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  • The Pot Book by DE WAAL, Edmund
    DE WAAL, Edmund
    The Pot Book

    London Phaidon 2011

    319pp, numerous colour illustrations, Large quarto, decorated boards with dust wrapper. A superb history of ceramic art written by de Waal with Claudia Clare listing in alphabetical order by the name of the maker, school or style. Very good copy.

    Stock ID: 23645
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  • Ten Thousand Things by DE WAAL, Edmund.
    DE WAAL, Edmund.
    Ten Thousand Things

    Beverley Hills Gagosian Gallery 2016

    75pp, extensive colour photographs with one gate folded pullout. Long quarto. Decorated boards, white lettered cloth spine. Very good copy. The catalogue for the artist's exhibition at the Gagosian Gallery, his first show in Los Angeles. The introduction by Joan Simon is an overview of de Waal's career and the influences on his work including the poetry of Celan, the music of John Cage and the history of his own family recounted in 'The Hare with Amber Eyes'.

    Stock ID: 23644
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  • The Pottery of John Ward by [WARD] CHRICHTON-MILLER, Emma
    [WARD] CHRICHTON-MILLER, Emma
    The Pottery of John Ward

    London Lund Humphries 2022

    127pp, illustrated throughout with specially commissioned colour photography by Sylvain Deleu Quarto. Laminated boards. New. The first account of the life and work of a major British potter which places his work within the history of British Studio Pottery.

    Stock ID: 23638
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  • Contemporary British Studio Pottery: Forms of Expression by THORPE, Ashley.
    THORPE, Ashley.
    Contemporary British Studio Pottery: Forms of Expression

    Marlborough, Wiltshire The Crowood Press 2023

    238 pp, with many colour illustrations. Quarto with dust jacket in fine condition. A beautifully produced book exploring the interaction, through the work of twenty- four potters, between the ancient language of pots and the contemporary.

    Stock ID: 23637
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  • Hazel Johnston: Porcelain by [JOHNSTON] JOHNSTON, Simon
    [JOHNSTON] JOHNSTON, Simon
    Hazel Johnston: Porcelain

    Los Angeles Verb Editions/ Lund Humphries 2010

    144 pp, quarto with jacket in fine condition. A survey of the career of the potter interweaving extensive interviews and images, most of which are colour reproductions. A beautifully designed and illustrated book.

    Stock ID: 23636
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  • The Wood Engravings of John Nash: A Catalogue of the Wood-Engravings, Early Lithographs, Etchings and Engravings on Metal by (NASH) GREENWOOD Jeremy
    (NASH) GREENWOOD Jeremy
    The Wood Engravings of John Nash: A Catalogue of the Wood-Engravings, Early Lithographs, Etchings and Engravings on Metal

    Liverpool, The Wood Lea Press 1987

    148 + [3]pp, with 164 b/w illustrations and four colour paste-downs. Cloth backed boards with lovely woodcut design in slipcase, Very good. A beautifully presented catalogue of Nash's 140 woodcuts, all of which were made between 1919 and 1935. With an introduction by John O'Connor and a loosely inserted presentation copy of a review from Hortus, bound in the same decorative paper. One of 750 copies, this is a lovely pieces of book design, and a valuable collection of some of Nash's less well-known work. Typed letter from Jeremy Greenwood, signed, concerning delay in publication loosely slipped in.

    Stock ID: 23630
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  • [Whittington Press] PHIPPS Howard.
    Ebble Valley

    Andoversford: The Whittington Press 2007

    One of 230 copies of an edition of 300, half cloth, boards in slipcase. Signed on the copyright page. Unpaginated c60pp comprising text and 30 wood engravings. Folded colour linocut serves as a frontispiece followed by a double spread which is a map of the valley by the author. a guided journey along the River Ebble's valley in Wiltshire. Loosely laid in the prospectus for the book and Whittington Press slip with hand written note "Sorry for the delay."

    Stock ID: 23616
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  • POWERS, Alan and RUSSELL, James.
    Eric Ravilious The Story of High Street.

    Mainstone Press 2008

    188pp illustrated in colour and b/w. Quarto. Blue cloth with a decorative label and slipcase. Page size 265x195mm. Decorative end papers. Limited to 750 copies. Laid in prospectus for the book.

    Stock ID: 23615
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  • GENTLEMAN, David.
    Untitled "The Town and the City"

    nd 1985

    510mm x630mm Colour litho on paper. Number 50 of 195

    Stock ID: 23568
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  • [HOGARTH] HALLETT, Mark and RIDING Christine.
    Hogarth

    London, Tate Publishing, 2006

    264 pp, quarto with dust jacket in very good condition and a wealth of illustrations. The catalogue of the major Hogarth exhibition held at Tate Britain which covered for the first time all the different aspects of the artist's career.

    Stock ID: 23562
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  • [MIRO] LANCHNER, Carolyn.
    Joan Miro

    New York, The Museum of Modern Art New York, 1993

    484 pp, quarto in good condition with dust jacket. Book published with major single artist exhibition at MOMA and is the ultimate catalogue of the work of this artist. Extensive colour plates and chronology.

    Stock ID: 23561
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  • A Place, A State by RAINE, Kathleen
    RAINE, Kathleen
    A Place, A State A Suite of Drawings by Julian Trevelyan. Commentary by Kathleen Raine

    London, Enitharmon Press, 1974

    Half title, frontis, title page [2] + 17 b/w plates with facing commentary, each separately numbered. Colophon with limitation noted. 4to marbled boards, cloth spine, very good condition with slightly worn dustjacket. Trevelyan gave Raine a series of drawings he had done towards the end of the second world war. Thirty years later she provided a commentary alongside them. The drawings, reflect the privations of the war and anxieties about the new world after by an important English surrealist artist.

    Stock ID: 23560
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  • A Favoured Land, Yorkshire in Text and Image, The work of Marie Hartley, Joan Ingilby and Ella Pontefract by DIAPER, Hilary [Editor]
    DIAPER, Hilary [Editor]
    A Favoured Land, Yorkshire in Text and Image, The work of Marie Hartley, Joan Ingilby and Ella Pontefract

    Otley, Smith Settle, 1994

    78 pp, quarto in good condition. Extensive black and white illustrations and photographs. A catalogue of the work these three well known Yorkshire based women who illustrated and wrote a series of books featuring the Yorkshire countryside and landscape. This is a lovely appreciation of three remarkable women artists.

    Stock ID: 23559
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  • GRAY Nicolete
    The Paintings of David Jones

    London Lund Humphries with John Taylor 1989

    184pp including 68 full page color plates with 6 black and white illustrations. 4to. Fine in very good wrapper. Definitive text and record of David Jones' watercolours. Beautifully produced book.

    Stock ID: 23558
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  • [LAMB] MACKIE, George.
    Lynton Lamb, Illustrator

    London, The Scolar Press 1978

    104 pp, quarto with dust jacket in good condition. Includes over 150 illustrations by the distinguished designer and illustrator, Lynton Lamb (1907-77).

    Stock ID: 23557
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  • {WEISSENBORN} NYBURG, Anna.
    From Leipzig to London: The Life and Work of the Émigré Artist Hellmuth Weissenborn

    New Castle, Delaware, Oak Knoll Press 2012

    184pp, quarto with 54 black and white illustrations. Book with dust jacket in very good condition. The first full biography of the artist who began his life and trained in Leipzig, left Germany in 1939 and continued in London with a career of printmaking, teaching, typography and publishing.

    Stock ID: 23555
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  • CAUSEY, Andrew
    Paul Nash, Landscape and the Life of Objects

    London Lund Humphries 2013

    168pp, quarto with dust jacket in very good condition and 100 colour images. A major re assessment of a key English artist by the leading authority on Nash.

    Stock ID: 23554
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  • [NASH]
    Paul Nash, Paintings and Watercolours

    London, Tate Gallery 1975

    116pp, 14 illustrations in colour and over 80 in black and white. Book with dust jacket in good condition. The catalogue of the first major exhibition of Nash's work since 1948.

    Stock ID: 23552
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  • RICHARDS, Adam BAINES, Phil and WILLIAMS, Hilary.
    Designing for Ditchling

    Ortshostat Edition 2015

    64pp illustrated. 4to. Striking red cloth. Fine.

    Stock ID: 23542
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  • [VANCE ET AL]
    Vance Jerry and The Weather Bird Press with Contributions by Vance Gerry, Simon Lawrence, David Butcher, Patrick Reagh, James Lorson and John Randle, & with a Checklist of Publications compiled by David Butcher.

    Risbury The Whittington Press 2018

    [10] + 86+, [2]pp of plates, XII pages of numbered plates. Total edition of 235 copies set in 13-point Poliphilus, and Ariston display types, and printed at Whittington on Zerkall mould-made paper. The pochoir reproductions and the black-and-white images printed digitally by Promprint. Many illustrations in colours. This one of 155 'C' copies half-bound in cloth and one of Vance's pattern papers, in a slipcase and two facsimile letters in a pocket at the rear. Fine copy.

    Stock ID: 23541
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