Art and Architecture


69621 GRAMMAR OF ORNAMENT by Owen Jones


This classic Victorian compendium of decorative art was produced in 1856. The author, Owen Jones, voyaged throughout the Mediterranean as a young man and in 1850 joined a group of architects working on the Crystal Palace. This book is divided into 20 chapters, each covering a particular historical style and including Jones’s analysis of the structural and aesthetic qualities of examples from each culture. The ancient world is followed by Byzantine, Turkish, Moorish, Indian, Hindu, Chinese and Celtic ornament. For example, in the Medieval section, beautiful line-drawings of Romanesque capitals are accompanied by ten pages of colour motifs from stained glass and illuminated manuscripts, and this is followed by the Renaissance ornament developed in Italy by masters such as Donatello and Ghiberti. The author concludes with drawings from nature identifying the geometrical structure of leaves, flowers and fruit as the universal basis for ornament. 228pp, softback, 112 colour pages and numerous line drawings. ONLY £12


69576 MODIGLIANI: A Life by Jeffrey Meyers In a sensitive rendering of the artist’s life, the author reveals not only the drink-and-drugs-ridden painter and his art but also the painters, writers and lovers who inhabited early 20th century Paris with him. Amedeo Modigliani was an Italian Jew from a bourgeois family. His friends included Picasso, Utrillo and Soutine but, unlike them, his gift was never recognised during his lifetime and he died in poverty and neglect. A contemporary of the Cubists, ‘Modi’ turned to the art of Africa for inspiration in creating his distinctive style. 272 paperback pages with b/w plates. £11.99 NOW £6.50


68894 A YEAR IN ARCHITECTURE This gorgeous, inspirational book is a diary with a difference: each date is illustrated by a masterpiece of world architecture. The first day of the year opens with the Taj Mahal and a quotation from Ruskin. The 1928 Chrysler Building, the 2004 Sage, Gateshead, and Zaha Hadid’s BMW plant in Leipzig are superbly photographed side by side with older buildings such as the 12th century Abbey of Cluny, the 17th century Bridge of Sighs in Venice (to the accompaniment of a quotation by Byron), the 10th century Medina at Córdoba and the 9th century Buddhist Borobudur Temple in Indonesia. Quotations. Colour illus. One double spread for each day of the year.


£24.95 NOW £8.50


69527 SKYSCRAPERS by Andres Lepik The views here displayed are vertiginous, to say the least, but also very beautiful. In this impressive volume, 50 of these symbols of economic power are photographed and matched with details of their history, construction and the engineering feats that were needed to build them. All of them are breathtaking but perhaps the one most designed to inspire wonder is the tallest hotel in the world, standing on an artificial island 300m from the coast, the Burj al Arab in Dubai which soars skywards for 321m in a form reminiscent of a sail billowing in the wind. There are enough amazing buildings in this volume to leave us wondering what marvels are yet to come! 160 pages with 141 illus in colour and 122 in b/w, and list of internet links. £25 NOW £8


69364 RAJPUT PAINTING: Romantic, Divine


and Courtly Art from India by Roda Ahluwalia


These gorgeous 130 colour reproductions are mainly from the British Museum and British Library collections. Rajputs claim descent from the gods and heroes of the Mahabharata, beginning in around the 7th century A.D. The chapter on Romance, Divinity and Courtly Portraiture includes an exquisite 18th century watercolour of a girl going to meet her lover, and a colourful painting of Hindola, the ancient summer swing festival which was appropriated into the Krishna cult. The author includes chapters on regional styles in 176pp, with beautiful colour reproductions. £16.99 NOW £7


69361 PERSIAN PAINTING by Sheila R. Canby


This gem of an illustrated volume provides a concise account of Persian painting c.1300 to 1900. Beginning with the materials and tools, pigments and treatises which enabled the artists to achieve their remarkable effects, the author, curator in the British Museum specialising in Islamic Iran, goes on to survey the stylistic development of Persian painting and the influences upon it of over six centuries of Iran’s turbulent


69226 PAINTERS OF PROVENCE by Philippe Cros


Anybody planning a tour of Provence, simply must spend time with this book. Painting has had a home under the azure skies of Provence since the 14th century, with prestigious art schools growing up in the prosperous cities of Avignon, Nice and Aix. Many, like Renoir, came there to escape the pace of life in Paris, but perhaps the artist who benefited most from the tranquillity was Vincent van Gogh, who arrived there in 1888 and completed hundreds of drawings and paintings during a two year stay. Art historian Philippe Cros here takes us on a tour across the region from west to east, stopping at the villages, towns, cities and sites which have shaped its rich artistic history. Focusing primarily on the 19th and early 20th centuries he looks at the work of lesser-known local artists as well as that of Cézanne, van Gogh, Renoir, Gauguin, Seurat, Chagall, Signac, Matisse, Braque and Picasso. In all there are over 130 paintings and 40 period photos, which form an artistic treasure trail from Avignon through Arles, Saint-Rémy, Aix, Marseilles, Toulon, Saint-Tropez,


Cannes and Antibes to Nice. 160 9¼”×12" pages, colour throughout with mini-biogs.


£30 NOW £10


history, from the Ilkhanids of the 14th century, the glorious Safavids to Shah Abbas. 128 paperback pages with 50 colour, 43 b/w illus and map. £10.99 NOW £4


68931 FULL COLOUR TREASURY OF HISTORIC ORNAMENT


by Alexander Speltz These full colour pages of ornamentation from friezes, paintings, stained glass, marblework, textiles and other artforms present a panoramic history of decoration and an inspirational


resource for designers. Starting in Egypt, there are impressive ceiling and wall decorations with characteristic stylised figures, while Babylonian and Mycenaean frescoes exhibit increasing monumentality. Celtic and Romanesque illumination existed side by side for a time and stained glass epitomised the Gothic style. 80pp, softback, colour illus. £12.95 NOW £2.25


68902 CELTIC ORNAMENT IN THE BRITISH ISLES by E. T. Leeds


In tracing the history and evolution of pre-Christian Celtic ornamentation, this 1933 original publication, here in superb facsimile, focuses on less accessible relics from the pagan past. Enamelled escutcheons and later enamels from Colchester, Glamorgan, Canterbury, Greenwich and Hitchin adorn the inside covers in 18 colour examples. 80 photos and illus, 18 in colour. 170pp in paperback. £9.99 NOW £3


68897 ART OF THE CELTS: 700 BC to AD 700 by Felix Müller and


Sabine Bolliger Schreyer As well as numerous awe-inspiring illustrations, this catalogue contains 40 ‘masterpieces’, all outstanding examples of the way in which Celtic art developed. 101 motifs, in a pattern book, demonstrate the links


within Celtic ornament over the course of time and across Europe from Scotland to Turkey. Neighbours and contemporaries of the Greeks, Etruscans and Romans, the Celts received inspiration from these advanced civilisations, which set their own creativity in motion. Plants and living creatures were dissected into their individual components and re-assembled, concealed, distorted and de-familiarised. The authoritative text, written by a team of experts, conveys this unique aspect of the works. 304 large pages, 28 x 24cm, photos in colour, with map showing the major sites of Celtic archaeology and index of sites. £45 NOW £19


68501 MODERN ART 1870-2000 -


IMPRESSIONISM TO TODAY edited by Hans Werner Holzwarth The story of Modern Art began roughly 150 years ago in Paris. After Impressionism, there followed Symbolism, Expressionism, Futurism, Dada, Abstract Art, renewed Realism, Surrealism, Abstract Expressionism, Pop, Minimal and Conceptual Art. At the heart of this book, though, is the year-by-year succession of groundbreaking works, with 200 featured pieces receiving their own text that introduces the artist and makes the importance of the work apparent. These paintings and sculptures, photographs and conceptual works, tell the story of an art epoch that continued to thrive on ever fresh ideas and innovations. 187 artists’ portraits, 44 original photos of artists in their studios, 14 essays, 7 fold-outs, 30-page appendix with artists’ biographies, a glossary of key terms and an index of names and works. 2 volumes in slipcase, 9.4" x 12", 674 pages. ONLY £34


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68468 MAX ERNST by Ulrich Bischoff Max Ernst (1891-1996) is one of the most important figures of Dadaism and Surrealism. The closing of the famed Dada exhibit in Cologne for ‘obscenity’ led Ernst to decide to spend the rest of his life in Paris where he came in contact with the Surrealists. He produced an oeuvre that reaches from paintings, drawings and sculpture, across texts and stage settings to collage- novels and the development of his own ‘frottage’ technique. Marlene on page 67 is a stunning image and Teetering Woman, 1923, another. Features a detailed chronological summary of the artist’s life and work. 100 fantastical colour illus. Softback, 18.5 x 23cm, 96 pages. ONLY £2.50


68494 LICHTENSTEIN


by Janis Hendrickson A big, colourful book consisting of the colourful tiny dots like pixels, cartoons, abstracts, poster style art and superb graphic design. In the late 50s and 60s, American painter Roy Lichtenstein (1923-1997) became one of the most important exponents of Pop Art - that


movement which transformed products of mass consumption and the entertainment industry into subjects for art. Developed in the early 60s, Lichtenstein’s grid technique allowed the painter to give vent to his own artistic scepticism. In the 60s and 70s, Lichtenstein expanded his formal repertoire of techniques by means of abstraction. 100 colour illus. 24 x 30 cm, 96 pages. ONLY £4


68863 COUNTRY HOUSES OF THE COTSWOLDS: From the Archives of Country Life by Nicholas Mander


For over a century Country Life magazine has featured a weekly article devoted to a country house, including scores from the Cotswolds. Over 30 houses are featured, illustrated with over 150 colour and b/w photos reveal the historical and architectural importance of each. We begin with sublime castles such as Berkeley, the country’s oldest inhabited castle, and Sudeley, with its royal connections stretching back over 1,000 years. Next are the magnificent examples of manor houses like Owlpen Manor and Daneway House and outstanding Jacobean houses such as Stanway and Chastleton House along with classical country houses like Badminton and Dyrham Park. A final chapter documents the work and influence of the leading practitioners of the Arts and Crafts movement. 208pp, 8½”×11½”. £25 NOW £14


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60117 JOHN JAMES AUDUBON PORTFOLIO


edited by Ben Forkner Make space on the bookcase for this very special and rare edition. The sturdy clothbound presentation box measures over 12" x 15". The portfolio contains a selection of 48 of the original drawings and watercolours used in the making of ‘Birds of America’ accompanied by a choice of Audubon’s writings. Edited with an introduction by


Ben Forkner, this is the rare 2004 Edition de la Main Fleurie. On cream card and measuring 12" x 15" are the individual, unbound sheets explaining the contents. The list of illustrations includes Nightingale, Yellow-Billed Cuckoo, Common Grackle, Avocet, Hawfinch, Black Tern, Woodchat, Shrike, European Hoopoe, Wild Turkey, Hooded Warbler, Barred Owl, American Swallow-Tailed Kite, Belted Kingfisher, Grasshopper Sparrow and more. For each the Latin name is given, and we counted 48 ending with Anna’s Hummingbird, Greater Flamingo, Great Egret, Boat-Tailed Grackle and Little Blue Heron. Full sized, full colour right hand pages reproduce exquisite artworks of birds, interspersed with the letters and correspondence in the first 202 pages of the first folio. The edition we reviewed was number 378 of 2500. Printed on Maine Fleurie paper, 300gsm and numbered 236 to 2500. The second loosely bound volume, this time with no roughcut edges and on the same 300gsm quality paper, is the portfolio of individual reproductions, identical to those in the text. 10¼” x 13½” on a sheet size of about 11½” x 14½”, it is a complete set of loose bound bird prints, ready for framing.


$1400 NOW £275


BIOGRAPHY / AUTOBIOGRAPHY


Pip, dear old chap, life is made of ever so many partings welded together.


- Charles Dickens, Great Expectations


70586 EDIE’S TALE: Growing Up in Darlaston by Edith Rushton


Darlaston was a small Black Country town with a population of less than 20,000, three miles southwest of Walsall. It boasted not only the great Rubery Owens but also the big works of GKN where all kinds of nuts and bolts were made. Darlaston punched well above its weight on the economic world stage. Noted from the late 1600s for its nails and coal, it was also marked out by its gun-lock-makers and that its ‘workmen are incredibly ingenious, being able to forge almost anything on the anvil’. Edith Rushton’s evocative and insightful life story brings to life Darlaston during the town’s manufacturing heyday in the 1930s. Growing up in Foster Street she spent much of her childhood behind the shop run by her Mom. Foster Street boasted five sweet shops, one greengrocer, two pubs, a pawnbroker, an old lady who sold lamp oil, another who sold sand for floor coverings and her own family’s general store. The old red-brick houses were lined up in terraces, had communal brew houses, miskins, wells and privies. This shared life forced out privacy but led to strong neighbourhood loyalties and an awareness of what was going on all around. Here are games from marlies to jackstones and enchanting characters like Alice the Milk and Billy Muggins who had bostin’ bargains for a tanner or a bob. Here too are the high days and holidays like the arrival of Pat Collins’ Fair during Wakes Week, carnivals and bonfire night. Plus 80 photos, 118pp in large softback. £12.99 NOW £3.50


70506 SNOWDON: The Biography


by Anne De Courcy


Described by the Sunday Telegraph as ‘the most sensational book on the Royal Family in recent times’, this frank and fearless volume provides a no-holds-barred account of Lord Snowdon’s life, reflecting as it does so the social mores of his day. Now in his eighties, he still has not escaped the limelight as more and more is revealed about the wild


milieu in which he used to spend his time. The author had unprecedented access to both Snowdon and the people closest to him so that she was able to uncover the real man behind the myth. How did a photographer who was a relentless playboy, an unashamed womaniser and a leather-clad motorcyclist rise in the ranks to marry the Queen’s sister, Princess Margaret, and become an Establishment figure? The brilliant and talented Antony Armstrong-Jones, as he then was, often humiliated Princess Margaret, and their marriage was eventually to end in divorce. Here are the facts about the secret courtship of Margaret, the love child born just weeks after the royal marriage, the affairs on both sides, the suicide of one mistress and the birth of an illegitimate son to another. Readers’ eyes will not stop popping out of their heads! 404 paperback pages packed with colour and b/w plates. £9.99 NOW £5


70102 SLEEPING WITH BAD


BOYS by Alice Denham This lusty memoir is a juicy tell-all about a time when male writers were gods and an aspiring and gorgeous female novelist tries to win respect and sometimes more. Caught between the sheets are James Dean, Norman Mailer, Hugh Hefner, Philip Roth and William Gaddis. The steam rises page by page as Alice, the only Playboy Playmate to have her fiction


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69930 WE SHALL NEVER SURRENDER: Three CDs edited by Penelope Middelboe, Donald Fry and


Christopher Grace Through the wartime diaries of nine men and women, over this


series of CDs (running time seven hours) is the story of the war as they experienced it. Some of them like Harold Nicolson or the pacifist writer Vera Brittain are well known. Others like George Beardmore, a young husband and father with ambitions to become a novelist, or Clara Millburn, a contented wife and mother of a son in the forces are not. They all followed the war in their diaries from outbreak to victory. Read by actors like Lucy Briers, Glen McCready et al. £16.99 NOW £4


69931 WE WILL


REMEMBER THEM: 4 Audio CDs Voices from the Aftermath of the Great War by Max Arthur


In 2005 for his book The Last Post, the final words from our soldiers of the Great War, Max


Arthur interviewed the last 21 veterans of the Great War. Each was over 100 years old and all had vivid stories to tell of their experiences. Today none are alive. How did the shell-shocked, the blind and the amputees manage to find a place in a society that war had changed beyond all recognition? For each short entry there is a description of who is speaking and his or her role, like Dorothy Wright, nurse with Red Cross Voluntary Aid Attachment at St. Dunston’s Home for the Blind, or Captain Bertram Stewart from the Tank Corps. Running time five hours on four abridged CDs read by Clive Mantle and Patience Tomlinson. £14.99 NOW £5


69369 SILKS: Two CDs by Dick and Felix Francis


Read by actor Martin Jarvis and with running time approximately four hours. When Defence Barrister Geoffrey Mason hears the judge’s verdict, he quietly hopes that a long and arduous custodial sentence will be handed down to his arrogant young client. But Julian Trent only receives eight years. Setting aside his barrister’s wig, Mason heads down to Sandown to don his racing silks. An amateur jockey, his true passion is to be found in the saddle on a thoroughbred. But when a fellow rider is brutally murdered, a pitchfork driven through his chest, his racing life soon becomes all too close to his working life. £14.95 NOW £4.50


dream of writing as a young, oversexed beauty in the literary swirl of 1950s Greenwich Village, New York City. Her memoir is an absolute hoot in parts and terrifying and bad in others such as her second illegal abortion in Florida, 1959 told with great honesty. Such is the tone of this whole saucy romp. Broadway, Playboy and literary America as never seen before. Eight pages of black and white photos, some of Alice nude.


$14.95 NOW £6 70641 MY LIFE: A Coach


Trip Adventure by Brendan Sheerin


Best known as the loveable, smiling bald bespectacled tour guide on Channel 4’s teatime travel programme Coach Trip, Brendan has been described as ‘high grade entertainment’. Born in Yorkshire to a host of Irish relatives, Brendan is one of life’s charmers. Written in his own words, his autobiography is


packed with laugh-out-loud tales from scenes on the TV series as well as his personal life. His was a childhood when families were large and boisterous and thick as thieves, and his hobbies included playing netball with nuns. It is also part travelogue, detailing the glamorous locations from his 30 year career in the travel industry and tons of backstage gossip from the series. When not on the coach, Brendan lives in Malaga. 256pp with eight pages of photos, some colour. £14.99 NOW £5


70018 FAREWELL, BABYLON: Coming of Age in


Jewish Baghdad by Naim Kattan


We are taken into the heart of Baghdad’s then-teeming Jewish community in a city which is hot and quarrelsome, beset on equal parts by fear and desire. It is a magical city in which Iraq’s Kurds, Bedouins, Muslims, Jews and Christians lived together in a rough


sort of harmony. The Iraqi Jewish community dates back 2500 years to Biblical Babylon, but by the author’s childhood in the 1940s, anti-Semitism was on the rise, and Nazi sympathisers were threatening his community. Here the politics are frantic and street life a mystery. Kattan evokes a colonial, Muslim-dominated society of his childhood and portrays the city’s exoticism and the political forces that shape it today. Told in spare, elegiac tones. 220pp with photos. Paperback. £10 NOW £4


70367 HITCH 22: A Memoir by Christopher Hitchens Christopher Hitchens is without doubt one of the most noticed and debated public intellectuals of our time, but has never written about or commented upon his private life - until now! English-born, yet American by adoption, staunchly atheist, yet partly Jewish, stalwartly bohemian yet rigorously intellectual, even his famously unbending principles beg questions -


such as his opposition to the Vietnam War, but support for Western intervention in Iraq. He investigates here what has made him what he is, finding the roots of his


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