Books About Books

London Centre for Book Arts Hardcover | 22.5 x 2.82 x 27.31 cm | 224 pp Ludion | 2021 | 9789493039520 Books are a meeting place. A sum of their many parts and artistic approaches. Form, concept, material and craft are bound together to create something...

Softcover | 14 x 1 x 15 cm | 96 pp Research Group for Artists Publications | 2012 |  9780956902412 For more than 35 years, Coracle has produced artists' books, critical works, editions and ephemera. Printed in Norfolk tells the story of this contemporary small...

John Hill Hardcover | 24.43 x 3.18 x 30.78 cm | 304 pp Prestel | 2021 | 9783791387123 Author John Hill is the founder of the hugely influential architecture blog A Daily Dose of Architecture, which shifted course to focus entirely on architecture books of...

Hardcover | 25.15 x 4.32 x 29.21 cm | 452 pp Yale University Press | 2019 | 9780965450812 This authoritative and magnificently illustrated book on herbals describes rare books, manuscripts, and other works of art conserved at the Oak Spring Garden Library, Upperville, Virginia, a collection formed over...

Angelo Maggi Hardcover | 21.59 x 2.54 x 27.94 cm | 272 pp ORO Editions | 2022 | 9781954081536 This is the first comprehensive overview about a talented 20th-century writer, photographer, and “builder” of books who greatly impacted architecture appreciation in America and beyond. George...

Gregory Jones Hardcover | 19.69 x 1.65 x 24.16 cm | 312 pp Unicorn Press | 2023 | 9781911397175 William Harry Rogers was one of the finest artist-designers of the Victorian period in Britain, to be considered in the same company as Pugin, William Burges, Owen...

Rita Ricketts Hardcover | 15.57 x 1.19 x 23.5 cm | 224 pp Unicorn Press | 2023 | 9781911397298 Few have heard of the Shakespeare Head Press, although it ranks alongside William Morris’s Kelmscott, Emery Walker and Cobden-Sanderson’s Doves, Eric Gill’s Golden Cockerel and St...

Nancy Perloff Hardcover | 21.59 x 2.54 x 21.59 cm | 248 pp J Paul Getty Museum | 2016 | 9781606065082 At the heart of this volume are close analyses of two of the most significant and experimental futurist books: Mirskontsa (Worldbackwards) and Vzorval' (Explodity)....

Kim Sichel Hardcover | 22.23 x 2.54 x 28.7 cm | 224 pp Yale University Press | 2020 | 9780300246186 A richly illustrated look at some of the most important photobooks of the 20th century.France experienced a golden age of photobook production from the late...

John Bidwell Hardcover | 22.86 x 1.52 x 27.94 cm | 264 pp Pennsylvania State University Press | 2015 | 9780271071114 The great painter Henri Matisse was also a great book illustrator. A pioneering member of the Fauves, a supreme colourist, a remarkable draftsman, and...

John Milner Hardcover | 15.32 x 1.5 x 22.89 cm | 96 pp ACC | 2014 | 9781851495917 Alexander Rodchenko (1891-1953) was a central figure in the Russian Constructivist art movement; a radical activist, a pioneer of photomontage, a theorist, and a teacher. This concise, comprehensive...

Simon Cutts & Erica Van Horn Hardcover | 14.5 x 18.5 cm | 48 pp Coracle | 2023 | 9780906630679 Edition of 300 Coracle has been producing books and other printed artefacts displaced from the page, often leading to installations for walls and other...

Softcover | 18.8 x 0.76 x 20.83 cm | 152 pp Yale University Press | 2019 | 9780300238495 Wassily Kandinsky (1866–1944) was a Russian pioneer of abstract painting whose work has influenced generations of artists. His Sounds (Klänge) of 1912 is one of the earliest, most beautiful examples...

Hardcover | 31.12 x 1.27 x 31.12 cm | 88 pp Leo Koenig | 2010 | 9783865603517 This exquisite artist's-book-as-exhibition-catalogue was produced to accompany rising Los Angeles conceptualist Brandon Lattu's first European survey, at Kunstverein Bielefeld, Germany. Rather than show standard thematic groups of...

Leandro Villaro & Mario Joya  Hardcover | 19.05 x 1.3 x 24.77 cm | 80 pp Errata Editions | 2017 | 9781935004400 A la plaza con Fidel (To the plaza with Fidel) is doubly rare among Cuban photobooks - relatively few photobooks were produced in Cuba after the Revolution,...

Els van Baarle & Cherilyn Martin Hardcover | 24.1 x 1.3 x 27.9 cm | 128 pp Batsford | 2017 | 9781849944366 An inspirational and practical book on how to interpret and collaborate on different themes in textile art. With foreword by Marie-Therese Wisniowski, who runs...

Paul Payne Hardcover | 15.29 x 1.47 x 22.25 cm | 96 pp ACC | 2020 | 9781788840651 Wyndham Payne's career as an illustrator began in the early 1920s illustrating books, calendars, greetings cards and advertisements, often with toys - soldiers, model theatres, trains...

Richard Poulin Hardcover | 22.1 x 3.81 x 30.73 cm | 408 pp Thames & Hudson | 2022 | 9780500025383 Rudolph de Harak (1924–2002) is one of the most influential modern graphic designers of the mid-20th century. This beautifully produced, comprehensive monograph is the first...

Ivan Brunetti Hardcover | 19.99 x 1.68 x 19.96 cm | 112 pp Yale university Press | 2013 | 9780300184402 cartoonistcomics scholar based in Chicago. This eye-popping illustrated autobiography traces his artistic trajectory and output, from youthful doodles to his cover illustrations and comic strips. Noted for...

Henk van Nierop Hardcover | 17.27 x 2.79 x 24.13 cm | 448 pp Routledge | 2018 | 9789462981386 Romeyn de Hooghe was the most inventive and prolific etcher of the later Dutch Golden Age. The producer of wide-ranging book illustrations, newsprints, allegories, and satire,...