THE MOUSE AND HIS MASTER: THE LIFE AND WORK OF TERENCE CUNEO
Written by Terence Cuneo. Illustrated by Terence Cuneo.
Stock no. 1827732
Published by New Cavendish Books. 1st 1977. Very good condition.

Terence Cuneo's life story and a cross-section of his life's work. Cuneo was an artist of many subjects including steam trains, military, industrial. Large oblong format. Cream textured cloth, gilt titles. Colour & b/w photos and illustrations. Top edge deep green. ISBN: 0904568083. Cream coloured boards a little grubby, remains of labels to rear. Contents are clean. Contained in publisher's slipcase which is lightly worn and a little grubby.

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THE POWER OF DOGU: CERAMIC FIGURES FROM ANCIENT JAPAN
Written by Simon Kaner; et al.
Stock no. 1827713
Published by British Museum Press. 1st 2009. Slightly better than very good condition.

Published to accompany the exhibition at the British Mueseum from 10 September to 22 November 2009. Dogu - abstract clay figures with recognizably human or animal features - have a long and fascinating history in Japan. This book illustrates 67 Dogu. Edited by Kaner. Pictorial cardwraps. Colour illustrations. ISBN: 9780714124643. Light fading horizontally to top of rear cover. Contents fine.

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THE MEGALITHIC ART OF WESTERN EUROPE
Written by Elizabeth Shee Twohig.
Stock no. 1827709
Published by Oxford University Press. 1st 1981. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Megalithic art is found mainly on the structural stone of the tombs of passage grave type in Brittany, Iberia, Ireland and Britain. Most of the art consists of geometric designs. This work is based on extensive field work and provides a catalogue of the art in western Europe.The author has examined sites claimed to have megalithic art and the catalogue comprises a plan and description of each site and a drawing and full description of each decorated stone... Large format. Blue cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations. ISBN: 0198131933. Text block lightly browned. Contents clean. Price-cut dustwrapper is lightly scuffed.

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ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPTS IN CAMBRIDGE PART ONE (TWO VOLUMES)
Written by Stella Panayotova; Nigel Morgan.
Stock no. 1827178
Published by Harvey Miller Publishers. Circa 2009. Nearly fine condition.

Volume One: The Frankish Kingdoms; Northern Netherlands; Germany; Bohemia; Hungary; Austria. Volume Two: The Meuse Region; Southern Netherlands. Large format. Blue cloth boards. ISBN: 9781905375479. Still in original shrinkwrap! A few minor marks, scuffs and a tiny hole to shrinkwrap. A few minor knocks to board edges. This copy would make a wonderful gift.

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ITALIAN FRESCOES: THE AGE OF GIOTTO 1280-1400
Written by Joachim Poeschke.
Stock no. 1827154
Published by Abbeville Press. Circa 2005. Nearly fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

This volume begins with an in-depth presentation of the frescoes at San Francesco in Assisi, which became the great school of Italian painting, where Giotto, Pietro Lorenzetti, and Simone Martini, among others, created a new kind of painted mural and a new style of pictorial narrative. Large, heavy format. Blue cloth boards, gilt title to spine. Colour illustrations throughout. ISBN: 9780789208637. Second printing. Minor red biro mark to top of text block (see photos) else a lovely copy.

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GUIDE TO THE ART OF ILLUMINATING AND MISSAL PAINTING
Written by W. Audsley; G. Audsley.
Stock no. 1827144
Published by George Rowney And Co.. 12th 1868. Good condition.

Blue textured cloth boards with embossed pattern and gilt title to front. 8 lithographic plates. All edges gilt. 72 pages plus 40 page publisher adverts to rear. Boards browned and marked, rubbed at edges, corners lightly worn. Front joint starting to crack. Front hinge pulled but binding is tight. Prelims and endpapers are grubby. Damp stain to verso of frontis, small damp stain to top margin of plates. Contents are a little grubby. If frontis is plate 4, all plates are present else plate 4 is missing.

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PIPER IN PRINT: BOOKS, PERIODICALS & EPHEMERA
Written by Alan Powers; Hugh Fowler-Wright; et al. Illustrated by John Piper.
Stock no. 1827088
Published by Artists' Choice Editions. 1st 2010. Nearly fine condition.

John Piper's work as a graphic artist. Introduction by Alan Powers, commentaries on book illustration, dustjackets, magazines, periodicals & ephemera by Hugh-Fowler Wright. Limited Edition of 384 standard copies, signed by Hugh Fowler-Wright on behalf of the various authors. Large format. Red cloth spine with gilt title. Pictorial paper boards. Colour & b/w illustrations throughout. ISBN: 9780955834325. SIGNED in pencil by Hugh Fowler-Wright to page 173 (details of limited edition), this is copy 69 of 384. A few minor blemishes to text block. Contents clean.

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THE GREAT MASTERS OF THE ALBERTINA
Written by Klaus Albrecht Schroder.
Stock no. 1827087
Published by Michael Imhof Verlag Gmbh & Co.. 1st 2008. Very good condition.

The Albertina in Vienna is among the most important art collections in the world. Large, fat, heavy format. Pictorial paper boards. Colour illustrations throughout. ISBN: 9783865683267. Text block slightly skewed. top & tail of spine and corners bumped. Text block a little grubby. Rear board scuffed. Light crease to lower margin corner of contents. Contents clean.

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ITALIAN FRESCOES: THE BAROQUE ERA 1600-1800
Written by Steffi Roettgen.
Stock no. 1827084
Published by Abbeville Press. 1st 2007. Nearly fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

During the Italian Baroque, some of history's most inspired and imaginative fresco cycles were created in palaces, villas, churches, chapels, monasteries and abbyes; on walls, ceilings, vaults, and domes. Here is the Italian Baroque period in its full grandeur, from the arrival in Rome of the style of Annibale Carracci and his pupils through the end of the eighteenth century. Very large, heavy format. Grey cloth boards, gilt title to spine. Colour illustrations throughout. ISBN: 9780789209368. This copy would make a wonderful gift. Pictorial dustwrapper is lovely and bright, minor rubbing to one corner.

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ITALIAN FRESCOES: THE FLOWERING OF THE RENAISSANCE 1470-1510
Written by Steffi Roettgen.
Stock no. 1827082
Published by Abbeville Press. Circa 1997. Nearly fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

Professor Roettgen's concise and authoritative text illuminates such celebrated sites as the Tornabuoni Chapel in Florence, the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican, and the Camera degli Sposi in Mantua. She also reveals the charm of lesser-known works, such as those in the tiny town of Issogne, which capture fifteenth-century men and women bargaining and flirting at an outdoor market. Ver large, heavy format. Blue cloth boards, gilt title to spine. Colour illustrations throughout. ISBN: 9780789202215. 3rd printing of the first edition. This copy would make a wonderful gift. Pictorial dustwrapper is lovely and clean.

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TWENTIETH CENTURY CHINESE PAINTING: TRADITION AND INNOVATION
No author listed.
Stock no. 1827081
Published by Hong Kong Museum Of Art. 1st 1995. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Produced for the exhibition running from 27.10.1995 until 15.01.1997 in Hong Kong, Singapore, United Kingdom, and Germany. Very large, heavy format. Black cloth, silver titles. Text in English and Chinese. Colour paintings, some folding. Light bumping to board corners. Some light mottling to top of boards. Foxing to text block. Contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is Lightly browned and faded, foxed across top to verso (not visible to facing side), very slightly grubby.

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THE UNSOPHISTICATED ARTS
Written by Barbara Jones. Illustrated by Barbara Jones.
Stock no. 1826776
Published by Little Toller Books. 1st thus 2013. Nearly fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

Unsophisticated art is the art of everyday life. During the 1940s Barbara Jones set about documenting this everyday art throughout Britain, visiting fairgrounds, tattoo parlours, taxidermists, houseboats, high street shops, seaside piers and amusement arcades. First published in 1951 by The Architectural Press, this is a New Edition with previously unpublished ephemera and art from the artist's studio. Blue cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w & colour illustrations. ISBN: 9781908213129. A lovely copy. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly scuffed.

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