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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. From 1923 onwards, until overtaken by the onset of colour photography, the Radio Times commissioned and reproduced work by some of the finest illustrators of the twentieth century -- wood engravings, scraperboard, line drawing and watercolour. Amongst the more well-known names in the list of over 150 artists are those of Edward Ardizzone, Quentin Blake, Val Biro, David Gentleman, Charles Keeping, Paul Nash, W Heath Robinson, Gerald Scarfe, Ronald Searle and C F Tunnicliffe. This book, by Martin Baker, himself one of the select band of artists, will include a section on the History of the Radio Times and its patronage of fine illustrators; the reminiscences of an art student in the l930s and of an art teacher in the sixties, with almost 100 reproductions of some of the well-remembered illustrations. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Zustand: Very Good. Item in very good condition! Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. In 'Medieval England' the archaeological collections of the Ashmolean Museum serve to illustrate a comprehensive series of historical themes from the reign of Alfred the Great to the end of the Wars of the Roses. A sequence of topics has been chosen which characterise these crucial six centuries of English history; social, economic and political developments are reviewed; the evolution of trade, industry and agriculture is traced; the progress of warfare, religion, literacy, dress, sports and pastimes are all examined. The text is supplemented by eighty-five illustrations (including twelve pages of colour) of exhibits from the Ashmolean's superb medieval collections, giving tangible form to the concepts examined. The whole forms a well-integrated presentation of archaeological and historical evidence. The authors - a member of the Museum's Education Service and the curator of the collections - combine scholarly insight with an easy style in an attractive and accessible booklet for the general reader. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. The Ashmolean Museum, founded in 1683, has strong claims to be the oldest surviving institutional museum open to the public, yet, it is also the private museum of the University of Oxford. Over the centuries a continuing pattern of generous benefaction has accumulated astonishing collections in the university, and those in the fields of art and archaeology are concentrated in the Ashmolean. They range in time, from finds seven or eight thousand years old to 20th-century masterpieces. This illustrated volume provides examples of: Early-Chinese bronzes, Ancient Egyptian artefacts, sculptures and coins from classical Greece and Rome, Anglo-Saxon glass, Chinese porcelain, Indian sculpture and manuscript illustration, Islamic ceramics and Japanese screen paintings. Over half the volume is devoted to reproductions from the museum's magnificent holdings of European art - silver, maiolica, porcelain, bronzes and marbles - together with paintings, watercolours and drawings. Works by Giotto, Giorgione, Uccello and Raphael, by Rembrandt and Rubens, by the French Impressionists and by English artists from Gainsborough to Stanley Spencer. The late Sir David Piper, Director of the Ashmolean Museum from 1973-85, compiled the original edition prior to his retirements in 1985. This new edition illustrates additional artefacts, paintings and drawings acquired by the museum during the last decade, selected and described by the present Director, Professor Christopher White. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Zustand: Fine. 2nd impression. Paperback, F. 80pp, 35 colour illustrations, a fine copy. A brief guide to the Marshall collection of 1st period Worcester porcelain held at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford. 250 grams.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. The collection of paintings, drawings, watercolours and etchings by Samuel Palmer in the Ashmolean Museum is the most important in the world. It is especially rich in the early works of the Shoreham period, from c. 1824 to 1834, notably the haunting self portrait and the unique group of six sepia drawings of 1825, which represent the 'visionary landscape' at its most intense. This handbook reproduces in colour all but a few of the works by Palmer in the Ashmolean. The book is designed to provide a stimulating introduction for the general reader and a useful and reliable guide for the expert. Colin Harrison is an Assistant Keeper in the Department of Western Art in the Ashmolean Museum. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

hardcover. Zustand: Fine copy in fine dust jacket. Profusely illustrated (illustrator). 1st. Small 4to, 160 pp., With essays by Georges Flandrin, Genevieve Lacambre and Jon Whitely. Edited by Juliet Simpson with editorial assistance from Tim Farrant.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. The year 2000 marks the centenary of the start of excavations at the site of Knossos on Crete, the centre of a Bronze Age civilisation which its excavator, Arthur Evans, called 'Minoan' after King Minos of Greek legend. The palace which he uncovered there was originally decorated with frescoed wall paintings, some of them showing figured scenes, which mostly survived only in a fragmentary and incomplete state. One of the most striking fresco images, and one which particularly engaged Evans's imagination, is the controversial figure of the Priest-King, whom Evans regarded as a portrayal of one of the priestly rulers of Knossos. This booklet gives an account of the history of its discovery, its re-creation and the important part it played in Evans's vision of Knossos. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Zustand: Fine. 2nd edition, enlarged. Paperback, F. 88pp, 38 colour illustrations, a fine copy. A brief guide to the Italian Renaissance Ceramics, commonly called Maiolica which are held at the Ashmolean in Oxford. 250 grams.

Softcover. Zustand: Very Good+. Stapled booklet. ; Oblong 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 24 pages.

Softcover. Zustand: Very Good. Softcover, B&W photos, maps, diagrams (including foldout), bibliography; Research Report (Council For British Archaeology; 4to; viii + 168 pages.

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. Paperback in very good condition.

Zustand: Very Good. 1st edition. Paperback, G+. unpaginated 12pp [ including covers ], b/w illustrations, staples rusted. Slim guide to the 1470 painting 'A Hunt in a Forest' by Paolo Uccello [ 1397 - 1475 ], the Italian painter and mathematician who was notable for his pioneering work on visual perspective in art. 100 grams.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Paperback. 45 page exhibition catalog.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Sumer was a region of the ancient world that today forms the southern part of Iraq. It is a vast, flat land of floodplains formed by the Rivers Tigris and Euphrates. It was here that some of the world's first cities arose and writing was invented. Archaeologists have explored the remains of some of Sumer's ancient settlements. They have made remarkable discoveries at places such as Uruk, Ur, Eridu, Nippur, Kish and Lagash. These show that the people of Sumer were great artists, builders, inventors, warriors and traders. By 3500 BC the population of some Sumerian towns had grown into cities. The largest was certainly Uruk, which had a population of at least 10,000. At this time this would have been the largest settlement on the planet. Writing was invented by the Sumerians around 3200 BC. This script is known as cunieform script and through it readers can learn about the Sumerians in their own words. Readers will discover what is meant by a ziggurat, how cunieform writing works, the importance of cylinder seals and stories of Sumerian kings, heroes and gods. This fascinating book is perfect for Key Stage 2 readers aged 9 and up to gain a picture of one of the earliest civilisations in the world. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

PAPERBACK. First edition. 80pp. b/w illustrations large octavo paper. slight cover wear otherwise very good.

1st edition. Near fine paperback copy; edges very slightly dulled. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; 110p : col.ill ; 25 cm. Notes; Includes index. Subjects; Handel, George Frideric 1685-1759. Roubiliac, Louis Francois 1702-1762. Ashmolean Museum. Ashmolean Museum Catalogs. Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. Antiquities England Oxford Catalogs. Art England Oxford Catalogs. Antiquities Catalogs. Art ; Catalogs. Museums England Oxford. Museum Collection. 1 Kg.

First Edition. Previous owner's inscription to front pastedown. Good copy in original colour-printed boards. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Foxing started. Physical description : 79p. : ill.(some col.) ; 22cm. Subject : Ruskin, John 1819-1900. Drawing, English. Ashmolean Museum. English nineteenth century drawing. Art. 1 Kg.

First Edition. Fine copy in the original color-printed, stiff-card wrappers. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description: 48 pages : color illustrations, map ; 21 cm. Subjects: Ashmolean Museum. Art, Egyptian ; Catalogs. Genre: History. Language: English. 1 Kg.

First edition. Very good copy in the original stiff-card wrappers; edges slightly nicked and dust-dulled as with age. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description: 109p; illustrated. Notes: Includes index. Subjects: Ashmolean Museum. 20th century. Illustrated. 1 Kg.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Edward Lear, born in 1812, was a British artist, illustrator, author, and poet, renowned today primarily for his literary nonsense, in poetry and prose, and especially his limericks, a form that he popularised. Lear produced the illustrated poetry collection Book of Nonsense (1846) for the Earl of Derby's grandchildren. His other works include Nonsense Songs, Stories, Botany and Alphabets (1871), containing "The Owl and the Pussy-Cat", and "Laughable Lyrics" (1877). Three illustrated nonsense alphabets were published in Lear's lifetime, and a further three in the fifth, posthumous edition of Nonsense Botany and Nonsense Alphabets of 1889. A number survive in manuscripts. Lear seems to have begun making nonsense alphabets in the mid-1850s, usually for children of his friends and acquaintances. The present alphabet was created for Ruth Decie. Lear had met her parents, Captain Richard Decie and his wife Bella, in Corfu in the preceding winter, and later stayed with Bella's parents, William and Arabella Prescott, at their home, Clarence House, Roehampton. It was during a visit to Roehampton that Lear noted in his diary for 22 June 1862 that he had 'made an alphabet for the Decie baby', who was only a few days old at the time. It is one of the most charming of all Lear's alphabets, typically drawn on sheets of blue writing paper backed with linen. The alphabet was bequeathed to the Ashmolean by a descendant of Ruth Decie, James Farquharson, who died in December 2011. This beautiful facsimile features a short introduction about Edward Lear, written by the Ashmolean curator, Colin Harrison. Following this is a replica of each page of the original publication featuring the letters of the alphabet with the short poem underneath each drawing. This will be accompanied by each poem again, this time written in a more accessible font so that children may read this too. The Ashmolean have utilised this recent acquisition to recreate a stunning classic. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Paperback. Zustand: Near Fine. 49 pages.

Zustand: Used - Very Good. VG paperback. Amended reprint, 1982. Owner's annotations on p.100. Used - Very Good. VG paperback.

Zustand: Used - Very Good. VG paperback. 1st ed (pbk). With col.illus. The Pissarro collection in the Ashmolean Museum. A bright copy in tight binding. Used - Very Good. VG paperback.

First Edition. Fine paperback copy. Well-preserved; tight, bright and clean. Physical description; 32 unnumbered pages : illustrations (4 color) ; 25 cm. Subjects; Prints, Russian Russia (Federation) Saint Petersburg 18th century ; Exhibitions. Engraving. Panoramas. Maps, plans and views. 3 Kg.

1st edition. Good copy in the original stiff-card wrappers; edges somewhat nicked, stained, dust-dulled and rubbed as with age. Remains well-preserved overall. Physical Description; 25 pages, 2 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 27 cm. Subjects; Architectural drawing. Architectural drawing England Exhibitions. England Exhibition catalogs. New College (University of Oxford). New College (University of Oxford) Exhibitions. New College, Oxford, in art. Prints, English Exhibitions. 3 Kg.

First Edition. Fine paperback copy. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; 108 pages : illustrations (some color), 1 map, portraits ; 26 cm. Subjects; Turner, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William) 1775-1851. Turner, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William) 1775-1851 ; Exhibitions. Painters Great Britain 19th century. England Oxford. Oxford (England) In art ; Exhibitions. Turner, Joseph Mallord William, 1775-1851 3 Kg.

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 80 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm. Subjects: Pre-Raphaelitism England Oxford. Art, English England Oxford 19th century. Genre: History. Language: English. 3 Kg.

Reprint. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; 110p : col.ill ; 25cm. Subjects; Exhibition catalogue. England Oxford. Oxfordshire Oxford Museums Ashmolean Museum Stock. Antiquities England Oxford Catalogs. Art England Oxford Catalogs. Antiquities Catalogs. 3 Kg.