4271. Cox, Gerard.

“Ordering Wood”. [With an Introduction by Peter Murray].

Cork, Crawford Municipal Gallery, 1988. 21 cm wide x 29.8 cm high. 16 pages with numerous illustrations in colour of wooden sculpture. Original Softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of wear.

4272. [Murray, Peter / Brooke, Peter / Kissane, Sean / Kennedy, Roisin / Coulter, Riann / Hall, Dickon / Crawford Art Gallery].

Analysing Cubism.

First and only edition of this rare Exhibition Catalogue. Cork, Ireland, IMMA / Crawford Art Gallery, 2013. 30 cm. 149 pages. With illustrations, mainly in colour. Original, illustrated Hardcover. Excellent, close to new condition with only minor signs of wear.

4273. [Firestone, Evan R. Davis, John / Prown, Jules David / Stella, Frank ].

American Art – Summer 1996 Issue [with the essay by Evan Firestone: The Death of Moby Dick – Vincent Desiderio’s ‘The Progress of Self Love’].

Smithsonian Institution, 1996. Quarto. 85 pages. Illustrated Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear.

4274. Arakawa [Shusaku] and Madeleine Gins.

The Mechanism of Meaning.

Revised Edition. New York, Abbeville Press, 1988. Quarto (29 cm wide x 29 cm high). 161 pages (including six translucent pages at the rear) and the two often missing, loosely inserted cards which show a reproduction of a micrograph of zirconium from the Atomic Resolution Microscope at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, University of California. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket. Minor staining to dustjacket. Otherwise in very good condition with only minor signs of wear.

4275. [Gibbings, Robert] Empson, Patience / Balston, Thomas.

The Wood Engravings of Robert Gibbings with some recollections by the Artist [Also included is some rare Ephemera: The Six-Page Original Advertising and Order-Leaflet for this publication].

First Edition. London, J.M.Dent & Sons, 1959. Quarto (213 cm wide x 28 cm high) Pagination: Colour-frontispiece on Japanese paper, XLIV, 355 pages [with over 1000 wood engravings by Robert Gibbings and 16 pages of “Recollections by the Artist”]. Original Hardcover (Buckram) with the original publisher’s clear jacket with Red Lettering. A stunning, must-have publication in very good condition with only minor signs of wear.

4276. King, Linda / Sisson, Elaine.

Ireland, Design and Visual Culture: Negotiating Modernity, 1922-1992. Edited by Linda King and Elaine Sassoon.

First Edition. Cork, Cork University Press / School of Creative Arts IADT, 2011. Octavo (17 cm wide x 24 cm high). 312 pages. Illustrated throughout. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket. Unusually excellent, as new condition with only minor signs of wear. One of the most remarkable and one of the rarest books on Irish Design and Visual Culture.

4277. O’Gralbhain, Cairan et. al.

The Archive – Journal of the Cork Northside Folklore Project. Isis Thionascnamh Bealoidis Cheann-Thuaidh Chorcai. Issue 15.

Cork, The Cork Northside Folklore Project, 2011. 21 x 30 cm. 27 pages. Original Softcover. Very good condition with minor signs of external wear.

4278. Irish Society of Botanical Arts.

EireAnnach [Éireannach] – Celebrating Native Plants of Ireland. Botanical Art Worldwide 2018.

Dublin, ISBA, 2018. Quarto (21 cm wide x 29.5 cm high). 136 pages with numerous illustrations throughout. Illustrated Softcover. Unusually excellent. close to new condition with only minor signs of wear.

4279. [Russell, Lord John / John Russell, 6th Duke of Bedford].

Family – Bible of John Russell, 6th Duke of Bedford, with his bookplate to the Pastedown / The Holy Bible – Containing The Old and New Testaments : Translated out of the Original Tongues : And With The Former Translations diligently compared and revised, by his Majesty’s Special Command [The titlepage of the New Testament reads: “The New Testament of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ : Translated out of the Original Greek : And With The Former Translations Diligently Compared and Revised”]. Appointed to be read in Churches.

Stereotype Edition. Two Volumes in One (complete). London, Printed by George Eyre and Andrew Straha, 1817. Small Octavo. 1119 pages [Old Testament] / 343 pages [New Testament]. Hardcover / Excellent, full green morocco, with rich gilt tooling and lettering. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Extraordinary little hand-bible of the 6th Duke of Bedford.

4280. [Molière] Petitot, M.

Oeuvres de Molière, Avec Un Commentaire Historique et Litteraire; Précédées du Tableau des Moeurs du dix-septième Siècle, et de la Vie de Moliére par M. Petitot.

Nouvelle Edition. 6 Volumes (complete). Paris, J.P.Aillard, 1823. Octavo (13.5 cm wide x 20 cm high). Pagination: Frontispiece-Portrait of Molière, LXXX, 426 (1), 494 (1), 526 (1), 516 (1), 579 (1), 454 (1) pages. Hardcover / Original full leather of the 19th century with gilt lettering and ornament on spine and boards. Bookplate to pastedown. Frontispiece – Portrait cleanly detached and loosely inserted. Very good condition of this set with only minor signs of wear. From the library of Daniel Conner (Connerville / Manch House), with his Exlibris / Bookplate to pastedown of each Volume.