Search Results: Authors starting with H from Karen Jakobsen Art & Design Books

London: Sprague & Co., 1896. Book. Very Good. Buckram. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Terracotta colour buckram with bevelled edges and title in gilt on front cover. The initials H.R. are in gilt on the spine. Condition: Very good, with sunning to spine. Cover edges have light shelfwear. Binding sound, text clean. Inscription to previous owner in ink on front endpaper, dated 1897, similar inscription to reverse of rear endpaper. An unpaginated collection of examples of b/w architectural drawings and b/w watercolours by Heber Rimmer, a promising architect who died at the young age of 26 in 1895. A contemporary of Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Rimmer won the presitigious Soane Medallion in 1892. Scarce. .

London: Booth-Clibborn Editions, 2000. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Dark grey hardcover with title in silver on spine. Condition: Good, with light shelfwear to covers. Light foxing to endpapers. Binding sound, no inscriptions. Dustjacket condition: Good, with light shelfwear. 320pp. Over 200 colour photographic illustrations. This book charts the development of the work of the British photographer Rankin (John Rankin Waddell) (b.1966), from his beginning as an in-house photographer for his own London-based fashion magazine Dazed and Confused, to becoming an internationally acclaimed and exhibited creator of fashion campaigns and celebrity portraits..

Oxford and Aldershot: The Ashmolean Museum Oxford in Association with Scolar Press, 1993. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Bright blue hardcover with title in gilt on spine. Condition: Very good, binding sound, no inscriptions Dustjacket condition: Very good, with very light shelfwear. 104pp. 30 b/w plates. This book was produced to accompany the exhibition of engravings by Roger Vieillard held at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford from 26 October 1993 to 16 January 1994 and at the National Museum of Wales, Cardiff from 19 March to 15 May 1994. It was the first book in English on one of the greatest French engravers of the 20th century, incorporating a biographical memoir of the artist by his friend, the French academic Marc Fumaroli. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

London/Munich: National Portrait Gallery/Prestel, 2000. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Softcover. Condition: Very good, with very light shelfwear to covers. No inscriptions. 95pp. 45 b/w photographic illustrations. David Wilkie Wynfield (1837-1887) produced a remarkable series of photographic portraits of his contemporaries in the 1860s. His subjects, who included Millais, Lord Leighton, Holman Hunt and Burne-Jones, were transformed by the use of costume into medieval and Renaissance courtiers, princes and noblemen. This book unites previously unpublished portraits with Wynfield's well-known works to recreate an intimate picture of 19th century artistic London..

London: Faber and Faber, 1967. Book. Good. Soft cover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Softcover. Condition: Good with light shelfwear and soiling to covers. Light cockling to covers wihere they meet spine. Binding sound, text clean, no inscriptions. Light foxing to rear of covers. 213pp. 3 colour plates, 32 b/w plates and several b/w illustrations within text. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Liverpool: Liverpool College of Art, 1959. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 24mo - over 5" - 5¾" tall. Sewn booklet with grey card covers. Condition: Very good, just a hint of sunning to cover edges. condition, text clean, no inscriptions. 5pp. Appears new even though printed over fifty years ago. This essay was first printed in Typography I, November 1936, and was reprinted in this booklet by kind permission of Rene Hague and Robert Harling to mark the opening of Eric Gill Typographer, an exhibition held at Liverpool College of Art, 28 Jan-7 Feb 1959. 24mo - over 5" - 5¾" tall.

Berlin: Albertus Verlag, 1928. Book. Good. Hardcover. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. NB: Text is in German throughout. Red hardcover with title in silver on front cover and spine. Condition: Good, with light shelfwear to covers, some rubbing to silver on spine. General foxing to endpapers and half-title. Binding sound, no inscriptions. 131pp. Many b/w photographic illustrations. This book details some of the new commercial and domestic architecture being built in Berlin between the World Wars. Much of it laid the ground rules for the architectural style of the rest of the 20th century, with futuristic designs s well as pioneering new concepts of social housing by architects such as Bruno Taut and Walter Gropius. .

London: Alan Cristea Gallery, 2016. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardcover with title in black on spine and front cover. Condition: Fine, binding sound, no inscriptions. 32 plates. This catalogue was produced to accompany the exhibition of prints by Antony Gormley (b.1950) held at the Alan Cristea Gallery, London from 13 May to 2 July 2016. Marking his first project and exhibition with the Alan Cristea Gallery, Gormley made four series of works on paper (woodblock prihts, crude oil and petroleum jelly prints, acquatints and etchings) that consider how our physical freedom and imaginative potential is increasingly conditioned by the built environment. .

London: Waddington Galleries, 1996. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Softcover with dustjacket. Condition: Very good, binding sound, text clean, no inscriptions. Dustjacket condition: Very good, with light shelfwear. 41pp. 11 colour plates. This 11 item catalogue was produced to accompany the exhibition of work by the Spanish artist Antoni Tapies (1923-2012) held at Waddington Galleries, London from October 18 to November 16, 1996..

London: Reeves and Turner, 1883. Book. Fair. Cloth. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Dark green cloth with title in gilt on spine. Condition: Fair to good, covers and spine generally lightly rubbed and bumped, some foxing to endpapers. Binding sound. Previous owners name on reverse of front endpaper. Very light browning to text. 326pp. .

London and Glasgow: John Murray in Association with Glasgow Museums and Art Galleries, 1997. Book. Good. Soft cover. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. First softcover edition (originally published in hardcover to accompany the 1990 exhibition held at the Burrell Collection in Glasgow which then toured to the Fine Art Society, London). Condition: Good, with general light shelfwear to covers. Binding sound, no inscriptions. 177pp. 130 illustrations, many in colour. This study of Joseph Crawhall's life and work brings together the wealth of new material that has emerged since Adrian Bury's monograph of 1958. It makes accessible works from private and public collections - most notably those from the Burrell Collection. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

London: Thomas Nelson, 1953. Book. Illus. by Helen Monro. Good. Cloth. First Edition.. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Dark green cloth with titles in gilt on spine. Condition: Good, with light shelfwear to covers and light bumping to head and tail of spine. Two small splashmarks to rear cover. Binding sound, no inscriptions. 95pp. Beautifully illustrated with wood engravings by Helen Monro. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Messum's, 2008. Book. Good. Soft cover. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Softcover. Condition: Good, with light shelfwear to covers and light crease/bend to lower right corner of catalogue. Binding sound, no inscriptions. This catalogue was published to accompany the exhibition of work by Michael Upton (1938-2002) held at Messum's, London from 29th October to 15th November, 2008. Many colour illustrations. Price list for the exhibition loosely inserted..

London: The Pictorial Group of the Royal Photographic Society, 1947. Book. Good. Cloth. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Green cloth with titles in gilt on front cover. Condition: Good, with light sunning to top left corner of front cover, and a couple of small faint marks to bottom of front cover. Binding sound, text clean, no inscriptions. 23pp. plus 48 b/w plates. Alexander Keighley was a founder member of the Linked Ring, a Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society from 1911, and driving force behind the formation of the Yorkshire Photographic Union. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Other Press LLC, 2002. Book. Fine. Soft cover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Softcover. Condition: Fine, with just the faintest hint of shelfwear to covers. No inscriptions. 376pp. In this lucid and compelling analysis of Lacan's twenty-third seminar, "Le Synthome," Roberto Harari points to new psychoanalytic pathways that lead beyond Freudian oedipal dynamics..

London: Oxford University Press, 1952. Book. Illus. by Lynton Lamb. Very Good. Hardcover. Limited Edition. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Pale blue cloth with title in gilt on spine. Condition: Very good, with just a hint of shelfwear to covers and very light foxing to cloth on spine. Binding sound, no inscriptions. Dustjacket condition: Good, with general light shelfwear, not price-clipped. 98pp. Wood engravings by Lynton Lamb. One of a limited edition of 1050 copies, of which 1000 were for sale, this is no.52..

London, Liverpool and Boston: Philip Lee Warner, publisher to The Medici Society Ltd., 1921. Book. Good. Hardcover. Limited Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Printed in the Riccardi Press fount at the Chiswick Press. Pale blue paper-covered boards with quarter cloth spine and title in black on paper labels pasted on to front cover and spine. Page edges untrimmed to fore-edge and base of textblock. Condition: Good, with general shelfwear to covers including some light bumping to top rear cover corner, and some light sunning and soiling to covers including spine. 144pp. Frontispiece portrait of Thomas Hardy by William Nicholson, printed in brown and black. One of a limited edition of 1000 copies, this copy is out of sequence and does not have a number on the limitation page (see image).

Edinburgh: The Tragara Press, 1979. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. Limited Edition. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Softcover. Marbled paper wrappers with title in black on cream label pasted onto front cover. Condition: Very good, with light shelfwear to covers. One of a limited edition of 95 copies, this being no.60. Printed by hand on Barcham Green paper. 12pp. According to his biographer, R.L.Purdy, this is the only book review Hardy ever wrote. It was done at the request of C.Kegan Paul, the publisher of the New Quarterly Magazine, and appeared anonymously in the issue for October 1979..

New York: Harry N Abrams Inc., 1994. Book. Fine. Cloth. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Dark lavender grey cloth with title in gilt on spine. Condition: Fine, binding sound, text clean, no inscriptions. Dustjacket condition: Fine, with a hint of shelfwear. 128pp. 178 illustrations, including 150 plates in full colour. Some of the most beautiful and elaborate follies and pavilions in Germany and Austria are included in this book, such as the Swiss House at Anholt castle, the Hercules monument at Wilhelmshohe, and the green pavilion at Laxenburg, Austria are described by Sally Aall, and illustrated with photographs by Nic Barlow. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Sir John Soane's Museum, 1998. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Softcover. Condition: Very good, with just a hint of shelfwear to covers, and some light scuffing to rear cover. binding sound, no inscriptions. 36pp. Many b/w and some colour illustrations. This catalogue was produced to accompany the exhibition of drawings by William Kent held at Sir John Soanes' Museum, London from 30 October to 19 December 1998, several of which had not been exhibited before..