Topping & Company Booksellers of Bath, Edinburgh, Ely, and St Andrews

ART, ARCHITECTURE, DESIGN, FASHION, CRAFTS & PHOTOGRAPHY

We've gathered some of the best books - new and old - from Art, Architecture, Craft, Photography, Fashion & Design.

ART AND PHOTOGRAPHY

Vermeer

Andrew Graham Dixon

Signed first edition

Ice Age art now

Jill Cook

William Blake and The Sea Monsters of Love

Philip Hoare

Signed by the author

Ancient India

Sushma Jansari and Sureshkumar Muthukumaran

How To Art

Kate Bryan

Signed first edition

Nordic Noir

Jennifer Ramkalawon

Radical Harmony

Julien Domercq, Christopher Riopelle and Chiara Di Stefano

How High: A Portrait of The Charlatans

Tim Burgess and Tom Sheehan

Signed first edition

Mrs Kauffman and Madame Le Brun

Franny Moyle

Paris in Ruins

Sebastian Smee

Wild Thing

Sue Prideaux

In the Hide

Gordon Buchanan

Artists, Siblings, Visionaries

Judith Mackrell

Edvard Munch Portraits

Alison Smith and Knut Ljøgodt

Holbein

Elizabeth Goldring

The Secret Painter

Joe Tucker

The Secret Painter

Joe Tucker

Stan and Gus

Henry Wiencek

Utterly Lazy and Inattentive

Martin Parr and Wendy Jones

Signed first edition

Henri Rousseau

Christopher Green, Nancy Ireson, Barbara Buckley, Juliette Degennes, Martha Lucy, Mina Porell and Anya Shutova

So in the Spruce Forest

Ali Smith

Grayson Perry

The Art Isles

Charlotte Mullins

David Gilmour — Luck and Strange — Studio/Live

Polly Samson

Making Matters

Clare Hunter

Anselm Kiefer

Lena Fritsch

Art Is

Makoto Fujimura

Banksy: Completed

Carol Diehl

A Bigger Message

Martin Gayford

Caspar David Friedrich

Alison Hokanson and Joanna Seidenstein

Helen Chadwick

Laura Smith

Holbein: The Ambassadors (One Painting, One Story)

Tracy Borman

Irascible

Adrian Clark and Richard Calvocoressi

Jenny Saville

Sarah Howgate, John Elderfield, Andrea Karnes, Roxanne Gay, Emanuele Coccia, Sally Mann and Nicholas Cullinan

Leonardo: The Virgin of the Rocks (One Painting, One Story)

Leah Kharibian

Man Ray

Stephanie D'Alessandro and Stephen C. Pinson

Michaelina Wautier

Jean Bastiaensen, Lara de Merode, Anne Delvingt, Kirsten Derks, Gerlinde Gruber, Pierre-Yves Kairis, Alice Limb, Katlijne van der Stighelen and Sabine van Sprang

Millet

Sarah Herring and Simon Kelly

A Renaissance Treasury

Caterina Badan

Vasari. The Theater of Virtues

Cristina Acidini and Alessandra Baroni

Andy Goldsworthy

Banksy: The Prints

Roberto Campolucci-Bordi

Famm: Female Artists of the Mougins Museum, France

Samantha Baskind, Jennifer R. Cohen, Ellen G. Landau, Debra N. Mancoff, Jennifer Samet, Yayoi Shionoiri and Christian Levett

Hiroshige

Alfred Haft

Marie Antoinette Style (The Official V&A Exhibition Book)

Sarah Grant, Manolo Blahnik, Sofia Coppola and Antonia Fraser

Tell Your Dog I Love Them

Harriet Lowther

The Upside-Down World

Benjamin Moser

All That Glitters

Orlando Whitfield

Caravaggio's Cupid

Helen Langdon

Clara Peeters

Alejandro Vergara-Sharp

Constable

Tim Barringer

Damien Hirst: The Civilisation Paintings

Damien Hirst

The Foreign Invention of British Art

Leslie Primo

How to Be Avant-Garde

Morgan Falconer

Josefa de Óbidos

Carmen Ripollés

Naked Portrait

Rose Boyt

Noah Davis

Wells Fray-Smith, Eleanor Nairne and Paola Malavassi

Painted Mysteries

Caroline Chapman

The Scottish Colourists

Christina Jansen

Seeing Silence

Dita Amory

Turner and Constable

Amy Concannon, Thomas Ardill, Frank Bowling, Nicole Cochrane, Sarah Gould, Richard Johns, Katharine Martin, Nicola Moorby, Bridget Riley, Nicholas Robbins, Emma Roodhouse, George Shaw, Emma Stibbon and Joyce Townsend

The Writer's Cats

Muriel Barbery

Alfred Stevens

Teresa Sladen

Andrew Wyeth at Kuerner Farm

William L. Coleman and Allison Slaby

Art and Revolution

John Berger

Damien Hirst

Ralph Gleis and Elsy Lahner

The Disenlightenment

David Mamet

Frida Kahlo's Month in Paris

Caitlin Haskell, Tamar Kharatishvili and Alive Piliado Santana

Goya

Jacqueline Cockburn

The Great Exhibition in Art

Julius Bryant

Hiroshige. One Hundred Famous Views of Edo. 45th Ed.

Lorenz Bichler and Melanie Trede

Immortal Thoughts

Christopher Neve

An Indian Sketchbook

Anthony Eyton

Leonardo da Vinci

Stephen J. Campbell

The Life of the Fields

Steve Marshall and Gill Clarke

Mantegna: The Triumphs of Caesar

Caroline Elam and Guido Rebecchini

Modern Art and Politics in Germany 1910-1945

George T. M. Shackelford, Irina Hiebert Grun and Joachim Jager

Rise Up

Victoria Avery and Wanja Kimani

Turner

Ian Warrell

Wassily Kandinsky

Wright of Derby

Christine Riding and Jon King

Art Work

Sally Mann

Gilbert & George and the Communists

James Birch

The Graces

Breeze Barrington

Looking to Sea

Lily Le Brun

Raucous Invention

Mark Hearld

Vanessa Bell

Wendy Hitchmough

Ways of Life

Laura Freeman

William Nicholson

Simon Martin, Melanie Vandenbrouck, Miriam O'Connor, Stephen Calloway, Jane Pritchard and Patricia Reed

Wound Man

Jack Hartnell

Andres Valencia

Andres Valencia and Alexander M. Rigby

Anselm Kiefer

Petra Giloy-Hirtz

Art on the Move in Renaissance Italy

David Landau

Beyond Ophelia

Glenda Youde

Blake

Elizabeth Wyckoff

Brutal Scotland

Simon Phipps

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A Bookseller Recommends...

Vermeer

Andrew Graham Dixon

"My standout book from this year was Andrew Graham Dixon’s magisterial biography of the Dutch Golden Age painter Vermeer. Blending meticulous historical research with a deep passion and appreciation for his subject, Andrew brings Vermeer out of the shadows, and offers a modern and radical re-evaluation of this most enigmatic and elusive of painters." ~ Rachel, Edinburgh

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Mothering

Caroline Walker

"My favourite book this year is the catalogue from the latest exhibition of the fabulous Scottish artist Caroline Walker.

This is a wonderful celebration of the act of mothering, and all the different forms the experience can take. No mundane aspect of caring is too insignificant to be recognised in gloriously large canvases that delve into the complex experiences of being a woman in contemporary society." ~ Alessia, Edinburgh

A Bookseller Recommends...

Art Work

Sally Mann

The much-anticipated new book by artist and New York Times bestselling author Sally Mann about the challenges and transcendent pleasures of the creative process

Art Work offers a spellbinding mix of wild and illuminating stories, practical (and some impractical) advice, and life lessons for artists and writers—or anyone interested in the creative path. Written in the same frank, fearless, and occasionally outrageous tone of her bestselling memoir, Hold Still, this new book reaffirms Mann as a unique and resonant voice for our times and is destined to become a classic.

FASHION AND CRAFT

Teen Skincare

Caroline Hirons

Signed first edition

By My Hands

Florian Gadsby

Liberty

Kassia St Clair

Signed first edition

Get Stitched

Tom Daley

Iconic

Zandra Rhodes and Ella Alexander

Ingrained

Callum Robinson

Signed by the author

Marie Antoinette Style (The Official V&A Exhibition Book)

Sarah Grant, Manolo Blahnik, Sofia Coppola and Antonia Fraser

Chanel's War

Richard Wallace

Divine Light

Janet Gough

The Great Pottery Throw Down

A Guide to Regency Dress

Hilary Davidson

Make It Ours

Robin Givhan

A Philosopher Looks at Clothes

Kate Moran

Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain

Betty Edwards

Get Hooked

Tom Daley

Lessons for Young Artists

David Gentleman

The Look

Michelle Obama

Mosaic Secrets

Becky Paton

William Morris: Pattern & Design (Victoria and Albert Museum)

Jenny Lister

Clay

Jennifer Lucy Allan

Fashion Unfolded: Pop-Up Chanel

Fashionary Team

Illuminating Stained Glass

Juliette MacDonald, Helen Whittaker and Keith Barley

Oliver Jeffers

Martin Salisbury

On The Roof

Tom Allan

Andre Leon Talley

Paula Wallace and Rafael Gomes

Artistic Dress at Liberty & Co

Anna Buruma

Bat Girls and Acid Boys

Richard Torry and Jonny Trunk

Ceramics: A Green Approach

Kevin Millward

Clay

Sarah Reeves

Cult Sneakers

Tonton Gibs

The Daily Artist's Way

Julia Cameron

Fashion Victims

Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell

Grayson Perry: The Pre-Therapy Years

The Holburne Museum

The Healing Season of Pottery

Yeon Somin

Personal Colour

Anuschka Rees

A Pocket Guide to Converse

Jessica Bumpus

The Rolex Legacy

James Dowling

Star Wars: Crochet Your Way Across the Galaxy

Leah Parker

Stitch It, Don't Ditch It

Mary V Morton and Jeanna Wigger

We Need Your Art

Amie Mcnee

Piece by Piece

Lauren MacDonald

Signed first edition

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A Bookseller Recommends...

Piece by Piece

Lauren MacDonald

A hands-on craft book from designer, maker and founder of textile studio Working Cloth, Lauren MacDonald.

Her approachable warmth and humour makes this an indispensable guide to modern patchwork and quilting. A manual to be treasured and leafed through for years to come, Piece by Piece encourages you to repurpose and reuse – a practice quilters have been following for centuries that now feels both timeless and timely.

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Lessons for Young Artists
David Gentleman

We are all artists as children, painting and drawing each day. Most of us stop when we get older – but David Gentleman kept going.

For over ninety years he has been drawing, painting, engraving and printing, rising to become one of Britain’s best-known and most loved artists. Here he shares what he has learned over the course of a lifetime of making and thinking about art.

DESIGN AND ARCHITECTURE

The English House

Dan Cruickshank

Church Going

Andrew Ziminski

Art Deco Scotland

Bruce Peter

Forgotten Churches

Luke Sherlock

Home

India Knight

Signed first edition

Interwar

Gavin Stamp

A Short History of British Architecture

Simon Jenkins

Bath

Kirsten Elliott and Neill Menneer

The Lost Chapel of Westminster

John Cooper

The Stories Old Towns Tell

Marek Kohn

Get Stitched

Tom Daley

Adventurous Vents

Lucy Lavers, Judy Ovens and Suzanna Prizeman

Divine Light

Janet Gough

Hilfiger Homes

Tommy Hilfiger and Dee Ocleppo Hilfiger

Lest We Forget

Tessa Dunlop

Oxford Libraries Architecture

Geoffrey Tyack

The Pocket Guide to Edinburgh's Best Buildings

Robin Ward

Every Monument Will Fall

Dan Hicks

1960s University Buildings

John Barr

All Things Considered

Emilio Pimentel-Reid

The Architect's House

Stephen Crafti

Art Is

Makoto Fujimura

Back to Font

Anitra Nottingham and Jason Phillips

British Interior Design since 1925

Bruce Peter and Drew Plunkett

Brunelleschi and the Moment of the Renaissance

Marvin Trachtenberg

Brutalist Berlin

Felix Torkar

Brutal Scotland

Simon Phipps

Colour House: Vibrant spaces to brighten your world

Harper by Design

Frank Lloyd Wright

Robert McCarter

A New English Style

Mary Graham, Nicole Salvesen and David Nicholls

Nicola Harding

Reading Design

Craig Hodgetts

Silver Screens

Jane Crowther

Stan and Gus

Henry Wiencek

The Alienation Effect

Owen Hatherley

Atlas of the Invisible

James Cheshire and Oliver Uberti

The Bible of British Taste

Ruth Guilding

England's Cathedrals

Simon Jenkins

AD at Home: Architectural Digest

Amy Astley and Anna Wintour

Ambigrammia

Douglas Hofstadter

The Art of the Scribe

Patricia Lovett

The Atlas of Car Design

Jason Barlow

The Book of Temples

Gestalten and Marianne Julia Strauss

Bruce Goff

Alison Fisher, Craig Lee, Lawrence Chua, David G. De Long, Penelope Dean, Scott Herring, Janna Ireland, Hadley Jerman Bruss, Kelly Keegan, Paula Lupkin and Nolan Vallier

Brutalist Interiors

Blake Gopnik, Naomi Pollock, Gili Merin, Rixt Woudstra, Ljuba Slavkovic, Felix Torkar and Ewan Harrison

Buildings that Changed History

Cocoon

Ali Heath

Future Cities

Paul Dobraszczyk

Irascible

Adrian Clark and Richard Calvocoressi

La Maison

Zoé de Las Cases

Literary Landscapes: New York

Evan Joseph and Amy Evans

London

Paul Knox

Men At Work

Glenn Kurtz

The Monocle Book of Designers on Sofas

Virginia McLeod and Nic Monisse

Perfect English Small and Beautiful

Ros Byam Shaw

The Royal Pavilion, Brighton

Alexandra Loske

Sims Hilditch

Giles Kime and Emma Sims-Hilditch

Type Designers of the Twentieth Century

David Jury

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A Bookseller Recommends...

Brutal Scotland

Simon Phipps

A major new photographic survey of Scotland’s post-war architecture by acclaimed photographer of Modernist buildings, Simon Phipps

Their popularity may have declined by the turn of the century, but recent decades have seen a new recognition of the talent and epochal spirit that created lecture halls and banks with equal emphasis on form, utility and function.

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Common Treasures II

Conversations between architecture collective Assemble & arts organisation Common Ground

Its premise is the idea that approaches to housing that are grounded in greater levels of community ownership, management and maintenance have the potential to empower communities.

Housing built by, for and with the people who live in it makes characterful neighbourhoods that last well. The contributors to this anthology share their work to overcome the many obstacles to this way of working, and offer a vision which is grounded, imaginative and hopeful.