COCKERELL CR (Introduction)

Engravings from the Ancient Marbles in the British Museum. Part VI. 1830C. R. Cockerall

London, Printed at W Nicol, Published at the British Museum 1830 vii, 32pp, 24 plates, some folding 31x25, boards with paste-on paper labels End papers slightly browned, very light wear to boards, contents very good. These beautiful engravings are the main part of the Elgin Marbles, removed from the Parthenon and taken to London in the early years of the 19th century by the Earl of Elgin and then purchased by the British Government for the Museum in 1815. Elgin's actions were controversial at the time, with Byron in particular highly critical of what he saw as an act of vandalism, and the campaign to have them restored to Greece continues to this day.

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COLLINS Michael, PAPADAKIS Andreas

Post-Modern Design

London, Academy 1989 288pp, more than 350 colour illustrations. 31x26, red cloth, illustrated dw. Binding slightly cracked at one point, otherwise very good in good dw. Extensive work looking at Post-Modernism's influence on the design of objects, in particular furniture and ornament. While currently spectacularly unfashionable, that usually presages a revival!

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COLLINS Michael

Towards Post-Modernism: Design Since 1851.

London, British Museum Press, (1987), 1994, revised ed. 191pp, 174 illustrations, 16 in colour, A-Z of artists and designers, bibliog. Pictoral wraps, 25x19. Near fine copy. Evolution of the decorative arts from the Great Exhibition of 1851.

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COLLINS Michael

Towards Post-Modernism: Design Since 1851.

London, British Museum Press, (1987), 1994, revised ed. 191pp, 174 illustrations, 16 in colour, A-Z of artists and designers, bibliog. Pictoral wraps, 25x19. Bottom right hand corner creased else near fine copy. Evolution of the decorative arts from the Great Exhibition of 1851.

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COLLINSON Howard Creel

Documenting Design: Works on Paper in the European Collection of the Royal Ontario Museum.

Toronto, Royal Ontario Museum, 1993. viii, 120pp, many attractive b&w illustrations, bibliog. Cloth, 29x22, wrapper Fine. Very good source, showing the role of prints and drawings in design history from the Renaissance to the present.

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COOPER Nicholas

The Opulent Eye: Late Victorian and Edwardian Taste in Interior Design

London, AP, 1976 258pp, inc 252 bw pls. 31x24, glt lttd cloth, illustrated dw. Very good, dw neatly price clipped. Splendid images by Bedford Lemare (1864-1944).

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CORK Richard

Social Role of Art: 34 Essays in Criticism for a Popular Newspaper

London, Gordon Fraser 1979 xi, 104pp 22x14, red cloth, illustrated dw. Very good in very good, now protected, wrapper. Collection of Cork's articles as art critic of the London Evening Standard; elegantly acerbic in his attacks on the elitism of contemporary art in the 1970s.

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CORNELIUS Charles Over

Furniture Masterpieces of Duncan Phyfe

New York, Doubleday, Page and Company for the Metropolitan Museum of Art 1922 viii, 86pp, 56 half-tones, 5 bw fold-out line drawings. 26x19, white and blue boards with paste on labels. Top of spine pulled, some (acid?) damage to fep, light foxing, generally good copy. First trade printing (following a de luxe initial printing of 150 copies), based on a collection of Phyfe's work assembling for an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Phyfe was one of the most important furniture makers of the newly independent United States, selling his work to the fashionable families of New York in particular from his shop on Fulton Street.

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COX David, with foreword by AL BALDRY

A Treatise on Landscape Painting in Water Colours

London, The Studio 1922 20pp, 72 plates of which are 16 tipped-in colour plates. 30x22, bevelled boards, patterned eps. Ex library, usual stamps and marks, tape repairs on spine, paper browning but not affecting plates, fair to good copy of a lovely book. Number 58 of the original edition of 250 vellum copies. Nicely presented version of Cox's important 1813 original.

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CRAFTS ADVISORY COMMITTE GALLERY

The Industrial Art of Gijs Bakker. A Dutch production.

London, 1978. 12pp brochure incl illustrations, biography, bibliog. Stapled card covers. 30x21. Vg. Exhibition catalogue. Bakker, b1942, was originally a jewellery designer who later turned his hand to glass, furniture etc. His chair designs are especially notable (the Levi, Torsion & Strip Chairs for instance).

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CROSBY Theo

Let's Build A Monument

London, Pentagram 1987 32pp, bw and colour illustrations throughout. 21x15, black card wraps, black dw. Very good. A manifesto from the influential designer and thinker, calling for an organic integration of art into public spaces, not as a grandiose add-on. Crosby at this period was increasingly arguing for a more human approach to both architecture and design.

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CROSS Tom

Painting the Warmth of the Sun. St Ives Artists 1939-1975

Newmill and Guildford, Alison Hodge and Lutterworth Press, 1984. 208pp inc many illustrations, bibliog. Cloth, 26x19. Very good copy on price-clipped dust wrapper. Possibly the best book on the St Ives school. The author was Principal of Falmouth School of Art and an expert on 20th cntury St Ives artists.

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CURRY Manfred

The Beauty of Flight

John Miles Limited, London nd, c. 1930 14pp plus 100 plates Cloth, grey with gilt lettering and aircraft image, wrapper, 30x24 Wrapper slightly tatty, some marking to top of cloth, front hinge fragile, otherwise very good. Design, layout and printing of the highest quality. The rare UK edition of Curry's collection of the best images of flight, aircraft and aerial photography, including of Manhattan; J. Gaberell, A. Stöcker, H. Eckert, and Alfred G. Buckham, among other photographers, compiled by Curry. With an introductory text by Curry and a foreword by CR Fairey, this last unique to the UK edition. A beautiful work.

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CUST Robert H Hobart

Giovanni Antonio Bazzi, hitherto usually styled "Sodoma": the man and the painter, 1477- 1549. A study.

London, John Murray 1906 xviii, 442, 4pp of publishers' notices, 56 illustrations including fold-out plates. 23x18, blue cloth with glt lettering and attractive glt illustration, no dw. Pages somewhat roughly cut with a few uncut, slight bumping to extremities of cover, ffep shows signs of removed label, otherwise good to very good. Cust's biography of Bazzi was seen as rehabilitating the artistic and personal reputation of the Sienese artist; Bazzi had apparently made the error of being rude to Vasari, and in return Vasari traduced Bazzi in his Lives of the Artists.

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DAVIS Bob

Faces of Japan

Tokyo, Kodansha, 1978. 108pp, mostly full-page photos. Intro by Murray Sayle. Cloth, 25x25. Very good copy in dust wrapper. 88 black and white photos.

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