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A Kaleidoscope of Butterflies
Jonathan Bradley Yealand Kalfayan
An exploration of British Butterflies in prose and poetry illustrated by superb photographs, now in an updated and augmented 2nd edition. A percentage of profits from sales goes to conservation of these enigmatic and beautiful creatures.
Hardback £25.00 Order your copy at jonathanbradley100@gmail.comor at your local bookshop.
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Feats of Clay Bristol
OLIVER KENT
Bristol is well known for its ceramics. Bristol porcelain and Bristol delftware are part of the city’s identity. So, what happens if we take a walk the streets to see what we can find? Let Oli's eye for the curious and his expert knowledge fire your enthusiasm and see what you yourself can find. Pretty soon frogs, fish and exotic mosaics will populate your very own museum of curiosities.
Beautifully illustrated. £9.50
Available from the Great British Bookshop or from your local booksellers, or drop us a line for a copy: smc@freeuk.com
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The Cardinal, Cleopatra and the Pasha
Jonathan Bradley Yealand Kalfayan
An exploration of various French landscapes and habitats rich in butterflies – 'the souls of summer hours' –described in prose and poetry and illustrated with Yealand Kalfayan's superb photographs. Foreword by Matthew Oates.
Hardback £25.00 Order your copy at jonathanbradley100@gmail.comor at your local bookshop.
Privileged Horses The Italian Renaissance Court Stable
Sarah G Duncan
In this pioneering study of equine culture Sarah Duncan takes us to the great Renaissance courts, their magnificent stables populated by monarchs, princes and magnates, and a quasi-religious community of grooms, trainers, saddlers, bit-makers, virtuosi in equine health and even astrologers. So beautifully designed and so much color. This is wonderful. Sheila ffolliott Vice Chair Medici Archive Project
288 pages softback superbly illustrated ISBN 9781916095366 £30.00
Forgotten for almost 200 years, a new biography by Cathryn Spence charts the varied career of this most gifted of Rococo artists, Thomas Robins.
Robins made delicate watercolours of gardens caught at that moment in the mid 18th century when sinuous layouts glittered with garden buildings of every conceivable style — chinoiserie tea houses, Gothic summer-houses, Turkish tents and Classical temples — the so-called ‘Rococo Gardens’. His views are matchless records of gardens either long gone or now in decay. Without them, we would know next to nothing about this short-lived period of garden history.
312 pages hardback, superbly illustrated ISBN 9781838472634 £40.00
Nature's Favourite Child: Thomas Robins and the Art of the Georgian Garden Cathryn Spence
Working in marble, granite, sandstone and wood, Tim Pomeroy’s beautifully carved and polished work is a paean to sacred forms and natural wonders. It’s a measure too of his unflinching determination to learn and master the skills needed. His font for St Andrew’s Cathedral comes from learning the stonemason’s craft and, like the fountain for Provand’s Lordship in Glasgow, is distinctly his in form and thought: fresh ideas laid on timeless beauty.
112 pages hardback superbly illustrated ISBN 9781838472641 £30.00