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ITALIAN ALTARPIECES 1250 - 1550: FUNCTION AND DESIGN
Written by Eve Borsook; Fiorella Superbi Gioffredi.
Stock no. 2138862
Published by Clarendon Press. Circa 1994. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Large format. Red cloth with gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations. B/w photos. ISBN: 0198172230. Some light page edge browning. Bookplate to bottom of title page, appears to be from previous owner. Wrapper has slight fading to spine.

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TEMPTATION IN EDEN: LUCAS CRANACH'S ADAM AND EVE
Written by Caroline Campbell; Stephanie Buck; et al. Illustrated by Lucas Cranach.
Stock no. 2138857
Published by Courtauld Institute Of Art Gallery. 1st 2007. Nearly fine condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Large format. Green boards with red title to spine. Published to accompany the exhibition with the same name at the Courtauld Institute of Art Gallery Somerset House, London, 21st June 2007 - 23rd September 2007. Colour & b/w illustrations. ISBN: 9781903470541. Wrapper is faded to spine, with some edge-creasing and small nicks to top and tail of spine.

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VENETIAN PAINTING IN THE 15TH CENTURY
Written by Otto Pacht. Illustrated by Jacopo Bellini; Andrea Mantegna; Gentile Bellini; Giovanni Bellini.
Stock no. 2138856
Published by Harvey Miller Publishers. 1st thus 2003. Slightly better than very good condition.

Large format. Card wraps. Colour & b/w illustrations. Jacopo, Gentile and Giovanni Bellini and Andrea Mantegna. ISBN: 1872501230. Light wear along cover edges. Some page edge browning.

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TURNER'S HUMAN LANDSCAPE
Written by Eric Shanes. Illustrated by J.M.W. Turner; Joseph Mallord William Turner.
Stock no. 1322120
Published by William Heinemann Ltd.. 1st 1990. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Green boards, gilt title to spine. 382 pages. A mass of information on the historical and artistic influences on Turner. ISBN: 0434695025. Spine slightly bumped. Price-cut wrapper is just a little creased at top edges.

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TRADITION AND INNOVATION IN FLORENTINE TRECENTO PAINTING: GIOVANNI BONSI TOMMASO DEL MAZZA
Written by Simona Pasquinucci; Barbara Deimling.
Stock no. 2128162
Published by Giunti. Fine condition in a fine dustwrapper.

Large format. A Corpus of Florentine Painting. Section VI, Volume VIII. ISBN: 9788809014558. Still in original shrink wrap - UNOPENED! This copy would make a wonderful gift.

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ELDER CONTEMPORARIES OF BERNARDO DADDI
Written by Richard Offner.
Stock no. 2128161
Published by Giunti Barbera. Fine condition in a fine dustwrapper.

Large format. A Corpus of Florentine Painting, Section III, Volume II. ISBN: 9788809200203. Still in original shrink wrap - UNOPENED! This copy would make a wonderful gift. Just light wear to a couple of corners where book has pushed through shrink wrap.

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1900 ART AT THE CROSSROADS
Written by Robert Rosenblum; Mary Anne Stevens; Ann Dumas.
Stock no. 2126831
Published by Royal Academy of Arts. 1st 2000. Slightly better than very good condition.

Large format. Card wraps. Colour and b/w photos. Published on the occasion of the exhibition of the same name at the Royal Academy of Arts, London 16th January - 3rd April 2000 and then at the Guggenheim Museum, New York 18th May - 13th September 2000. Contains essays - 'Art in 1900: Twilight or Dawn? by Rosenblum and 'The Exposition Universelle: This Vast Competition of Effort, Realisation and Victories' by Stevens. Catalogue introduction by Dumas. ISBN: 0900946822. Bumping to corners and spine. Inscription in ink to half-title page. Some page corners are creased.

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AN OUTLINE HISTORY OF POLISH APPLIED ART
Written by Zdzislaw Zygulski.
Stock no. 2117073
Published by Interpress Publishers. 1987. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Large format. Colour and b/w illustrations. ISBN: 8322320574. Some marks to cloth. Damp marking to very bottom of cover edges. Some foxing and page browning. Wrapper is edge-creased with a few nicks.

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A GENIUS FOR FAILURE: THE LIFE OF BENJAMIN ROBERT HAYDON
Written by Paul O'Keeffe.
Stock no. 1713374
Published by The Bodley Head. 1st 2009. Fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

The tragedy of Haydon lay in the extent to which his failures were unwittingly engineered by his own actions - his refusal to resort to the painting of fashionable portraits, for example, and his self-destructively acrimonious relationship with the RA. Colour plates. 568 pages. ISBN: 9780224062473. SIGNED by author to title page. This copy would make a wonderful gift.

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AUSTRALIAN LANDSCAPE DRAWING 1830-1880
Written by Bridget Whitelaw.
Stock no. 2115824
Published by National Gallery Of Victoria. 1976. Slightly better than very good condition.

In The National Gallery of Victoria. Card wraps. B/w illustrations. ISBN: 0724100261. Some grubby marks to covers. Contents are excellent.

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COLLECTING ENGLISH WATERCOLOURS
Written by Derek Clifford.
Stock no. 1809803
Published by John Baker. 1st 1970. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

A book for collectors of English Watercolours. Large format. Red cloth boards, gilt title to spine. Colour & b/w plates. ISBN: 0212983695. Corners lightly rubbed, boards nice and bright. Contents clean. Blue dustwrapper is edge-rubbed and lightly worn.

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ALL THE GALLANT BEASTS AND MONSTERS
Written by Bill Reid. Illustrated by Bill Reid.
Stock no. 1807908
Published by Buschlen Mowatt. Fine condition in a very good dustwrapper.

The art of the Haida people of the Northwest Coast. Black cloth boards, black embossed titles. Vertical page edges uncut and coloured. Colour & b/w illustrations. 47 pages. ISBN: 0189518305. Wrapper spine faded else a lovely copy.

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