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Sabin, Roger - Comic, Comix & Graphic Novels: A History of Comic Art. Phaidon, 1996, 1st. 11ž" x 9ž", 240pp, black cloth, red blocked lettering, hardback. Further reading list. Index. Printed on 'art' paper. Illustrated in monochrome and colour. Slight 'squash' to top-edge of front-board; fine (no inscriptions, not ex-library) complete with like wrapper. Massive book.
[Order code:15769 / Price £25.00]

Salaman, Malcolm C. - British Book Illustration Yesterday and To Day. The Studio. 1923. Edited by Geoffrey Holme. 11ž" x 8", 184pp, dark grey-green cloth, front board blocked in blind with a repeat pattern, gold blocked spine and front baord lettering, hardback. Top edge gilt. 40pp of commentarry, followed by example plates (16 as colour plates, 16 as monochrome plates, the rest in monochrome pritned on both sides of paper). The illustrations comprise examples by Bewick (1 mono. plate), Blake, Smirke, Rowlandson (1 colour plate), Cruikshank (3), Mubready (2 on 1 mono. plate), H. K. Brown, Sandys (2, 1 as mono plate), Millais (2), F. M. Brown (1 mono plate), Rossetti, Hunt, Pinwell (2), Houghton, Walker (2), Doyle (2 on one coloured plate), Paton, Leighton, Mahoney, Gray, Pettie (1 mono. plate), Allingham, Watson, Whistler (1 mono. plate), Lawless, Shields (3, one as a mono. plate), Hughes, North, Gilbert, Foster, Crane (1 mono. plate), Greene, Barnard, Caldecott, Fildes, Leech (1 mono. plate), Greenaway, Du Maurier, Tenniel (1 mono. plate), Keene, Holiday, Abbey (1 mono. plate), Furniss, May (2, 1 as mono. plate), Moore (4), Thomson (2, 1 colour plate), Pissarro (2), Armfield (colour plate), Beardsley, Beerbohm (colour plate), Beardsley, Strang, Spence (2, 1 as mono. plate), Sullivan (2), Flint (colour plate), Housman, Rackham (3, 1 as colour plate), Robinson (colour plate), Ospovat, Shaw, Heath Robinson (colour plate), Connard, woodroffe (2, 1 as colour plate), Nicholson, Robertson (2, 1 as colour plate), Nelson (2), C. E. Brock (2, 1 as colour plate), H. M. Brock (3, 1 as mono. plate), Bell, Dulac (colour plate), Cowper, Fortescue-Brickdale (2, 1 as colour plate), Percy Smith, Gabain, Hill (mono. plate), Austen (3, 1 as colour plate), Gooden, henderson, Clarke (1 mono plate, 1 colour plate), Schwabe. [Note: E. & O. E.]. Front board a little bowed, endpaper edges browned, half-title side facing endpaper browned, tipped-in prize plate (City of Nottingham School of Art), the odd fox spot hear and there, slightly more foxing at end (last 3 pages), externally good, internally very good generally, no wrapper. Slightly above average.
[Order code:10999 / Price £60.00]

Salinger, Margaretta - Michelangelo: The Last Judgment. Beaverbrook Newspapers, not dated, 1960s. 14ź" x 10ž", card covers with heavy paper wrapper covered overall in cellophane, softback. This comprises 16 (inc. the plate on the front of the wrapper) tipped-in colour plates on sepperate mounts (with a short description on the verso of the next plate) plus 5pp of text on 'The Last Judgment'. The only text on the plate-mount is the plate number in the form of 'PLATE TWO', but this is covered by the plate. Mostly disbound, slight wear to cellophane, plates fine. Would make an excellent set for framing.
[Order code:7640 / Price £8.00]

Sempill, Cecilia - English Pottery and Porcelain. Collins, Britain in Pictures series, 3rd imp. revised, 1947. 9" x 6ź", 48pp plus 4 plates, paper covered boards, hb. Illustrated with 8 sides of colour photographs and in monochrome within the text. Near fine c/w very good wrapper that has 5 faint splashes at the bottom-front corner. Above average.
[Order code:5594 / Price £8.50]

Severini, Gino - Edouard Manet. Valori Plastici, Rome, 1924. English text. The New Artists series. 7ž" x 5˝", 56pp, illustrated card covers, softback. Illustrated with 33 monochrome 'phototype' reproductions of Manet's work. Covers slightly 'dusty'; the odd fox spot; very Good.
[Order code:4180 / Price £15.00]

Sharp, Evelyn - The Evelyn Sharp Collection of Modern Art. Sotherby. 12th November, 1997. 12" x 9", 164pp, red cloth, gold blocking, hardback. Reproductions in colour, monochrome frontispiece photograph of Sharp. Near fine c/w fine wrapper. Average.
[Order code:7981 / Price £15.00]

Sotheby - Fine Books and Manuscripts Auction Catalogue. 4th December, 1996. 10ž" x 8ź", not numbered (250 approx.), illustrated card, catalogue. Illustrated in monochrome with the odd item in colour. Very good plus.
[Order code:7982 / Price £2.50]

Sotheby - Orders, Medals and Decorations. Sotheby. 1st November, 1984. 10ž" x 8ź", not numbered (150?), card covers, catalogue. Sparsely illustrated with a colour 'frontispiece' and in monochrome. Near fine. Average.
[Order code:7983 / Price £3.00]

Sotheby - Sotheby's International Preview. Sotheby. April/May 1985. 11ž" x 9", magazine format. Colour illustrated. Very good.
[Order code:10492 / Price £2.50]

Sotheby - Sotheby's International Preview. Sotheby. March/April, 1985. 11ž" x 9", magazine format. Colour illustrated. Very good.
[Order code:10493 / Price £2.50]

29th to 31st May, 1996. 10ž" x 8ź", 296pp, illustrated card, catalogue. Illustrated in monochrome and colour. Bottom - front corner slightly creased, very good plus. Average.
[Order code:7979 / Price £5.00]

Spero, Simon - The Price Guide to 18th Century English Porcelain. Antique Collectors' Club, 1st, 1970. 8˝" x 5ź", 448pp, brown buckram, hardback. Index. Printed on 'art' paper. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece and with monochrome photographs throughout. Very slight bump to top-front corner; very good (no inscriptions, not ex-library) complete with very good (wear to foot of spine, slight edge-wear) wrapper, not price-cut. Not much use, other than historical, for prices but contains a wealth of information and illustrations.
[Order code:4728 / Price £5.00]

Stansfield, Herbert H. - Sculpture and The Sculptor's Art. T. C. & E. C. Jack. 1918. 9˝" x 6ž", 164pp, purple 'silk' with gold blocking, hardback. Illustrated throughout with monochrome photographs. Very good, internally fine, c/w neatly repaired wrapper that has a piece missing at the head and foot of the spine, dulled spine, worn/torn/chipped at the corners, edge wear but quite reasonable; also has a monochrome onlay illustration. Above average.
[Order code:7076 / Price £30.00]

Stephenson, Jonathan - The Materials and techniques of Painting. thames and Hudson, 1st, 1989. 10˝" x 8˝", 192pp, grey cloth, hb. Index. Illustrated in monochrome and colour with photographs and diagrams. Fine, no wrapper.
[Order code:4168 / Price £9.50]

Stewart, James - Sketching Ways and Sketching Days. Nelson, 1st? 1933. All about sketching and how to do it. 7ž" x 5ź", 172pp plus 21 plates, green buckram, hardback. Illustrated with 21 plates (10 colour and 10 monochrome with 1 plate having a colour and monochrome illustration). Short inscription on front-free endpaper, verying degress of foxing (plates uneffected), mostly very slight to zero but several pages quite heavy, generally very good, no wrapper.
[Order code:4171 / Price £10.00]

Stratton, Deborah - Collecting in the '70s. Sunday Telegraph, 1st, 1975. Short analysis of Art Deco; Art Nouveau; Books; Bottles and Pot Lids; Chinese Decorative Arts; Clocks; Commemoratives; Dolls, Dolls' Houses, Toys and Models; Ephemera; Fairings; Icons; Jewellery; Mechanical Antiques; Miliaria; Modern Art; 19th and 20th Century Ceramics/Glass/Furniture; 19th Century Japanese Works and Netsuke; Oak and Pine Furniture; Photographs and Cameras; Textiles; Victorian Paintings; Victorian Silver; Watercolours and Prints; A Scutionary Tale about Buying and Selling; Identification and Valuation of Objects and Works of Art. 7ž" x 5ž", 120pp, illustrated card, softback. Printed on 'art' paper. Illustrated with monochrome, and a few colour, photographs. 'Rubs' to cover; very good (no spine creases, not ex-library) probably unread.
[Order code:4721 / Price £3.50]

Studio - Studio International: April 1971. W. & J. Mackay, 1971. 12" x 9˝", 74pp, card, sb. Very good.
[Order code:4167 / Price £1.50]

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