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A BOOK OF AUTOMATIC DRAWINGS.
London: Catalpa Press. Limited edition, no.495 of 1000 copies, folio, paper wrappers with mounted plate, unpaginated, 13 plates + pictorial title, half-title, frontispiece; contents fine, wrappers show light discolouration to margins, with 3cm closed tear to fore-edge of rear wrapper and light chipping to edges, else very good.
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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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ALABASTER.
Derbyshire Museum Service. 4to., pp.68, paperback, colour and b/w illustrations; ownership blindstamp to half title, slightly musty, light shelfwear to wrappers, else very good.
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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 BOOKS: A Critical Anthology and Sourcebook.
New York: Visual Studies Workshop Press, 1985. First edition, 8vo.,pp. 269, brown hardcover, gilt, b/w illustrations; lightly rubbed to extremities, a very good copy, in a very good unclipped dust-jacket, which is rubbed to extremities, with light wear to foot of spine, lightly sunned 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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BETWEEN DREAM AND NIGHTMARE.
Anselm Kiefer. Simgar Polke. Gerhard Richter. A View of Modern German Art. Cv/Visual Arts Research Series 199.
Cv Publications, 2014. Small 8vo., pp.56, paperback, 6 colour plates; highlighted word to p.12, else a near fine copy.
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BLACK VICTORIANS: Black People in British Art 1800-1900.
Aldershot: Lund Humphries, in association with Manchester Art Gallery and Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery, 2005. Exhibition catalogue, 4to., pp.208, paperback, colour plates, b/w illustrations; partial sunning to front wrapper, a very good, fresh copy.
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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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BROODTHAERS: Writings, Interviews, Photographs.
Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1988. 8vo.,pp. 210, paperback, b/w illustrations; sunned and lightly creased to spine, light rubbing to extremities, a very good copy.
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CAVES OF THE THOUSAND BUDDHAS.
Chinese Art from the Silk Route.
London: British Museum Publications. 4to., pp.208, red hardcover, gilt, colour and b/w illustrations; a very good copy, in vg unclipped dust-jacket.
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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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EROTIC COMICS: Two Volumes. Volume 1; Volume 2: From the 1970s to the Present Day.
Cambridge: ILEX, 2008. First UK edition, two volumes, oblong 8vo.,pp. 192; 192, pictorial hardcovers, colour illustrations and frontispieces; near-fine, in near-fine unclipped pictorial dust-jackets.
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