Manchester, UK: Manchester City Art Gallery, 1975. Wood, Edgar; Sellers, James Henry. First edition. Soft cover. 96p, ca. 30 photos and line ills. Covers rather soiled from handling; internally nice and clean. From the library of architect James Stirling, with his bookplate. Exhibition catalogue of the buildings and furnishings by..... More
London: Christie, Manson & Woods, 1902. Turner. First edition. Soft cover. 11p, no ills. Auction catalogue of 168 prints (92 from the Liber Studiorum). All prices and buyers inked in. Can be sent outside the US for less than the default shipping rate. More
Beauchamp, UK: Richard Dennis, 2003. Leach, David. First edition. Soft cover. 120p, many ills., dozens in color. Cooper's detailed biography is followed by Nibelett's summary of the pots made at Dartington Hall, the Leach Pottery, and Lowerdown Pottery; the techniques used; pots and potters who inspired Leach (especially his father..... More
Gottingen: V & R unipress, 2016. First edition. Hardcover. 503p, over 100 ills., most in color. No d.j., as issued. Based on the publisher's archives, here is a comprehensive history of Bruno Cassirer's London and Oxford years and an annotated bibliography of almost every book the firm published then (some..... More
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Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. First edition. Soft cover. Vol. 14, no. 1. 176p, many photos. Slight shelf wear. Articles on the founding and first decades of the Victoria and Albert Museum by Clive Wainwright, Anthony Burton, Martin Levy, Paul Tucker, and others. The Government Schools of Design and the..... More
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Brownsville, OR; Galway: Story Line Press; Salmon Poetry, 1991; 1995, 2003. Second American printing (The Wind beyond the Wall); the others first editions. Soft cover. Variously paged, no ills. From the library of an American poet and professor. The Wind beyond the Wall is inscribed to him, 1995. A Walled..... More
London: Thomas and Hudson, 1993. Meehan, Aidan. First edition. Soft cover. 160p, over 400 line ills. by the author. Comprehensive guide to analyzing and constructing the spirals and related motifs of Celtic design,by a well-known student and practitioner of it. The text is in very readable calligraphy. Can be sent..... More
London: The Women's Press, 1987. First edition. Hardcover. 242p, 40 ills. Examines "the aspirations and expectations of Victorian women artists [painters and sculptors], their struggle for proper training, for exhibition and for unqualified recognition in the male-dominated art world." With case histories of Henrietta (Mrs. E.M.) Ward, Joanna Mary Boyce..... More
London: Arts Council of Great Britain, 1955. Gore, Spencer Frederick. First edition. Soft cover. 16p + 8 pls. The first reassessment of this pioneering member of the Camden Town Group. Checklist of 76 works exhibited. Can be sent outside the US for less than the default shipping rate... More
London: Tate Publishing, 2011. First edition. Soft cover. 90p, many color ills. Published to accompany an exhibition at the Imperial War Museum. Surveys the achievements of British women war artists from World War I to the present--"as eyewitnesses, participants, commentators, and officially commissioned recorders of war." Includes Laura Knight, Lucy..... More
New Haven: Yale Center for British Art, 1984. Burgin, Gilbert & George, Mary Kelly, Richard Long, Bruce McLean, David Tremlett. First edition. Soft cover + 6 unbound sheets. Exhibition publication consisting of Catalogue (48p, many ills.), Bibliography (36p, no ills.), and various pamphlets, broadsides, and other items designed by the..... More
New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1962. Hofer, Evelyn. First American edition. Hardcover. 116p, over 100 large photos by Evelyn Hofer, 18p in color. Cover edges lightly sunned. Jacket soiled, lightly chipped. Stylish portrait of "the city that Londoners know, a paradox of grandeur and grime, a place of bustling..... More
London: Shenval Press for Whitechapel Gallery, 1968. First edition. Paperbound. N.p., 34 pls. Two trivial ink marks; light shelf wear. Exhibition catalogue of 34 British artists, most in their 30s and in the early years of their careers. Paintings, sculpture, and mixed media, each illustrated with a black-and-white plate. Artist's..... More
London: Whitechapel Gallery, 1965. First edition. Soft cover in self wrappers (lamination lifting from spine). 88p, 45 photos (including artist portraits), a few in color. Front endpaper corner clipped. Ink and pencil underlining throughout Robertson and Dunlop texts, and occasionally in the texts about the artists. Exhibition catalogue of 9..... More
London: Whitechapel Gallery, 1966. First edition. Soft cover in self wrappers. 114p, 65 photos (including artist portraits), a few in color. Front endpaper corner clipped. Exhibition catalogue of 13 young British artists: Barnard, Binder, Brace, Carter, Cina, Cook, Dubsky, Godsby, Hosking, Knowles, Lancaster, Morland, Newsome. The third in the Whitechapel..... More
Wolverhampton: Whitehead Brothers, 1902. First edition. Soft cover. 63p, no ills. Checklist of over 350 works and several dozen historic and contemporary books and bindings. Chiefly contemporary paintings (Whistler, Strang, Burne Jones, etc.), prints, sculpture, and decorative arts; also older pieces, such as an Egyptian collection. Books by many Arts..... More
