Woodbridge, Suffolk The Woodlea Press 2005

134pp illustrated with colour and b/w plates. Long 4to. Fine in slipcase. Loosely inserted prospectus for the book included. One of 450 copies of the standard edition printed in landscape format by J. W. Northend Ltd., Sheffield.

School Prints 1946

no 12 First Series. Gerald Cooper attended the RCA and worked s a sculptor, painter and teacher. He became principal of Wimbledon School of Art and is known for his meticulous drawings of flowers.

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 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.

Godalming Pendomer Press 1978

Printed on Basingwerk Parchment by the Compton Press in collaboration with Skelton's Press. Quarter cloth over decorated boards with gilt-blocked label to the spine. Beautiful marbled end papers. Lacks original marbled slipcase. 136pp. Illustrated with b/w plates and four colour plates. 4to. Unnumbered and unsigned copy from the limited run produced and sold with slipcase and additional portfolio of woodcuts (this missing from this copy). Upper board has sprung slightly and has a faint mark on the bottom right corner, else a very good copy and very bright internally. This is the first book on Nash's work as an illustrator.

Manchester At the College of Science and Technology 1961

7 x 8pp 8vo gathering for an illustrated version of Sohrab and Rustum: An Episode is a narrative poem with strong tragic themes by Matthew Arnold, first published in 1853. These gatherings produced with illustrations at the printing department of the College of Science and Technology. Illustrations by Margaret Turner. Produced by Christopher Day and John Naylor. Colophon indicates there was to be a numbered edition of this publication. Preserved in white paper wrapper contemporary with the pages publication. Unbound.

Market Drayton Tern Press 1976

no 138 of 200 signed by Gerallt Jones. Includes prints by Nicholas Parry. Unpaginated. Green decorated wrappers. 240x300mm. Perfect bound. Slightly sunned on spine else good copy.