British Art
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Exposed
by Alison Smith
Alison Smith is a curator at Tate Britain and the author of The Victorian Nude: Sexuality, Morality, and Art. She lives in London, England.
The Nature Of Photographs
by Stephen Shore
Includes index.
1st ed. published by The Johns Hopkins University Press.
1st ed. published by The Johns Hopkins University Press.
British Art Books & Ephemera
Ivon Hitchens
by Khoroche, Peter
Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 2007. Hardback. 0853319367 . Please note that this is a heavy item and may require additional postage for international shipping. ; Dust jacket bright and stiff, though lightly sunned on spine, minute rubbing at corners; Green paper boards clean and sharp, black lettering intact; Edges clean, pages crisp with no ownership marks, B&W and coloured plates; Binding tight. Overall a nice, sturdy copy with minimal wear. ; 10.75 X 1.25...
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SGD 77.62
Hip! Hip! Hip! RA
by Wraight, Robert
London: Leslie Frewin, 1968. 'Two Hundred years of the Royal Academy, the Scandals, Sketches and Scoundrels'. Cover covered in plastic which is showing shelf wear, and some colouring.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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SGD 22.53
Banksy Captured
by Steve Lazarides
London: Lazarides Photography, 2019. Book. As New. Soft cover. 1st Edition. Illustrated stiff wrappers. Color photographs throughout. Sold out first edition, limited to 5000 numbered copies. This is copy no. 2603. Highly collectible and very sought after. 256 pp. 26 x 21 cm. .
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SGD 812.41
William Blake
by Butlin, Martin
United Kingdom: Tate Gallery Publications (The Tate Gallery Little Book Series), 1978 Square book with 32 color and b./w. plates mostly depicting nudes.. Illus. by Blake, William. Couverture souple. Neuf.
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SGD 76.24
![Five New Plays, Viz. The [Surprisal, Committee,] Comedies. And The [Indian-Queen, Vestal-Virgin, Duke of Lerma] Tragedies. As they were Acted by His Majesty’s Servants at the Theatre-Royal. Written by the Honourable Sir Robert Howard. The Second Edition Corrected.](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/520/711/1437711520.0.b.jpg)
Five New Plays, Viz. The [Surprisal, Committee,] Comedies. And The [Indian-Queen, Vestal-Virgin, Duke of Lerma] Tragedies. As they were Acted by His Majesty’s Servants at the Theatre-Royal. Written by the Honourable Sir Robert Howard. The Second Edition Corrected.
by Sir Robert Howard
Howard, Sir Robert. (1626-1698) Five New Plays, Viz. The [Surprisal, Committee,] Comedies. And The [Indian-Queen, Vestal-Virgin, Duke of Lerma] Tragedies. As they were Acted by His Majesty's Servants at the Theatre-Royal. Written by the Honourable Sir Robert Howard. The Second Edition Corrected. London: Printed for Henry Herringman, and are to be Sold by Jacob Tonson, Daniel Browne, Thomas Bennet, and Richard Wellington, 1700.
Sir Robert Howard:
Large Quatro, 11.25 x 7 in. Second edition. A-Z4, Aa-Kk4.... Read more about this item
Sir Robert Howard:
Large Quatro, 11.25 x 7 in. Second edition. A-Z4, Aa-Kk4.... Read more about this item
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SGD 861.69
William Blake
by Butlin, Martin (ed.)
London: Tate Gallery Publications, 1978. Paperback, good condition. Shelf wear to the covers and a 2cm tear and bump to the cover at the spine head. Minor crease along spine. The page block is tanned but internally the text images remain bright and clear. Published in conjunction with the exhibition 9th of March - 21st May 1978. DP. Paperback. Good. Used.
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SGD 16.39
GRAPHIC ILLUSTRATIONS OF WARWICKSHIRE
by Jaffray, James
1862. 1862 Jaffray, James GRAPHIC ILLUSTRATIONS OF WARWICKSHIRE Birmingham: Thomas Underwood, 1862 pp[viii], 119pp frontispiece engraving, 31 engraved plates, 13 vignettes 4to Contemporary green half calf/marbled paper boards, edges of textblock marbled Backstrip panelled in gilt Neatly rebacked in green leather, original backstrip laid back down, new stamped leather spine label foxing throughout text and on tissue guards 6 of the plates have moderate to heavy foxing with the remaining plates with...
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SGD 620.42
Painting the Town; A British Council Exhibition: Silkscreen Exhibition Poster
by (Ken Meharg and Bob Linney) X3 Posters
London: X3 Posters RARE exhibition poster, no date, circa 1982- 1990, by Ken Meharg and Bob Linney, who ran the poster operation for Birmingham Arts Laboratory or Arts Lab, an experimental arts centre in Birmingham, until 1982. Posters from that era were featured in an international touring exhibition by the British Council between 1981 and 1985, and were the subject of an exhibition by Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery in 1998. They were known for their use of psychedelic imagery. Near Fine, small...
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SGD 1,102.96
William Hogarth (Fine Binding, in Two Parts)
by Dobson, Austin
London: Sampson Low, Marston & Company, Limited , 1891. SIGNED BY AUTHOR at Limitation Page. The large paper issue, limited to 150 copies signed by Dobson, this copy number 78, being one of the 100 copies for England, there were also 50 copies printed for America. Printed at the Chiswick Press. With the bookplate of noted book collector Mary MacMillin Norton both pastedowns, Fine, tiny shelf rubs at bottom corners, and beautifully bound in two parts in unsigned contemporary full crushed chocolate...
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SGD 2,757.40
Portraits of the British Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper and Beattie. In Two Volumes
by Anonymous
London: James Carpenter and Son, 1824. SCARCE "Engraved from the best authorities and illustrated by notes, biographical, critical, and poetical." Text describes 138 portraits, which are interleaved. "Printed by D.S. Maurice, Fenchurch Street"--Vol. 1, page 144." Two folio volumes bound in contemporary pebbled blue morocco over blue moire silk boards, backs with gilt lettering and gilt decorations, tops gilt. Very Good Plus, light to moderate spotting associated with portrait...
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SGD 1,654.44
FRANCIS BACON; Promotional Poster
by Bacon, Francis
New York: Rizzoli, 1983. Publisher's promotional poster, 30" w x 22" h, Near Fine, faint small creases. A SCARCE ephemeral item, distributed in limited numbers at the ABA trade show in 1983. Well suited for framing. Will be shipped loosely rolled in sturdy tube. Size: 30" x 22". . First Printing. Poster. Near Fine. 30" x 22".
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SGD 172.34
(Original Color Etching) Agincourt IIII
by Grant, Alastair (British, 1925-1997)
United Kingdom: Alecto Editions , 1965. Original Color Etching, 15 3/4" h x 22 3/4" w , with aquatint on wove paper, SIGNED BY ARTISTin pencil lower right and numbered 32/50. With full margins, Near Fine, 1/4" tear top edge, 1/2" tear bottom edge, old inventory numeber and price in pencil bottom edge, light creases in margins. Alastair Grant is best known as a printmaker, his entire teaching career was spent in the printmaking department at the Royal College of Art, where he became...
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SGD 620.42
![[Hand-colored Etching] A London Nuisance Ple. 6th. An Unlucky Hit](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/888/881/1509881888.0.b.jpg)
[Hand-colored Etching] A London Nuisance Ple. 6th. An Unlucky Hit
by Dighton, Richard (British, 1785-1880)
London -(27 St. James's Street): G. Humphrey, 1822. Original hand-colored etching, 15 1/8" h x 10 7/8" w, image size 10 7/8" h x 8 7/8" w, lettering: A London nuisance Ple. 6th. An Unlucky Hit. Richard Dighton inv. et sculp. Publ. by G. Humphrey 27 St. James's Street London Feb. 7, 1822. Very Good, unframed, light creases, soiling to margins. Colors bright. (David Padfield, A view of Dightons: the Dighton family, their times, caricatures and portraits, London 2007, p. 102)...
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SGD 379.14
The Tudor Image
by Howard, Maurice
Tate Gallery Pubn, 1996. Paperback. VG. 8x0x8. VERY GOOD TRADE-PAPERBACK
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SGD 6.89
Hogarth Illustrated from His Own Manuscripts; Third Edition, in Three Volumes
by Ireland, John
London: Messrs. Boydell & Co., 1812. Finely bound in later 19th c. dark green straight-grain morocco, covers with double gilt rules bordering ornate gilt decorations and then an ornate blind tooled border, backs with gilt decorations and lettering, all edges gilt, marbled end pages. Small label rear end pages of J.W. Robinson Co., Los Angeles, Very Good, spines uniformly sunned from green to brown, moderate toning associated with plates, boards lightly rubbed at joints and edges, a quite handsome...
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SGD 1,723.38
Picturesque views by Calvert.
by Frederick Calvert (Cork 1793-1852)
Calvert's rarest print album
London, Hodgson & Co, 1823.
Oblong 4°
(24 x 16,5 cm.). With 24 soft ground etched plates and title. Original publisher's half morocco with printed front cover. With original tissue guards.
Very rare plate album by Irish landscape painter Frederick Calvert, complete with 24 "picturesque views" and in the original binding. Calvert moved to England in 1815 and, besides painting, produced a number of print albums and model books, a.o. The young artist's instructor (London,... Read more about this item
London, Hodgson & Co, 1823.
Oblong 4°
(24 x 16,5 cm.). With 24 soft ground etched plates and title. Original publisher's half morocco with printed front cover. With original tissue guards.
Very rare plate album by Irish landscape painter Frederick Calvert, complete with 24 "picturesque views" and in the original binding. Calvert moved to England in 1815 and, besides painting, produced a number of print albums and model books, a.o. The young artist's instructor (London,... Read more about this item
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SGD 2,215.65
The Blessed Damozel
by Dante Gabriel Rossetti
This is a very lovely small book of poetry by Dante Gabriel Rossetti with illustrations by Paul Woodroffe. It was published by David McKay, Philadelphia, and dates to circa 1916. This appears to be a special binding, more luxurious than the softcover binding that McKay published, because this one has covers of thick rose-colored suede leather with the title and author impressed deeply into the suede on the front cover and spine. The front and back have double-page illustrations by Paul Woodroffe, as...
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SGD 137.87SGD 103.40
Scenery of Great Britain and Ireland In Aquatint and Lithography 1770 - 1860 from the Library of J. R. Abbey: A Bibliographical Catalogue
by ABBEY, J. R
Dawsons of Pall Mall, 1972. A very good, sound copy. 4to. Cloth; dust jacket.
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SGD 206.80
William Blake
by Martin Butlin
Tate Publishing, 1978. Paperback. Good. 1978. No Edition Stated. 164 pages. Paperback book. B&W and colour illustrations throughout. Clean pages with firm binding. Mild wear to spine, cover edges and corners, with light marks to covers.
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SGD 10.14
Etruscan Gate
by Dorothy Shakespear Pound
From a total edition of 300 copies, this number 26 / 100 signed by the artist. 4to. c.10.3/4 x 8.1/4 inches. c.27 x 21 cm. Frontis + full page b/w plates reproduced by lithography. Fine copy in v.g. dust wrapper.
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SGD 129.36
SAILING-SHIPS AND BARGES OF THE WESTERN MEDITERRANEAN AND ADRIATIC SEAS. A SERIES OF COPPER PLATES ENGRAVED IN THE LINE MANNER...
by Wadsworth, Edward
London: Etchells & Macdonald, 1926.. Quarto. Cream linen spine and orange cloth over boards, stamped in gilt. Faint dust soiling to spine, trace of normal offsetting to endsheet gutters, otherwise a fine copy in lightly worn slipcase. First edition. Introduction and captions to the illustrations by Bernard Windeler. Illustrated with twenty-three original copper engravings by Wadsworth, printed from the plates, both full-page and vignette, and some delicately handcolored. One of four hundred and fifty...
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SGD 827.22
Francis Bacon.
by Matthew and Chris Stephens (eds) Gale
Tate Publishing / Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY, 2008. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket missing. First edition. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Stated First Edition. Published on the occasion pf the exhibition Francis Bacon: A Centenary Retrospective. No extraneous markings. All pages are intact and binding is...
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SGD 108.92
Alannah Coleman: A Life In Art
by Pierse, Simon
North Melbourne: Arden. 2022. MINT - a NEW copy. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. xvii, 364 pages. A luminary in the London art scene of the 1960s, Alannah Coleman was admired as a free spirit and loved by many for her creative energy and physical beauty. Born in Melbourne where she trained as an artist, she became part of a bohemian enclave that included artists and literary figures such as Arthur Boyd, Charles Bush, Alister Kershaw, Sidney Nolan, Elizabeth Paterson, Albert Tucker and...
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SGD 45.01
