Search Results: Art from David Ford Books

Manchester: Cornerhouse Publications & NPG, 1994 First edition. Paperback: pictorial card wrappers. Pictorial boards. Unpaginated. Large tall quarto. Full page b&w photographs by Nick Sinclair throughout, with captions. Introduction by Lord Deedes. Close-up warts and all photos, of British politcians taken in 1991 and 1992. Published in association with National Portrait Gallery. Very Good. Light edge rubbing.

London: Phaidon, 1992 First edition. HB. Cloth with dustjacket. 240pp, large quarto. With mostly colour illustrations throughout, in plates and text. Stylishly presented and illustrated book on the revolution in style led by Robert Adam in the late eighteenth century in Britain, looking at his houses, interior design, funiture and all kinds of details. Decorative pictorial endpapers. Fine book in Fine jacket, No inscriptions Pictures available.

Norfolk, Mascot Media, 2015 Hardcover ,first edition, 143 pages no dustjacket ( not issued) The linocuts of H.J.Jackson well illustrated in colour and featuring many of the artists Norfolk subjects. A Fine copy without inscriptions. Pictures available.

Rutland, Goldmark, 2015 Hardcover book, first edition in dustjacket. 333 pages with many full colour examples of the artist's work. A Fine copy in a Fine dustjacket. No inscriptions , pictures available.

New Haven & London, & Washington: Yale University Press and National Gallery of Art, 1991 First edition. HB. Blue cloth lettered in gilt, and colour pictorial dustjacket . 303pp, large quarto. Pale blue endpapers. Very well illustrated throughout, with mostly colour photos in plates (some whole page) and tex, plus b&w photos and line illustrations. Includes a full catalogue of this exhibition held at the National Gallery of Art In Washington from 1993-4. With essays by 10 scholars. Includes architecture, jewellery, silver, furniture and coaches as well as painting and sculpture. A Fine copy, with a nice bookplate inside front cover.

Newton Abbot, David & Charles, 1998 First edition.Signed Ltd Edition No. 77/650. Hardcover . Cloth and pictorial dustjacket. 96pp. Large landscape format. With colour reproductions (many whole page or spread over two pages) of Nicolas Trudgian's oil paintings of aircraft in action in various wars, and many b & w drawings. Also some photographs showing the artist . Shows Allied and German aircraft. With detailed entertaining text by the artist on his career and work. Fine in Fine protected jacket. in Black slipcase. Very light rubbing to edge of spine . light marks to slipcase. Pictures available.

Charlotte, N. Carolina: Mint Museum of Craft & Design, 2000 First edition. Paperback: colour pictorial white card wrappers, 224pp, quarto. With many colour photos of ceramics in main section, as well as smaller b&w photos at end and in introductory texts. Published for an exhibition from 2000-2001 held at the Mint Museum. Texts by 5 scholars. Many of the ceramics are figurative or unusual, by a range of international ceramicists. A Fine copy, with light rubbing to wrapper edges very small mark to front..

London, William Heinemann, 1898 Hardcover, second impression September 1898 ( First published November 1897) A series of 26 coloured woodblock engravings commencing with A is for Artist and ending with Z is for Zoologist. Content, clean and bright without tears or inscriptions. The covers are worn to edges and all of the spine is missing . the front board is just attached but loose. The cover illustration also from a woodblock print is however clean . Scarce. A Fair copy cover -wise but with Very Good contents . Pictures available

Prague: Nakladatelstvi Slovart, 2006 New English edition. Paperback: colour pictorial card wrappers reproducing art by Mucha to front and back, large quarto, 159pp. With colour reproductions of art by Mucha throughout, many full page, as well as some b&w photos of Mucha and his models and family. The art and life of Alphonse Mucha, 1860-1939. With texts by Petr Wittlich, Ronald Lipp and others. Edited by Sarah Mucha of the Mucha Foundation. A Fine copy.

New York & Hamburg: Callaway Editions and Gingko Press, 1990 First edition. Hardcover book . Black cloth with blind-stamped titles, and colour photo-illustrated dustjacket, with slip case also bound in black cloth with similar title. 207pp, square folio, 36 x 36cm. With 82 colour photo plates printed by Nissha, Japan, each showing an Amish quilt . Captions and introduction by Julie Silber. Fine in Fine jacket. Slight fade to strip along slipcase. Pictures available. Heavy book may require extra postage charges.

Maidstone, Maidstone Borough Council, c1994 Paper covered Card Wraps, Ribbon ties. First edition. Signed on Title page by Anna Ravenscroft. A collection of work by residents and ex-residents of the Grove Green/ Vinters Park areas of Maidstone Kent inspired by Common Ground's Flora Britannica project. , Anna Ravenscroft was the Printmaker. Themes include Old Paths, Old places. Vinters Park, Rich pickings, Plants, Flowers and Trees with tales to tell. 64 pages of Wood cuts and text with frontis and title page. Large Folio (54x38 cm approx.) Very Good condition. No inscriptions. Scarce. Pictures available

Tiverton: Halsgrove, 2005 First edition. Hardcover . Cloth and colour pictorial dustjacket. 144pp, landscape format. With colour reproductions throughout of Andrew Dibben's watercolours, many whole page, plus some drawings, with detailed text by the artist. Mostly Norfolk scenes involving water including the Broads, mills, and many places on the north Norfolk coast; also a chapter on other places including Scotland. Foreword by Keith Skipper. A Fine copy.

New York: Dover Publications, c. 1980 New edition; probably a reprint of the 1957 Dover edition, reprint undated but has an ISBN number suggesting circa 1980. HB. Red cloth, lettered in silver to spine, and dustjacket. 74pp of illustrated text, followed by 183 plates of Muybridge's sequential b&w photos of various animals in motion, including people riding horses. Large quarto. This is a Very Good ex-library copy (has small library stamp of Westwood College of Technology, California to title page, top closed page edges, and at back endpaper with card pocket and bar code; old label residues to spine of jacket). Otherwise a clean bright copy. Photos available.

Milan, Charta. 1998 Hardcover book , with dustjacket, 284 pages . Originally published to celebrate the Anish Kampoor exhibition held in Milan in 1995. A extensive collection of Kampoor's art in different materials including stone, metal, marble, and fibreglass. a Fine book in a Fine dustjacket. Text in EnglishNo inscriptions. Pictures available. Heavy book may require extra postage.

London: Phaidon, 2000 Second edition, revised and enlarged. Paperback: white card wrappers and pictorial dustjacket. 212pp, large quarto. With colour and b&w photos throughout showing the range of Gormley's work, as full pages and in text . The first text is a long interview with the artist by Gombrich. Chronology and bibliography at back. Includes Gormley's own writings. Fine in Very Good jacket, which has some sunning around spine. Pictures available

Nuneaton: Lacet Publications, 1994 New edition, a facsimile of the original 1874 edition. Paperback book : cream card wrappers, lettered in red. viii, 71pp, plus trade adverts. With illustrations as in the original: 3 b&w plates and 82 line engravings in text. 'Plain and explicit instructions for making..' Fine copy. Pictures available.

London: John Lane the Bodley Head, 1927 New English edition. First published in 1916. Translated from the French, with an introduction by the translator. HB. Grey cloth, no dustjacket. 304pp. Hand-cut edges. With b&w photos in plates, and 600 line drawing figures in text. Covers largely clean, a few marks, tanning to spine, and some v.small patchy pale marks to front cloth. Internally cracked front hinge but pages held. Blank front flyleaf may be missing.

London: Routledge & Kegan Paul , 1959 Hardcover book , First edition with dustjacket, The Art of the British sculptor from the point of view of Analytical psychology. Translated from an unpublished German manuscript. with 107 half-tone illustrations. A Very Good copy in a Good price clipped Dustjacket. Previous owner's name to fep , old stain to front corner of dustjacket with some edge wear , light corresponding mark to front board.,. Pictures available.

Peterborough: Langford Press, 2007 First edition. . Hardcover book . Blue cloth, gilt titles and colour pictorial dustjacket by the author. Signed by the author on half-title page. 180pp, large quarto. With colour reproductions throughout of James McCallum's paintings of birds in Finland, Norway, Siberia and Alaska: the artist fulfilled a long-held ambition to observe the birds that he saw in Norfolk in autumn and winter, on their breeding grounds in the Arctic. His paintings, all done in the field, are accompanied by an observant text by a fine field naturalist as well as artist. Includes nesting Spoon-billed sandpipers. Fine book in a fine Jacket.

London, Thames & Hudson, 2009 Hardcover book, first edition in dustjacket. 544 pages. The definitive guide to the Decorative arts of the 1920's and 1930's. With over 1000 illustrations. Fine in a Fine dustjacket. Large but feint gift inscription opposite half-title page.Massive volume which will require extra shipping charges. Pictures available