January 2024 Newsletter
Welcome to the January 2024 newsletter from Stella and Rose's Books. The aim of our newsletter is to keep you informed of new information, articles and books available on our website.
We hope this newsletter finds you and your loved ones well - we hope you had a relaxing and restful festive period.
Having survived the recent storms and flooding, we seem to now be in a cold snap. But no snow yet for Tintern!
With little to report locally or in book news, we thought we'd tell you a little about what we've been buying recently. Maria has just about finished cataloguing a large W.E. Johns collection (Biggles, Worrals and Gimlet). Sonia has been working her way though some interesting art books including books on Italian frescos and illuminated manuscripts. We are always on the look-out for Folio Society books and were recently able to purchase a small - but eclectic - collection. We also hope to complete the purchase of a New Naturalist collection in the next week or so. Hopefully something there to tickle your fancy?
Our article this month focuses on Australian children's book illustrator Ida Rentoul Outhwaite. Possibly best known for combining fairy tales with animals from the Australian outback. Our featured book this month might appeal to the green-fingered among you: Thomas Mawson - Life, Gardens and Landscapes by Janet Waymark. This book is the first full biography of Mawson who became one of the most sought after landscape designers of the earliest twentieth century.
We hope you enjoy the newsletter!
Ida Rentoul Outhwaite contributed by Sonia
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You would be forgiven for never having heard the name Ida Rentoul Outhwaite, an Australian illustrator of children’s fiction (I am writing this from the UK). At the turn of the 20th century, she was well known for bringing fairies and other magical creatures to life, using mainly pen and ink and watercolour. Fairies, brownies, elves, and witches interact with the animals of the Australian outback. When she died in 1960, her fame was dwindling, as artistic tastes of children turned to focus on the less naïve. Ida was the youngest of six children. Born in 1888, she had one sister. and two brothers. There were also two older siblings who died while still young children. Read more... |
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A Sample of New Stock
| Hitler's Last Witness: The Memoirs of Hitler's Bodyguard written by Misch, Rochus & Moorhouse, Roger & et al, | Organ Construction written by Hinton, J.W. & Renshaw, Martin | Private Gardens of Buenos Aires written by Cezar, Janick De Oliveira | Messerschmitt Me 321/323: The Luftwaffe's "giants" In World War Ii written by Dabrowski, Hans-Peter |
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| Price: £35.00 | Price: £18.00 | Price: £30.00 | Price: £30.00 |
| Categorised in MILITARY WORLD WAR II NAZIS BIOGRAPHY | Categorised in HISTORY HISTORY GENERAL MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS ORGANS FACSIMILE | Categorised in TOPOGRAPHY (FOREIGN) SOUTH AMERICA ARGENTINA GARDENS | Categorised in MILITARY AVIATION AIRCRAFT WORLD WAR II |
| Thomas The Tank Engine: The Complete Collection written by Awdry, Rev. W. | The Fourth Was Fun For Philippa written by Breary, Nancy | Neath Abbey and The Industrial Revolution written by Ince, Laurence | Jo Siffert written by Deschenaux, Jacques |
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| Price: £34.00 | Price: £90.00 | Price: £20.00 | Price: £34.00 |
| Categorised in CHILDRENS TRAINS (CHILDRENS) | Categorised in CHILDRENS SCHOOL STORIES (GIRLS) SCHOOL STORIES GIRLS | Categorised in TOPOGRAPHY (UK) WALES INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION CHURCHES | Categorised in TRANSPORT CARS MOTOR SPORT BIOGRAPHY |
Thomas Mawson Life, Gardens and Landscapes By Janet Waymark contributed by Bernice
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This is a book filled with beautiful photographs showcasing the work both at home and abroad of the gardens and public places designed by Thomas Mawson. This is the first full biography of Thomas Hayton Mawson (1861 – 1933) and charts his successes from Cumbria to Greece and the Civic Art he designed such as Hanley Park near Stoke on Trent. In the early twentieth century he was the most sought-after garden and landscape designer of the day and could name crowned heads of Europe among his clients. Read more... |
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A Selection from The Special Book Room
| Poems By Christina Rossetti written by Rossetti, Christina | William The Outlaw written by Crompton, Richmal | A History of Monmouthshire: The Hundred of Abergavenny Part Ii written by Bradney, Joseph Alfred | Italian Frescoes: High Renaissance and Mannerism 1510-1600 written by Kliemann, Julian & Rohlmann, Michael |
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| Circa 1910 Olive green cloth with gilt titles and vignettes. 36 tipped-in colour plates mounted on grey card with captioned tissue guards plus 36 b/w illustrations. 369 pages. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed. 2" thick. Spine and corners slightly bumped. Foxing to prelims and textblock. Endpapers lightly browned. Front joint is just starting to crack. A nice copy of this beautiful book. Price: £480.00 | 2nd 1927 Red cloth with black titles to spine and front cover. B/w illustrations throughout. 256 pages. Spine slightly bumped and faded. Foxing to contents else clean. Dustwrapper is generally bright, pale pink stain to rear panel, wear and minimal loss to to of spine. Small closed tear to verso of front panel. Price: £210.00 | 1st 1906 From the Coming of the Normans into Wales down to the present time. Very large format. Very heavy. Beige cloth spine, paper boards with black title. Frontis is colour folding map of the Hundred of Abergavenny. B/w illustrations. Boards grubby, marked and stained. Edges worn with slight loss of surface paper. Spine is a little grubby and a little faded. Front endpapers split... Price: £120.00 | 1st 2004 The authors pay equal attention to religious frescoes, which in this period extended and enriched a venerable tradition, and secular imagery. During the cinquecento in Italy, hardly a single opulent residence, villa, or palace belonging to a cardinal or aristocrat was not decorated in some fashion with mural painting, which developed in an unprecedented variety of forms. Large, heavy format. Grey cloth... Price: £120.00 |
This Month's Special Offer
Special Offer20% discount on Art in our Special Book Room. Type in voucher code ART24 at the checkout to apply your discount before payment. Valid to 12th February 2024. Browse current stock in this offer. |
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