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THE MIRROR OF THE STAGE.
The Actor Prints of Kunisada.
Leeds: The University Gallery, 1996. Exhibition catalogue, 4to., pp.48, paperback, colour plates and b/w illustrations; a very good copy.
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THE MODULOR: A Harmonious Measure to the Human Scale Universally applicable to Architecture and Mechanics.
London: Faber and Faber, 1954. 8vo.,pp. 243, grey cloth, lettering in black and red, b/w figures; ownership autograph to front paste down endpaper, toned to endpapers and lightly to margins, webbing visible to p.96-7 all contents firm, rubbed to extremities, with rubbing to lettering on spine, pencil annotation to rear, still a very good copy. No dust-jacket.
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THE MOSAICS OF NORMAN SICILY.
New York: Hacker Art Books, 1988. Reprint, large 8vo., pp.xx,478,120(b/w plates), pictorial oatmeal cloth stamped in brown and lettered in gilt, pictorial endpapers, b/w plates; a very good, fresh copy. No dust-jacket.
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THE NAMING OF THE BEASTS: Natural History in the Medieval Bestiary.
London: Duckworth, 1991. 8vo.,pp. 231, navy cloth, gilt, b/w illustrations, colour plates, colour frontispiece; a very good copy, in a very good unclipped pictorial dust-jacket, which is lightly rubbed to extremities.
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THE ORIENTALISTS: Western Artists in Arabia, The Sahara, Persia & India.
New York: Laynfaroh, 2005. 4to.,pp. 301, hardcover, gilt, colour illustrations, colour frontispiece, pictorial endpapers; light rubbing to head and foot of spine and corners and light knock to upper corner of front board, a very good copy, in a very good unclipped pictorial dust-jacket, which is lightly rubbed to extremities with creasing to upper corners.
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The Penguin Modern Painters: DAVID JONES.
Harmondsworth: Penguin Books. First edition, oblong 8vo., pp.18(text),(32)plates, paperback in pictorial dust-jacket, 16 colour plates and 16 b/w plates; a very good copy in near-complete unclipped dust-jacket, which has light loss at head and foot of spine as well as front upper corner, a few small closed tears to edges, now in protective cover and overall vg.
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THE SEVENTH SENSE: FRANCIS HUTCHESON AND EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY BRITISH AESTHETICS.
Oxford: Clarendon Press. Second, revised and enlarged edition, 8vo., pp.xiv,402, paperback, b/w frontispiece; light crease to spine, partial sunning to wrappers, else clean and very good.
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THE SMALL HOUSE IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LONDON. A Social and Architectural History.
New Haven/London: The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, by Yale University Press, in association with English Heritage, 2004. 4to., pp.vii,351, red hardcover, gilt, colour frontispiece, colour and b/w illustrations; near-fine, in vg unclipped dust-jacket.
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THE SPIRIT OF COLOURS: THE ART OF KARL GERSTNER.
Nine Picture Chapters and Selected Essays.
Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1981. Large 8vo.,pp. 225, black cloth, grey lettering, b/w and colour illustrations and fold-outs; light toning to edges of text block, a very good copy, in a very good unclipped pictorial dust-jacket, which is lightly rubbed to extremities.
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THE STATE OF DRAWING: GESTURE AND ACT. Selected from the Tate Collection.
New York: Tate Publishing and The Drawing Center, 2003. 4to.,pp. 284, pictorial hardcover, white lettering, b/w and colour illustrations and fold-outs, colour frontispiece; ownership autograph to front free endpaper, occasional underlining and annotation in pencil, a very good copy, in a very good unclipped pictorial dust-jacket, which has a small puncture mark to front.
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THE STREETS OF YORK: Four Centuries of change.
York: York Publishing Services, 2018. 4to., pp.viii,285, hardcover, gilt, b/w and colour illustrations, maps to endpapers; a near-fine copy, in a near-fine unclipped pictorial dust-jacket.
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THE SYMBOL AT YOUR DOOR. Number and Geometry in Religious Architecture of the Greek and Latin Middle Ages.
Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007. Small 4to., pp.xx,421, blue hardcover, gilt, 191 b/w illustrations; fine, in near-fine unclipped dust-jacket.
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THE TOMB AND THE TIARA: Curial Tomb Sculpture in Rome and Avignon in the Later Middle Ages.
Clarendon Studies in the History of Art.
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992. 4to.,pp. xxiv,183, (232 illustrations); hardcover, gilt, b/w illustrations to rear; ownership autograph to front free endpaper, otherwise a near-fine copy, in a very good unclipped pictorial dust-jacket.
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THE UNKNOWN CATACOMB.
A Unique Discovery of Early Christian Art.
New Lanark: Geddes & Grosset. 4to., pp.180, blue cloth, gilt, 150 illustrations, largely in colour; ownership blindstamp to front free endpaper, a very good copy, in very good unclipped dust-jacket.
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THE VERNACULAR WORKSHOP.
From Craft To Industry, 1400-1900.
York: Council for British Archaeology, 2004. 4to., pp.xv,201, paperback, b/w illustrations; crease to lower corner of rear wrapper and pp.189-201, light rubbing to edges of wrappers, else clean and very good.
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THE VICTORIA AND ALBERT MUSEUM.
The History of its Building.
Oxford: Phaidon/Christie’s, 1982. Small 4to., pp.288, olive cloth, gilt, colour plates and numerous b/w illustrations; a very good, clean copy, in very good unclipped dust-jacket.
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THE WELSH COTTAGE.
Building Traditions of the Rural Poor, 1750-1900.
Comisiwn Brenhinol Henebion Cymru/Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales, published in association with Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales, 2011. 4to., pp.288, brown hardcover, gilt, colour and b/w plates; a fine copy, in very good+ unclipped dust-jacket.
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THE WINDOWS OF KING'S COLLEGE CHAPEL, CAMBRIDGE.
Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi, Great Britain, Supplementary Volume I.
London: Published for The British Academy by Oxford University Press, 1972. Folio, pp.xxxvi,140,153, cloth, gilt, colour frontispiece, colour and b/w plates; from the library of D.E. Luscombe, with neat ownership inscription to front free endpaper, some foxing to fore-edges, else clean and very good indeed, in very good unclipped dust-jacket, which is lightly rubbed to extremities and has a tiny closed tear at the corner of the rear cover.
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THE WORLD UPSIDE-DOWN.
English Misericords.
London: Harvey Miller Publishers. 4to., pp.192, pictorial wrappers, b/w illustrations; a very good copy.
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Themes and Movements: SURREALISM.
London: Phaidon, 2004. 4to., pp.304, black hardcover lettered in blind, colour-illustrated; ownership autographs to half title and to front pase-down endpaper (concealed by dust-jacket), slight bump to lower edge of front board, an otherwise fine copy, in fine unclipped dust-jacket.
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