McLeod, M. D. (director)
The Estate and Collection of Works By Charles Rennie Mackintosh at the Hunterian Art Gallery, University of Glasgow
Appears unread. 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. 55pp. Exhibition catalogue from the Hunterian Art Gallery, Glasgow from 1991 showing the variety of Mackintosh's work - architecture, cutlery, furniture, paintings, property designs, drawings and more.
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Harris, Nathaniel
The Life and Works of Rennie Mackintosh
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and minor bumping to upper corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with traces of storage. 79pp. Biography and the works of Mackintosh including his architecture, cutlery, furniture, paintings, property designs, drawings and more.
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Duncan, Alastair
Art Deco
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, minor sunning to rear and no bumping to corners. 216pp. Detailed study of the many aspects of Art Deco which began in France before the First World War and had its greatest and most spectacular foreign success in the United States. Very well illustrated.
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Marnat, Marcel
Klee
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, slight tanning to page edges and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with nick to upper front edge and traces of storage. 88 plates plus 34pp. An account of the life and work of Swiss artist Paul Klee.
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Leicester-Warren, Margaret
Stories of the Italian Artists : Venetian and Umbrian Schools
Previous owner's bookplate inside front board. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked orange cloth boards, slight bumping to ends of sunned spine, tanned end paper and page edges and no bumping to corners. 84pp. The artists of the Italian regions of Venice and Umbria in the 15th and 16th centuries - Piero della Francesca, Giovanni Bellini, Pietro Perugino, Vittore Carpaccio, Giorgione, Raphael, Titian and Tintoretto.
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Watkinson, Ray
William Morris as Designer
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked cream cloth boards, tiniest amount of sunning to upper edges and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with minor traces of storage. 90 plates plus 81pp. This study consider three aspects of William Morris, as an individual playing his part in a large development, as a working designer and as a theorist about art and its function in society. Well ilustrated.
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Melanotte, Alberta
Monet
Appears unread. Book in as new condition. 44 full-page plates plus 15pp. A concise biography of impressionist Claude Monet plus examples of his work in colour.
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Linkhorn, Forbes Lloyd (editor)
Illustrators 22 : The Twenty Second Annual of American Illustration
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 with slight sunning to spine. Unpaginated pp. With 633 illustrations chosen for the Society of Illustrators' 1980/81 Exhibition. A heavy book. Scarce in the UK.
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Ash, Russell
Lord Leighton
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. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with small crease to lower rear edge and minor traces of storage. Forty full-page colour plates with description on each opposite page plus concise biography over 9pp. A lavish work depicting the paintings of Frederick Leighton who dominated the Victorian art world becoming among the best known of both his age and our own.
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Gillow, Norah
William Morris : Designs and Patterns
Appears unread. No marks or inscriptions. Tiniest bit of creasing to covers, none to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Forty full page colour images of Morris's designs for wallpaper and textiles plus introduction on 8pp.
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Buffet-Challie, Laurence
Art Nouveau Style
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and minor bumping to some corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with tiny nicks to top of spine and rear corners and slight creasing to upper edge. 176pp. Mainly illustrations with some description, in colour and black & white of the objects of Art Nouveau from the early years of the 20th century, including furniture, sculpture, tapestry, wallpaper, fabrics, ceramics, metal work and more. We do not use stock photos, the pictur displayed is of the actual book for sale. Every one of our books is in stock in the UK ready for immediate delivery.
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Hartley, Sheril G.
All Saints Church, Selsley (Signed By Author)
Signed to first page by the author. Page references to some of images. Light creasing to front cover adjacent to spine. A very clean very tight booklet with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 20pp. An account of the church at Selsley in Gloucestershire which has ornamental stained-glass windows from artists William Morris, Ford Madox Brown, Edward Burne-Jones, Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Philip Webb. In an attached pocket are four reproductions of these windows plus a letter written by the author (first name difficult to read). Extremely scarce.
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Johnson, Caroline
Angels
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. 64pp. Generations of artists have depicted angels as divine messengers, spiritual guides or heavenly musicians. This study shows some of these images with lengthy descriptions of each.
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Wilde, Lyn Webster
Celtic Inspirations
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. 160pp. A distillation of ancient wisdom illustrated with evocative photographs and superb artworks specially commissioned to capture the mystery and beauty of the Celtic imagination.
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Leman, Martin
Martin Leman's Painted Cats
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 minor storage rubbing to surface. 42pp. A series of beautiful stylised paintings of cats and accompanying anecdotes.
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Taylor, Richard
Watercolour Lakes and Rivers
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. 96pp. Advice and technique on painting lakes and rivers in watercolours.
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The Editor
Our Art - 24 South African Artists
No marks or inscriptions to contents. Crease across rear cover. Clean pages with slightly marked dusty covers. 143pp. Hole-punched pages bound with brown ribbon. Paintings and a little sculpture in colour and black & white of the work of twenty-four South African artists. Each set of works accompanied by concise biographies of the artist by different writers. Scarce in the UK.
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Beiles, Sinclair and Skotnes, Cecil
Tales : Poems by Sinclair Beiles Original woodcuts by Cecil Skotnes
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked very slightly sunned boards, minor rub/indent to rear and no bumping to corners. 46pp. Six coloured woodcuts from the original blocks created by Cecil Skotnes accompanied by twenty poems from Sinclair Beiles. Both are distinguished South African artist and poet.
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Dunkley, Clive & Morrison, Mary & Harris, Barnaby
Ampersand : Student Magazine for the Arts : Issue 2
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 46pp. Cambridge Students Magazine for Poetry, Photographs, Artwork, Short Stories. Full list of contributors on the second image. Very scarce.
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Meintjes, Johannes & Marincowitz, Pieter (introduction)
Meintjes : Lyrical Work (Signed By Author)
Flat signed by Johannes Meintjes to copyright page. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked green cloth boards, very slight rubbing to spine ends and no bumping to corners. Sunned dust jacket not price clipped with a few small marks to front, small pieces missing from spine ends and some corners and two small tears to upper edge around spine. 50 full-page plates plus 26pp. Biography and work of South African artist Johannes Meintjes. Text in English and Afrikaans.
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Richter, Ludwig & Beer, Johannes (selected by)
Ludwig Richter : The End of Day
Name/date to reverse of frontispiece. No other 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. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with tiny nicks to top of spine. 80pp. 'The end of the day'/closing time' telling the memoirs of a German painter Ludwig Richter accompanied by 16 coloured and 62 of his black & white paintings/drawings. 'The Blue Book' series. Scarce in the UK.
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McConkey, Kenneth
The New English
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 creased with tiny tear to upper rear edge. 260pp. A well illustrated study of the history of the New English Art Club, founded in opposition to the the Royal Academy in 1886, it went on to be a society that has played a vitally important role in the development of British art. We do not use stock photos, the picture displayed is of the actual book for sale. Every one of our books is in stock in the UK ready for immediate delivery.
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Christie's
Christie's London : British and Continental Decorative Arts from 1850 to the Present Day : 1 May 1997
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. One fold-out page in excellent condition. 127pp. No of Lots - 201 to 442. With furniture, pottery, carpets, glassware, sculpture, paintings, cutlery, housewares etc. We do not use stock photos, the picture displayed is of the actual book for sale. Every one of our books is in stock in the UK ready for immediate delivery.
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Christie's
Christie's London : British and Continental Decorative Arts from 1850 to the Present Day : 12 May 1999
No marks or inscriptions to contents. No creasing to covers, faint crease to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, traces of storage to covers and no bumping to corners. One fold-out page in excellent condition. 151pp. No of Lots - 201 to 486. With furniture, pottery, carpets, glassware, sculpture, paintings, cutlery, housewares etc. We do not use stock photos, the picture displayed is of the actual book for sale. Every one of our books is in stock in the UK ready for immediate delivery.
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Christie's
Christie's London : Objects of Art, Furniture, Prints and Pictures (Bute Collection) 25 March 1996
No marks or inscriptions to contents. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 72pp. No of Lots - 343. With furniture, artworks, paintings, prints. From the Bute Collection. We do not use stock photos, the picture displayed is of the actual book for sale. Every one of our books is in stock in the UK ready for immediate delivery.
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Christie's
Christie's London : British and Continental Decorative Arts from 1850 to the Present Day : 2 May 1996
No marks or inscriptions to contents. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. One fold-out page in excellent condition. 116pp. No of Lots - 219. With furniture, pottery, carpets, glassware, sculpture, paintings, cutlery, housewares etc. We do not use stock photos, the picture displayed is of the actual book for sale. Every one of our books is in stock in the UK ready for immediate delivery.
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Christie's
Christie's London : The Nineteenth Century : 2 March 1995
No marks or inscriptions to contents. Crease to lower corner of front cover, none to rear or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, minor traces of storage and no bumping to corners. 176pp. No of Lots - 451. With 19th century furniture, pottery, carpets, glassware, sculpture, paintings, cutlery, housewares etc. We do not use stock photos, the picture displayed is of the actual book for sale. Every one of our books is in stock in the UK ready for immediate delivery.
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Christie's
Christie's Los Angeles : Innovators of 20th Century Style Including the Billy Wilder Collection : 18 May 2000
No marks or inscriptions to contents. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 123pp. No of Lots - 280. 20th century new design including property from thre collection of Billy Wilder. We do not use stock photos, the picture displayed is of the actual book for sale. Every one of our books is in stock in the UK ready for immediate delivery.
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Christie's
Christie's London : British and Continental Decorative Arts from 1860 to the Present Day : 2 November 1995
No marks or inscriptions to contents. Light creasing to rear cover, none to front or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, minor traces of storage to rear and no bumping to corners. 148pp. No of Lots - 307. Decorative arts from Britain and the Continent from around 1860 onwards, including the Petrucci Wolfers collection. We do not use stock photos, the picture displayed is of the actual book for sale. Every one of our books is in stock in the UK ready for immediate delivery.
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Christie's
Christie's London : A Collection of Important Furniture (The Property of Mr Edward Sarofim) : 16 November 1995
No marks or inscriptions to contents. 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. 114pp. No of Lots - 101 - 150. Furniture from the collection of Mr Edward Sarofim. Tucked in are details of Lots sold and their sold prices. We do not use stock photos, the picture displayed is of the actual book for sale. Every one of our books is in stock in the UK ready for immediate delivery.
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Taylor, Basil
Painting in England 1700 - 1850 : Collection of Mr & Mrs Paul Mellon (2 volumes)
Two volumes - paintings and descriptions. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. Two very clean very tight copies with bright unmarked boards, very minor foxing to end papers and page edges and minor bumping to upper rear corner of text volume. 231 +231 pp, Detailed examination of the collection of 18th and 19th century English art by Paul Mellon and his wife. Volume one includes a twenty page introduction followed by a listing of over 400 paintings and their description and provenance. Volume two comprises about 220 of the paintings displayed full-page, mostly black & white but a few in colour. A heavy set. We do not use stock photos, the picture displayed is of the actual book for sale. Every one of our books is in stock in the UK ready for immediate delivery.
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Bianchi, Eugenia, and Righi, Nadia, and Terzaghi, Maria Cristina
The Doge's Palace in Venice
Appears unread. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, minor traces of storage and no bumping to corners. 59pp. Illustrated guide to the history, architecture and the paintings of the Palace of the Doge in Venice. We do not use stock photos, the picture displayed is of the actual book for sale. Every one of our books is in stock in the UK ready for immediate delivery.
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O'Neill, Amanda (editor)
Introduction to the Decorative Arts: 1890 to the Present Day
No marks or inscriptions to contents. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, small mark to top of page edges and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased. 143pp. Very well illustrated review of some of the most striking and pioneering movements in decorative arts in the 20th century including Arts and Crafts, Art Nouveau, Art Deco and Modernism.
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George, Joan
Stanley Spencer Remembered
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. 92pp. An anthology of people's memories of popular artist Stanley Spencer and a glimpse into mid 20th century social history and its effects on Cookham.
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Sotheby's
Sotheby's : Atlases, Travel and Natural History : 22 June 1990
No inscriptions or marks. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, small scratch to front and no bumping to corners. 298pp. Images and description of 576 Lots of maps, natural history prints and paintings and travel and exploration paintings etc.
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Mara, Tim
Screen Printing
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, tanned/sunned rear cover and no bumping to corners. 175pp. A comprehensive guide to all levels of screen printing, from the making of a simple wooden frame to the preparation of photographic stencils.
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Samuel, Evelyn
Introducing Batik
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and a little bumping to corners. Dust jacket price clipped but not torn with rubbed surfaces, sunned spine and minor creasing to edges. 80pp. A precise description and demonstration of the beautiful ancient craft of Batik, which can be quickly mastered, opening up possibilities in textile printing and design.
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Penn, Arthur
Brampton Church and Its Windows (plus postcards)
No creasing to covers. Very clean very tight pages with evidence of label removal to front cover and no bumping to corners. 71pp. History and description of the Church in Cumbria. Value added with three postcards and two colour images attached. One postcard is of the Church's famous East Window designed by William Morris. Tucked in in an eight page leaflet on Brampton Church's stained glass.
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Bury, Dr Steve (introduction)
Chelsea College of Art and Design Degree Exhibition 1997
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, slight curling outwards of cover fore-edges and no bumping to corners. 107pp. With full-page examples of the artwork from all eighty-three of the students at the Chelsea College of Art and Design as presented in their 1997 exhibition. Brief details of others works by the artists listed in the student details section. Very scarce.
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Staber, Margit & Weber, Gerhard (intro)
The Non-Objective World 1914-1955 - Die Gegenstandslose Welt
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers, crease to sunned spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, light foxing to top of page edges, slight traces of storage and no bumping to corners. 191pp. Images and mini biographies from the 1973 Exhibition held in London and Austin, Texas with works by eighty-nine artists including Jean Arp, Barbara Hepworth, Wassily Kandinsky, Piet Mondrian, Henry Moore and Ben Nicholson. Text in English and German.
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The Editor
Frank Stella : A Retrospective Exhibition.
No marks or inscriptions to contents. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with bright faintly foxed boards, minor traces of storage and no bumping to corners. 32pp. Catalogue of the work of Frank Stella taken from the exhibition held at the Hayward Gallery London in 1970 and in New York and Amsterdam. Illustrations in colour and in black & white.
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Williams, Sir Kyffin
Kyffin
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. 46pp. The work of Welsh landscape painter Sir Kyffin Williams OBE RA, with illustrations of his paintings. All text in English and Welsh.
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Baneke, Joost; Groen-Prakken, Han; Ietswaart, Willem; Treurniet, Nikolaas (editors)
Dutch Art & Character
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to slightly arched spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 220pp. Psychoanalytic perspectives on Bosch, Bruegel, Rembrandt, Van Gogh, Mondrian, Willink and Queen Wilhelmina. Scarce.
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Golding, J. and Green, C.
Leger and Purist Paris: The Tate Gallery 18 November 1970 - 24 January 1971
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, slight rub near top of spine and no bumping to corners. 108pp. Exhibition catalogue depicting the work and biography of Fernand Leger. Photographic illustrations mainly in black & white.
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Eisler, Steven
Space Wars: Worlds and Weapons
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, slight foxing to a few pages and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked with small tear to lower rear corner, pen indenting, light creasing to upper edge and nicks to spine top. 96pp. A series of fantastic futuristic paintings of rockets, planets, worlds, weapons, explosions and destruction. The images are interspersed with very lengthy text, some being fantastic fiction and some relating to existing science fiction novels.
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The Editor
The Complete Drawing and Watercolour Book
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. 120pp. A step-by-step course covering materials, techniques, composition, figures and portraits, plants and animals, landscapes and buildings plus tips and hints.
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Williamson, Hugh
Methods of Book Design : The Practice of an Industrial Craft
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, slightly sunned spine and very minor bump to upper rear corner. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked but well-sunned and with some pieces missing. Now protected in a transparent sleeve. 433pp. A complete study of book manufacture from its starting point.
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Damiani, Giovanna
San Marco , Florence : The Museum and Its Art
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 with very minor creasing to lower edge. 95pp. The story of the former Domincan monastery of San Marco in Florence which was re-built under the architect Michelozzo from 1433. It is now a museum and a library whilst the building retains its old essence. This well illsutrated book describes San Marco's architecture as well as its history and the art within its walls.
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Lucie-Smith, Edward
Art in the Seventies
Small neat name inside front board. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, slight traces of storage and no bumping to corners. 128pp. A survey of the decade of the 1970s, images of the art with associated text, which documents rather than judges. Very well illustrated.
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Menten, Theodore
Art Deco Cut & Use Stencils
No marks or inscriptions. Creasing to lower corner of rear cover. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, slightly rubbed sunned spine and no bumping to other corners. All fifty-one stencils intact and unused. pp. Fifty-one full-size stencils printed on durable stencil paper with full instruction on how to use them. Very scarce in the UK.
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