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WARP AND WEFT.
A Textile Terminology. Adapted and expnaded from the Vocabulary of Technical Terms, 1964, with permission of the Centre International d’Etude des Textiles Anciens.
Toronto: Royal Ontario Museum, 1980. 4to., pp.xiv,216, blue hardcover, gilt, b/w illustrations, with diagrams by the author; ex libris Penelope Walton-Rogers, with her bookplate to front free endpaper, light toning to margins, sunning at head and foot of spine, light partial sunning to boards, else a very good copy, in unclipped but chipped and edgeworn dust-jacket, with loss to head of spine.
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WATSON'S ADVANCED TEXTILE DESIGN.
Compound Woven Structures.
London: Newnes-Butterworths, 1977. Fourth edition, 8vo., pp.(vi),435, red cloth, gilt, b/w illustrations; ex library, with stamps and stickers to prelims, else clean and very good, in very good unclipped dust-jacket, which is lightly sunned to spine.
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WESTMINSTER. In Two Volumes.
I: The Art, Architecture and Archaeology of the Royal Abbey. II: The Art, Architecture and Archaeology of the Royal Palace.
Two volumes, 8vo.,pp. x,415; x,269, paperback, b/w and colour illustrations, plan to frontispiece of vol.I; ownership bookplates to front wrapper verso of both volumes, light rubbing to extremities, a very good set.
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WHAT IS SURREALISM? Criterion Miscellany-No.43.
London: Faber and Faber Limited. First edition, 8vo., pp.90, pictorial green wrappers, 4 b/w plates; sunning to margins of wrappers, an internally clean and o/w very good copy.
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WHEAT: FROM PLOUGH TO PLATE.
St Just: Jackson Foundation, Kurt Jackson Editions, 2021. Large 8vo.,pp. 72, pictorial wrappers, colour illustrations; a near-fine copy.
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WILLIAM BAZIOTES: Paintings and Drawings, 1934-1962.
Peggy Guggenheim Collection.
Milano: Skira, 2004. 4to.,pp. 133, hardcover, white lettering, b/w and colour illustrations; ownership autograph to front free endpaper, a near-fine copy, in a near-fine unclipped pictorial dust-jacket.
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WILLIAM BLAKE, PRINTMAKER.
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1980. 4to., pp.xxii,283, pale blue cloth with title band stamped in black, gilt, colour frontispiece, 231 unpaginated b/w plates; foxing to top edges and lightly to fore-edges, else fine, in very good unclipped dust-jacket, which is lightly toned to spine.
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WILLIAM BOUGUEREAU. His Life and Works.
Port Reading: Antique Collector’s Club in cooperation with The Art Renewal Center, 2015. First single-volume edition, 4to., pp.534, black hardcover, gilt, colour pictorial endpapers, colour frontispiece, many colour and b/w illustrations; very light rubbing to extremities, foot of spine lightly creased, a near-fine copy in a very good unclipped pictorial dust-jacket, which has chipping to front upper corner, and light surface scratches to the laminate coating, else very good, and now in a protective cover.
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WILLIAM ETTY: THE LIFE AND ART.
USA: McFarland & Company, 2007. 8vo., pp.,xv,493, pictorial hardcover, colour and b/w illustrations, a near fine copy. No dust-jacket.
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WILLIAM HODGES, 1744-1797: The Art of Exploration.
New Haven/London: Yale University Press/National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, 1744. Exhibition catalogue, 4to., pp.xii,212, paperback, colour and b/w illustrations; creasing to lower margin of front wrapper, else a very good, clean copy.
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WILLIAM POWELL FRITH.
Painting the Victorian Age.
New Haven/London: Yale University Press. Exhibition catalogue, 4to., pp.xi,180, paperback, colour and b/w illustrations; inked note to front wrapper verso, a very good, clean copy.
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WILLIAM SCOTT.
London: Thames and Hudson, 2007. First edition, 4to., pp.503,(i) yellow cloth, black lettering; a fine copy, in a near-fine unclipped dust-jacket, just very slightly rubbed to extremities.
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WINDOWS: A BOOK ABOUT STAINED AND PAINTED GLASS.
London: B.T. Batsford, 1909. 8vo., pp.420,32 (adverts), blue cloth, gilt, t.e.g., b/w illustrations; neat ownership nameplate to front paste-down endpaper, ink ownership inscription (dated 1914) to half title, foxing to half-title and front free endpaper verso, occasional light foxing within, spotting to spine, area of dampstaining to lower RH corner of rear board, rubbing to extremities, with small area of wear to cloth along upper joint, a good, internally clean copy.
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WOMEN IN THE VICTORIAN ART WORLD.
Manchester University Press, 1995. 8vo., pp.xiii,208, brown hardcover, gilt, b/w illustrations; very good indeed.
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WOODEN MONUMENTAL EFFIGIES IN ENGLAND AND WALES.
London: Elliot Stock. 4to., pp.112, red cloth, gilt, 29 b/w plates; ownership gift inscription to front paste-down endpaper, toning to free endpapers, light foxing to prelims, light rubbing to extremities and rubbing/marking to lower margin of front board, otherwise a very good copy, in good unclipped dust-jacket, which has loss to head of spine and to rear upper margin (3-4cm), and light loss to corners and tailband. Now in a protective cover.
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WORDS AND PICTURES.
London: Jonathan Cape. First edition, 4to., pp.205, blue hardcover, gilt, colour illustrated; slight crease to tip of headband, a fresh and near-fine copy, in a very good unclipped dust-jacket, which is slightly sunned to spine.
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YAACOV AGAM.
Texts by the Artist. (from the series ‘The Sculpture of the Twentieth Century’, edited by Michael Joray)
Switzerland: Editions du Griffon Neuchatel, 1962. 4to., pp.129, grey cloth lettered in white, numerous b/w plates as well as several colour plates; slight tone to upper edges, a fresh and near-fine copy, in very good unclipped dust-jacket, which is just lightly toned to margins.
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YORK MINSTER: A CATALOGUE OF MEDIEVAL STAINED GLASS.
Fascicule 1. The West Windows of the Nave (wI, wII, nXXX, sXXXVI). (Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi - Great Britain, Volume III.)
London: Published for The British Academy by Oxford University Press, 1987. 4to., pp.xxii,96,31(plates),(iv), black hardcover, gilt, 16 colour plates and 15 b/w plates, b/w figures, 2 microfiche plates; light toning to edges, a very good copy, in unclipped dust-jacket, which has small closed tear and crease to rear upper margin, light shelfwear, else very good.
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