Henry Scott Tuke (9 results)

Condition: good. Foster, Rita; Finocchio, Dominic; Tuke, Henry Scott (illustrator).

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Upper corner lightly bumped, otherwise clean and tight. Pasadena's finest new and used bookstore since 1992. Foster, Rita; Finocchio, Dominic; Tuke, Henry Scott (illustrator).

Soft cover. Condition: New. Firehouse Publishing, Bordentown, NJ, 2014. Softcover, 80 pp. Quarterly periodical featuring artists who focus on the male nude. This edition featuering Rita Foster (featured on front cover), Dominic Finocchio, Ivor Sexton, Peter Bowles, Richard Claraval, and Lyubomir Naydenov. Plus an article on 19th century British artist Henry Scott Tuke, written by art historian Grady Harp. In fine condition. Foster, Rita; Finocchio, Dominic; Tuke, Henry Scott (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition, first impression. Some very slight edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, top corners very slightly bruised, not price clipped (£19.95), no inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg++ copy. 376pp, illustrated. 'Nasty, brutish and short'. Hobbes might well have been describing the existence of the professional seaman for most of history. The earliest recorded sailor's yarn, dating from about 2000 BC, is a story of shipwreck, and seamen were always nearer to oblivion than most. At times landsmen have been tempted to sentimentalise the way of the sea, Dibden the eighteenth century ballad monger wrote: 'There is a sweet cherub that sits up aloft, to keep watch for the life of poor Jack' but seamen knew the cherub was never over diligent. Whether described as shipman, mariner, sailor, seaman, poor Jack or jolly Jack (jolly whenever opportunity offered, poor on all but paydays), the merchant seaman was substantially the same for most of the 2000 years of the Christian era and indeed for the 2000 years before that. Cut off from land and normal society, the seaman's world was distinct and the seaman himself distinctive. In the western world the deep sea sailor has now all but disappeared, so it is possible to look dispassionately at what the seafaring life meant for those who went down to the sea in ships. Drawing on a mass of contemporary material spanning four millennia, this book follows the merchant seaman ashore and afloat through the typical vicissitudes of his exotic but uncertain life. Although it is an unsentimental 'warts and all' portrayal, it is nevertheless an affectionate valedictory tribute to a lifestyle that has almost vanished. Jacket after Henry Scott Tuke (illustrator). …

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 80 pages. 10.00x8.00x0.19 inches. In Stock. Foster, Rita; Finocchio, Dominic; Tuke, Henry Scott (illustrator).

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Hardcover. Condition: New. A copiously illustrated biography of one of the leading artists of the Newlyn School.

First edition. 4to. 160 pp w/index. Fine in very near fine, price-clipped dust jacket.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 154 pages. 10.00x8.00x0.37 inches. This item is printed on demand. Da Caravaggio, Michelangelo Merisi; Walker, Steve; Bernini, Gian Lorenzo; Rodin, Auguste; Tuke, Henry Scott; Carpeaux, Jean-Baptiste; Etty, William; Sargent, John Singer; De Carlo, Tony (illustrator).