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Edinburgh: Floris Books, 2007.. This English version by Polly Lawson, based on original text by Lennart Rudstrom. Carl Larsson is one of Sweden's best-loved artists. The watercolours of his home and family from the end of the nineteenth century are widely acclaimed as one of the richest records of life at that time. The paintings in this book all depict… Read more about this item

Edinburgh: Floris Books, 2006.. Originally published in Swedish in 1899. This is a0 revised version of the first English edition, published by G.P.Putnam's Sons of New York in 1974 with text translated from Lennart Rudstrom's 1968 adaptation of Larsson's original words. The paintings in this book depict Larsson's home in the village of Sundhorn in western Sweden, where he lived… Read more about this item

Farnham: Lund Humphries in Association with London Transport Museum, 2011.. 1st edition. "Claire Dobbin's fascinating narrative provides a chronological account of the mapping of London's Underground. Starting with the magnificent early twentieth century decorative maps of MacDonald Gill, the evolution of London's diagrammatic Underground maps, introduced by Harry Beck's iconic 1931 design, is expertly told. The legacy of Beck's… Read more about this item

London: Chatto & Windus, 2016.. 1st edition. "An innovative fusion of detection and biography." "The captivating and mysterious tale of a Victorian bookseller whose fate was changed forever by the greatet painter of all time. In 1845, a Reading bookseller named John Snare came across the dirt-blackened portrait of a prince at a country house auction. Suspecting that it might… Read more about this item

London: Trefoil, 1987.. 1st edition. "The story of a technology and its commercial development that is fundamental to the fine arts in England between the Rennaissance and the Regency....The development of stable, efficient papers was to be a boon to the growing pursuits of watercolour painting and printing engravings." 24.5cms x 20cms x 1cm. Pp.160, 16 colour plates… Read more about this item

London:B.T.Batsford Ltd, 1914.. 2nd edition revised. An Inquiry into the Decorative Use of Lettering, Past, Present, and Possible. Companion volume to Alphabets Old and New. 19cms X 13.5cms X 2cms..Pp.xxiv/224, 188 illustrations, green patterned endpapers. Green cloth, title to front and spine. VG.

Germany / Netherlands: TACO / LIBRERO - TACO Verlagsgesellschaft und Agentur mbH / Produktie en distributie Librero, Postbus 79. Illustrated card covers. Landscape format paperback 30cm x 23cm. pp.20/14 (double-page models)/pp.21-40 . Complete and in very good condition. Clean Dutch text throughout. This large folding model book, contains 14 easy-to-assemble paper sculptures. The design is by the great… Read more about this item

London : Thos Parsons & Sons Ltd., 1954 . Price One Guinea.. Scarce reprint of the 1934 edition. A very good original binding. 9.5" x 7.0" x 0.75". [2pp.]/pp.5-73/[1p. - Colophon] . Green patterned boards with black titles to front board and spine: Cover title; "A Tint Book Of Historical Colours Suitable For Decorative Work." Corners… Read more about this item

Sherborne : Alphabooks 1987.. First edition. A very good binding with illustrated dustwrapper. 11.0" x 9.0" x 0.75". pp.224. Clean dustwrapper, edges rubbed, lightly sunned, and price-clipped. No inscriptions. Ilustrated throughout. VG/VG.

London: V&A Publishing, 2014 .. This book celebrates the delightful infatuation that Edward Bawden (1903-89), painter, illustrator and graphic artist...;" First edition with illustrated dustwrapper. pp.128 . Clean throughout with numerous coloured illustrations. VG/VG

Sparham, Norwich: The Mainstone Press, 2011 .. First edition. pp.48. A very clean book with illustrated dustwrapper. VG/VG. ** Synopsis: "This book , the third in the Ravilious in Pictures series, celebrates the life and times of the English artist Eric Ravilious (1903-1942). It reproduces a collection of stunning watercolours by the artist which were inspired by… Read more about this item

London: V&A Publishing, 2011 .. This book celebrates the singular vision of Britain's capital city by Edward Bawden (1903-89), painter, illustrator and graphic artist...;" First edition with illustrated dustwrapper. pp.160 . "With over 200 illustrations, shows London as represented by Edward Bawden (1903-1989) in prints, posters, drawings, paintings, murals and advertising material produced during his long career. The wide… Read more about this item

London: Balance House / Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1968.. 1st edition. "Masters and Houston draw on a combined 15 years of research with pyote- and LSD-type substances to explain and discuss the nature of psychedelic experience and its effect on creativity. They clrify the distinction between the "psychedelic sensibility" of artists such as Bosch, Blake, and Tchelitchew and the… Read more about this item

Victoria: National Gallery of Australia, 2002.. 1st edition. Especially commisioned for the centenary of the birth of Aboriginal (Western Aranda) artist Albert Namatjira. After the success of his first soiki exhibition in Melbourne in 1938, Namatjira increasingly became 'public property'. But by the beginning of the new millennium he became a 'scapegpat' of both the social policies of the… Read more about this item

London: Elek, 1971.. 1st edition. "Miss Lilly's imique first-hand descriptions of Sickert's working methods and teaching are given with an expertise which only a fellow-painter could command; while .. important technical information with lively and endearing reminiscence is to be found in her picture of the artistic life of the London of the period, in her portraits of people… Read more about this item

London: Art and Technics, 1949.. 1st edition. Pp.111, list of books illustrated by Robert Gibbings; brief biography of Robert Gibbings;numerous Illustrations of Gibings wood engravings, inscribed by the author to front free endpaper, minor spotting to endpapers. Green cloth, gilt title to spine, bumps to corner tips. G+.

West Drayton: Penguin, 1948.. 1st edition. Then Penguin Moden Painters series. Landscape format. 17.5cms x 22cms. Pp.16 text, 32 colour and black & white plates. Brown stiff card cover, minor wear to edges and spine. G+.

London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1950.. 1st British edition, translated from the German by Stanley Godman. "In the work of John Constable the cloud studies form a compact and separate group; the most important of them were painted in 1821 and 1822. Dr Kurt Badt shows that these studies were based on a little-remembered essay by Luke Howard, 'On… Read more about this item

London: Dorling Kindersley, 2001.. Acclaimed artist and academic Sarah Simblet unveils the extraordinary construction of the human body and celebrates its continuing prominence in Western Art today." 28.8cms x 25cms x 2.5cms. Pp.256, more than 250 specially commisioned photographs and 100 drawings + practical drawomg lessons explaining how to visualize and draw each part of the body,… Read more about this item

London: Laurence King Publishing, 2014.. 1st edition. "Presents a survey of key contemporary artists who have each embraced painting and are working within a realist tradition. The book celebrates the work of 51 artists who are each taking the discipline in a new direction : from those who work with appropriation and found images, to those trying to get… Read more about this item