In grand ironic elegy, Jan Morris tells the story of the Imperial Japanese Navy’s Yamato, most powerful warship of World War II and climax of the samurai tradition.
John Ruskin’s The King of the Golden River was the first literary fairy tale in English. Includes Richard Doyle’s original illustrations and Simon Cooke’s essay.
The diary of A. C. Benson, poet and educationalist, illuminates a career at the heart of the Edwardian establishment, and a tortured private life. Introduction, footnotes, chronology.
Facsimile pressed flower book - rare example of important botanical history. Full scientific and art historical analysis by the two leading authorities. Important for current research into the effects of climate change.
Dramatic yet charming woodcuts in William Nicholson's unmistakably vigorous style. An Edwardian masterpiece, long out of print.
Magnificently idiosyncratic woodcuts in William Nicholson's unmistakably vigorous style. An Edwardian masterpiece, long out of print.
Thirty drawings of men's face - a demonstration of virtuoso draughtsmanship, and full of William Nicholson's sense of the absurd.
Fold out two-metre-long panorama of Venice by Jan Morris - the first ever publication to mark Morris's centenary.
Sixtieth anniversary edition (the tenth) of J. G. Links’ classic guidebook to Venice, its art and its history, with four walks and an introduction by Jan Morris. Now in full colour.
The Art of the Chalk Downs looks at the engagement of modern painters including Paul and John Nash and Eric Ravilious with the chalk downs landscapes of southern England.