Buy this book on-line WOODMAN**, RICHARD: : VIEW FROM THE SEA - paintings by David Smith.**LONDON.CENTURY,1985. ISBN 0712610243.
UK,Qrto HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/NFINE.No owner inscrptn,but price-clip to dw/dj.
Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated, colour pictorial artwork by David Smith illustrated dw/dj; with negligible shelf- wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Head of spine/
backstrip and top edges minisculely bumped
with reciprocal creasing.Top+fore-edges bright and clean,contents bright,tight and near pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - an unread copy? Clean,unblemished,publisher's original grey cloth bds with bright,crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip with immaculate plain white eps.UK,Qrto HB+ dw/dj,1st edn,9-192pp [paginated] includes author intro,10 chapters,b/w line illus chapter head-pieces,b/w maps,mixture of profuse b/w+colour illustrations/paintings by David Smith throughout the text and the book,acknowledgements+biographical note and an index,plus [unpaginated] half-title +title pages,contents list/table and H.R.H. Prince Philip foreword.
In 'View from the Sea' an artist and a seaman have combined their talents and unique perspectives to take us on a tour round the English coastline.Richard Woodman has worked for Trinity House Service for many years,servicing the lighthouses,lightvessels and buoys that ensure the safety of English waters.
David Smith is an artist who has painted subjects as different as industrial scenes
and the glaciers and mountains of Antarctica.By the nature of their calling both seamen and artists develop unusually high powers of observation and out of this
collaboration has come a superb portrait in words and pictures of the coast of England and Wales.
The authors take as their focus the lighthouses and work of the Trinity House Service and, starting in the north-east, conduct us on a journey right round the shoreline from Berwick to Maryport, telling us about rock formation and erosion,seabirds and plants,castles and hermits; describing the dangers that still
confront sailors and lighthouse keepers and the horrors of industrial pollution; but at times,too,just pausing to reflect
on the sheer beauty of the view.The story of our lighthouses is steeped in legend and history,from the Farne Islands,the scene of Grace Darling's heroic rescue,to
St Bees,the last lighthouse on the west coast,named after an Irish princess who founded a nunnery on the same lonely headland.Many lighthouses were built only after some great seafaring tragedy.Others were the product of individual vision and determination,like the light built on the notorious Eddystone Rock by the 17thC eccentric,Henry Winstanley.Almost all of them have a story to tell.A highly informative and wonderfully evocative introduction to one of the most varied coastlines in the world.
Richard Woodman also writes a series of historical novels set in the Napoleonic Wars.
Please contact seller,because of the weight of this item,for correct,insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of WOODMAN**, RICHARD: : VIEW FROM THE SEA - paintings by David Smith.**. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. WOODMAN**, RICHARD: : VIEW FROM THE SEA - paintings by David Smith.**LONDON.CENTURY,1985. ISBN 0712610243.
UK,Qrto HB+dw/dj,1st edn.NFINE/VG+.No owner inscrptn,but price-clip to dw/dj.
Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated, colour pictorial artwork by David Smith illustrated dw/dj; with negligible shelf- wear and creasing to edges and corners.
Head+foot of spine/backstrip and corners minisculely bumped with reciprocal creasing.Small,closed tear to upper bd's right-hand corner and to rear bd's bottom right-hand corner too.Top edge lightly dust-soiled,minimally aged with miniscule
spotting/foxing,fore-edges brighter and cleaner; contents bright,tight and near pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - an unread copy? Clean,unblemished,publisher's original grey cloth bds with bright,crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip with clean,plain white eps.UK,Qrto HB+dw/dj,1st edn,9-192pp [paginated] includes author introduction,10 chapters,b/w line illus chapter head-pieces,b/w maps,a mixture of profuse b/w+colour illustrations/paintings by David Smith,throughout the text and the book,acknowledgements+biographical note and an index,plus [unpaginated] half-title +title pages,contents list/table and H.R.H. Prince Philip foreword.
In 'View from the Sea' an artist and a seaman have combined their talents and unique perspectives to take us on a tour round the English coastline.
Richard Woodman has worked for Trinity House Service for many years,servicing the lighthouses,lightvessels and buoys that ensure the safety of English waters.
David Smith is an artist who has painted subjects as different as industrial scenes
and the glaciers and mountains of Antarctica.By the nature of their calling both seamen and artists develop unusually high powers of observation and out of this
collaboration has come a superb portrait in words and pictures of the coast of England and Wales.
The authors take as their focus the lighthouses and work of the Trinity House Service and,starting in the north-east, conduct us on a journey right round the shoreline from Berwick to Maryport, telling us about rock formation and erosion,seabirds and plants,castles and hermits; describing the dangers that still confront sailors and lighthouse keepers and the horrors of industrial pollution; but at times,too,just pausing to reflect
on the sheer beauty of the view.The story of our lighthouses is steeped in legend and history,from the Farne Islands,the scene of Grace Darling's heroic rescue,to
St Bees,the last lighthouse on the west coast,named after an Irish princess who founded a nunnery on the same lonely headland.Many lighthouses were built only after some great seafaring tragedy.Others were the product of individual vision and determination, like the light built on the
notorious Eddystone Rock by the 17thC eccentric,Henry Winstanley.Almost all of them have a story to tell.A highly informative and wonderfully evocative introduction to one of the most varied coastlines in the world.
Richard Woodman also writes a series of historical novels set in the Napoleonic Wars.
Please contact seller,because of the weight of this item,for correct,shipping/
P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of WOODMAN**, RICHARD: : VIEW FROM THE SEA - paintings by David Smith.**. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including atlases, livres anciens, libri rari, fine bindings and out-of-print books. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |