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By: (BAXTER) COURTNEY LEWIS, C.T.:
Price: £35.00
Publisher: London: Sampson Low, Marston & Co. 1908:
Seller ID: 54288
8vo. In blue cloth covers with gilt to spine and front. Top edge gilt. In very good condition. Spine and covers slightly rubbed at edges. Small bumps on back cover. Mild foxing to edges. Owner’s inscription on front endpaper. Slight browning to first blank page. A couple of slight separations at gatherings. 276pp. 32 b/w plates. "In this volume I have done my best to assist all these points of view. The thoughtful and the studious will find, I think, in its pages all information brought up to date, all disputed points argued and difficulties explained, not has the interesting histor... View more info
By: (BURNE-JONES) BELL, MALCOLM:
Price: £85.00
Publisher: London, George Bell & Sons, 1898:
Seller ID: 78561
Hardback, 8 x 5.5 ins. Quarter bound green morocco leather and grey marbled paper covered boards. Gilt lettering, gilt decoration and raised banding to spine, gilt line detailing to boards. Top edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. In very good condition. Corners a little bumped, edges rubbed. Some fading to leather and paper on boards. Neat inscription to front endpaper “Stuart K. Relfe from his affectionate friend Anne S Metcalfe. Highfield 1898.” Some light foxing to endpapers, title page and page edges else a very clean and tight copy. 151pp. 97 b&w plates, some folding. View more info
By: (TUNNNICLIFFE) NIALL, IAN:
Price: £10.00
Publisher: V.Gollancz. 1980 1st edition.:
Seller ID: 68931
Size 8.25 x 11.25 inches. In brown cloth covers with gilt to spine. With illustrated dustwrapper. In near fine condition with very good dustwrapper (dw; spine slightly faded. Slightly creased and marked along edges. Price clipped). Neat inscription to front endpaper, dated 1980. Else a very clean and tight copy. 160pp. With colour & b/w plates and engravings in text. Tunnicliffe first came to the public notice with his illustrations for Tarka the Otter in 1932. He followed this with many other book illustrations before turning to the study of birds. This book tells his story and gives a sa... View more info
By: Aymer Vallance
Price: £69.00
Publisher: B.T. Batsford Ltd. 1936 1st edition:
Seller ID: 74201
Bound in dark green cloth with gilt lettering and decoration to front. Size approx 8 x 10.5 inches. Very good condition. No jacket, minimal rubbing at rear board & spine, neat inscription front endpaper, inside pages clean and bright, binding tight. 288 illustrations. xii, 104pp. A rare major study of English & Welsh parochial church architecture, particularly religious interior design features, and with a slight geographical bias toward Kentish churches but with illustrated examples from all over England & Wales. Important work considering the loss of many such interior features d... View more info
By: BRADLEY, HELEN:
Price: £10.00
Publisher: Jonathan Cape. London. 1973 1st edition.:
Seller ID: 66024
Size 11.75 x 10.5 inches, oblong. In mauve cloth covers with gilt to spine and front. With illustrated dustwrapper. Pale blue endpapers. In near fine condition with very good dustwrapper (dw; slightly creased along top edge. Vertical crease to front. Not price clipped). A very clean and tight copy. 31pp. With 25 colour illustrations. Primitive painter of Edwardian Northern England, Helen Bradley introduces her work with some reminiscences of holidays and day trips, and gives a short commentary to each of her 25 paintings. View more info
By: BRANCH, E.A.:
Price: £10.00
Publisher: Evans Bros. London. n.d. ca 1920.:
Seller ID: 72846
Size 10.0 x 7.75 inches, oblong. In grey limp card covers with green, black, gilt title to front. In very good condition. Covers slightly rubbed along edges. Slight browning to endpapers. Else a clean and tight copy. 64pp. With b/w diagrams and illustrations. Guide to imaginitave drawing for all ages, with many examples. View more info
By: BURLAND, C.A.:
Price: £27.00
Publisher: Penguin Books. London. 1953 1st edition.:
Seller ID: 77039
Hardback. Size 7 x 5 inches. In illustrated hard card covers with matching dustwrapper. In very good condition with very good dustwrapper (dw; edges rubbed and darkened. Corners slightly bumped and minor rubbing to ends of spine. Neat inscription to front endpaper. Else a clean and tight copy. The story of the forgotten books of ancient Mexico. 31pp text. With 16 colour plates. View more info
By: CLARK, KENNETH:
Price: £20.00
Publisher: London. The Folio Society. 2013:
Seller ID: 76125
Oblong. Approx 9 x 11 inches. Hardback bound in blue cloth to spine with silver lettering and illustrated printed paper covered boards. With hard slipcase. In near fine condition with very good slipcase. (SC has some very minor marks to edges.) Pages clean and tight throughout. 188pp. With 147 colour illustrations throughout. Book on landscapes in art, by Sir Kenneth Clark. View more info
Price: £12.00
Publisher: London, Studio Editions, 1989:
Seller ID: 80745
LArge hardback, approx 13 x 9 inches. In black cloth with gilt lettering to spine. In glossy illustrated dustwrapper. In very good condition with very good dustwrap. (DW some minor rubbing to edges.) Some minor rubbing to edges of cloth. Some light foxing to endpapers and outer page edges else a very clean and tight copy. 18pp. + 109 full-page illustrated plates. (9 B&W; 100 in Colour.) View more info
Price: £5.00
Publisher: Cassell. London. 1988 1st UK edition.:
Seller ID: 73281
Size 10.0 x 13.25 inches. In black cloth covers with gilt to spine. With illustrated dustwrapper. In very good condition with very good dustwrapper (dw; small marks to front. Slightly creased along top edge. Not price clipped). Mild foxing to edges and endpapers. Else a clean and tight copy. 94pp. With colour & b/w illustrations. Alfred Sisley was a brilliant landscape painter who never achieved recognition in his lifetime, dying in poverty in 1899. Here, the author explains Sisley’s techniques with many examples of his work. View more info
By: DAVIDSON, MARSHALL B. (AUDUBON):
Price: £75.00
Publisher: Michael Joseph Ltd and The Connoisseur. 1966 1st UK edition.:
Seller ID: 82537
Size 10.75 x 13.5 inches. In brown cloth covers with gilt to dark brown title labels on spine and front. Patterned endpapers. With hard card slip-case. In fine condition with very good slip-case. Inside very clean and tight copies. Two volumes. 431 colour plates with commentary on opposite page, some fold out. The first edition of the colour plates of the Birds of America by John James Audubon. View more info
By: DAVIES, Peter:
Price: £35.00
Publisher: London, Clark Art Ltd, 2015 1st edition.:
Seller ID: 80749
Hardback, approx 11 x 10 inches. Dark blue cloth with silver lettering to spine. In glossy illustrated dustwrapper. In very good near fine condition in near fine dustwrap. A very clean and tight copy. Signed by Author on main title page. 240pp. B&W and Colour illustrations throughout. View more info
By: DESCAVES, LUCIEN
Price: £40.00
Publisher: Firmin-Didot et Cie, Paris 1932:
Seller ID: 74316
Large volume Size 12.8 x 10 inches. Original paper-printed wrappers. In good condition. Wrappers are a bit chipped on edges & spine. Rear cover slightly cut down top edge. Inside lower corners bumped, with a few small creases. Generally clean & tight. (vii), 200 pp. ALL plates present as per list of illustrations. List says “With 6 coloured plates & 24 other illustrations” the 6 ‘coloured’ are present, but are actually black & white. View more info
By: ENDER, THOMAS:
Price: £8.00
Publisher: Vien. 1982:
Seller ID: 61781
Tall 8vo. In pictorial limp card covers. In very good condition. Covers slightly rubbed around edges. A clean and tight copy. 66pp of plates. With colour and b/w plates. Collection of pictures with text in German. View more info
Price: £30.00
Publisher: House of El Dieff, Inc. New York. 1975 1st edition.:
Seller ID: 69489
Size 8.25 x 12.0 inches. In green cloth covers with gilt to spine and front. Pale green endpapers. In very good condition. Small marks to back. Spine slightly darkened. Else a clean and tight copy. 80pp. With b/w and colour illustrations. Fortieth Anniversary catalogue of House of El Dieff, Inc of New York. The catalogue illustrates forty selections from stock, including several 15th and 16 century items, and a Kelmscott Chaucer on Vellum. The total value was estimated at nearly $2 million. Other items from Copernicus, Sir Francis Bacon, William Blake, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Burne-Jones, Will... View more info
By: FLAXMAN, John:
Price: £350.00
Publisher: London, M. A. Nuttali, 1833:
Seller ID: 79301
Large hardback, approx 20 x 13 inches. In dark green pebbled cloth binding, paper title labels to front and spine. In very good condition. Professional rebinding to spine, original cloth laid over. Original cloth on spine chipped at ends and spine label rubbed and heavily chipped. Label rubbed on front. Cloth faded with some handling marks. Endpapers darkened. Presentaion label to front “Leicester School of Art Henry Bates, 1877.” Embossed stamp to top of title page “Dept of Science and Art, Prize.” Some minor offsetting from frontis onto title page, some minor handling... View more info
By: FLINT, SIR WILLIAM RUSSELL:
Price: £75.00
Publisher: Charles Skilton Ltd, 1965 1st Signed LTD Numb. Ed.:
Seller ID: 78765
Hardback, 11 x 7.5 inches. Half bound in black cloth to boards and light blue cloth to spine. Gilt lettering to spine and gilt ‘key’ vignette to front. In blue hard card slipcase. In excellent near fine condition in very good slipcase. (SC rubbing to edges, some minor marks.) Limited numbered edition 472/500 and Signed by WR Flint opposite. 59pp. With small b&w illustrations and decorative ‘script’ text by Flint. View more info
By: FLINT, SIR WILLIAM RUSSELL:
Price: £200.00
Publisher: Bristol, W.R. Flint Galleries, Michael Stewart Fine Art, 1986 1st LTD Numb. Ed. 884/1500:
Seller ID: 82127
Hardback, 12 x 8 inches. Quarter bound navy blue leather binding with blue cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine and front. Marbled endpapers. In navy blue hard card slipcase. In excellent near fine condition with very good near fine slipcase (SC some minor shelfwear and handling marks.) Cover clean and smart. No penned inscriptions. Limited edition numbered 884/1500. 331pp. Colour illustrations throughout. View more info
By: HANSEN, Hans Jurgen (gen. ed.);
Price: £10.00
Publisher: Faber and Faber. 1968 1st English Edition.:
Seller ID: 76154
Size 12 x 10 inches. Hardback in dark blue cloth. Gilt lettering and red label to spine. In original dustwrapper. Top edge gilt. In very good condition with very good dustwrap. (DW couple of tears to top edge, Rubbing to edges, price clipped.) Corners slightly rubbed, else a very clean and tight copy. 296pp. Many full page colour and b&w illustrations. View more info
By: HOGARTH, William: Hogarth, Jane:
Price: £260.00
Publisher: London, S. Hooper, 1768 1st thus:
Seller ID: 80412
Hardback, approx 8.5 x 6 iches. Full calf leather boards with gilt decorations, gilt banding to spine. Top edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. In very good condition. Boards are somwhat worn; spine is later with original boards professionally relaid, front hinge/board professionally reinforced. Spine rubbed and chipped at top end. Edges rubbed, corners chipped. Handling marks and darkening to boards. Bookplate to front “J. Cosmo Melville.” Engraved title and frontis darkened. Some minor handling marks to pages, else clean and tight inside. 78 B&W engraved illustrations including fro... View more info