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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
| 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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| DAVID HOCKNEY Book Number: 81103 |
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Taschen's brand new SUMO-sized David Hockney monograph is as spectacular in format as it is in scope. In it, the artist takes stock of more than 60 years of work, from his teenage days at the Brad...
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| PRESENTED BY SELINA SCOTT Book Number: 81648 |
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In this programme, Selina Scott uncovers the treasures of Boughton House, the home of the Duke of Buccleuch and Queensbury. His ancestors were collectors on a grand scale and managed to fill three...
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| THE NATIONAL TRUST Book Number: 82858 |
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A Baroque mansion situated near Derby, Calke Abbey's construction began in 1701. Set in a stunning landscaped park, it has become famous as a graphic illustration of the English country house in d...
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| MICHELLE GALINDO Book Number: 83549 |
Published price: £29.95
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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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| JOHN SPIKE Book Number: 83878 |
Published price: £10.99
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Renowned for his sublime painting of the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, Michelangelo's talent showed at an early age. Initially taught by Ghirlandaio, to whom he was apprenticed at the age of 13, i...
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| BERENICE GEOFFROY-SCHNEITER Book Number: 84143 |
Published price: £18.95
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A troupe of African, American, Asian or Oceanic masks and ancestor effigies stare out at us, often sporting threatening snarls, bristling beards, lolling tongues and pointed canines. Are tribal so...
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| DELIA PEMBERTON Book Number: 84336 |
Published price: $15.95
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Buddhism views the world we perceive as an illusion. In accordance with the law of cause and effect, or karma (literally 'action') the soul is propelled into an endless series of reincarnations. ...
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| MARIAMNA DAVYDOFF Book Number: 83078 |
Published price: $22.95
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In 1983 Olga Davydoff Dax was travelling in the US and decided to pay a visit to a cousin in Long Island. Her mother was Mariamna Davydoff who, on her death in 1961, left her three albums of waterc...
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| HANK O'NEAL Book Number: 84656 |
Published price: $15.95
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A very collectable critical introduction and showcase of the distinguished photographer in an attractive and accessible format. Born in Ohio in 1898, Berenice Abbott moved to Paris in 1921 where h...
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| BOB CARRUTHERS Book Number: 84807 |
Published price: £12.99
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A remarkable gallery of artworks, presented on big glossy white pages, all in original line art, charcoal and pencil drawings, the books showcases the work of contemporary combat artists and illust...
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| JOHN BUSBY Book Number: 84813 |
Published price: £20
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Living birds present a far more fascinating range of shape and posture, colour and shading. Often their anatomy is hidden by leaves, their plumage colours are changed by light or their feet are ou...
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| TREVOR DANCE Book Number: 85006 |
Published price: £29.99
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Glamorous hardbound first edition with dozens of full page artworks and plates of etchings, pen and ink drawings, a detail from The Town of Fantasy, lithographs on vellum, this book is the first mo...
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| FOREWORD BY ALAN LEE Book Number: 84830 |
Published price: £38
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Beautifully summarised by our friend Alan Lee in his foreword, 'Today we have more means of accessing images of wildlife. We can view them in real time or through high-definition photography but se...
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| LAWRENCE SMITH Book Number: 84350 |
Published price: $55
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Following World War Two, much of urban Japan lay in ruins, the land occupied by foreign powers for the first time in the country's history. To many it seemed everything was lost, yet it had an abi...
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| HANCHAO LU Book Number: 85018 |
Published price: £32
Bibliophile price: £4.00
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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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| CATHERINE TUCK Book Number: 85033 |
Published price: £20
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Britain's landscapes are full of sex, whether the viewer focuses on the naturally rounded formations of the Paps of Jura or the carefully constructed circles and uprights of Neolithic monuments suc...
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| BENITA EISLER Book Number: 85042 |
Published price: £22.99
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George Catlin (1796-1872) has been described as 'the first artist of the West' as no white man before him lived among and painted the Native American tribes of the Northern Plains. An unsuccessful ...
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| JOSEPH P. ECKHART Book Number: 85047 |
Published price: $39.95
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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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| STEVEN HELLER & LOUISE FILI Book Number: 85402 |
Published price: £22.50
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Heavyweight Thames & Hudson publication made up entirely of advertising material produced on glossy paper and dripping with colour. Every single page has a typeface and a design from decorative po...
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| GERED MANKOWITZ Book Number: 85280 |
Published price: £20
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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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| RICHARD ROGERS ET AL Book Number: 85292 |
Published price: £24.95
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Richard Rogers has been described as the last humanist, in recognition of his determination to create public spaces that encompass the diversity and complexity of the contemporary world. This outst...
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| EDITED BY MAGGIE FERGUSSON Book Number: 85071 |
Published price: $16.99
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When the writer Orhan Pamuk created his 'Museum of Innocence' in Istanbul in 2012, he wrote: 'It is imperative that museums become smaller, more individualistic and cheaper. This is the only way th...
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| ALAN BAMBERGER Book Number: 85605 |
Published price: £15.99
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You can buy art at auction, at a gallery or online: but how do you tell whether you're paying a fair price? If the painting is an old one, how do you know whether it's a fake? Does it even matter?...
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| W. H. MATTHEWS Book Number: 85575 |
Published price: £7.99
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First published in 1922, the classic and unparalleled text on the history and development of mazes and labyrinths has been carefully scanned and reprinted, with original illustrations. William Hen...
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| HELENE ALEXANDER Book Number: 85784 |
Published price: £20
Bibliophile price: £8.50
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The celebrated fan maker Félix Alexandre (b.1823) was active in an age when the art of fan-making reached a glorious apogee. Brought together for the first time, here is an array of exquisite fans...
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| HELENE ALEXANDER & R. HARRIS Book Number: 85785 |
Published price: £20
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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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| AMY LICENCE Book Number: 85871 |
Published price: £18.99
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Ida Nettleship, Sophie Brzeska and Fernande Olivier were three early 20th century women who lived in the shadow of their artist partners, the painter Augustus John, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska and Pablo ...
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| MICHAEL FOREMAN Book Number: 85669 |
Published price: £17.99
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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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| CLARA SCHMIDT Book Number: 85944 |
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Mostly in black and white but with some fine colour examples are the most beautiful Arabesques, lattice patterns, swastikas, stylised bamboos, friezes, Thomas W. Cutler's 'A Grammar of Japanese Orn...
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