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COMING OF AGE: AMERICAN ART 1850S TO 1950S
Written by William C. Agee; Susan C. Faxon.
Stock no. 1814273
Published by The American Federation of Arts; Yale University Press. 1st 2006. Fine condition.

Published in conjunction with an exhibition organized by the American Federation of Arts and the Addison Gallery of American Art, Massachusetts. Large format. Pictorial cardwraps. Colour illustrations. 136 pages. ISBN: 1885444338.

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REMBRANDT
Written by Mortimer Menpes; C. Lewis Hind. Illustrated by Rembrandt.
Stock no. 1814271
Published by Adam & Charles Black. 1st 1905. Very good condition.

Large format, Brown cloth. Mounted colour illustrations. Edges lightly rubbed. Free endpapers browned. All plates present. New pastedowns, some professional strengthening of sections using cloth.

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THE RAPHAEL CARTOONS
Written by John Pope-Hennessy.
Stock no. 1609311
Published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office. 3rd 1958. Very good condition.

Card wraps. Oblong format. B/w plates. Corners rubbed.

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THE COLLECTOR'S EYE FROM ROMNEY TO RENOIR
Written by Ann Sumner.
Stock no. 1609249
Published by The Holburne Museum, Bath. 1st 1998. Slightly better than very good condition.

Card wraps. Colour illustrations. ISBN: 0951757474. Staple holes to front cover and prelims.

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RICHARD PARKES BONINGTON 'ON THE PLEASURE OF PAINTING'
Written by Patrick J. Noon. Illustrated by Richard Parkes Bonington.
Stock no. 1813533
Published by Yale Centre For British Art. 1st 1991. Slightly better than very good condition.

Published to accompany an exhibition at the Yale Center for British Art, New Haven (13 November 1991-19 January 1992) and at the Petit Palais, Paris (5 March 1992-17 May 1992). Large format. Pictorial cardwraps. Colour & b/w illustrations throughout. 315 pages. ISBN: 0930606671. Corners lightly rubbed. Spine faded.

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RICHARD DOYLE'S JOURNAL 1840
Written by Richard Doyle; Christopher Wheeler. Illustrated by Richard Doyle.
Stock no. 1506855
Published by John Bartholomew & Son Limited. 1st 1980. Slightly better than very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Reproduction of the journal kept by Doyle throughout 1840. Large format. Brown boards, gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations. Hand-written text. ISBN: 0702882801. Spine lightly bumped. Odd fox spot to text block. Dustwrapper is unevenly browned and faded, laminate cracking in folds, brown mark to front panel.

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THE WOODBLOCK ENGRAVERS
Written by Kenneth Lindley.
Stock no. 1812769
Published by David & Charles. 1st 1970. Almost very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Brown mottled boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos and illustrations. ISBN: 0715347934. Boards clean. Small foxspots to contents and a musty smell present. Dustwrapper is lightly edge-creased.

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THE ART OF MAURICE SENDAK
Written by Selma G. Lanes. Illustrated by Maurice Sendak.
Stock no. 2122444
Published by The Bodley Head. 1st 1981. Fine condition in a fine dustwrapper.

Large oblong format. Pictorial cloth. "Sendak's Life and Works are explored in affectionate detail, including many colour and b/w illustrations and folding plates, a moveable scene and a facsimile of the tiny mock-up that Sendak first made for the story that would later become Where The Wild Things Are". ISBN: 0370303865. A lovely copy.

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WINSOR MCCAY HIS LIFE AND ART
Written by John Canemaker; Maurice Sendak. Illustrated by Winsor McCay.
Stock no. 2122440
Published by Harry N. Abrams, Inc.. 1st thus 2005. Fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Large format. Colour & b/w illustrations. Revised and Expanded edition. Foreword by Sendak. This the only biography of one of America's greatest and most influential cartoonists, Winsor McCay (1867-1934), the universally acknowledged first master of both the comic strip and the animated cartoon. Although invented by others, both genres were developed into enduring popular art of highest imagination through McCay's innovative genius. He attributed his considerable success to "an absolute craving to draw pictures all the time." ISBN: 0810959410. Wrapper is a little edge-creased with small nick to edge of rear panel.

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FANTASTIC ILLUSTRATION AND DESIGN IN BRITAIN, 1850-1930
Written by Diana L. Johnson.
Stock no. 2122430
Published by Museum Of Art. 1979. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Large format. Red cloth, gilt titles. Colour plates, b/w photos and illustrations. Limited to 7000 copies. Not only a book on the subject of fantastic illustration, but also the catalogue of an exhibition. Bumping to spine. A few light marks to covers. Wrapper is grubby with edge-creasing and chipping; couple of closed tears.

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'THAT'S SHELL - THAT IS!' AN EXHIBITION OF SHELL ADVERTISING ART
Written by David Bernstein.
Stock no. 1812718
Published by Barbican Art Gallery. 1st 1983. Nearly fine condition.

Exhibition running from 5th July-4th September 1983. Cardwraps. 47 pages. Colour & b/w illustrations. ISBN: 0946372039. Minor marks to text block and light rubbing to corners.

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THE IBIS JOURNAL 4 PHANTASIES AND DREAMS
Written by Geoffrey Beare. Illustrated by Robert Anning Bell; Arthur Hughes; Florence Mary Anderson.
Stock no. 1812716
Published by The Imaginative Book Illustration Society. 1st 2011. Fine condition.

Introduction by Geoffrey Beare. Articles about illustrations of Robert Anning Bell; Arthur Hughes; and Florence Mary Anderson. Pictorial cardwraps. B/w & colour illustrations. 144 pages. ISBN: 9780953559640. A lovely copy.

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