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WALTERS Thomas · 1973 · Inch's Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

London, Academy/St Martins 1973 87pp, over 100 bw illustrations, couple of colour plates. 30x22, brown cloth, dw. Good in similar clipped dw. Wide ranging collection of illustrations covering artworks, architecture, furniture, tableware, posters, machines and such like.

Counterparts: Form and Emotion in Photographs

NAEF Weston J · 1982 · Inch's Books

£20.00 (€23.98 | $26.43 | ¥4,221)

New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art 1982 173pp, 64 bw and colour plates 29x23, black cloth, illustrated dw. Very good in slightly chipped and rubbed dw. Published to go alongside the exhibition of the same name, which ran at MOMA from February to May 1982. Works by Stieglit...

Art Nouveau: Prints, Illustrations and Posters

HOFSTÄTTER Hans H, with JAWORSKA W & HOFSTÄTTER S · 1984 · Inch's Books

£20.00 (€23.98 | $26.43 | ¥4,221)

Ware, Omega, 1984 (1st publ. in German, Baden-Baden, 1968.). 295pp, hundreds of ills, many in colour, biographies of artists, bibliog. 31x26, glt lettered cloth, illustrated dw. Good in rather rubbed dw. Nicely presented work and excellent reference for this aspect of the mo...

David Hockney: A Retrospetive

TUCHMAN Maurice, BARRON Stephanie · 1988 · Inch's Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.64 | ¥6,331)

Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum of Art 1988 288pp, attractive end papers, xiv unnumbered plates at end, 113 numbered plates (some fold out), many other images. 26x28, illustrated wraps. Very good. An illustrated catalogue of the exhibition that was held in Los Angeles...

Shinpen Meiho Nihon No Bijutsu, 28 [Art Treasures of Japan]

KANO Hiroyuki · 1991 · Inch's Books

£20.00 (€23.98 | $26.43 | ¥4,221)

Tokyo, Shogakukan 1991 139pp, 113 illustrations, many in colour, text in Japanese. 31x23, stiff cover, dw. Very good in slightly edge rubbed dw. Lovely domestic images, mostly of women and their children, from the Edo period. Beautifully produced volume.

Shinpen Meiho Nihon No Bijutsu, 29 [Art Treasures of Japan]

HAYASHI Kyohei et al · 1991 · Inch's Books

£20.00 (€23.98 | $26.43 | ¥4,221)

Tokyo, Shogakukan 1991 155pp, 258 illustrations, many in colour, text in Japanese. 31x23, stiff cover, dw. Very good in slightly edge rubbed dw. This edition of the Japanese art journal focuses on portraits from around 1600 to the end of the Edo period in 1868. As well as th...

Photographs Five Architects

TURNER Judith (introduction by John HEJDUK) · 1980 · Inch's Books

£20.00 (€23.98 | $26.43 | ¥4,221)

London, Academy Editions 1980 127pp, many mostly bw photographs. 26x26, black cloth with silver text, illustrated dw Very good in good, slightly faded, dw. Collection of Turner's acclaimed photographs, looking at the architecture of Gwathmey and Siegel, Eisenmann, Graves, Me...

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner: Drawings and Pastels

KETTERER Roman Norbert (ed) · 1982 · Inch's Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.64 | ¥6,331)

New York, Alpine Fine Arts Collection 1982 315pp, 100 colour plates, extensive bibliography/catalogue rainsonné 31x26, blue cloth, illustrated dw. Very good in very good dw. Very impressive selection of the most of important of Kirchner's drawings, recognising his place as o...

David Shepherd: The Man and His Paintings

SHEPHERD David · 1985 · Inch's Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

London, David and Charles (1985) 1989 (5th impression) 168pp, c. 60 colour plates 25x33, blue cloth, illustrated dw Very good. Paintings from throughout the artist and conservationist's prolific life.

John Piper

WEST Anthony · 1979 · Inch's Books

£20.00 (€23.98 | $26.43 | ¥4,221)

London, Secker & Warburg, 1979. Portrait frontis, 224pp incx 238 black and white plates and 33 colour plates, list of books, stage designs, public commissions etc by Piper. 24x20, cloth, illustrated dw. Ex library, fep removed, couple of stamps and small labels, otherwise goo...

The Works of Alfred Stevens at the Tate Gallery

TOWNDROW Kenneth Romney · 1950 · Inch's Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

London, Tate Gallery 1950 xxii, 138pp, 27 plates 26x19, red cloth, dw. Good; dw torn with some missing pieces, now protected. Catalogue and appreciation of the "great master of form", Alfred Stevens.

Tradition in Sculpture

MILLER Alec · 1949 · Inch's Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

London, Studio 1949 176pp, bw plates and ills 25x17, beige cloth. Some foxing, a few faint pencil marks, good thus. Nice history of the craft and the art of sculpture, by a craftsman.

Alfred Stevens: Architectural Sculptor, Painter and Designer: A Biography with New Material

TOWNDROW Kenneth Romney · 1939 · Inch's Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,441)

London, Constable 1939 xxviii, 294pp, 42 plates, including frontis 24x16, blue cloth, glt lettering and top edge. Cloth sunned and slightly marked, foxing, binding solid, owners' names in ink on ffep Biography of the 19th century sculptor (not to be confused with the Belgian...

Modern Cabinet Work: Furniture and Fitments An Account of the Theory and Practice in the Production of all kinds of Cabinetwork and Furniture with Chapters on the Growth and Progress of Design and Construction Illustrated by over 1000 Practical Workshop Drawings Photographs and Original Designs

WELLS Percy A and HOOPER John · 1909 · Inch's Books

£60.00 (€71.93 | $79.28 | ¥12,662)

London, Batsford 1909 384pp, more than 1000 bw illustrations. 27x20, cloth. Cloth a bit grubby, light foxing on early pages, binding slightly pulled in a few places, generally good working copy. Classic text, full of vital details.

Furniture Masterpieces of Duncan Phyfe

CORNELIUS Charles Over · 1922 · Inch's Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,441)

New York, Doubleday, Page and Company for the Metropolitan Museum of Art 1922 viii, 86pp, 56 half-tones, 5 bw fold-out line drawings. 26x19, white and blue boards with paste on labels. Top of spine pulled, some (acid?) damage to fep, light foxing, generally good copy. First ...

Loudon Furniture Designs from the Cottage, Farm, and Villa Architecture and Furniture 1839.

LOUDON JC, introduction by GILBERT Christopher · 1970 · Inch's Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.64 | ¥6,331)

Wakefield, SR Publishers Ltd and London, The Connoisseur 1970 viii, 135pp, many bw drawings. 22x15, red boards, illustrated dw. A few marks on a couple of pages, pencil annotations on fep, a good copy. A facsimile edition of the three sections of Loudon's influential Encycl...

Oak Furniture. The British Tradition. A History of Early Funiture on the British Isles and New England.

CHINNERY Victor · 1979 · Inch's Books

£45.00 (€53.95 | $59.46 | ¥9,496)

Woodbridge, Antique Collectors Club 1979 (1984 reprint) 580pp, incl b&w ills ,16 colour plates, bibliog. 29x22, glt lttd brown cloth, dw. Very good in similar dw. Standard reference work.

Six Engravings in Illustration of a Legend of Montrose, for the Members of the Royal Association for Promotion of the Fine Arts in Scotland.

PATON Joseph Noel · 1877 · Inch's Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,441)

Edinburgh, Royal Association for the Promotion of Fine Arts in Scotland 1877 4pp, 6 bw engraved plates with tissue guards 44x30, blind stamped cloth, glt lettering and decoration. Cloth somewhat sunned on front and spine, some pulling to spine, foxing, good thus. Illustratio...

Agnes Campbell, Lady Roseburn: A Contribution to the History of Printing in Scotland

FAIRLEY John A. · 1925 · Inch's Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,441)

Aberdeen, D Wyllie and Son 1925 62pp 24x16, cloth. glt letting to spine. Cloth sunned, pages roughly cut, very good thus. One of 150 copies printed. Agnes Campbell (1637 to 1716) was a highly significant figure in the history of both printing and women's emancipation in Scot...

The Dowie Dens O'Yarrow

PATON Joseph Noel · 1860 · Inch's Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,441)

Edinburgh, Royal Association for the Promotion of Fine Arts in Scotland 1860 5pp, 6 bw engraved plates with tissue guards 44x31, blind stamped pattern cloth, glt decorative title. Very slight shelf wear, a little very light foxing, rear binding slightly loose, very good thus....