471. [Heaney, Seamus / Flanagan, T.P.] Kennedy, S. B.

T.P. Flanagan, RHA, PPRUA. [Signed by Seamus Heaney and T.P.Flanagan] Foreword by Seamus Heaney / Catalogue by Martyn Anglesea / An appreciation by John Belmore with notes on selected pictures by T.P. Flanagan and J.K. Jamison. A special edition of this book is limited to one hundred signed copies of which seventy-five are offered for sale. This is one of the 25 copies which were not for sale. It is signed by Seamus Heaney and T.P.Flanagan on the front free endpaper and its provenance is an eminent irish art collection.

Dublin, Four Courts Press in association with the Ulster Museum, 1995. Folio (24 cm x 28 cm). 96 pages with many illustrations in colour and photographs. Softcover. Some staining to endpaper and edge, leading into the outer margins of some pages. Text and illustrations not affected. While the staining is not pretty, this is one of the rare occasions to acquire one of the scarcer signed items from Seamus Heaney (1 of 25 copies from an edition of only 100 signed copies).

472. Architectural Design.

Architectural Design & Construction. Collection of nine (9) Issues: Volume I – June 1931 / Volume II – April 1932 / Volume IV – December 1933 / Volume IV – January 1934 / Volume IV – February 1934 / Volume IV – March 1934 / Volume IV – April 1934 / Volume IV – May 1934 / Volume IV – June 1934.

[London], Blackfriars Press, 1931 – 1934. Folio (25 cm x 34 cm). c. 450 pages of essays including a multitude of vintage advertising on design, interior, furniture, bathrooms, Tiles, Modern Stairways, Reform Glazing, Hand Made Sandfaced Tiles, Trent Vale Brick & Tile / Circular Staircases / Art Deco Kitchen Design / Aga Cooker / etc. Original Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Some minor tears to some of the original wrappers. Rare !

473. 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.

474. Humphreys, Ian.

Selected Paintings 2007 – 2017 [One of 200 copies with an original, signed lithograph of “Bach Elegy Study 5”].

Limited Edition. Reading, Trafalgar Press, [2017]. Quarto (31 cm wide x 28.6 cm). 83 pages with numerous illustrations of Paintings in Colour. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket (with a cover-photograph of Ian Humphreys by John Minihan). Very good condition with only minor signs of wear.

475. Scully, Sean.

FIGURE / ABSTRACT – [Signed and INSCRIBED by Sean Scully] – With texts by / Mit Beiträgen von Marc O’Sullivan. Beate Reifenscheid and / und Sean Scully. With 180 Illustrations.

First Edition. Ostfildern, Hatje/Cantz Verlag, 2015. Quarto (24.5 cm wide x 30.3 cm high). 200 pages with 180 illustrations of Artwork by Sean Scully throughout the Volume. Original, illustrated Hardcover. Excellent, firm condition with only minor signs of wear to the rear cover only. Signed in full by Sean Scully on the titlepage and inscribed to a friend.

476. Scully, Sean.

FIGURE / ABSTRACT – [Signed by Sean Scully] – With texts by / Mit Beiträgen von Marc O’Sullivan. Beate Reifenscheid and / und Sean Scully.

First Edition. Ostfildern, Hatje/Cantz Verlag, 2015. Quarto (24.5 cm wide x 30.3 cm high). 200 pages with 180 illustrations of Artwork by Sean Scully throughout the Volume. Original, illustrated Hardcover. Very slightly bumped corners only. Otherwise in very good and firm condition with only minor signs of wear. Signed in full by Sean Scully on the titlepage. Perfect gift for a Scully enthusiast !

477. [Buckland-Wright, John / Golden Cockerel Press] Swinburne, Algernon Charles.

Hymn to Proserpine. Engravings by John Buckland-Wright.

London, Golden Cockerel Press, 1944. Octavo (16.8 cm wide x 23.7 cm high). 20 pages with seven woodcuts. Original Hardcover (Burgundy cloth). Spine slightly sunned. Otherwise in absolutely excellent, firm condition with only minor signs of wear.

478. [Dufy, Raoul] Derys, Gaston.

Mon Docteur – Le Vin. Avec 19 Aquarelles de Raoul Dufy – Texte de Gaston Derys. [Préface du Maréchal Pétain] / Typographie de A. M. Cassandre.

Paris, Freres Draeger, 1936. Folio (26 cm wide x 32 cm high). 44 pages with 19 aquarelles. / 19 photolithographs of watercolors (18 in colors), plus 1 photolithograph of a drawing (wrappers). Original, illustrated Softcover with illustrated dustjacket. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear.

479. Moschetti, [Prof. Allesandro].

Roma – [Original 19th century Tourist Guide with 40 (forty) Lithographic Plates on Rome in Piranesi-style / Rome in Antiquity].

[Rome], Incisioni del Prof. Moschetti, Epoca 1822. Small Octavo. 40 illustrations as Leporello. Original, blindstamped Hardcover with illustrated cover. With the original bands fully intact. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Very rare Piranesiesque Guide, including the famous Pyramide (Caio Cestio) and Veduti.

480. [County Kerry / Original Artwork of Lakes of Killarney] – Newman, John.

View of Muckross Lake from Brickeen Bridge. [Torc Lake, a name commonly used for Muckross Lake or Middle Lake due to the nearby Torc Mountain / Killarney].

Original chalk lithograph mounted on carton / stiff paper. [London], [J.Newman & Co.], c.1850. 32,5 cm x 24 cm. Closely cropped but in very good condition with only mild signs of foxing.