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  • Pop Art by RUBLOWSKY John
    RUBLOWSKY John
    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: 22929
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  • John Nash: The Painter as Illustrator by (NASH John) LEWIS John (with foreword by Wilfid Blunt)
    (NASH John) LEWIS John (with foreword by Wilfid Blunt)
    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: 22927
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  • Unbound gatherings... ARNOLD, Mathew
    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: 22920
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  • [OPSOVAT] ANON
    The Paintings and Drawings of Henry Ospovat 1877-1909

    London The Baillie Gallery Bruton Street 1909

    Art Catalogue. Unpaginated. 4pp introduction which provides useful information on the life of the artist. List of works include drawings for Shakespeare's Sonnets and other illustrated works, 89 numbers + numbers listed 90-115 which are portraits and studies and finally a series of caricatures separately numbered 1-71. The catalogue also notes a number of books for sale at the gallery published respectively by John Lane and J M Dent illustrated by Opsovat. Wrappers slightly browned else good copy. Selling exhibition held soon after the artist's death. Effectively this is a catalogue for a memorial exhibition. He had exhibited at the Ballie Gallery during his lifetime. Opsovat was a painter, draughtsman, illustrator and…

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    London The Baillie Gallery Bruton Street 1909

    Art Catalogue. Unpaginated. 4pp introduction which provides useful information on the life of the artist. List of works include drawings for Shakespeare's Sonnets and other illustrated works, 89 numbers + numbers listed 90-115 which are portraits and studies and finally a series of caricatures separately numbered 1-71. The catalogue also notes a number of books for sale at the gallery published respectively by John Lane and J M Dent illustrated by Opsovat. Wrappers slightly browned else good copy. Selling exhibition held soon after the artist's death. Effectively this is a catalogue for a memorial exhibition. He had exhibited at the Ballie Gallery during his lifetime. Opsovat was a painter, draughtsman, illustrator and caricaturist. He was born in Russia of Jewish parents, moved with them and settled in Manchester where he studied at the Manchester School of Art, winning a scholarship in 1897 to the South Kensington Schools (Royal College of Art). Influenced by the Pre-Raphaelites, he is best known as an illustrator of Shakespeare, Matthew Arnold and Browning.

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    Stock ID: 22915
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  • GERALLT JONES R
    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: 22905
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  • [INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART]
    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: 22904
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  • [TERN PRESS]
    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.

    Stock ID: 22901
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  • HANSARD Luke
    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: 21579
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  • National Exhibition Children's Art 1964 organised by the Sunday Mirror. by HUDSON, Tom. [Introduction]
    HUDSON, Tom. [Introduction]
    National Exhibition Children's Art 1964 organised by the Sunday Mirror.

    Unpaginated 674 numbers listed. Includes black and white and colour illustrations. Good copy.

    Stock ID: 22899
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  • Ark. Number Thirteen
    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: 22898
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  • Bernard Leach Hamada & their circle from the Wingield Digby Collection by [LEACH & HAMADA]
    [LEACH & HAMADA]
    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.

    Stock ID: 22872
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  • Edward Bawden Designs on life by [BAWDEN] LUTYENS-HUMFREY, Anne
    [BAWDEN] LUTYENS-HUMFREY, Anne
    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

    Stock ID: 22865
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  • [Note. 1 copy in V&A, 1 in British Library, 3 in RA lib & 1 (1856) at Yale]
    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 by LANE, Richard James ARA
    LANE, Richard James ARA
    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.

    Stock ID: 22847
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  • Catalogue of the Exhibitions [1] Drawings by Augustus John R.A. [2] Paintings by Henry Lamb, by [JOHN Augustus and LAMB Henry]
    [JOHN Augustus and LAMB Henry]
    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.

    Stock ID: 22832
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  • [SKETCH SOCIETY]
    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.

    Stock ID: 22820
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  • A Garland of new songs, by L.F. by L.F. Fraser (Claud Lovat).
    L.F. Fraser (Claud Lovat).
    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.

    Stock ID: 22810
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  • NODIER, Charles
    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: 22809
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  • WHISTLER Laurence & WHISTLER Rex
    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: 22808
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  • Eskimo Graphic Art / L'art graphique des Esquimaux by [TURNER, Evan H. Introduction by]
    [TURNER, Evan H. Introduction by]
    Eskimo Graphic Art / L'art graphique des Esquimaux

    Cape Dorset, Canada West Baffin Eskimo Cooperative 1963

    Soft-cover catalogue. Unpaginated.[i + 34pp + i] Black and white images throughout, except for the first and last tissue paper pages which are printed in brown. Blue un-coated paper wraps with black printed image and title. 2480mm X 216mm. Designed by Fritz Gottschalk at Paul Arthur+Associates in Ottawa. This catalogue presents the selection of stencils, stonecuts, and engravings chosen for release by the Canadian Eskimo Art Committee from the production of the Inuits at Cape Dorset during the 1962 season. Several artists feature heavily within the catalogue. Names such as Kenojuak, Pisteolak, Kiakshuk, Pudlo, Parr — but also many up-and-coming artists who have since gone on to build names for themselves.…

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    Cape Dorset, Canada West Baffin Eskimo Cooperative 1963

    Soft-cover catalogue. Unpaginated.[i + 34pp + i] Black and white images throughout, except for the first and last tissue paper pages which are printed in brown. Blue un-coated paper wraps with black printed image and title. 2480mm X 216mm. Designed by Fritz Gottschalk at Paul Arthur+Associates in Ottawa. This catalogue presents the selection of stencils, stonecuts, and engravings chosen for release by the Canadian Eskimo Art Committee from the production of the Inuits at Cape Dorset during the 1962 season. Several artists feature heavily within the catalogue. Names such as Kenojuak, Pisteolak, Kiakshuk, Pudlo, Parr — but also many up-and-coming artists who have since gone on to build names for themselves. An unusual item.

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    Stock ID: 22805
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  • The Pot Book by DE WAAL, Edmund. [editor] GRAIG Blanche [editor]
    DE WAAL, Edmund. [editor] GRAIG Blanche [editor]
    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: 22681
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