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WEIL Daniel
Light Box
London, Architectural Association, 1985. One yard of fabric, 6 x A4 plates on stiff card, PCB, Tin Copper Chessboard, all in presentation box (should also contain 32pp sketchbook with thick card covers, but the sketchbook is missing). 31x31, purple board box with yellow and green illustration. Box slightly sunned, contents fine. As noted, the sketchbook is missing. Published to coincide with an exhibition at the Association by Peter Weil, called 'Heavy Box'. Introductory essays by Dawn Ades, Nigel Coates, J Christopher Jones and John Thackara. Very unusual and interesting item.
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Book number: 34584
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WELLS-COLE Anthony
Historic Paper Hangings: from Temple Newsam and other English Houses
Leeds, Leeds City Art Galleries ("Country House Studies" 1), 1983. 48pp, 62 ills, some in col. 30x21, stapled illustrated wraps. Remains of labels on front, good thus. A pioneering study.
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WELLS Percy A and HOOPER John
Modern Cabinet Work: Furniture and Fitments An Account of the Theory and Practice in the Production of all kinds of Cabinetwork and Furniture with Chapters on the Growth and Progress of Design and Construction Illustrated by over 1000 Practical Workshop Drawings Photographs and Original Designs
London, Batsford 1909 384pp, more than 1000 bw illustrations. 27x20, cloth. Cloth a bit grubby, light foxing on early pages, binding slightly pulled in a few places, generally good working copy. Classic text, full of vital details.
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Book number: 36064
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WEMBER Paul
Die Jugende der Plakate 1887-1917.
Krefeld, Scherpe, 1961. 28pp text, 342pp, pages 47-307 being 848 examples, some in colour, the other pages being an index with name, date, description and name of printer. Bibliog. Attractive cloth cover, 21x22. Very good copy in dust wrapper. Text pages a little tanned. Probably the best one-volume work on Jugendstil posters, and its advertising art generally. Excellent reference for the various countries.
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WENGRAF Paul (ed)
English and French Romantic Painting. Apropos number 4.
Transatlantic Arts Co Ltd, London 1946 24pp, 20 bw illustrations, one tipped in. illustrated wraps Wraps somewhat grubby and creased, contents generally good with a few marks, Essays by Geoffrey Grigson, John Russell, Denys Sutton etc.
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WEST Anthony
John Piper
London, Secker & Warburg, 1979. Portrait frontis, 224pp incx 238 black and white plates and 33 colour plates, list of books, stage designs, public commissions etc by Piper. 24x20, cloth, illustrated dw. Ex library, fep removed, couple of stamps and small labels, otherwise good in very good protected dw. Authoritative book on Piper, very well illustrated. The book itself is nicely designed by his son, Edward Piper.
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WESTPHAL Regelindas (Hrg)
Die Frau im Politischen Plakat.
Berlin, Fröhlich & Kaufmann, 1979. 143pp , mostly illustrations. Wraps, 24x17. Spine edges faintly rubbed, else good copy. Fascinating look at women in posters, mostly mirroring social movements such as votes for women, equal pay etc. Also interesting wartime exhortations for women to 'play their part'. Early posters are mainly from Europe and Russia, whilst post-WW2 examples increasingly come from the East.
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Book number: 30014
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WHITE Gleeson (ed)
Practical Designing: A Handbook on the Preparation of Working Drawings
London, George Bell, (1893), 1899 (reprint of 1894 2nd ed.) viii, 327pp, may ills and figs. 19x13, decorated cloth. Cloth rather faded and worn, eps splitting, fair to good thus. Covers fabrics, pottery, tiles, stained glass etc, with contribs by Millar, Rathbone, Haité, Image etc
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Book number: 39007
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WICHMANN Hans (ed)
Polnische Plakate der Nachkriegszeit. Eine Auswahl aus den verborgenen Depots.
München, Staatliches Museum, 1985. 89pp incl illustrations, biographies of artists. wraps, 27x19. Very good copy. Polish posters on the whole are very different in style from Soviet posters with a good deal of whimsy. A good survey, with all the main poster artists represented (Tomaszewski, Swierzy etc).
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WILLIAMS Jennifer (Prefaces), BIRCH Roger (Photos)
The Artist in the Changing City
London, British American Arts Association, 1993 104pp, bw photographs. 26x22, illustrated card wraps. Little bit of rubbing to edges, very good thus. The culmination of a six year study by the BAAA.
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WILMERDING John
A History of American Marine Painting
Salem, Mass, Peabody Museum of Salem/Litt,Brown & Co, 1968 xxiii, 279pp incl 18 colour &168 b&w plates. Bibliography. Cloth. 29x22. Very good copy indeed. Excellent, well-illustrated survey, from the beginnings, inspired by British & Dutch marine painting, to contemporary artists.
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Book number: 6196
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WINTHER Fritz
Kroppsutbildningen Som Konst Och Plikt
Stockholm, Albert Bonniers, 1916. iii, 81pp plus 51 plates. Foreword by Anna Behle. Embossed cloth with striking image, 24x19. Spine rubbed top and bottom else good copy. Some light pencil marks throughout. A Swedish version of the German "Body Education as Art and Duty", an inspiration for Anna Behle's pioneering dance institute in Stockholm, the first to teach modern dance and rhymithic gymnastics as advocated by Isadora Duncan et al.
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Book number: 27972
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WOHL Robert
A Passion For Wings. Aviation and the Western Imagination 1908-1918.
New Haven, London, Yale, 1994. vii, 320pp, incl 348 illustrations , many in colour and very evocative, 22 pages of notes. Cloth, dw. 27x22. Fine copy. Hard back version of this wide-ranging and authoritative study.
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Book number: 31528
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WOHL Robert
A Passion For Wings. Aviation and the Western Imagination 1908-1918.
New Haven, London, Yale, 1994. vii, 320pp, incl 348 illustrations , many in colour and very evocative, 22 pages of notes. Wraps, 27x22. Fine copy. Paperback version of this wide-ranging and authoritative study.
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Book number: 33289
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WOODS Christine (ed)
Sanderson 1860-1985.
London, Sanderson 1985. Portrait frontis, 56pp, b/w and colour ills, short bibliog. 30x21, laminated illustrated stapled wraps. Very good. Very informative exhibition catalogue, with links to Morris et al
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