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DUTCH SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY GENRE PAINTING: ITS STYLISTIC AND THEMATIC EVOLUTION
Written by Wayne Franits.
Stock no. 1829430
Published by Yale University Press. 1st 2004. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

This comprehensive book explores the evolution of genre painting throughout the Dutch Golden Age, beginning in the early 1600s and continuing through the opening years of the next century. Large heavy format. Black cloth boards, gilt title to spine. Colour & b/w illustrations. vii and 328 pages including index. ISBN: 0300102372. Slight bumping to top & tail of spine and corners. Text block a little grubby. Title page is grubby with imprinting from ink on facing frontis at edges. Else contents clean. Black pictorial dust wrapper is lightly worn at edges, a little scuffed and some foxing to verso.

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THE ART OF JACK RUSSELL: NEW HORIZONS
Written by Jack Russell; Jim Ruston. Illustrated by Jack Russell.
Stock no. 1829425
Published by Jr Marketing. 1st 2007. Very good condition.

Gloucestershire inspired oil paintings by Jack Russell of Chipping Sodbury. Large oblong format. Matt white boards with illustration to both boards. 125 pages. ISBN: 0954043014. SIGNED by the author/artist to title page (no dedication). White boards a little grubby. Image to front board is fade to one side. Rear board is scuffed. Contents clean.

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EDWARD SEAGO: THE VINTAGE YEARS
Written by Ron Ranson. Illustrated by Edward Seago.
Stock no. 1829424
Published by David & Charles. 1st 1992. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Seago's finest and most characteristic landscape paintings. Large oblong format. Green cloth boards, gilt title to spine. Colour illustrations. 96 pages. ISBN: 0715399276. Light rubbing to lower edge of boards. Large grubby mark to lower margin of page 69 slightly affecting the text but not the picture. Otherwise one or two minor marks to contents. Pictorial dustwrapper is scuffed.

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THE LOWRY LEXICON: AN A-Z OF L.S. LOWRY
Written by Shelley Rohde. Illustrated by L.S. Lowry.
Stock no. 1829422
Published by The Lowry Centre. 1st 2001. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

In this entertaining and skilfully presented gift-book, Lowry biographer Shelley Rohde uses her great skills as a writer to present a sequence of often amusing and always revealing anecdotes from the life of the artist. Square format. Black boards, silver title to spine. Colour & b/w illustrations. Not paginated. ISBN: 190297011X. A very nice copy. Pictorial dustwrapper has a few minor marks and is lightly scuffed to rear panel.

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REMBRANDT 1606-1669: THE MYSTERY OF THE REVEALED FORM
Written by Michael Bockemuhl. Illustrated by Rembrandt.
Stock no. 1829419
Published by Benedikt Taschen. 1st 1992. Very good condition.

Large format. Pictorial cardwraps. Colour & b/w illustrations. 96 pages. ISBN: 3822805599. Cover corners lightly creased/rubbed. Text block slightly grubby, minor foxing to top edge. One or two foxspots to contents else clean.

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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 DRAWINGS AND PAINTINGS BY LOWES DALBIAC LUARD
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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