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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
| PATRICIA SELIGMAN Book Number: 88271 |
Published price: £14.99
Bibliophile price: £6.00
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You have set yourself a challenge and are ready to learn to paint in watercolour. In this book, in just ten steps, we are going to work up to painting a still-life composition of fruit - an apple,...
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| NICHOLAS THOMAS Book Number: 88275 |
Published price: £9.95
Bibliophile price: £5.00
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A timely and intelligent celebration of this quintessentially human and intimate artform, body art is practiced across all world cultures and throughout history. Among the native peoples of Amazon...
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| HELMUT NEWTON & JUNE NEWTON Book Number: 86802 |
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£100.00
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One of the most influential photographers of all time, Newton first achieved international fame in the 1970s while working principally for French Vogue and became celebrated for his controversial s...
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| LOREN RHOADS Book Number: 87476 |
Published price: £27.99
Bibliophile price: £8.00
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There is nothing like visiting a cemetery to give you a little perspective, appealing as they do to art lovers, sociologists, birdwatchers, gardeners, historians and anyone who just wants to stop a...
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| DAVID HOCKNEY & M. GAYFORD Book Number: 87484 |
Published price: $45
Bibliophile price: £16.00
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A special Abrams art book publication, 2016 first edition, specially imported from the USA by Bibliophile because it is gorgeous to look at. Whether made by brush, camera or digital programme, Hoc...
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| EDITED BY CLIFFORD ACKLEY Book Number: 87492 |
Published price: $60
Bibliophile price: £20.00
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Ranging from radical geometric abstractions to colourful Jazz Age images of sporting events like skating and speed trials, atmospheric dry points and linocuts such as 'Looking Through Brooklyn Brid...
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| EDITED BY MATT JONES Book Number: 87775 |
Published price: £75
Bibliophile price: £40.00
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Famous for his fat cats and wine drinkers, St Trinian's schoolgirls, Ronald Searle (1920-2011) had been a prisoner of war from 1942-45 in Singapore and Thailand and cartooned during his internment....
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| FRANK ZOLLNER Book Number: 84170 |
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£30.00
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"You'll never get to see Leonardo's art like this. So close up, in such detail. Every brush stroke is visible. Down to the last line." Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) possessed one of the greatest m...
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| RUTH LEE Book Number: 84495 |
Published price: £19.99
Bibliophile price: £6.00
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An innovative look at creative textile art formed by twisting, coiling and knotting various tactile materials. Corded paper string twined with electrical cable can create basket shapes or even an o...
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| DAVID H. KIRBY-WELCH Book Number: 85563 |
Published price: £35
Bibliophile price: £15.00
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Thomas Bush Hardy's marine watercolours catch the glittering surface of moving water in a way that marks him out from contemporaries in the genre, and his obituary in The Times praised his "unusual...
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| JULIA L. KAY Book Number: 88432 |
Published price: £22.99
Bibliophile price: £6.50
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Artist Julia Kay has built up a huge online community with her international project Portrait Party (JKPP), in which artists round the world make portraits of each other based on their online image...
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| DONALD WATSON Book Number: 84531 |
Published price: £38
Bibliophile price: £12.00
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Watson first became interested in Harriers when he saw the beautiful Pied and Pallid Harriers in Burma and India in 1944. In 1959 he found what was believed to be the first successful nest of the ...
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| BRUCE PEARSON Book Number: 84533 |
Published price: £38
Bibliophile price: £12.00
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Living and working amongst Albatross 35 years ago on a remote island in the Southern Ocean, Bruce Pearson in 2010 returned to see what had happened to some of the birds he had known so well. An aw...
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| JOHN THRELFALL Book Number: 84797 |
Published price: £38
Bibliophile price: £12.00
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Britain's coastline provides some of the finest examples of the rich diversity of wildlife with its sea cliffs, maritime heath, rocky shores, sandy beaches, estuaries and salt marsh. A member of t...
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| M. SCHIAPARELLI BERENSON Book Number: 88395 |
Published price: £39.95
Bibliophile price: £9.95
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She invented Shocking Pink, the power suit, the cross pollination of couture by transgressive Surrealist art. She invented the fashion show as theatre and symbolised a new type of determined and i...
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| JOHN BUSBY Book Number: 88402 |
Published price: £38
Bibliophile price: £12.00
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A member of the Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour, behind John Busby's deceptively simple marks are decades of experience of the most observant naturalist, and the very finest of ar...
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| LISA HOOPER Book Number: 88409 |
Published price: £20
Bibliophile price: £9.00
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A Langford Press first edition August 2016 with useful glossary which explains etching techniques for creating tonal areas such as aquatint, tools for burnishing like the baren, Intaglio printing m...
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| JACKIE DE BURCCA Book Number: 88410 |
Published price: £25
Bibliophile price: £7.00
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A visually stunning large book which deserves this hardback large format to present not only a gallery of Dalí's surreal artworks, but a very private gallery and viewing of photographs at home and ...
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| BARBARA DRAKE BOEHM Book Number: 87486 |
Published price: £50
Bibliophile price: £28.00
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Published by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and distributed by Yale University Press, this is a spectacular quality art tome with 354 colour illustrations. Medieval Jerusalem was a vibr...
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| JEFF L. ROSENHEIM Book Number: 88438 |
Published price: $50
Bibliophile price: £20.00
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One of the most iconic of 20th century photographers, Diane Arbus went into the streets, markets, circuses and bars to immortalise people on the margins of society with her trademark grainy black a...
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| LEONARDO DA VINCI Book Number: 88568 |
Published price: £16.99
Bibliophile price: £9.99
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Arguably the central figure of the Renaissance, it is extraordinary that we have an unparalleled set of documents which illuminate Leonardo Da Vinci's thought processes, interests and deepest belie...
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| DAVID SEDARIS Book Number: 88588 |
Published price: £30
Bibliophile price: £12.50
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Packed with interactive components, postcards, never-before-seen photos and artwork, David Sedaris has always been a keen collector of the arts, objects and ephemera that are part of his visual lan...
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| GIULIA CARCIOTTO & A. PAOLUCCI Book Number: 88323 |
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Bibliophile price: £100.00
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Exquisitely bound in a satin cloth decorated with an Archimboldo design of the head with the face made of flowers and plants and this outsize volume has a pink satin pagemarker and double gate cent...
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| JAMES ALDER Book Number: 88609 |
Published price: £30
Bibliophile price: £11.00
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A beautiful collection of 50 watercolours on glossy cream stock paper measuring 9½" x 13" in glamorous rare 2003 first edition with prefaces by Sir Yehudi Menuhin and Viscount Ridley and botanical ...
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| RICHARD WILKINSON Book Number: 88619 |
Published price: £12.99
Bibliophile price: £6.50
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A full admission ticket to one of the best history museums ever. Put the ancient world on your wall with this beautiful colourful collection of artefacts that tell us about life, death, power, war...
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| ANITA ALBUS Book Number: 88626 |
Bibliophile price:
£9.00
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Albus is a brilliant bird artist whose paintings compare with the famous ornithological artistry of John James Audubon, and in this study of four extinct birds, plus six more whose existence is thr...
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| Unknown Book Number: 88696 |
Bibliophile price:
£11.00
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From a new series called Old Masters, we have chosen two in the series because they are particularly beautiful and challenging. Gustav Klimt's masterpiece frames his subject with her naturalistic ...
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| SCOT MCKENDRICK & K. DOYLE Book Number: 87766 |
Published price: £60
Bibliophile price: £30.00
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Spanning one thousand years, this magnificent and sumptuous book considers the history and significance of 45 illuminated biblical manuscripts providing much insight into medieval Christian art. D...
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| STEPHEN TAYLOR Book Number: 87772 |
Published price: £19.99
Bibliophile price: £8.00
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Following a turbulent period in his emotional life, Stephen Taylor spent three years painting a single landscape near West Bergholt in all its moods and variations, inspired by earlier painters suc...
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| HAJO DÜCHTING Book Number: 88139 |
Bibliophile price:
£12.00
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European, French, early Netherlandish, Flemish, Dutch, Italian, Spanish, German and British painting are wonderfully represented in this lavish art gallery of a book without ever having to leave ou...
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