Search Results: ART from Chilton Books

New York: Hammer Galleries, 1983.. The Gallery Collection Summer 1983. Art Catalogue. Pp.32,colour illustrations of paintings throughout. Paperback, slightly rubbed. G+.

Lavenham: The Lavenham Press Limited, 2006.. 1st edition. "William Woodhouse, a Lancashire artist, had a love for all creatures great and small. He excelled at painting animals, especially horses and dogs....Woodhouse painted many local scenes around Morecambe, Heysham and surrounding area, including 'the men of the bay' at work....His Royal Academy exhibits featured animals native to North America and Canada...." 27cms x 21cms x 1cm. Pp.207, colour and black & white illustrations throughout. Blue illustrated stiff card cover. VG.

London: The Studio. 1928.. Durer is one of the very few great artists of whom it may be said that their craftsmanship was nearly too much for their genius". Pp. unpaginated. Many b/w illustrations. P/b. 15 cms x 11 cms. Small tear to bottom of spine. Creasing to covers. G+.

London: Dorling Kindersley, 2001.. Acclaimed artist and academic Sarah Simblet unveils the extraordinary construction of the human body and celebrates its continuing prominence in Western Art today." 28.8cms x 25cms x 2.5cms. Pp.256, more than 250 specially commisioned photographs and 100 drawings + practical drawomg lessons explaining how to visualize and draw each part of the body, 10 masterclasses examine world famous paintings. Black illustrated laminated boards, matching dustwrapper rubbed with a couple of scratches to rear and has minor edgewear. A heavy book which may cost extra to send overseas. VG/G+.

London: MQ Publications.. 1st ed. "Works from artists such as Canaletto, Monet, Constable and Ruisdael are paired with poems, prose and classical text". Pp 144, full of colour illustrations. P/b, illustrated cover, stiff card cover. VG.

London: Thames & Hudson, 1970.. 1st ed. "A thorough survey of the Art Institute of Chicago's distinguished collections and some of the people who contributed to that distinction". Pp. 288, colour and b/w illustns. throughout. Ex libris stamp to fep. Rear endpaper absent. Light green cloth, gilt title to spine, illustd. d/w. ('Mother and Child' by Picasso.) Clear film wrap. G+/G+.

London: Welsh Arts Council/Lund Humphries,1971.. 1st ed. 25.5cms x 22cms. Soft back. Worship is the 3rd book in the Art and Society series. A brief study of the relationship of art and religion within human society, through an introductory essay and three pictorial sections(Past, Present and Future). Pp.96, illustrated in colour and b/w throughout. Illustrated cover. VG.

Watertown: Imagine, 2014.. 1st edition. "Ambiguity. Uncertainty. Beauty. That's what you'll find in this gallery of images. From Joe Burull's photograph of a leaf that looks like a woman's lips, to Tang Yau Hoong's paradoxical 'Erasingg ands' ( a playful take on Escher's famous drawing), to Rob Gonsalves's magical scene of a city bathed in darkness, a universe of wonder awaits you here." 22.5cms x `20cms x 2.5cms. Pp.224, colour illustrations throughout. Grey cloth, dustwrapper. VG/VG.

Amsterdam: L.J. Veen Ltd.,1947.. 1st ed. Pp.86 text/192 b/w plates. White boards, spine brown cloth, gilt title to front and spine. VG.

Osmiroid Creative Leisure, 1989.. Offers a practical and positive guide to the would-be 'sketcher'. Sketching is something to be enjoyed and relished, but at the same time is capable of enhancing dramatically our awareness of the world in which we live." Pp.64, colour and black and white illustrations throughout. Pbk. VG.

London: Peter Owen, 1969.. 1st ed. "The author traces the early origin of the genre, examines its history and development ...and discusses and illustrates the work of more than a hundred artists..." 29.5cms x 22cms. Pp.368, 8 colour plates, 181 b/w plates. Dark blue cloth with gilt raven motif, d/w edges slightly rubbed with 1cm tear to rear top edge. VG/VG.

London: HMSO, 1966.. Published on the occasion of the Aubrey Beardsley Exhibiotion held at the Victoria and Albert Museum. 24.5cms x 18.5cms. Pp.18/50 pages of black & white plates. Paperback, minor spots to rear cover and base of spine. G+.

London: Macmillan, 1967 .. Signed first edition. Originally published in French; Lausanne: Edita, 1967. Translated from the French by Haakon Chevalier. A very good tight binding with a very good dust-wrapper. 12.00" x 10.00" x 1.50". pp.277/[7pp. - Bibliography & Index] . Edge worn dust-wraper, creased, with a few small edge tears. Also, one small inner repair to back cover. A very good tight binding. Clean brown cloth covered boards, with bright gilt titles to front board and spine. original green endpapers. Previous owner's blind stamp to front endpaper: "GCT The Library of Glyn C. Thursfield". Light spotting to free endpapers. Title page with handwritten dedication: "For Diana and Alan. A very good photograph of you luuvs on the cover. Lots of luck Beverly and Vidal." Clean text and illustrations throughout. VG. ** Published to mark the 50th anniversary of the sculptor's death. This book tells his full life story and covers all phases of his work including assessing his importance as an artist,… Read More

London: HMSO, 1965.. 1st. ed.Small Picture Book No.4. "At a time when the Industrial Revolution was beginning to transform the face of France, a group of painters whose pime interest lay in the direct study from nature brought fame to a small village on the northern edge of the forest of Fontainebleau...Examples by four of the best-known painters of the group are included in this Picture Book: Corot, Rousseau, Millet and Diaz." 12cms x 18cms. Pp.20 text with 17 pages of b/w plates. Pbk. Scarce. VG.

West Drayton: Penguin, 1948.. 1st edition. Then Penguin Moden Painters series. Landscape format. 17.5cms x 22cms. Pp.16 text, 32 colour and black & white plates. Brown stiff card cover, minor wear to edges and spine. G+.

Oxford: Basil Blackwell /Institute of Contemporary Arts, 1986.. Victor Burgin is known equally for his theoretical writings as for his work as an artist...Interweaving his visual work with fragments from interviews, talks and letters, (the book) offers insight into the relation of 'theory' to 'practice' in a form of art which has undermined the very basis of this distinction." 277cms x 22cms x 1.5cms. Pp.189, black & white photo illustrations throughout, owner's details to half-title page. Paperback, toned with creasing to spine and 2cm indentation to front. G+.

London: Adam And Charles Black, 1906 .. Signed by "Myles Birket Foster" ! First Edition. A very good tight binding with an interesting provenance. pp.20/pp.216/[4pp. - Adverts]. Decorated cloth binding, corners bumped. Spine sunned with slight loss to top of spine. Large bookplate to the verso of the front board by "J. G. Withycombe.": "Ex Libris Maude Bentley.". Second bookplate to front endpaper for "Francis Garnham". Small neat signature to top of front endpaper: "Myles Birket Foster". Presumed to be Myles Birket Foster, F.R.A.M. The eldest son of the artist (to which this book is dedicated). Clean throughout with with 73 colour & 20 b&w illustrations, plus many smaller drawings within the text. Coloured plates with titled tissue guards. Small bookseller's label to recto of rear board: "The Time (Book Club) 376-384 Oxford Street London." A good copy with an interesting history. ** "Myles Birket Foster (1851�1922), was an organist who composed cantatas for children's voices and wrote a History… Read More

[London] : Nonesuch Press 1956. Limited first edition, with dustwrapper. 11.5" x 11.5" x 1.25". pp.xi / [114pp.] + 56 plates . Patterned dustwrapper, soiled, with small loss to edges. Now protected by a removeable clear plastic cover. Brown cloth covered boards with gilt titles to spine. Corners rubbed and bumped. Deckled page edges. Clean text and illustrations throughout. The edition is limited to 1440 copies for sale in the United Kingdom ... This is number 1375." G+/VG . ** Referenced by: Nonesuch Press, no. 126.

New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2018.. Translated from the French by Markus I. Cruse. "Pastoureauinvestigates how the ever-changing role of blue in society has been reflected in manuscripts, stained glass, heraldry, clothing, paintings, and popular culture." 24.2cm x 23.8cm x 2.2cm. Pp.216, 96 colour illustrations. Blue boards, dustwrapper. VG/VG.

Dublin: The Dolmen Press & the Library of Trinity College,1963.. 2nd imp. Pp.16 text/ 20b/w & colour plates, inscrip. to fep. Card covers with mock wood effect, cream to spine,gilt title to spine. VG.