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London: Groombridge and Sons, 1850. First edition. viii, 130pp, 6pp: with 6 plates and many text illustrations. Pages from p.50 unopened. Neat 1850 ownership details on front endpaper and a note in the same hand on p.15. The plates have pale tide marks affecting chiefly the edges, and the frontis is slightly foxed: contents otherwise in good order. The perspective lines of the vanishing point frontis are emphasised by blue thread stitched into the paper. In the original binding of blue cloth: the boards, and the untitled spine, ruled in blind, and front titled in gilt within a geometric motif. Boards firm and gilt bright: some soiling and discolouration, and scuffs and bumps to corners: and spine showing wear, with a 1cm chip at head, fraying at base, and small tears between. A viable rather than splendid copy. VG-.

Price: £90.00

London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1939. Second edition (revised). xii, 215pp, with a colour frontis and 124 plates in colour and black and white, printed recto, as well as his lively sketches illustrating 'The Ballad of the Gloucester Spot' at the end. All very clean but for the blank page 32, on which a child has drawn in biro. Some foxing to front free endpaper and half-title, contents otherwise clean and fresh. Large quarto, in the original binding of brown buckram titled boldly in black. Cloth rippling slightly. Small knocks to the extremities, and pale scuff marks at base of both spine and lower board, which has a small nick to the edge. Otherwise clean and firm, a very nice copy. VG.
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Price: £65.00

Desclee de Brouwer, 1965. Second edition. 196, (8). With 8 tipped-in colour plates, a number of monochrome plates, and many text illustrations in line. French text. Front free endpaper SIGNED large in biro 'Marc Chagall 1966'. Contents clean and otherwise unmarked. In the original binding of oatmeal cloth printed in grey on the front and in black on the spine, clean, bright and firm. In protected unclipped (unpriced) green pictorial dust jacket: this is slightly soiled, edges scuffed, with some erosion at corners. Near Fine in VG- dust-jacket.

Price: £220.00

Firenze: La Nuova Italia, 1972. First edition. [ii], 13, [i], followed by 107 plates, (mostly full page, and several folding), followed by [46p] Elenco delle Tavole, and [ii] Bibliografia Sommaria. Italian text. Contents as new, with some pale foxing to the closed top edge. Very large book, 44 x 32 cms, in the original binding of fine sea-green cloth, with the artist's monogram in white on the front, and the spine titled in white: firm and clean with very slight compression to some extremities. In the pictorial dust jacket, plain to the spine and lower panel, top edge slightly knocked, 1cm closed tear to bottom edge. Near Fine in very good dust-jacket.
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Price: £160.00

Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1984. First edition. 80pp, with many colour plates, preceded by a number of Chancellor's drawings. Ownership name of Roger Fisher, the late maritime artist, on front free endpaper. Contents clean and fresh and unmarked. Large landscape quarto, 11.5 x 14.4ins, in the original binding of blue cloth, spine titled in gilt, firm, clean and bright. In protected unclipped pictorial dust jacket, clean, slightly knocked at extremities, and front flap creased. Beautiful copy.

Price: £78.00

George Philip, London, 1992. First Edition. 176pp, illustrated with 160 paintings, sketches and photographs, in colour and monochrome. Contents very fresh, no sign of a previous reader. Landscape quarto, in the original brown cloth-textured boards lettered in gilt. Knock to base of spine and slight rub to one edge and small bump to another, otherwise clean, bright and firm. Unclipped pictorial dustjacket has small bump to base of spine, otherwise bright and fresh. The only comprehensive guide to Turner's first European tour. VG+ / VG+.
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Price: £38.00

Nicosia: The Hellenic Bank, for European Cultural Month, 1995. Presumed first and only edition. 48pp. Text in Greek and English. With a photo of the artist and 19 colour plates (mostly double-page) of his work. Naive / peasant / folk art, depicting everyday life. Quarto, bound in thin navy card, with the artist's name in blind relief. Very clean fresh copy. Near Fine.

Price: £40.00

Aldershot: Scolar Press, Ashgate Publishing, 1998. First edition. 128pp, illustrated in colour and black & white. Contents fresh and immaculate. In original binding of black cloth lettered in yellow. Unclipped (unpriced) pictorial dustwrapper. Fine in fine dust-jacket.

Price: £30.00

Moscow?: 2000. Presumed first edition. Russian and English text (though publication details are in Russian only). 80pp, with many colour plates. A lavish production, presenting the works purchased by Vnesheconombank as a gift to the state Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts. Contents fresh and clean and unmarked, with a silk marker. Large quarto in dark blue cloth with small pictorial onlay and titled in silver in Russian and English. Firm, bright and fresh, with a few very small soil marks and head of spine slightly blunted. Near-Fine.
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Price: £120.00

Norwich: Black Dog Books, 2005. First edition. First Edition. viii, 176pp, richly illustrated in colour. With warm inscription by Ian Collins on title page. Contents otherwise fresh and clean. Large quarto, in blue cloth-textured binding lettered in silver, bright and fresh, with minimal signs of wear. In the splendid protected unclipped pictorial dust jacket with slight creasing to back panel, top edge slightly knocked, knock to head of spine and a tiny nick at the base. Scarce. Near Fine in very good dust-jacket.
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Price: £80.00