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A HISTORY OF ENGLISH GLASS-PAINTING,
With Some Remarks Upon The Swiss Glass Miniatures Of The Sixteenth And Seventeenth Centuries.
London: T. Werner Laurie Ltd. First edition, folio, pp.x,226, uncut, original parchment-backed boards, gilt, t.e.g., colour frontispiece, b/w and colour plates; neat ownership bookplates to front paste-down endpaper, toning and foxing to prelims, a very good copy, in pictorial dust-jacket, which is worn to extremities, with all-over adhesive plastic covering, and paper reinforcement to reverse of spine.
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ADVENTURES OF THE BLACK SQUARE.
Abstract Art and Society 1915-2015.
Munich/London: Prestel/Whitechapel Gallery, 2015. Exhibition catalogue, 4to., pp.287, pictorial hardcover, colour and b/w plates; ownership autograph to front free endpaper, a fine copy.
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ALBRECHT DURER'S RENAISSANCE.
Humanism, Reformation and the Art of Faith.
University of Michigan, 2006. 8vo., pp.xxii,337, black cloth, bronze gilt, 117 b/w illustrations, 8 colour plates; fine with vg+ dust-jacket that has sunning to spine.
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ARTISTS’ PIGMENTS c.1600-1835.
A Study in English Documentary Sources. Second Edition.
London: Butterworth Scientific, 1600. 8vo., pp.ix,236, black hardcover, 8 colour plates, b/w illustrations; tiny handwritten ownership autograph to head of front paste-down endpaper, and owner’s handwritten catalogue number to head of front free endpaper, light shelfwear, a very good copy.
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BACON: Portraits and Self-Portraits.
London: Thames and Hudson, 1996. 4to.,pp. 215, black cloth, silver lettering to spine, silver emblem to front board, colour illustrations and fold-out illustrations, colour frontispiece; ownership autograph to front free endpaper, otherwise near-fine, in a very good unclipped pictorial dust-jacket, which is lightly rubbed to extremities.
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BELLMER.
Chicago: William and Noma Copley Foundation. Made and printed by Percy Lund, Humphries & Co. (London), 1961. Oblong 8vo., pp.(33), white hardcover lettered in black, one colour plate, 14 b/w plates as well as b/w frontispiece portrait and further b/w in-text illustrations; light toning to margins, a very good copy, in acetate wrapper, which has large area of loss to front upper margin. Includes Alain Jouffroy’s introductory essay in French as 4pp. loose-leaf insert.
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BRICE MARDEN.
London: Serpentine Gallery, 2001. 4to.,pp. 69, paperback, exhibition catalogue, colour illustrations, colour plates and fold-outs; light creasing to rear and along rear edge of spine, a very good copy.
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CHARLES II: ART AND POWER
London: Royal Collection Trust, 2017. 4to., pp.463, hardcover, gilt, colour-illustrated throughout; near-fine, in near-fine unclipped dust-jacket.
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CHINA ON PAPER.
European and Chinese Works from the Late Sixteenth to the Early Nineteenth Century.
Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, 2007. 4to., pp.ix,235,(ii), orange hardcover, gilt, colour-illustrated; ownership inscription to front free endpaper, else a fresh, fine copy, in near-fine unclipped dust-jacket.
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DESIGNS ON LIFE.
Museums in Essex Committee, 1997. Exhibition guide, square 12mo., pp.(22), folding sheet with pictorial cardboard covers, with wrap-around title slip; very slight bruising to corners, a fresh and almost fine copy.
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ENCOUNTERS: The Meeting of Asia and Europe, 1500-1800.
London: V&A Publications, 1500. 4to., pp.(x),395, black hardcover, gilt, colour frontispiece and endpapers, b/w and colour illustrations; a fresh and near-fine copy, in near-fine unclipped dust-jacket.
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ENGRAVED GEMS OF THE CAROLOINGIAN EMPIRE.
University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1995. 4to.,pp. xxv,139, burgundy cloth, gilt, b/w illustrations to rear, colour frontispiece; a near-fine copy, in a very good unclipped pictorial dust-jacket, which is lightly rubbed to extremities.
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FORMLESS: A User’s Guide.
New York: Zone Books, 1997. 8vo.,pp. 296, black cloth, bronze lettering, b/w illustrations, colour frontispiece and pictorial title page; ownership autograph to half title page, a very good copy, in a very good unclipped pictorial dust-jacket, which is very lightly rubbed to extremities.
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FOUNDATIONS OF MODERN ART.
Part I. The Balance Sheet: Writing; Painting; Sculpture; Architecture; Music; Science; Religion; Philosophy. Part II. Structures for a New Spirit.
London: John Rodker. Large 8vo., pp.xv,323,(i), terracotta cloth lettered in black, b/w illustrations; ownership autograph pencilled in red to upper margin of front free endpaper, light foxing to endpapers, spine rolled, rubbing to extremities, light marking to cloth, spine dulled, a near-very good copy. No dust-jacket.
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FUNERAL MONUMENTS IN POST-REFORMATION ENGLAND.
Cambridge University Press, 2000. Small 4to., pp.xxviii,471, navy hardcover lettered in silver, b/w illustrations; reviews tipped in the front free endpaper, neat ownership nameplate to front paste-down endpaper, fresh and near-fine copy, in vg unclipped dust-jacket.
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GARDEN & COSMOS: The Royal Paintings of Jadhpur.
London: The British Museum Press, 2009. 4to.,pp. xiii,337, pictorial card wrappers, colour and b/w illustrations, colour frontispiece, decorative endpapers; ownership autograph to front wrapper verso, light creasing to spine, a very good, clean copy.
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HARDMAN OF BIRMINGHAM
Goldsmith and Glasspainter.
Derbyshire: Landmark Publishing Ltd, 2008. 8vo., pp.238, red hardcover, gilt, colour plates; neat ownership nameplate to front paste-down endpaper, small black marking to upper margin of front board, a very good copy, in a very good unclipped pictorial dust-jacket.
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LA PEINTURE MURALE ROMANE DANS LES PAYS DE LA LOIRE.
L’indicible et le ruban plissé. (La Mayenne: Archéologie, Histoire - Supplement no. 10: 1999).
Laval: Société d’Archaeologie d’Histoire de la Mayenne. 4to., pp.xv,399, paperback, colour illustrations throughout; small ownership inscription to prelim blank, else a very good+, clean copy.
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MACKINTOSH & OTHERS
Aspects of the George Smith Collection, Hunterian Art Gallery, University of Glasgow, 8 June - 8 October 1988
Glasgow: University, 1988. Exhibition catalogue, 8vo., unpaginated, stapled paperback wrappers, 10 b/w and 5 colour-plates; mild rubbing to extremities, light shelfwear and sticker mark on front wrapper behind the title, overall a very good copy.
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MEDIEVAL EFFIGIAL ALABASTER TOMBS IN YORKSHIRE.
Ipswich: Boydell. 8vo., pp.155, grey hardcover lettered in silver, b/w illustrations; a very good, clean copy in vg lightly sunned unclipped dust-jacket.
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