Seattle, Wash. University of Washington Press / the Phillips Collection, 2001. Softcover. Blue cloth with white, color pictorial dustjacket. Housed in a black cloth slipcase. 336 pp. Numerous color plates. Issued in conjunction with a series of 2001-2003 exhibitions featuring the work of American artist Jacob Lawrence (1917-2000). "Includes essays..... More
Atglen, Pennsylvania: Schiffer Publishing Ltd, 2012. Hardcover. glossy pictorial boards w/ white printing. 272 pgs w/ primarily color illustrations. color pictorial dustjacket w/ white printing. Glue to textblock and pages firm. Textblock and hinges appear to be from either drop to the spine or substandard publisher practices. Remains a nice..... More
London, England: Duckworth, 1938. Hardcover. red cloth boards w/ gilt spine printing. 95 pgs w/ section of 48 bw plates. Coffee-like spotting to textblock fore-edge leaves small remnants to associated page edges. Text pages tanned. More
London: E. Benn, 1960. Hardcover. Dark brown cloth boards with gilt lettering on the spine; blue DJ with b&w photo-illustration and black lettering; 253 pp.; richly illustrated. "The author of 'Rome et ses Vieilles Eglises,' from which this book is translated, had the gift of presenting profound scholarship in a...... More
New York: Thames & Hudson, 1988. Paperback. Glossy BW-photographic and illustrated softcover with red lettering. 288 pp. Ilustrations. "Justinian's Great Church in Constantinople was the culminating architectural achievement of late antiquity and the first great masterpiece of the Byzantine world. For over 900 years Christendom's grandest place of worship, after..... More
Oxford, England: The Clarendon Press, 1931. Hardcover. burgundy cloth boards w/ gilt emblem & spine printing. 395 pgs w/ 45 pgs of bw plates. Inscription to front endpaper. Other than the pencil 'check-mark' to the closing plate page, text appears free of notations, marginalia; though there may be errant instances..... More
Oxon, England: White Cockade Publishing / The Hunterian Art Gallery, 1990. Hardcover. grey cloth boards w/ white spine printing. 240 pgs w/ bw illustrations. white & brown dustjacket w/ color illustration, black printing. "Mackintosh's only known writings on architecture comprise six lecture scripts and a diary, reproduced in full. They..... More
Woonton Almeley, Herefordshire: Logaston Press, 2000. Paperback. Yellow wraps with color-photo illustration, and black and white lettering; ix, 240 pp.; richly illustrated. "[This book] tell the story from the early settlement of the Golden Valley through to the abbey's continuing use as a parish church. The twenty-four chapters have each..... More
Woodbridge: Boydell, 1987. Hardcover. Maroon boards with white lettering; maroon DJ with illustration and white lettering; 128 pp.; richly illustrated. "The discovery in a stable at Thornham Hall in Suffolk in 1927 of a 14th-century panel painting was one of the most remarkable finds this century in the field of..... More
Vienna, Austria: Edition Tusch, 1975. Hardcover. multi-color cloth boards w/ bold, gilt printing to spine. 321 pgs w/ color & bw illustrations. top edge gilt. glossy white & gold dustjacket w/ gold printing. Text in German with Abbreviated English translation laid-in.Top edge gilt is dulled, but retains some brightness. Back..... More
New York: Dorset Press, 1989. Hardcover. oversized navy boards w/ gilt spine printing. 191 pgs w/ bw & color illustrations. glossy grey illustrated dustjacket w/ blue printing. Illustrated throughout. More
Reading, England: Spire Books ltd, 2006. Hardcover. green cloth boards w/ gilt spine printing. 386 pgs w/ bw illustrations. glossy blue & white pictorial dustjacket w/ white printing. "Professor Ports study of the early nineteenth-century Church Building Commission and its churches first appeared in 1961 and has long been difficult..... More
London, England: Antique Collector's Club, 1983. Hardcover. olive cloth boards w/ gilt printing. 449 pgs w/ bw illustrations, photographs. glossy pictorial dustjacket w/ black printing, white spine. "Nathaniel Lloyd (1867-1933), the distinguished architect and author, wrote this great standard work on English bricks and brickwork in 1925. It is a...... More
London, England: Royal Academy of Arts, London, 2002. Softcover. black, flexible wraps w/ illustration & gold printing. 520 pgs w/ primarily color illustrations. This important new book documents the splendid artistic legacy of the Aztecs, an extraordinary people who, in the space of only 200 years from 1325 to 1521..... More
Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995. Hardcover. Black cloth boards with gilt lettering; color-illustrated DJ, with navy, black and white lettering; viii, 182 pp.; richly illustrated. "Parks and gardens in eighteenth-century England are usually seen as works of art created by individual geniuses like William Kent, Capability Brown and..... More
London, England: Dulwich Picture Gallery / D. Giles Limited, 2017. Softcover. multi-color pictorial wraps w/ black printing. 168 pgs w/ primarily color illustrations, plates. Vibrantly illustrated. Details and illustrates 82 pieces; additional illustrations throughout. "John Singer Sargent's work in watercolor was unorthodox. He overturned traditional contemporary compositional standards and avoided..... More
London: Philip Wilson Pub. 2008. Hardcover. Blue cloth boards, illustrated dj. xiv, 240 pages : illustrations, plans. Includes bibliographical references./ "Bibliography of David John Watkin, 1961-2008": pages 229-240. More
London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1984. Hardcover. Burgundy cloth boards with gold gilt lettering on spine, green and color illustrated dust jacket with off-white lettering, x, 276 pp., bw illustrations. "William Kent is one of the most important figures in the history of English eighteenth-century art. Yet to many people..... More
Aldershot: Ashgate, 2000. Hardcover. Blue cloth boards, illustrated dj. 264 pages : illustrations (some color). Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-259) and index. More
London: W. Tegg, 1857. A New Edition, with Supplement. Hardcover. Brown cloth boards with gilt lettering and illustration; cxii, 631 pp. More
Oxford: University Press, Glasgow, 1960. Hardcover. Navy and light blue boards with navy and gilt lettering; xxii, 256 pp.; richly illustrated. More
London: Thames & Hudson, 2006. Hardcover. Grey cloth boards, illustrated dj. 222 pages : illustrations. Includes bibliographical references and index. More
Charlottesville and London: University of Virginia Press, 2011. Hardcover. black boards w/ gilt spine printing. 314 pgs w/ bw illustrations. glossy cream illustrated dustjacket w/ black, red printing. Nice, sharp and bright; lightly read and handled copy. "...This volume brings together historians of political thought with classicists and historians of..... More
Knoxville, Tennessee: The University of Tennessee Press, 2015. Hardcover. burgundy cloth boards w/ gilt spine printing. 215 pgs w/ bw illustrations. burgundy & yellow illustrated dustjacket. "In this innovative study, Pamela H. Simpson examines the architectural materials that proliferated between 1870 and 1930. Produced by new technology, promoted by new..... More
