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THE HORSE.
30,000 Years of the Horse in Art.
London: Geoffrey Bles, 1944. Squat 4to., pp.287, paperback, colour-illustrated; fine.
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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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TOM WOOD: Yorkshire Artists III.
Otley: Smith Settle, 1990. Oblong 4to.,pp. 117, beige cloth, red lettering, b/w and colour illustrations, b/w frontispiece; signed by the artist, inscriptions from the artist and from Arthur Haigh, written on white labels to half title page, slight toning to margins of endpapers, a very good copy, in a very good unclipped pictorial dust-jacket, which lightly rubbed.
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MACKINTOSH & OTHERS Aspects of the George Smith Collection, Hunterian Art Gallery, University of Glasgow, 8 June - 8 October 1988
University of Glasgow, 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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NEW GENERATION: 1966.
The Peter Stuyvesant Foundation. Whitechapel Gallery: London June-July, 1966.
London: Whitechapel Gallery, 1966. 8vo.,pp. 110, pictorial wrappers, b/w and colour illustrations; ownership autograph to front free endpaper, light rubbing to extremities, very good.
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MUGHAL INDIA.
Art, Culture and Empire. Manuscripts and Paintings in the British Library.
London: The British Library, 2012. Exhibition catalogue, 4to., pp.255, paperback, colour-illustrated throughout; internally fresh, a very good copy indeed.
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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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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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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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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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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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PEERLESS IMAGES.
Persian Painting and Its Sources.
New Haven/London: Yale University Press, 2002. 4to., pp.xiii,349, black hardcover, gilt, colour-illustrated throughout; bumping to lower edge of rear board, otherwise fresh and fine, in very good unclipped dust-jacket, again with bumping to rear lower edge.
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THE IDEA OF THE ENGLISH LANDSCAPE PAINTER. Genius as Alibi in the Early Nineteenth Century.
New Haven/London: Yale University Press, for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, 1997. Large 8vo., pp.x,188, blue hardcover, gilt, colour frontispiece, colour and b/w illustrations; owner’s handwritten catalogue numbers to half title, light spotting to top edges, else a fresh and near-fine copy, in vg+ unclipped dust-jacket.
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