Loughman, Thomas J.

Fierce Reality – Italian Masters from Seventeenth Century Naples.

Milano, Skira Editore S.p.A., 2006. 28.1cm x 24.2cm. 151 pages. With beautiful illustrations. Original Softcover. Very good condition with some signs of external wear.

Lovett, Rev. Richard.

London Pictures. Drawn with Pen and Pencil. With One Hundred and Thirty Illustrations.

First Edition. London, The Religious Tract Society, 1890. 27 x 19 cm. 223 pages with B&W Illustrations. Eight pages of publishers list. Orininal decorated cloth with gilt and blind decorations. Very good condition. Tight and clean. Minor shelf wear, rubbing and bumping. Internally bright and clean.

Lucie-Smith, Edward.

Adam – The Male Figure in Art.

London, Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 1998. 28.7cm x 23.8cm. 192 pages. With graphic illustrations of the nude male body. Original Hardcover with dustjacket. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

Mahr, Adolf.

Christian Art in Ancient Ireland. Selected Objects Illustrated and Described. Edited on behalf of the Government of the Irish Free State by Adolf Mahr, D.PH., M.R.I.A., Keeper of Irish Antiquities, National Museum, Dublin with the Collaboration of the Royal Irish Academy.

First Editions. Two Volumes – Complete. Dublin, Stationary Office of Saorstat Eireann, 1932 / 1941. 36 x 27 cm. Vol. 1: xxvii (text) followed by 80 Plates in B&W / Vol.2: 184 pages (text), followed by Plates 81 – 130. Original half cloth hard covers. Two tone design. Gilt titles on front boards and spines. Very good condition. Some shelf wear, rubbing and bumping. Bindings age darkened and a little stained (see images). Edges and end papers dust dulled. Sound bindings. Internally bright and clean. Two nice copies.

Maile, Roger (editor).

Best of Friends 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 & 10. The Yearbook of Creative Monochrome.

Eight volumes. Croydon, Surrey, Creative Monochrome, 1994 – 2003. 27 x 24 cm. Original stiff paper wrappers. Very good condition. Minor shelf wear. All books bright and clean copies.

Marc Alexander,

A.E. Stegmann The Life and Art of a Remarkable Artist.

First Edition, London, Mouth & Foot Painting Artists, 2000. 22 x 30 cm, 163 pages. With many photos and paintings by this artist. Original hardcover with original dustjacket in protective Mylar. Excellent condition.

Meadows, Lindon.

Dame Perkins and her grey Mare; or, The Mount for Market. With coloured Illustrations by Phiz.

London, Sampson Low, Son, and Marston, 1866. 22 x 18 cm. 48 pages. With colour plates. Original green cloth with gilt title and decorations on front board. All edges gilt. Inside custom made clam shell box made by Anthony David Estill. Very good condition. Minor shelf wear, rubbing and bumping. Edges and end papers dust dulled. Gift inscription in ink on front free end paper. Ex Libris (Anthony David Estill) on front paste down. Small bookseller stamp on rear paste down.

[Michelangelo] Hall, Marcia.

Michelangelo – The Frescoes of the Sistine Chapel. Photographs by Takashi Okamura.

New York, Harry N. Abrams, Incorporated, 2002. 30.5cm x 25.2cm. 239 pages. With 93 beautiful illustrations. Original Hardcover with dustjacket. Very good in very good dust jacket, now inside archival jacket. Some lines (ball point pen) on text pages. Otherwise bright and clean.

Monaco, Domenico.

The Principal Objets [Objects] of Art in the National Museum of Naples. Engraved on Copper-Plates by the best Italian Artists. Text by Domenico Monaco, Curator of the Museum of Naples.

Naples, [Published by the National Museum], 1880. 28 x 22 cm. 34 text pages, followed by 160 Plates, incl. one folding Plate. Contemporary dark green cloth. Hard cover. Gilt titles on front board and spine. Very good condition. Binding rubbed and bumped, dust dulled and a little slanted. Ex Libris of previous owner on front paste down. Name of previous owner inscribed on title page. Edges and end papers age darkened. Internally clean with occasional very mild foxing.

Monck Mason, William.

The History and Antiquities of the Collegiate and Cathedral Church of St. Patrick, near Dublin. From its Foundation in 1190, to the Year 1819: comprising A Topographical Account of the Lands and Parishes Appropriated to the Community of the Cathedral, and to its Members; and biographical Memoirs of its Deans. Collected, chiefly, from Sources of Original Record, by William Monck Mason, Esq.

First Edition. Dublin, Printed for the Author, 1819. 26.5 x 21.5 cm. Frontispiece, TP1, Dedication, TP2, (2)[TOC], 444 pages, xcvii [Appendix, Additional Notes and Illustrations]. With a Frontispiece and six additional Plates. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards (see images). Black spine label with gilt title. Blind and gilt decorations to spine. Very good condition. Some shelf wear, rubbing and bumping. Front hinge professionally reinforced. Edges and end papers dust dulled. Occasional mild browning and mild damp staining to a few pages. Otherwise internally clean. A very nice copy in a sturdy contemporary binding.