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Watchmaking by George Daniels
RRP: $90.30Booksplease Price: $68.20Many years after its first publication, the best-selling Watchmaking continues to inspire and encourage the art of watchmaking, especially among new generations of enthusiasts. As a supreme... -
Beyond the Page: South Asian Miniatures and Britain, 1600 to now by Fay Blanchard 9781781301258
RRP: $38.70Booksplease Price: $32.25A richly illustrated exploration of the impact of South Asian Miniature painting on contemporary art. This book tells the dynamic story of contemporary art's engagement with the miniature painting... -
Vanessa Bell by Sarah Milroy
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $27.50A stunning display of the vibrant and wide-ranging talent of Vanessa Bell in the first catalogue devoted to the artist. Vanessa Bell (1879-1961) has been known as the still, quiet centre around... -
Borrowed Landscapes: China and Japan in the Historic Houses and Gardens of Britain and Ireland by Emile de Bruijn 9781781300985
RRP: $45.15Booksplease Price: $38.06A beautifully illustrated exploration of the impact of Chinese and Japanese material culture on the historic houses and gardens of Britain and Ireland. The art and ornament of China and Japan... -
Edward Bawden by James Russell
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $27.40This comprehensive survey of the career of Edward Bawden (1903-89) accompanies a major exhibition at Dulwich Picture Gallery and brings together his most significant work in watercolour, printmaking,... -
Vanessa Bell: A World of Form and Colour Fay Blanchard 9781781301333
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $27.50This publication, together with the exhibition it accompanies, presents the largest ever survey of work by Vanessa Bell (1879-1961). Described in 1923 as 'the most important woman painter in... -
Watches: A Complete History of the Technical and Decorative Development of the Watch by George Daniels
RRP: $122.55Booksplease Price: $96.04The long-awaited reprint of an important illustrated reference work on the general history of the watch from 1500 to 1980. When Watches was first published in 1965 it quickly gained for itself a... -
Michelangelo: Sculptor in Bronze by Victoria Avery
RRP: $96.75Booksplease Price: $77.04The first comprehensive interdisciplinary account of Michelangelo's work as a sculptor in bronze. This book is the outcome of extensive original research undertaken over several years by academics... -
Tirzah Garwood: Beyond Ravilious James Russell 9781781301302
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $28.46This beautifully illustrated book is the first full-length critical study to focus on the works of fine artist and printmaker, Tirzah Garwood (1908-1951), wife of artist Eric Ravilious. Tirzah... -
Forgotten Masters: Indian Painting for the East India Company by William Dalrymple
RRP: $45.15Booksplease Price: $37.02Published to coincide with the first UK exhibition of these masterworks at The Wallace Collection, Forgotten Masters celebrates the work of a series of extraordinary Indian artists. As the East... -
Chinese Wallpaper in Britain and Ireland by Emile de Bruijn
RRP: $45.15Booksplease Price: $38.70Chinese wallpaper has been an important element of western interior decoration for three hundred years. As trade between Europe and China flourished in the seventeenth century, Europeans developed a... -
The Art of Tapestry by Helen Wyld
RRP: $58.05Booksplease Price: $50.80Extensively illustrated, this is the first accessible publication on the history of tapestry in over two decades. Woven with dazzling images from history, mythology and the natural world, and... -
Winifred Nicholson: Liberation of Colour by Jovan Nicholson 9781781300466
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $21.40Liberation of Colour explores the whole career of Winifred Nicholson with a special emphasis on her theories of colour. Throughout her life, Winifred Nicholson was interested in prisms and... -
Mary Seton Watts and the Compton Pottery by Hilary Calvert
RRP: $45.15Booksplease Price: $38.06This comprehensive book is both a biographical exploration of the early life of Mary Seton Watts and a survey of the pottery she designed. Mary Seton Watt's (1849-1938) roots in Scotland, her... -
Heraldry and Stained Glass at Apothecaries' Hall by William Shand 9781781301067
RRP: $64.50Booksplease Price: $52.28The first comprehensive study of heraldry and stained glass in one of the oldest surviving Livery Halls of the City of London, dating from 1672. Apothecaries' Hall, home of the Worshipful Society... -
Euan Uglow: An Arc from the Eye Fay Blanchard 9781781301388
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $26.86A beautifully illustrated study of one of Britain's most significant 20th century painters, featuring over 40 of his most ambitious paintings. Euan Uglow (1932-2000) was one of Britain's most... -
Inspiring Walt Disney: The Animation of the French Decorative Arts at the Wallace Collection by Helen Jacobsen
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $18.21Accompanying an exhibition at the Wallace Collection, Inspiring Walt Disney explores the influences of the art and architecture of France on Walt Disney and his studio artists, highlighting in... -
Thomas Lawrence: Coming of Age by Amina Wright
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $20.06This survey of Lawrence's first twenty-five years tells the story of an exceptional artist growing up at the end of the century as Britain created its own unique artistic voice. Like his... -
Il Bresciano: Bronze-caster of Renaissance Venice by Charles Avery 9781781301036
RRP: $51.60Booksplease Price: $41.74The first comprehensive study of an important Italian Renaissance bronze-caster by a leading authority. 'This monograph is a testament to the work of Charles Avery, who has put Il Bresciano on the... -
Ingrid Pollard: Carbon Slowly Turning by Fay Blanchard
RRP: $38.70Booksplease Price: $31.61Published to accompany an exhibition at MK Gallery, this is the first major survey of the work of contemporary British artist and photographer Ingrid Pollard, nominated for the Turner Prize 2022. ... -
Vincent Van Gogh: The Years in France: Complete Paintings 1886-1890 by Walter Feilchenfeldt 9781781300190
RRP: $83.85Booksplease Price: $67.56The Years in France is a wealth of new information of crucial importance to collectors, dealers, art historians and public institutions, while providing an extraordinary visual record of the most... -
A Queer Inheritance: Alternative Histories in the National Trust Michael Hall 9781781301142
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $22.79'A revelatory masterpiece, a true alternative history of our times' - Simon Jenkins, former Chair of the National TrustLGBTQ+ histories and identities come out of the National Trust's properties in... -
Cutting Edge: Modernist British Printmaking by Gordon Samuel
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $27.50A vividly illustrated catalogue of linocuts by the Modern British printmakers of the Grosvenor School of Art. The Grosvenor School of Modern Art was founded by the influential teacher, painter and... -
Gainsborough and the Theatre by Hugh Belsey
RRP: $20.58Booksplease Price: $17.56Based on new research, this profusely illustrated book draws together for the first time a group of works from public and private collections to examine the relationship that Thomas Gainsborough had... -
Executions: Explore 700 Years of Public Punishment in London by Jackie Keily
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $18.18A fascinating record of how London and Londoners were shaped by nearly 700 years of public executions. More frequent in London than in any other city or town in Britain, these morbid spectacles... -
The Practical Watch Escapement by George Daniels
RRP: $38.70Booksplease Price: $31.61The Practical Watch Escapement explains the action of the escapement in terms accessible to both expert and layman. One of George Daniels' central contributions to horology is his co-axial... -
Designers and Jewellery 1850-1940: Jewellery and Metalwork from the Fitzwilliam Museum by Helen Ritchie
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $21.40A glittering display of the Fitzwilliam Museum's finest pieces of jewellery and metalwork. The Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge, holds stunning examples of jewellery and metalwork from... -
Laura Knight by Anthony Spira
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $23.14LONGLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM MB BERGER PRIZE FOR BRITISH ART HISTORY 2022 A major survey of Dame Laura Knight, first female Royal Academician and popular British artist of the 20th century. Laura... -
Frans Hals: The Male Portrait by Leila Packer
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $26.86This is the first book to concentrate on Dutch Golden Age painter Frans Hals's highly innovative approach to male portraiture. Frans Hals is one of the greatest portrait painters of all time and,... -
Ceramics: 400 Years of British Collecting in 100 Masterpieces by Patricia F. Ferguson 9781781300435
RRP: $58.05Booksplease Price: $47.54A celebration of the best of the National Trust's exquisite ceramic collection. This publication introduces the rich and varied ceramics in the National Trust's vast and encyclopaedic collection... -
Untranslatability: Interdisciplinary Perspectives by Duncan Large
RRP: $59.33Booksplease Price: $53.92This volume is the first of its kind to explore the notion of untranslatability from a wide variety of interdisciplinary perspectives and its implications within the broader context of translation... -
Philip Pullman's Grimm Tales (stage version) by Philip Pullman
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.62What is that, trailing your footsteps, breathing softly down your neck? Rediscover the magic and wonder of the original Grimm Tales, retold by master-storyteller Philip Pullman. In this stage... -
Mirror of Obedience: The Poems and Selected Prose of Simone Weil by Silvia Caprioglio Panizza 9781350250680
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $18.37Simone Weil (1909-1943) was one of the foremost French philosophers of the 20th century; a mystic, activist, and writer whose profound work continues to intrigue and inspire today. Mirror of... -
British Artists and the Modernist Landscape by Ysanne Holt
RRP: $46.43Booksplease Price: $42.43Title first published in 2003. In this detailed study of the landscapes and rural scenes of Britain and France made by artists like George Clausen, Philip Wilson Steer, Augustus John, Laura Knight, J... -
Basic Naval Architecture: Ship Stability by Philip A. Wilson 9783319728049
RRP: $90.29Booksplease Price: $85.48This textbook provides readers with an understanding of the basics of ship stability as it has been enacted in international law. The assessment of ship stability has evolved considerably since the... -
Basic Naval Architecture: Ship Stability by Philip A. Wilson 9783319892122
RRP: $64.49Booksplease Price: $59.70This textbook provides readers with an understanding of the basics of ship stability as it has been enacted in international law. The assessment of ship stability has evolved considerably since the... -
Rubens & Women Ben van Beneden 9781898519492
RRP: $36.12Booksplease Price: $28.53The art of Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) is synonymous with the female nude, with the term 'Rubenesque' first coined in the 19th century to describe a voluptuous female body. Yet remarkably, there... -
The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Philosophy J Piers Rawling 9781032094779
RRP: $64.49Booksplease Price: $58.35The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Philosophy presents the first comprehensive, state of the art overview of the complex relationship between the field of translation studies and the study of... -
The Pineapple from Domestication to Commodification: Re-presenting a Global Fruit: 2025 Victoria Avery 9781836245933
Booksplease Price: $119.07The pineapple's 'discovery' by European colonisers in the late fifteenth century and its remarkable global trajectory - from an early modern object of rarity, desire, and horticultural innovation to... -
Painting Childhood by Emily Knight 9781911300564
RRP: $21.29Booksplease Price: $19.56Children have always fascinated artists and Painting Childhood will explore some of the most iconic paintings of children produced over the past 500 years. Featuring stunning portraits, amusing genre...