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THE SEMANTICS OF COLOUR.
A Historical Approach.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. 8vo., pp.xiv,257, glazed hardcover; small tear inner margin of front endpapers, lightly bruised to extremities, a very good copy. No dust-jacket.
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THE ARCHITECTURE OF THE SCOTTISH MEDIEVAL CHURCH 1100-1560.
The Mediaeval Town Series.
New Haven/London: Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for British Art, Yale University Press, 1560. 4to., pp.xiii,456, navy hardcover, silver gilt, colour frontispiece, b/w and colour plates, pictorial endpapers; slight roll to spine, a very good, fresh copy, in a very good unclipped dust-jacket.
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XIV MEDIEVAL ART AND ARCHITECTURE IN THE DIOCESE OF ST ANDREWS. The British Archaeological Association conference transactions for the year 1986
The British Archaeological Association, 1994. 8vo., pp.viii;231;(34) paperback, fold-out map, b/w plates, in-text b/w illustrations; very lightly rubbed to extremities, else very good indeed.
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THE WORKS OF ERNEST NEWTON R.A.
London: The Architectural Press, 1925. Large 4to., pp.xvi,212, red cloth, gilt, colour frontispiece, b/w plates throughout; small sticker to front paste-down endpaper, marking to front free endpaper, light thumbing and offsetting throughout, rear board working loose, light wear to extremities and light soiling to boards, a good + copy. No dust-jacket.
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PRINTED: images by Australian artists 1885-1955.
National Gallery of Australia, 2007. 4to., pp.xv,328, pictorial hardcover, colour illustrations; a small spot of rubbing to rear board, else very good indeed, in a vg unclipped dustjacket which has a spot of creasing and small tear to rear.
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DAVID HOCKNEY: A BIGGER PICTURE.
London: Royal Academy of Arts, 2012. 4to., pp. 301, pictorial wrappers, colour illustrations, colour frontispiece; a near-fine copy.
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LE MONDE DES TEINTURES NATURELLES.
Paris: Belim, 2003. 4to., pp.586, cloth-backed lettered in white, glazed covers, colour illustrations; light toning to edges, light shelfwear, internally fresh, a good+, clean copy.
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THE HISTORICAL CASTLES AND MANSIONS OF SCOTLAND. Perthshire and Forfarshire.
Paisley/London: Alexander Gardner, 1890. First edition. 8vo., pp.448, uncut, cloth, gilt, t.e.g., b/w illustrations; ex libris bookplate to front paste-down, lightly toned, rubbing to extremities and margins of boards, light wear to head and tail band, marks and staining to boards, else a good+ copy.
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POTENTIAL IMAGES Ambiguity and Indeterminacy in Modern art
London: Reaktion Books, 2002. 4to., pp.304, paperback, many colour and b/w illustration; a near-fine copy.
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COINAGE IN THE CELTIC WORLD.
London: Seaby, 1987. 8vo., pp.153, grey hardcover, gilt, b/w plates and maps; very good+, in a very good unclipped dust-jacket.
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THE LIFE OF J.M.W. TURNER, R.A. Founded on Letters and Papers Furnished by his Friends and Fellow Academicians. In Two Volumes.
London: Hurst and Blackett, 1862. Two volumes, 8vo., pp.xv,416;vi,425, publisher’s half red leather, four raised bands, gilt, marbled boards, speckled edges, 7 b/w plates, including frontispiece to Volume I.; ink ownership autograph to both volumes, paste action to endpapers, extremities rubbed, with wear to paper covering along edges of boards, spines uniformly sunned, a near very good set, which is internally clean.
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THE LAMBETH METHOD OF CAKE DECORATION AND PRACTICAL PASTRIES.
London: Virtue and Company Limited, 1936. First edition, folio, pp.xv,308,(8) adverts, textured decorative claret cloth, gilt, top edges red, illustrated with colour and b/w plates, loose folding plate for a gondola design; occasional fingermarking to margins, light foxing to edges, 2cm tear to cloth over spine, spine lightly rolled, rubbing to extremities, overall very good.
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IN VENICE WITH TURNER.
London: The Cotswold Gallery, 1930. 4to., pp.xv,184, pictorial bevelled red buckram, gilt, t.e.g., tipped-in colour frontispiece, tipped-in colour plates plus b/w plates, pictorial head- and tailpieces; foxing to prelims and fore-edges, light toning to margins, a little light rubbing and marking to cloth, overall a very good copy indeed.
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THE LAST FLOWER PAINTINGS OF MANET
London: Thames and Hudson, 1986. 4to., pp.48, blue cloth, light blue lettering, 1 b/w illustration, 16 colour illustrations; a fine copy in a vg unclipped dust-jacket, which is sunned to spine.
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DEPICTION.
New Haven/London: Yale University Press, 1998. 8vo., pp.viii,194, brown hardcover, gilt, colour frontispiece, colour and b/w plates; light rubbing to extremities, else near-fine, in a near-fine unclipped dust-jacket, with tiny nick to head of front flap.
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THE LATER PAINTINGS AND DRAWINGS OF JOHN CONSTABLE
Vol. I: Text Vol. II: Plates
New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 1984. Two volume set. 4to., pp.xx,324;unpaginated plates, hardcover, gilt, many b/w and colour plates to plates volume; a fine set in near-fine unclipped dust-jackets, with creasing to front overleaf of plates volume, in slipcase.
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NOW OR ELSE
Kerber Art, 2012. exhibition catalogue. 4to., pp. 130, paperback, many colour illustrations; one small mark to front wrapper, else very good indeed.
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10001NACHT.
Cologne: Snoeck, 2011. Oblong 4to., pp.87, purple hardcover with decorative inlay, colour plates; ownership inscription to front free endpaper, light bending to boards, extremities slightly rubbed, a very good copy indeed. No dust-jacket.
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WEAVES AND PATTERN DRAFTING.
London: B. T. Batsford Limited, 1978. Reprint, small 4to., pp.100, black hardcover, gilt, numerous b/w plates; pencilling throughout, light toning to edges, slight rubbing to boards, a very good copy, in an unclipped dust-jacket which is lightly creased toned and has a large tear (21cm) to front stretching to spine and small area of loss to spine, else good.
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THE SCULPTURE OF LEON UNDERWOOD.
Much Hadham: The Henry Moore Foundation, in Association with Lund Humphries, 2000. 4to., pp.152, black hardcover, gilt, many b/w and colour plates; slight soiling to top edge of text block, very slight rubbing to extremities, a very good copy indeed, in an unclipped pictorial dust-jacket which is slightly rubbed and has light moulding to interior, overall good+.
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