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QUAINT AND HISTORIC YORK REMEMBERED. [Author’s Presentation Copy]
Celebrating the Life and Works of the York Victorian Artist and Architect Edwin Ridsdale Tate.
Peter J. Stanhope, 2015. Signed, limited edition, no. 263 of 300 copies, oblong 4to., pp.xii,136, pictorial hardcover, b/w and colour illustrations; author’s signature to title page, with TLS loosely inserted, a fine and fresh copy, in a fine unclipped dust-jacket.
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THE BANQUET YEARS.
The Origins of the Avant-Garde in France, 1885 to World War I. Alfred Jarry - Henri Rousseau - Erik Satie- Guillaume Apollinaire.
London: Faber and Faber Limited, 1959. 8vo., pp.306, purple cloth, gilt, b/w illustrations, pictorial endpapers; light foxing to edges, lower corner of front board bruised, else a very good copy, in a price-clipped dust-jacket, which is sunned to margins, with closed tears to upper margin, and small areas of loss to extremities. (Now in a protective cover).
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CRAIGIE AITCHISON AND THE BEAUX ARTS GENERATION. Aitchison, Andrews, Auerbach, Kossoff, Uglow.
London: Piano Nobile. 4to., pp.152, card wrappers, colour plates throughout; very slight sunning to front and spine, very slightly shelf-worn, a very good copy indeed.
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CARAVAGGIO. A Life Sacred and Profane.
London: Allen Lane, 2010. First edition, 8vo., pp.xxviii,514, red hardcover, white lettering, colour plates, b/w illustrations, 5 maps, pictorial endpapers; lightly toned, very slight soiling to edges, very slightly rubbed, a very good copy, in an unclipped pictorial dust-jacket, which is slightly soiled, lightly worn to extremities and has a small closed tear to headband, overall good+.
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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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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+, in an unclipped dust-jacket, which has tear with creasing to rear upper margin, light rubbing to edges, else vg and now in a protective cover.
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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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LECTURES ON PAINTING BY THE ROYAL ACADEMICIANS, BARRY, OPIE, AND FUSELI.
London: George Bell & Sons, 1885. 8vo.,pp. iv,567, full calf with five raised bands to spine, decorative gilt spine and edges, gilt emblem to front board, gilt lettering to front board and spine, marbled edges of text block and endpapers, b/w frontispiece; ownership bookplate to front paste down endpaper, light toning to edges of text block, light rubbing to head and foot of spine and to corners, otherwise a very good, clean and bright copy.
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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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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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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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NOVELTY FAIR: BRITISH VISUAL CULTURE BETWEEN CHARTISM AND THE GREAT EXHIBITION.
Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2016. 8vo.,pp.,xiii,176, pictorial hardcover, b/w illustrations; a very good, near fine copy. No dust-jacket as issued.
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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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THE ASHINGTON GROUP.
Paintings at Woodhorn Colliery Museum.
Ashington: Ashington Group Trustees, 2006. Oblong 8vo., pp.24, paperback, colour-illustrated; slight toning to upper margins, a near fine 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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FACING THE WORLD: Self-portraits from Rembrandt to Ai Weiwei.
A collaboration between the Staatliche Kunsthalle Larlsruhe, the Musee des Beaux-Arts in Lyon and the National Galleries of Scotland in Edinburgh.
Koln: Snoeck, 2016. 4to., pp.288, paperback, b/w and colour illustrations, b/w frontispiece; a fresh and near-fine copy.
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PONTIUS PILATE, ANTI-SEMITISM, AND THE PASSION IN MEDIEVAL ART.
Princeton & Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2009. 4to., pp.xiii,464, red cloth, gilt, b/w frontispiece, 10 colour plates and 186 b/w illustrations; neat ownership nameplate to front paste-down endpaper, cloth darkened to rear upper margin from possible water-staining, otherwise very good indeed, in an unclipped dust jacket, which has inkstaining from cloth to rear upper margin (reverse of jacket), small nick with archival tape reinforcement to head of rear flap, else very good.
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PORTRAITS - A HISTORY.
New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc, 2003. 4to., pp.413, wine red cloth lettered in blind, colour-illustrated throughout; slight roll to spine, very good indeed, in a very good unclipped dust-jacket, which has slight indentation marks.
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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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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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