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Westminster Abbey With an Account of the Abbey Buildings by J. T. Micklethwaite, and an Appendix on the Medieval Monuments, by Edward Bell.
London George Bell 1899
xv +108pp, Frontis, decorated title page, +74 further b/w collotype photographic plates, 4 text ills. Small folio. Vellum spine, green cloth and covered boards. Gilt title to upper board. Limited edition. no 108 of 360 copies.[100 to be sold in America]. Very slightly rubbed at head and base of spine else a bright copy of this sumptuous book. Bookplate on front paste down of John William Clay FSA, noted for his editing of works on St Pauls and other antiquarian architectural subjects.
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When the Cathedrals Were White:
A Journey to the Country of Timid People
London Routledge 1947
217pp, small line illustrations throughout by Le Corbusier. 8vo. Cloth. some discolouring to the boards + spine else a good copy. First English edition of the French original published in 1936. Le Corbusier examines the architecture and people of New York. He loves the latter but deems the architecture haphazard. He imagines an improved New York.
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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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Willem M Dudok
(1954) Published with the aid of the Pincs Bernhard Fund, by G can Saane, "lectura architectonica" Amsterdam 1957
2nd impression. 168pp illustrated with b/w plates and line ills. Quarto. Turquoise cloth with gilt blocked lettering on front board and spine. Slightly dusty dust wrapper. Signed by previous owner on the front end paper in neat hand. Material collected for the book by R M H Magnée. Modern typographic layout. Includes reviews of all the major projects with photo illustrations and line ills. Includes the famous Nassau School at Hilveresum, housing schemes, town hall etc and this garden city project alongside other projects undertaken in the Netherlands. Produced for the 70th birthday of Dudok.
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William Blake's Illuminated Books
Stock ID: 22537More details Price: £250.00
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William Burges and the High Victorian Dream
London John Murray, 1981
454 pages illustrated with b/w plates. Slightly shop soiled but very Good in Fine dust wrapper. First edition of this comprehensive reference book on William Burges.
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William Eggleston
London: Thames and Hudson 2002
Unpaginated. c.200pp of beautifully presented colour and b/w photographic plates plus c.10pp catalogue, bibliography, list of exhibitions. Square 4to in white boards, with tiny bump on upper board bottom edge else very good indeed. Published to accompany an exhibition held in Paris by the Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain. Scarce.
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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 Morris & his Palace of Art: Architecture, Interiors and Design at Red House (National Trust Series)
London, Philip Wilson.
272pp illustrated. 4to. Fine in dust wrapper. Comprehensive new study of Red House, Bexleyheath; the only house commissioned by William Morris and the first independent architectural work of his close friend, Philip Webb. Beautifully illustrated edition. The house was created 1860-1865 and records the interiors and designs of that period following recent research on the collaborative ventures of Morris, Philip Webb Burne Jones, Rossetti and their immediate circle
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William Morris: The Marxist Dreamer
two volume set
Hassocks, Sussex Harvester and New Jersey, Humanities Press 1977
800pp. Used - Very Good in slightly worn dust wrappers with illustration of Kelmscott on each. In cardboard slipcase as issued. Spines sun faded. Translated by Frank Gubb with a preface by Robin Page Arnot
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William Richard Lethaby
The Architectural Press 1986
320pp illus. with b/w plates and line ills. Major assessment of Lethaby's multi faceted carer as an architect, conservationist and educationalist. Square 4to. Very good in dust wrapper.
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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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Windows: a Book About Stained & Painted Glass
London, B T Batsford 1909,
3rd edotopn. 420pp +300 plates and text illustrations. (32pp catalogue of Batsford publications). Tall 8vo. Gilt decorated blue cloth with arts and crafts style decorative gilt lettering on upper board. Decorated end papers. Fine in dust wrapper. Authoritative study of stained glass. Uncommon to find in the dust wrapper.
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Windows for Coventry
Stock ID: 22722More details Price: £20.00
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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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York Minster, The Great East Window
(Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi: Great Britain) (Vol 2)
Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1995
161pp + 20pp of colour plates at back. c120 b/w photographic plates in text. 4to, original decorated dustjacket, fine. A detailed catalogue of the stained and painted glass in the Great East Window of York Minster. All photography is beautifully clear and both the black and white and colour images are stunning in their clarity and quality.
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York Minster through the Centuries
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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





