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Fine copy in a fine dustjacket, with bookseller's label fixed to the lower inside cover (John Sandoe's).

William Beckford, 1760-1844: An Eye for the Magnificent ...

Edited by Derek E Ostergard

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£75

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First edition. In near-fine condition, if not for small stain on side of page block; with a very good dust jacket, with some foxing inside and minimal shelf wear.

A Pioneer Potter: An Autobiography

Michael Cardew

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£60

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First edition. In very good condition, with a near-fine dust jacket; some very minor foxing to dust jacket and inside of boards.

Rare Spirit: A Life of William De Morgan 1839-1917

Mark Hamilton

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£15

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A charming and generous selection of Raverat's gorgeous woodcuts in fine condition with a fine jacket; bound in green cloth, plain endpapers. Edited by Rosemary Davidson, long-time Keeper of... read more

Gwen Raverat: Wood Engravings of Cambridge and Surroundings ...

Rosemary Davidson

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£150

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First edition in near-fine condition with a near-fine dust jacket; some very minor blue staining (3cm) at top inside of back board and endpaper; minimal shelf wear to dust jacket.

Edward Barnsley and His Workshop: Arts and Crafts in the Twentieth Cen ...

Annette Carruthers

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£100

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First edition, first printing in near fine condition, gold gilt top edges still clean and gleaming. Dust jacket fine but for somewhat sunfaded spine. Blue John Sandoe bookseller label inside... read more

Grinling Gibbons: His Work as Carver and Statuary

David Green

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£75

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Fine copy in a very good dustjacket with a little shelfwear on to edge. With a bookseller's label fixed to the lower inside cover (John Sandoe's).

Charles Rennie Mackintosh: The Complete Furniture, Furniture Drawings ...

Roger Billcliffe

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£75

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First edition. As new. Contains 454 illustrations, 136 of which are in colour.

Louis Majorelle: Master of Art Nouveau Design

Alastair Duncan

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£60

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First edition in fine condition - some very slight foxing to top of page block - with a fine dust jacket.

Poole Pottery: Carter and Company and Their Successors, 1873-1995 ...

Leslie Hayward

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£45

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Mint copy of this large, landscape-format book, now scarce, with bookseller's label fixed to the lower inside cover (John Sandoe's).

The Art of CFA Voysey: English Pioneer Modernist Architect & Desi ...

David Cole

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£350

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First edition. As new.

Voysey Bookplates

Karen Livingstone

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£20

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A fine copy in a fine slipcase. A bookseller's label is fixed to the lower inside cover (John Sandoe's).

Craftsmen and Interior Decoration in England, 1660-1820 ...

Geoffrey Beard

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£30

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Fine condition, in a fine dust jacket. A superb copy of this scarce and gorgeous book.

A History of the Golden Cockerel Press

Roderick Cave

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£125

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No 184 of 1200 copies, signed by the author. Very good copy in fine dust jacket, with gilt edges to the top of the page block. Excellent photographs of Whistler's astonishing glass engraving... read more

Scenes and Signs on Glass

Laurence Whistler

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£15

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First edition, first printing in fine condition with fine dust jacket. Minimal shelfwear on top edge. Blue John Sandoe bookseller label inside front cover.

Georgian Craftsmen and their Work

Geoffrey Beard

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£35

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A fine copy - bound in gorgeous turquoise cloth with a band of watercolour illustration down the right hand front cover - with a good dust jacket; jacket has a rip across the head of the spi... read more

M. H. Baillie Scott and the Arts and Crafts Movement: Pioneers of Mode ...

James D. Kornwolf

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£75

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First UK edition, in fine condition; almost as new.

Eileen Gray: Architect/Designer

Peter Adam

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£25

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First edition. As new, with as new dust jacket. Blue John Sandoe bookseller label inside front cover.

The Obelisk: A Monumental Feature in Britain

Richard Barnes

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£35

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A first edition of this scarce book. In very good condition, with a very good dust jacket. Black cloth boards bumped at the bottom corners, ditto the dustjacket. A small 1cm tear to the cove... read more

Dumfries House: An Architectural History

Simon Green

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£100

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First edition. Fine, with blue John Sandoe bookseller label inside front cover. Dust jacket has small nick at top of spine, otherwise fine.

The Arts and Crafts Movement in the Cotswolds

Mary Greensted

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£25

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Fine copy in a fine dustjacket,with a blue John Sandoe bookseller's sticker on the inside of the front cover.

Thomas Hope: Regency Designer

David Watkin

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£75

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Catalogue of an exhibition at the Ashmolean, in which William's daughter - who was crucial to the work that went out under his name - is brought into the light.

May Morris: The Essence and Soul of Beautiful Embroidery ...

Lynn Hulse

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£25

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Trance states, artefacts, images... And if this isn't enough for you, we still have copies here of Mongolian and Siberian Shamans: Costumes and Paraphernalia at the National Museum of Denma... read more

Shamans: The Visual Culture of Animism, Healing and Journeys to Other ...

Max Carocci

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£25

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Cutlers, coopers, watchmakers etc, from the author of The World According to Colour: A Cultural History.

Craftland: A Journey Through Britain’s Lost Arts and Vanishing T ...

James Fox

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£25

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1000+ images and meticulous research make this a rich cultural history of Central Tibet from C17th to 1959.

Tibetan Women’s Jewelry

Lynn Levenberg

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£108

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A scrapbook, a net of ideas, a cabinet of fragments both literary and artistic. The book is a small, stocky, gorgeous work of art. "Wholeness is an impossibility"...

An Archive

Edmund de Waal

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£28

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Kiki McDonough: A Life of Colour: 40 Years of Gemstone Jewellery ...

Kiki McDonough

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£49.99

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The beloved and greatly missed CG, friend and cousin of us at Sandoe's. Here is a book largely made up of his own autobiographical pieces, some hitherto unpublished, with many photographs of... read more

Christopher Gibbs: His World

Lucy Moore

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£50.00

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Looks at the years of collaboration with Le Corbusier and experiments with tubular steel.

Charlotte Perriand: Complete Works 1903-1940, Volume 1 ...

Jacques Barsac

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£100.00

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Looks at her years in Japan, during & after WW2; also reconstruction in France, and collaboration with Jean Prouve.

Charlotte Perriand: Complete Works 1940-1955, Volume 2 ...

Jacques Barsac

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£100.00

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Exhibitions, designs for Air France, and work in Brazil.

Charlotte Perriand: Complete Works 1956-1968, Volume 3 ...

Jacques Barsac

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£100.00

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The Les Arcs skiing resort in the French Alps.

Charlotte Perriand: Complete Works 1968-1999, Volume 4 ...

Jacques Barsac

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£100.00

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A celebration of the work of this wonderfully inventive artist, famed for his joy in the domestic and the natural: collages, textile designs, linocuts, wallpapers, sculptures and much else ... read more

Raucous Invention

Mark Hearld

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£35.00

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A particularly Japanese sense of the transient is celebrated in these C14th wood carvings, woodcut depictions of water and butterfly dances, tea ceramics, lacquerware and contemporary pieces... read more

A Floating World: Movement and Impermanence in Japanese Art ...

Stephan von der Schulenburg

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£30.00

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A careful, beautiful collaboration between a former director of the Korean National Museum, a New York gallerist and a contemporary artist/photographer.

The Scholar’s Vision, The Photographer’s Eye: Korean Ceram ...

Chung Yangmo

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£40.00

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Nearly 600 pieces of glass from the Mediterranean, Central Europe and the Middle East dating between 1500 BCE and 1000 CE: the lavishly ilustrated catalogue of the stupendous Getty collectio... read more

Ancient Glass in the J. Paul Getty Museum

Anastassios Antonaras

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£95.00

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