Nicolai Abildgaard. Revolution Embodied.
(Copenhagen: Statens Museum for Kunst, 2009). First edition, 4to, 294, (2) pp. Numerous illustrations, mainly in colour. Pictorial boards, fine. More
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David de Almeida.
[Lisbon]: ACD Editores, 2008. First edition. 4to. 349, (1) pp. Publisher's black cloth, silver lettered to the spine and upper board, dust jacket. Profusely illustrated in colour. Fine. A well illustrated catalogue of this Portuguese artist. The three articles on the artist are repeated in English at the rear of..... More
Hints to Young Practitioners in the Study of Landscape Painting... Intended to Show the Different Stages of the Neutral Tint... to which are Added, Instructions in the Art of Painting on Velvet.
London: Longman, Hurst, Rees & Orme, [c.1804]. Second edition. 8vo. (vi), 67, (1) pp. Original boards, recently rebacked to style. Engraved title page with vignette plus 6 plates, including 1 hand coloured and 1 tinted. A very good copy. More
Santa Barbara Architecture from Spanish Colonial to Modern. Photography by Wayne McCall. Text by... Introduction by David Gebhard. Edited by Bob Easton and Wayne McCall.
Santa Barbara: Capra Press, 1980. Second edition. Oblong 4to. 297, (3) pp. Publisher's pebbled black board, gilt lettered to the spine and upper cover, the latter with mounted photographic illustration, pictorial endpapers, original glassine wrapper. Numerous black and white photographic illustrations throughout. An excellent copy. More
The Art of Florence. Principal Photography by Takashi Okamura.
New York and London: Artabras, [N.d.]. First Artabras edition, ninth printing overall. Two volumes. 4to. 703, (1); (8), 713-1312 pp. Publisher's blue cloth, gilt lettered to the spines and blind stamped to the boards, slipcase with colour illustrations to the sides. Profusely illustrated throughout. An excellent set. More
The Half. Photographs of Actors Preparing for the Stage.
London: Faber and Faber, 2008. First edition. 4to. xii, 308 pp. Publisher's grey boards, blind lettered to the spine, dust jacket, not price clipped. Black and white photographs throughout. Fine. More
Picture Magazine. Issue # 16. Diane Arbus: A Monograph of Seventeen Photographs.
(Los Angeles, 1980). Folio, (36) pp. Black and white photographic illustrations, subscription insert bound in. Original wrappers, stapled as issued, some mild soiling, very good. More
British Drawings in the India Office Library. Volume I - Amateur Artists. Volume II - Official and Professional Artists.
London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1969. First edition, 2 volumes, large 8vo. Coloured frontispieces and 120 black and white plates, piece of craft paper erroneously bound in at p.296 in the first volume. Cloth, d.w.'s, spine to volume I sunned, some rubbing to the spine ends of volume II. More
Arnaboldi.
(Basel: Birkhaüser Verlag AG, 2010). First edition. 4to. 62, (74) pp. Publisher's grey cloth with light grey lettering to the spine and upper board, dust jacket. 48 pages of colour photographic illustrations to the front plus numerous black and white illustrations to the text pages at the rear. A few..... More
All About Eve. The Photography of Eve Arnold.
Kempen: TeNeues, 2012. First edition. 4to. 214, (2) pp. Publisher's pictorial boards, dust jacket replicating the same design. Reproductions of Arnold's mostly black black and white photos throughout. Mild ceasing to the spine ends of the jacket, a lovely copy. More
50 Ans d'Art Moderne.
Bruxelles: Exposition Internationales des Beaux-Arts, 1958. First edition. Large 8vo. (92) pp. Full purple morocco with beaded gilt rules in irregular geometric patterns to both boards, inlaid panels of brown leather to some of the panels, gilt device to the spine. 32 colour plates plus another 8 black and white..... More
The School Prints. A Romantic Project.
(London: Ruth Artmonsky, 2006). First edition, oblong 8vo, 125, (1) pp. Illustrations in both colour and black and white. Paperback, d.w., a fine copy. More
Systems. Arts Council 1972-3.
[London]: Arts Council, 1973. Second edition. Square 4to. (ii), 62 pp. Publisher's plain white card covers with black lettering to the spine and upper panel. Black and white illustrations. Tanning to the spine with some brown marks to the covers, else very good. The catalogue also includes works by Colin..... More
Mute 3. (Works after 1987).
Sorø: Vestsjællands Kunstmuseum; Dublin: The Irish Museum of Modern Art & Manchester: Cornerhouse, (1992). 4to, 35, (1) pp. Coloured illustrations. Pictorial wrappers, spine a little worn. More
Frank Auerbach and the National Gallery. Working after the Masters.
London: National Gallery Publications, (1995). First edition, 4to, 32 pp. 36 illustrations. Pictorial paperback, fine. More
Observations. Photographs by Richard Avedon. Comments by Truman Capote.
London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, (1959). First English edition, folio, 151, (1) pp. Black and white photographic illustrations, brief inscription to fly leaf. Original boards, slightly soiled, foot of spine rubbed, slipcase also somewhat marked and a little worn, one corner with loss. More
The Life and Lineage of Nancy Haselswon.
(London: Nylon, 1999). Limited edition, one of 1,000 copies, this copy not numbered or signed, 4to, (64) pp. Coloured illustrations, one corner creased. Cloth, d.w. with mild soiling, very good. More
Berlioz. A Singular Obsession. A personal portrait of Hector Berlioz (1803-1869) on the centenary of his death.
(London): British Broadcasting Corporation, (1969). First edition, large 8vo, 64 pp. Numerous illustrations, a few in colour. Inscribed from Ayrton on the fly leaf, later owner's ink stamp to the foot of the same page. Cloth, d.w. a little worn to extremities. More
David Bailey. Archive One. 1957-1969.
London: Thames & Hudson, 1999. First edition. 4to. 273, (3) pp. Publisher's black cloth, silver lettered to the spine and with the publisher's matching logo to the upper board, dust jacket, folding guide to the 1999 Barbican exhibition "David Bailey: Birth of Cool" loosely inserted. 313 photographic illustrations, predominantly black..... More
Architecture & Personalities.
London: Country Life Limited, (1944). First edition. Large 8vo. Publisher's cloth, gilt lettered to the spine, lettered and decorated to the upper board, dust jacket, price clipped. Frontispiece, illustration of a bust of the author which is also replicated on the upper cover of the dust jacket plus 182 black..... More
The New Industrial Parks near Irvine, California. Das Neue Industriegelände in der Nähe von Irvine, Kalifornien.
(New York: Leo Castelli / Castelli Graphics, 1974). First edition, 4to, (106) pp. 51 full page black and white illustrations, contemporary signature and an old inked price to the fly leaf. Cloth, with mild spotting, d.w. with light soiling and slight loss to the spine ends. More
The Casting-Counter and the Counting-Board. A Chapter in the History of Numismatics and early Arithmetic.
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1916. First edition, 4to, 357, (1) pp. 64 plates, some foxing, with a letter to a previous owner and several relevant press cuttings tipped in, other material loosely inserted. Original gilt titled dark blue buckram, some rubbing to extremities otherwise very good. A scholarly and very scarce..... More
The Theory and Practice of Landscape Painting in Water-colours.
London: Hamilton, Adams, and Co., 1858. "New and Enlarged Edition". Large 8vo. (viii), 286 pp. Publisher's blue cloth, rebacked preserving the original spine, gilt to the spine and upper board, blindstamped decoration replicated on the lower board, new endpapers, all edges gilt. 30 colour lithographed plates using "Leighton Brothers' Chromatic..... More
Baron Encore. Introduction and Commentary by Arnold L. Haskell.
London: Collins, 1952. First edition, 4to, 222, (2) pp. Coloured frontispiece and black and white photographs throughout. Gilt titled yellow cloth, d.w. with some light wear to edges, More