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72574 MAIDENS, MONSTERS AND HEROES: The Fantasy Illustrations of H.J. Ford edited by Jeff A. Menges
Henry Justice Ford (1860-1941) was born near London and remained in the capital for most of his life. Attending the Slade School of Fine Art and the School of Art at Bushey, he studied under and was friends and colleagues of the greatest artists of the late Victorian period, including the Pre-Raphaelites, and became a leading light of the Golden Age of illustration. Ford’s fairy-tale illustrations are some of the best known and frequently reproduced works of this period and although he is best known for his 20- year collaboration with folklorist Andrew Lang for the nine volume “Colour” Fairy Book series, for which he produced well over 1,000 images. He also worked with Lang on many other books with settings ranging from the Middle Ages to the 18th century, as well as a great many other now classic works. Jeff Menges, graphic artist and expert in Victorian and Edwardian illustration, provides an informative commentary as he assembles this dazzling gallery of Ford’s heroes, supernatural creatures, saints, historic figures and maidens in distress. Some are well known and often reproduced, but many have been seen only rarely since their original publication and a great many of them appear here in their original full colour splendour. Eerie, atmospheric, haunting and so quintessentially of their time. Approx. 220 illus, colour and b/ w, 115pp, 8½”×11" softback.
£16 NOW £6
68629 PAINTINGS OF ALICE DALTON BROWN by April Kingsley
Virtually unknown in Britain and very reminiscent of Edward Hopper, we love the paintings of the American artist Alice Dalton Brown. Combining a clapperboard white, New England style architecture, porches and verandas, a beautiful mosaic swimming pool in what seems to be the Florida Keys with lush palm trees hanging over, finely draped windows looking onto huge seascapes, this artist’s paintings genuinely look like photographs. These are timeless distillations of a near perfect world, Victorian and Classical Revival environments to dream in, sanctuaries for the spirit and deep-seated memories. 77 colour plates, 75 b/w. 132 very large pages. £35 NOW £6
71682 ORNAMENTAL ARTS OF JAPAN: 60
Full Colour Plates by George Ashdown Audsley Originally published in London in 1882, this reprint contains a new selection of plates. George Ashdown Audsley (1838-1925) was an architect, curator, lecturer and art collector. He was to assemble an impressive publication on Japanese design, ‘The Ornamental Arts of Japan’, which introduced the Western world to Japanese art. For this edition, 60 cromolithographs have been selected from this rare, late 19th century two volume set. The images have been arranged into eight categories - painting, embroidery, textile fabrics, lacquer, incrusted work, metal work, cloisonné enamels and carvings in ivory and porcelain. Informative captions accompany each illustration. On page 20 there is a beautiful falcon in silk thread with tree, clouds and perch in gold couching, the border in silk and gold tissue. Beautiful designs. 64pp in outsize softback. £12.49 NOW £5.50
69632 GUSTAV KLIMT: The Complete Paintings
by Tobias G. Natter Klimt (1862-1918) was a prominent member of the Vienna Secession movement, noted for his erotic depictions of the female body, murals, paintings and sketches. The Kiss, Judith and the Head of Holofernes, glinting in gold leaf and jewel-like colours,
the Beethoven Frieze represent some of the finest Art Nouveau. Adele Bloch-Bauer I sold for $35 million in 2006! During his lifetime, Klimt was Vienna’s enfant terrible, a controversial star whose works made passions run high; he stood for Modernism but he also embodied tradition. His pictures polarised and divided the art-loving world. This spectacular Taschen publication places particular emphasis upon the voices of Klimt’s contemporaries via a series of essays examining reactions to his work throughout his career. Subjects range from Klimt’s portrayal of women to his adoption of landscape painting in the second half of his life. No less than 231 letters, cards, writings and other documents are included in this massive monograph. Defining features of this edition are a catalog and huge colour reproductions of Klimt’s complete surviving paintings, all known letter correspondence featuring new photographs of the Stoclet Frieze
commissioned exclusively for this book. A bonus is a facsimile of a rare book designed by Joseph Hoffmann, executed by the Wiener Werkstatte and illustrated by Klimt and with text by philosopher Lucien from one of 50 copies printed in 1907. 11.4" x 15.6", 676 pages in beautifully decorated slipcase.
ONLY £135 71484 GEORGIA O’KEEFFE AND ALFRED
STIEGLITZ by Peter Cornell-Richter The painter Georgia O’Keeffe met the photographer and critic Alfred Stieglitz when her work was exhibited at his 291 Gallery in 1917. They were soon sharing studio space and then becoming lovers, marrying in 1924. O’Keeffe’s skyscraper paintings of the late twenties have a clear relation to Stieglitz’s photos of the same period, with the geometric angularity and dazzling reflections replicating the photographic medium, as in the near-abstract “City Night” (1926) or the dynamic “Radiator Building” (1927). O’Keeffe developed her later abstractions without Stieglitz’s influence, though he photographed her with a cow’s skull, a typical motif of this period. 119pp, softback, 50 reproductions from both artists in b/w and colour. ONLY £5.50
69466 FRANK GEHRY IN POP-UP by Jinny Johnson and Roland Lewis Frank Gehry was born in Toronto in 1929 and is one of the most innovative architects in the world today. Experience five of his most extraordinary architectural creations in 3D. Here is the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, Norton House, Venice Beach, California, The Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, the Experience Music Project in Seattle and the New Customhouse in Dusseldorf. Unique details and structural features are highlighted by many colourful and extensive photos. 48 huge pages, 12" square. £16.99 NOW £5
70088 JOSEPH GANDY: An Architectural
Visionary in Georgian England by Brian Lukacher
An acknowledged authority on Joseph Gandy (1771- 1843) has written this exhaustively researched, definitive life of an architect-artist who exemplified the cultural temper of the romantic period. He could realize his ambitions only graphically, as a gifted historical artist who could bring the vanished and ruined worlds of classical antiquity of Greece and Rome and the Gothic past to life. Works such as his unearthly Pandemonium or his luminous Tomb of Merlin have a hypnotic power that no other artist could surpass. We have only to look at his Design in Perspective of Part of the Inside of a Museum to appreciate the grandeur of his vision, and his Sepulchral Chamber is a strikingly hallucinatory watercolour depicting a subterranean tomb surrounded by sculptural sentinels of seated philosophers and weary lions. 222 pages 26cm x 29cm, 205 illustrations, 49 in colour.
£40 NOW £12
70942 ARTS OF TUSCANY: From the Etruscans to Ferragamo
by Marina Belozerskaya The Etruscans ruled Tuscany from the 8th century BC until the 4th century BC, and Ferragamo was designing shoes from the 1920s to the 1940s - although this entrancing volume goes even further than that, to Pucci and Gucci in the 1960s. As
can be seen, then, Tuscany has been producing extraordinary artwork of one kind or another for about 3000 years. Here are the outstanding chefs d’oeuvre of bronzesmiths, goldsmiths, artists, sculptors, architects, engineers, musicians (recorded in wall paintings), viticulturists, chefs, fashion designers and actors (as evidenced by the enormous amphitheatres of the Romans). Here are gorgeous medieval paintings in Lucca and Pisa and there the fabulous buildings of Siena. Here is Florence in the Quattrocento and there the Florence of the Popes and the Grand Dukes and the breathtakingly beautiful sculptures. 265 pages 23.5cm x 31cm. An impressive colour tome. £35 NOW £14
71185 TURNER’S EARLY SEASCAPES: The Sun
Rising Through Vapour by J. M. W. Turner
Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775-1851) produced some of the most monumental maritime pictures creating a public sensation with his depiction of tempestuous seas and dramatic shipwrecks. He is the master of atmospheric light. This exhibition catalogue focuses on his painting ‘The Sun Rising Through Vapour’ and explores his debt to the Old Masters and earlier marine painters. 30 great works by Turner and related artists, colour and b/w, in 72 page softback. £12.95 NOW £3.50
70883 THE YEAR ONE: Art of the Ancient
World East and West edited by Elizabeth J Milleker Encompassing many cultures, here is the intricate metalwork of the Celtic people in Europe, Greco-Roman and age-old Egyptian styles, such wealthy centres of trade as Palmyra, Petra, the kingdoms of southern Arabia and the mighty Parthian Empire which produced a wide range of sculpture, ceramics and precious metal objects that served religious, luxury and everyday purposes. In East Asia, China’s great empire under the Han dynasty was home to sophisticated arts in every medium. Characteristic arts had also begun to develop in Korea and Japan and across the Pacific Ocean in South America and Mesoamerica, powerful and expressive objects were made of stone, ceramic and gold. 232 pages 22.5cm x 28.5cm with 149 illus in colour.
£19.95 NOW £8
71311 THOMAS TELFORD by Rhoda Pearce Thomas Telford (1757-1834) was ‘the colossus of roads’ as Southey called him. His Menai Bridge and others show tremendous skill in design and durability given the tools and methods of his day. It is perhaps his work on canals which attracts most attention now - the Ellesmere Canal with its magnificent aqueducts, the Caledonian cutting its way through the Great Glen in Scotland and his last canal, the Birmingham and Liverpool Junction. Docks and harbours were improved, churches and prisons planned and the naming of Telford New Town after him is a mark of recognition. 48pp, well illus softback.
£4.99 NOW £2.50 72161 ARCHITECTURE OF
CANALS by Derek Pratt See here lift and swing bridges, the clever ‘snake’ bridge which allows the boathorse to cross the canal without being unhitched, a split bridge at Stratford-upon-Avon canal at Lapworth, magnificent aqueducts with elegant curves, locks, some 16 or 21 on the Grand Union Canal raising the canal from Warwick towards Birmingham and looking
like staircases, historic waterside buildings like mills and lock cottages and the wonderful Cleveland House in Bath straddling the Kennet and Avon canal and into the 21st century with reconstructions and waterside developments. A Shire paperback, 56pp, colour photos. £5.99 NOW £3
71631 WILLY POGANY REDISCOVERED selected and edited by Jeff A. M.
The incredibly prolific output that Willy Pogány managed during his long career helped him to become one of the most successful commercial illustrators of the 20th century. Mere hours before he died in 1955, he was still working on stage sets for several Broadway productions. As well as illustrating books, producing manuals on watercolour, oils, perspective and anatomy and designing theatre sets, he painted portraits of many of Hollywood’s élite, such as John Barrymore, Douglas Fairbanks Jr and Carole Lombard, plus New York’s mayors. The list of people and celebrities he had worked with over the years, in publishing, theatre and film, reads like a veritable celebrity Who’s Who. His instruction books on drawing are still in print today, over half a century later. 125 paperback pages 21.5cm x 28cm, illustrations in dazzling colour to pencil. £18.99 NOW £6
71972 DESIGN MUSEUM: CONTEMPORARY DESIGN Classics of Modern Design 1900-today
by Professor Catherine McDermott A selection of nearly 400 of the best and most enduring examples of modern design, including the very latest from the 21st century. Includes pioneers like Philippe Starck, Frank Lloyd Wright, Jasper Morrison, Christian Dior, Marc Jacobs, Saul Bass, Neville Brody, Gio Ponti and Eileen Gray. It surveys the entire genre, from advertising and architecture, through fashion and furniture, transport and type, via communications, interiors, lighting, household items and products, celebrating the artistic diversity and excellence of more than 100 years. There are details of the date when a product was designed, its designer, the materials and the manufacturer who produced it and a look at the way in which the rapid development and merging of technologies is making it increasingly difficult to predict the future. The emergence of ethical and ecological concerns is now challenging the interplay between high- tech and sustainable low-tech, and poses many problems for the designer of the future. 424 pages 23.5cm x 29cm, colour photos. £30 NOW £14
70951 PHOTOGRAPHY: The Masters
by Carolina Orlandini Stieglitz, Sander, Lange, Muybridge, Brassaï, Magritte, Vogel, Modotti, Cunningham, de Meyer, Warhol,
Brandt, Blumenfeld, Shad, Nadar, Weston, Cartier- Bresson, Mapplethorpe, Freund, Man Ray, Rodchenko and Capa are among the star-studded names whose work are afforded a full page superb reproduction in this glorious coffee table heavyweight volume. Here are portraits and landscapes, the Brooklyn Bridge, a night scene in Budapest 1917, the Jewel of Montmartre by Brassaï and of Salvador Dalí, a blonde male German gymnast photographed on the pommel horse by Leni Riefenstahl, a traditional dance of Scottish fishermen 1936 captured by German photographer Bernd Lohse, the Steps in Montmartre Paris and sun inside the New York train station by the same German photographer, Fleet Street and Cheapside in London in the 1920s, and photography as it appeared in contemporary posters and advertising. 600 iconic images, 510 pages, 11½” square.
ONLY £23
72573 JAPANESE WARRIORS, ROGUES AND BEAUTIES: Woodblocks from Adventure
Stories by Kendall H. Brown Long considered to be a disposable form of popular culture, these types of books were not carefully preserved or collected. This compilation, assembled by an authority on Japanese art and culture, offers a rare glimpse of a newly re-discovered art form. Created during the Meiji era, when Japanese society was changing dramatically with the influx of Western technology and values, these images appealed to a wide audience of newly literate readers. The scenes of retribution and sacrifice reflect a modern consciousness of Japanese history and a longing for an idealised vision of the past, marked by traditional values of loyalty, filial piety, self-sacrifice and chivalry. Heroes, villains and damsels in distress abound. Selected from woodblock- printed covers and frontispiece illustrations published in Osaka between 1898 and 1903, they include samurai and strong men, demons and detectives, courtesans, sumo wrestlers and other vivid characters in scenarios ranging from romantic to grotesquely violent, providing a link between an ancient
storytelling
tradition and the beginning of mass-published popular literature. 112 paperback pages in
glowing colour. £18.99 NOW £6
AUDIO BOOKS ON CD 73072 KITE RUNNER: Audio
Book by Khaled Hosseini We are taken on a psychological and spiritual journey with the author reading his own abridged book on five CDs running time approximately six hours. We
journey with Amir as he becomes a man forced to face the far-reaching tragic consequences of his disloyalty. Set amidst a country and a culture that existed before the Soviets, before the Taliban, before Al Qaeda and before the US invasion, here is a thrilling story of fathers and sons, sin and atonement, injustice and the human yearning for redemption. As a young boy growing up in pre-Soviet Afghanistan, Amir befriends his servant’s son Hassan. Occupying polar ends of Kabul’s social hierarchy, the two boys nevertheless play together and defend each other against neighbourhood bullies. But during Kabul’s annual kite-fighting tournament in the winter of 1975, Amir takes advantage of Hassan’s guileless devotion and commits a terrible act of betrayal against him. A devastating and inspiring novel we can sit back and listen to this international bestseller for just a bargain price.
£16.99 NOW £6 73038 WAINWRIGHT THE PODCASTS: Book
and CD introduced by Eric Robson Includes original Alfred Wainwright text and maps, practical information for families and a superb audio guide. The data CD narrated by Nik Wood-Jones can be copied onto an MP3 player or mobile phone and includes introductions to each walk. Explore some of the Lakeland’s finest fells like Haystacks, Helm Crag, Nab Scar, Orrest Head and Place Fell. There are mapping systems on the CD Rom that allow walkers to pre-plan their routes into the hills and sample the views from the comfort of their own desktop computer. There are mountain weather forecasts that you can pick up on your mobile phone and webcams that will show you what the weather is like at Wasdale Head before you even set off from home. Then there are the podcasts, which would have astonished Alfred Wainwright, that will help the modern walker discover some of the many treasures still buried in the Lakeland hills in terms of beauty, space, atmosphere, curling smoke from the chimneys of farms, and rosy pink as the sun goes down. Spiral bound softback with all original handwritten directions and maps included. £9.99 NOW £5
73025 SMARTEST GIANT IN TOWN CD by Julia
Donaldson and Axel Scheffler The storyteller and illustrator combination of Donaldson and Scheffler have delighted children over and again and alongside books Bibliophile stocks are now two CDs
of the entire stories with sound effects and music. George wishes he wasn’t the scruffiest giant in town, so one day when he sees a new shop selling giant-sized clothes, he decides it’s time for a new look. With smart trousers, a smart shirt, stripy tie and shiny shoes, George is a new giant. But on his way home he meets various animals who desperately need his help - and his clothes! Sing along with the jolly giant and listen to the voices of actors like Imelda Staunton bring the story to life.
£5.99 NOW £3.50
73029 STICK MAN CD by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler
A companion to The Smartest Giant in Town, Imelda Staunton once again brings to life this popular children’s story. Will Stick Man ever get back to the family tree? A dog wants to play with him, a
swan builds her nest with him. He even ends up on a fire! Join him on his amazing adventures in this classic story from the creators of The Gruffalo. Five tracks on audio CD running time 37 minutes with the entire story alongside music, song and instrumental version. £5.99 NOW £3
73069 OVERCOMING ANXIETY FOR DUMMIES: Audio Book
by Elain Iljon Foreman et al This expert audio book guides you through techniques giving you proven practical advice on relaxation methods, nutritional
guidance and how to combat anxiety through exercise to help you deal with strains in everyday situations and challenge your negative thoughts. Recognise the symptoms of anxiety or help an anxious child or partner to enjoy a more relaxed and calmer life. Go to
dummies.com for videos, step-by-step examples and how-to articles. Two CDs running time 120 minutes. £12.99 NOW £5
72893 BOX OF BEANS: Two CDs
by Clarissa Dickson-Wright The One Fat Lady reads her autobiography Spilling the Beans on two CDs. Determined and clever, Clarissa at the age of 21 was the youngest ever woman to be called to the Bar. Then her adored mother suddenly died and there followed a mind-numbing decade of wild drinking. Rich from her inheritance, in the end Clarissa had
drained her entire fortune and it was a long, hard road to recovery. Included in this box is the Sunday Times number one bestselling paperback in its entirety, 328pp with colour photos. Two CDs runs to 2 hours. Box set. £22.98 NOW £6.50
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