MAKING COLOUR PRINTS: AN APPROACH TO LINO CUTTING
Written by John Newick.
Stock no. 1829225
Published by The Dryad Press. 3rd 1964. Very good condition.

Third revised edition. Matt pictorial boards. B/w illustrations, colour examples. 47 pages. Board edges rubbed, corners lightly worn. Contents clean.

Buy now for £75.00 In basket » checkout Enquire about this book Enquire Add to Wish List

ADVERTISING ART OF STEIFF
Written by Dottie Ayers; Donna Harrison.
Stock no. 1329011
Published by Hobby House Press. 1st 1991. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

A compilation of antique Steiff advertisements. Large format. Blue cloth with gilt titles. Colour & b/w illustrations/photos. The text of the German advertisements has also been translated into English. ISBN: 087588363X. Foxing to endpapers, textblock and verso of wrapper.

Buy now for £12.00 In basket » checkout Enquire about this book Enquire Add to Wish List

THE MACWHIRTER SKETCH BOOK
Written by Edwin Bale. Illustrated by John MacWhirter.
Stock no. 1328978
Published by Cassell & Company Limited. 1st 1906. Very good condition.

Being reproductions of sketches in colour and pencil. Pale blue/green cloth with dark titles and vignette of a flower to front cover. 24 examples (tipped-in plates) in colour and many b/w pencil sketches. Spine and corners bumped and rubbed. Spine browned. Some pale page edge browning and endpapers lightly browned. Front joint is partially cracked.

Buy now for £20.00 In basket » checkout Enquire about this book Enquire Add to Wish List

SKETCHES FROM NATURE
Written by Katharine Macwhirter. Illustrated by John MacWhirter; Hubert Von Herkomer.
Stock no. 1328977
Published by Cassell & Company Limited. 1st 1913. Very good condition.

Green cloth, black titles. 24 mounted colour plates. Spine and corners bumped and rubbed. Inscription in pencil to front pastedown. Heavy foxing to contents but plates not affected. Corner crease to frontis (the portrait by Von Herkomer).

Buy now for £14.00 In basket » checkout Enquire about this book Enquire Add to Wish List

RAPHAEL
Written by Pierluigi De Vecchi. Illustrated by Raphael.
Stock no. 1829203
Published by Abbeville Press. 1st thus 2002. Nearly fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

All of Raphael's most important paintings are reproduced in this book, as well as a significant number of his drawings and engravings. A fresh, crictical look at the life and work of an artist who was "touched by grace," according to Vasari. Large, heavy format. Black cloth boards, gilt titles. Colour & b/w illustrations. 380 pages including index. ISBN: 0789207702. A lovely copy contained in publisher's slipcase which is lightly scuffed.

Buy now for £40.00 In basket » checkout Enquire about this book Enquire Add to Wish List

THE RENAISSANCE
Written by Stefano Zuffi.
Stock no. 1829202
Published by Collins. Circa 2003. Slightly better than very good condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

Large heavy format. Blue cloth boards. Colour illustrations. ISBN: 0007164572. Unable to date as book is still in original shrinkwrap. Shrinkwrap is worn and split open at corners, also split lower edge, is a little grubby and scuffed.

Buy now for £16.00 In basket » checkout Enquire about this book Enquire Add to Wish List

MEDIEVAL ARCHITECTURE MEDIEVAL ART (2 VOLUMES)
Written by Paolo Piva; A. Cadel; F. Gandolfo; et al.
Stock no. 1829195
Published by Folio Society. 1st thus 2012. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Edited by Paolo Piva. This is the first English language edition, originally published in Italian in 2008 as Architettura. Medievale La Pietra e La Figura. Large format. Black cloth with white titles to spines. Stunning colour photographs. A lovely set contained in publisher's slipcase which is split at top closed edge else Very Good.

Buy now for £70.00 In basket » checkout Enquire about this book Enquire Add to Wish List

NORTH ATLANTIC PATROL: THE LOG OF A SEAGOING ARTIST
Written by Griffith Baily Coale. Illustrated by Griffith Baily Coale.
Stock no. 1829192
Published by Farrar & Rinehart. 1st 1942. Very good condition.

The author was commissioned as the official painter for the US Navy. Blue cloth boards, blue titles and vignette to front. 17 b/w drawings. xii and 48 pages. Boards a little grubby, lightly rubbed at edges, corners of boards bumped, white marks to top of rear board. Endpapers and text block browned, endpapers also grubby. Hinges pulled and a few minor margin marks present.

Buy now for £15.00 In basket » checkout Enquire about this book Enquire Add to Wish List

FRIDA KAHLO: THE PAINTINGS
Written by Hayden Herrera. Illustrated by Frida Kahlo.
Stock no. 1829172
Published by Bloomsbury. 1st 1992. Very good condition.

A lavishly illustrated and sumptuously produced visual array of the acclaimed artist's powerful and haunting paintings. Square format. Pictorial cardwraps. Colour & b/w illustrations. 255 pages including index. ISBN: 0747514771. Front cover is faded to lower half. Tiny nick to base of spine. Covers are scuffed. Corners lightly worn. Contents clean.

Buy now for £58.00 In basket » checkout Enquire about this book Enquire Add to Wish List

BLOOMSBURY ROOMS: MODERNISM, SUBCULTURE, AND DOMESTICITY
Written by Christopher Reed.
Stock no. 1829168
Published by Yale University Press. 1st 2004. Very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

New light on the notorious Bloomsbury Group and how the issues of their day influenced their interpretation and decoration of the home. The author analyzes the rooms designed by Bloomsbury artists as spaces in which to be modern. This book traces the development of Bloomsbury's domestic aesthetic from the group's influential promulgation of Post-Impressionism in Britain around 1910 through the 1930s. Large format. Green cloth boards, black title to spine. Colour & b/w illustrations. viii and 314 pages including index. ISBN: 0300102488. Tip of board corners lightly bumped else boards clean and bright. Light browning to text block. Title page has light marks from colour imprinting from facing colour frontispiece. Otherwise, contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly browned, old price label to rear panel. The book has a lingering cigarette odour.

Buy now for £45.00 In basket » checkout Enquire about this book Enquire Add to Wish List

RENAISSANCE RIVALS: MICHELANGELO, LEONARDO, RAPHAEL, TITIAN
Written by Rona Goffen.
Stock no. 1829166
Published by Yale University Press. 1st 2002. Nearly fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

This enthralling book views the lives and greatest works of Michelangelo, Leonardo, Raphael, and Titian through the prism of their ardent rivalry. Black boards, gilt title to spine. Red endpapers. Colour & b/w illustrations. 521 pages including index. ISBN: 0300094345. Lower edge of text block slightly grubby. Contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly scuffed.

Buy now for £40.00 In basket » checkout Enquire about this book Enquire Add to Wish List

EDWARD WESTON: A LEGACY
Written by Susan Danly; Jonathan Spaulding; Jessica Todd Smith; Jennifer A. Watts.
Stock no. 1829112
Published by Merrell Publishers Limited. 1st 2003. Nearly fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

Edward Weston was the first photographer ever to receive a Guggenheim fellowship. This book celebrates Huntington Library's extraordinary collection of five hundred Edward Weston photographs, all of them selected and printed for the institution by the artist in the 1940s. Published on the occasion of the exhibition of the same name which ran from June 28-October 5, 2003. Edited and with an introduction by Jennifer A. Watts. Large format. Black cloth boards, silver title to spine. B/w photos. 288 pages including index. ISBN: 1858942063. Black endpapers have very light scuffing (very minor). Else a beautiful copy. Pictorial dustwrapper is a little scuffed, light fading to top edge of flaps.

Buy now for £130.00 In basket » checkout Enquire about this book Enquire Add to Wish List