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Art & Architecture
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
| ROSAMOND BERNIER Book Number: 74573 |
Published price: $30
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Bernier's father chaired the directors of the Philadelphia Orchestra, and when she herself was a young harp student she met all the great musicians of her day, from Otto Klemperer, who threw food a...
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| MICHELLE GALINDO Book Number: 83549 |
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Successful kids' design unites quality, sustainability and safety with ingenuity, style and pleasure and here is a selection of the very best from novelties to established classics. Innovative and...
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| HANCHAO LU Book Number: 85018 |
Published price: £32
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During the Chinese Revolution of 1911, photographs of the upheaval were rare, but an American photographer, Francis Stafford (1884-1938), was working for Commercial Press in Shanghai, and consequen...
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| JOSEPH P. ECKHART Book Number: 85047 |
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William Brooke Thomas Trego was born on 15 September 1858, the fifth of six children born to prolific and much-sought-after artist Jonathan Trego and his wife Emily. At the age of 18 months however...
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| GERED MANKOWITZ Book Number: 85280 |
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Reputations were made quickly in the frenetic pop world of the sixties, and the 18-year-old Gered Mankowitz became an iconic photographer when he spent two years documenting the Rolling Stones in 1...
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| HELENE ALEXANDER & R. HARRIS Book Number: 85785 |
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From the luxurious medieval languor of Lady Ashburton, photographed as Tennyson's Enid and clothed 'in apparel like the day' for the Devonshire House Ball of 1897, to the understated elegance of Mi...
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| MICHAEL FOREMAN Book Number: 85669 |
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The popular and very collectable book illustrator Michael Foreman is very well travelled and of course has taken his paper, pen and ink and watercolours with him everywhere since he was at art scho...
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| JAN TOMS Book Number: 85799 |
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Guy the Gorilla from Regent's Park Zoo, Jacob the Dray horse near Tower Bridge, the Boy and the Tiger at Tobacco Docks in Wapping, the Cat Monument at Shugborough, and a weathered gravestone for Fr...
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| SOREN DAHLGAARD Book Number: 85813 |
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Imagine enough dough kneaded (!) for three or four loaves and while all gooey, dropping it on top of the head so that it stretches all the way down the face and over the chin of your portrait model...
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| RUTH AND VINCENT MEGAW Book Number: 85815 |
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This widely praised Shire publication, now extensively revised and enlarged, examines the predominantly warrior and aristocratic art of the Iron Age inhabitants of Britain and Ireland from the four...
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| EDITED BY ANDREW LAMBERT Book Number: 85832 |
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A visually stunning art history featuring 360 of the most celebrated ships from history and fiction in one stylishly produced volume. Each has a dramatic story immortalised in an evocative artwork...
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| MARK HARRISON & LISA TUTTLE Book Number: 85997 |
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The woman who haunts artist Mark Harrison's dreams is a symbol of fertility and a goddess of nature surrounded by flowers, vines and leafy plants, her hair growing in tendrils adorned with fruit, a...
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"I've always been fascinated by sex, the diversity of practices, the will and perseverance of people to realize their fantasies," says Paris photographer Laurent Benaïm. "These moments of pleasure ...
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| JULIE APPEL & AMY GUGLIELMO Book Number: 86216 |
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A totally touchy feely book, the like of which we have never before seen on Bibliophile. Irresistible! With a peep-hole front cover, the classic Holbein Portrait of Henry VIII aged 49, (1540) is ...
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| TIM JENKINSON & PATRICK TAYLOR Book Number: 86393 |
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A companion to code 86392 Toll Houses of Cambridgeshire, this is the very first detailed study of Staffordshire's toll-houses, small buildings on the highway edge, lived in by the pike-men who coll...
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| EDNA RUSSMANN, N. STRUDWICK Book Number: 86421 |
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Immerse yourself in the artefacts of Ancient Egypt as this companion gives you a behind the curtain look at one of the world's foremost collections of Egyptian antiquities - Egyptian treasures from...
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| THOMAS MARENT & F. JANTSCHKE Book Number: 86450 |
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'Only if we help shall they be saved' wrote Jane Goodall, the young research scientist who was the first human to make contact with David Greybeard, the first chimpanzee to get close in a scientifi...
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| ROSALIND HOPWOOD Book Number: 86624 |
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Natural springs, water jets, rills and cascades all incorporate moving water and water features within architectural structures probably originated in Greece and Asia Minor. They originated as a s...
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| JOHN NORRISS Book Number: 86882 |
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Men in battle have long been known to decorate their armour or given names their personal weapons. King Arthur had Excalibur and Odin Gram. The tradition of naming military hardware and decoratin...
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| CARLI DAVIDSON Book Number: 87154 |
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Close observers of our magnificent moggies will notice that when they shake their heads rather violently from side to side to shake off droplets of water (used here by the photographer for effect) ...
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| LEONARD ZETT Book Number: 86958 |
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The Janssen Series on the Black Male Nude in Art and Photography continues with these 100-plus studies of Bongani, 26 years old, from the South African Xhosa tribe, bisexual, versatile, a sportsman...
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| JENNIFER KRAMER, G. CRANMER Book Number: 86971 |
Published price: £31
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Kesu - meaning 'wealth being carved' - was the name given to Doug Cranmer, a whittler and doodler who embodied 'indigenous modern' art long before the term was coined. His art is energetic, colour...
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| EDITED BY NATHALIE BONDIL Book Number: 87224 |
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Benjamin-Constant (1845-1902) was one of the first Orientalists, accompanying the founding father Mariano Fortuny on his trips through the Middle East. Memories of his travels to Spain and Morocco...
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| SHEILA CANBY Book Number: 87228 |
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Embracing the natural and supernatural worlds, feasting, hunting, war, music and power, the author, a Keeper at the British Museum, examines Islamic art with close-up reproductions and helps the re...
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| JOHN REEVE Book Number: 87229 |
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What is Japanese Art? The simple answer is art created in Japan, which initially brings to mind such immediately recognisable works as the celebrated views of Mount Fuji by Hokusai, the female beau...
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| JEAN LAHOR Book Number: 87316 |
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It has been many years since Bibliophile has handled an exquisite art book on the popular topic of Art Nouveau, so we are delighted to have imported this special new publication. It covers the ori...
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| STEPHEN BUSHELL Book Number: 87317 |
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A huge quality art publication only sold at full price and printed to the highest quality, no expense has been spared on the high production values of these colour images of beautiful green or whit...
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| ERIC SHANES Book Number: 87318 |
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Salvador Dalí's art retains its ability to bewilder, shock and intrigue, dealing inventively with the nature of reality and appearances. In the autumn of 1927 he had written to his friend Lorca: "...
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| EMILE GALLÉ Book Number: 87319 |
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Fine pottery and jewellery to furniture, Emile Gallé's (1846-1904) 'Poetry In Glass' portrayed the beauty and simplicity of nature. He was one of the main actors of the French Art Nouveau movement...
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| CHARLES DE KAY Book Number: 87320 |
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Feast your eyes on the Peacock Window in leaded glass, The Mermaid on leaded favrile glass, Four Seasons of 1897 with foliage and colours produced largely by means of stains and enamels, with glass...
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