THE BRITISH LANDSCAPE 1920-1950
Written by Ian Jeffrey.
Stock no. 1830648
Published by Thames and Hudson. 1st 1984. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

A visual tour of Britain. A dazzling series of delightful and warmly evocative colour and b/w plates. Large format. Grey cloth boards, gilt title to spine and publisher's vignette to front. 112 pages including index. ISBN: 0500233985. Minor browning/foxing to top edge of text block. Browning to gutter edge of prelims else a clean copy. Pictorial dustwrapper is a little grubby to rear panel.

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WRESTLING WITH A PENCIL: THE LIFE OF A FREELANCE ARTIST
Written by Norman Thelwell. Illustrated by Norman Thelwell.
Stock no. 1830643
Published by Methuen London Ltd. 1st 1986. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Norman Thelwell's cartoons, drawings and landscape paintings have delighted millions of people all over the world. This is an autobiographical account of his life from early childhood to the present. Beige boards, gilt title to spine. Cream pictorial endpapers. Colour & b/w illustrations. 192 pages. ISBN: 0413593207. Minor mark to front board. Spine & corners lightly rubbed. Minor foxing to text block. Else contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is very slightly faded to spine and lightly edge-creased, lightly scuffed to rear panel.

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A HISTORY OF WOOD ENGRAVING
Written by Albert Garrett. Illustrated by Various.
Stock no. 1330453
Published by Midas Books. 1st 1978. Very good condition.

A comprehensive study of one of Britain's most influential schools of art, and of its birth and development from its international forebears. Packed with examples of wood-engravings throughout the ages. A valuable reference work for the collector. 407 pages including biographical notes of the artists and index. Large format. Cream cloth boards, gilt title to black label on spine, black vignette to front cover. ISBN: 0859360776. Spine and corners bumped. Fading to spine and cover edges. Contents clean.

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DRAWN TO ENCHANT
Written by Timothy G. Young; Patrick Kiley. Illustrated by Various.
Stock no. 1330448
Published by Beinecke Rare Book And Manuscript Library; Yale University Press. 1st 2007. Fine condition in a fine dustwrapper.

Original Children's Book Art in the Betsy Beinecke Shirley Collection. Large format. Blue cloth spine with gilt title, colour pictorial boards. 223 pages. Packed full of colour and b/w illustrations. ISBN: 9780300126730.

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LEONARDO DA VINCI
Written by Kenneth Clark; Martin Kemp. Illustrated by Leonardo Da Vinci.
Stock no. 1830566
Published by Folio Society. 1st thus 2005. Slightly better than very good condition.

Introduced by Martin Kemp. Large format. Dark brown cloth, gilt title to spine. Colour pictorial front cover. Colour illustrations. 264 pages including index. Minor mark to rear board. Else a lovely copy contained in publisher's slipcase which is scuffed and lightly marked.

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THE NUDE: A STUDY IN IDEAL FORM
Written by Kenneth Clark; Charles Saumarez Smith.
Stock no. 1830565
Published by Folio Society. 1st thus 2010. Nearly fine condition.

Introduction by Charles Saumarez Smith. Large format. Green cloth spine, gilt titles. Colour pictorial boards. Colour illustrations. xvi and 336 pages including index. A lovely copy contained in publisher's slipcase which is lightly scuffed.

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PAINTER OF PASSION: THE JOURNAL OF EUGENE DELACROIX
Written by Eugene Delacroix; Hubert Wellington; Timothy Wilson-Smith.
Stock no. 1830562
Published by Folio Society. 1st thus 1995. Very good condition.

A selection edited by Hubert Wellington, introduction by Timothy Wilson-Smith. Red cloth boards, gilt title to spine, oval portraiture onlay to front. Colour illustrated endpapers. Colour photos. 378 pages. Headband is detached from the outer spine (common fault). Text block lightly browned. Else a lovely copy contained in publisher's slipcase which has a knock to one edge.

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CLARICE CLIFF
Written by Lynn Knight.
Stock no. 1830531
Published by Bloomsbury. 1st 2005. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

An insightful biography of one of the most prominent ceramic designers of the twentieth century. Black boards, green foil title to spine. Colour and b/w photos. 328 pages including index. ISBN: 9780747578284. Light rubbing to lower edge of boards, contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly faded to spine and a little scuffed.

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THE LIVING THEATRE OF MEDIEVAL ART
Written by Henry Kraus.
Stock no. 1830488
Published by Indiana University Press. 1st 1967. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

From the foreword: Whether working from a single monument to its ramifications in the relevant social context, or from major social themes to their documentation in works of art, he has traced the broad picture of living circumstances and problems in the Middle Ages, to create a vivid documentary picture of the period and its art. Red cloth boards, gilt title to spine, blind title to front board. B/w illustrations. xxi and 248 pages. Small foxspots to top edge of text block. Contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is rubbed at corners, creased and worn to top rear edge.

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RUDOLF STEINER'S SCULPTURE IN DORNACH
Written by Ake Fant; Arne Klingborg; A. John Wilkes; Hagen Biesantz. Illustrated by Rudolf Steiner.
Stock no. 1830474
Published by Rudolf Steiner Press. 1st 1975. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Rudolf Steiner's wood sculpture of the 'Representative of Humanity' - or the 'Christ Being' as he himself also referred to it - stands in a room specially provided for it in the present Goetheanum in Dornach, Switzerland. This book is an intriguing survey of the sculpture's development, supported by a factually clear and artistically perceptive commentary as well as by numerous clearly documented utterance of Rudolf Steiner's on his own conception of the work and its particular style of execution. Introduced by Hagen Biesantz. Large format. Yellow cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos. 85 pages. ISBN: 0854403019. Light rubbing to base of spine, boards clean. Some pale foxing present, mainly to prelims. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly edge-creased and lightly scuffed. Musty odour present.

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PRACTICE
Written by John Moat. Illustrated by John Moat.
Stock no. 1830469
Published by Libanus Press. 1st 1994. Very good condition.

Limited edition of 300 signed copies of which there are three editions: soft bound, hard-bound, and quarter leather bound in slipcase. This is one of fifty hard-bound with hand-coloured illustrations. The author & artist travels to New Zealand, the birth-place of his mother. Poems and b/w illustrations as well as a few hand-coloured illustrations. Oblong format. Beige cloth spine with white title label, grey paper boards with white title label. Not paginated. ISBN: 0948021322. SIGNED by the author and numbered 38 (of 50) to rear. Gift inscription to half-title page also from the author. A few light foxspots to text block. Boards a little grubby. Contents clean.

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PIET MONDRIAN
Written by Hans L.C. Jaffe. Illustrated by Piet Mondrian.
Stock no. 1830446
Published by Thames and Hudson. 1st 1990. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

A concise edition of Hans L.C. Jaffe's Mondrian, originally published in 1969. Large format. Grey cloth boards iwth gilt title and publisher vignette to front. Colour & b/w illustrations. 128 pages. ISBN: 0500080402. Spine has a slight lean. Board edges have a few light knocks. Name in ink to front pastedown. Some light foxing, mainly to endpapers and text block. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly faded to spine and has a small patch of surface paper loss to top edge of rear panel.

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