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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll
Category: Children's Classic Fiction | Series: Collector's Colour Library
Alice in Wonderland is one of the best-loved children's stories in the world and has been translated into nearly fifty languages, and in several cases more than once. Sir John Tenniel's beautiful illustrations have always been an integral part of the book's magic, and for this edition of Alice and Throu ...Show more
Bruegel by Keith Roberts
Category: Art | Series: Colour Library
This series acts as an introduction to key artists and movements in art history. Each title contains 48 full-page colour plates, accompanied by extensive notes, and numerous comparative illustrations in colour or black and white, a concise introduction, select bibliography and detailed source informatio ...Show more
Caravaggio by Timothy Wilson-Smith
Category: Art | Series: Colour Library
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571-1610) was a boldly original painter who led a short and violent life. The powerful realism of his figures upset many of his contemporaries, and their power to shock remains undiminished. This book, providing a biography, presents all his most famous masterpieces, ...Show more
Cezanne by Catherine Dean
Category: Art | Series: Colour library
An introduction to the work of Paul Cézanne.Paul Cezanne (1839-1906) has been acclaimed by the twentieth century as the father of modern art. This superb volume surveys the life and work of an extraordinary painter, who trod a solitary and difficult path towards his goal of an art which would combine th ...Show more
Chagall by Gill Polonsky
Category: Art | Series: Phaidon Colour Library
The life and work of artist Marc Chagall (1887-1985) are presented in this volume which includes a cross-section of his work in all media. He was influenced by the Cubists and influenced the Surrealists, but his style was an individual blend of imagination, symbolism, fantasy and colour.
Chardin by Gabriel Naughton
Category: Art | Series: Phaidon Colour Library
Jean Siméon Chardin (1699-1779) was arguably the most talented French painter of the eighteenth century, best known for his original still lifes. Composed of simple, everyday objects, these works glow with warmth and magic, from the dull iron of the kitchen pans, to the glaze of the green earthenware ju ...Show more
Complete Novels by Jane Austen
Category: Classic | Series: Collector's Library Editions in Colour
Suitable as a present, this slip-cased edition contains Hugh Thomson's line illustrations, which are coloured by Barbara Frith.
Complete Works Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
Category: Classic | Series: Collector's Library Editions in Colour
Suitable as a present, this slip-cased edition contains over 500 line illustrations by Sir John Gilbert, which are coloured by Barbara Frith.
Constable by John Sunderland
Category: Art and Design | Series: Phaidon Colour Library
This series acts as an introduction to key artists and movements in art history. Each title contains 48 full-page colour plates, accompanied by extensive notes, and numerous comparative illustrations in colour or black and white, a concise introduction, select bibliography and detailed source informatio ...Show more
DEGAS by Keith Roberts
Category: Art | Series: Phaidon Colour Library
Despite the popularity of his work, Edouard Degas has remained one of the most elusive of the Impressionists and Post-Impressionists. To his contemporaries he was always a very private man, rather aloof, self-absorbed and inclined to cynicism. However, few could fault his skill as an artist, and his acu ...Show more
Dali by Christopher Masters
Category: Art and Design | Series: Phaidon Colour Library
Salvador Dalí (1904-89) was one of the most controversial and paradoxical artists of the twentieth century. A painter of considerable virtuosity, he used a traditional illusionistic style to create disturbing images filled with references to violence, death, cannibalism and bizarre sexual practices, fro ...Show more
Durer by Martin Bailey
Category: No Category | Series: Phaidon Colour Library
An introduction to the work of Albrecht Dürer.Albrecht Durer (1471-1528) was one of the greatest artists of the Northern Renaissance, remarkable for the range and versatility of his work. His woodcuts and engravings made him famous throughout Europe and he is still regarded as one of the most brilliant ...Show more