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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
| ADRIAN MOURBY Book Number: 89033 |
Published price: £12.99
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The grand hotel was a Victorian invention, a luxury destination designed to make the client feel like a million dollars, and sometimes costing in the same region. World War II changed the whole hot...
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| NIGEL RODGERS Book Number: 89014 |
Published price: £22.99
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The great ellipse of the Colosseum still dominates the centre of Rome as it has done for nearly 2,000 years. Attracting more than five million visitors a year, it is one of the Seven Wonders of the...
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| CLARA DRUMMOND Book Number: 89102 |
Published price: £16.99
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Beginner or professional artist need just two things in order to draw - a pencil and paper. Winner of the BP Portrait Award, Clara Drummond uses artists who inspire her to demonstrate how everyone...
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| Unknown Book Number: 88696 |
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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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| CHARLOTTE LUCAS Book Number: 89406 |
Published price: £9.99
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Charles Dickens set himself apart from the writers of his time by offering a social commentary on Victorian society and a class system which saw the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. The bo...
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| JEAN-MARIE LE MINOR & H. SICK Book Number: 78712 |
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We owe a great debt to Jean Baptiste Marc Bourgery (1797-1849) for his Atlas of Anatomy, which was not only a massive event in medical history, but also remains one of the most comprehensive and be...
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| FRANCESCO SOLINAS Book Number: 84169 |
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The Black-Tailed parakeet with its beautiful yellow, red and green plumage or New Holland parakeets with crests and rouged cheeks, the rainbow coloured Stanley parakeet, almost iridescent and captu...
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| PAUL LEVITZ Book Number: 86053 |
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In June of 1938, Action Comics debuted with a new kind of comic-book character on its cover: a costumed man with two identities, who possessed extraordinary strength and powers - a man able to prot...
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| ANDREAS MARKS Book Number: 87285 |
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From Edouard Manet's portrait of naturalist writer Émile Zola sitting among his Japanese art finds to Van Gogh's meticulous copies of the Hiroshige prints he devotedly collected, 19th century pione...
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| EDITED BY IAN PENBERTHY Book Number: 89500 |
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High quality Press Association images, just the first three photos in the first three pages are of a penny-farthing race at Herne Hill 1932, King George VI and Queen Elizabeth riding in a gold stat...
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| PA PHOTOS Book Number: 89501 |
Published price: £14.99
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The 300 photos shown here have been chosen from the archives of the Press Association, which was founded in 1868 and now has a collection of over 15 million photographs. The 1970s was a decade of c...
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| BHAKTISIDDHANTA Book Number: 89506 |
Published price: £16.99
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'Arjuna to single combat. At that moment dark rainclouds and flashes of lightning appeared in the sky, along with the rainbow of Indra. When Surya saw how Indra had appeared there out of affection ...
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| ANDREW TANNER Book Number: 89509 |
Published price: £40
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Meet the makers, the international designers and craftspeople in this magnificent volume showcasing the cream of contemporary craft. Different disciplines include furniture, surface design and dec...
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| SARAH WADE Book Number: 89512 |
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Scratch the black page artwork to reveal a magical rainbow hidden pattern beneath. Use the 3" wooden scratching tool attached to the big spiral bound book to enjoy all this plus a fun story to com...
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| CHRIS ALDHOUS Book Number: 89518 |
Published price: £25
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A creative murmuration, a flocking together of writers and artists around a single path, that of raising awareness of all the birds we have lost to extinction with the aim that we don't lose many m...
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| KATIE CAMERON Book Number: 89533 |
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A hobby craft kit containing two river stones (pale grey, fairly flat oval approx. 2½" across), five paint pots (black, white, blue, red and neon yellow), three wooden dotting tools, one paint brus...
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| MAGGIE GOWAN Book Number: 89653 |
Published price: £25
Bibliophile price: £15.00
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A grand tour of the beauty, majesty, comedy and tragedy found in our natural world experienced through an array of lenses across a range of remarkable habitats. This dazzling collection celebrates...
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| EMMA BRIDGEWATER Book Number: 89612 |
Published price: £12.99
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The inside story of Emma Bridgewater's beloved pottery and homeware designs. Emma established her successful business in 1985 producing a range of mugs, jugs and teapots inspired by traditional sh...
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| SCOTT CAMPBELL Book Number: 89620 |
Published price: £19.99
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Breathtaking concept art of the creatures from the films, this sketchbook lies flat and includes a ribbon placeholder, an elastic band fastener and back pocket for storing clippings etc. Dark blue...
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| JEAN-PIERRE ISBOUTS Book Number: 89651 |
Published price: $26.99
Bibliophile price: £8.00
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A visually rich book which unravels an historical mystery, this is an exceptional insight into the gestation of Leonardo da Vinci as the leading artist of the High Renaissance. The authors bring a...
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| CALLY BLACKMAN Book Number: 89662 |
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Between 1520 and 1610 more than 200 collections of engravings, etchings or woodcuts were published containing plates of figures wearing clothes, particularly of their nationality and rank. The 159...
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| JASMINE DESCLAUX-SALACHAS Book Number: 89664 |
Published price: £30
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Robert Louis Stevenson said in 1893 'The author must know his countryside, whether real or imaginary, like his hand; the distances, the points of the compass, the place of the sun's rising, the beh...
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| JOHN MARCIARI Book Number: 89665 |
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Rome is rightly known as the Eternal City, for few other places preserve so many major monuments from so many different ages. The Forum, Pantheon and Colosseum proclaim the ancient past. The Vati...
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| STEPHANIE PORRAS Book Number: 89666 |
Published price: £24.99
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Alongside paintings by artists from Jan van Eyck to Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Greenwich royal armour attributed to Hans Holbein, altarpieces, sculptures and engravings, Porras discovers architectur...
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| DR ROGER LEDERER Book Number: 89668 |
Published price: £30
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A beautiful heavyweight art book celebrating the heyday of avian illustration in 40 artists' profiles, beginning with the work of Flemish painter Frans Snyders in the early 1600s and continuing thr...
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| MATTHEW LANDRUS Book Number: 89684 |
Published price: £25
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A portrait of the artist, scientist and innovator, Leonardo da Vinci considered himself an inventore of pictorial effects, sculptural forms, machines, buildings, allegories, festivals and costumes ...
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| WILLIAM WALLACE Book Number: 89693 |
Published price: £25
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We know more about Michelangelo Buonarroti than any other Renaissance artist and indeed, he is one of the best-documented artists of all time. He was the embodiment of the Renaissance man, working...
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| KITTY HAUSER & C. CHRISTOFOROU Book Number: 89701 |
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Francis Bacon was one of the giants dominating the artistic landscape of the mid 20th century. This highly illustrated book features 19 of his major works in stunning and original colour illustrat...
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| WENDY BIRD Book Number: 89702 |
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Modern art begins with Goya. He was the first to create works of art for their own sake and lived in a time of incredible cultural and social dynamism. He saw his world ripped apart by Napoleon's...
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| JAMES HAMILTON Book Number: 89170 |
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Thomas Gainsborough, the 18th century British painter whose masterpieces track the different fashions in painting. He painted everything from stiff-necked, formal and doll-like figures in portraits...
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