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Pop Art
Images of the American Dream
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.
Stock ID: 22929More details Price: £60.00 -
John Nash: The Painter as Illustrator
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.
Stock ID: 22927More details Price: £120.00 -
Sohrab and Rustrum
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.
Stock ID: 22920More details Price: £48.00 -
The Paintings and Drawings of Henry Ospovat 1877-1909
Stock ID: 22915More details Price: £45.00
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Bardsey; a fortnight's journal translated from the Welsh by the author
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.
Stock ID: 22905More details Price: £30.00 -
Caprogrossi Exhibition 30 May-22 June 1957]
London ICA, Dover Street 1957
Introduction by Roland Penrose. Unpaginated 8pp including stiff card wrappers. 20 numbers listed. Printed on yellow paper internally, wrap around black and white illustrated wrappers by Caprogrossi. Exhibition in coloration with Carlo Cardazzo, Galleria del Naviglio, Milan and Galleria del Cavallino, Venice.
Stock ID: 22904More details Price: £40.00 -
ELLIS, Randolph. The Disasters of War.
Market Drayton, Tern Press 1975
48pp illustrated by Nicholas Parry with etchings and woodcut. Colophon states this is no 1 of 50 [ 50 hand scrubbed out and noted in manuscript 100] Signed by both Randolph Ellis and Nicholas Parry. The colophon notes that the illustrations are "reminders rather than statements of Goya's etchings." Upper wrapper slightly sunned at top edge as is the spine else very good copy.
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The Autobiography of Luke Hansard, written in 1817. Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Robin Myers, and wood-engraved illustrations by John Lawrence
Wakefield The Fleece Press 1991
156 pp. Illustrated with engravings of printers at work. Quarter red cloth, printed paper boards. Rear pocket contains a wood engraving signed by Lawrence. Square quarto. Fine copy in cloth slipcase with a little wear. One of 250 unnumbered copies. From the library of Michael Harvey.
Stock ID: 21579More details Price: £115.00 -
National Exhibition Children's Art 1964 organised by the Sunday Mirror.
Unpaginated 674 numbers listed. Includes black and white and colour illustrations. Good copy.
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Ark 13: The Journal of Design and Fine Art, Winter 1954
London Royal College of Art, 1954
Unpaginated. Illustrated. Oblong 12mo. 180x240mm. Original card covers. These slightly dusty. Contains Illustrated essays on 'Three Young Contemporaries' by John Minton, Len Deighton 'Impressions of New York', Bernard Myers on tattoos, Herbert Spencer on 'Recent Developments in Typography', colour lithographs by Tony Puig, colour lithographs of Under Milk Wood by Roy Morgan, wo colour lithographs by Anthony Whishaw. Includes many period ads.
Stock ID: 22898More details Price: £40.00 -
Bernard Leach Hamada & their circle from the Wingield Digby Collection
Oxford Phaidon Christies 1990
192pp illustrated with colour and bw plates. 4to. Very good with very good dust wrapper.
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Edward Bawden Designs on life
Essex Museums 1989
Concertina fold out form; 28pp illustrated. Title on bund holding the whole publication together. Elusive publication with great illustrations throughout. Great book design. £95
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Notes on so much of the catalogue of the present exhibition of the Royal Academy as relates to the works of the members : with a report of the private view and the dinner
London Privately Printed 1855
ix, 10-61pp. 8vo.FLimsy blind stamped cloth without titles. 220mm x 138mm. Gilt edged book block. Very good. Cover edges a little bumped in places and some of the gatherings a little shaky. Bookplate of Robin de Beaumont on front end paper. Dedication from the author, artist Richard Lane ARA, to his daughter Laura, on her fifteenth birthday.November 30 1855. Text written in rhyming verse. Lane was lithographer to Queen Victoria and Prince Albert.
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Catalogue of the Exhibitions [1] Drawings by Augustus John R.A. [2] Paintings by Henry Lamb,
London, Ernest Brown & Phillips Ltd at the Leicester Galleries
December 1933 16pp 43 numbers by John and 60 by Henry Lamb.
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Catalogue of the Third Exhibition . January 1912.
The Sketch Society 195 Piccadilly 1912
61pp. 150mm. Paper covered boards with illustration on upper board. Advert for Newman artists materials on rear board. A little worn at all edge. Title page browned. Chairman of the Society was artist, James D Linton. List of members of the Society given at the end of the publication. There are 575 items listed and organized by artist. The Society ran between 1910-1913. It ran four exhibitions in total. These were held at the Royal Institute Galleries. The exhibitions were selling shows and the prices of each item is given in the catalogue. One copy listed on World Cat at the V&A.
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A Garland of new songs, by L.F.
London [Westminister, Printed by A.T. Stevens for Flying Fame, 1913] 1913
Broadsheet. Eight pages, 12mo. Unbound and unstitched. Unfolds into a single leaf. Illustrated with black and white illustrations. Some hand coloured. Eight pages, 12mo. Unbound and unstitched. Unfolds into a single leaf. Stamp of Eric H Dukes on one page. A little foxed. H. Printed on paper and unnumbered.
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The luck of the Bean-Rows:
A fairy tale for lucky children
London Daniel O'Connor, 1921
60pp illustrated by Claud Lovat Fraser with title-page vignette and 30 further colour-printed illustrations by Fraser of varying sizes. A charming fairy-tale by Charles Nodier. Translated into English. Very slightly worn at corner, head and base of spine and end paper a little browned. else a very good copy. Loosely inserted folded broadsheet A Garland of New Songs by L.F. Printed at the Curwen Press. Stamp on verso of half title "With the publisher's compliments"
Stock ID: 22809More details Price: £55.00 -
Oho
London John Lane, The Bodley Head 1946
Illustrated with 15 reversible heads and 30 associated verses. paper covered boards with original unclipped dust wrapper. Dust wrapper a little worn at corners, base and head of the spine else good. Quirky collaboration by the famed British artist, designer and illustrator, Rex Whistler and his brother who wrote the verses. The drawings area of people which, when turned upside down, show a different but related person.
Stock ID: 22808More details Price: £25.00 -
Eskimo Graphic Art / L'art graphique des Esquimaux
Stock ID: 22805More details Price: £35.00
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The Pot Book
London Phaidon 2011
319pp illustrated in colour. Large 4to. Laminated boards, dust wrapper. Organised in an A-Z format, traces the artisan pots of ealy CHinese Millennia to modern vessels of Hans Coper and Grayson Perry today.
Stock ID: 22681More details Price: £75.00