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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
| SAM ROBERTS Book Number: 90574 |
Published price: £14.99
Bibliophile price: £6.00
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On February 2nd 1913, the doors to Grand Central Terminal officially opened to the public and immediately it became one of the most beautiful and recognisable Manhattan landmarks. In this celebrat...
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| JOSEPHINE BINDE Book Number: 90164 |
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At a time when mythological and historical themes dominated the art world, Berthe Morisot (1841-1895) without regard for her critics or her career set out to find new motifs in nature. Following t...
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| HILLIARD GOLDFARB Book Number: 88502 |
Published price: £20
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A big, rare exhibition catalogue published by Yale University Press with Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, 2006 first edition softback. The celebrated French artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-190...
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| ILYA Book Number: 89031 |
Published price: $19.95
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From fashion, art and costume, to manga, popular culture and the just plain weird, the skull has always captured the imagination. In this mammoth book, artist ILYA shares photograph after photograp...
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| B. N. GOSWAMY Book Number: 86271 |
Published price: £29.95
Bibliophile price: £9.50
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We can only stare in wonder at these rare gems of art presented by an author who shares a lifetime of knowledge and insight, as we are introduced to the richly varied traditions of painting in Indi...
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| ERIC BOTTOMLEY Book Number: 90362 |
Published price: £30
Bibliophile price: £18.00
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Transport artist Eric Bottomley specialises in nostalgic scenes reconstructed from old photos and drawings. The railway paintings in this book mainly depict the last 20 years of steam in Britain, b...
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| CLAUDINE CHALMERS ET AL. Book Number: 90370 |
Published price: $50
Bibliophile price: £25.00
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The French painter Jules Tavernier dominated the art of the American west in the later 19th century, and his spectacular canvases of erupting volcanoes on Haiti crowned a short, action-packed life....
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| RICHARD DACRE & A. MALONEY Book Number: 90381 |
Published price: £7.95
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Prince Albert's dream has left a great legacy and this lovely colourful souvenir guidebook covers the grand opening, acoustics, the organ, building improvements, classical music and opera, a versat...
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| CARMEN BAMBACH Book Number: 90448 |
Published price: £50
Bibliophile price: £24.00
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Published by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and distributed by Yale University Press, this superb heavyweight exhibition catalogue was produced for the exhibition in November 2017 to Feb...
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| OSCAR SABINI Book Number: 90450 |
Published price: $19.95
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Utterly unique, we have a way of making pictures by using the pocket pages provided. Open the huge envelope at the back of the picture book and take out a sheet of card and one of 20 patterned pap...
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| H. WALTER LACK Book Number: 90744 |
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Art meets science in this far-reaching catalogue of botanical illustration. Drawn from the vaults of the National Library of Vienna, these exquisite colour reproductions range from 6th century manu...
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| KARL SCHUTZ Book Number: 90746 |
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Discover one of the most admired artists in history: Johannes Vermeer. Complete with crisp reproductions, details, and insightful essays, this monograph spans his entire repertoire, illuminating th...
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| TOM PHILLIPS Book Number: 90552 |
Published price: £15
Bibliophile price: £6.00
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Bibliophiles galore! The activity of reading was confined to a very small proportion of the human race for most of its history, but by the time these photographs were taken between 1900 and 1940, t...
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| ROY STRONG Book Number: 90553 |
Published price: £25
Bibliophile price: £12.50
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'I first became national news in 1967 when, at the age of thirty-one, I was appointed Director of the National Portrait Gallery. Thereafter there is a torrent of material; but what about the three ...
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| THE GIFTED STATIONERY COMPANY Book Number: 89731 |
Published price: £9.99
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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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| JAMES STOURTON & LUKE WHITE Book Number: 90566 |
Published price: £40
Bibliophile price: £20.00
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A revelation, here are the diplomatic and architectural histories of Residences and Embassies in 26 countries in a heavyweight, deliciously luxury book. A beguiling mixture of national history, ar...
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| FRANNY MOYLE Book Number: 90491 |
Published price: £12.99
Bibliophile price: £6.50
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Their bohemian lifestyle and intertwined love affairs shockingly broke 19th century class barriers and bent the rules that governed the roles of the sexes. The pre-Raphaelites became defined by lo...
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| ADRIEN GOETZ & C. JOANNIS Book Number: 90497 |
Published price: £9.95
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Throughout the ages, jewellery has been a source of fascination to art enthusiasts as it highlights the splendour of great historical figures such as Josephine Bonaparte, and offers the viewer insi...
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| P. CASSO & RUNNING PRESS Book Number: 90499 |
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With Cubist-inspired magnets including eight colourful big eyes, four mouths, four noses and four faces, transform magnetic surfaces like your fridge door or boring photos of family friends into fu...
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| ALISON JARDINE Book Number: 90500 |
Published price: £14.99
Bibliophile price: £7.00
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David Hockney the artist is leading the way and producing amazing artworks on his iPad, and this is the first instruction book of its kind to teach you to paint, draw and share your own digital pai...
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| CAMILLE FLAMMARION Book Number: 90796 |
Published price: £9.95
Bibliophile price: £5.00
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The fear of the end of the world has repeatedly appeared throughout the ages and is here documented through hundreds of colour artworks from the Angel of the Abyss and the Locusts from c950 from th...
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| KLAUS CARL Book Number: 90797 |
Published price: £14.95
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The Bridge at Argenteuil by Claude Monet, Fishing Boats at Saints-Maries by Vincent Van Gogh, Port of St. Tropez by Paul Signac, Boats in the Port of Honfleur by Claude Monet, The Roads at Kronstad...
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| VALENTINA GORBATCHEVA Book Number: 90798 |
Published price: £29.95
Bibliophile price: £10.00
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In the wilderness of whiteness and petrifying cold of Siberia are the homes of a multitude of peoples including Eskimos, Samoyedes, Yakuts and Kuryaks, the Evenki, Yukaghirs, Chukchi, Koryaks, the ...
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| JOHN BASCOM Book Number: 90799 |
Published price: £9.95
Bibliophile price: £5.00
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Arcimboldo, Audubon, Bosch, Brueghel, Chagall, Courbet, Cranach, Degas, Gaugin, Hiroshige, Hokusai, Klee, Mansur, Franz Marc, Rembrandt, Rousseau, George Stubbs, Van Gogh to Andy Warhol all express...
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| STEPHEN BUSHELL Book Number: 90800 |
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A huge quality art publication printed to the highest quality, no expense has been spared on the high production values of these colour images of beautiful green or white jade, vessels designed wit...
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| ERNEST RENAN Book Number: 90801 |
Published price: £29.95
Bibliophile price: £10.00
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Ernest Renan (1823-1892) was an historian, religious scholar and philosopher and in the hopes of joining the priesthood he attended an ecclesiastical seminary during his youth. His exposure to the...
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| ALBERT JACQUEMART Book Number: 90803 |
Published price: £29.95
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Originally published in 1907 under the title History of Furniture, Albert Jacquemart (1808-1875) arranged his text under the following chapters: Furniture, Ornamental Art, Objects of Art Derived Fr...
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| JENNIFER MARGELL Book Number: 90804 |
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Encaustics are a very fresh art form in the grand scheme of things, first used by the Greeks 3,000 years ago and only recently resurrected as a popular art form and still rapidly gaining momentum. ...
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| KLAUS CARL & VICTORIA CHARLES Book Number: 90809 |
Published price: £7.95
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Ruben said 'My talent is such that no undertaking, however vast in size? has ever surpassed my courage.' The name of the great 17th century Flemish painter Peter Paul Rubens reminds us of the impo...
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| KLAUS CARL & VICTORIA CHARLES Book Number: 90810 |
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'There is something in painting which cannot be explained, and that something is essential.' - Renoir (1841-1919). Born in Limoges, Pierre-Auguste Renoir learned to paint porcelain as a young appr...
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