PWP Catalogue 2025-2026

2025–2026

Philip Wilson Publishers

Publisher’s Note For over forty years PWP has specialised in producing authoritative, finely designed art and illustrated books.

Starting life as Sotheby’s Publications, the publishing arm of the famous auction house, we became independent in 1977 and are now part of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc. During our history we have collaborated with numerous museums and institutions, including the Wallace Collection, MK Gallery, the Fitzwilliam Museum and the National Trust, among many others, on the publication of exhibition catalogues and other museum-related titles. We have also worked with individual collectors to enable them to publish artworks in their collections to the highest standard.

In each case, however large or small the publication, we closely work with our partners to offer them a dedicated service for the editing, design and high-quality production of copies tailored to their requirements, and we welcome opportunities to do so from institutions and private individuals alike.

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Discovering Degas

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Vanessa Bell

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Tirzah Garwood

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Grayson Perry

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Euan Uglow

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Winston Churchill

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Arms and Armour from Asia, Africa and the Ottoman World

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Rise Up

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English and American Watches

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C O N TA C T A N D S A L E S I N F O R M AT I O N

Collecting in the Time of William Burrell

A World of Form and Colour

Beyond Ravilious

Delusions of Grandeur

An Arc from the Eye

The Painter

The Wallace Collection Catalogue

Resistance, Revolution, Abolition

The long-awaited reprint by the late George Daniels, master watchmaker

Cover: The Red Ballet Skirts, Edgar Degas, the Burrell Collection, Glasgow

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Discovering Degas Collecting in the Time of William Burrell Pippa Stephenson-Sit, Dr Martin Bellamy, Dr Yupin Chung, Professor Frances Fowle, and Vivien Hamilton

In 1874 the first Impressionist exhibition opened in Paris, shocking the art world with a radical new style of painting. Capturing contemporary subjects and everyday life, the ‘Impressionist’ artists were fascinated by the way light, colour and shape constantly change. But frequent rejection by the Paris Salon jury led some, including Edgar Degas, to look to Britain for a more receptive audience.

This richly illustrated book explores the influence of London-based dealers such as Ernest Gambart and Charles Deschamps, and Glasgowbased dealer Alex Reid, who saw the market for French art in Britain, encouraging an early following among British collectors for artists such as Monet, Pissarro, Manet and Degas.

William Burrell’s first opportunity to see Degas’s work on public display in Scotland was at the 1888 International Exhibition in Glasgow. Over a 40-year period Burrell collected more than 20 of Degas’s works, far more than any other UK collector, before he and his wife Constance donated their entire collection to the City of Glasgow. This book accompanied a major exhibition at the Burrell Collection, in which all of Burrell’s Degas pictures are displayed together for the first time, along with important works from national and international collections.

Detailed catalogue entries look at the artist’s talent for capturing subjects such as the ballet, racehorses, and women bathing and dressing, giving a greater insight into why British collectors in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries purchased these enduringly appealing works.

This is also an important opportunity to understand Degas in his entirety, both as a brilliant artist and as a man whose opinions and ideas would not go unchallenged today.

Published in association with the Burrell Collection.

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Illustrated throughout in colour 280 x 230mm • 160pp • Paperback ISBN: 9781781301296 May 2024 • £20 August 2024 • $28

Professor Frances Fowle is Chair of Nineteenth-Century Art, University of Edinburgh, UK and Senior Curator, National Galleries of Scotland, UK. Dr Martin Bellamy is the Research and Curatorial Manager at Glasgow Life Museums.

Pippa Stephenson-Sit is Curator of European Art, Glasgow Life Museums.

Also with contributions from Dr Yupin Chung, Curator of East Asian Art, Glasgow Life; and Vivien Hamilton, Research Manager (Art) for Glasgow Life Museums.

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Vanessa Bell A World of Form and Colour Edited by Fay Blanchard and Anthony Spira

Described in 1923 as ‘the most important woman painter in Europe’, Bell was a pioneering modernist and founding member of the Bloomsbury Group, a circle of influential English artists, writers and intellectuals in the first half of the twentieth century.

The book traces Bell’s explorations into the Italian Renaissance, her encounters with the European avant-garde, including Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso, and her leading role in social and cultural activities such as the Friday Club, a group of artists founded in 1905, as well as the design enterprise Omega Workshops. It also looks at the key contributions Bell made towards the development of abstract art, creating what friend and art critic Roger Fry described as ‘visual music’.

Collaborations formed an essential part of Bell’s approach to art, including with her sister, the writer Virginia Woolf, and the artist Duncan Grant, with whom Vanessa Bell’s all-encompassing approach to art found its ultimate expression in Charleston, the farmhouse they shared in East Sussex.

Through over 130 works of art produced across her entire career this book examines the development of Bell’s landscapes, still lifes and portraits alongside her wider approach to creativity through design, furniture, ceramics and drawings.

Including an essay from Rebecca Birrell and contributions from Judy Chicago, Paulina Olowska, Hayley Tompkins and The Singh Twins.

Published in association with MK Gallery.

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Beautifully illustrated throughout 280 x 225mm • 192pp • Paperback ISBN: 9781781301333 October 2024 • £25 March 2025 • $35

Fay Blanchard is Head of Exhibitions at MK Gallery. Prior to joining the gallery she worked as Visual Arts Curator with the British Council.

Anthony Spira is Director of MK Gallery, having been curator at the Whitechapel Gallery, London and the Jeu de Paume, Paris.

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Tirzah Garwood Beyond Ravilious James Russell

Tirzah Garwood (1908–1951) proved herself an artist of rare talent, in a life tragically cut short by illness, yet little of her work has been seen in public since her Memorial Exhibition in 1952. Written by James Russell, author of the bestselling Ravilious (2015), this beautifully illustrated book was published to coincide with the Dulwich Picture Gallery exhibition Tirzah Garwood: Beyond Ravilious, the first exhibition to explore the full range of Garwood’s achievements.

A witty observer of the human condition, Garwood made her first breakthrough as a wood engraver of rare ability while still in her teens.

After marrying Eric Ravilious she became a devoted mother to three children. During this period she took up paper marbling and quickly achieved renown for the dazzling originality of her decorative papers.

In her early thirties she suffered the double blow of a breast cancer diagnosis and her husband’s death on active service in World War II. Undaunted, she wrote her autobiography Long Live Great Bardfield and began creating a series of strange, beautiful oil paintings and collaged constructions.

In Tirzah Garwood: Beyond Ravilious her work is, for the first time, given the public showcase and critical examination it deserves, revealing Garwood’s development of a distinctive ‘sophisticated naive’ approach that subtly transformed innocent subjects to unsettling effect. More than ninety works by Tirzah Garwood – including books, studies and ephemera, almost exclusively from private collections – are accompanied by artworks by Eric Ravilious that set the context in which the artists worked together, exploring the shared interests and techniques of this remarkable creative couple.

Published in association with Dulwich Picture Gallery.

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Over 150 beautiful illustrations 280 x 240mm • 160pp • Paperback ISBN: 9781781301302 November 2024 • £25 February 2025 • $40

James Russell is an art historian and curator with a passion for twentiethcentury British art and design. He is the author of the bestselling Ravilious and Edward Bawden which both accompanied blockbuster exhibitions at Dulwich Picture Gallery. James studied History at Pembroke College, Cambridge.

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Grayson Perry Delusions of Grandeur Grayson Perry

This publication accompanies a major exhibition created and curated

by Grayson Perry at the Wallace Collection. The Collection’s famous portrait of Madame de Pompadour (1759) by François Boucher has long fascinated Perry, as have a great many other pieces including its superb group of portrait miniatures and an early eighteenth-century bronze of Mezzetin, soulfully strumming his guitar.

Perry has created a fictional persona, Shirley Smith, who believes herself to be the rightful heir to Hertford House’s treasures – and indeed, the entire Wallace Collection. Through this identity, a series of new artworks have been made – inspired and influenced by those in the Collection – intended to decorate an imagined family home, complete with ancestral portraits, Old Masters and priceless antiques. Delusions of Grandeur presents this fantasy world and playfully explores themes including the meaning of home and how it creates a sense of safety, the gendering of decoration, perfection versus authenticity, and the exquisite and pretty versus the brutality and pomp of masculinity. And through the backstory of Shirley Smith, the transformative and healing nature of art is demonstrated.

This book presents Perry’s new works in a variety of media: ceramic, sculpture, textile and works on paper, which themselves complement the diversity and range of objects found within the Collection itself.

This landmark exhibition marking Perry’s 65th birthday is both a meditation and an introspection and offers an elaborate commentary on the very nature of making and collecting art.

Published in association with the Wallace Collection.

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Illustrated in colour throughout 310 x 220mm • 112pp • Paperback ISBN: 9781781301340 March 2025 • £24.99 May 2025 • $35

Grayson Perry is one of Britain’s most celebrated contemporary artists and cultural figures. Winner of the 2003 Turner Prize, Perry was elected a Royal Academician in 2011 and was made a Knight Bachelor for services to the arts in the King’s New Year Honours list 2023.

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Euan Uglow An Arc from the Eye Edited by Fay Blanchard and Anthony Spira

Euan Uglow (1932–2000) was one of Britain’s most significant twentieth-century painters, known for his sustained observation and painstaking technique, often taking months, if not years, to complete a work. Each picture pursues a particular idea, seeking to depict the visual reality of the concept, expressed with radiant colours and light.

This book accompanies the first solo exhibition of Uglow’s work in a UK public institution for 20 years and features over 40 of his most ambitious paintings.

Uglow often had three or four active ‘set-ups’ in his Battersea studio, using particular rectangular compositions in an attempt ‘to paint a structured painting full of controlled and therefore potent emotion’.

Almost mathematical in his methods, Uglow left markings on his canvases that reveal his processes, including how the passage of time affected the depiction of his subjects.

Best known for his large-scale nudes, Uglow also made landscapes in the summer light of the Mediterranean and still lifes, taking up the challenge of painting materials such as plastic, as well as organic material in gradual decay, such as fruit.

Published in association with MK Gallery.

Illustrated throughout in colour 280 x 225mm • 160pp • Paperback ISBN: 9781781301388 February 2026 • £25 September 2026 • $35

Fay Blanchard is Head of Exhibitions at MK Gallery. Prior to joining the gallery she worked as Visual Arts Curator with the British Council. She has produced publications on contemporary British sculpture and artists including Paula Rego, Laura Knight and Boyd & Evans.

Anthony Spira is Director of MK Gallery, having been curator at the Whitechapel Gallery, London and the Jeu de Paume, Paris. He has produced many publications on artists including Ellen Altfest, Hans Bellmer, Peter Dreher, Ingrid Pollard and George Stubbs.

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Winston Churchill The Painter Edited by Lucy Davis

Universally renowned as an inspirational statesman, writer, orator and the man who led Britain to victory in the Second World War, what may be less well known about Winston Churchill (1874–1965), was that he was also an enthusiastic amateur painter. Despite starting late at the age of forty, painting became a passion that would endure for the rest of his life.

A careful selection of over fifty paintings from museums, institutions and private collections presents a fascinating backdrop to his times, politics, diplomacy and interests. The book follows a chronological approach and spans Churchill’s activity as an artist from his first attempts during the First World War through to the 1960s, shortly before his death. His own paintings are complemented by a small group of works by his artistic mentors and friends, such as Sir John Lavery (1856–1941) and Sir William Nicholson (1872–1949), which help explore his artistic development.

Churchill’s own paintings are ultimately representations of places he loved to visit and depict, but they are just as much autobiographical and provide an insight not often appreciated by the public into his private life. It is an unprecedented opportunity to reconsider Churchill through his paintings.

Published in association with the Wallace Collection.

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Illustrated in colour throughout 280 x 240mm • 192pp • Paperback ISBN: 9781781301371 May 2026 • £24.99 July 2026 • $35

Lucy Davis is a specialist in Flemish painting, particularly Rubens, and has been curator of paintings at the Wallace Collection since 2011. She has curated two exhibitions, one on Murillo and the other on Reynolds, and was responsible for the hang of the new Dutch and Flemish galleries and the Great Gallery.

She has published on a wide range of paintings and miniatures at the Wallace Collection, and has overseen a number of major conservation projects.

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Arms and Armour from Asia, Africa and the Ottoman World Edited by Thom Richardson and Paula Turner

Brimming with bejewelled and enamelled dagger hilts, swords and scabbards, and with delicately gilded spears, helmets, shields and breastplates, the Wallace Collection is home to one of the finest assemblages of arms and armour in the world.

The pieces within the collection provide an expansive view of three key areas – Asia, Africa and the Ottoman world – and span the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries, with star objects dating from as early as the 15th century. Being both functional weapons and prestigious luxury items, objects in this area of the collection are fascinating and awe-inspiring both for their technical achievements and artistic virtuosity.

This richly illustrated catalogue, compiled by leading specialists in the field, is a landmark achievement and shines a light on a previously overlooked part of the Wallace Collection. It provides detailed photographs of almost every object, each accompanied by a description of its provenance, materials, inscriptions and construction. Also included is an introduction to the subject and a history of the collecting of non-European arms and armour by the 4th Marquess of Hertford and Sir Richard Wallace.

Published in association with the Wallace Collection.

Illustrated throughout in colour 300 x 240mm • 560pp • Hardback ISBN: 9781781301203 February 2026 • £150 April 2026 • $195

Thom Richardson FSA worked as a curator of oriental art at the British Museum and Manchester City Art Gallery, then as a curator of armour and Asian collections at the Royal Armouries, retiring as deputy master in 2016. He has a PhD in history from the University of York and is author of over 150 books and academic articles on arms and armour.

Paula Turner worked as head of publications at the Royal Armouries specialising in arms and armour.

She is now concentrating on the study of coins from the ancient and early medieval periods, especially those of Rome and South Asia.

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Rise Up Resistance, Revolution, Abolition Edited by Victoria Avery and Wanja Kimani

Drawing on new research, Rise Up and the accompanying exhibition look at the period from 1750 to 1850 when Britain became the world’s first industrialised nation and one of history’s largest empires. At the same time, it played a central role in the Atlantic slave trade, trafficking more captive African people than any other European power. Millions were forcibly abducted and transported to work on British-owned plantations in the Caribbean and the Americas.

In Britain, Black and white anti-slavery groups and individuals campaigned for abolition, with Cambridge playing a leading role in the 1780s. Despite opposition, laws were gradually enacted to abolish the slave trade in 1807, and enslavement in 1833. However, other exploitative systems, including apprenticeship and indentured labour, took their place. Financial compensation was awarded to former enslavers, while the formerly enslaved received nothing.

This is the multifaceted story of the fight to end Atlantic slavery, of its aftermath and ongoing legacies. It is told through the stories of individuals and communities from across the Caribbean, Europe and the Americas, and through an interrogation of historic objects and artworks, in conversation with works by contemporary artists.

Despite the passing of almost two centuries since Britain outlawed slavery, for peoples of the global majority, the struggles for autonomy, equality and social justice continue today.

Published in association with the Fitzwilliam Museum.

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Over 150 beautiful illustrations 246 x 189mm • 208pp • Paperback ISBN: 9781781301357 February 2025 • £25 September 2025 • $35

Victoria Avery is Keeper of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts at the Fitzwilliam Museum and Professor of European Sculpture at Cambridge University. Her recent publications include Black Atlantic: Power, People, Resistance (2023), Feast & Fast: The Art of Food in Europe, 1500–1800 (2019) and Michelangelo: Sculptor in Bronze (2018).

Wanja Kimani is a visual artist, writer and curator whose research explores diasporic cultural histories and the evolving relationship between the body and the land. She has curated and collaborated on international exhibitions with artists, primarily from East Africa. In 2022, she represented Kenya at the 59th Venice Biennale and is currently pursuing a practice-led PhD at Chelsea College of Arts, UAL.

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English and American Watches George Daniels

In this long-awaited reprint - first published in 1967 - the late George Daniels, a master watchmaker of the twentieth century, documents the important contribution made by England and America in the development of the pocket watch from the earliest times to late 1960s America. Daniels tells of the sequence of technical developments that led to the production of electric and electronic watches.

It is a fascinating story for all who appreciate not only a watch’s technical niceties but also the intrinsic beauty with which devoted craftsmen endowed it. Mr Daniels’ concise, learned account, which places each phase of the story in its true perspective, will be found indispensable both by collectors and by those new to the history of watchmaking.

Over a hundred photographs together with a series of clear line drawings, emphasise the watchmakers’ achievement in marrying pure function and beauty, and at the same time illustrate the changes in movements that accompanied progress in external appearance.

Black and white plate section 219 x 180mm • 128pp • Hardback ISBN: 9781781301319 September 2024 • £40 December 2024 • $55

George Daniels (1926–2011), CBE, HON DSC, FSA, FCGI, FBHI, FAWI was a practising horologist with over fifty years’ experience in both antiquarian and modern watchmaking and was a past master of the Worshipful Company of Clockmakers. In addition, he was an expert on the history and development of the watch, with special emphasis on the precision period of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. He was unrivalled as a sympathetic restorer of important time pieces.

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Black Atlantic Power, People, Resistance Edited by Victoria Avery and Jake Subryan Richards

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 BERGER PRIZE Between 1400 and 1900, European powers, not least Britain, colonised the Americas and transported over 12.5 million people from subSaharan Africa as slaves. The contested space, formed by the interactions of multiple people and cultures, both Black and white, we now call the Black Atlantic. Cambridge and Cambridgeshire played a key role in this international narrative – a story of commerce, profit and colonialism, of opinion-forming, and of struggle.

Through the lens of historic artworks, artefacts and natural history specimens, this book and the exhibition it accompanied analyse the rise and growth of enslavement, the profits made by Dutch and British traders and plantation-owners, the power of images, the knowledge produced by enslaved people, histories of resistance movements and the consequences of these events today. Works by contemporary makers challenge long-held assumptions, address erasures, and create alternative narratives of repair, freedom and justice.

Published in association with the Fitzwilliam Museum.

Fully illustrated 246 x 189mm • 192pp • Paperback ISBN: 9781781301234 September 2023 • £25 November 2023 • $40

Victoria Avery has been Keeper of European Sculpture & Decorative Arts at the Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge, since 2010, prior to which she was Associate Professor in the Department of Art History at the University of Warwick.

Jake Subryan Richards is Assistant Professor of International History at the London School of Economics and Political Science. His research and teaching concerns the histories of the people of the African diaspora, Atlantic empires, and enslavement and emancipation.

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Beyond the Page South Asian Miniatures and Britain, 1600 to now Edited by Fay Blanchard and Anthony Spira

This book tells the dynamic story of contemporary art’s engagement with the miniature painting traditions of South Asia from the sixteenth century onwards, and the role of Britain in these developments. This is the first publication to address this remarkable painting tradition on a transhistorical and transnational scale. Readers are invited to admire the formal, technical and conceptual innovations of some of the most exciting historic and contemporary artists from South Asia, while reflecting on questions of culture and power in the entangled histories of empire and globalization.

Beyond the Page is richly illustrated with historic works from the Victoria & Albert Museum, the British Library, the British Museum, the Ashmolean, the Bodleian Library and the Royal Collection Trust.

It also features work by artists from different generations working in dialogue with the miniature tradition, including Hamra Abbas, David Alesworth, Nandalal Bose, Noor Ali Chagani, Lubna Chowdhary, Adbur Rahman Chughtai, Samuel Fyzee-Rahamin, N.S. Harsha, Howard Hodgkin, Ali Kazim, Bhupen Khakhar, Jess MacNeil, Imran Qureshi, Nusra Latif Qureshi, Mohan Samant, Nilima Sheikh, the Singh Twins, Shahzia Sikander and Abanindranath Tagore.

Including essays by Emily Hannam and Hammad Nasar, with catalogue entries from Emily Hannam, Cleo Roberts-Komireddi and Elizabeth Brown.

Published in association with MK Gallery.

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Fully illustrated 280 x 225mm • 224pp • Paperback ISBN: 9781781301258 October 2023 • £30 May 2024 • $40

Fay Blanchard is Head of Exhibitions at MK Gallery. Prior to joining the gallery she worked as Visual Arts Curator with the British Council. She has produced publications on contemporary British sculpture and artists including Paula Rego, Laura Knight and Boyd & Evans.

Anthony Spira is Director of MK Gallery, having been curator at the Whitechapel Gallery, London and the Jeu de Paume, Paris. He has produced many publications on artists including Ellen Altfest, Hans Bellmer, Peter Dreher, Ingrid Pollard and George Stubbs.

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Fashion City How Jewish Londoners shaped global style Bethan Bide and Lucie Whitmore

While Jewish people have long been associated with making clothes, the full extent of the contributions they made to London’s growing reputation as a global fashion capital and the democratisation of fashion through the development of ready-to-wear clothes in the twentieth century have been widely forgotten. Spanning all sectors of the fashion industry – from homeworking to haute couture – the book draws stories from generations of Jewish Londoners and is richly illustrated with images from across the city and the Museum of London’s collections.

Fashion City takes you on a journey across London, from the busy clothing factories of the East End to the swinging boutiques of Carnaby Street and the manicured squares of Mayfair. Along the way it introduces you to the intriguing stories of the key figures behind London fashion, such as Frederick Starke, a boy from the East End whose ability to tell a creative story changed the way the world saw British ready-to-wear fashion; Otto Lucas, a gay Jewish German hat maker who became the most financially successful milliner in the world; Mr Fish, the ruledefying tailor who dressed Mick Jagger and Muhammed Ali; and Netty Spiegel, who escaped the Nazis on the Kindertransport and became a London wedding dress designer of choice under her ‘Neymar’ label.

Bringing together a wealth of new research and presenting a novel perspective of London fashion, this book gives a voice to the city’s overlooked and often forgotten Jewish fashion makers.

Fully illustrated 248 x 197mm • 192pp • Paperback ISBN: 9781781301241 October 2023 • £20 January 2024 • $28

Bethan Bide is a Lecturer in Design and Cultural Theory at the University of Leeds and Director of the Pasold Research Fund. Bethan previously worked as a producer of comedy programmes for BBC Radio 4.

Lucie Whitmore is Fashion Curator at the Museum of London with a PhD in First World War fashion from the University of Glasgow. She has published on the subjects of First World War mourning dress and austerity fashion.

Published in association with the Museum of London.

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Borrowed Landscapes

China and Japan in the Historic Houses and Gardens of Britain and Ireland Emile de Bruijn

The art and ornament of China and Japan have had a deep impact in the British Isles. From the seventeenth century onwards, the design and decoration of interiors and gardens in Britain and Ireland was profoundly influenced by the importation of Chinese and Japanese luxury goods, while domestic designers and artisans created their own fanciful interpretations of ‘oriental’ art. Those hybrid styles and tastes have traditionally been known as chinoiserie and japonisme, but they can also be seen as elements of the wider and still very relevant phenomenon of orientalism, or the way the West sees the East.

Illustrated with a wealth of new photography and published in association with the National Trust, Borrowed Landscapes is an engaging survey of orientalism in the Trust’s historic houses and gardens across England, Wales and Northern Ireland. Drawing on new research, Emile de Bruijn demonstrates how elements of Chinese and Japanese culture were simultaneously desired and misunderstood, dismembered and treasured, idealised and caricatured.

Published in association with the National Trust.

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Lavish colour illustrations throughout 280 x 230mm • 256pp • Hardback ISBN: 9781781300985 October 2023 • £35 December 2023 • $45

Emile de Bruijn is Assistant National Curator Decorative Arts at the National Trust. Among his previous publications is Chinese Wallpaper in Britain and Ireland (Philip Wilson Publishers, 2017).

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William Blake’s Universe Edited by David Bindman and Esther Chadwick

Responding to revolution and war in Europe, enslavement and exploitation in European colonies, and repression and reaction at home in Britain, William Blake (1757–1827) produced an astonishing body of work that combined criticism of the contemporary world with a vision for universal redemption.

Blake has always been seen as a distinctly English figure but, in reality, his art at all periods of his career is profoundly involved with Europe, as a source of his images and as a vision of the past, present and future of humanity. This richly illustrated book, published alongside an exhibition at the Fitzwilliam Museum, explores the vital ingredients of Blake’s work and draws parallels with the ambitions of his artist contemporaries in Europe, most notably the German artist Philipp Otto Runge. In doing so the editors and contributors show that Blake was not alone in looking to art to build the world anew in the face of shattering political crises.

Fully illustrated 280 x 230mm • 224pp • Hardback ISBN: 9781781301272 February 2024 • £35 May 2024 • $45

David Bindman is Emeritus Professor of the History of Art at UCL and is a leading expert on William Blake.

Esther Chadwick is a lecturer in Art History at the Courtauld Institute and a specialist in eighteenth-century British art.

Published in association with the Fitzwilliam Museum.

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Ranjit Singh Sikh, Warrior, King Davinder Toor

Gifted with an indomitable sense of destiny and backed by the tactical support of a guileful mother-in-law and a holy man with a penchant for warfare, Ranjit Singh would emerge as the region’s undisputed ‘Maharaja’ or Great King at the beginning of the 19th century. His meteoric rise to power ushered in a short-lived but hugely influential Sikh Empire that would inextricably impact on the fortunes of the British Empire in the Indian subcontinent.

Through a stunning array of over 100 exquisite photographs of artworks, glittering jewellery and weaponry from the Sikh Empire drawn from major private and public collections including the Wallace Collection, explore how Ranjit Singh brought about a golden age in Punjab where trade boomed, the arts flourished and a formidable army was developed along European lines to keep any British, Afghan, Persian or Russian threat at bay.

The book features important historic objects from Ranjit Singh’s court, courtiers and family members, including those personally owned by the maharaja and the most famous of his several dozen ‘official’ wives, Maharani Jind Kaur. Also highlighted are objects intimately connected with their son, Maharaja Duleep Singh – the deposed boy-king turned country squire who was a favourite of Queen Victoria and the father of the prominent suffragette, Princess Sophia Duleep Singh.

Perhaps most surprisingly, discover the achievements of Ranjit Singh’s European officials in the fields of Punjab’s military industry, artistic patronage, the shawl trade and diplomatic relations with Europe.

Published in association with the Wallace Collection.

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Fully illustrated 280 x 240mm • 144pp • Paperback ISBN: 9781781301265 April 2024 • £20 July 2024 • $30

Davinder Toor is a leading figure among a new generation of Sikh, Indian & Islamic art collectors. He has acted as a consultant to major private collectors, auction houses and institutions such as the British Museum, Victoria & Albert Museum and Wallace Collection. He currently lectures on the ‘Arts of the Royal Sikh Courts’ and ‘Sikh Painting and Manuscripts’ for the Victoria & Albert Museum’s prestigious ‘Arts of Asia’ course. The Toor Collection, comprising in excess of 1,500 works, acts as a lasting legacy to the empire of the Sikhs.

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Industry and Ingenuity

The Partnership of William Ince and John Mayhew

Fully illustrated 280 x 230mm • 448pp • Hardback 9781781301098 • £75 / $100

Hugh Roberts and Charles Cator Despite their enduring and well-connected collaborations in Georgian London’s tight-knit cabinetmaking community, much of William Ince and John Mayhew’s work has remained unidentified until recent times. This is the first comprehensive study of Ince and Mayhew’s famous eighteenth-century partnership, complemented by high-quality photographs of their work.

Executions 700 Years of Public Punishment in London

Fully illustrated 248 x 197mm • 144pp • Paperback 9781781301081 • £16.99 / $20

Edited by Jackie Keily From Smithfield to Kennington, Tyburn to Newgate Prison, nearly 700 years of public executions became embedded in London’s landscape and people’s lives, with the morbid spectacles attracting tens of thousands of onlookers across the capital. This book reveals the role that Londoners played as both spectators and participants in this most public demonstration of state power over the life and death of its citizens.

The Art of Tapestry Helen Wyld

Fully illustrated 280 x 230mm • 256pp • Hardback 9781781301128 • £45 / $60

Focussed on the National Trust’s collection, this book offers a fresh perspective on the history of tapestry across Europe. Both the tapestry specialist and the keen arthistory enthusiast can find a wealth of information here about woven wall hangings and furnishings, including methods of production, purchase and distribution, evolving techniques and technologies, the changing trends of subject matter across time, and how tapestries have been collected, used and displayed in British country houses across the centuries.

Inspiring Walt Disney

The Animation of French Decorative Arts at the Wallace Collection

Fully illustrated 220 x 200mm • 112pp • Paperback 9781781301180 • £15.99 / $20

Helen Jacobsen Published to accompany 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 particular the Disney classics of hand-drawn animation, Cinderella (1950) and Beauty and the Beast (1991).

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Ingrid Pollard

Carbon Slowly Turning

Fully illustrated 246 x 189mm • 192pp • Paperback 9781781301197 • £30 / $40

Edited by Fay Blanchard and Anthony Spira The first major survey of the work of Ingrid Pollard, a British artist and photographer nominated for the Turner Prize 2022, who uses portraiture photography and traditional landscape imagery to explore social constructs such as Britishness and racial difference.

Laura Knight

A Panoramic View

Fully illustrated 280 x 225mm • 224pp • Paperback 9781781301111 • £25 / $35

Edited by Fay Blanchard and Anthony Spira This beautifully illustrated book, which accompanied a major exhibition at MK Gallery, provides an overview of Knight’s illustrious career: from her training at Nottingham Art School at the age of 13 to her visits to traveller communities and a segregated American hospital. The selection of over 160 works combines paintings, graphic and design works, including ceramics, jewellery and costumes.

Frans Hals

The Male Portrait

Fully illustrated 255 x 220mm • 144pp • Paperback 9781781301104 • £25 / $30

Lelia Packer, Ashok Roy Frans Hals is one of the greatest portrait painters of all time and, together with Rembrandt, is one of the most eminent seventeenth-century Dutch artists.

Published to coincide with the Wallace Collection’s exhibition of the same name, Frans Hals: The Male Portrait explores the artist’s highly innovative approach to male portraiture, from the beginning of his career in the 1610s until the end of his life in 1666.

Ravilious James Russell

Fully illustrated 280 x 240mm • 184pp • Paperback 9781781300329 • £25 / $45

This beautifully illustrated book is the first full-length critical study to focus on the watercolours of multitalented British artist and designer Eric Ravilious (1903–1942). Adopting the wide-ranging approach familiar to readers of his previous books on the artist, author James Russell explores the evolution of a remarkable talent. This is the definitive guide to the luminous, evocative and timeless watercolours of Eric Ravilious, an artist now regarded as one of the finest of the twentieth century.

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Fringe, Frog and Tassel

The Art of the Trimmings-Maker in Interior Decoration

Fully illustrated 280 x 230mm • 288pp • Hardback 9781781300756 • £50 / $75

Annabel Westman This book, the first of its kind, traces the history in Britain and Ireland from 1320 to 1970 of tassels, fringe, braid (woven lace), gimp and cord and their dependence on French fashion. Lavishly illustrated with new photography, the substantial text links surviving items in historic houses and museums to written evidence, paintings, drawings and other primary sources.

Chinese Wallpaper in Britain and Ireland

Fully illustrated 280 x 230mm • 272pp • Paperback 9781781300732 • £35 / $40

Emile de Bruijn NOMINATED FOR THE 2019 KAREL VAN MANDER PRIZE Chinese wallpaper has been an important element of Western interior decoration for three hundred years. Sumptuously illustrated, this book provides an overview of some of the most significant Chinese wallpapers surviving in the British Isles and how they became a staple ingredient of high-end interiors.

Ceramics

400 Years of British Collecting in 100 Masterpieces

Fully illustrated 280 x 230mm • 256pp • Hardback 9781781300435 • £45 / $75

Patricia F. Ferguson An introduction to the rich and varied ceramics in the National Trust’s vast and encyclopaedic collection, numbering approximately 75,000 artefacts, housed in 250 historic properties in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. Many are published for the first time and sometimes illustrated in their original interiors.

Silver for Entertaining The Ickworth Collection

Fully illustrated 280 x 230mm • 256pp • Hardback 9781781300428 • £50 / $90

James Rothwell A comprehensive, well-illustrated guide to one of the most important collections of 18th-century silver in Europe, extending to nearly a thousand individual pieces, being of the highest quality, style and exuberance of form and surviving virtually intact along with extensive and previously untapped archival evidence of its commissioning and use.

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Watchmaking George Daniels

Fully illustrated 262 x 190mm • 464pp • Hardback 9780856677045 • £70 / $85

Many years after its first publication, this best-selling book continues to inspire and encourage the art of watchmaking, especially among new generations of enthusiasts. As a supreme master of his art, George Daniels’ advice is constantly sought by both students and watch repairers, his understanding of the problems that can beset the would-be watchmaker, especially in an age of mass production, and his expert knowledge of the history of watchmaking being second to none.

This classic handbook remains indispensable.

All in Good Time

Reflections of a Watchmaker

Fully illustrated 228 x 155mm • 240pp • Hardback 9780856676802 • £35 / $45

George Daniels This is the remarkable story of George Daniels (1926–2011), the master craftsman, who was born into poverty but raised himself to become the greatest watchmaker of the twentieth century. This revised and expanded edition of his autobiography contains a new section that illustrates and discusses over thirty of the pocket and wrist-watches Daniels himself made over the years.

The Practical Watch Escapement

Fully illustrated 260 x 190mm • 96pp • Hardback 9780856676871 • £30 / $45

George Daniels One of George Daniels’ central contributions to horology is his co-axial escapement. Having observed that the dominant lever escapement begins to change its rate after a year or two – a disturbance caused by the sliding action of the impulse elements of the escapement – Daniels set about developing a mechanism that avoided this problem. This book explains the action of the escapement in terms accessible to both expert and layman, accompanied by detailed line drawings.

The Art of Breguet George Daniels

Fully illustrated 330 x 240mm • 408pp • Hardback 9781781301074 • £95 / $120

The complete, illustrated history of the work of Abraham Louis Breguet by the late George Daniels describes in detail the complexity of Breguet’s art and, by so doing, supplants the mystique that has surrounded it with a clearer understanding of its function. Over one hundred line drawings illustrate the progress of technical development and each is accompanied by an analysis of the mechanism and its intended purpose.

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Il Bresciano

Bronze-caster of Renaissance Venice

Fully illustrated 274 x 212mm • 224pp • Hardback 9781781301036 • £40 / $55

Charles Avery A nucleus of sculptures cast by Andrea di Alessandri, commonly called from his native city, ‘Il Bresciano’, or from his products, ‘Andrea dai bronzi’, has been identified over the centuries. This is a comprehensive, well-illustrated, book on Il Bresciano, a ‘new’ and major bronzistà in the great tradition of north Italy.

Rubens

The Two Great Landscapes

Fully illustrated 240 x 210mm • 112pp • Paperback 9781781301043 • £20 / $30

Lucy Davis A handsomely illustrated monograph that examines in depth Rubens’s two greatest landscape paintings: A View of Het Steen in the Early Morning and The Rainbow Landscape. The book puts the creation of these two landscapes into the full context of Rubens’s later life and his semi-retirement, including original technical research and new photography that show how these complex compositions evolved iteratively as the panels onto which they were painted were expanded.

Thomas Lawrence Coming of Age

Fully illustrated 257 x 197mm • 112pp • Paperback 9781781300947 • £18.99 / $26

Amina Wright Like his Renaissance predecessors Raphael, Michelangelo and Dürer, the young Thomas Lawrence was considered to be a boy genius. This survey of Lawrence’s first twenty-five years tells the story of an exceptional artist growing up at the end of the century when Britain created its own unique artistic voice. The book accompanied a major exhibition at the Holburne Museum in Bath and includes previously unpublished works as well as some of Lawrence’s most brilliant masterpieces.

Celestial Beings and Bird-Men Fully illustrated Human Flight in Chinese Jade

248 x 197mm • 336pp • Hardback 9781781300718 • £40 / $55

Angus Forsyth Jade figurines depicting human flight are a varied and expressive manifestation of this most prized artistic medium. This book explores the making in the Middle Kingdom (from the Han Dynasty onwards) of unique objects depicting figural movement through the air, examining the depiction of apsaras (flying angels), kinnaras (bird-men), garudas (humanoid birds appearing in both Hindu and Buddhist mythology) and anthropomorphized bird headdress ornaments.

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Heraldry and Stained Glass at Apothecaries’ Hall

Fully illustrated 275 x 215mm • 288pp • Hardback 9781781301067 • £50 / $125

William Shand and Andrew Wallington-Smith Apothecaries’ Hall, home of the Worshipful Society of Apothecaries of London, contains a large collection of armorial bearings in various media, but most particularly in stained glass. This comprehensive book describes the derivation and display of the Society’s Arms, the Royal connections which also provide a source of heraldic decoration, and the large collection of glass panels relating to the coats of Arms of many of the Past Masters and Honorary Freemen.

Jean-Henri Riesener

Cabinetmaker to Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette

Fully illustrated 280 x 230mm • 304pp • Hardback 9781781300909 • £50 / $65

Jean-Henri Riesener (1734–1806) was one of the greatest French cabinetmakers of all time. Based on the extensive collections of Riesener furniture in the Wallace Collection, Waddesdon Manor and the Royal Collection, the authors examine the objects and their history, and highlight the changing tastes of the nineteenthcentury collectors who acquired so many former French royal pieces. The new illustrations and visual glossary add another important resource for art historians, decorative arts enthusiasts and furniture lovers.

Ships of the Silk Road

The Bactrian Camel in Chinese Jade

Fully illustrated 248 x 197mm • 200pp • Hardback 9781781300695 • £40 / $60

Angus Forsyth For hundreds of years the Bactrian camel ploughed a lonely furrow across the vast wilderness of Asia. This bizarre-looking, temperamental yet hardy creature here came into its own as the core goods vehicle, resolutely and reliably transporting to China – over huge and unforgiving distances – fine things from the West while taking treasures out of the Middle Kingdom in return. In his lavishly illustrated volume, Angus Forsyth explores diverse jade pieces depicting this iconic beast of burden.

Mary Seton Watts and the Compton Pottery

Fully illustrated 275 x 215mm • 256pp • Hardback 9781781300855 • £35 / $48

Hilary Calvert and Louise Boreham This comprehensive book is both a biographical exploration of the early life of Mary Seton Watts and a survey of the pottery she designed, showcasing the beautiful and individual pieces of pottery and is a fitting tribute to the ability of Mary Watts to coordinate both people and resources.

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Kate Nicholson Jovan Nicholson

Fully illustrated 280 x 235mm • 112pp • Paperback 9781781300879 • £20 / $22

This book explores the career of the St Ives artist Kate Nicholson, daughter of Ben and Winifred Nicholson, from her early landscapes, the still lifes painted in Cumberland and St Ives, the abstracts – many of them inspired by her travels in Greece – to the late works made on the Isle of Eigg in the Hebrides. Published in association with Falmouth Art Gallery, this book is the first monograph on this highly talented artist who deserves to be better known.

Cutting Edge

Modernist British Printmaking

Fully illustrated 280 x 240mm • 192pp • Paperback 9781781300787 • £25 / $40

Edited by Gordon Samuel The Grosvenor School of Modern Art was founded by the influential teacher, painter and wood-engraver Iain McNab in 1925. Whilst incorporating the avantgarde values of Cubism, Futurism and Vorticism, the Grosvenor School printmakers brought their own unique interpretation of the contemporary world to the medium of linocut. Published in association with Dulwich Picture Gallery, Cutting Edge illustrates over 120 linocuts, drawings and posters by Grosvenor School artists.

William Powell Frith The People’s Painter

Fully illustrated 280 x 230mm • 192pp • Paperback 9781781300916 • £25 / $34

Edited by Richard Green and Jane Sellars William Powell Frith (1819–1909), famous for his picture The Derby Day which normally hangs at Tate Britain, was the most celebrated painter of modern-life subjects in mid-Victorian England and the most popular British artist of that time.

Published to mark the bicentenary of his birth and in association with Mercer Art Gallery, Harrogate, this richly illustrated volume of essays offers fresh and fascinating perspectives on Frith’s career and context.

Rembrandt’s Light Jennifer Scott and Helen Hillyard

Fully illustrated 250 x 212mm • 160pp • Paperback 9781781300930 • £19.95 / $27

Rembrandt’s Light brings together paintings, etchings and drawings that focus on Rembrandt’s mastery of visual storytelling through light, concentrating on the period from 1639–58, when he lived in his ‘dream house’ on the Breestraat in the heart of Amsterdam (today the Rembrandt House Museum). Published in association with Dulwich Picture Gallery, Rembrandt’s Light aims to refresh the way we look at works by this incomparable Dutch Master.

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Feast & Fast

The Art of Food in Europe, 1500–1800

Fully illustrated 280 x 230mm • 272pp • Paperback 9781781301029 • £25 / $40

UK WINNER OF THE ENTERTAINING CATEGORY OF THE GOURMAND WORLD COOKBOOK AWARDS 2020 Food defines us as individuals, communities, and nations – we are what we eat and, equally, what we don’t eat. When, where, why, how and with whom we eat are crucial to our identity. Feast & Fast presents novel approaches to understanding the history and culture of food and eating in early modern Europe.

Forgotten Masters

Indian Painting for the East India Company

Fully illustrated 280 x 240mm • 192pp • Hardback 9781781301012 • £35 / $40

Edited by William Dalrymple As the East India Company extended its sway across India in the late eighteenth century, many remarkable artworks were commissioned by Company officials from Indian painters who had previously worked for the Mughals. This book celebrates the work of a series of extraordinary Indian artists, all of whom worked for British patrons between the 1770s and the bloody end of the Mughal rule in 1857.

David Milne

Modern Painting

Fully illustrated 280 x 240mm • 208pp • Paperback 9781781300619 • £25 / $40

Edited by Sarah Milroy and Ian A. C. Dejardin This beautifully illustrated book documents the life and work of David Milne (1882–1953), one of Canada’s greatest modern painters whose vast body of work shows him to be an artist of true originality and vision. With more than one hundred works in oil and watercolour, this publication provides an appreciation of one of Canada’s most sophisticated modern painters.

Masterpieces in Miniature Engraved Gems from Prehistory to the Present

Fully illustrated 248 x 297mm • 304pp • Hardback 9781781300626 • £40 / $65

Claudia Wagner and John Boardman The creation of miniature intaglios – or incised carvings – which could be impressed on clay or wax was one of the earliest crafts of civilisation. The book offers a survey of the finest products of the gems craft over millennia, balancing earlier eastern and Greek stones with Neo-classical era ones.

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Edward Bawden James Russell

Fully illustrated 280 x 240mm • 176pp • Paperback 9781781300657 • £25 / $35

This comprehensive survey of the career of Edward Bawden (1903–1989), published in association with Dulwich Picture Gallery, brings together his most significant work in watercolour, printmaking, design and illustration. This beautifully illustrated book explores in depth the most significant creative periods of Bawden’s life.

Designers and Jewellery 1850–1940

Jewellery and Metalwork from the Fitzwilliam Museum

Fully illustrated 248 x 197mm • 176pp • Paperback 9781781300671 • £20 / $35

Helen Ritchie This beautifully illustrated volume reproduces 70 of the Fitzwilliam Museum’s most important pieces from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, many previously unpublished, with comparative illustrations of some of the original designs.

Gainsborough and the Theatre

Fully illustrated 275 x 212mm • 112pp • Paperback 9781781300664 • £15.95 / $20

Hugh Belsey and Susan Sloman Based on new research, this fascinating book draws together a group of works from public and private collections to examine, for the first time, the relationship that Thomas Gainsborough had with the theatrical world and the most celebrated stage artists of his day, such as James Quin, David Garrick and Sarah Siddons. This publication firmly establishes the artist’s place within the theatrical worlds of Bath and London and shows why the art of ballet rose to prominence in 1780.

Michelangelo

Sculptor in Bronze

Fully illustrated 280 x 230mm • 352pp • Hardback 9781781300633 • £75 / $95

Edited by Victoria Avery This book, the first comprehensive account of Michelangelo’s work as a sculptor in bronze, is the outcome of extensive original research undertaken over several years by academics at the University of Cambridge. This multi-authored, interdisciplinary volume contains ground-breaking contributions by leading experts in the fields of art history, anatomy, conservation science, bronze casting and the history of collecting.

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Vanessa Bell Edited by Sarah Milroy and Ian A. C. Dejardin

Fully illustrated 280 x 240mm • 208pp • Paperback 9781781300510 • £25 / $40

Vanessa Bell (1879–1961) has been known as the still, quiet centre around which the Bloomsbury Group revolved, renowned for her beauty, her complex romantic entanglements and, later, her domestic gravitas – and as the sister of Virginia Woolf. This publication beautifully showcases Bell’s pioneering oil paintings, photographs, ceramics, fabrics, decorative screens and works on paper in a revelatory affirmation of her vibrant and wide-ranging talent.

Bruegel

Defining a Dynasty

Fully illustrated 257 x 197mm • 128pp • Paperback 9781781300527 • £16.95 / $29.50

Amy Orrock This richly illustrated and original publication explores the diversity and innovation of a legendary dynasty of Flemish painters over four generations. Nearly five hundred years have passed since the birth of Pieter Bruegel the Elder, but the energy, in influence and inventiveness of his unique family remain unrivalled in the history of art. This illuminating book redefines our appreciation of its artistic legacy and is an essential read for scholars and non-specialists alike.

Gilded Interiors

Parisian Luxury and the Antique

Fully illustrated 280 x 220mm • 128pp • Paperback 9781781300589 • £19.95 / $30

Helen Jacobsen The Wallace Collection has an internationally-renowned collection of French eighteenth-century art but perhaps lesser known today is their stunning collection of gilt-bronze objects. These bronzes d’ameublement epitomised the levels of luxury achieved in Parisian interiors. Lavishly illustrated with new photography, this book showcases the very best of what the Wallace Collection has to offer.

Fully illustrated The Life and Work of 280 x 230mm • 464pp • Hardback Thomas Chippendale Junior 9781781300565 • £65 / $95

Judith Goodison The Chippendale cabinet-making firm, founded by Thomas Chippendale Senior in the mid-eighteenth century, became famous through the fine furniture supplied to a number of illustrious clients. Chippendale Senior ran the workshop for just over twenty years and his eldest son, Thomas Chippendale Junior, continued the business for over forty years. While Chippendale Senior’s work has been well documented, Chippendale Junior’s work has never, until now, been thoroughly researched.

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George Lance

Winifred Nicholson

Victorian Master of Still Life

Liberation of Colour Jovan Nicholson

John Radcliffe and Mark Lance Fully illustrated 248 x 197mm • 184pp • HB 9781781300312 • £25 / $45

George Lance (1802–1864) brought new vibrancy to still life painting in the early Victorian period. Lavishly illustrated with Lance’s works, this book gives a rounded picture of the man, not just the artist and will serve as the definitive record of the life of a much under-appreciated.

Joseph de Levis and Company Renaissance Bronzefounders in Verona

Using specific paintings to examine the whole career of Winifred Nicholson, this book includes her late ‘prismatic’ pictures which have never been properly explained.

Published in association with Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, the book illustrates many previously unseen paintings from private collections.

The Beverley Collection of Gems at Alnwick Castle

Charles Avery

Diana Scarisbrick, Claudia Wagner and John Boardman

Fully illustrated 274 x 212mm • 240pp • HB 9781781300480 • £40 / $65

Fully illustrated 248 x 197mm • 352pp • HB 9781781300442 • £40 / $65

Joseph de Levis applied his distinctive signature to a whole range of fantastic, Mannerist, bronze artefacts.

This well-illustrated catalogue raisonné is important both art-historically and from the perspective of the Jewish Diaspora in Renaissance Italy.

Treasured Possessions From the Renaissance to the Enlightenment Victoria Avery and Melissa Calaresu Fully illustrated 280 x 230mm • 304pp • HB 9781781300336 • £39.95 / $65

This book, illustrated throughout with colour photographs, explores the significance of beautiful and engaging objects to the people who once owned them.

With over 300 works discussed, it takes us on a dazzling visual adventure.

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A record of the Beverley gems: one of the major British gem collections of the 18th and 19th centuries.

They comprise some 300 Greek, Roman, Medieval, Renaissance and Neo-classical pieces.

Fred A. Farrell Glasgow’s War Artist Alan Greenlees, Fiona Hayes, Joanna Meacock and Mark Roberts Fully illustrated 220 x 215mm • 80pp • PB 9781781300275 • £16.99 / $25

The first proper overview of Fred Farrell’s vivid drawings from the First World War. Beautifully illustrated in full colour, insightful essays and catalogue entries explain the genesis, execution and reception of these poignant works.

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Eric Ravilious

Vincent van Gogh

Imagined Realities

The Years in France: Complete Paintings 1886–1890

Alan Powers

Walter Feilchenfeldt Fully illustrated 275 x 235mm • 144pp • PB 9781781300015 • £25 / $30

Fully illustrated 308 x 245mm • 348pp • HB 9781781300190 • £65 / $100

Includes illustrations of many previously unpublished paintings, including a number from private collections, as well as surveying Ravilious’ other artistic activities. The text draws on many letters and other documents and is the most comprehensive account of Ravilious’ career ever published.

Presented here is a comprehensive illustrated catalogue of Van Gogh’s paintings executed between 1886 and 1890 in Paris, Arles, Saint-Remy and Auvers-sur-Oise. Each of some 580 works from that time is reproduced in full colour and appears in related scale to its original size.

Nothing Wasted The Paintings of Richard Harrison Brian Sewell Fully illustrated 275 x 235mm • 240pp • HB 9780856676833 • £50 / $53

Part analysis and part account of an often alarming life, Nothing Wasted represents a comprehensive record of Richard Harrison’s intellectual and aesthetic development. At a time when figurative painting has long been out of fashion, Richard Harrison has been one of the very few younger contemporary artists to hold to this ancestral tradition.

Kandinsky Drawings Catalogue Raisonné Volume Two: Sketchbooks Vivian Endicott Barnett Fully illustrated 292 x 265mm • 496pp • HB 9780856676369 • £200 / $275

The two-volume catalogue raisonné of Kandinsky’s drawings publishes many works for the first time and presents new insights into the artist’s creative process.

This second volume is devoted to Kandinsky’s thirtyeight sketchbooks that have remained intact.

The Dutch Italianates 17th-century Masterpieces from Dulwich Picture Gallery, London Ian A. C. Dejardin Fully illustrated • 240 x 210mm • 112pp • PB 9780856676574 • £25 / $30

Throughout the seventeenth century, a steady stream of Dutch painters made the arduous journey to Italy, the acknowledged ‘home of art’. But they were more inspired by the country itself than its artistic tradition. This book celebrates the beauty, virtuosity, observation and humour of the Dutch Italianate vision.

Art of the Renaissance Bronze, 1500–1650 The Robert H. Smith Collection Anthony Radcliffe and Nicholas Penny Fully illustrated 274 x 214mm • 320pp • HB 9780856675904 • £95 / $49

This fully updated and extended edition is both a catalogue of one of the finest collections of Renaissance bronzes ever formed and an introduction to the sculptors, subjects, purposes and settings of the works.

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