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Piper's Places: John Piper in England and Wales
London: Chatto & Windus . The Hogarth Press. 1983.
184 pp. with 144 Fine plates, almost all in colour and some specially made for this book. 4to. Very good copy in good dust wrapper. Superbly produced anthology of places visited and painted by John Piper.
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Moored Man, Poems of North Norfolk
London Enitharmon Editions 2006
63 pp. Reproduces watercolours and etchings by Norman Ackroyd to illustrate the poems of Crossley-Holland Signed by both writer and illustrator. Very good condition with dust wrapper.
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Dictionary of British Book Illustrators – The Twentieth Century
London John Murray 1983
336 pp Fully illustrated (350) in black and white. 8vo boards with dw. Very good copy. The first reference work on 20th century book illustration covering over 800 illustrators in alphabetical order.
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Patrick Heron
Tate Publishing
A survey of the life and work of Heron published by Tate Publishing in 2002 in their St Ives Artists series
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R B Kitaj edited by Richard Morphet
New York Rizzoli 1994
239pp. Nicely illustrated with colour prints and full page size of the painter's work. 4to. Very good with dust wrapper protected with glassine wrapper over. Essays contributed by Morphet including an interview with the artist. Catalogue of works, and a second essay by Richard Wollheim.
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Dada and Surrealism
London: Octopus Books, 1980
176pp illustrated with b/w and colour plates. 4to. Very good with dust wrapper. Useful overview of these art movements.
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Eduardo Paolozzi
Lund Humphries 2014
2014 304pp illustrated in colour and black and white. 4to. Very good with very good dust wrapper. Organised around the various types of work in which Paolozzi became involved; sculpture, painting, film, music, print and the Independent Group.
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A catalogue of the large and magnificent collection of objects d'art commenced by the late C.B. Lee-Mainwaring
... in the year 1820, and from 1874 largely added to by the Hon. W.F.B. Massey-Mainwaring, M.P., and the Hon. Mrs. Massey-Mainwaring, comprising specimens from all the most important art sales dispersed during the above periods, since 1874 exhibited at the Victoria and Albert and Bethnal Green Museums ...will be sold by auction by Messrs. Robinson & Fisher ... on Monday, June 6th, 1904, and five following days
London, Robinson & Fishe 1904.
99pp illustrated, 4to. Gilt lettered cloth with original wrappers bound in. Ownership signature of William H Brook 1904 on front paste down. Cloth binding worn at head and base of spine and corners. Internally very good. A key sale of the collection of William Massey-Mainwaring comprising French and English furniture, valuable porcelain, jewellery, enamels, stained glass, and paintings etc with 1037 lots in total. Additional items were sold at high-profile auctions by Christie's in 1907 following his death.
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The Stowe Catalogue, Priced and Annotated:
Stock ID: 23713More details Price: £350.00
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Samuel Palmer:
Shadows on the Wall
London Yale University Press, Paul Mellon Centre for British Art 2015
412 Pages, 180 colour + 120 b-w illus. 4to 241 × 279 mm, Very good in dust wrapper. Beautifully illustrated with Palmer's visionary and enchanted landscapes. William Vaughan, scolar and expert on Palmer, has drwn ons on unpublished diaries and letters, offering a fresh interpretation of one of the most attractive and sympathetic, yet idiosyncratic, artists of the 19th century.
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Joseph Pennell
Catalogue of an Exhibition of Lithographs and Etchings
Bradford The Corporation of Bradford 1913
1913 15 pp in wrappers with 14 black and white illustrations of the exhibits. Very good copy. The American artist Pennell's exhibition was called 'The Wonder of Work' and was held at the Corporation Art Gallery in Bradford. Catalogue includes an introduction and notes by the artist.
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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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Hollar's England, a mid-seventeenth-century view
Salisbury Michael Russell 1980
144 pp 121 numbered black and white illustrations Quarto with dw, top end corners scuffed but otherwise good. The author sets out the life of Hollar as the artist of 17th century topographical views especially of London and the large-scale format of the book means the drawings can be seen in great detail.
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Pottery in Britain today
London Alec Tiranti 1967
26 pp of text printed on matt brown paper, 243 black and white photographs, 1 in colour. Boards, 8vo, slight loosening of pages from binding. D/W. A title in the 'Chapters in Art' series this is a interesting snapshot of the major potters in the mid 1960s as well as a reflection on the post war revival in hand made British pottery.
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The Dark Monarch, a Portrait from Within
Finishing Publications Ltd. 2009
249 pp 8 pages of colour photographs together with black and white illustrations by the author. 8vo. Gilt decorated boards, in very good dust wrapper. First published in 1962 this autobiographical book was initially withdrawn. This reprinted edition includes the author's key to the artistic characters involved in a thinly disguised St Ives artists including amongst others Barbara Hepworth, Ben Nicholson, Bernard Leach, Peter Lanyon, and Patrick Heron.
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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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Michael Cardew, a portrait
Kodansha International 1976
228 pp, 24 colour plates, 58 duotone plates, 59 monochrome text photos, 8vo, boards. Dust wrapper has small tear and rubbed edges. Good.
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Thoughts on Drawing with an appreciation by Lottie Hoare
Inky Parrot Press 1996
Wood engraved plates & illustrations. Includes artists proof of the image Noah, loosely inserted. Boards. With folio of prints limited to 24 copies in separate folio, both housed in a pictorial slip case. The publication was produced in an edition of 76 copies of which 24 have an additional set of signed wood engravings of which this is one. Decorated paper covered slipcase. The book and portfolio is in very good condition. Slip case a little worn at edges and corners. The portfolio contains images names as; THE GARDENER; MERMAID OF ZENNORE; ALLEGORY; and THE DREAM four wood engravings, each signed, titled and numbered IX/XXIV in pencil Largest image size 175mm x 145mm.
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Past Artists of Huddersfield
Huddersfield Privately Published, 1923
109pp illustrated with b/w plates. Pale marbled end papers. Blue cloth, slightly rubbed else good copy. Hand-written on back of half title, " Presented to Edith E Webster by the author 22nd February 1925" Features the work of 11 artists + frontis which is bound in the Introduction. Artists are; G D Tomlinson, Samuel Howell, Peace Sykes, James Young, W> H. Midood, John Pearson, Charles France, Annie Wood, Henry Sykes, William Frederick Allot and Stephen E Hogley.
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The Hill
Nomad Letterpress & Beaufort Bookshop, (nr Cheltenham) printed at the Whittington Press 2023
29, (2) pages. Illustrations by Hilary Paynter. Small oblong folio. Decorated paper covered boards, with paste down paper label on cover. Limited to 900 numbered copies, of which this is number 354 of 874 copies bound by Green Street Bindery using Bugra-Bütten covers. Printed on Zerkall mould-made paper using Walbaum and Stern typefaces using a Heidelberg Cylinder SBB. The illustrations are printed from lemonwood blocks engraved by the artist. These sheets are the last to come from the Zerkall Mill which was forced to close following the Ahr Valley floods in 2021.
Stock ID: 23668More details Price: £90.00