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British & American (pre 20th century)


ACKERMAN, Gerald M.

American Orientalists.

Paris. ACR Edition. 1994. 4to. pp. 288. Colour illustrations throughout. Hardback in dust jacket. New.

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ACKERMAN, Gerald M.

Les Orientalistes de l'Ecole Britannique.

Paris. ACR Edition. 1991. 4to. 336 pp. Colour plates throughout. Hardback with dust jacket. New.

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BAKER, Malcolm.

Figured in Marble. The Making and Viewing of Eighteenth Century Sculpture.

London. V. & A. Publications. 2000. 28.5 x 21cm. pp. 192. 140 illustrations. Hardback in dust jacket. New.

The book's main concern is the sculpture made in Britain (often by European sculptors) in the 18th, century.

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BATCHELOR. Jarrett, Patricia.

Water-colours and Drawings. Roland Batchelor, a 20th-century view of the human comedy. Introduction by Ernest Greenwood.

London & Exeter. Eve de Leef. 1987. Small 4to. pp. 84. Illustrated in colour and monochrome. Publisher's cloth. Stain on dustjacket, otherwise vg.

Second impression.

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BAWDEN. Bliss, Douglas Percy.

Edward Bawden.

Godalming. Pendomer Press. ca. 1979. 4to. pp. 197. Well illustrated in monochrome and colour. Cloth.

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BEARDSLEY . Reade, Brian.

Aubrey Beardsley.

Woodbridge. Antique Collectors' Club. 1974. 4to. pp. 372. 502 illustrations, including 8 in colour. Publisher's cloth, dust jacket.

Revised edition.

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BELL, Clive.

Poems.

London. Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press. 1921. 8vo. pp. 29, (1 leaf with ads. recto). Original publisher's printed wrappers with red clover pattern and red letterpress to front wrapper.

First edition - limited to 350 copies - this copy entirely unopened. Clive Bell, husband of ... (more)

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BERNHARDT. Bernier, Georges.

Sarah Bernhardt and her Times.

New York. Wildenstein. 1984. 4to. pp. 158. Illustrated throughout in colour and monochrome. Wrappers, with clear plastic covering.

Exhibition catalogue.

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BERNHARDT. Bron, Ludovic.

Sarah Bernhardt.

Paris. La Pensee Francaise. 1925. 4to. pp. 254. 9 (ex 10) plates from photographs and drawings ... (more)

Front cover and drawings by Louise Abbema. Edition limited to 175 copies. This is one of 25 on Velin d'Arches.

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BLAKE & VARLEY.

The Blake-Varley Sketchbook of 1819 in the collection of M.D.E. Clayton-Stamm. Introduction and Notes by Martin Butlin.

London. Heinemann. 1969. 2 vols, oblong 8vo. pp. 40. 100-page facsimile of the sketchbook. Publisher's leather-backed cloth., slipcase.

Edition limited to 800 copies.

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BLAKE & VARLEY.

The Blake-Varley Sketchbook of 1819 in the collection of M.D.E. Clayton-Stamm. Introduction and Notes by Martin Butlin.

London. Heinemann. 1969. 2 vols, oblong 8vo. pp. 40. 100-page facsimile of the sketchbook. Publisher's leather-backed cloth., slipcase.

Edition limited to 800 copies.

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BLAKE. Binyon, Laurence and Geoffrey Keynes.

Illustrations of the Book of Job.

New York. Pierpont Morgan Library. 1935. 6 vols. Introduction illustrated with collotypes (61 ... (more)

A fine set of facsimiles made and printed by Emery Walker & Co.

£1,250
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BLAKE. Butlin, Martin

The paintings and drawings of William Blake.

New Haven and London. Yale University Press for the Paul Mellon Centre. 1981. 2 vols. large 8vo. pp. xxvi, (2), 668; (8). 1193 illustrations in monochrome and colour. Publisher's cloth, dust jacket.

The authoritative catalogue raisonne of the paintings watercolours and drawings.

£275
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BLAKE. Ellis, Edwin John & William Butler Yeats.

The Works of William Blake, poetic, symbolic, and critical. Edited with lithographs of the illustrated 'Prophetic Books' and a memoir and interpretation.

London. Bernard Quaritch. 1893. 3 vols. large 4to. pp. xvi, 420; vi, 435; ix and various paginations ... (more)

Yeats recorded that 'the writing of this book is mainly Ellis's. The thinking is as much mine as his. The biography is by him. He wrote and trebled in size a biography of mine.'

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BLAKE. Erdman, David V.

The Illuminated Blake.

London. Oxford University Press. 1975. Oblong 8vo. pp. 416. Illustrated thoughout. Publisher's pictorial wrappers.

Illustrates all the pages from Blake's illustrated books. Each is accompanied by descriptive and interpretative commentary.

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Fine Art Reference
Fine Art Reference

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