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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
| THE GIFTED STATIONERY COMPANY Book Number: 89731 |
Published price: £9.99
Bibliophile price: £3.00
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Degas, Renoir, Monet, Manet, Van Gogh, this 16 month calendar reproduces in colour famous images of ballet dancers, Provençal French countryside, beautiful ladies, a bathing nude, Le Dejeuner sur l...
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| JANE AUSTEN Book Number: 91255 |
Published price: £13.99
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One of Jane Austen's most charming youthful 'novels' in miniature, presented in a deluxe illustrated edition with Leon Steinmetz's gorgeous black and dark red illustrations. Most people think Jane...
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| GABRIEL MANDEL KHAN Book Number: 91322 |
Published price: £18.99
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The exquisite calligraphy and letters of the Arabic alphabet are explained in this thorough and illuminating guide. Writing styles and the alphabet presents an understanding of a culture and civil...
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| DIANA CRAIG PATCH Book Number: 91335 |
Published price: £50
Bibliophile price: £20.00
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Published by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York there are illustrations of more than 180 objects created from about 4,000 to 2650 BC presenting the artforms and iconography in which the early...
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| GEORGE SHACKELFORD & X. REY Book Number: 91337 |
Published price: £57
Bibliophile price: £25.00
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With contributions by Lucien Freud, Martin Gayford and Anne Rocquebert here is the classical body observed, exploited and exhibited and finally transformed. The nude figure was critical to the art...
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| MARIETTA CAMBARERI Book Number: 91338 |
Published price: £30
Bibliophile price: £19.00
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Sub-titled 'Sculpting with Colour In Renaissance Florence', the glazed terracotta technique invented by Luca Della Robbia, along with his exceptional skill as a sculptor, placed him firmly in the f...
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| CLIFFORD ACKLEY Book Number: 91361 |
Published price: £32
Bibliophile price: £20.00
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In the early 1890s, many progressive Dutch visual artists made a conscious effort to break with the past. This special selection of Dutch works on paper from 1890-1920 comprises many and diverse a...
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| SUE ROE Book Number: 91365 |
Published price: $30
Bibliophile price: £8.00
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Surrealism revolutionised the art of the early 20th century, with its epicentre in Paris, the city of Duchamp, Ernst, Cocteau and Dali. Surrealist art unleashed the irrational and the erotic, and ...
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| TIMOTHY WILSON Book Number: 91377 |
Published price: £50
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The brightly coloured tin-enamelled earthenware called Maiolica was among the major accomplishments of decorative arts in 16th century Italy. This splendid huge tome is an in depth look at its his...
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| W. G. SEBALD Book Number: 91384 |
Published price: £20
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Winfried Gerog Sebald (1944-2001) first published this now classic book in German in 1998 and we are delighted to have found in the USA a 2015 trade paperback edition with no less than six stunning...
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| COLTA IVES Book Number: 91386 |
Published price: £40
Bibliophile price: £24.00
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With masterworks by artists such as Bonnard, Cassatt, Cézanne, Corot, Daumier, Van Gogh, Manet, Matisse, Monet and Seurat, many of these artists were themselves gardeners and they painted parks and...
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| ESTHER BELL & G. SHACKELFORD Book Number: 91392 |
Published price: £40
Bibliophile price: £24.00
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A revelatory and wide-ranging explanation of Renoir's extraordinary depictions of the nude and their important artistic legacy. Tracing the entire arc of August Renoir's career, this magnificent v...
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| JOHN RICHARDSON Book Number: 91397 |
Published price: £30
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Art critic John Richardson spent 12 years as the partner of flamboyant and outrageous art collector Douglas Cooper, who in turn was a friend of artists like Picasso, collectors including Peggy Gugg...
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| JAMES HAMILTON Book Number: 91400 |
Published price: £18.99
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At the beginning of the 19th century there was a seismic change in the art world as the Industrial Revolution enriched the middle classes who could now afford to become patrons and collectors. The...
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| GUILD OF AVIATION ARTISTS Book Number: 91576 |
Published price: £35
Bibliophile price: £19.50
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Flight Through the Ages was the title of the first annual exhibition of The Guild of Aviation Artists in 1971. This book celebrates 50 years of exhibitions and reproduces paintings by 100 artists ...
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| PREFACE BY BERND EVERS Book Number: 91530 |
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Pioneering Texts on Architecture from the Renaissance to Today.
Neatly organised chronologically by country from Alberti and Palladio to Le Corbusier and Koolhaas, the best treatises by architectur...
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| INGRID SISCHY Book Number: 91532 |
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Ellen von Unwerth was a supermodel before the term was invented, so she knows a thing or two about photographing beautiful women. Now one of the world's most original and successful fashion photogr...
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| BRUNO ERNST Book Number: 91549 |
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Showcases the renowned Dutch graphic artist Maurits Cornelis Escher (1898-1972). Pictured are his famous works including The Worlds (carp below water, leaves on lake), Still Life with Reflecting G...
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| BRIGITTE FITOUSSI & I FORTES Book Number: 91602 |
Published price: £12.99
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From the Grande Arche and Le Corbusier's Maison La Roche, Notre Dame Cathedral, the Baguette, the July Column, Montmartre Stairs, the Eiffel Tower, Hermès, Paris Métro entrances, Palais de Tokyo, L...
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| STEFAN MOSES Book Number: 91603 |
Published price: £22.50
Bibliophile price: £8.00
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Sub-titled 'An Intimate Collection of Behind-The-Scenes Photos Featuring the Legendary Art Collector', the renowned photographer took these images between 1967 and 1974, and many have never been se...
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| PARKSTONE PRESS Book Number: 91604 |
Published price: £19.95
Bibliophile price: £6.50
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With their towering smokestacks, factories stand as powerful symbols of efficiency and productivity. Post Industrial Revolution, many have turned into trendy, spacious housing and commercial areas...
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| JUDITH MILLER Book Number: 91628 |
Published price: £35
Bibliophile price: £12.00
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The 40th anniversary edition from the famous Miller's stable called the 'Bible of the Antiques Trade' for whether you are buying or selling. The Guide remains the essential and trusted volume for ...
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| ROXANA ROBINSON Book Number: 91751 |
Published price: £25
Bibliophile price: £9.50
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The Artist Georgia O'Keeffe's most accessible images - the magnified flowers, the dreaming antlers and skulls, and vast, mysterious cloudscapes - became hugely popular among the public in the 1970s...
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| MICHAEL GLOVER Book Number: 91752 |
Published price: £24.99
Bibliophile price: £7.00
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'Glover is a rare critic who invites us to join him in solving the riddle that every great work of art represents.' - James Bradburne. Glover is a London-based poet, art critic, fiction writer and...
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| ROGER SCRUTON Book Number: 91758 |
Published price: £25
Bibliophile price: £8.50
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In earlier times, our musical culture had secure foundations in the church, the concert hall and in the home. The common practice of tonal harmony united composers, performers and listeners in a s...
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| SIMON JENKINS Book Number: 91685 |
Published price: £29.99
Bibliophile price: £8.50
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100 impressive, interesting or unusual dwellings to be seen in Kent and Sussex, from ancient Knole to magical Bodiam Castle, from Brighton's exotic Pavilion to Elizabethan Parham, we visit the pala...
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| SIMON JENKINS Book Number: 91686 |
Published price: £29.99
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A Reader's Digest glamorous large publication of 97 of the most impressive, interesting or unusual dwellings in the West Country. They range from elegant Montacute in Somerset and medieval Bucklan...
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| SIMON JENKINS Book Number: 91687 |
Published price: £29.99
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A beautifully bound large hardback with spectacular colour photography throughout and map presenting Yorkshire's 92 most impressive, interesting or unusual dwellings, from Castle Howard and magnifi...
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| JOHN HANNAVY Book Number: 91702 |
Published price: £30
Bibliophile price: £14.00
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Contents of this marvellous 2020 Pen & Sword publication include the Systeme Arnodin, Building the Widnes-Runcorn Bridge, Bridging the Usk at Newport, Crossing the Tees, Crosfield's Warrington Brid...
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