Printed Cotton Sample Book (Swatch book)

Dating from around 1900, this is a delightful album which has a collection of Japanese dyed cotton fabric swatches known as Komon. Komon was a Japanese design or pattern based on ver...

This is a rare example of a Shima Cho, which is a Kimono textile, fabric swatch book dating from the late 19th century (1876). They were made either...

This is a beautiful and historic fabric sample book dated from 1835 (as can be seen on the front cover), which was produced by Dollfus Mieg and Comp...

This is a rare example of a "Shima-cho", which is a Japanese kimono textile fabric swatch book dating from the late 19th century. The book has fifte...

This is a beautiful box of fifty Shima/Shimacho Japanese textile design samples from the late 19th century or very early years of the 20th cent...

This book is the revised and expanded edition of the Catalogue Raisonne representing every edition of prints that Warhol published. Every print is accompanied by thorough documentati...

Woodblock Wonders A visual history of 200 Japanese masterpieces From Edouard Manet’s portrait of naturalist writer Émile Zola sitting among his Japanese art finds to Van Gogh’s meticulous copies of the Hiroshige prints he devotedly collected, 19th-century pioneers of European modernism made no secret of their love of Japanese art. In all its sensuality, freedom, and effervescence, the woodblock print is single-handedly credited with the wave of japonaiserie that first enthralled France and, later, all of Europe—but often remains misunderstood as an “exotic” artifact that helped inspire Western creativity. The fact is that the Japanese woodblock print...

Very rare genuine platinum Swatch Watch made in a limited edition in 1993. This watch was named the Tresor Magique and has an automatic movement....

Antique Japanese Oraimono book Edo period, circa 1833 Woodblock print book Book dimensions: 260 mm x 180 mm There are damages because it is...

Lionel Edwards Book - The Passing Seasons. Very rare limited edition book depicted by Lionel Edwards, The Passing Seasons. This edition is limited to 150 copies for sale at home, numbered 1 to 150, and 100 for sale abroad, numbered 151 to 250, this in No. 59. This large hard bound book is complete with the 18 mounted colour plates on thick hand made paper, each signed in pencil on the mount by the artist, Lionel Edwards. Black and white vignettes throughout the book, fleeting thoughts of Crascredo, printed in Great Britain. Text and plates are very clean. Bound in publisher's light brown cloth cover with gilt title to front, The Passing Seasons, Lionel Edwards (slight damage to spine). List of coloured plates 1, The First Snow (frontispiece). 2, The Water. 3, The Mockers. 4, Cub Hunting. 5, The Evening Rise. 6, Where Bright Waters Meet. 7, A May Morning...

An original combination of "The Audubon Folio: 30 Great Bird Paintings" and accompanying book by George Dock Jr. from 1964 ("Audubon in the Atomic Age"). Includes all 30 full color ...

A beautiful 1st edition book in beautiful condition. Numerous colour illustrations. Hardcover written by Caroline Wiseman. Published by Art Books International ISBN 10: 187404425...