Lady Garner (3 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition, Limited Edition. Published by Bluett & Sons Ltd. in 1973, this elegantly produced catalogue presents select Chinese and Japanese ceramics from the distinguished collection of Sir Harry and Lady Garner, one of the most respected assemblages of East Asian art in 20th-century Britain. The catalogue highlights twenty-four representative pieces, many of which had been on long-term loan to the Leicester Museum and Art Gallery. The prefatory remarks emphasize both the depth of the Garners' collecting activity and Sir Harry Garner's intellectual authority in the field of Chinese art, particularly ceramics and lacquer, where his scholarship helped shape modern understanding. This edition features high-quality black-and-white photographic plates documenting each object with clarity suited to scholarly and collecting purposes. As a bookseller's catalogue produced contemporaneously with the sale of the collection, it offers valuable period documentation and viewpoints on provenance, connoisseurship, and the British art market in the early 1970s. Bluett & Sons, one of London's most respected Asian-art dealers, produced these catalogues in limited numbers for clients, institutions, and researchers; examples tend to survive only in small quantities. Condition: Near Fine. The wrappers are exceptionally well preserved, showing only faint rubbing to the rear panel and light shelfwear at extremities. The text block is clean, crisp, and unmarked, with no ownership inscriptions. The binding remains tight and square. Internally fresh throughout, with plates bright and unmarred. A superior example of this fragile softcover issue, seldom encountered in such condition on the market. Edition/Printing: First and only edition, 1973, as issued. No subsequent printings or revised editions were produced. Colophon: Bluett & Sons Ltd., May 1973. Printed in the UK.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st ed., 1st printing ;160 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm. ISBN 9780517563212 0517563215 LCCN 86004756 ; OCLC 13333573 LC SB466.I65 I77 1986 Dewey 712.609415 ; green cloth in price-clipped color photographic dustjacket ; Contents: Castletown Cox, Co Kilkenny / Baron De Breffny -- Graigueconna, Co Wicklow / Mrs John Brown -- Garinish Island, Co Kerry / Shamus Browne -- 71 Merrion Square, Dublin / Miss Sybil Connolly -- Lakemount, Co Cork / Brian Cross -- 45 Sandford Avenue, Dublin / The Hon. Mrs Val Dillon -- Kilgobbbin, Co Limerick / The Dowager Countess Of Dunraven -- Ardsallagh, Co Tipperary / Mrs Betty Farquhar -- Glin Castle, Co Limerick / Madam Fitzgerald -- Hillmount, Co Antrim / Mrs John Frazer -- Old Mill House, Co Down / Mrs Henry Garner -- Dargle Cottage, Co Wicklow / The Hon. Lady Goulding -- Primrose Hill, Co Dublin / Mrs Cisely Hall -- Guincho, Co Down / William Harrison -- Stramore, Co Wexford / Mrs Dorothy Jobling-purser -- Kilbogget, Co Dublin / Mr Sydney Maskell -- Glenveagh Castle, Co Donegal / Henry P Mcilhenny -- Knock-na-garry, Co Cork / Mrs John Minchin -- Kilmokea, Co Wexford / David Price -- 8 Clune Road, Finglas, Co Dublin / Mrs Kitty Reardon -- Castlemartin, Co Kildare / Mrs Tony O Reilly -- Butterstream, Co Meath / Jim Reynolds -- Charleville, Co Wicklow / Mrs Kenneth Rohan -- Ishlan, Co Antrim / Mrs Noel Sanderson -- Beech Park, Co Dublin / David Shackleton -- Shiel, Co Dublin / Mrs Olive Stanley-Clarke -- Coolcarrigan, Co Kildare / John Wilson-wright ; FINE/FINE. Book.

Condition: Fine. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original forest green paper covered boards, blocked and lettered gilt back. 8vo. 8½'' x 6''. Contains 173 pp with monochrome archive photographs throughout. Fine condition book in Fine condition dust wrapper, price clipped. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection. Member of the P.B.F.A. ISBN 0863831125 BIO (Résumé, Memoir).