Liverpool published by the Cathedral Committee January 1904

28pp, Paper wrappers, stapled pamphlet illustrated with line ills. A.L.S. from John Summerson, on John Soane Museum headed paper, to Gavin Stamp 13 June 1977 praising the pamphlet which was given by Summerson to Gavin Stamp as a useful source on the plans for building of the cathedral. Arguably one of the most ambitious architectural projects of the 20th century the project to build the cathedral, planned earlier, was initiated in 1904, the year when this pamphlet was produced and when Giles Gilbert Scott was just 22 and won the competition for the commission. Also loosely inserted is a single page article on St James Cemetery, Liverpool from the Mirror Dec 14th 1833

published by the firm. No date c 1910?

28pp. Landscape 16mo Decorated wrappers. Upper wrapper a little foxed. Illustrated with sepia photographs which document the factory, Impington Hall, [ run at the time as an educational and social centre for Chivers staff but demolished in the 1950s] farms and orchards where the produce was grown. Lovely small item. Text describes the history of the firm, its factory, and orchards and the role of the company in the local community. Great, if small, documentary photographs. For most of the 20th century Chivers was the leading jam manufacturers in the UK but is now owned by the Boyne Group although the group still use the original name.

London Lund Humphries 1951

28pp. 60 plates including five in colour. Folio. Open weave cloth. Small stain on upper board else good copy. One of Leach's key texts.

Sidcot Anthony Baker, The Gruffyground Press 1977

8pp. B/w woodcuts by Richard Shirley Smith. 160 mm × 237 mm. 110 copies produced. Printed in black in Bell roman and italic on pale blue Portals mould-made laid paper. Bound in an unprinted French-folded dark blue Japanese Mingei handmade laid paper cover. Very good. Paper wraps a little sun bleached. Very scarce to find a copy of this which is bound, after publisher Anthony Baker shunned the publication for its poor printing quality. Most of the copies of this publication remain uncollated, unfolded sheets, without covers.

London Phaidon [2002] 2004

2nd edition. 512pp illustrated. Boards. No slipcase. The project to prepare a catalogue raisonné initiated by Thomas Ammann in 1977. To date, six volumes, documenting Warhol's paintings and sculptures from 1961-1980, have been published by Phaidon Press. A seventh volume dedicated to Warhol's paintings from 1979-1981 is forthcoming, with further volumes to follow.

Privately printed 1997

80pp illustrated with b/w plates. Long 8vo. Decorated wrappers. Very good copy. Useful small booklet on Voysey's houses and associated community buildings at Whitwood, Normanton, West Yorkshire, constructed by local firm of Joseph Pullan and Son. The client was the Briggs family, owners of the colliery and Voysey's clients for Broadleys, Windermere.

Dublin Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery of Modern Art 1978

Foreword by Peter Lake. Unpaginated. 392pp illustrated with sepia photographs and a few colour images. Long 4to. Wrappers. Good copy. Useful resource on the history of Irish Theatre production and design.

London Dulwich Picture Gallery 1986

48pp. 32 Black and white, and colour images accompanying an introduction by Giles Waterfield - director of the Dulwich Picture Gallery, and an essay by John Sheeran. Quarto. Decorated card wraps. Fine.

Biddenden, Kent The Florin Press 1985

1 of 500 first edition copies of this publication. 48pp. 11 tipped in colour plates. Red cloth covered boards with gilt title on spine. Long octavo. Published to coincide with and complement the opening of the tour of the exhibition 'The Appreciation of Naum Gabo' in Dallas, September 1985. Fine.

London The Arts Council 1955

16pp. Exhibition pamphlet, stapled, with card wraps. 8 b/w plates, foreword, essay by Palmer, biographical notes and list of work in the exhibition. Wraps a little rubbed and worn, name of former owner on upper right corner of front cover. Very good. A short but useful introduction to Spencer Frederick Gore, first president of the Camden Town Group.

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.

Oxford The Clarendon Press 1899

Second Edition. xviii + 415pp + 8pp list of standard works published by the Clarendon Press. Numerous black and white illustrations and plates throughout. Brown cloth Covered boards with gilt title on spine. Octavo. Very good. A little age worn and cloth slightly rubbed at top of spine, else a very good copy. Bookplate of Jose & Michael Manser on front free end paper.

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.

Tokyo Committee for the Year 2001 1980

First Edition. 331pp with numerous black and white images and 9 coloured plates. Green cloth covered boards with silver title on spine. Original dust wrapper. Octavo. A collection of essays from leading scholars and specialists in the field of Japonisme in art as addressed at the international symposium in Tokyo on "The Mutual Influences between Japanese and Occidental Arts." Very good. Dust wrapper very slightly age worn along top edge else a very nice copy of this scarce book.

Princeton and Oxford Princeton University Press 2001

185pp. 31 color plates, 55 black-and-white illustrations. Decorated boards with cloth spine and gilt titling, in dust wrapper. Book and d/w both fine. A comprehensive study of the Hudson River School in the nineteenth century.

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 Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd 1965

[vi], 174pp, [xxxviii]. Black and white photographs throughout by Ken Heyman. Plus colour catalogue of Pop Art examples after the text. Foreword by Samuel Adams Green, Director of the Philadelphia Institute for Contemporary Art. First UK edition. Brown cloth covered boards with gilt title on spine. Original dustwrapper protected in cellophane wrap. Book and d/w near fine. The first major work to address the then most controversial of all modern art movements. An interesting analysis of the influence of Pop Art on the mainstream of modern art and contemporary culture.