Jewellery 1789-1910 - The International Era

This catalogue accompanies a major exhibition devoted to Vasily Kandinsky. It explores the evolution of his work from the Blaue Reiter to the Bauhaus year...

Countess of Snowden. (continued from title) This is the two volume set of sales catalogues produced by Christie's for the sale of Princess Margaret's collection of personal effects. ...

Rare, vintage hardback coffee table book cataloguing 1990's international furniture design. By the editors of the PBC International, published in 1991. First edition, 240 pages. "Th...

A beautifully and colourfully illustrated copy of Richard Wagner's epic four epic opera dramas, illustrated throughout by Arthur Rackham with tipped-in colour plates, scarce to see in their original dust wrappers. The first editions, first impression. Both volumes are in their scarce original unclipped dust wrappers. Complete in two volumes. 'The Rhinegold and the Valkyrie' illustrated with a tipped-in colour frontispiece, and thirty-three tipped-in colour plates. 'Siegfried and the Twilight of the Gods' illustrated with a tipped-in colour frontispiece, and twenty-nine tipped-in colour plates. 'Arthur Rackham Exhibition' advertising slip loosely inserted. Collated, complete. These two volumes contain Richard Wagner's four epic music dramas, the series being titled 'Der Ring des Nibelungen', or 'The Ring of the Nibelung', or simply the 'Ring Cycle'. These four are 'Das Rheingold'/'The Rhinegold', 'Die Walkure'/'The Valkyrie', 'Siegfried', and 'Gotterdammerung'/'Twilight of the Gods'. All four dramas are in these two volumes. The four dramas are loosely based on characters from Norse mythology and the Nibelungenlied. The plot of the four dramas revolves around a magical ring...