See us on www.YouTube.com/user/bibliophilebooks 72508 NICHOLAS HILLIARD


by Karen Hearn As the leading Elizabethan miniaturist, Hilliard painted many notable characters of the era, including the Queen’s favourites: Sir Walter Ralegh, Sir Christopher


Hatton, Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, and the ill- fated and rebellious Earl of Essex. Above all, Hilliard created several powerful portraits of Queen Elizabeth herself. The “Phoenix” portrait reproduced here shows a confident woman in her early forties who looks straight ahead. By contrast, the locket of 1600, a year before she died, shows an idealised portrait with flowing golden hair, symbolic of her continuing vitality but also designed to mislead. Other royal sitters include Elizabeth’s successor James VI and her rival Mary Queen of Scots, while a portrait of Henry VIII is copied from Holbein’s celebrated study. Costumes indicate status and wealth, but Hilliard’s images also convey personality. Among many unknown women is an elegant lady who may be Essex’s sister, Lady Penelope Rich, celebrated in the poetry of Sir Philip Sidney. Hilliard’s importance rests partly on a treatise about his working methods, covering both theory and practice and including some personal biography. Born into a Protestant family in 1547, he was sent abroad during the reign of Catholic Queen Mary and trained as a goldsmith on his return, probably learning techniques of painting at the same time. Small format, 93pp, 30 colour reproductions.


£19.95 NOW £10 71759 MASTERS OF ART: Titian, 1488/


1490-1576 by Marion Kaminski This super volume chronicles both Tiziano Vercellio or Titian’s early years, including his first successes and commissions, the establishment of his own workshop and the way in which he revolutionised Venetian art, and his later climb to fame. North Italian princes were soon buying his pictures, as was Pope Paul III, and the master’s portraits of the Pope and his grandsons are especially fine. The artist makes technically difficult operations seem easy. He expressed through his choice of colours and forms and his ability to convey the tactile properties of the clothing. 140 softback pages 22cm x 26cm, colour. ONLY £3.75


72013 ANNA PUGH: Catalogue Raisonné 1987-2006 by Anna Pugh


If you have never come across the painter, colourist and storyteller Anna Pugh, we recommend that you try this gorgeous book. Her style is best described, perhaps, as vividly representational. Her paintings do not just record the countryside, the flora and fauna and the changing seasons, they tempt the reader to think about what each section of the painting is really conveying. Here are simply two hens and two cocks amongst an abundance of lush grasses but why are there, hidden in a corner, a cross-looking bird and a white rabbit, not to mention a naked bush whose branches are a brilliant blue? Why, when most birds are facing a ‘Bird Piper’ figure, beaks open as if singing along with his flute, are there just one or two determinedly going the other way? Her work is magical, joyful and playful but also mysterious and imbued with the faintly ominous as if she were inciting us to think again about the meaning of life and death. 156 pages 29cm x 29cm in super bright colours plus the artist’s reflections. £30 NOW £10


72156 ALMSHOUSES by Anna Hallett There are around 2,500 groups of almshouses in Great Britain, most of which were founded many centuries ago and some can be traced to the early Middle Ages. Often picturesque, they come in a variety of architectural styles and often have interesting features including coats of arms, inscriptions, dedications, statues, clock towers and sundials. Many have chapels and gardens, some have museums attached to them. 64 page Shire paperback, colour photos, maps and woodcuts.


£5.99 NOW £3 72617 LIFE - THE CLASSIC


COLLECTION by LIFE Magazine Life magazine photographers are famous the world over for capturing the dramatic moment that defines a nation, an event, a personality. This stunning collection of big


reproductions includes 25 loose prints that can be detached, mounted and framed (see right). They include the legendary Robert Capa’s image of soldiers swimming ashore on Omaha Beach on D-Day, Dmitri Kessel’s beautiful study of the Eiffel Tower in mist and Hank Walker’s profile shot of John and Robert Kennedy conferring in the White House. Dietrich covers her face with a wall of hair, Marilyn gives the viewer her delectable smile. Martin Luther King marches for freedom, Orson Welles steps out of a car to check ticket sales for Citizen Kane and Lady Diana Spencer chats to her bridesmaids. 144 large pages, photos on every page, some in colour.


$29.95 NOW £15


72511 CARAVAGGIO BACON edited by Michael Peppiatt and Anna Coliva


The exhibition to which this catalogue refers was held at the Galleria Borghese. Caravaggio was one of the most penetrating and remarkable of all Italian artists while, as a painter and intellectual, Francis Bacon left a profound mark on 20th century art history in the United Kingdom. In their search for similarities and differences, the contributors address such issues as: The Sacred and the Profane, and Space and Reality. Maurizio Calvese also explores the outstanding art of a slandered painter, i.e. Caravaggio who was, perhaps falsely, accused of murder, while Chris Stephens examines Darkness, Life and Death in the Art of Francis Bacon, and Anna Coliva sees Caravaggio beckoning to Bacon in the Beauty of Sorrow. Includes their famous pieces such as Three studies of Lucian Freud by Bacon and Caravaggio’s David with the Head of Goliath, as well as many works with which readers may not be so familiar. 223 softback pages, 28.5cm x 25cm in life-like colour. £35 NOW £14


72410 DEGAS by Bernd Growe In terms of both theme and technique, the key to understanding the early work of Edgar Degas (1834- 1917) is classical painting. Degas’s work, reflecting an extremely personal and psychological perspective, emphasizes the scenic or concentrates on the detail. He primarily sought his motifs at the race track or circus, in bedrooms, or in ballet salons, and dancers always remained his favourite theme. Features a detailed chronological summary of the artist’s life and work, covering the cultural and historical importance of the artist, approximately 100 colour illus and a concise biography. 9.4 x 11.8", 96 pages. ONLY £8


72512 DULWICH PICTURE GALLERY - BRITISH by John Ingamells


The first of three volumes to be published which comprehensively catalogues the contents of the oldest public gallery in Britain, founded in 1811. The origins of the collection date back a further 200 years to the foundation of Dulwich College by Edward Alleyn, the celebrated


Elizabethan actor and theatrical entrepreneur. A bequest in 1811 of a treasure trove of paintings by, among others, Poussin, Rembrandt and Rubens, transformed the gallery into a major public collection, and it was given a purpose-built new building designed by Sir John Soane. The Linley bequest contributed several major canvases by Gainsborough, shifting the focus of the collection towards the previously neglected area of British art - a process further consolidated by many gifts and bequests, most notably that of Charles Fairfax Murray who, in 1911, donated over 50 spectacular paintings, mostly British. Here are a beautiful early Gainsborough An Unknown Couple in a Landscape, two Hogarths, Hudsons, Lucy Ebberton by George Knapton, a Kneller, a great Lely and many more. A volume to treasure. 287 pages 29cm x 22cm in colour and b/w. Previous owners and sales, numerical index and concordance. £40 NOW £20


72513 DULWICH PICTURE GALLERY: Complete Illustrated Catalogue


by Dr Richard Beresford Dulwich Picture Gallery is England’s oldest public art gallery, founded in 1811, and is still extremely popular. This is the first fully-illustrated catalogue of the entire collection, including paintings which are seldom on show. Among the most


renowned pictures are Rembrandt’s Girl at a Window, Rubens’ Venus, Mars and Cupid, Poussin’s The Triumph of David and Jean-Antoine Watteau’s Les Plaisirs du Bal. The introduction to the catalogue tells the fascinating and extremely complicated story of how pictures, originally collected for the King of Poland in the 1790s, joined Dulwich College’s 17th century holdings. The gallery itself, specially commissioned to hold the collection, was designed by the great Regency architect Sir John Soane and it must surely be the only gallery in the world where its founders are interred in their own mausoleum right at the centre of the building, together with Desenfans’ wife! The entries here are arranged alphabetically, giving title, date, attribution, medium, inventory number and dimensions, with a brief biographical note for each artist. A treasury of art. 320 pages 29.5cm x 26cm with 656 paintings, 150 of which are in colour. Chronology of Acquisitions. £59 NOW £20


72514 ROBERT BEVAN FROM GAUGUIN TO


CAMDEN TOWN by Frances Stenlake


While Robert Bevan’s stature has long been acknowledged in the art world, the consecutive narrative of his life and his art has largely escaped scholarly exploration. It was known by a few art lovers that he was a member of the Camden Town Group, and by a few more that he spent time in Pont-Aven and was therefore aware of Gauguin and his circle long before most of his compatriots. A few can conjure up an image of a horse sale or cab yard subject, sketched or painted by this talented artist. But no-one has examined further his motivation, his vision, his relationships with colleagues and contemporaries. Until now, that is. Stenlake places Bevan in context, socially and geographically as well as artistically. She ranges from Pont-Aven to Exmoor, from Poland to north London, examines his interaction with other members of the Fitzroy Street, Camden Town and Cumberland Market Groups, and deals with his periods of self-imposed isolation painting the hills along the Somerset and Devon borders. Also included are paintings by his wife, Stanislawa de Karlowska, and studies of his son and daughter. The breadth of his subjects, from Cows at Cuckfield to Breton Churchyard to The Carosse Poland, and the eye-catching nature of his art, is lavishly illustrated in 223 pages 29cm x 25cm which include over


180 illustrations, 125 of them in colour. List of works in public collections. £30 NOW £18


72170 CHURCH TILES OF THE 19TH CENTURY


by Kenneth Beaulah and Hans Van Lemmen More than half the churches in Britain are paved at least in part with 19th century decorative encaustic tiles and there are also churches with striking pictorial tile panels. Rarely mentioned in guide books, this Shire handbook describes how the tiles were derived from medieval church tiles, how they were made, who designed and manufactured them and their place in the Gothic Revival. Colour illus and mono plates, 40 page paperback.


£4.50 NOW £2.75


BIOGRAPHY/ AUTOBIOGRAPHY


Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.


- Elbert Hubbard 73135 MARTIN LUTHER


KING by Godfrey Hodgson A rounded portrait of a Christian prophet and the most brilliant orator of his age, the central message of whose life and ministry was that Americans would never be fully free until they accepted that black and white Americans must be equal. Martin Luther King left an indelible mark on 20th century American history through his


leadership of the non-violent Civil Rights campaigns of the 1950s and 1960s. The biography traces his life and career from his birth in Atlanta in 1929, the campaigns that made possible the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and the Voting Rights Act of 1965, to his assassination in Memphis in 1968. The author sheds light on the black Baptist milieu in which King grew up, his theologies and political philosophy and even his repeated sexual infidelities. 249pp in paperback with photos. £9.99 NOW £5


73157 WHEN I DIE by Philip Gould


Labour guru Philip Gould was widely admired by people across the political spectrum, and his death from oesophageal cancer in 2011 made headlines, with Alastair Campbell’s moving last letter printed in many obituaries. Gould’s prognosis was never good but he did have a chance and was determined to live if he could.


Faced with a choice between treatment in America and at the Royal Marsden, Gould went to America, but when the cancer returned his surgeon admitted that more radical treatment should have been attempted. Gould describes the alternation of hope and despair for himself, his wife and two daughters. He vividly describes the physical symptoms and the way he coped with them, as well as the mental strategies for turning grief, fear and loss into the sense of an opportunity. When the condition becomes terminal Gould movingly expresses how a terminal diagnosis gives value to every minute of every day and transforms human relationships. Tony Blair is a friend who provides upbeat support, but even he is silent in the face of death. Gould takes his own story almost to the end, typing even when he is very weak, and his wife and daughters complete the story with their own perspectives and reminiscences, for instance the family outing to choose a grave plot in Highgate Cemetery where their laughter scandalised the attendant. An outstanding read. 228pp. £14.99 NOW £5


73250 DOCTOR GOEBBELS: His Life and Death


by Roger Manvell and Heinrich Fraenkel In a landmark work of WWII history, scrupulously researched, the authors reveal the astonishing career of one of the leaders of the 20th century’s most evil regime, the Third Reich. Part biography and part real- life horror, this shudder-inducing volume delves deep into the mystery shrouding one of Adolf Hitler’s most vicious henchmen. It describes his work constructing the mythic image of the Fuehrer during his rise to power and his catastrophic rule of Germany. Beginning with Goebbels’ idyllic childhood and ending in his dramatic death by suicide, it reveals the man behind the Nazi propaganda machine. Using first-hand accounts from the Nuremberg Trials from Goebbels’ sister Maria, and from the fiancée of his youth, Else, his carefully crafted character is ripped apart to reveal a boy determined to overcome his youthful disabilities and prove his devotion and dedication to his country, by any means, however wrong. 329 paperback pages illustrated in b/w with notes and two appendices: Chief Events in the Life of Goebbels and Plan of the Fuehrerbunker. £15.99 NOW £6


72360 THE JUSTICE GAME by Geoffrey Robertson


An important book which is an attempt to explain why justice matters. Most of us will never find ourselves accused of crimes we did not commit, or oppressed by Whitehall or by the most mighty in the land, or wished to publish something so shocking that public opinion will want to string us up. But if it were to happen, we would like to know we can turn to a legal system which will give us a reasonable chance of victory. Justice is the great game precisely because its rules provide the opportunity of winning against the most powerful, and against the State itself. Geoffrey Robertson QC is one of the few fearless and romantic lawyers dedicated to


Art and Architecture


73623 KANDINSKY WATERCOLOURS: Volume One


by Vivienne Endicott Barnett This Catalogue Raisonné, Premier Volume covers the years 1900- 1921 and is a companion to the Oil Paintings Volume Two 1916- 1944 code 73624. After an


introduction in French, for each piece the provenance, history of exhibitions and bibliographical references are given in English, French and German, whether it is signed or dated, where it can be seen now and its history. In this first volume of watercolours, Kandinsky’s temperas, gouaches and watercolours from the Munich years and the Russian period are definitively catalogued and discussed in chronological order, together with many previously unknown pictures published for the first time. His bold


abstractions and little- known watercolours painted in Russia from 1915-21 are fully documented in this reference for more than 500 artworks with original essays. Much in colour, 556pp measuring 30 x 27cm, this is a Philip Wilson Publishers first edition March 1992. £100 NOW £50


73624 KANDINSKY CATALOGUE RAISONNÉ OF


THE OIL PAINTINGS: Volume Two 1916-1944


by Hans K. Roethel and Jean K. Benjamin


Beginning with an Addendum to Volume One code 73623, volume two of the Catalogue Raisonné of Kandinsky’s oil paintings span the years 1916 until his death in 1944. It includes over 575 entries, 536 of which are entered by Kandinsky in his own Handlist. For every entry there is his title in German, English and French, date, whether signed and dated, alternative titles, location and references. The catalogue is arranged chronologically and the authors have relied on the artist’s Handlist where in all instances he gave the year when the work was accomplished and in many the actual month. Lady in a Gold Dress, striking abstracts like Red Spot II and On White II, geometric patterns in bold colours, his imagination and uniqueness is showcased in these beautifully rendered oils on cardboard, canvas or in mixed media or on wood panels. 560 pages


measuring 30 x 27cm and a companion volume to volume one code 73623. Philip Wilson Publishers first edition, February 1984. £100 NOW £50


73740 KANDINSKY: Volumes One and Two Buy both first editions and make more savings. £200 NOW £80


reducing the difference between law and justice. Hugely entertaining, sometimes hilarious and always illuminating, this is the first book by a practicing member of the English Bar which has recorded such a range of personal, forensic experiences. As a memoir it makes compulsory reading for lawyers and as contemporary history is riveting. It has changed the way government works and made it more accountable and is a joyous catalogue of David against the Goliath of the State. 415pp in paperback with eight pages of photos for example of the Oz editors imprisoned August ’71 and Michael X with John and Yoko, 1959. £10.99 NOW £6.50


73468 SMILE THOUGH YOUR HEART IS BREAKING by Pauline Prescott with Wendy Holden


The title of this moving, true-life book might lead readers to assume that its story of one of unalloyed misery. Not so. Yes, it is sad, but it is also full of joy. Its author was only 16 when she discovered that she was pregnant by an American airman who had promised to


divorce his wife and marry her. In her innocence, she had believed him. Her frank story starts with her stay in a home for unmarried mothers - run by nuns, some of whom are less than kind. She desperately hopes that, even though she and her mother both work full time and cannot afford help, she will not have to give up the baby, but she is shocked and bitterly disappointed. Now she has been given a second chance she never in her wildest dreams thought she would get - to be reunited with the son she had given up more than forty years earlier. We defy you not to weep. 293 pages with photos in colour and b/w. £7.99 NOW £4


73643 DID YOU LIKE THAT? Fred Dibnah In


His Own Words by Don Haworth The author made 19 films about Fred Dibnah, the first of which won a BAFTA award for Best Documentary, so he is well qualified to compile this great selection of Fred’s best, most colourful tales, which together make up his history. They recount key moments in the celebrity’s life: his experiences as a steeplejack, his fascination with machinery, his work as an engineer,


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