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AMATEUR WORK ILLUSTRATED - a practical magazine of constructive and decorative art and manual labour, with supplements containing designs and working drawings to scale for various pieces of work, useful and ornamental, & several hundreds of illustrations

Price: £225.00

Publisher: London, Ward, Lock, Bowden & Co

Seller ID: 007306

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Good

Volumes 1 - 7, popular re-issue. Not dated, but probably c. 1892 -5 (though the British Library lists seven volumes of this edition, and dates it 1881-88). One of the most elusive of all late Victorian journals for the keen handyman. This set is bound in a simple brown cloth which is a little marked worn and frayed, but generally still very sound, though the spine head of volume two is rather torn, and a hinge cracked in volume five. The contents are generally clean, though the folding plans and plates are ofter printed on an inferior paper which has browned, as have the adjoining pages. There...
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Batiks (Victoria & Albert Museum).

Price: £10.00

Publisher: London, Victoria and Albert Museum : 1975

Seller ID: 010249

ISBN-13: 9780112900511

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Illustrated, tall slim 8vo, pp 50, paperback, upper cover slightly creased, otherwise a very good copy.
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Ceramic Review - The International Magazine of Ceramics - Issues 188 and 192 (together with the supplement on glazes)

Price: £7.50

Publisher: : 2001

Seller ID: 013491

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Two well illustrated issues of this magazine, with major articles on Kevin de Choisy and Nicholas Rena, together with a 20 page supplement on glazes. Well illustrated, small slim quarto, paperback, very good copies.
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Machine Tools Catalogue, 1918 Second edition

By: Alfred Herbert Ltd

Price: £150.00

Publisher: Coventry, Alfred Herbert Ltd : 1918

Seller ID: 017065

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Good

Very well illustrated, very large thick quarto, pp (24), 885, a little worn and used throughout, some light creasing to the lower corners of the later pages, fore-edges a little thumbed, green bevelled cloth rubbed and a little worn and marked, recently recased, the spine strengthened. RARE. Due to the great weight of the book, extra postage will be needed - this may be considerable if posting abroad. [Metal cutting. boring.milling. drilling, tapping, chucks, capstan lathes, grinding, presses, power hammers, planing, screwing, tool cutters etc. .Alfred Herbert Ltd was one of the world's la...
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Gem Testing

By: Anderson, B.W,

Price: £10.00

Publisher: London, Butterworths : 1985

Seller ID: 017336

ISBN-13: 9780408004404

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

Ninth edition. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece, four colour plates, and black and white photographs, octavo, pp (10), 434, very clean internally, black cloth in very good condition, in a very good dustwrapper.
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David Bellamy's Coastal Landscapes - a practical guide to painting coastal scenery

By: Bellamy, David

Price: £15.00

Publisher: London, Collins : 2002

Seller ID: 016646

ISBN-13: 9780007121762

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

Large horizontal octavo, pp 128, very clean internally, blue cloth in excellent condition, the dustwrapper is just very lightly bumped at the top edge. Really a very good copy. [This book is a practical guide to painting coastal and marine scenery in watercolour, oils and pastels.It contains many tips and techniques for artists of all levels but starts with fairly simple scenes, graduating to more complicated ones. Most of the landscapes are from around the British Isles, but there are also paintings of coastal scenery in Italy, East Africa, Greece and Iceland. Contents include: Sketching ou...
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David Bellamy's Watercolour Landscape Course - from first steps to finished paintings

By: Bellamy, David

Price: £3.75

Publisher: London, HarperCollins : 1993

Seller ID: 016573

ISBN-13: 9780004126470

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Good

Second printing. Very well illustrated, large horizontal octavo, pp 160, fore-edge slightly thumbed, bottom edge a little stained, otherwise very clean internally, pale blue cloth slightly sunned, a good copy in a very slightly worn dustwrapper.
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Baskets in Europe

By: Bichard, Maurice

Price: £25.00

Publisher: Abingdon, Fyfield Wick Editions : 2008

Seller ID: 004695

ISBN-13: 9780956024909

Binding: Paperback

Condition: New

Very well illustrated in colour throughout, quarto, pp viii, 272, paperback, a very good new copy. [A highly researched and well documented work.] New copy.
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Texture & Detail in Watercolour

By: Bolton, Richard

Price: £20.00

Publisher: London, B.T. Batsford : 1995

Seller ID: 016817

ISBN-13: 9780713472226

Binding: Cloth

Condition: As New

Very well illustrated, quarto, pp 128, very clean internally, cream cloth, a very good copy in dustwrapper, virtually as new. [Complete, easy-to-follow guide by noted watercolorist covers papers, paints, brushes; also techniques: scratching-out, wax resist, split-brush, spattering, sponging and more. Full, detailed chapters on surface textures, trees, flowers, coastal scenes, reflections, other topics. Full-color illustrations throughout.]
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Dartington Hall - The History of an Experiment

By: Bonham-Carter, Victor

Price: £8.00

Publisher: London, Phoenix House Ltd : 1958

Seller ID: 019548

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Good

Illustrated, octavo, pp 224, a folding map at the rear, ; a duplicate from East malling Research Station with stamps on the front endpaper but no other markings and otherwise extremely clean internally, a shelf number and label on the spine but the blue cloth covers very clean.
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The Tradition of Fine Bookbinding in the Twentieth Century : Catalogue of an Exhibition, 1979-1980

By: Callery, Bernadette G. & Mosimann, Elizabeth A. (eds)

Price: £6.50

Publisher: Pittsburgh, Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation : 1979

Seller ID: 009995

ISBN-13: 9780913196281

Binding: Cloth-backed boards

Condition: Very Good

Well illustrated, tall slim quarto, pp 129, very clean internally, cloth-backed boards very slightly bumped, spine very slightly marked, otherwise a very good copy. [The preface states "The Tradition of Fine Bookbinding in the Twentieth Century" explores the tension that results from modern craftsmen working in a traditional craft. The twentieth century binder must always contend with traditions of binding structure, material and cover design, and this conflict is compounded when facing the re-binding of an older book. We have attempted to gather representative examples of what we see as the t...
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Calligraphy Today - a survey of tradition and trends.

By: Child, Heather

Price: £6.50

Publisher: London, Studio Books : 1963

Seller ID: 017380

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Good

Well illustrated, quaro, pp 96, extremely clean internally, green cloth, a little faded and marked, lacking a tiny piece on the upper cover, the dustwrapper is not price-clipped but is frayed and chipped at the margins, now nicely protected in a removable clear cover.
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The Magic of Miniatures

By: Clay, Jo

Price: £3.75

Publisher: Castle Cary, Mendip Publishing : 1991

Seller ID: 017510

ISBN-13: 9780905903293

Binding: Pictorial laminated boards

Condition: Very Good

Illustrated with 12 colour plates, small slim octavo, pp xviii, 78, extremely clean internally, pictorial boards in very bright condition. An excellent copy.
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Bristol and West-Country Pewterers, with illustrations of their marks

By: Cotterell, Howard H.

Price: £20.00

Publisher: Bristol Museum and Art Gallery : 1918

Seller ID: 009840

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Illustrated with 4 photographic plates, and many small text figures of marks, large slim quarto, pp (4), 36, paperback, yapp edges, very slightly worn, but a much better than average copy of this scarce work.
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Introducing Jewellery Making

By: Crawford, John

Price: £8.50

Publisher: London, B.T. Batsford : 1972

Seller ID: 014650

ISBN-13: 9780713424058

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Good

Well illustrated, horizontal octavo, pp 111, fore-edge slightly foxed, blue cloth very slightly worn, in a slightly worn dustwrapper.
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Polishes

By: Davidsohn, A. & Milwidsky, B.M.

Price: £8.50

Publisher: London, Leonard Hill (Books) Limited : 1968

Seller ID: 007289

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Good

pp xiv, 205, black and orange cloth very slightly worn, otherwise a good copy in a price-clipped and slightly wrinkled dustwrapper.
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The Mineral Kingdom

By: Desautels, Paul E.

Price: £10.00

Publisher: New York, Ridge Press Book, Grosset & Dunlap : 1968

Seller ID: 017033

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

Very well illustrated, quarto, pp 252, a large inscription on the front endpaper, otherwise extremely clean internally, fawn cloth in very good condition, the dustwrapper is not price-clipped and shows only the slightest signs of use. A great copy. [A heavy book - extra postage may be necessary.]
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Generations in Clay - Pueblo Pottery of the American Southwest

By: Dittert, Alfred E. & Plog, Fred

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Northland Publishing : 1991

Seller ID: 019003

ISBN-13: 9780873582704

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Eighth printing. Large horizontal octavo, pp 149, very clean internally, paperback, the covers in very good condition but slightly curved.
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The Materials of the Artist & Their Use in Painting, with notes on the techniques of the old masters

By: Doerner, Max

Price: £50.00

Publisher: London, Bombay & Sydney, George G. Harrap & Co Ltd : 1935

Seller ID: 018759

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

Illustrated with eight plates, octavo, pp xvi, 432, very clean internally, cloth binding in immaculate condition, the dustwrapper is lightly price-clipped and just a little marked and worn and now nicely protected in a removable clear film. SCARCE.
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Gesso Decoration, with examples selected from historical sources and others executed by Dryad Handicrafts

By: Fletcher, B.J.

Price: £7.50

Publisher: Leicester & London, The Dryad Press : 1931

Seller ID: 012161

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

Illustrated, slim small octavo, pp 34, very slightly used internally, decorated soft cloth binding, slightly worn, a light pen mark on the upper cover. [Materials, grounds and their treatment, methods and design, gilding, painting etc]. SCARCE.
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