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We're delighted to stock their list alongside the prints in our gallery.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"suzanne-cooper-paintings-under-the-spare-room-bed","title":"Suzanne Cooper: Paintings under the Spare-Room Bed","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the 1930s Suzanne Cooper (1916–1992) was one of the most promising young painters of British modernism. A student at the Grosvenor School of Modern Art, she exhibited oils and wood engravings in West End galleries and won the support of her tutor Iain Macnab and the dealer Lucy Carrington Wertheim – until the war led her to nursing, marriage and motherhood, and her ambitions were quietly set aside.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRediscovered only recently, her work invites comparison with Eric Ravilious and Christopher Wood. This book gathers fifty paintings, prints and drawings – seaside and street scenes alive with everyday oddity, assured still lifes, and portraits with a hint of Surrealism – each with a commentary by Andrew Stewart. Essays by Lucy Hughes-Hallett, Cooper’s daughter-in-law, and Jenny Uglow place her within the interwar art world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003ePublished by \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.stjudesprints.co.uk\/collections\/the-mainstone-press\"\u003eThe Mainstone Press\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e• 112 pages\u003cbr\u003e• Page size 240 × 280 mm (landscape)\u003cbr\u003e• Hardback\u003cbr\u003e• 120 illustrations\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Suzanne Cooper","offers":[{"title":"Default","offer_id":57582135542140,"sku":"MAINSTONE_SUZANNECOOPER","price":35.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0031\/1712\/files\/suzanne-cooper-paintings-under-the-spare-room-bed-1.jpg?v=1791320477"},{"product_id":"ravilious-through-the-eyes-of-his-contemporaries","title":"Ravilious through the Eyes of his Contemporaries","description":"\u003cp\u003eEric Ravilious’s watercolours are better loved than ever, yet the man behind them – killed on active service in 1942, aged thirty-nine – can seem elusive. This anthology gathers more than thirty texts by friends, fellow artists and admirers, several published here for the first time, to build a fuller and warmer portrait.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIntroduced by Alan Powers, the selection runs from a 1927 \u003cem\u003eTimes\u003c\/em\u003e exhibition review to a 2012 recollection by the painter David Hepher, whose parents knew the Raviliouses. Royal College of Art contemporaries Edward Bawden, Peggy Angus and Enid Marx share their memories, and Ravilious’s own ‘Preface by the Engraver’ from the 1929 Monotype \u003cem\u003eAlmanack\u003c\/em\u003e – the only text he published in his lifetime – appears in full. Essays and critical writing from before and after the war range across his whole practice, from wood engraving to lithography.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003ePublished by \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.stjudesprints.co.uk\/collections\/the-mainstone-press\"\u003eThe Mainstone Press\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e• 144 pages\u003cbr\u003e• Page size 300 × 234 mm\u003cbr\u003e• Paperback\u003cbr\u003e• 170 illustrations and photographs\u003cbr\u003e• Printed and bound in the UK\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Eric Ravilious","offers":[{"title":"Default","offer_id":57582135771516,"sku":"MAINSTONE_RAVILIOUSCONTEMPORARIES","price":30.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0031\/1712\/files\/eric-ravilious-through-the-eyes-of-his-contemporaries-1.jpg?v=1791320478"},{"product_id":"john-pipers-brighton-aquatints","title":"John Piper’s Brighton Aquatints","description":"\u003cp\u003eFirst published in 1939, \u003cem\u003eBrighton Aquatints\u003c\/em\u003e was John Piper’s only true artist’s book, and one printed entirely in aquatint. Its plates capture the resort’s architecture – the Royal Pavilion, the West Pier, stucco terraces and Victorian churches – and, with John Betjeman’s help, Piper hand-coloured 55 of the original 250 copies.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis edition brings the monochrome and coloured states together for the first time, alongside Piper’s idiosyncratic descriptions of each scene. Alan Powers contributes an introduction on how the book was conceived and produced, together with a commentary on every plate. The design is by Brian Webb.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003ePublished by \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.stjudesprints.co.uk\/collections\/the-mainstone-press\"\u003eThe Mainstone Press\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e‘Piper’s urgent scribbly line and collaged newsprint does the town modern justice.’\u003c\/em\u003e – Andrew Lambirth, \u003cem\u003eThe Londonist\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e• 112 pages\u003cbr\u003e• Page size 230 × 310 mm\u003cbr\u003e• Hardback with quarter-cloth binding\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLimited to 1,800 copies.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Piper","offers":[{"title":"Default","offer_id":57582135804284,"sku":"MAINSTONE_BRIGHTONAQUATINTS","price":35.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0031\/1712\/files\/john-piper-brighton-aquatints-1.jpg?v=1791320485"},{"product_id":"fast-cars-and-ukuleles-a-jonny-hannah-a-to-z","title":"Fast Cars \u0026 Ukuleles: A Jonny Hannah A to Z","description":"\u003cp\u003eJonny Hannah’s alphabet is a riotous, autobiographical tour of his own enthusiasms, where English tradition rubs shoulders with Celtic folklore and American popular culture. From Coney Island to Northern Soul and dead men’s suits, each entry pairs hand-drawn lettering with vivid imagery, steeped in the music, fashion and heroes he loves.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePainted lettering, much of it inspired by hand-painted signs and circus typography, is combined with print, letterpress, stencil and collaged tickets and postcards. Anyone who knows Jonny’s work will recognise the energy here: bold colour, irreverent wit and images that seem to leap off the page. Published by The Mainstone Press, best known for its books on Edward Bawden and Eric Ravilious, it makes an exuberant companion to his printmaking.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003ePublished by \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.stjudesprints.co.uk\/collections\/the-mainstone-press\"\u003eThe Mainstone Press\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e‘Every page of this eccentric alphabet book is full to bursting, crammed with visual detail and graphic delights celebrating the artist’s personal obsessions.’\u003c\/em\u003e – The Gentle Author, \u003cem\u003eSpitalfields Life\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e‘Bursting with colourful layered images, Hannah’s ABC is a fun, light hearted ride through the things he holds dear to his heart, from “Emporiums” through to “Knitted ties” – and even the Devil gets a look in along the way.’\u003c\/em\u003e – Derek Brazell, Association of Illustrators\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e• 64 pages\u003cbr\u003e• Hardback\u003cbr\u003e• Illustrated in full colour throughout\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jonny Hannah","offers":[{"title":"Default","offer_id":57582135837052,"sku":"MAINSTONE_FASTCARSUKULELES","price":20.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0031\/1712\/files\/jonny-hannah-fast-cars-and-ukuleles-1.jpg?v=1791320485"},{"product_id":"lost-watercolours-of-edward-bawden-book","title":"The Lost Watercolours of Edward Bawden","description":"\u003cp\u003eCelebrated as an illustrator and printmaker, Edward Bawden (1903–1989) was also, in the 1930s, a modern painter of real critical standing. This book assembles the largest group of his pre-war watercolours ever brought together, many first shown at his solo exhibitions at the Zwemmer Gallery in 1933 and the Leicester Galleries in 1938.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTracing them took three years: some had disappeared into private hands, while others sat in public collections under new names, Bawden’s poetic original titles long since replaced. Publisher Tim Mainstone recounts the search, and James Russell, author of the \u003cem\u003eRavilious in Pictures\u003c\/em\u003e series, opens with an essay on Bawden’s life and work through the decade. 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It sold out at once, is now counted among the classics of art deco book design, and left its mark on Eric Ravilious, whose \u003cem\u003eHigh Street\u003c\/em\u003e (1938) owes much to Boucher.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe first of the Mainstone Press’s Parisian trilogy reproduces all 37 shops with new captions by Andrew Stewart, and Mac Orlan’s text in a new English translation by Shaun Whiteside. 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