Collection: Monographs – artists and designers
This significant collection of vintage monograph titles shines a light on the creative journeys and unique practices of some truly influential designers, architects and artists – representatives from some of the most important artistic movements and periods through history.
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John Ryder | Designer & Art Director for The Bodley Head by Sonia Newby | Stella Press, Hatfield for The Bodleian Library, Oxford, 1974 | cover from engraving by David Loggan - inscribed
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Sensing The Future: Moholy-Nagy, Media and the Arts | Oliver A.I. Botar, 2014
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Le Corbusier | Edited by Paco Asensio | teNeues / LOFT Publications, 2003
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Félix Fenéon, Aesthete & Anarchist on Fin-Siécle Paris | Joan U. Halperin, 1988
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Raphaël Zarka. Isidore Thomas Beral a speculative biography by Silas Flannery, 1999 | signed by Raphaël Zarka
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Edward Gordon Craig by George Nash | Victoria & Albert Museum | HMSO, second impression 1971
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Hogarth On High Life | Translated & edited by Arthur C. Wensinger, 2010 edition
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A Vital Simplicity. Four generations of the Nicholson Family | introduction by Frances Spalding | Caroline Wiseman, 2004
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Denton Welch. Writer & Artist by James Methuen-Campbell | Tartarus Press, 2002
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The Master Builder: Talking with Ken Briggs by Sara De Bondt & Fraser Muggeridge | Occasional Papers. Revisiting Graphic Design Series, 2009
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In the Country by David Gentleman limited signed numbered edition 55/100 | Full Circle, 2014
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Indigo Days. The Art and Memoirs of Julian Trevelyan | Scholar Press, 1996
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Edward Bawden | The Penguin Modern Painters, 1946
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The Long Conversation. A Memoir of David Jones by William Blissett | Oxford University Press, 1981
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Pen & Print. The Legacy of Edward Johnston 1906-2006 | The Edward Johnston Foundation and the Society of Scribes and Illuminators, 2006 | signed by Gerald Fleuss
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Tagebücher Briefe Karl Friedrich Schinkel | Propyläen, Berlin, 1922
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Constantin Guys introduction by Clifford Hall | Ariel Books on the Arts. The Shenval Press, Faber & Faber, 1945 | Hardy Amies bookplate
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Sidney Sime Master of the Mysterious by Simon Heneage & Henry Ford | Thames & Hudson, 1980
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Typographer Spring 1958 Volume XIX No. 1 | In Memory of William A. Dwiggins | Rochester Institute of Technology, New York. Short note by Beatrice Warde
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The Affectionate Eye the life of Claude Rogers by Jenny Pery | Sansom & Co, 1995
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John Nash Newly Discovered Engravings & Drawings by Jeremy Greenwood | The Wood Lea Press, 2020
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Rowley Atterbury and the Westerham Press 1920-2011 | University of Reading, 2011
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Rena Gardiner by Julian Francis & Martin Andrews | Little Toller books in association with Dovecote Press 2015 signed
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Behind the Type. The Life Story of Frederic W. Goudy by Bernard Lewis | Department of Printing Carnegie Institute of Technology, Pittsburgh, 1941
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Jean Cocteau and the French Scene | Abbeville Press, French American Found, 1984
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Theo van Doesburg: A New Expression of Life, Art and Technology | 2016 catalogue
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Kenneth Armitage by Roland Penrose | Artists of our Time | Bodensee-Verlag, Amriswil, 1960
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Barbara Hepworth | Ariel Books on the Arts, introduction by William Gibson | Shenval Press, 1946
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Max Bill: No Beginning, No End by Marta Herford | Scheidegger & Spiess, 2018
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Jeremy Moon: Grid Paintings | Rocket, London, 2006
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Stanley Morison by Nicolas Barker | Macmillan, 1972
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Laurence Alloway. Critic and curator | Edited by Lucy Bradnock, Courtney J. Martin, and Rebecca Peabody | Getty Research Institute, 2015
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See something? Say Something! Gery de Smet, 2010
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Dieter Roth: Books & Multiples | 2004 Catalogue Raisonné | Edition Hansjörg Mayer
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Patrick Heron | Tate Gallery exhibition catalogue, 1998 editor David Sylvester
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The Portable John Latham, editors Anthony Hudek & Athanasious Velios Whitechapel
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