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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'Yorkshire Toast' | Graham Ibbeson sculptor artist celebration issue Ibbeson at 40 | Sep 1991
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Randolph Schwabe by Gill Clarke | Sansom & Co, 2012
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[Frank] Brangwyn by Rodney Brangwyn | William Kimber, 1978
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Anarchy & Beauty. William Morris and his Legacy 1860-1960 by Fiona MacCarthy | National Portrait Gallery | Yale University Press, 2014
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Edouard Vuillard by Michel Makarius | Design by Roman Cieslewicz | Fernand Hazan, 1989
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Gluck her biography by Diana Souhami | Pandora, 1988
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Peter Schoeffer of Gernsheim and Mainz by Hellmut Lehmann-Haupt, 1950 | The Printers’ Valhalla. The Printing House of Leo Hart
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Portraits by Augustus John. Family, Friends and the Famous by Mark L. Evans | Museums of Wales, 1988
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The sculptor speaks. Jacob Epstein to Arnold L. Haskell | William Heinemann, 1931
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Mervyn Peake. My eyes mint cold by Malcolm Yorke | John Murray, 2000
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[Dora] Carrington. Paintings, Drawings and Decorations by Noel Carrington. Foreword by Sir John Rothenstein | Thames & Hudson revised edition, 1980
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Augustus John Drawings edited by Lillian Browse | Faber & Faber, 1941
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Epstein. A camera study of the sculptor at work by Geoffrey Ireland. Introduction Laurie Lee | Andre Deutsch in association with the Royal College of Art, undated presumed to be 1957
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Rowland Hilder. Painter of the English Landscape by John Lewis. Antique Collectors’ Club, second edition 1987
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Slana Watercolours by Nace Sumi | Alpine Fine Arts Collection, 1987
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Patrick Procktor Self-Portrait | Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London, 1991
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Mervyn Peake a biographical and critical exploration by John Batchelor | Duckworth, 1974
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Roland Penrose. The Friendly Surrealist by Antony Penrose | Prestel, 2001
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Edward Bawden by Caroline Bacon and James McGregor | Cecil Higgins Art Gallery, 2008
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Phoebe Anna Traquair 1852-1936 by Elizabeth Cumming | NMS, 2005
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Savage Messiah [Gaudier-Brzeska] by H.S. Ede | Gordon Fraser, London, 1971
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Edward Wadsworth – A Genius of Industrial England by Jeremy Lewison | Bradford Art Galleries and Museums, 1989
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Herbert Read – an introduction to his work by various hands | Edited by Henry Treece, 1944
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Elizabeth Blackadder – The Artist at Work in Her Studio | Royal Academy, 2002
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René Magritte by James Thrall Soby | The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1965 second printing
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V&A Department of Prints and Drawings. S.W. Hayter’s Graphic Work. A Retrospective Exhibition 1926-1966, also private view invitation
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A Christmas Treasury – illustrated by Greg Hildebrandt | The Unicorn Publishing House | Signed
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Francesco Clemente by Derek Walcott | Charta, 2009
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Kurt Schwitters. Creator of Merz by M.E. Burkett |Abbot Hall Art Gallery, 1979
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Richard Dadd (1817-1886): Painter and Patient by Patricia H. Allderidge. Offprint from Medical History, Volume XIV, Number 3 July 1970
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Noel Carrington and His Puffin Picture Books | Ian Rogerson, 1992
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Wilhelm Lehmbruck – Modern Sculptors series | A. Zwemmer London, 1958
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Jan Tschichold Designer – The Penguin Years | Richard B. Doubleday | Oak Knoll / Lund Humphries, 2006
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Ben Nicholson – The Penguin Modern Painters, 1948 | Edited by Kenneth Clark | Hardback
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Ai Weiwei Works 2004-2007 | JRP Ringier, 2008 | Softback, new
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Le Corbusier by Stephen Gardiner | Edited by Frank Kermode | Fontana, 1974
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