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BUTTERFLY LANDSCAPES: A CELEBRATON OF BRITISH BUTTERFLIES PAINTED IN NATURAL HABITAT
Written by Richard Tratt. Illustrated by Richard Tratt.
Stock no. 1829417
Published by Langford Press. 1st 2005. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

A feast for the eyes, featuring over 200 paintings. Large format. Olive green boards with gilt title to spine. Colour illustrations. viii and 208 pages. ISBN: 190407815X. A lovely copy. Pictorial dustwrapper is slightly faded to top of spine and hs a small scrape to rear edge of spine.

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OLD MASTER DRAWINGS FROM THE ASHMOLEAN MUSEUM
Written by Christopher White; Catherine Whistler; Colin Harrison.
Stock no. 1829416
Published by The Ashmolean Museum. 1st thus 1992. Very good condition.

Published for the exhibition originally shown in Rome from 13 May to 13 July 1991 and subsequently in Oxford from 18 August to 11 October 1992. Includes works by artists working in Italy, Spain and Northern Europe, from the time of the Renaissance to the end of the eighteenth century. Large format. Red cardwraps. Colour illustrations. 232 pages including index. ISBN: 1854440209. Vertical creasing to spine from reading use. Old price-label to rear cover and a few minor marks. Text block grubby. Faint browning to half-title page else contents clean.

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LOTUS 106: TATE MODERN FLUSSI/FLOWS
Written by Brian Hatton; et al.
Stock no. 1829415
Published by Electa. 1st 2000. Very good condition.

Quarterly Architecture Magazine. Text in English and Italian. First Item on Tate Modern is 'Fatto alla grande' 'The Biggest Way to Do Art' written by Brian Hatton. Cardwraps. Colour & b/w photos. B/w plans and sketches. 131 pages. ISBN: 8828910453. Covers are scuffed and lightly marked. Minor foxing to text block. Contents clean.

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STEEL SHADOWS: MURALS AND DRAWINGS OF PITTSBURGH
Written by Douglas Cooper. Illustrated by Douglas Cooper.
Stock no. 1829414
Published by University Of Pittsburgh Press. 1st 2000. Slightly better than very good condition.

Professor and muralist, Douglas Cooper teaches drawing in Carnegie Mellon University's architecture program. Drawings of Pittsburgh in charcoal murals and sketches. Oblong pictorial cardwraps. B/w drawings throughout. 174 pages. ISBN: 0822957485. Text block a little grubby. Couple of minor marks to spine. Rear cover lightly scuffed. Contents clean.

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'COMING FROM THE DARK'
Written by Rungwe Kingdon. Illustrated by Lynn Chadwick.
Stock no. 1829413
Published by Gallery Pangolin. 1st 2003. Slightly better than very good condition.

Published for the exhibition of the same name featuring the sculptures of Lynn Chadwick. Square cardwraps. Colour & b/w photos. 47 pages plus contents. A nice copy.

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HORSES AND MOVEMENT
Written by Oliver Beckett. Illustrated by Lowes D. Luard.
Stock no. 1829412
Published by J.A. Allen & Co. Ltd.. 1st 1988. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Edited with a new introduction, notes and appendices by Oliver Beckett. This volume of drawings and paintings by Lowes Dalbiac Luard, will bring to the attention of art and horse lovers the genius of a man who, though well-known in his lifetime, has since been somewhat neglected. Burgundy cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w drawings and a few colour illustrations. xiii and 144 pages. ISBN: 0851314457. Foxing to top edge of text block. Neat gift inscription in ink to front endpaper. Else contents clean. Price-cut pink pictorial dustwrapper is a little grubby, faded to spine and lightly rubbed at corners.

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TOPICS OF OUR TIME: TWENTIETH-CENTURY ISSUES IN LEARNING AND IN ART
Written by E.H. Gombrich.
Stock no. 1829404
Published by Phaidon Press Limited. 1st 1991. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Includes a short autobiography of the author. The author devotes this volume of his essays to some of the most urgent issues confronting the student of art and of civilization today. Black cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations. 223 pages including index. ISBN: 071482707X. A nice, clean copy. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly scuffed to rear panel has has an old price-label to rear.

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A BOOK OF PICTORIAL PERSPECTIVE
Written by Gwen White. Illustrated by Gwen White.
Stock no. 1329226
Published by John Murray (publishers) Ltd.. 1st 1954. Very good condition.

The book has been designed to show exactly what perspective is, and how it can be accomplished. Illustrations throughout. 77 pages. Oblong format, 8.5 x 10.5". Red boards, white titles. Spine and corners slightly bumped. Fading to spine and corners. Name and address in ink to title-page. Heavy foxing else contents clean.

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THE ILLUSTRATED POEMS OF JOHN BETJEMAN
Written by John Betjeman. Illustrated by David Gentleman.
Stock no. 1329225
Published by John Murray. 1st 1995. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Green boards, gilt title to spine. 143 numbered pages. Watercolours by Gentleman. ISBN: 0719552486. Spine and corners slightly bumped. Top edge of textblock is slightly dusty/foxed. Dustwrapper is price-cut and faded to spine.

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BEN NICHOLSON
Written by Jeremy Lewison. Illustrated by Ben Nicholson.
Stock no. 1829389
Published by Tate Gallery. 1st 1993. Slightly better than very good condition.

This catalogue, published to accompany the major exhibition of Nicholson's work held at the Tate Gallery 1993-1994, sheds new light on Nicholson's achievements and his life. All the works in the exhibition are described and analysed and there are ten essays on different aspects of Nicholson's art. Large format. Pictorial cardwraps. Colour & b/w illustrations. 277 pages. ISBN: 1854371304. Lower front edge and top & tail of spine lightly rubbed. Contents clean. Contained in publisher's pictorial slipcase which has a few marks.

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S.R. BADMIN AND THE ENGLISH LANDSCAPE
Written by Chris Beetles. Illustrated by S.R. Badmin.
Stock no. 1329221
Published by William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd.. 1st 1985. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Oblong format. Brown boards. A compilation of the beautiful paintings of S. R. Badmin with accompanying biographical details. ISBN: 0004120205. Some foxing to front endpapers and to top edge of textblock. Dustwrapper is slightly creased/rubbed at edges.

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ILYA KABAKOV
Written by Boris Groys; David A. Ross; Iwona Blazwick. Illustrated by Ilya Kabakov.
Stock no. 1829388
Published by Phaidon Press Limited. 1st 1998. Very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Ilya Kabakov is the most prominent contemporary Russian artist. Boris Groy, an art critic and philosopher, surveys the artist's long career and analyzes its philosophical and formal dimensions in terms of art history as well as the artist's own biography. David A. Ross discusses the artist's practice and its bridging of Eastern and Western contemporary art by means of an interview with the artist. Large format. White cardwraps with black titles. Colour & b/w illustrations. 160 pages. ISBN: 0714837970. Text block slightly grubby, cover edges lightly rubbed. Contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is slightly faded to spine.

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