Art Reference from Wykeham Books

Artaria & Co, Auktionshaus für Altertümer Glückselig GmbH, Vienna, / Verlag Paul Cassirer, Berlin, auction catalogues for the sales held on 11th to13th June and 29th and 30th September, 1930. 5 volumes, plain wrappers within printed overwrappers with flaps, 4to, 33 cm,. Printed on double leaves, folded Chinese style, Plates- Bd I 76 plates, Bd II… Read more about this item

Editions C. Cre`s & Cie, Paris, first French edition, 1923. Printed boards, small 4to,. 17, [1] pp, 48 plates with 55 ills. Armorial bookplate of Christopher Evelyn Blunt on front pastedown endpaper, lacking the spine, endpapers very browned, contents a little agetoned.

Christie, Manson & Woods, London, illustrated auction catalogue for the sale held on 26th June, 1936. Purple printed boards, folio, 26 cm,. 12 pp, 5 plates. 53 lots. Boards slightly faded, slight wear to lower fore-edge corners, otherwise Good.

Sotheby & Co, London, illustrated auction catalogue for the sale held on 20th July, 1949. Green printed wrappers, 4to, 25 cm,. 24 pp, 15 plates, including frontispiece , ills. 136 lots. From the preface: "The collection catalogued in the following pages forms probably the most important sale of Constable’s works that has ever taken place, including not only one… Read more about this item

Christie, Manson & Woods, London, illustrated auction catalogue for the sale held on 8th December 1933. Green printed boards, folio, 25 cm,. 43 pp, 16 plates. 121 lots. Boards duststained, tiny gold dot sticker on rear board, several lots with prices marked and 1 or 2 other notes, otherwise Good. . Laid in is a printed slip… Read more about this item

Christie, Manson & Woods, London, illustrated auction catalogue for the sale held on 4th May, 1939. Printed boards, 8vo, 26 cm,. 46 pp, 15 plates. 129 lots. Boards darkened, tiny gold dot sticker on rear board, NearVery Good.

Christie, Manson & Woods, London, illustrated auction catalogue for the sale held on 21st and 22nd March, 1939. Green printed wrappers, tall 8vo, 25 cm,. 48 pp, 6 plates, including frontispiece. 326 lots. The sale comprised: Mezzotints and Prints (Lots 1-15); Drawings (16-24); Pictures (25-35); Objects of Art and Vertu (36-64); English and Continental Porcelain and Glass (Lots; 65-100);… Read more about this item

Methuen & Co., London, first edition, 1907. Later library cloth, gilt spine-title, folio, 39 cm,. 48 full-page caricatures. Each plate accompanied by guard sheet, with descriptions in facsimile. An ex-library copy with a gilt number on the spine, library label on the front pastedown endpaper , accession stamp and marks on the verso of the title-page, small… Read more about this item

HarperCollins, London, first edition, 1991. Cloth, 4to, 29 cm,. 399 pp, profusely illustrated in colour. From the blurb - "Learn how to capture the brilliant colours of autumn leaves, the mood of a stormy sky, or the shimmer of dark reflections in water. Painting Nature in Watercolour provides 135 stimulating lessons in painting trees, skies and water to… Read more about this item

Knight, Frank & Rutley, London, auction catalogue for the sale held on 7th to 11th, 14th to 17th, and 21st to 23rd June, 1915. Grey printed boards, mounted circular armorial device, 8vo, 25 cm,. 251 pp, 32 plates, ills,. 2793 lots. The sale comprised: Family Portraits, Pictures, Mezzotint and other Engravings Lots 1-284; Georgian Plate, Snuff Boxes and Bijouterie… Read more about this item

Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, London, illustrated auction catalogue for the sale held on 26th March, 1920. Yellow printed wrappers, 8vo, 25 cm,. 38 pp, 24 plates (some folding), ills. From Herrmann: 'Sotheby's –Portrait of an auction house" -The [sale] on 26 March included the Zeiss Collection, at that time the property of an English lady, which had been… Read more about this item

Sotheby & Co., London, illustrated auction catalogue for the sale held on 5th December, 1972. Printed boards, small 4to, 25 cm,. 205 pp, numerous plates (some folded). From the preface: "This is the second and last portion of the drawings purchased in 1836 by Lord Francis Egerton, later 1st Earl of Ellesmere from the dealer Samuel Woodburn. Eighty… Read more about this item

L'Archange minotaure, Apt, first edition, 2009. Cloth, large 8vo, 30 cm,. 124 pp : facs (chiefly colour), map ;. From the blurb: "The book has three main focuses: The first two sections aim to throw light on the signification, for the faithful and the scholars, of the liturgical treasures which the modem materialistic world considers only as art… Read more about this item

Liverpool University Press and National Museums & Galleries on Merseyside, Liverpool, first edition, 1998. Cloth, 4to, 30 cm,. xi, 732 pp. As New.

Sotheby's, London, illustrated auction catalogue for the sale held on 4th December 1967. Green printed wrappers, small 4to, 25 cm,. 91 pp, 22 plates. 294 lots. The First Portion comprised English Glass including Early Sweetmeats, Tazzas, Ale and Wine Glasses A fine Series of Heavy Baluster Drinking Glasses, A Superb Collection of Dutch-Engraved Newcastle Glasses, Numerous Glasses… Read more about this item

Librairie Armand Colin, Paris, second edition, 1928. Later cloth (original wrappers not retained), gilt spine-title, top edge gilt, small 8vo, 20 cm,. vi, 328 pp, 8 plates. Booklabel of the bibliophile A R A Hobson on front pastedown endpaper, endpapers agetoned, otherwise Near Very Good.

Christie, Manson & Woods, London, illustrated auction catalogue for the sale held on 4th July, 1919. Grey printed boards, small folio, 25 cm,. 14 pp, [9] plates, ills. 24 lots. Boards darkened, slightly edgeworn, otherwise Good.

Oxford University Press, Lonson, 1969 reprint of 1948 first edition. Cloth, folio, gilt spine-title, 45 cm,. Unpaginated, approximately 200 pp, profusely illustrated. An important reference . As one of the press comments on the book had it, " ‘A formidable erudition has not prevented these two scholars from illustrating their themes in a way that is highly… Read more about this item

The Collector, London, first edition, 1929. Limited edition of 750 copies. Cloth, gilt cover-titles, 4to, 29 cm,. xx, 112, [1] pp, 102 plates, (some colour). 601 entries. . Copy No. 107. Armorial bookplate of Samuel Garcia Asher on front pastedown endpaper. Pages v-xii detached from textblock. An ex-library copy with the shadow of a removed label on… Read more about this item

Sotheby & Co., London, illustrated auction catalogue for the sale held on 11th July, 1972. Printed boards, 8vo, 26 cm,. 209, [1] pp, colour frontispiece, profusely illustrated in black-and-white. 98 lots. The first day of the sale more than doubled the previous record proceeds for any auction of drawings. From the introduction: "This important group of drawings by Lodovico… Read more about this item