London: Chapman and Hall, 1910. First edition. Hardcover. x, 123p, with decoratively patterned endpapers. After the Preface, two pages of Contents, and six pages of introduction, there are 58 openings, each with a formalised art nouveau design (each based on a species of plant) recto, with an explanatory caption facing..... More
Colchester: The Minories, 1985. Softcover. 48pp, with text and monochrome illustrations. 29.5x21cms, in glossy covers illustrated in colour. Includes a two-page detailed time-line of Surrealism in England, 1924-1951. The 30 artists represented each have a page with a photo of one of their works, a list of their works in..... More
![Item #19782100 [Dora] Carrington, Paintings, drawings and decorations. Noel Carrington, Sir John...](/pictures/thumb/19782100.jpg?v=1666147875)
Oxford: Oxford Polytechnic Press, 1978. Limited Edition (100): unnumbered copy, signed by Noel Carrington. hardcover in slipcase. 95pp, + signed limitation page; pictorial endpapers. Text and many illustrations, some in colour, showing both her work and photographs of herself and friends. Fine copy (21x19cms) in the original quarter binding of..... More
Manchester: St. Mary's (The Hidden Gem), 1995. Softcover. [40]pp. A4 large format, 29.5x20.5cms. Produced to commemorate the installation of Adams' fourteen paintings in the Church. The images, and L.S.Lowry's sketch of St Mary's, are reproduced in colour, and are preceded by the contributors' text. Contents clean and unmarked. Laid in..... More
Cambridge: University Press, 1946. First edition. Hardcover. The forty pages of drawings, mostly done while Searle was in his early 20s and a prisoner of war of the Japanese in Singapore, are preceded only by Kendon's piece on the artist, which lauds Searle's human sympathy, and followed only by the..... More
London: Oxford University Press, Humphrey Milford, 1939. First edition. Hardcover. [x], 52pp, illustrated with a photograph of Picasso by Dora Maar as the frontis, and XI monochrome photographs of works by Picasso from the collection of Hugh Willoughby. An idiosyncratic and very personal statement, at a time when Picasso was..... More
Glossy periodical. Very clean fresh copy. Very slight curl to tips of covers. More
New York: Artforum, 1983, 1988. Softcover. The contents of these four issues are clean and fresh, with minimal wear to covers, except that the 1983 Summer issue has a large crease across the bottom corner of its front cover, the contents page and first few advertisement pages. [EXTRA Heavy Item]..... More
Paris: Galerie Claude Bernard, 1977. Softcover. Softcover exhibition catalogue, 29x21.5cms (wider than A4). With Leiris' 9-page essay 'Le Grand Jeu de Francis Bacon', and superbly illustrated with plates of all but the last 4 works listed, and including 3 large foldouts of triptychs, in addition to the one reproduced on..... More
Leeds: Richard Jackson, 1888. First and only edition, limited to 350 copies. Hardcover. #98/350. xiv, 55pp, plus the 10 guarded plates of children, each with a facing caption page. With etchings after Millais, Grossmith, Hedley (2), Scannell, Morgan, Thomas, Stocks, Gore, and Williams. Contents in lovely condition, firm, clean and..... More
London: Messum's, 2002. Booklet. 32pp, with many illustrations in colour, and an introduction by Ian Collins. 23.5x21cms, in pictorial card covers. All in very bright fresh condition, as new, with small scuffs to the spine ends. More
London: Sydney L. Moss Ltd., 1995. First edition. Hardcover in Slipcase. The two volumes consecutively paginated: 377pp, + 2 maps. Quarto, with many plates. In the original maroon boards, with dustjackets. In fine condition in the red cloth slipcase. All as new. [EXTRA Heavy Item]. More
London: Thomas Bosworth, 1854. Hardcover. [vi], 54pp, plus the 12 guarded plates. Each chromolithograph is followed by poems by various authors celebrating the species depicted. In intensely coloured roundels of about 6cms diameter, within a gilt circle, Wolf's illustrations vividly depict birds in their natural setting. Set within a wreath..... More
![Item #19139090 Bryan`s Dictionary of Painters and Engravers. [Complete in 5 vols.]. revised and...](/pictures/thumb/19139090.jpg?v=1572107513)
London: G. Bell and Sons, 1913. New edition. Hardcover. xii, 364; x, 291; xvi, 393; xvi, 308; xviii, 425. With many monochrome plates. Contents clean, with some foxing to prelims, final pages and closed foredges, and with foxing to a few pages and plates. Quarto, 28x21cms, top edge gilt, in..... More
London: B4 Publishing: Philip Dobree & Adrian Self:, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991. Limited Edition of 150 copies. [first and only printing]. Hardcover. A very nice complete set. Unpaginated: each volume 42.3x30cms, in the original printed paper-covered boards, containing tipped-in tissue-guarded signed prints in various media, each by a different artist..... More
![Item #19963030 Andy Warhol 1956-86: Mirror of his time. [English and Japanese text]. Margery King...](/pictures/thumb/19963030.jpg?v=1556029055)
Pittsburgh and Japan: The Andy Warhol Museum, and The Asahi Shimbun, 1996. First edition. Hardcover. 318pp, with many illustrations. Contents clean and unmarked. Large quarto, in pictorial boards with yellow spine, in an unusual binding with the text block in black card covers anchored only at the rear joint, so..... More
![Item #20129010 The Adorable Plot. Paintings and writings about garden allotments. [Signed copy]....](/pictures/thumb/20129010.jpg?v=1549307775)
Bristol: Sansom & Company, 2012. First edition. Paperback. 96pp, richly illustrated in colour. The title sounds as though this could be an anthology, but the paintings and, after the introduction, the writings, are all by Newcomb. Quarto glossy paperback, 27x21cms, in fresh, unread condition. Brings together her art, her sly..... More
New York: Artforum, 1984. Softcover. The contents clean and fresh, with minimal wear to cover. More
New York: Artforum, 1983, 1984. Softcover. The contents of these five issues are clean, with some degree of rippling from former damp towards the upper corners. The covers are clean, with minimal wear, although March 1984 has a crease to the back cover. [EXTRA Heavy Item]. More
New York: Artforum, 1980, 1981, 1982. Softcover. The contents of these three issues are clean, with slight rippling from former damp, and with light wear to the covers. The 1981 Summer issue is rather more rippled, with a heavy scuff to the fore-edge of its front cover, and the 1982..... More
New York: Artforum, 1978, 1980, 1982. Softcover. Contents clean and fresh in all three issues. 1978 October is VG+, the 1980 November Scott Burton cover has edge and spine scuffs and a big crease to the wide fore-edge border, and the 1982 Summer issue is about Fine. [Heavy Item]. More
New York: Artforum, 1969. Softcover. Contents clean and fresh. Covers have short split to bottom 2" of spine, some soiling to back cover, front cover slightly rubbed, with top corner bent, and writing in biro under the title. Good copy of a scarce issue. More
![Item #20103040 Tessa Newcomb [Signed copy]. [fyi - nb: 'Pristine Perceptions (or Pristine...](/pictures/thumb/20103040.jpg?v=1548941250)
Bath: Sansom, 2010. First edition. Hardcover. 128pp, with many illustrations. Half title signed 'Tessa Newcomb 2010'. An immaculate, unread (pristine) copy in dust jacket. More
London: Fine Art Society, 2013. First and only edition. Hardcover. 335pp, richly illustrated in colour. A conspectus of the couple's extraordinary work over 15 years. Published on the occasion of an exhibition held at The Fine Art Society Contemporary, London, 4 October-2 November 2013. Contents fresh and unmarked: (light 1cm..... More
London: Sotheby's, 2011. Softcover. 200pp, richly illustrated in colour, with some foldouts. Softcover, 11.5"x9", with grey card covers illustrated with the Lucian Freud self-portrait on the front and the Dali portrait of Paul Elouard on the back: but this copy also includes the glossy card wraparound which reproduces the Francis..... More
