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Dussler, Luitpold (editor)
Drawings By Italian Masters
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked sunned boards, top two cm of well-sunned spine strip missing, spine foot bumped, foxed page edges and no bumping to corners. Twenty-two pages descriptive text with plates on 48pp. Drawings from Italy from the middle of the 14th century to the 18th century.
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Schilling, Edmund (chosen and edited by)
Drawings of the Early German Masters
Name to front end paper. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to sunned spine. A very clean very tight copy with sunned unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Nineteen pages of descriptive text plus full-page plates on 56pp. Drawings of German artists from the 15th and 16th centuries.
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Housman, A. E. & Corfield, Robin Bell
A Shropshire Lad (Illustrated in Colour)
No marks or inscriptions. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased. Unpaginated. pp. Beautifully illustrated in watercolours edition of Housman's classic poem first published in 1896.
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Roe, F. Gordon
Rowlandson: The Life and Art of a British Genius (Limited Edition)
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked gilt embossed light blue cloth boards, sunned centre of spine and bumping to lower corners. Dusty dust jacket not price clipped with some loss to centre of spine, spine ends and lower corners. Forty-eight plates plus 71pp. Biography of the British artist born in 1756, a caricaturist, satirist and a genius who painted the mingled beauty of the British. Limited Edition no 141 of 500 copies. Scarce in dust jacket.
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Rosanna Negrotti
William Wordsworth: A Biography with Selected Poems
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked laminated boards and no bumping to corners. 120pp. A collection of Wordsworth's best work, largely from his early years. The poems are accompanied by drawings and colour paintings of the Lake Distict by renowned painters.
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Aubrey Noakes and Fyson, Nance Lui
London Pride
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with very minor creasing to upper edge. 127pp. A collection of over 100 etchings by Nance Lui Fyson which depict both familiar tourist spots in London and many lesser well-known views and scenes. Each image has its own extensive caption detailing the history and associations of the buildings, scenes, areas and landmarks. At the end is a lengthy bibliography of London books. The whole is printed on sepia-tinted paper.
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Fiona McLaren
Da Vinci's Last Commission: The Most Sensational Detective Story in the History of Art
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, small tears to upper edge of one page only (book otherwise fine condition) and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with very minor traces of storage. 320pp. The story of one woman's courage and tenacity in challenging the international art establishment. and the Catholic Church. Art experts who examined her old painting of Madonna and Child realised that it pointed to one of the greatest heresies of our time, an incredible story that the Roman Catholic Church has been desperate to keep secret at all costs for centuries. Illustrated.
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Wishart, Anne (editor)
Society of Scottish Artists: The First 100 Years
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with very minor indents to rear. 96pp. The story of the Society of Scottish Artists, established in 1891 with around 100 plates depicting the member's work. With a complete list of the 100s of members over the period of 100 years.
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Gray, Stephen & Skotnes, Cecil
The Assassination of Shaka : by Mhlangane Dingane & Mbopa on 22 September 1828 at Dukuza by which act the Zulu Nation first lost its Empire
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and very minor bumping to some corners. Slightly dusty dust jacket not price clipped with very minor marks and small tears to upper and lower edges (longest two cm) and slightly sunned spine. Unpaginated. pp. An artist and a poet combined have reworked the drama of Shaka, mythical forger of the Zulu people in the rare and stunning medium of woodcuts with forty three full page mainly coloured plates with facing poetry plus notes.
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Compton, E. Harrison
Chester Water-Colours
No marks or inscriptions to contents and no creasing to covers. Very clean very tight pages with marked boards, very rusty staples and no bumping to corners. All sixteen attractive full page colour illustrations present. 36pp. Water colours of the City of Chester.
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Lise Grenier, Maurice Culot, Robert Delevoy
Henri Sauvage 1873-1932
Name/date to front end paper. No other marks or inscriptions and no creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 257pp. Biographical details of French archtect and artist Henry Sauvage. With essays by a number of contributors but the main emphasis is on his work with probably hundreds of coloured and black & white depictions of his art and architecture. Text in English.
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Canaday, John
Metropolitan Seminars in Art, Portfolio 10: Technique
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to slightly sunned spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, foxing to page edges and no bumping to very sharp corners. Protected in glassine jacket.. All twelve colour prints in excellent condition in folder at front plus 31pp. Techniques of water colour, pastel and print plus full size colour plates and descriptions.
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Canaday, John
Metropolitan Seminars in Art, Portfolio 11: The Artist as a Social Critic
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to slightly sunned spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, foxing to page edges and no bumping to corners. Protected in glassine jacket.. All twelve colour prints in excellent condition in folder at front plus 31pp. Full size colour plates and descriptions featuring the artist as a critic of society. Scarce volume in this series.
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Canaday, John
Metropolitan Seminars in Art, Portfolio 8: Fresco
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, foxing to page edges and no bumping to very sharp corners. Protected in glassine jacket.. All twelve colour prints in excellent condition in folder at front plus 31pp. Techniques of water colour, pastel and print plus full size colour plates and descriptions with emphasis on the fresco or wall painting.
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Barry Maybury
Thoughtshapes
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 160pp. Poetry, essays, many from young children and associated images for stimulating creativity in students.
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Tristan Manco
Street Logos (Street Graphics / Street Art)
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, very minor traces of storage and no bumping to corners. 128pp. Current graffiti art the world over.
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James Laver
English Sporting Prints (Collectors Monograph)
Ex-library book with usual marks and stamps. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, missing front end paper and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased. 96pp. a study of the English sporting print, popular for around a hundred years over the last half of the 18th and the first half of the 19th centuries. About 75% of the book is a display of actual examples.
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Bayle, Francoise
Orsay - Visitor's Guide (Anglais)
No marks or inscriptions. Minor creasing to two corners. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 95pp. Guide to the exhibits at the Musee d''Orsay in Paris.
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Byron, May; Barrie, J. M.
A Day with Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Neat inscription on front end paper and small stains to a very few pages. No creasing to covers, spine strip missing. Mainly clean tight pages with soiled boards and rubbing to corners. Unpaginated ca 60pp. Concise biographical details and poems plus six colour plates by contemporary artists. Undated but inscription from 1913.
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Clare, Maurice
A Day with William Makepeace Thackeray
Very neat inscription on front end paper. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. Very clean tight pages with lightly soiled boards, a little foxing/tanning, rubbing to spine ends and no bumping to corners. 48pp. The author takes us through a typical day in the life of the Thackeray with six coloured contemporary paintings.
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Rothschild, Max
Gainsborough : Masterpieces in Colour
No marks or inscriptions to contents. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with slightly sunned slightly foxed unmarked boards, rubbing to spine ends, dusty top of page edges and no bumping to corners. Fore and lower page edges untrimmed. Eight colour plates all present. 80pp. Concise biography of Thomas Gainsborough and examples of his paintings.
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Leven, Ulrika (editor)
Carnegie Art Award 2004
No marks or inscriptions. A lovely clean very tight copy with unmarked black leatherette boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with a few minor indents to front. 225pp. Works from the twenty-four artists participating in the year's Nordic art award for 2004 plus concise biographies and bibliographies of the artists.
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Min Lewis
Laugharne & Dylan Thomas
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 140pp. Originally published in 1967, written by Min Lewis and with the superb drawings by her husband Stanley Lewis, this work is 'the essential documentary reference that gives a complete corroboration to Dylan's own work'. It contains an important cache of letters, documents, illustrations and thumbnail sketches relating to Laugharne and Dylan Thomas in the 1950s and 1960s including Stanley's delightful original 1958 sketches of the Llaregyb Players rehearsing Under Milk Wood.
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Collins, Judith & Lindner, Elsbeth (editors)
Writing on the Wall: Women Writers on Women Artists
No marks or inscriptions. Creasing to two corners of covers, none to spine. A very clean very tight copy with slightly rubbed slightly sunned unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 146pp. Short essays by twenty women writers including Bery Bainbridge, Pat Barker, Eva Figes, Sue Townsend, and Penelope Lively on art works by eighteen women artists including Dame Barbara Hepworth, Dame Elizabeth Frink, Gwen John, Paula Rego and Vanessa Bell. With at least one coloured reproduction for each artist.
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Reinhold Heller
Munch: His Life and Work
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, light foxing to top of page edges and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn owith very minor creasing to top edge and sunning to spine. 240pp. In-depth study of Norwegian artist Edvard Munch (1863-1944). With 180 illustrations.
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The Editor
Artworks : a Voice for the Arts
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, very minor traces of storage and no bumping to corners. 146pp. An arts magazine from Carmel, California.
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Arnold, Bruce
The Art Atlas of Britain and Ireland : In Association with the National Trust
No marks or inscriptions. A lovely clean crisp very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with creasing to upper edge. This Art Artlas gives a uniquely comprehensive survey of the amazing variety of fine art available to the public in houses, museums and art galleries. With colour illustrations of a wealth of examples. With a gazetteer by country and county plus twenty-nine full-page maps showing where to go to see the exhibits. 489pp.
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Martin, Judy
The Complete Guide to Calligraphy : Techniques and Materials
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with sunning around spine and general traces of storage. 160pp. A comprehensive work on the art of 'beautiful writing' including its development, practical aspects, contemporary letterforms and alphabets and its application.
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Trustees of the British Museum
Reproductions from Illustrated Manuscripts : Series II
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. A series of fifty (!) very clean loose black & white plates with dusty edges in a hardcover folder with printed paper title to spine. Plate 37 missing. pp. Descriptive text of these medieval manuscripts on 16 pages.
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Trustees of the British Museum
Reproductions from Illustrated Manuscripts : Series IV
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. A series of fifty very clean loose black & white plates with partly dusty upper edges in a hardcover folder with slight rubbng to rear and printed paper title to spine. In a slipcase with half of top edge missing and repeat printed paper title to spine. pp. Descriptive text of these medieval manuscripts plus summary of the other series 1-3 on 38 pages.
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Bewick, Thomas
A History of British Birds
Ink mark to page 45 of Part II and a few fingermarks. No other added marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. A tight page block with foxing to dusty edged pages, well rubbed full-leather boards, edges and spine with surprisingly clear intact maroon title block to spine. Front board held just by binding cords and front end paper present but loose. Some loss to lower edge of title page. Page numbering in good order. 327 plus 360pp. Parts I and II of Bewick's Birds present in one volume. Wood engravings by T Bewick. Green Sandpiper at p100.
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Francois LeTargat
Kandinsky (Art Monographs)
No marks or inscriptions. Minor creasing to covers and creaser to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, slight fingermarking to page fore-edges and no bumping to corners. 128pp. Concise biography of Russian-born abstract artist Vasili Kandinsky plus 125 plates of his work, all in colour.
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Michael Kerrigan
100 Great Art Masterpieces
Book and jacket in as new condition. 144pp. This book explores the history of Western art from mthe Gothic and medieval era via the Renaissance and Impressionism to the modern era. It then showcases 100 of the most stunning and important works in full-page glory. A superb introduction to our art for those wishing to explore it further.
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The Editor
Art from the First World War
Book in as new condition. 62pp. These colour images, paintings and drawings of the First World War, are taken from the collection held by the Imperial War Museum by artists such as John and Paul Nash, Orpen, Bomberg, Spencer and Sargent depict the horrors of that conflict.
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Trewin Copplestone
Paul Cezanne :
Book in mint unread condition. 76pp. Forty-six colour plates from artist Paul Cezanne with much descriptive detail and a concise biography of the French painter.
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Joana Torres Ramos
Degas (Gallery of Great Painters)
Book in mint unread condition. 128pp. A study of French painter Edgar Degas whose art is a pictorial record of Paris during the Belle Epoque, a time of music halls, bohemian artists, wicked gossip, double moral standards and hidden vices among the 'respectable' from 1855 to 1917. Many of his works are included, with extensive descriptions.
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Kathleen Palmer
Women War Artists
Book in mint condition. 90pp. This study celebrates the remarkable experiences and achievements of women war artists from the First World War to the present day. Key works by artists include Dame Laura Knight, Anna Airy, Evelyn Dunbar, Fiona Banner and Jananne Al-Ani.
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Violetta Farina
Modern Art : Pocket Visual Encyclopedia
Book in mint condition. 256pp. An across the board study of art from Cubism and Pop Art to Expressionism and Surrealism and Picasso to Warhol.
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Ulrike Becks-Malorny
Cezanne 1839 - 1906 : Pioneer of Modernism
Book in mint condition.. 96pp. Concise biography and the paintings of Paul Cezanne. Very well illustrated with mostly colour plates of his work throughout.
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Julian Treuherz
Ford Madox Brown : Pre-Raphaelite Pioneer
Book in mint condition. 336pp. Biography and the paintings of Ford Madox Brown including hs involvement with the Arts and Crafts movement, designing stained glass and furniture and his murals at Manchester Town Hall. But he is mostly renowned for his new style inspired by the art of the age before Raphael even before the foundation of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. Very well illustrated with mostly colour plates of his work throughout.
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MarÝa JosÚ Mas
Picasso
Book in mint condition. 256pp. Concise biography and the paintings of Pablo Picasso. Very well illustrated with colour plates of his work throughout. All text in Spanish.
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Francisco Calvo Seraller and Nina Zimmer
10 Picassos del Kunstmuseum Basel
Book in mint condition. 127pp. A study of ten master works by Pablo Picasso, from the Kunstmuseum, Basle, on the occasion of its renovation. All text in Spanish.
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Nina Kalitina & Nathalia Brodskaia
Claude Monet
Book and jacket in mint condition. 199pp. A magnificant collection of the great master Claude Monet's works with many full-colour full-page plates plus a concise biography of the man. A lavish volume. Very scarce in this condition.
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Victoria Charles
Vincent Van Gogh
Book in mint condition. 199pp. A magnificant collection of the great painter Vincent Van Gogh's works with many full-colour full-page plates together with a biography of the man. A lavish volume.
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Pamela Todd
The Impressionists at Leisure
Book in mint condition. 176pp. A visual delight with its wealth of colour paintings from the Impressionists, many full-page showing their love of leisure activities plus a fascinating account of the new leisure society of the 19th century.
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Beatrice Fontanel & Liz Nash (translator)
Daily Life in Art
Book and jacket in mint condition. 199pp. Vividly reproduced paintings in large format showing domestic life through time and tracing the technical innovations that changed our lives. A beautiful and lavish study.
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Matthew Gale
Alfred Wallis (St Ives Artists series)
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, the tiniest rubs to front cover corners and no bumping to corners. 80pp. Biography and paintings from Cornish artist Alfred Wallis who was unappreciated in his lifetime but is now considered very highly.
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Marie-Laure Bernadac; Paule Du Bouchet
Picasso: Master of the New
Book in mint condition. 191pp. An intimate portrait of Pablo Picasso which traces his life from the early years in Spain through his long residence in Paris. Very well illustrated with his master works throughout the book.
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John Finlay
Picasso's World
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A lovely clean very tight copy with very slight traces of storage to bright padded hard covers and no bumping to corners. 180pp. The illustrated story of Pablo Picasso's life and work including over 40 documents and countless illustrations, photographs and his paintings.
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Dieter Beaujean
Van Gogh
Book in mint unread condition. 96pp. The life and work of Vincent Van Gogh. Very well illustrated.
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