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John André The Spy Who Turned Benedict Arnold

Ronald D. A. B.

ISBN: HB: 9781612005218, Casemate, November 2018
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 15 black&white & 15 colour illus.

John André was head of the British Army's Secret Service in North America as the Revolutionary War entered its most bitter and, ultimately, decisive phase. In 1780, he masterminded the defection of a high-ranking American officer – General Benedict A...

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History of Art

13th Century Colour Palettes

Railing Patricia

ISBN: PB: 9780946311255, Casemate, Artists Bookworks, September 2018
88 pp., 21.6x16.8 cm

A French collection of recipes for painting on parchment, On Making Colours, by a painter, Peter of St. Audemar, possibly of the Benedictine Abbey of St Bertin at St. Omer in northern France. St. Omer was an active centre of painters and scribes from...

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History of Art

14th Century Colour Palettes

Railing Patricia

ISBN: PB: 9780946311248, Casemate, Artists Bookworks, September 2018
88 pp., 21.6x16.8 cm

From Italy to France to Flanders, the arts of painting in the 14th century were practised in manuscript illumination, on panel, and in fresco. Recipes for pigments appropriate to all these arts are included in this collection. "Experiments upon Colou...

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History of Art

1st to 19th Century Pigments

Railing Patricia

ISBN: PB: 9780946311262, Casemate, Artists Bookworks, September 2018
288 pp., 21.6x16.8 cm

A collection of all the historical pigments mentioned in the treatises included in the series, Colour Palettes, by century, complemented by recipes from other contemporary sources. The entries define the pigment – colour, its source (animal, plant, m...

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Frantic 7 The American Effort to Aid the Warsaw Uprising and the Origins of the Cold War, 1944

Radzilowski John, Szczesniak Jerzy

ISBN: HB: 9781612005607, Casemate, February 2018
224 pp., 21x15 cm, 40 colour and black&white illus.

The Frantic operations were conceived in late 1943 as Soviet advances made Soviet airfields accessible to Allied long-range aircraft. American aircraft could hit targets in central Europe, refuel and rearm at Soviet bases, then fly back to bomb addit...

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History of Art

16th Century Colour Palettes

Railing Patricia

ISBN: PB: 9780946311132, Casemate, Artists Bookworks, February 2018
132 pp., 21.6x16.8 cm

Three texts by two Italian Renaissance painters – Leonardo da Vinci and Gian Paolo Lomazzo – and a compendium of the 53 standard pigments commonly found on artists' palettes for painting in oil on panel and on canvas as outlined by the writer, Raffae...

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History of Art

17th Century Colour Palettes

Railing Patricia

ISBN: PB: 9780946311101, Casemate, Artists Bookworks, February 2018
132 pp., 21.6x16.8 cm, 16 colour illus., 14 black&white illus.

Ten 17th century writers described the pigments in use in their countries – England, Sweden, Flanders, France, Spain, and Italy. The theme of their treatises was studio practice and the pigments were discussed as they were set on the palette. Surpris...

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History of Art

18th Century Colour Palettes

Railing Patricia

ISBN: PB: 9780946311019, Casemate, Artists Bookworks, February 2018
132 pp., 21.6x16.8 cm

Pigments described by the English chemist, Robert Dossie, the French artists' colourman, Jean Felix Watin, and the London-based pigment maker, Constant de Massoul. 18th century European painting saw the introduction of new pigments to the painters' p...

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History of Art

1st Century Colour Palettes

Railing Patricia

ISBN: PB: 9780946311149, Casemate, Artists Bookworks, February 2018
88 pp., 21.6x16.8 cm, 12 colour illus., 6 black&white illus.

The sources of pigments used in European painting are found in classical antiquity, 1st. century B.C. to 1st century A.D. The over 40 pigments in use were described by Vitruvius, Pliny the Elder and Dioscorides, complemented by 3rd century B.C. Theop...

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Defending Island Britain in the Second World War Documentary Sources

Rogers David

ISBN: PB: 9781911512592, Casemate, Helion and Company, February 2018
224 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 35 illus.

Historically, one could argue that island nations were presented with a degree of comfort in being surrounded by water (especially so before the invention of flight and submarines); however, technological advances in the early part of the 20th centur...

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