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
London: John Murray, 1950. First edition. Hardcover. 110p + many photos. on 64 pls. Lacks jacket. Owner's ink name. The first comprehensive survey of modern English studio and functional pottery, from the 1920s on. With historical chapters, "How Pottery Is Made," "Learning to Distinguish Good Pottery," and "Some Opinions on..... More
![The Making of the South Kensington Museum [in Journal of the History of Collections]; Curators,...](/pictures/thumb/30277.jpg?v=1633973542)
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
London: Oxford University Press, 1975. First edition. Hardcover. 3 vols., totaling over 1100p and 200 ills., with 3 frontispieces (2 in color). No jacket, as issued; lacks slipcase. A magisterial history and bibliography, complete in 3 vols. Heavy; shipping/handling will be extra. Please keep this in mind when ordering... More
Wilton, Cork: Collins Press, 2004. First edition. Spiral bound paperbound. 268p, 240 photos, line ills., and maps. Reproduced by photo-offset. Detailed survey of the monuments on the Burren and the Aran Islands of Ireland--tombs, crosses, churches, tower houses, forts, etc. Grouped chronologically: the first peoples, from Neolithic to Bronze Age..... More
![The Wind beyond the Wall, A Walled Garden in Moylough, Winter in the Eye [3 books]. Joan McBreen](/pictures/thumb/30519.jpg?v=1634144823)
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: 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
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
![Large Studio Portrait of a Huntsman in Hunting Kit]. Henry Van der Weyde, photographer](/pictures/thumb/30521.jpg?v=1634144824)
London: unpublished, n.d. [ca. 1890s-1900?]. Van der Weyde, Henry. Mounted photograph. Mounted albumen photograph, ca. 7 x 11 1/2 inches. Stamped in gilt on the mount: "The VanderWeyde Light" and 182 Regent St. W. ""VanderWeye" is also blind-stamped in the lower right of the photo. Neatly mended closed tear to..... 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
