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10 greetings card c1949 issued as souvenirs
Burford Church is one of the most visited in the Oxfordshire area. This small group of souvenir cards c1949 are from original rubbings by Benjiman Consitt Boulter and similarly the drawings are by him. He was a British schoolmaster and illustrator (1876-1960) who as well as these cards illustrated the guide book to the church issued to visitors at the time.
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1851 and the Crystal Palace being an account of the Great Exhibition and its contents; of Joseph Paxton; and the erection, the subsequent history and the destruction of his masterpiece.....
London John Murray [1939] 1950 Revised edition
181pp illustrated with b/w plates and line ills. Introduction by Osbert Lancaster. Decorate end papers. Decorated boards with dust wrapper the latter a bit chipped with about 2.5cm torn away against lower board.
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1951 Design Congress: Theme Design Policy in Industry as a responsibility of High Level Management
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50 Years Bauhaus
German Exhibition, Sponsored by the Federal Republic of Germany
London (ROYAL ACADEMY OF ARTS) 1968
363pp colour + b/w illustrations. Square 4to heavy card wrappers with illustrated dust wrapper. Dust wrapper slightly rubbed otherwise a very good copy. An attractive and extensive study to accompany the exhibition. It is divided into the following sections, 'Preliminary course and teaching', 'Workshops' 'Architecture + Design', 'Painting, Sculpture and Graphics', Life at the Bauhaus' and 'Continuation of teaching'. This structure gives the book an in-depth and concise overview of all aspects of Bauhaus teaching. With short supplement in matching blue wrappers.
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9 Milbank
Headquarters of ICI
1988
24pp booklet on the refurbishment of 9 Milbank with colour photographs throughout. Decorated wrap around wrappers. Loosely inserted fact sheet on the main doors included which describes the 12 panels on the metal doors, designed by Mr W Fagan and which show the evolution of civilisation as a result of scientific discoveries The six door panels on the left showing scenes of primitive man, and the six panels on the right showing scenes of modern man. . Includes colour reproduction of print commissioned from David Gentleman.
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A Basketful of Memories: An autobiographical sketch
London J M Dent Ltd nd c1930
152pp illustrated. Pages slightly foxed. Decorated boards with basket motifs throughout. Thomas Okey (1852–1935) was an expert on basket weaving and is also well known for his translations of topographical works. This work recalls his role in the arts and crafts movement, his associations with William Morris and Arnold Toynbee amongst others. Fascinating book in lovely binding reflecting his key skill area in its design
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A Book of Designs of Ecclesiastical Art
nd c1900
viii + 187 pages +some tissue guards. 4to.240 x 290mm. Cloth spine, decorated boards. Browned end papers and binding a bit shaky. Boards worn else internally good. Two colour images of products. Prices given. Noted as the 80th edition. Early introductory pages indicate the firm exhibited at a number of World Fairs. One image from page 127 showing a pulpit design has been clipped out.
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A Bottle of Notes and Some Voyages Claes Oldenburg & Coosje van Bruggen
Sunderland Northern Centre for Contemporary Arts, sponsored by the Henry Moore Foundation et al. 1988
234 pages of bw and colour photographs and illustrations of art work by the artists. Stiff card covers with illustrated wrappers over. Loosely inserted private view card for the Leeds showing of this exhibition and an associated press release. Signed on the half title by Claes Oldenburg. Great catalogue made for a major touring show of works made by Oldenburg and his wife Coosje van Bruggen.
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A By Andy Warhol
Grove Press, Inc, 1968
First edition. First printing 451pp Dust jacket and edges shows shelf wear and has a number of short tears along top edge. Not price clipped but inner flap has been creased. Cloth a little faded along lower edge. he Pop Art legend's first novel, consisting of transcriptions of conversations between the author and Factory-figure Ondine. From the collection of Eduardo Paolozzi but without his ownership signature. Slight musty smell.
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A Catalogue of Netherlandish and North European Roundels in Britain
Oxford Oxford University Press 1993
342 pp. B/w ills throughout. 4to. Cloth cover. Decorated dust wrapper in protective sleeve. The first catalogue of Britain's collection of 16th and 17th century stained glass roundels, mostly from Holland and Belgium. An important source book for researchers of drawings and engravings, and students of stained glass.
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A Civic Survey and Plan for the City and Royal Burgh of Edinburgh
Edinburgh, Oliver and Boyd, 1949.
115 pgs.54 plates. and many tables and diagrams. Also 25 folding colour maps (3 in pocket at end). Decorative Cloth. Vg with slightly worn dw but which has protected the cloth. Beautifully produced survey and plan for Edinburgh. Previous owner's name on front end paper.
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A Collection of Coloured Plates from Academy Architecture
London Alex Koch & Sons nd c1916
Unpaginated. c60pp single sided illustrations which first appeared in Academy Architecture. In each case, the architect, location and details of the building illustrated is given. A wide variety of architects both in the UK and Europe are noted. Red cloth. Gilt titles on upper board. No title page. In most cases the year in which the illustration appeared is given. Generally between 1902 and 1915 although some illustrations appear without dates. Curious compilation. With bookplate of Colin Amery on front paste down and pencil signature of a former owner as H E Hills dated May 30th 1916.
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A concise history and analysis of all the principal styles of architecture : namely, Egyptian, Grecian, Roman, that of the dark ages, of the Arabians and of the Normans; including a detailed description of the origin, progress and decline of the Gothic. To which is added, a sketch of the architecture of England, down to the present time. / By an amateur.
London Horatio Phillips [1829]
xx, [3]-212pp and 8 plates. 8vo. Edges uncut. Original boards, rebacked & with new spine label. Ex libri Roger Quick with note in pencil about the publication.
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A Concrete Atlantis: U.S. Industrial Building and European Modern Architecture 1900-1925
Cambridge, Mass MIT Press 1986
266pp illustrated. 4to. First edition of this book by author of Theory and Design in the First Machine Age. On the relationship between U S industrial buildings and European design. Very good in good dust wrapper.
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A Day continuation School at Work
Papers by Twelve Contributors
Stock ID: 21729More details Price: £45.00
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A Description of Fonthill Abbey Wiltshire illustrated by views drawn and engraved by J. Storer
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A Descriptive and Historical Account of the Monuments & Tombstones in the Church of St. Nicholas, Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
London: Hamilton Adams and Co. Newcastle-upon-Tyne: M & M W Lambert, 1880
[vi], 160pp, xiii[i]pp index and 'corrections and alterations.', 32 steel-engraved plates with tissue-guards, head and tailpieces, decorated capitals. 4to. Original red Morocco binding with gilt decorations and raised bands on the spine. Worn at head and base of spine else a very attractive copy.
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A Descriptive Handbook of Modern Water-Colour Pigments with an introductory essay on the recent water colour controversy
London. Windsor and Newton Ltd. 1887
16th thousand 70pp with text illustrations in black and white and description of the colours preceded by 5 colour plates of original water colour specimens comprising 120 hand coloured strips on stiff card. At the end is a catalogue of products 64pp made by Windsor and Newton for the artist. This dated 1910. Stiff card wrappers.
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A Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures and Mines containing a clear exposition of their principles ad practice
London, Longman, Orme, Brown, Green and Longmans 1839
1334pp, illustrated with twelve hundred and forty engravings on wood. 8vo. Rebound with brown cloth and gilt lettering to make a sturdy copy. Huge early Victorian compendium of information about almost everything technical from printing to glass making etc. by this renowned dictionary maker. This is the first edition but the dictionary was subsequently reprinted in many editions even after the death of Ure in 1857.
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A Discipline of the Mind: The Drawings of Wilhelmina Barns-Graham
Orkney Piers Art Centre & The Barns Graham Charitable Trust 2009
49pp including 11pp introduction by Mel Gooding. 31 colour illustrations and 2 black & white photographs. Boards, 250x230mm VG indeed. Beautiful production.
Stock ID: 21985More details Price: £55.00