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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
| JERRY BROTTON Book Number: 87664 |
Published price: £10.99
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Anthony van Dyck completed his massive canvas of King Charles on horseback with Monsieur de St. Antoine in 1633, just months after coming to London and being appointed as Principal Painter in Ordin...
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| STAN KNIGHT Book Number: 87577 |
Published price: £39.95
Bibliophile price: £16.00
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Forty classic typefaces are featured in this beautiful book which will be of absorbing interest to both art historians and modern designers. Each font has a double spread which shows the font at or...
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| ROBERT HALLMANN Book Number: 87580 |
Published price: £15.99
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In 1956, Robert Hallman visited London for a day and fell in love with the city forever, using up two films on his camera rather than the usual one image per scene allowance he limited himself to w...
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| SARAH SCHROTH AND RONNI BAER Book Number: 87478 |
Published price: £51
Bibliophile price: £27.50
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Imported from the USA we have a 2008 rare Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University fine art publication. During the reign of Philip III of Spain (1598-1621) picture ...
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| MARK ROSENTHAL ET AL Book Number: 87491 |
Published price: $60
Bibliophile price: £19.00
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A spectacular Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York publication with 308 illustrations in full colour and a timeline from 1961 to 2012 when in March of that year 'Andy Warhol: 15 Minutes Eternal' op...
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| JOHN FREELY & A. R. BURELLI Book Number: 87946 |
Published price: £28
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The son of Christians, Sinan's knowledge of Ottoman architecture came from two centuries of Turkish building practices and from his observations of Byzantine edifices, above all from the archetype ...
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| MICHEL FRIZOT & C. DE VEIGY Book Number: 87952 |
Published price: £48
Bibliophile price: £20.00
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The French weekly magazine 'Vu' ran over 600 issues between 21st March 1928 and 29th May 1940. It spearheaded the media revolution of the 20s, with its extensive use of photography like a cinema n...
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| JANET STYLES TYSON Book Number: 83800 |
Published price: £12.99
Bibliophile price: £8.50
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Glossy white paper and minimal captions do justice to these full page quality colour images by the master portraitist and landscape watercolorist. John Singer Sargent depicted scenes from his many...
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| FOREWORD BY MARK TULLY Book Number: 88013 |
Published price: £30
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Anita Desai said, "India is a curious place that still preserves the past religions, and its history. No matter how modern India becomes, it is still very much an old country." Derry Moore began ...
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| PHAIDON PRESS LIMITED Book Number: 87849 |
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A compact guide to the whole of art history, from 8,000 BC to the present day. 500 masterworks from all cultures are presented in chronological order so that readers can compare what was being cre...
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| BARBARA HULANICKI Book Number: 87725 |
Published price: £25
Bibliophile price: £10.00
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The glamour of BIBA was global, dictating a sophisticated inner city lifestyle, selling furniture and food, high fashion and cosmetics with nightclub, ritzy restaurant and exotic roof garden replac...
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| GLORIA KOENIG & PETER GÖSSEL Book Number: 86809 |
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The creative duo Charles Eames (1907-1978) and Ray Kaiser Eames (1912-1988) were one of the most transformative forces in design history and nothing says modernist perfection like the Eames chair a...
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| TONY SEDDON Book Number: 87801 |
Published price: $29.95
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Can you recognise your Selva, a blackletter based on medieval calligraphy (2012) from your Geometric Sans Serif Futura (1927-1930)? Examining letters from metal type to open type, here is a journe...
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| MARC ARONSON & M. BUDHOS Book Number: 87802 |
Published price: $22.99
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'If your pictures aren?t good enough, you aren't close enough.' Robert Capa and Gerda Taro were young Jewish refugees, idealistic and in love. As photographers in the 1930s, they set off to captur...
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| LAWRENCE TREVELYAN WEAVER Book Number: 87826 |
Published price: £30
Bibliophile price: £15.00
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Sub-titled 'Animal Artist of the Agricultural Revolution', Thomas Weaver was one of a small group of artists who pioneered paintings of livestock. At the end of the 18th century, novel methods of ...
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| CORINA FLETCHER Book Number: 87890 |
Published price: £16.95
Bibliophile price: £8.00
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The finest paper engineering on quality white card, the line art literally pops into 3D with fluorescent orange on the reverse of the card making a reflective image on the outline scenery behind. ...
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| CLÉMENT CHÉROUX & A. SIRE Book Number: 87584 |
Published price: £30.50
Bibliophile price: £8.00
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This is an exceptional collection of work exhibiting Henri Cartier-Bresson and Paul Strand's portfolios from during their respective visits to Mexico between 1932 and 1934. The book is curated by J...
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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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| JULIAN FLANNERY Book Number: 87770 |
Published price: £50
Bibliophile price: £39.00
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Deep purple cloth binding to spine and pagemarker, this quality handsome book combines scholarship and enthusiasm, has over 250 high quality photographs and around 175 immaculate explanatory line d...
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| CLARE A. P. WILLSDON Book Number: 87771 |
Published price: £19.95
Bibliophile price: £11.00
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Writing in 1900 from her chateau in Picardy, the Impressionist painter Mary Cassatt suggested that a gardening enthusiast from her native North America 'might get some ideas from French gardens. T...
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| STEPHEN TAYLOR Book Number: 87772 |
Published price: £19.99
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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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| SUSAN HERBERT Book Number: 87777 |
Published price: £17.95
Bibliophile price: £8.95
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Our Annie is lucky enough to own two original Susan Herbert cat paintings so she got her paws and claws straight into this bargain. They are 20 detachable posters featuring feline reimaginings of ...
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| MARKUS HATTSTEIN Book Number: 88129 |
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Art Deco is the decorative, distinctly aesthetic style of the years between 1920 and 1940. Interiors like the Chrysler Building and its elevators, façades and interiors in lavish Art Deco style wi...
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| VALENTIN GRIVET Book Number: 88135 |
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The extraordinary light and realism in the work of Jean-Léon Gérôme such as his Prayer in Cairo and Prayer at the Sultan's Room, the blues inside the mosque and exquisite garments captured in his S...
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| VALENTIN GRIVET Book Number: 88136 |
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Gustave Caillebotte's Paris Street, Rainy Day is the first of this famous art gallery of beautiful paintings reproduced in glorious colour. The far less realistic but equally vibrant daubed colour...
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| HAJO DÜCHTING Book Number: 88139 |
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£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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| JANINA NENTWIG Book Number: 88140 |
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Hiroshige is one of the most important artists of the Japanese woodblock print and is considered a master of "Ukiyo-e," the "pictures of the Floating World." His evocative illustrations show mainly...
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| OLAF MEXTORF Book Number: 88141 |
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Who was Hokusai? The man with over 30 names produced 30,000 prints, 500 illustrated books and countless paintings and erotic scenes. His Great Wave Off Kanagawa is the most famous work in East As...
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| OLAF MEXTORF Book Number: 88144 |
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This book contains more than 350 masterworks of artists such as Hiroshige, Utamaro, Harunobu, Eisen, and Hokusai, all from the collections of the Victoria & Albert Museum. Here are beauties under ...
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| UTA HASEKAMP Book Number: 88147 |
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The National Gallery in Trafalgar Square in London has been showing paintings owned by the British nation since 1824. Among the focal points of the collection are paintings from the late Middle Age...
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