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20598. : Belfast Harbour Office Description of Building and Catalogue of Pictures, Furniture, etc.

no publishing details 24 x 18.5 cm. 24 pp. 1 illustration, card covers, in very good condition £10.00


9576. : Jeems Kaye: His Adventures and Opinions.

Glasgow: The Bailie Office n.d. c. 1880-1890. Two titles bound as one, Jeems Kaye, and Jeems Kaye second series, all reprinted from this Scottish magazine founded in 1872. 95 +79 pp. +advertisements. Illustrated with a total of 32 full page illustrations. Illustrators include, David Murray, J. Henderson, W. Young, R.C. Crawford, J.A. Aitken, A.K. Brown, J.E. Christie, Tom McEwan, A. Davidson, S. McAdam, A. Black, Duncan McKellar, J.D. Taylor, A. Finlay, Wellwood Rattray, A.S. Boyd, J. Guthrie, E.A. Walton, John Lavery and others. Superb illustrations by significant Scottish artists and illustrators such as A.S. Boyd, "Twym" and Sir David Murray, Alex Davidson, E.A. Walton, and Ireland's Sir John Lavery who trained in Glasgow. Clearly this magazine was tapping into the best artists and illustrators working or studying in the city. Brown boards, minor wear but otherwise very good. The articles, though amusing are perhaps less interesting than the illustrations. £45.00


11086. : Russell Young The Last Picture Show Exhibition 19th Feb. - 11 th March 2009.

London: Sims Reed Gallery 2009. Exhibition catalogue. 21 by 21 cms. 47 pp. illustrated, softcovers, in good condition. includes an insert price list. Much of Young's work explores the American Dream and the cult of celebrity from an outsider's perspective. £8.00


11709. : The Educational Handbook of Mass Drawing for Infants and Junior Standards.

Dublin and Belfast: The Educational Supply Company of Ireland. n.d. c.1920's. 24 by 19 cms. 32 illustrations on black sugar paper, with accompanying text. "To meet the requirements of the Teachers of Infants Schools and Infants Departments, the Publishers have added this book to their list of Handbooks for Teachers. The sketches in the following pages are reproduced from drawings executed with crayons supplied by the Publishers on paper of exactly the same kind as that used in this book and in the chalk drawing copybooks issued by them. The short notes dealing with the several sketches will, it is also hoped, prove useful to Teachers." Post Partition in 1922. The boards are a little rubbed but the contents are clean and bright. In very good condition overall. A nice and scarce item from the Irish educational system. £20.00


10612. : The Popular Art Instructor.

Winsor Ont. Toronto Ont. 1888. Embracing Plain Directions on the Latest Decorative Arts by Special Artists, also valuable Suggestions on Kindred Subjects that tend to Educate and Elevate, by Prominent Writers. profusely illustrated with numerous engravings and colored plates. ix+493 pp. illustrated, dark green boards, with black and gilt decorative front board and spine. Boards a bit faded, spine restored, decorative endpapers, internally tight, some wear and light soiling, one coloured plate called for not present. Otherwise good. £45.00


11088. : The Whalley Gallery.

Holywood Co. Down: The Whalley Gallery n.d. c.2009. sales catalogue, 28 pp. illustrated in colour, softcovers, in very good condition. Artists include Dawn Crothers, Jonny McEwen, Jane Swanson, David Withers, Stephen Whalley, Ana Duncan, Blackshaw, Conor, Lisa McCausland, Gavin Lavelle, Paul Henry, Jack Pakenham, Annabelle Hulbert, Dan O'Neill, Marie Carroll, Gerard Dillon, Tony O'Malley, John Gillan, Rosie McGurran. £6.00


17309. Washington, M. Bunch: The Art of Romare Bearden The Prevalence of Ritual.

New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1972. First Edition. 230 pages. 35 x 29 cm. Facsimile signature on reverse of frontispiece portrait. Further two-page portrait in the Introduction by John A Williams. "The numerous large illustrations of Bearden's drawings, paintings, and collages from 1940 to the present, give depth to this portrait of an unusually fine American artist." 91 illustrations of the artist's work, including 46 in full colour: one four-page spread over two folding pages, and one folding two-page spread. Chronology. List of exhibitions. Bibliography. Silver-blocked blue-cloth-covered boards with facsimile signature on front board. There is slight shelfwear to the bottom fore-edge of the rear board. Dustjacket worn, but still a good copy of this sumptuously-produced work. Unpackaged weight 3,250g. £85.00


13000. Adam's: Adam's Works of Art from The Bank of Ireland Collection.

Dublin: Adam's Nov. 2010. 22.5 by24.5 cms. 192 pp. illustrated in colour. softcovers, in very good condition. An auction catalogue of 155 paintings from the collection made by the Bank of Ireland. £15.00


20279. Adam's: Auction catalogue - Important Irish Art Sale 28th March 2010.

Dublin: 2010. 22.5 by 24.5 cms. 168 pp. illustrated in colour, softcovers, in very good condition, useful reference material. £10.00


12455. Alison, Archibald: Essays on the Nature and Principles of Taste.

Edinburgh: Printed by George Ramsay & Co. for Archibald Constable and Company, Erdinburgh; and Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, London 1812. Two Volumes. 22 by 14 cms. The Third Edition. Vol. I, xxix+376 pp. Vol. II, vi+447 pp. in a textured polished leather binding, five panelled spine with raised bands, some gilt decoration and original spine labels, marbled endpapers, fore-edges, board edges with gilt decoration and the name Taylor & Hessey Booksellers London. Boards show a degree of shelfwear with fading to the gilding. Internally in good fresh condition, tight, bright, a few light spots on vol II. There is a little pencil annotation on endpapers but not in text. This is one of the important intellectual products of the Scottish Enlightenment. First published in 1790, this was the reprint of the revised second edition, the author's definitive work. Very influential in North America. £250.00


18479. Alley, Ronald, and T. P. Flanagan: William Scott.

Belfast: The Arts Councils of Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, 1986. 84 pp. 23 x 21 cm. Exhibition catalogue. 100 illustrations. Pictorial glazed card covers. Very minor wear, otherwise in good condition. Scott's signature on the half title page. £20.00


19824. Anglesea, Martyn: Royal Ulster Academy of Arts.

Belfast: RUA Trust Ltd, 2000. 231 pp. 22 x 22 cm. Brief biography and bibliography of each Academician, opposite a typical example of their work. Superb photography, in colour and b&w. Plain green boards, in a very good dw. £20.00


18075. Anglesea, Martyn, compiler.: Portraits and Prospects British and Irish Drawings and Watercolours from the Collection of The Ulster Museum, Belfast.

Belfast: The Ulster Museum, 1989. xxii + 129 pp. 30 x 22.5 cm. 95 illustrations in colour. Pictorial matt card covers. In very good cpndition. Unpackaged weight 1,350g. £15.00


6150. Arts Council of Great Britain: Daniel Maclise 1806-1870.

London: Arts Council of Great Britain, 1972 25 by 19 cms. 124 pp. illustrated, paper covers, good. The catalogue of an exhibition in the National Portrait Gallery, London and the National Gallery in Dublin 1972. A great Victorian History painter born in Cork. £10.00


20082. Arts Council of Great Britain.: Early Celtic Art.

Edinburgh University Press 3rd Impression 1970. 25 x 18.5 cm. 42 pp. illustrated in monochrome, minor shelfwear otherwise in fairly good condition.This is the catalogue of an exhibition in the Scottish museum and at the Hayward Gallery. It was the first major exhibition of early Celtic art held in the U.K. £10.00


15729. Arts Council of Northern Ireland: Arts Council of Northern Ireland Collection Acquisitions 2003-2005.

Belfast: Arts Council of Northern Ireland, 2006. 76 pp. 24 x 17 cm. Illustrated in colour. Pictorial matt card covers, in very good condition. £10.00


9219. Barnard, George: The Theory and Practice of Landscape Painting in Water-Colours.

London: George Routledge and Sons new edition 1885. 285 pp. illustrated by a series of twenty-six drawings and diagrams in colours and numerous woodcuts, dark green boards, blindstamped, gilt spine title, a little edge rubbing,some spotting on prelims, tissue guards, one page is edgeworn, one of the colour plates is missing, otherwise complete. The colour plates are particularly good, rather advanced for the period. A little overall wear otherwise good. £45.00


12573. Beaux Arts: Exhibition Catalogue Lynn Chadwick May - June 2010.

London: 2010. 26 by 22 cms. no pagination, illustrated in colour, soft covers, in very good condition. A useful reference. Introduction by Daniel F. Herrmann. £10.00


17512. Belfast Museum and Art Gallery: Pictures from Ulster Houses (Counties Antrim, Armagh, Cavan, Donegal, Down, Fermanagh, Londonderry, Monaghan, Tyrone and the City of Belfast.

Belfast: Belfast Museum and Art Gallery, 1961. Publication Number 161. 51 pp. 21 x 15cm. Eight plates. Catalogue. Index of Lenders. Index of Artists. Printed semi-matt card covers. £15.00


16020. Bell, Jonathan: Conor Drawing From Life.

Belfast: Appletree Press, 2002. 127 pp. 19.5 x 19.5 cm. Illustrated with 64 of Conor's drawings in colour. Pictorial glazed card covers. In very good condition. Conor was the artist of the people of Belfast in their everyday lives, and remains hugely loved. £10.00


7131. Bibby, Joseph, editor: Bibby's Annual 1917.

London?: The Priory Publishing Press, 1917. No 12, Vol 3. 64 pp, 40 x 29 cm. The sixty-one illustrations include Hankey's Nazarene Mother, Hofmann's Night of Good Friday, seven by Watt, five by Burne-Jones, Turner's Approach to Venice, Romney's Mrs Ann Pitt, Leighton's Helen of Troy, Gainsborough's Linley Sisters, Frith's Railway Station, and Constable's Salisbury Cathedral, etc, etc. Twenty-one of the illustrations are in colour, two of them full-page. There is a centre-fold of Burne-Jones' King Arthur in Avalon. The articles include Drink and the War, The Re-Marriage of Matter and Spirit, and India After the War. The Annual is complete with original covers gorgeously printed on both sides. It is in pristine condition, bound in dark-green half leather. The title is gold-blocked on the front board, and the margins of the leather are blocked with a gold line. A really sumptuous production. £45.00


7136. Bibby, Joseph, editor: Bibby's Annual 1922.

Liverpool?: J. Bibby & Sons, Ltd, 1922. 64 pp, 40 x 29 cm. The seventy-one illustrations include three by Watts, two by Burne-Jones, five by Strang, two by Blake, Raeburn's Boy and Rabbit, Reynolds' Jane Countess of Harrington, and Constable's Dedham Lock, etc, etc. Twenty-seven of the illustrations are in colour, four of them full-page. There is a centre-fold of The Last Supper. The articles include Annie Besant on The New Civilisation, and How Human Inequalities Come About, Lord Leverhulme on The Helpful Inter-relationship of Capital and Labour, Templeton Cherry on The Occult Side of Healing, Emerson's Words of Wisdom, and Thomas Quayle on Wanted - A New Trade Unionism. The Annual is complete with original covers gorgeously printed on both sides. It is in pristine condition, bound in dark-green half leather. The title is gold-blocked on the front board, and the margins of the leather are blocked with a gold line. A really sumptuous production. £45.00


7130. Bibby, Joseph, editor: Bibby's Annual no 11: 1916.

London?: The Priory Publishing Press, 1916. No 11, Vol 3, The War Number 1916. 64 pp, 40 x 29 cm. The sixty-eight illustrations include Whistler's portrait of Carlyle, Hankey's Pensive Maiden, Wright's Children of Sir Richard Arkwright, Hofmann's Christ Preaching on the Sea of Galilee, and Jesus as a Youth Among the Doctors, Watt's Sic Transit, and Millet's Gleaners, etc, etc. Twenty-five of the illustrations are in colour, four of them full-page. The articles include Walt Whitman and the American Civil War 1861-1866, What Theosophy Stands For, The New Socialism, St Helena The Last Phase, and A Woman's Views on War, by Lady Margaret Sackville. The Annual is complete with original covers gorgeously printed on both sides. It is very slightly trimmed and in pristine condition, bound in dark-green half leather. The title is gold-blocked on the front board, and the margins of the leather are blocked with a gold line. A really sumptuous production. £45.00


15717. Birdwood, G. C. M.: The Arts of India.

Jersey: The British Book Company, 1986. First published in 1880. xvi+344 pp. 22 x 14 cm. Seventy-six illustrations. Gold-blocked black boards, in very good condition, in a spine-faded dustwrapper. £10.00


13189. Black, Eileen: A Sesquicentennial Celebration Art from the Queen's University Collection.

Belfast: The Queen's University of Belfast, 1995. xv+155 pp. 29.5 x 21 cm. Author's signature on title page. Eighty-one plates, in colour and monochrome. White- and gold-blocked dark-blue card covers, in very good condition. The University's art collection has been built up since the middle of the nineteenth century. This is the first serious catalogue of this very interesting collection, which deserves to be better known. £23.00


20514. Black, Eileen: Paintings, Sculptures and Bronzes in the Collection of The Belfast Harbour Commissioners.

Belfast: The Belfast Harbour Commissioners, 1983. 136pp. 26.5 x 21 cm. Illustrated, paper covers, in good condition. This was the first study of the rich, but little known, catalogue of this institution's collections. £15.00


19909. Bryant, Julius: London's Country House Collections.

London: Scala Books English Heritage1993. 28 x 19.5 cm. 144 pp. colour illustrations, gold blocked blue boards, in very good condition, in a v.g. dustwrapper. Covers Ranger's House, Chiswick House, Marble Hill House, The Iveagh Bequest Kenwood. £15.00


3990. Burn, Robert Scott: The Illustrated London Drawing Book.

London, 227 Strand 1852. iv + 146 pp. with about 300 illustrative drawings and diagrams embossed boards, spine professionally restored, new endpapers. v.g. £45.00


17403. Catto, Mike: Art in Ulster 2 1957 - 1977 with biographies of the artists by Theo Snoddy.

Belfast: Blackstaff Press,1991. Second edition. 190 pp. 23 x 22 cm. Six colour plates, and 102 b&w illustrations. Bibliography. Index. Pictorial glazed card covers. Neat signature on ffep, and purchase details on rear ep. Slight wear. Fair/good condition. £20.00


13817. Catto, Mike: Art in Ulster: 2.

Belfast: Blackstaff Press, 1977. A companion Volume I covered art in the province up to 1957. viii + 190pp. 19 x 21 cm. Eighty-three llustrations, in colour and b&w. Biographical notes, bibliography, and Index. Card covers. In good condition. £10.00


3847. Charmet, Raymond: Planson - La Nature.

Lausanne: International Art Book, nd 64pp, 20.5 x 16.5 cm. 28 lovely mounted coloured plates. Mint, in dw. £15.00


16198. Chesneau, Ernest: The English School of Painting.

London: Cassell & Company, Limited, 1887. Third edition. xliii + 339 + xiv pp. 19.5 x 13 cm. Preface by Professor Ruskin. Translated by L. N. Etherington. One-hundred-and-two illustrations. Index of artists. Gold-, pale-green-, and brown-blocked dark-green front board and spine. Heavily-embossed rear board. Slight wear to boards. The ffep carries a bookplate recording that the book was a First Prize won by F. Johnston for Drawing, in 1891, at Whitgift School, Croydon. The front pastedown carries a magnificent bookplate of the School, gold-blocked on red leather. In very good condition. £25.00


20847. Christies: Victorian Pictures and Sculpture and a collection of photographs by Julia Margaret Cameron.

London: Christies July 2, 1971. Auction Catalogue24 x 15.5 cm. 49 pp. 27 illustrations, spine worn otherwise in fair/good condition. 21 photographs listed with illustrations of two of them. £10.00


9419. Croft, Richard: The Long View 1960-1993 Drawings from County Down.

Downpatrick: Down Recorder 1993. A5 size, no pagination, ( 30pp.) a one page introduction to black and white sketches by this artist, mostly landscape with some figure studies, thick card covers, in very good condition. £20.00


20948. Crookshank, Anne and The Knight of Glin: The Painters of Ireland c.1660-1920.

London: Barrie & Jenkins second edition 1979. 30 x 21.5 cm. 304 pp. illustrated, gold blocked linen backed boards, in very good condition, in a very good, price clipped, dustwrapper, now considered a standard work. £45.00


18409. Crookshank, Anne and The Knight of Glin: The Watercolours of Ireland Works on Paper in Pencil, Pastel and Paint c.1600-1914.

London: Barrie & Jenkins, 1994. 328 pp. 32 x 23 cm. 398 illustrations. Gold-blocked blue boards, in a very good dustwrapper, in a plastic protective sleeve. Small fault to rear endpaper. Unpackaged weight 1,900g. £15.00


21059. Cross, Tom: The Shining Sands Artists in Newlyn and St Ives 1880-1930.

Tiverton:Halsgrove reprinted 1999. 25.5 x 19.5 cm. 224 pp. illustrated, gold blocked blue boards, minor rubbing to the bottom of the boards otherwise in very good condition in a very good dustwrapper. There are some 24 small sketches in ink, pencil, watercolour on front endpapers, and another 8 ink sketches on a few margins, signed Alex Bears. We have no further information on this gentleman. £20.00


14644. Cunningham, Allan: The Lives of the most Eminent British Painters, Sculptors, and Architects.

London: John Murray, 1830. Second edition. 15 by 9.5 cms. In four volumes as part of Murray's Family Library series. Vol I 358 pp. Vol. II 349 pp. Vol. III 367 pp. Vol. IV 352 pp. No plates have ever been bound into these vols though there are other editions catalogued as having plates. In half leather and marbled boards, five panelled spines with two original spine labels to each volume, decorative gilt spine panels, marbled foreedges and endpapers. Boards and spine extremities are a little rubbed and there are odd spots on some prelims but overall bright, tight copies in good condition. £75.00


20123. Debidour, V. H.: Croix et Calvaires de Bretagne.

Chateaulin: Jos Le Doare 1979. 22 x 17 cm. 80 pp. illustrated, photos D Le Doare, map, softcovers in very good condition. Text entirely in French of course. £10.00


10281. Dickin, Guy: Catalogue of the Acropolis Museum Volume 1 Archaic Sculpture.

Cambridge: at the University Press 1912. vi+291 pp. illustrated with drawings, dark blue cloth spine and grey boards. Boards a little worn at corners otherwise in good condition. This first volume of the catalogue was prepared by the British School of Archaeology at Athens at the request of the Greek Archaeological Authorities. It deals with sculpture of the period before the invasion of Xerxes in 480 BCE. It does not include the terra-cottas or architectural fragments. Scarce. £20.00


19282. Donald, Diana: Followers of Fashion Graphic Satires from the Georgian Period.

London: Hayward Gallery 2002. 84 pp. 22 x 22 cm. Illustrated, softcovers, in very good condition. £20.00


16400. Down County Museum: Down Survey 2011 The Yearbook of Down County Museum Art of Down The Fine Art Collection of Down County Museum.

Downpatrick: Down County Museum, 2011. Down Survey 2011. 181 pp. 29.5 x 21 cm. Eileen Black and M. Lesley Simpson, editors. The Down County Museum's Art Collection, illustrated and analysed. Extensively illustrated, in colour. Pictorial glazed card covers. In mint condition. £15.00


11501. Duppa, R. and De Quincey, Quatremere: The Lives and Works of Michael Angelo and Raphael.

London: George Bell & Sons, 1876. 474 pp. illustrated with fifteen highly finished engravings. Full leather binding, red, six panelled spine with raised bands and decorative gilt panels, gilt pattern to board edges, gilt ruling around boards with gilt school crest, motto, "Deo Juvenante" and Schola Regia Brvtonensis to front board, marbled endpapers and foreedges, a small area of slight damage to top front board joint with spine, internally bright, tight and clean, a very good copy. Kings School Bruton Somerset founded 1519. £42.00


21085. Fenderesky Gallery: David Crone 1979-2009.

Belfast: Fenderesky Gallery 2009. Published on the occasion of David Crone's Exhibition in May 2009 at the Fenderesky Gallery Belfast. In an limited edition of 500. 24.5 x 25 cm. 80 pp. 43 iilustrations, 41 of paintings in colour. Selected lists of personal and group exhibitions. White blocked black boards, in very good condition. £50.00


12990. Ferguson, Bruce W. peggy Gale, Jeffrey Spalding and David Urban.: Will Gorlitz nowhere if not here.

Waterloo Ontario: Wilfred Laurier University Press 2009. 25.5 by 21.5 cms. 105 pp. illustrated soft cover, signed and dated June 19, 2009 by the author on the half title page. Almost as new condition. The book examines the art, background and theoretical concerns of this Canadian artist over the past 25 years. £45.00


9743. Ferrey, Benjamin: Recollections of A. N. Welby Pugin, and his Father, Augustus Pugin; with notices of their works.

London: Edward Stanford 1861. with an appendix by E. Sheridan Purcell. xv+473 pp. illustrated, professionally recased in new maroon cloth boards and spine, new endpapers, intenally it is a tight, bright unmarked copy. The title page and frontispiece bear a small embossed library stamp and written catalogue number, with a couple of small old edge stains, overall a very good copy. £60.00


20708. Foster, Vere: Vere Foster's Drawing Book. Landscape in Pencil. Simple Sketching and shading,

London: Blackie & Son, Publishers, c.1898. Vere Foster's Drawing Books (2) + 62 + (2) pp. 17 x 21 cm. Vere Foster's drawing books were designed to teach students to copy various drawing techniques This drawing book includes landscape/architectural sketches in pencil with an adjacent blank area in which to copy the original. In this book a previous student has copied 10 of these.The date 1/12/98 is written on the front cover. Spine repaired, in good condition. £10.00


21043. Frank, Kaj, Erik Herlow, Ake Huldt, Gunnar Bildmann Peterson, Erik Chr. Sorenson: Design In Ireland Report of the Scandinavian Design Group in Ireland April 1961.

Dublin: Coras Trachtala The Irish Export Board 1961. 25.5 x 14 cm. 55 pp. folded illustration of Irish stamps, card coversa little damage to top left front cover otherwise in good condition. This was a very influential report focusing on design quality in all areas. It seems scarce. £16.00


14987. Friers, Julian: Gifts of the Desert.

Bangor, Northern Ireland: Morrigan Press, 1999. First edition thus. "This book is a miniature reproduction from an original limited edition of one hundred and fifteen leather bound books." Twenty-nine plates of the artist's desert fauna paintings with corresponding facing plates of Arabic quotations beautifully decorated. Translations in English as appendix, including species identification chart. Pictorial matt card covers. Date neatly written on facing preliminary page, o/w in very good condition. £12.50


2791. Frith, William Powell: John Leech His Life and Work.

London, Richard Bentley and son 1891. In two uniform matching volumes. Vol I is a first and Vol II is a second ed. Vol 1. xiv+268 pp. Vol II. vii+306+48 pp. illustrated. Burgundy cloth with gilt spine titles and gilt device to front boards. The spine of vol II is professionally restored and the gilt title a little faded by comparison with vol I, but they are otherwise in very good condition. An important biography of this great illustrator, with many examples of his work, by another iconic Victorian artist. £40.00


12437. Gibson, Charles Dana: Everyday People.

New York: R.H. Russell: London: John Lane 1904. 29.5 by 44 cms. n.p. ( 74 ), illustrated with 74 plates on 37 pages, hardback, linen backed spine and decorative front board. Boards showing some shelfwear, edge rubbing and wear to boards, hinges strengthened, despite the boards wear it is internally tight and bright, inscription dated 1897 on ffep. Gibson, 1867-1944, was a significant American graphic artist noted for the creation of, "The Gibson Girl", an iconic, beautiful, independent American woman, at the turn of the 20th century. He was born in Roxbury Mass. and married the sister of Nancy Astor. He worked for Harpers Weekly, Colliers, Scribners etc. Overseas customers should note that this is a large book with increased postage required. £95.00


12090. Gibson, Charles Dana: London as seen by Charles Dana Gibson.

London: John Lane first edition 1898. 29.5 by 44 cms. n.p. ( 64+6 ), illustrated, hardback, linen backed spine and decorative front board. Showing some wear, edge rubbing to boards, a couple of old small light stains to bottom of front board, minor soiling, hinges weakening, internally clean and bright. With a six page publisher's catalogue of illustrated books for country house libraries. Gibson, 1867-1944, was a significant American graphic artist noted for the creation of, "the Gibson Girl", an iconic, beautiful, independent American woman, at the turn of the 20th century. He was born in Roxbury Mass. and married the sister of Nancy Astor. He worked for Harpers Weekly, Colliers, Scribners etc. Overseas customers should note that this is a large book with increased postage required. £45.00


12436. Gibson, Charles Dana: Pictures of People.

New York: R.H. Russell: London: John Lane 1896. 29.5 by 44 cms. n.p. ( 84 ), illustrated with 84 plates on 42 pages, hardback, linen backed spine and decorative front board. Showing a little shelfwear, light edge rubbing to boards, edgewear to some pages, minor soiling internally, hinges strengthened, internally tight and bright, inscription dated 1897 on ffep. Gibson, 1867-1944, was a significant American graphic artist noted for the creation of, "The Gibson Girl", an iconic, beautiful, independent American woman, at the turn of the 20th century. He was born in Roxbury Mass. and married the sister of Nancy Astor. He worked for Harpers Weekly, Colliers, Scribners etc. Overseas customers should note that this is a large book with increased postage required. £95.00


19631. Greene, E. A.: Saints and their Symbols A Companion in the Churches and Picture Galleries of Europe.

London: Whittaker & Co. revised edition twenty-seventh impression 1913 15.5 x 12.5 cm. viii+190 pp.illustrated, hardback in good condition. A very useful reference when looking at paintings and sculpture along with church iconography. £10.00


17411. Hamilton, Vivien: Joseph Crawhall 1861 - 1913 One of the Glasgow Boys.

London: John Murray (Publishers) Ltd,1990. First edition. xiv + 177 pp. 27.5 x 22 cm. 130 illustrations in colour. Notes. Bibliography. Appendices. Index. Pictorial glazed card covers. Half-title neatly inscribed "Glasgow, April 1996", o/w in very good condition. £10.00


12283. Havers, Alice: A Book of Old Ballads Illustrated by Alice Havers.

London: Hildesheimer & Faulkner, 1890. Unpaginated (41pp). 34.5 x 26 cm. Illustrated by Alice Havers. In heavy bevelled boards with a decorative front cover, now a little faded. Internally there is odd fingering and occasional dustiness. The original gutta-percha binding had perished so the book has been professionally rebound, with a new spine. Condition overall good. Alice Havers, Mrs Frederick Morgan 1850-1890, was born in Norfolk, the daughter of the Manager of the Falkland Islands where she was brought up. In 1870 she returned to England to study at South Kensington, and married in 1872. She exhibited at the Salon, received special mention in 1888, and was patronised by the Queen. £85.00


4865. Herbert Baily, JT, editor: Connoisseur Christmas Annual 1914

London: The Connoisseur, 1914 xxvi + 40 + iii pp, 41 x 28 cm. 13 superb plates in colour and 11 illustrations in black and white. Bound in half leather, gold-blocked title on front board. Sumptuous production. £20.00


6614. Hewitt, John and Snoddy, Theo: Art In Ulster 1.

Belfast: Blackstaff Press, 1977. 200 pp. 19 x 21cm. 6 colour plates, and 64 b&w illustrations. Printed matt card covers. Paintings, drawings, prints and sculpture for the last 400 years, to 1957, with biographies of the artists by Theo Snoddy. A pioneering history of art in Ulster from earliest records to 1957. Includes some 100 brief biographies. No d.w. Mark to front cover, otherwise good. £15.00


17436. Hewitt, John and Theo Snoddy,: Art In Ulster 1.

Belfast: Blackstaff Press, 1991. New edition. viii + 200 pp. 23 x 22 cm. A pioneering history of art in Ulster from earliest records to 1957, including some 100 brief biographies by Theo Snoddy. 94 illustrations in b&w, and 6 colour plates. Bibliography. Index. Pictorial glazed card covers. In very good condition. £15.00


20627. Hickey, Edward Keeper of Art Ulster Museum: New Ceramics.

Belfast: Ulster Museum 1974 Publication No. 191. Catalogue of an exhibition 11 July-15 Sept 1974. 29.5 x 21 cm. 26 pp, light card covers, withdrawn stamp on title page, otherwise in good conditiion £10.00


12956. Holland, Margaret: My Winter of Content Under Indian Skies.

Belfast: McCaw Stevenson & Orr 1926. viii+242 pp. illustrated, including six full page coloured illustrations by Irish artist Frank McKelvey. Hardback, no dustwrapper, in good condition. £11.50


6413. Horne, Alan: The Dictionary of 20th Century British Illustrators.

Woodbridge: The Antique Dealers Collectors' Club reprinted 1999. 28 by 22 cms. 456 pp. Information about 1000 British illustrators, more than 300 black and white, along with 160 full colour illustrations. A companion volume to Simon Houfe's Dictionary of 19th century British book illustrators. It is not only an indispensable reference book but a beautifully produced book in its own right which is always a joy to look through. £23.00


9015. Hubbard, E. Hesketh: On Making and Collecting Etchings

London: The Morland Press: Ringwood: The Print Society Bridge House 1920. A handbook for etchers, students and collectors, written by members of the Print Society and put together and edited by Hubbard, founder of the Print Society. 183 pp. illustrated with 10 plates and other diagrams, blue cloth boards slightly darkened at top and bottom and linen spine with title lable. In very good condition. Covers etching, drypoint, acquatints, soft ground mezzotint, etc and has an excellent bibliography. It would be difficult to find a better book on the subject and this appears to be quite scarce. £20.00


16879. Jameson, Mrs: Legends of the Madonna As Represented in the Fine Arts.

London: Longmans Green & Co., 1872. Fifth edition. lxxv+344 pp. 22 x 16 cm. Tissue-guarded frontispiece. Illustrated by 27 etchings and 165 woodcuts. Gold-blocked embossed red boards. Gilt heraldic device to front board. Spine a little faded and minor age wear, otherwise good. An interesting study. £30.00


8584. Jamison, Kenneth: A Personal Selection.

Belfast: Ulster Museum, 1986. Exhibition Catalogue. Ulster Museum Publication Number 257. 32pp. 22.5 x 17.5 cm. Introduction, and sepia prints of eight items in the exhibition, which was the fourth in a series. In pictorial glazed card covers. Near mint. £10.00


14756. Johnston, Penny and Stewart, Anne: Nine into Ten.

Belfast: National Museums Northern Ireland, 2010. First Edition. 36 pp. 19 x 19 cm. A catalogue "Published on the occasion of a special loan agreement between National Museums Northern Ireland and the Government Art Collection in 10 Downing Street, London." Reproductions of paintings by Humbert Craig, Paul Henry, Hubbard, Lavery, McKelvey, Middleton, Russell, Scott, and JB Yeats. Matt black card covers embossed with an image of the door of No 10. The catalogue is secured in a folder, fastened by two magnets. There is a blemish on the front of the folder where a small price label has been removed. £20.00


16828. Johnston, Roy: Roderic O'Conor 1860-1940

London and Belfast: Barbican Art Gallery and the Ulster Museum, 1985. 123 pp. 29.5 x 21 cm. A valuable study, and catalogue of a major exhibition by this major Irish artist. 168 llustrations, many in colour. Pictorial glazed card covers. Very slight edge wear to covers, o/w in good condition. £30.00


20011. Johnston, Roy and Donald Carstairs: All His Own Work Newton Penprase A Documentary Exhibition.

Belfast: Arts Council of Northern Ireland 1977. 20.5 x 20.5 cm.10 pp. 5 illustrations, card covers, in good condition. Penprase was an artist and builder, whose self built house is an important feature in the village of Ballintoy. £10.00


15852. Kisdegi-Kirimi, Iren: Still-Lifes in the Hungarian National Gallery.

Budapest: Corvina Press, 1977. 30+72 pp. 23.5 x 21 cm. Thirty-six colour plates. White-blocked tan boards, very good in a very good dustwrapper. £10.00


17320. Klickmann, Flora, editor: Outdoor Pictures.

London: T.S.R., c1915. 104 pp. 28 x 21.5 cm. Six tissue-guarded mounted plates in colour, a coloured title page, and a host of black and white illustrations throughout the text. The text is a series of essays by different authors on subjects like: "The River Rushing to the Sea", "Some West Country Cottages", "The touch of Autumn's Hand", and the like. Black-blocked brown boards, with coloured print mounted on front board. Inscription, dated1922, on ffep. Overall in good condition. Copac list only five copies in the U.K. / Ireland. £20.00


16018. Kvaerne, Per: Singing Songs of the Scottish Heart William McTaggart 1835-1910.

Edinburgh: Atelier Books, 2003. Reprint. 288 pp. 26.5 x 23.5 cm. A beautifully-illustrated study of one of Scotland's most popular and distinctive nineteenth-century artists. 214 illustrations, mostly in colour. Includes, as a loose insert, an errata page. Pictorial glazed card covers. In very good condition. £23.00


19160. Laffan, William: Painting Ireland Topographical Views from Glin Castle.

Tralee: Churchill House Press, 2006. 269 pp. 31 x 27 cm. 179 illustrations. Light blue blocked blue boards, in very good condition. The dustwrapper has a little minor damage. Unpackaged weight 2,100g, so will require extra postage. £42.00


12180. Leech, John: Pictures of Life & Character by John Leech from the collection of Mr Punch.

London: Bradbury, Evans, and Co, n.d. c1858. Second Series.no pagination ( 96pp.) 31.5 x 45 cm. Most pages have six cartoons to the page. Half-leather and pictorial boards. Some staining and scuffing to boards, but contents clean. a heavy book which may require extra postage. £20.00


12181. Leech, John: Pictures of Life & Character by John Leech from the collection of Mr Punch.

London: Bradbury, Evans, and Co, c1870. Fourth Series. 96pp. 31.5 x 45 cm. Most pages have six cartoons to the page. Half-leather and pictorial boards. Some staining to boards, and scuffing, but contents clean. £75.00


17386. Longley, Michael, editor.: Causeway The Arts in Ulster.

Belfast: The Arts Council of Northern Ireland, 1971. 181 pp. 21 x 20 cm. Profusely illustrated. Bibliography. Discography. Pictorial semi-matt cardcovers. Lacking its original glassine dustwrapper, o/w in good condition. £10.00


3752. Lovett, Richard.: Irish Pictures Drawn with Pen and Pencil.

London: The Religious Tract Society, 1888. One of a series of illustrated books of travel. 224 + (8) pp. 28.5 x 19.5 cm. Folding map. Tissue-guarded frontispiece. 133 illustrations from photographs and sketches. Floral endpapers. AEG. Index. Decorative front board with coloured and gilt illustration of the Rock of Cashel. Map repaired with peelable tape. Some foxing. £28.00


20956. Mackey, Brian, The Linen Centre and Lisburn Museum: Dennis H. Osborne (1919-2016) Artist: An Appreciation.

Lisburn: Irish Linen Centre & Lisburn Museum 2017. 21 x 21 cm. 80 pp. illustrated. Softcovers, in very good condition. A biography and an appreciation along with a list of Collections and exhibitions, and with 31 paintings illustrated in colour. £15.00


13019. Maclise, Daniel: Shakespeare's Seven Ages etched by E. Goodall after Original Designs.

London: Art-Union of London 1850. 23 by 33.5 cms no pagination, (9) with eight engraved illustrations, light card covers, new cloth spine and endpapers, covers dusty but internally clean and bright. These are eight illustrations by the artist illustrating Shakespeare's verse on the ages of man. Maclise,1806-1870 was born in Cork and became one of the most celebrated painters of the age. He exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1829, becoming a member in 1850. Although he illustrated books for Dickens and others his great historical paintings like those in the new Houses of Parliament are where his fame lay. £22.00


17880. Melot, Jean-Pierre: James MacKeown "Fenetres Interieures".

Paris: SNAG/ Centrale, 2005. 95 pp. 15.5 x 21.5 cm. 62 illustrations in colour. Pictorial semi-matt boards. Inscribed by the author, and with a loosely-inserted typed and signed letter from him. Text is half in French and half in English. In very good condition. MacKeown is a Northern-Irish artist, living in France. £20.00


20917. Mitchell, Breon: Beyond Illustration The Livre D'Artiste in the Twentieth Century.

The Lilly Library Indiana University Bloomington 1976. 28 x 12.5 cm. 80 pp. illustrations in monochrome, card covers, covers slightly dusty otherwise very good. £12.00


14862. Monkhouse, Cosmo: History of the Art Life of Sir Edwin Landseer R.A..

London: Virtue & Co 1877. 168 pp. 36.5 x 27 cm. Illustrated. Recased in dark green cloth with gilt spine title, and new endpapers. This work has been salvaged from Monkhouse's "The Works of Sir Edwin Landseer", where it formed the second, separately paginated, section, almost an independent work. A heavy book, requiring extra postage. £50.00


13014. Monkhouse, W. Cosmo: Masterpieces of English art with sketches of some of the most celebrated painters of the English School from the time of Hogarth to the present day.

London: Bell and Daldy. 1869. 28 by 22 cms. viii+168 pp. illustrated with twenty-six photographs. The photographs are contemporary albumen prints mounted to a border printed page. Artists include, Hogarth, Wilson, Gainsborough, Reynolds, Morland, Copley, Harlow, West, Lawrence, Stothard, Newton, Constable, Wilkie, Calcott, Haydon, Collins, Etty, Turner, Martin, Leslie, Egg, Mulready, Roberts, Eastlake, Stanfield, Phillip. In dark blue sandgrain cloth bevelled boards, with a gilt vignette, within a black and gilt stamped design to front board. rear board blind stamped, the spine is a modern replacement six panelled with gilt decorative panels and title to blend with the boards. A.e.g. Internally tight and clean. Decorative head and tail pieces and decorated capitals,a few pages have some marginal edgewear which does not affect text or pictures. The mounted photographs are interleaved with an essay on each artist and their work. This is the first edition, another was published in 1874. Overall in very good condition. These are 142 year old photographs. Scarce, Copac only shows fewer than six copies in the U.K. £150.00


8155. Muir, Marcie & Holden, Robert: The Fairy World of Ida Rentoul Outhwaite.

London: A. & C. Black 1985. 171 pp. illustrated, illustrated, bookplate on ffep, one tiny tear repaired, on bottom front d.w., otherwise very good, near fine in dustwrapper. She was an illustrator of the Golden Age, born in Melbourne, producing exquisite watercolours and decorative pen and ink drawings. Five of her books were published in fine editions in London in the 1920's but she has since suffered years of neglect. The quality of her work merits re-discovery. This groundbreaking book lists exhibitions and all the books in which her work was printed. This is an enchanting book. £45.00


17157. Murphy, Patrick J: Patrick Tuohy From conversations with his friends.

Dublin: Townhouse, 2004. 206 pp. 25.5 x 20 cm. Profusely illustrated in colour and b&w. Bibliography. Index. Silver-blocked blue boards, in very good condition, in a very good dustwrapper. Tuohy was a fine artist whose work faded from view after his untimely death aged just 36, but there is now renewed public interest in Tuohy. £15.00


20819. O'Connor, Garrett: Hugh Percy Lane.

Dublin: Published for the author, no publishng details. 21 x 15 cm. 12 pp. 3 illustrations, softcovers, in very good condition, Scarce, Copac has no listings.Sir Hugh Lane ( An Ridire Aodh O'Laidhin) 9 Nov. 1875 - 7 May 1915. £10.00


17507. Office of Public Works: Iveagh Pictures Edward Cecil Guinness 1st Earl of Iveagh.

Dublin: Office of Public Works, 2009. Published on the occasion of the 2009 exhibition at Farmleigh. 96 pp. 27 x 23 cm. 77 illustrations, in colour. Bibliography. List of exhibited works. Pictorial semi-matt card covers. In very good condition. £15.00


16003. Praeger, Rosamund: Old Fashioned Verses and Sketches.

Dundalk: W. Tempest Dundalgan Press, 1947. 63 pp. 22.5 x 15 cm. The pencil, crayon and wash drawings were chosen by the publisher from a rough sketch book. One coloured and two monochrome mounted plates, and about twenty sketches, two coloured. Miss Praeger is better-known as a sculptress of almost-mystical children, and plaster plaques, often glazed. Gold-blocked beige binding strip and cream boards, in a dustwrapper. The dustwrapper is a little dusty and with a slightly darkened spine. The spine extremities of the dustwrapper have been professionally strengthened, along with the front corners. It is a delightful book which has become fairly scarce. In good condition. £75.00


19674. Quinterio, Francesco: Maiolica Nell'Architettura Del Rinascimento Italiano 1440-1520.

Firenze: Cantini Editore no date (1990). 22 x 19 cm. 127 pp. illustrated, text in italian, soft covers, owner's name on the ffep otherwise in very good condition. A useful and well illustrated study. £16.00


19316. Reid, Forrest: Illustrators of the Eighteen Sixties An Illustrated Survey of the Work of 58 British Artists

New York: Dover Publications, 1975. Republication of the 1928 edition. xv + 295 pp. 23.5 x 16.5 cm. 91 full-page plates. Pictorial glazed card covers, in good condition. Reid was arguably the most significant novelist from Belfast, and this is his classic study of this great period of book illustration. £12.00


17388. Reid, Gareth: Black Mirror.

Belfast: Ava Gallery, 2007. Catalogue of an exhibition in the Ava Gallery, October - November 2007. 22 pp. 23.5 x 21 cm. Eighteen paintings illustrated in colour. Matt card covers. In very good condition. £10.00


16433. Rice, Adrian and Angela Reid, editors: A Conversation Piece Poetry and Art.

Belfast: The National Museums and Galleries of Northern Ireland, 2002. 158 pp. 24.5 x 16.5 cm. 50 poems based on 50 paintings in the National Museums and Galleries of Northern Ireland, particularly the Ulster Museum, Belfast. Illustrated in colour. Pictorial semi-matt card covers. In very good condition. £15.00


9489. Royal Academy: Royal Academy Pictures 1897.

London: Cassell & Company 1897. 30.5 by 23.5 cms. 197 pp. illustrated, some wear and rubbing /scuffing to boards, some internal fingering, but in overall good condition. Illustrating the one hundred and twenty-ninth exhibition of the Royal Academy, being the Royal Academy Supplement of The Magazine of Art. £20.00


19287. Rudnitzky, Honor: The Careys.

Belfast: Blackstaff Press,1978. 70 pp. 21 x 15 cm. 10 illustrations. Pictorial semi matt card covers. In very good condition. A charming book. J.W. Carey was a leading water colourist and commercial illustrator in Belfast. £10.00


19523. Shanes, Eric, editor: Turner The Great Watercolours.

London: Royal Academy of Arts, 2001. 252 pp. 29 x 25 cm. With essays by Evelyn Joll, Ian Warrell, and Andrew Wilton. Extensively illustrated. Gold-blocked yellow boards. In very good condition. in a very good dustwrapper. Unpackaged weight 1,650g, so overseas shipping will require extra postage. £65.00


19572. Somers, Elaine: Turner R.U.A. A Lifetime of Painting.

Belfast: Elaine Somers Gallery 1997. A Catalogue of an exhibition August - Sept 1997. 22 x 22 cm. 36 pp. illustrated in colour, pictorial card covers, in very good condition. John Turner was a Belfast Artist born 1916. £15.00


17417. Spencer, Stanley: Shipbuilding on the Clyde.

London: Imperial War Museum,1989. Catalogue of an exhibition 1989. Double-sided semi-matt card, 29.5 x 84 cm, folding to A4 size. 8 illustrations, in b&w. In very good condition. £20.00


16571. Stairs, Susan: Drawing From Memory The Life of Irish Artist Gladys Maccabe.

Dublin: Shorthall-Stairs Publications, 2004. 196 pp. 25 x 17.5 cm. Lovely biography of this much-loved Ulster artist. Profusely illustrated in colour and b&w. Gold-blocked black boards, in very good condition, in a very good pictorial dustwrapper. £25.00


20522. Strickland, W.G.: A Descriptive Catalogue of the Pictures, Busts, and Statues in Trinity College Dublin, and in the Provost's House.

Dublin: The University Press 1916. 21 x 12 cm. 92 pp. card covers, in very good condition. £15.00


19335. Strickland, WG: A Dictionary of Irish Artists.

Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 1989. Two-volume set, A - K, and L - Z. viii + xvi + 598 pp, xi + 728 pp. 24 x 16 cm. "One hundred and fifty portraits, etc". Gold-blocked blue boards, in very good condition, in very good dustwrappers. Total unpackaged weight 2,500g. £100.00


19315. Teahan, John, editor: Irish Decorative Arts 1550-1928.

Dublin: National Museum of Ireland and the Smithsonian Institution Travelling Exhibition Service 1990. 94 pp. 25.5 x 20.5 cm. 81 illustrations. Bibliography. Pictorial glazed card covers. In very good condition. £10.00


19547. The Arts Councils in Ireland: Four Artists From Ireland Quato Artistas da Irlanda.

Dublin:The Arts Councils in Ireland no date. c.1985? 23 x21 cm. n.p. (48pp) 23 illustrations, glazed card covers, in very good condition. The exhibition was in Irelabnd and Brazil.The artists are Anne Carlisle, Felim Egan, Mary Fitzgerald, Ellis O'Connell. Text in English and Portugese. £15.00


12228. The Royal Association for the Promotion of the Fine Arts in Scotland: Six Engravings for the Members of theThe Royal Association for the Promotion of the Fine Arts in Scotland 1863.

The Royal Association for the Promotion of the Fine Arts in Scotland, 1863. 42 x 30 cm. Six steel engraved plates: A Balcony at the Roman Carnival - Robert Herdman, A Highland Loch - Horatio Macculloch, Leaving Home - R.T. Ross, The Port of London - Sam Bough, Remonstrance - Hugh Cameron, and Fra Angelico - Peter Graham, with accompanying text. Engravers are H. Robinson, W. Forrest, R.C. Bell, W. Miller, H. Robinson, J. Le Conte. Disbound, no boards, still sewn, the plates are in bright fresh condition. This could be a suitable subject for a rebinding or as a breaker, the plates are capable of looking very good mounted and framed. it could be rebound with others which we have in this series . £42.00


12064. The Royal Association for the Promotion of the Fine Arts in Scotland: Six Engravings in Illustration of "Guy Mannering."

The Royal Association for the Promotion of the Fine Arts in Scotland, 1866. 42 x 30 cm. Six steel engraved plates. Paintings by John McWhirter, Robert Herdman, J.B. MacDonald, Gourlay Steell, Clark Stanton, and William McTaggart, with accompanying text. Engravers are Wm. Richardson, Lumb Stocks, James Stephenson, John Le Conte, Francis Holl and R.C. Bell. Disbound, no boards, still sewn The plates are in bright fresh condition. This could be a suitable subject for a rebinding or as a breaker as the plates are capable of looking very good mounted and framed. it could be rebound with others which we have in this series. £42.00


12063. The Royal Association for the Promotion of the Fine Arts in Scotland: Six Engravings in Illustration of "The Fair Maid of Perth."

The Royal Association for the Promotion of the Fine Arts in Scotland, 1878. 42 x 30 cm. Six steel engraved plates. Paintings by Robert Herdman, Sam Bough, J.B. MacDonald, George Reid, W.E. Lockhart, and James Doherty, with accompanying text. Engravers are Lumb Stocks, W. Forrest, John Le Conte, John Saddler and Thomas Brown. Disbound, no boards, still sewn. The plates are in bright fresh condition. This could be a suitable subject for a rebinding or as a breaker as the plates are capable of looking very good mounted and framed. It could be rebound with others which we have in this series. £42.00


21058. The Shambles Art Gallery: A Poet's Pictures A Selection of Works of Art collected by John Hewitt (1907-1987)

Hillsborough: Shambles Art Gallery May 1988. 25 x 21 cm. 24 pp. 10 illustrations, in very good condition. £10.00


18229. Thomson, George: Inscribed in Remembrance Gravemarker lettering: form, function, and recording.

Dublin: Wordwell, 2009. 174 pp. 23 x 15 cm. 176 illustrations. Pictorial semi-matt card covers, in very good condition. A very useful study. £18.00


20338. Ulster Museum: Andrew Nicholl 1804-1886.

Belfast: The Ulster Museum 1973 Publication no 190. 24pp. 16 monochrome plates.. 29.5 x 21 cm. soft covers. The book is in good condition. A catalogue of the Exhibition with an Introduction and an Appendix listing the remaining watercolours and drawings by Andrew Nicholl in the Ulster Museum collections. Ulster Museum 15th Aug. - 24th September1973. £10.00


13293. Ulster Museum: Portraits and Prospects British and Irish Drawings and Watercolours from the Collection of the Ulster Museum Belfast.

Belfast: Ulster Museum 1989. 30.5 by 22.5 cms. 199pp. illustrated in colour, stiff card covers, top edge showing a little wear, trace of label on front cover otherwise in good condition. 84 works from a relatively small but rich collection. £23.00


10787. Van Buren, E. Douglas: Archaic Fictile Revetments in Sicily & Magna Graecia.

London: John Murray 1923. 25.5 by 19.5 cms. xx+168+30 pp. There is a library bookplate on the front pastedown, a small letter code on the bottom of the spine and a small oval library stamp on the title page, light foreedge spotting, otherwise in good condition. £25.00


10786. Van Buren, E. Douglas: Greek Fictile Revetments in the Archaic Period.

London: John Murray 1926. 25.5 by 19.5 cms. xx+208+39 pp. There is a library bookplate on the front pastedown, a small letter code on the bottom of the spine and a small oval library stamp on the title page, light foreedge spotting, otherwise in good condition. £25.00


17031. Varagnac, André, and Gabrielle Fabre: L'Art Gaulois.

Paris: Zodiaque, 1956. 327 pp. 23.5 x 17 cm. Blue-blocked tan boards. A chronological approach to art, in sections including sculpture, coins, and metal and ceramics. In a good dustwrapper, in a plain card slipcase. In very good condition. £18.00


11112. Walker, J. Crampton: Irish life and Landscape.

Dublin & Cork The Talbot Press n.d. c. 1926. 28.5 by 22.5 cms. 146 pp. illustrated in monochrome and colour. a selection of Irish artists and their work. Ffep missing, silver coloured boards with green and claret titling. A useful collection not least for giving a clear artist's signature for each of the 67 works. £55.00


13995. Walters, Lettice D'Oyly: The Year's At The Spring an Anthology of Recent Poetry.

London: George G. Harrap & Co. Sept. 1920. 127 pp. 27 x 21 cm. With an introduction by Harold Munro. with 24 full page illustrations by Harry Clarke, along with other illustrations in the text. Hardcover, no dustwrapper, in very good condition, a very nice book. This book represents a burst of creative energy by Harry Clarke, completing 12 colour plates and 12 in black and white, plus decorations from late April to mid June 1920. £150.00


20226. White, H. Leslie: Monuments and their Inscriptions A Practical Guide.

London: The Society of Genealogists reprinted 1978. 21 x 14.5 cm. 64 pp. 6 illustrations, glazed card covers, in very good condition near new. £10.00


18226. Wimborne Bookshop: Sven Berlin An Artist and His Work.

Dorset: The Wimborne Bookshop, 1981. No.173 of a limited edition of 750 numbered copies. 36 pp. 24 x 18.5 cm. 16 illustrations. Semi-matt card covers, with the artist's monogram. Bibliography of Berlin's writings. In good condition. Berlin, 1911-1999, was a dancer, painter, sculptor, writer and poet, then one of the last surviving members of the St Ives School in Cornwall. £15.00


19480. Zarnecki, George: Romanesque Sculpture at Lincoln Cathedral.

Lincold Minster Pamphlets Second Series no 2 1970. 21.5 x 14 cm. 24 pp. 36 plates, card covers, in very good condition. £10.00

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