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Peers, Mrs C. R. - In the National Gallery: A First Introduction to the Works of the Early Italian Schools. Medici Society. 1922 reprint. 8ž" x 5˝", 212pp plus 30 plates, half blue-black leather with blue-grey cloth sides, gold blocked spine lettering and decoration, hardback. Index. Top-edge gilt. Marbled endpapers. Illustrated with 8 plates in colour and 22 in monochrome. Has 2 school devices (1 front, 1 back) blocked in gold on boards. Spine slightly sunned, small faint mark at top of front board, prize plate on front paste-down, the odd fox spot, very good plus, tight, nice copy. (No wrapper). Well above average.
[Order code:8303 / Price £30.00]

Pen - Pen and Brush Lettering and Alphabets: 50 Alphabets arranged in eight sections for Students and Designers. Blandford, 12th edition, 1960. 9ž" x 7ź", 64pp inc. covers, paperback. Covers selotaped on; slightly dog-eared; covers marked/rubbed (see photos); externally poor but internally useable. Also includes Letraset's Graphic Art Pruducts price-list for 20ith December 1971, 1 sheet.
[Order code:4191 / Price £1.00]

Peter, Mary - Collectiong Victoriana. Arco, 1st, 1965. [1965] Until fairly recently the word Victorian was applied to objects in a derogatory sense, suggesting an over-ornate ugliness. Victoriana is now all the rage, thanks to those who could separate the objects of real worth from the obviously vulger. The vigour and inventiveness of the Victorians often led to hideous profusion but there is also a real charm and originality in much of what they produced. The aim behind this book is to show how many comely pieces of furniture and really charming pieces of small china, nick-nacks, etc., can be readily accommodated in the modern home. The author discusses the Victorian dining, drawing and bed rooms; the kitchen; Victorian pottery and porcelain; glass, silver and plate, jewellery and bric-a-brac, concluding with a chapter on the Victorian garden. (Wrapper flap). 8ž" x 5ź", 190pp plus 9 plates, cream vegitable parchment, hardback. Index. Illustrated with 17 sides of monochrome photographs, and with many drawings within the text by Jenefer Peter. Very good (no inscriptions, no bumps, NOT ex-library) complete with good (edge-wear, especially head/foot of spine; slight 'scrunge' to top edge of back-panel) wrapper, NOT price-cut.
[Order code:4724 / Price £4.00]

Picasso, Pablo - Pablo Picasso. Beaverbrook Newspapers Limited, not dated, c1960? Comprises 6pp text by William S. Lieberman, including Commentary on each plate; followed by 15 tipped-in colour plates with printed plate number, brief description and location at time of printing concealed below plate. The 16th plate is on the front-cover beneath the cellophane. The plates are: Woman with a Fan; The Absinthe Drinker; The Gourmet; La Vie; The Old Guitarist; Woman Ironing; The Actor; Two Saltimbanques with a Dog; The Harlequin's Family; Two Saltmbanques; The Saltimbanques; Boy with a Pipe; Boy Leading a Horse; La Coiffure; La Toilette; and, Gertrude Stein. Quality materials used; designed to be broken and framed. 14ź" x 10ž", card covers covered in cellophane. Cellophane split down half of spine, fine, no material faults.
[Order code:10135 / Price £5.00]

Porcelain - Altwiener Porzellan. (German text). Old Viennese Porcelain. Kunsteverlag Wolfrum, Wien (Fine Art Publishing House Wolfrum, Vienna). 1946, 1st? 8˝" x 5ž", 36pp plus 24 plates, grey paper covered boards, hardback. Illustrated with 16 colour plates printed on one side, and 16 sides (8 plates) of monochrome illustrations. Water damage to top-back corner of back-board and pages, reducing in effect moving forwards; spine and board-edges sunned; wear to spine edges; slight foxing; endpapers browned; good, no wrapper, German text.
[Order code:4368 / Price £1.00]

Preview - Solomon & Whitehead Ltd Limited Edition Lithograph catalog: February 1998. 8ź" x 11ž", 12pp inc. cover, colour illustrated card, sb. Illustrated with colour examples by David Shepherd, Kay Boyce, Linda Thompson, Lindsay B. Scott, Anthony Gibbs, Peter Ellenshaw, Rex Preston, Carl Brenders, Nita Engle, Matthew Hillier, Ann James Massey and Lesley Ivory. Near fine. Price inc post in UK.
[Order code:3269 / Price £1.50]

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