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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: 23636More details Price: £40.00 -
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: 23630More details Price: £185.00 -
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: 23615More details Price: £180.00 -
Untitled "The Town and the City"
nd 1985
510mm x630mm Colour litho on paper. Number 50 of 195
Stock ID: 23568More details Price: £250.00 -
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: 23562More details Price: £45.00 -
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: 23561More details Price: £85.00 -
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: 23560More details Price: £165.00 -
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: 23558More details Price: £40.00 -
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: 23557More details Price: £45.00 -
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: 23555More details Price: £30.00 -
Designing for Ditchling
Ortshostat Edition 2015
64pp illustrated. 4to. Striking red cloth. Fine.
Stock ID: 23542More details Price: £50.00 -
The Blue Guitar
Petersburg Press 1977
First edition. 52pp with 20 colour etchings by David Hockney. Inspired by Wallace Stevens who was inspired by Pablo Picasso. Very good condition in very good unclipped dust wrapper. Very slightly rubbed on corners and base of spine.
Stock ID: 23531More details Price: £48.00 -
Transfer Treasures: Watercolours
Wakefield The Fleece Press 2014
Fleece Press published these together in a very long accordion-fold book measuring 275mm square and extending to a gigantic 8 metres long. They are hard-bound in a design using the water colours, and held in a slipcase with a label. The artist has drawn a title page specially for the book, and has signed each of the 250 copies on the colophon. The images are of the transferware pottery – plates, mugs and jugs – found on her dresser. Loosely inserted in this copy is the original prospectus for the book with colour paste down illustrations.
Stock ID: 23528More details Price: £185.00 -
My Brush is My Sword Anthony Gross, War Artist.
Wakefield The Fleece Press 2022
172pp illustrated with colour and b/w plates including some fold outs. Maps printed as end papers. Oblong 4to. 235cm x 285cm Quarter cloth, Louise Brockman's fine marbled paper covered boards. Limited edition to 330 copies. Loosely inserted is the prospectus for the publication which is an accordian style fold out with tipped in colour images. Records the work of Anthony Gross as a war artist. Reviews his travels and works from the Home Front in Britain, Europe, North Africa, the Middle East, the Indian subcontinent and Burma. Fine.
Stock ID: 23527More details Price: £160.00 -
Today I worked well - the picture fell off the brush. The artistry of Leslie Cole
Told for the first time by Malcolm Yorke with a note on the interesting life of Brenda Cole
Wakefield The Fleece Press 2010
200pp + colophon; 132 plates, the majority full-page in colour; Square 4to. 230 x280mm Cloth backed boards with paste down label on the spine. in the style of Simon Lawrence's previous studies of Ardizzone & Ravilious. Best known for his wartime work, Cole's watercolour technique was much influenced by Ravilious, his tutor (with Bawden) at the RCA. Fine.
Stock ID: 23525More details Price: £70.00 -
St Bartholomew's Whittington: A Cotswold Church; wood-engravings and captions by Miriam Macgregor & Abigail Rorer.
Peterham Mass. The Lone Oak Press, November 2015
Unpaginated Number 30 of 300 copies set in 14 point Van Dijck by Neil Winter and printed by Patrick Randle at Nomad Letterpress in Whittington on Zerkall mold made paper. Bound in decorated paper, based on a hinge design from the church. Preserved in slipcase. Fine. Signed on the colophon by both wood engravers. Abergail Rorer is a well-known American wood engraver and in this publication worked alongside Miriam Macgregor who lives at Whittington and produces work at the Whittington Press. Beautifully produced book.
Stock ID: 23524More details Price: £130.00 -
The Art of an Art Historian
Hanborough, Oxford, Inky Parrot Press 2018
161pp + colophon; illustrations in colour throughout; Fine. A fascinating study, beautifully produced in the Artist's Choice series style. Includes essays by Peter Davidson & Michael Hall. Loosely inserted is the Prospectus for the standard edition book, the prospectus for the special edition with formed part of 35 copies with a separate folder of colour prints, the original receipt for this copy and note on a card from Alan Power to the book's recipient. Number 86 of 196 signed by Alan Powers on the colophon.
Stock ID: 23523More details Price: £125.00 -
Before the war…. And long ago
Landego, The Old Stile Press 2000
Preface by Nicholas McDowall. Unpaginated. [37]pp. Illustrated with wood engravings. Long 8vo. 200x270mm. Bound in decorated boards with glassine dust wrapper over. Decorated end papers. Type is Bulmer and the paper is 175gsm Zerkall mould made. Binding at the Fine Bindery. With loosely inserted additional signed print, number slipped in at the end dated 1999 "With the swans Cheltenham.". One of 100 copies. This is number 23, signed by the author.
Stock ID: 23516More details Price: £120.00 -
Land Sea & Sky
Wakefield Fleece Press 2009
[40]pp. frontispiece and 23 further wood-engravings. Oblong 8vo, original quarter terracotta cloth with boards marbled in copper and gold, edges untrimmed. Fine. One of 140 copies , (from an edition of 160 copies) printed on Magnani paper, title-page and captions to facing verso of each illustration printed in shades of brown. A very attractive book from the Press, comprising illustrations featured in various Folio Society publications but of better definition here.
Stock ID: 23515More details Price: £120.00 -
The Charm of Magpies
Oldham, Incline Press 2018
10 two tone colour prints. accompanying the age old poem about Magpies. 370 x 260mm Bound with a cloth spine and printed paper over boards with specially printed flyleaves by Roger Grech at his Papercut Bindery. Text set in Monotype Bembo from 24 to 72 points in size. The numerals are Winchester 30-line woodtype from Stephenson, Blake. The paper is 170gsm Zerkall.. Signed by the artist. Number 51 of 160 copies, signed by Nick Wornham on the colophon. Fine copy.
Stock ID: 23510More details Price: £110.00
