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Gorgeous, high-end art tomes and collectable rare books at a fraction of the original price, selected for quality and scholarship and sheer beauty. Some are "coffee table" art books too or colouring books for adults, how to create art for yourself and learn from the experts or the Masters.
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Well, I am a Sunday painter. It’s just that I paint every other day of the week as well. - L.S. Lowry
| MATTHEW LANDRUS Book Number: 89684 |
Published price: £25
Bibliophile price: £10.00
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A portrait of the artist, scientist and innovator, Leonardo da Vinci considered himself an inventore of pictorial effects, sculptural forms, machines, buildings, allegories, festivals and costumes ...
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| KITTY HAUSER & C. CHRISTOFOROU Book Number: 89701 |
Published price: £9.95
Bibliophile price: £5.50
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Francis Bacon was one of the giants dominating the artistic landscape of the mid 20th century. This highly illustrated book features 19 of his major works in stunning and original colour illustrat...
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| WENDY BIRD Book Number: 89702 |
Published price: £9.95
Bibliophile price: £4.00
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Modern art begins with Goya. He was the first to create works of art for their own sake and lived in a time of incredible cultural and social dynamism. He saw his world ripped apart by Napoleon's...
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| MYCHAEL BARRATT Book Number: 89840 |
Published price: £20
Bibliophile price: £6.50
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Based upon an original and very limited eight-plate etching by the author which was shown at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition in 2015, the book features 366 date references to events or people t...
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| MARCUS DU SAUTOY Book Number: 89827 |
Published price: £20
Bibliophile price: £3.50
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Could a machine one day create a truly original work of art? Illuminating not only the work of coders and creators but the mathematics of chaos that underpin art and our emotional responses to it,...
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| CORINA FLETCHER Book Number: 87890 |
Published price: £16.95
Bibliophile price: £7.50
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The finest paper engineering on quality white card, the line art literally pops into 3D with fluorescent orange on the reverse of the card making a reflective image on the outline scenery behind. ...
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| THE GIFTED STATIONERY COMPANY Book Number: 89204 |
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Willem Blaeu's 1635 Map of Great Britain, de Wit's 1668 Map of the World, Cornelius Dankertz's 1700 Polar Map, Christopher Saxton's 1578 Map of England and Wales, Abraham Ortelieus's 1570 Map of th...
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| Unknown Book Number: 89207 |
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£12.00
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The Green Dancer by Edward Degas 1879, a detail of Waterlilies by Monet 1916, Two Sisters (On the Terrace) by Renoir 1881, The Psyche Mirror by Berthe Morisot 1876, Still Life With Soup Tureen by C...
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| GILLY PICKUP Book Number: 89710 |
Published price: £8.99
Bibliophile price: £4.00
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From the flamboyance of Germany's fairy tale Neuschwanstein Castle to the Gothic, Dracula-inspiring Bram Castle perched in the craggy peaks of Romania's Carpathian Mountains, Tokyo's Imperial Palac...
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| EDITED BY JOHANNES ERLER Book Number: 89711 |
Published price: $45
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A Princess Diana lookalike stares straight out of the picture and gives us the finger, Prince Charles sits at an easel measuring up a fig-leafed Camilla for his watercolour, while with impeccable d...
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| ANDREW MACPHERSON Book Number: 89729 |
Published price: £50
Bibliophile price: £21.00
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Photographer to the stars, it must have been a hard day for Macpherson to be driven on the speed boat by model Heidi Klum, her perfect figure squeezed into a tiny bikini! The summer before he had ...
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| HAYLEY CAMPBELL Book Number: 90088 |
Published price: $39.99
Bibliophile price: £9.00
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With his blockbusting novels, films, blogs, cartoon art, guest appearances on The Simpsons and authorship of two episodes of Doctor Who, the fantasy and sci-fi maestro Neil Gaiman has excelled at e...
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| ROBERT O'BYRNE Book Number: 90124 |
Published price: £35
Bibliophile price: £8.00
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The beautiful white-painted Luggala House in County Wicklow, with its pointed neo-Gothic windows, crenellations and lavish interior, was acquired by the fabulously wealthy Guinness family in 1937 w...
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| UNIVERSE PUBLISHING Book Number: 90130 |
Published price: £15.99
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This pictorial panorama of more than 300 Marvel Comics characters extends to a full, mind-boggling 12 feet, featuring the work of the finest comic artists of the 20th and 21st centuries. The revers...
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| MARTINA PADBERG Book Number: 90165 |
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This artist was truly intoxicated with colour. Chaim Soutine (1893-1943) was a man possessed with his art who was a difficult person, usually silent, mostly a loner, but in rare moments almost ebu...
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| MARTINA PADBERG Book Number: 90166 |
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Like no other artist from the circle of Impressionists, Claude Monet (1840-1926) focussed on the core business of a painter - observation. He placed the landscape with its daily and seasonal chang...
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| DANIEL KIECOL Book Number: 90167 |
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Old Damascus, Jews Quarter by Frederic Leighton (1830-1896) sees a little girl in pink silk dress catching lemons being shaken from a tree in a beautifully decorated patio courtyard with Arabic til...
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| VALENTIN GRIVET Book Number: 90168 |
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The extraordinary light and realism in the work of Jean-Léon Gérôme such as his Prayer in Cairo and Prayer at the Sultan's Room, the blues inside the mosque and exquisite garments captured in his S...
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| HAJO DÜCHTING Book Number: 90171 |
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£8.50
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Unforgettable images of the Belle Époque Paris are captured in Toulouse-Lautrec's paintings, lithographs and posters as graphic designer for the Moulin Rouge Club in Montmartre. Some 280 reproduct...
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| ALAN COWSILL ET AL Book Number: 90186 |
Published price: £35
Bibliophile price: £20.00
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In a large striking graphic designed slipcase featuring DC Comic books heroes like Batman, Superman and Wonder Woman, this beautiful, in-depth insight into DC Comics history is full of images of or...
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| CHRISTINE TEMPLE Book Number: 90212 |
Published price: £12.99
Bibliophile price: £2.50
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Picasso believed that intelligence was relevant to the creative process, saying "one can see the intelligence in each of Manet's brushstrokes", and although there is no psychometric assessment of h...
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| ELIZABETH COWLING Book Number: 89131 |
Published price: £24.95
Bibliophile price: £11.00
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Portraiture and the human figure remained Pablo Picasso's prime subject and favourite genre throughout his life. His earliest portraits were done from life, and reveal a precocious ability to catc...
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| EMMA PEARCE Book Number: 90223 |
Published price: £11.99
Bibliophile price: £4.50
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Completely revised and updated, the Complete Source Book of Methods and Media is a compact, indispensable and comprehensive practical guide for all experienced and aspiring artists. Get the most o...
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| ELIZABETH ATHENS & B. RUUD Book Number: 90231 |
Published price: £30
Bibliophile price: £10.00
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The celebrated American artist Winslow Homer spent 18 months in the village of Cullercoats, Northumbria, in 1881-1882, and during this time he engaged with English painters both living and dead, in...
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| THE NATIONAL GALLERY Book Number: 90234 |
Published price: £9.99
Bibliophile price: £2.50
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Bend the card into shape before gluing with PVA wood glue and leave each piece to dry before moving on to the next. The ingenious, pre-cut cardboard kit creates a layered landscape featuring hand-...
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| BRUCE GOLDFARB Book Number: 90284 |
Published price: £16.99
Bibliophile price: £5.50
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Sub-titled 'The Untold Story of Frances Glessner Lee and the Invention of Modern Forensics', Lee once said 'The goal of forensic investigation is to convict the guilty, clear the innocent and find ...
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| LUCY ALEXANDER & TIMOTHY MEARA Book Number: 89906 |
Published price: £25
Bibliophile price: £7.50
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The foundation year in art and design at Central St Martins is justly celebrated for empowering the creativity of highly talented young men and women. This book uses the foundation concepts as a ba...
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| JACKIE HIGGINS Book Number: 89940 |
Published price: £7.95
Bibliophile price: £5.00
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Celebrated photographer David Bailey's controversial reputation often precedes him and over the past five decades he has been a filmmaker, curator, magazine owner, environmental campaigner, painter...
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| P. WILLIAMSON AND P. MOTTURE Book Number: 89941 |
Published price: $27.50
Bibliophile price: £11.00
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The Victoria and Albert Museum has one of the world's greatest collections of medieval and Renaissance artefacts, and this selection of around 60 of them displays not only their beauty but also the...
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| DAVID TRIGG Book Number: 89952 |
Published price: £24.95
Bibliophile price: £14.95
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Paintings of books and reading by over 250 artists make this volume a sheer delight, particularly as there is an emphasis on women and the cultural implications of the literate woman. From the fir...
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