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Gainsborough by William Vaughan
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.90Gainsborough is one of the most appealing artists of the eighteenth century. Renowned for such elegant portraits as The Blue Boy and Countess Howe, he also pioneered a new form of landscape with a... -
Ancient Rome on Five Denarii a Day by Philip Matyszak
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40Here is an informative and entertaining guide to everything that any tourist needs for a journey back in time to ancient Rome in AD 200. You need only pack your imagination and a toothbrush - this... -
Mine Eyes Have Seen: Bearing Witness to the Struggle for Civil Rights by Bob Adelman 9780500543481
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £6.06This searing collection of photographs by LIFE photographer Bob Adelman takes the reader on a rollercoaster ride through Americas Civil Rights Movement. These unforgettable photographs of Americas... -
The Emperors of Byzantium Kevin Lygo 9780500297995
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26A compelling and vivid narrative history of one of the founding civilizations of the modern world, the Byzantine empire, evocatively told through the lives of its 92 emperors. Based in the great... -
Colour: Making and Using Dyes and Pigments by Francois Delamare 9780500301029
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Colour is all around us; we take it for granted as a naturally occurring aspect of all things. Yet colours are also manufactured, and the science of pigments, hues and dyes has an ancient and... -
Phaenomena: Doppelmayr's Celestial Atlas by Giles Sparrow
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £36.30A beautiful showcase of Johann Doppelmayr's magnificent Atlas Coelestis that deconstructs its intricately drawn plates and explores its influential ideas. Showcasing Johann Doppelmayr's magnificent... -
The Historical Atlas of the Celtic World by John Haywood 9780500288313
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £14.75In a series of 54 stunning full-colour maps covering 3,000 years and spanning the whole of Europe, this book, newly available in paperback, comprehensively charts the dramatic history of the Celts... -
Sexuality in Western Art by Edward Lucie-Smith 9780500202524
RRP: £32.95Booksplease Price: £25.05Sexuality in its many guises has preoccupied Western artists from Michelangelo to Picasso, Rubens to Robert Mapplethorpe. Almost every form of the subject has been portrayed, whether covert or overt,... -
Experience or Interpretation: The Dilemma of Museums of Modern Art by Nicholas Serota
RRP: £7.95Booksplease Price: £6.14How do we see art? How is it displayed? One hundred years ago, art was shown in a way intended to educate. Galleries reflected the curator's view of history at the expense of differing opinions... -
Glass from Islamic Lands: The al-Sabah Collection at the Kuwait National Museum by Stefano Carboni
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £19.18This is the first major study of the subject in over seventy years. In a triumph of scholarship, Stefano Carboni has drawn on a huge range of sources to produce a beautiful and comprehensive history... -
Flora Photographica by William A. Ewing 9780500297551
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £24.46Vivid, bold, spectacular and unexpected: a definitive overview of one of contemporary photography’s most innovative fields, showcasing flower imagery by more than 120 of the world’s leading... -
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Why Don't Fish Drown? by Anna Claybourne 9780500651261 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.95Booksplease Price: £2.19What's the point of a porcupine? Why can't my dog talk to me? Could my cat be a cannibal? Why does a shark need such big teeth? This book provides an engaging way for young people to discover more... -
Why Can't I Feel the Earth Spinning?: And other vital questions about science by James Doyle 9780500651186
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.56Why do I have to wash? Why don't aeroplanes fall down? Where do mountains come from? Why is the sea blue? Why do I dream? This book invites young people to discover more about the world around them... -
The Chronicle of Western Costume: From the Ancient World to the Late Twentieth Century by John Peacock 9780500284476
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.33Here, in more than one thousand full-colour illustrations, is the history of Western costume, from ancient Egypt to Paris fashion. John Peacock's meticulous drawings are organized in chronological... -
![Klimt by Frank Whitford 9780500202463 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9791442/10808015/9780500202463__95717.1782284384.jpg?c=1 "Klimt by Frank Whitford 9780500202463 [USED COPY]")
Klimt by Frank Whitford 9780500202463 [USED COPY]
RRP: £8.95Booksplease Price: £2.96Gustav Klimt's work brilliantly negotiates the borders between the traditional and the modern, the figurative and non-figurative. His subtly erotic portraits, richly patterned landscapes and... -
Treasury of the World: Jewelled Arts of India in the Age of the Mughals by Manuel Keene 9780500976081
RRP: £29.95Booksplease Price: £21.64Jewelry as an art form in Mughal India has probably never been surpassed by any other civilization. This presentation includes over 300 specially taken photographs - the great majority illustrating... -
The Celtic Design Book by Aidan Meehan 9780500286746
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £13.30This bumper edition of Aidan Meehan's practical guides to the art and design of the Celts brings together three of his bestselling titles, A Beginner's Manual, Knotwork and Illuminated Letters. This... -
The Illustrated Natural History of Selborne by Gilbert White
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.86Almost 300 editions and reissues of The Natural History of Selborne testify to its the lasting and universal appeal, but none before has been so beautifully and fittingly illustrated. Gilbert White's... -
The Drawings of Vincent van Gogh by Christopher Lloyd 9780500025321
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £33.02A compelling and authoritative overview of the drawings of Vincent van Gogh, one of the most celebrated and intriguing figures in the history of art. Vincent van Gogh’s (1853–1890) drawings are some... -
The Oldest Book in the World: Philosophy in the Age of the Pyramids Bill Manley 9780500298077
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26A brand-new translation of a philosophical classic of the ancient world, The Teaching of Ptahhatp, written in Egypt 4,000 years ago. The Teaching of Ptahhatp, composed two millennia before the birth... -
The Artist's Sketchbook (Victoria and Albert Museum): Inside the Creative Mind Jenny Gaschke 9780500480946
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £29.20The first in an exciting and inspirational new V&A sketchbook series that explores the sketching processes and techniques of artists from the 16th century to the present day. Artists have been... -
The Iconic Nordic House: Modern Masterworks Since 1900 Dominic Bradbury 9780500026236
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £35.95Celebrates 40 great exemplars of Nordic residential architecture from the past 120 years, exploring both the groundbreaking modernist homes of the 20th century and more contemporary dream residences... -
A New History of Animation by Maureen Furniss 9780500024096
Booksplease Price: £85.38A New History of Animation takes readers from animation's origins-including descriptions of innovative techniques-and proceeds through the history of the studio system, the growth of television... -
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Rodin by Bernard Champigneulle 9780500200612 [USED COPY]
RRP: £8.95Booksplease Price: £1.97Auguste Rodin, the greatest sculptor of the 19th century, is also widely considered to be the greatest since Michelangelo, whose genius was a lifelong inspiration to him. Though the astonishingly... -
How to Read a Photograph by Ian Jeffrey
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £18.38Ian Jeffrey is a superb guide in this profusely illustrated introduction to the appreciation of photography as an art form. Novices and experts alike will gain a deeper understanding of great... -
Significant Others: Creativity and Intimate Partnership by Whitney Chadwick
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Biographies of artists and writers have traditionally presented an individual's lone struggle for self-expression. In this book, critics and historians challenge these assumptions in a series of... -
Garden People: Valerie Finnis and the Golden Age of Gardening Ursula Buchan 9780500298466
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.68A glorious photographic record of the postwar English gardening scene by one of the people at its epicentre. Roald Dahl and his family in their garden at Great Missenden; Nancy Lancaster, society... -
Franklin and Luna go to the Moon by Jen Campbell
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.16Luna and her best friend, Franklin the dragon, love stories and want to visit all the places they've read about in books. But for all their reading they still don't know where dragons come from. And... -
The Italian Gentleman by Hugo Jacomet
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £22.65London may have Savile Row and Paris its luxury houses, but nowhere can compete with the essence of Italy's nonchalant elegance: sprezzatura. This book presents the most in-depth look at the... -
The Renaissance Complete by Margaret Aston
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £22.90No period has been more discussed, dissected and argued over than the Renaissance, and every age has reconstructed it in its own image. Today's emphasis is on its complexity - the way ideas,... -
Magnum America Laura Wexler 9780500544563
RRP: £125.00Booksplease Price: £75.52An epic visual history of the places, people, mythologies and realities of The United States across eight decades: a book that will change our understanding of what ‘America’ means and can be. What... -
Jan Tschichold - Master Typographer: His Life, Work & Legacy Cees W. de Jong 9780500513989
RRP: £39.95Booksplease Price: £29.98Few have left a deeper impression on the world of typography than Jan Tschichold (1902-74), one of the most outstanding and influential designers of the 20th century. Not only was he was a master in... -
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The Sources of Modern Architecture and Design by Nikolaus Pevsner 9780500200728 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £3.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorSir Nikolaus Pevsner (1902-1983) is widely considered one of the most influential writers on the history of... -
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The Arts and Crafts Movement by Elizabeth Cumming 9780500202487 [USED COPY]
RRP: £8.95Booksplease Price: £2.73United in promoting the superiority of 'honest' design and natural materials in an industrial age, the Arts and Crafts movement included architects, artists and designers as stylistically and... -
Susan Meiselas: On the Frontline by Susan Meiselas
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £18.38This landmark book offers a synthesis of celebrated Magnum photographer Susan Meiselas's views on her work and the role of the documentary photographer. Through text drawn largely from exclusive... -
Le Corbusier and the Power of Photography by Nathalie Herschdorfer 9780500544228
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £24.16Le Corbusier's development was inextricably connected to the rise of the century's most popular visual medium: photography. Marking the 125th anniversary of the architect's birth in La... -
Outsider Art by Colin Rhodes
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.80An updated and substantially revised edition of this comprehensive introduction to outsider art, distinguished by its wider international scope and inclusion of global developments since 2000. ... -
Do You Want a Hug? by Olivia Cosneau
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.78What surprises await beneath the flaps? Find out in this charming book in the bestselling Flip Flap Pop-Up series. Everybody needs a hug, as this delightful addition to the Flip Flap Pop-Up series... -
Tracks: Walking the Ancient Landscapes of Britain by Philip Hughes
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £18.38In over 140 superbly reproduced artworks, the artist Philip Hughes records eleven iconic walks across the length and breadth of Britain, from Allt Coire Pheiginn in Scotland to Zennor Head in... -
This Book Thinks You're a Maths Genius: Imagine * Experiment * Create by Mike Goldsmith
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40This Book Thinks You're a Maths Genius explores seven key areas of maths: geometry, space and volume, statistics, numbers and number patterns, codes and ciphers and the concept of infinity. Each...