Carry Ackroyd (8 results)

Paperback. Condition: Fine. Ackroyd, Carry (illustrator).

Condition: As New. Ackroyd, Carry (illustrator). Unread copy in mint condition.

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Condition: Like New. Ackroyd, Carry (illustrator). Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. An apparently unread copy in perfect condition. Dust cover is intact with no nicks or tears. Spine has no signs of creasing. Pages are clean and not marred by notes or folds of any kind.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good -. Ackroyd, Carry (illustrator). Tight binding, clean interior. Green wraps have light edge wear and scuffs, a couple indents on back edge. Interior is unmarked, b/w illustrations throughout. "The essential guide for enthusiasts, gardeners and woodland lovers to species, cultivation, habits, uses & lore." 224 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Ackroyd, Carry (illustrator). 1st Edition. First edition, first impression. 182pp, decorated with relief chapter headers. Green cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering on the spine. Red endpapers. 12mo. Volume is neat, clean, bright and tight throughout. In its original illustrated dust jacket, not price clipped, very slightly bumped on extreme edges.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Jacket by Carry Ackroyd (illustrator). 1st Edition. First edition, first impression with full number line. Some very slight edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, very slight lean, not price clipped (£20.00), no inscriptions, internally clean tight and nearly square, overall a vg++ copy. 334pp, illustrated. When Christopher Somerville, author and journalist, set out to explore Britain's cathedrals, he found his fixed ideas shaken to the roots. Starting out, he pictured cathedrals, Britain possesses over one hundred, as great unmoving bastions of tradition. But as he journeys among favourites old and new, he discovers buildings and communities that have been in constant upheaval for a thousand years. Here are stories of the monarchs and bishops who ordered the building of these massive but unstable structures, the masons whose genius brought them into being, the peasant labourers who erected (and died on) the scaffolding. We learn of rogue saints exploited by holy sinners, the pomp and prosperity that followed these ships of stone, the towns that grew up in their shadows, the impact of the Black Death, the Reformation and icon smashing Puritanism, the revival brought about by the Industrial Revolution, and the hope and disillusion of two world wars. Meeting believers and non believers, architects and archaeologists, the cleaner who dusts the monuments and the mason who judges stone by its taste, we delve deep into the private lives and the uncertain future of these ever voyaging Ships of Heaven.

Single Sheet. Condition: Fine. Carry Ackroyd (illustrator). Carry Ackroyd original signed lithograph titled 'Something Fenny'. Printed on Somerset Velvet 300gsm 100% cotton paper, published by the Curwen Press 2009. In fine condition. Sheet size 25.5cm x 31cm Carry Akroyd lives on the Northamptonshire Cambridgeshire border between the Nene Valley and the Fens. Working as both a painter and print maker, her focus is mainly on arable landscapes, with wildlife living on the margins of agriculture. Elected to SWLA in 2000, she won the Terravesta prize in 2017.Carry's most favoured printmaking technique is serigraphy, (screenprinting), but employing a very low-tech approach. A lot of time is spent with scissors or scalpel, creating cut-paper stencils to control where each layer of ink passes through the screen. Where the layers of ink overlap they create new colours, and the image is invented during the process of being made, reacting to how the image develops. Colour, shape and composition are her main focus, all used to try to recapture the experience of a place, including the birds and botany observed.Enquire about this item.