Alistair Laing (13 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Very good condition. No dust jacket. Minor edgewear. All intact. No writing or marking. Not Ex-Library.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Cover shows light shelf wear at corners. Previous owner name, address, date inside front cover. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

1st edition. Near fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 181 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), facsimiles (some color), plans, portraits (some color) ; 27 cm. Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents: Introduction / Michael Napier -- The architecture of the London Oratory churches / Roderick O'Donnell -- The Dukes of Norfolk and the London Oratory / John Martin Robinson -- Baroque sculpture in a neo-baroque setting / Alistair Laing -- The Library and its benefactors / Richard Price -- The treasury / Anna Somers Cocks -- The Oratory musical tradition / Henry Washington -- The organs of the Oratory / Ralph Downes. Subjects: Faber, Frederick William 1814-1863; Oratory of St. Philip Neri (London, England); Guidebooks; London Oratory History; Oratories England London; Christian art and symbolism England London Modern period, 1500-; Churches, Catholic 19th century; Sculpture England London; Catholic church buildings; Church architecture. 1 Kg. Item is Shipped from Ireland or US locations.

1st edition. Near fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 181 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), facsimiles (some color), plans, portraits (some color) ; 27 cm. Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents: Introduction / Michael Napier -- The architecture of the London Oratory churches / Roderick O'Donnell -- The Dukes of Norfolk and the London Oratory / John Martin Robinson -- Baroque sculpture in a neo-baroque setting / Alistair Laing -- The Library and its benefactors / Richard Price -- The treasury / Anna Somers Cocks -- The Oratory musical tradition / Henry Washington -- The organs of the Oratory / Ralph Downes. Subjects: Faber, Frederick William 1814-1863; Oratory of St. Philip Neri (London, England); Guidebooks; London Oratory History; Oratories England London; Christian art and symbolism England London Modern period, 1500-; Churches, Catholic 19th century; Sculpture England London; Catholic church buildings; Church architecture. 1 Kg. Item is Shipped from Ireland or US locations.

Condition: Good.

4°. Tadelloses Exemplar. (Kunst). OKt. Kein Versand aufgrund von EPR Regelungen in EU-Länder außerhalb Deutschlands. No shipping to EU countries outside of Germany due to EPR regulations.

1st edition. 4to. [183pp.] Colour and b/w. illustrations. Original boards. Pictorial green d/w. lettered in black, spine faded, rubbed to edges. ISBN 0862940451 US$22.

Paperback. Condition: As New. Prompt Shipment, shipped in Boxes, Tracking PROVIDED*.

26.0 x 20.5cms 182pp b/w & colour illusts fine hrdcover & dustwrapper This book records the history traditions and treasures of London's best known Catholic church. Its chapters are:the architecture of the London oratory churches; the Dukes of Norfolk & the London Oratory; Baroque sculpture in a neo-Baroque setting; the library & its benefactors; the treasury; the oratory musical tradition; the Oratory's organs;

Softcover. Condition: Très bon. Ancien livre de bibliothèque avec équipements. Ammareal reverse jusqu'à 15% du prix net de cet article à des organisations caritatives. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Book Condition: Used, Very good. Former library book. Ammareal gives back up to 15% of this item's net price to charity organizations.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Published as a companion to the SAVE exhibition of the same title at the Heinz Gallery in the Royal Institute of British Architects Drawings Collection, Portman Square, London W1 from 25th May to 10th June, 1982. 26 pages, illustrated, checklist of public baths in England & Wales up to 1939.

paperback. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

No Binding. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Ltd edition of 100. 25 loose card, full page, illustrations. Each signed by the 25 artists in pencil or ink etc. A little smudged but otherwise fine. All kept in a transparent plastic lidded box, which still has old cellotape marks to either edge. Acquired from Maude Lloyd, an admired leading dancer with Ballet Rambert in the 1930s. With her husband, Nigel Gosling a renowned art critic, she later wrote, influential dance books and reviews under the joint pseudonym, 'Alexander Bland'. When Rudolph Nureyev defected in 1961, Margot Fonteyn asked them to befriend him which they gladly did offering him freedom of their house. Gosling edited his autobiography. Nureyev wrote an admiring memoir of him in Observer of the Dance anthologising Goslings reviews, "He and Maude were like my family.". Signed by Author(s).