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Ramsey, L. G. G. - The Connoisseur New Guide to English Painting and Sculpture: Tudor / Early Victorian. 1962, 1st. 9¾" x 6¾", 192pp, light blue cloth printed in white with line drawings, hardback. Illustrated with 64 sides of monochrome photographs, located at the back of the book, and a colour frontispiece. Lower-front corner of front-board slightly rounded; lower-front corner of back-board bumped; slight edge-foxing; very good (no inscriptions, not ex-library) complete with good (loss to head of spine and adjacent front-panel area, edge-wear, 1" tear to lower-edge of front-panel by front corner, laminate raised over spine folds), price-cut, wrapper.
[Order code:7080 / Price £2.00]

Read, Herbert - Vermeer. The Masters Series No. 2. Knowledge Publications, 1965. 14" x 10¾", 8pp plus 8 plates, card covers, softback. Illustrated with 14 (including the cover) colour reproductions of Vermeer's work as plates printed on both sides on good quality paper (you would be able to frame them but 3 of the illustrations span 2 pages and the cover illustration is not really suitable). Very good plus, contents fine (no inscriptions, not ex-library).
[Order code:3187 / Price £5.00]

Read, Herbert - A Concise History of Modern Painting. Thames and Hudson, 1959, 1st UK? 8½" x 6", 376pp, red cloth, hardback. Index. Illustrated in monochrome and colour. Very slightly sunned spine; inscription in top-front corner of front-free endpaper; very good (no bumps not ex-library) complete with good (chipped at head and foot of spine with slight loss at head; slight edge/corner wear; slightly sunned spine) wrapper, not price-cut.
[Order code:7528 / Price £5.00]

Rewald, John - Edgar Degas. Les Editions Braun & Co., Paris, not dated, guess at 1920s? Introductory text in French, English and German. 6½" x 4¾", 60pp, illustrated card, paperback. Illustrated in monochrome reproduced by high quality photogravure (no modern printing method comes anywhere near photogravure quality). Cover a little 'dusty'; slight edge-wear; importer's (Soho Gallery Ltd) price (1/6) stamp in top-front corner of inside cover; very good minus (no inscriptions, not ex-library).
[Order code:4179 / Price £3.00]

Rutter, Frank - Modern Masterpieces: Complete set of 24 parts. Newnes. Not dated, c1930? Each 12¾" x 11", 18 (inc. 5 plates)/16pp (inc. 4 plates), brown card cover, colour illustrated onlay to front cover (repeated internally), softback. Part 1: Introduction, tipped-in colour plates 'A Study' by George Spencer Watson (repeated on cover), 'The Prince of Wales on Forest Witch' A. J. Munnings (left-lower corner creased), 'Lady Orpen and Child' Sir William Orpen (1½" line-rub), 'Cottages at Burghclere' Stanley Spencer, 'La Repetition' Hilaire Germain Edgar Degas (crease to lower-left corner); Part 2: Introduction cont., Turner and The French Impressionists, tipped-in colour plates 'Ballet Girl and Dressmaker' Dame Laura Knight (repeated on cover, small crease lower-left corner), 'Sunflowers' Vincent Van Gogh (small crease lower-left corner), 'Ennui' Walter Richard Sickert (small crease lower-left corner), 'Grove at Bridgnorth' P. Wilson Steer (crease lower-left corner), 'A Studio in Montparnasse' C. R. W. Nevinson (creses to lower-left corner); Part 3: Turner and The French Impressionists cont., The New Egnlish Movement, tipped-in colour plates 'The Mourner' George Belcher (repeated on front cover), 'The Demolition of Waterloo Bridge' Charles Cundall, 'La Loge' Pierre Auguste Renoir (small crease lower-left corner), 'Ben Ledi' D. Y. Cameron (small crease lower-left corner), 'Departure of Lancaster for the East Indies' Frank Brangwyn (small crease lower-left corner); Part 4: The New English Movement cont., McTaggart and The Glasgow School, tipped-in colour plates 'Morning' Dod Procter (repeated on front cover), 'Homage to Manet' William Orpen, 'The Coming of St. Columba' William McTaggart, 'Mixed Flowers in a Red Bowl' Matthew Smith, 'The Fan' Gerald L. Brockhurst; Part 5: McTaggart and the Glasgow School cont., The Neo-Impressionists, tipped-in colour plates 'The Girl with The Tattered Glove' William Nicholson (repeated on front cover), 'La Chaumière' Camille Pissarro, 'Mr Minney' Walter W. Russell (small crease lower-left corner), 'Bowl of Flowers' Fantin-Latour, 'A Highland Funeral' James Guthrie (small crease lower-left corner); Part 6: The Neo-Impressionists cont., The Reaction from Realism, tipped-in colour plates 'The Bedroom' Dame Laura Knight (tiny crease lower-left corner, large crease across lower-right corner, repeated on front cover), 'Three Tahitians' Paul Gauguin, 'A Mediterranean Port' Arthur Melville (tiny crease lower-left corner), 'Jewish Syangogue, Spitalfields' William Rothenstein (small crease lower-left corner), 'The Lady Melchett' Glyn Philpot; Part 7: The Whistler Period, tipped-in colour plates 'The Reading Girl' Theodore Roussel (repeated on front cover), 'Early October' Ethel Walker, 'Lord Ribblesdale' John Singer Sargent, 'Sous Bois' Henri Matisse (small crease lower-left corner), 'The River Tang' Philip Connard; Part 8: Some Artists of the 'Nineties [1890s], tipped-in colour plates 'Anna, Daughter of the Artist' Ambrose McEvoy (repeated on front cover), 'La Maison de Berlioz' Maurice Utrille (tiny crease lower-left corner), 'The Little White Girl' James McNeill Whistler, 'Toil, Glitter, Grime and Wealth' W. L. Wyllie (small crease lower-left corner), 'The Chatterer' Camille Pissarro; Part 9: Cézanne, tipped-in colour plates 'La Montagne Sainte-Victoire' Paul Césanne (repeated on front cover), Nu Á La Coiffeuse' Pierre Bonnard, 'In Green Pastures' George Henry, 'The Red Scarf' William Orpen, 'A Spring Roundelay' E. A. Hormel; Part 10: The Illustrators of Montmartre, tipped-in colour plates 'Portrait of the Artist' Vincent Van Gogh (repeated on front cover), 'Pale Flowers' Florence Engelbach, 'The Young Rower' Lancelot M. Glasson, (tiny crease lower-left corner), 'Morning' Arnesby Brown (crease to top-left corner); Part 11: Frank Brangwyn and Mural Decoration, tipped-in colour plates 'Bar at the Folies Bergère' Edouard Manet (repeated on front cover), 'Savernake Forest' Paul Nash (large crease lower-left corner), 'The Little Mother' Annie Louisa Swynnerton, 'The Canal at Rickmansworth' J. W. Buxton Knight; Part 12: Portrait Painters of the New Century [1900], tipped-in colour plates 'The Duchess of Leinster' Mary McEvoy (repeated on front cover), 'The Spangled Cock' Joseph Crawhall, 'The Green Jacket' Augustus John, 'August Blue' Henry S. Tuke (tiny crease lower-left corner); Part 13: Post Impressionism in Paris, tipped-in colour plates 'Summertime' H. Davis Richter (repeated on front cover), 'Portrait of the Artist' Frederick Brown, 'Watering Horses' Anton Mauve (tiny crease lower-left corner), 'Christine Nilsson' J. B. C. Corot; Part 14: Some Leaders of British Painting, tipped-in colour plates 'The Artist's Mother' Ambrose McEvoy (repeated on front cover), 'A Hot Day on the Lower Ickneild Way' Alexander Jamieson, 'The End of the Chapter' P. Wilson Steer, 'Old Battersea Bridge' James McNeill Whistler; Part 15: English Independents: Sickert and Fry, tipped-in colour plates 'The Bent Tree' J. B. C. Corot (repeated on front cover), 'Morning: The Green Petticoat' Spencer F. Gore, 'A Garden in Warwickshire' Florence Engelbach, 'The Letter' Harold Knight; Part 16: Picasso and the Cubists, tipped-in colour plates 'Transatlantic' Norman Wilkinson (repeated on front cover), 'Diana of the Uplands' C. W. Furse, 'The Sugust Moon' Cecil Lawson (crese to lower-left corner), 'Nora' John Lavery; Part 17: The War in Art, tipped-in colour plates 'Amanda's Thorne' W. Russell Flint (repeated on front cover), 'Salisbury Cathedral' Charles Ginner, 'A Bunch of Grapes' Charles H. Shannon, 'Lioness and Cubs' J. M. Swan; Part 18: Art in London After the War [1st World War], tipped-in colour plates 'The Singing of Peace' William Orpen (repeated on front cover), 'Ellen Terry as Lady Macbeth' John Singer Sargent, 'Poplars in the Thames Valley' Alfred Parsons, 'Young Girlhood' Mark Gertler; Part 19: Modern Sculpture: From Rodin to Epstein, tipped-in colour plates 'The Countess of Rocksavage and Her Son' Charles Sims (repeated on front cover), 'Leeds Market' Harold Gilman, 'There Was No Room at the Inn' Edward Stott, 'Ploughing' George Clausen; Part 20: Women Painters of To-Day, tipped-in colour plates 'Snow Scene, Meadle' John Nash (repeated on front cover), 'Chloe' Albert Rutherston, 'Fore-Cabin, H.M.S. Queen Elizabeth, Rosyth, 16 November, 1918' John Lavery (small crease lower-left corner), 'H. M. Queen Mary' William Llewellyn; Part 21: British Drawings and Etchings, tipped-in colour plates 'Tall Pines' Ethelbert White (repeated on front cover), 'The man with the Scythe' H. H. La Thangue, 'The Bridge' Bertram Nicholls (small crease lower-left corner), 'Evening at Tangier' John Lavery (small crease lower-left corner); Part 22: The Revival of Wood Engraving, tipped-in colour plates 'Craigcornach' J. D. Fergusson, 'A Chelsea Interior' Philip Connard, 'Regent's Canal, Paddington' Algernon Newton, 'Tying Her Shoe' Walter Russell; Part 23: Modern Watercoloures, tipped-in colour plates 'Bank Holiday' William Strang (repeated on front cover), 'Hill and Dale' Mark Fisher, 'Birdcages' Harrington Mann, 'The Punishment of Luxury' Giovanni Segantini; Part 24: Surrealism - The Newest Art, tipped-in colour plates, Conclusion, 'Moira (Lady Munro)' Gerald Kelly (repeated on front cover, nearly loose), 'The Game Cock' Orovida (detached), 'Colenel T. E. Lawrence' Augustus John (detached, lower-right corner creased), 'La Belle Hollandaise' Pablo Picasso (detached). In addition to the plates noted the works are illustrated throughout the text in monochrome. Complete work as originally issued in 24 fortnightly parts. Generally very good plus or better, the last 3 very good,
[Order code:5481 / Price £150.00]

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