prints commercially produced for the tourist trade of churches, monuments, townscapes etc. in Tuscany including Pisa, Bologna, Siena etc. with art works, church interiors etc. All mounted on art paper and made into a hand made book. Pencil captions below most of the images. Name of owner on upper wrapper inscribed Alfred Pounder. First page mount a little foxed else very good throughout. Images are uniformly 190x270mm and in very good condition. The owner was possibly from a Yorkshire family.

Glasgow Third Eye Centre 1982

128pp, illus throughout: b/w & col. photographs, line illus., plan. 4to. Cloth in dw: edition of 550 casebound and 1550 paperbacked copies - t.p. verso. Loosely inserted 4 colour photographs 6" x 4" of works of art. pp 85-88 have been cut out and folded horizontally at one point, now loosely inserted back in the correct sequence, else very good. The Special Unit was established at Glasgow's Barlinnie Prison in 1973 to house prisoners who could not be contained within the traditional prison system. Working along therapeutic lines, there was a heavy emphasis on creativity and this book charts the development of the Unit.

nd c1930

10 black and white photographs of a large country house with surrounding gardens. 290x235mm. Contrasting quarter calf binding. No identifying clues except by the gate post where the numbers 52 and 54 have been hand written on the wall. External views only. Starting at the lodge by the road, the album documents the approach, main elevation and garden elevation as well as the gardens including a small Dell with a Japanese feel to it. Lovely item Very good condition. Unfortunately, the house has not been identified. The design suggests an arts and crafts influence. It is largely red brick but with castellated stone elements ivy clad. Very good condition.