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Collectables/Antiques
Collectables/Antiques
Collectables and Antique books to judge quality and design of collectable items, including books! Miller's antiques price guides to oddities.
| VICTORIA SOLT DENNIS Book Number: 71302 |
Published price: £10.99
Bibliophile price: £2.50
Product format: Paperback
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Aprons and medals sometimes turn up in car boot sales or are found in an attic or shop selling bygones. Many of these objects are decorated with arcane symbols and their inscriptions such as Guard...
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| FRANCES BRYANT Book Number: 80676 |
Published price: £4.99
Bibliophile price: £2.00
Product format: Paperback
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Staffordshire figures (1835-1880) were made in great quantities by Victorian pottery factories expressly for working people and sold for just a few pence each. By the standards of quality factorie...
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| SHIRLEY HARRISON Book Number: 81084 |
Published price: £18.99
Bibliophile price: £8.00
Product format: Hardback
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A permanent memorial to a national icon, we can visit the Farnell Factory in Acton where Pooh bear was 'born', and Harrods Toy Department in 1921 where he was bought over 90 years ago as a present ...
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| EDITED BY JUDITH BARTER Book Number: 80779 |
Published price: $45
Bibliophile price: £10.00
Product format: Hardback
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The Arts and Crafts movement was a rebellion against the uninspired machine-made or factory produced items. Inspired by the writings of John Ruskin, people such as William Morris here in Britain an...
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| JEAN REBEYROLLES Book Number: 81277 |
Published price: £9.95
Bibliophile price: £4.00
Product format: Paperback
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After Sir Walter Raleigh, legend has it that his last act as he climbed the scaffold was smoking a pipe. Pipe smoking clubs appeared throughout England in his day where women and even children wer...
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| JAMES TRILLING Book Number: 81354 |
Published price: £8.95
Bibliophile price: £2.25
Product format: Paperback
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From the much revered and heavyweight quality Thames & Hudson World of Art series, here is a decorative arts classic. Ornament, the art of decorative patterning, has given rise to some of the most ...
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| ROBIN HILDYARD Book Number: 81552 |
Published price: £19.99
Bibliophile price: £6.00
Product format: Paperback
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Some of the names are as swirly and beautiful as the objects they describe - Sgraffito, Palissy, Minton and Piccolpasso. Published by the Victoria and Albert Museum for it Ceramics galleries, the ...
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| IVAN SPARKES Book Number: 81620 |
Published price: £2.95
Bibliophile price: £2.00
Product format: Paperback
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Few pieces of furniture kindle the affection that is bestowed upon the Windsor chair by owners and collectors. Originating at the beginning of the 18th century, they have been produced as veranda ...
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| ROBERT MILLS Book Number: 81632 |
Published price: £4.50
Bibliophile price: £2.00
Product format: Paperback
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There is nothing more satisfying than the crack of a nut as your hand squeezes the prongs of a nutcracker. Over many decades, some most beautiful examples have been made for different types of nut...
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| MARC ALLUN Book Number: 82606 |
Published price: £8.99
Bibliophile price: £4.50
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A regular on BBC's Antiques Roadshow, here is a delightful nest of insights from a professional who knows the game and who can weave it into words. Go in search of stolen masterpieces, learn the s...
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| ROSEMARY SIMMONS Book Number: 82476 |
Published price: £16.99
Bibliophile price: £4.50
Product format: Paperback
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This informative guide to collecting prints made from 1900 onwards explains what prints are, how they can be recognised and the various techniques that are used in the making. Artists have always b...
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| TIMOTHY NEWBURY Book Number: 82487 |
Published price: £7.95
Bibliophile price: £2.00
Product format: Paperback
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Frames fulfil a variety of functions, from protection to decoration. They can indicate ownership or assert the importance of the paintings they enclose. When a painting retains its original frame...
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| JOHN CASSY & BARBARA GIBBON Book Number: 82862 |
Bibliophile price:
£5.00
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Seat of Welsh Princes, Powis Castle is set in the lush green countryside of mid Wales, famous for its garden which shelters rare and tender plants. Laid out under the influence of Italian and Fren...
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| SUSAN BREWER Book Number: 82892 |
Published price: £30
Bibliophile price: £6.50
Product format: Hardback
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This nostalgia-packed offering is sure to include at least some of the toys that you played with as a child, and maybe those that your parents and grandparents loved as well. Although it concentrat...
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| MICHAEL LEAPMAN Book Number: 83322 |
Published price: £25
Bibliophile price: £12.00
Product format: Hardback
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Owing its origin to the generosity and far-sightedness of a handful of 18th century scholars and booklovers, the British Library's extensive collection incorporates not only books and manuscripts, ...
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| EDWARD ARDIZZONE Book Number: 83223 |
Published price: £12.99
Bibliophile price: £1.90
Product format: Hardback
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Stephen Fry reads the book aloud if you scan the QR code at the end for the free audio download. Tim arrives home after a long voyage to find his parents have vanished. He is determined to search...
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| EDWARD ARDIZZONE Book Number: 83224 |
Published price: £12.99
Bibliophile price: £1.90
Product format: Hardback
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Stephen Fry reads the book in a free audio download if you scan the QR code at the end of the book. Bored with his school work, Tim is longing to be at sea again but who should appear but his old ...
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| EDITED BY JOEL JESSUP Book Number: 83777 |
Published price: £19.99
Bibliophile price: £5.00
Product format: Hardback
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"Beyond the obvious facts that you are a bachelor, a solicitor, a Freemason and an asthmatic, I know nothing whatever about you." In a dramatic return from his faked death, Holmes is on classic for...
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| JACK FORSTER Book Number: 83850 |
Published price: £50
Bibliophile price: £25.00
Product format: Hardback
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A showcase for the Cartier fine watchmaking collection, this gorgeous book features iconic pieces in which there is a perfect fusion of mechanics and design. The Astroregulateur leads the field, wi...
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| J. SMITH AND FOUGASSE Book Number: 83446 |
Published price: £14.99
Bibliophile price: £7.00
Product format: Hardback
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Measuring just 3.6 x 4.8cm or 1½" x nearly 2" and ½", this teeny weeny satin miniature book has regal gold decorations on the cream satin cover, satin bookmark and gilt-edged pages and inside, even...
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| BERENICE GEOFFROY-SCHNEITER Book Number: 84143 |
Published price: £18.95
Bibliophile price: £6.00
Product format: Paperback
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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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| MICHAEL SALMON Book Number: 84489 |
Published price: £30
Bibliophile price: £8.00
Product format: Hardback
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Tragically, changes in land management and the environment have contributed to the seemingly irreversible decline of butterfly species in Britain. It is probable that we shall never again see many...
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| SANDRA FORTY Book Number: 84494 |
Bibliophile price:
£4.75
Product format: Hardback
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The appearance of the first modern stamp, the Penny Black in 1840, marked a decisive step in the modernisation of telecommunications. It was the culmination of a series of reforms introduced by Si...
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| MARK MCDONALD Book Number: 84344 |
Published price: £25
Bibliophile price: £7.00
Product format: Paperback
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A big beautiful British Library and British Museum UK first edition 2005 paperback with 20 colour and 178 black and white woodcut illustrations, this beautiful book catalogues 110 of the most impor...
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| BEATRIX POTTER Book Number: 84201 |
Published price: $25
Bibliophile price: £6.00
Product format: Hardback
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Ingrained into our psyche since infancy, the delicate, ethereal watercolours of Beatrix Potter are very special. This celebration of her art and letters contains many examples of her work, with ext...
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| RICHARD GLAZIER Book Number: 84218 |
Published price: £13.99
Bibliophile price: £3.00
Product format: Paperback
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Originally published in 1899, this compendium of over 700 of the author's own drawings is a delight for the eye, particularly if you are a designer or a student of artistic styles. The early chapte...
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| JEREMY COOPER Book Number: 84233 |
Published price: $34.95
Bibliophile price: £15.00
Product format: Paperback
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The furniture designs of the greats of the period such as William Morris and Charles Rennie Mackintosh are even more popular today than they were in their creators' lifetimes. Figures such as Willi...
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| SIMON DE PURY & W. STADIEM Book Number: 84437 |
Published price: $25.99
Bibliophile price: £9.00
Product format: Hardback
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Flamboyant television auctioneer Simon de Pury, nicknamed "the man with the golden gavel", tells his own diamond-encrusted story. Realising he will never make a creative artist himself, he finds em...
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| ISABELLA ALSTON & K. DIXON Book Number: 76367 |
Bibliophile price:
£6.00
Product format: Hardback
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The Art Nouveau and Art Deco posters created at the turn of the 20th century advertised everything from soap to chocolate, bicycles to cars, coffee to cordials, department stores to nightclubs, lux...
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| DAVID M. WILSON Book Number: 84655 |
Published price: $50
Bibliophile price: £25.00
Product format: Hardback
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A remarkable publishing achievement, Thames & Hudson, art publishers known for their quality of design and production, have produced a 10½" x 13½" luxury volume in which the complete Bayeux Tapestr...
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