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GEORGE IV Gentleman and King PUBLICATIONS 2018–2019 RCT_TradeCat18/19_AW.indd 1 15/08/2018 12:31 RCT_TradeCat18/19_AW.indd 2 15/08/2018 12:31 CONTENTS New & Recently Published 2 Selected Backlist 32 Distributor Information 38 Contact Back cover RCT_TradeCat18/19_AW.indd 3 15/08/2018 12:31 RCT_TradeCat18/19_AW.indd 2 15/08/2018 12:32 3 NEW & RECENTLY PUBLISHED LEONARDO DA VINCI A Life in Drawing MARTIN CLAYTON Drawing was Leonardo da Vinci’s primary artistic activity. He used drawing to think, FOREWORD BY HRH THE PRINCE OF WALES to explore the world around him and to develop his other artistic projects. His drawings are among the most diverse and Published to mark technically accomplished in the history of the 500th anniversary Western art, and the Royal Collection holds of Leonardo’s death by far the most important selection of these. To mark the 500th anniversary of Leonardo’s death in 2019, a series of special exhibitions of his drawings will open simultaneously at 12 venues across HARDBACK 254 × 203 mm the United Kingdom: Belfast, Birmingham, 256 pages Bristol, Cardiff, Derby, Glasgow, Leeds, Over 200 illustrations Liverpool, Manchester, Sheffield, ISBN 978 1 909741 47 8 £24.95 Southampton and Sunderland. This publication includes all 200 of the drawings October 2018 shown across these venues and provides an North American, Dutch, French and German rights sold authoritative account of Leonardo’s works within the Royal Collection. MARTIN CLAYTON is Head of Prints and Drawings, Royal Collection Trust, and has published extensively on works in the Royal Collection. Accompanies the major exhibition opening at 12 venues His recent publications include across the UK in February 2019, The Queen’s Gallery, Portrait of the Artist (2016) and London, in May 2019 and The Queen’s Gallery, Edinburgh, Castiglione: Lost Genius (2013). in November 2019 RCT_TradeCat18/19_AW.indd 3 15/08/2018 12:32 RCT_TradeCat18/19_AW.indd 4 15/08/2018 12:32 5 NEW & RECENTLY PUBLISHED LEONARDO DA VINCI A Closer Look ALAN DONNITHORNE Detailed study of Leonardo da Vinci’s drawings in the Royal Collection – the finest group in existence – reveals much about his materials and techniques and his innovative approach to drawing. This ground-breaking book explores a substantial number of Leonardo’s most celebrated drawings in unprecedented detail. Using specialist microscopic photography this publication will open up a new understanding and appreciation of Leonardo’s techniques and present new information on his materials, uncovering features invisible to the naked eye. In addition, infrared images bring to light the artist’s first touches (including Leonardo’s own thumbprint) and under-drawings, many of which have not been seen for 500 years. HARDBACK 290 × 275 mm 204 pages Over 150 illustrations ISBN 978 1 909741 46 1 £40.00 February 2019 ALAN DONNITHORNE is the former Head of Paper Conservation, Royal Collection Trust. RCT_TradeCat18/19_AW.indd 5 15/08/2018 12:32 6 NEW & RECENTLY PUBLISHED martin clayton ron philo Leonardo da Vinci The Mechanics of Man LEONARDO DA VINCI The Mechanics of Man MARTIN CLAYTON The anatomical drawings and notes on the AND RON PHILO workings of the bones and muscles made by Leonardo da Vinci during his campaign Winner of the of human dissection in the winter of 1510–11 British Book Design and fill the pages of a manuscript now held Production Awards 2010 in the Royal Library at Windsor Castle. This manuscript reveals Leonardo to be PAPERBACK one of the greatest anatomists in history, 310 × 215 mm through his combination of manual skill in 160 pages dissection, analytical skill in understanding 93 colour illustrations ISBN 978 1 905686 83 4 the structures he uncovered and artistic skill in recording his results. Rights sales only The award-winning The Mechanics of Complex and Simplified Chinese, Japanese and Polish rights sold Man reproduces this manuscript in full and, for the first time in print, translates all of MARTIN CLAYTON Leonardo’s notes ‘on the page’, so that the is Head of Prints and Drawings, Royal Collection Trust. reader may readily follow his thoughts as they unfold. RON PHILO is former Senior Lecturer at the University of Texas Health and Science Centre in San Antonio. RCT_TradeCat18/19_AW.indd 6 15/08/2018 12:32 7 NEW & RECENTLY PUBLISHED LEONARDO DA VINCI Anatomist MARTIN CLAYTON AND RON PHILO Leonardo da Vinci was one of the greatest anatomists ever to have lived. He dissected more than 30 human corpses in order to PAPERBACK explore every aspect of anatomy and 254 × 200 mm physiology. His findings are recorded here in 256 pages drawings of unparalleled beauty and lucidity. Over 120 colour illustrations ISBN 978 1 909741 03 4 This book presents 87 of the finest of £18.95 these documents – the largest showing of Simplified Chinese, French, Leonardo’s anatomical studies there has Polish, Russian and Spanish ever been – with a full discussion of their rights sold anatomical content and their significance Download Leonardo da Vinci: in Leonardo’s pioneering work. It is an Anatomy on the App Store essential work of reference for the Leonardo enthusiast as well as a unique exploration of the anatomy of the human body itself. LEONARDO DA VINCI The Divine and the Grotesque MARTIN CLAYTON Leonardo da Vinci’s studies of physiognomy – the divinely beautiful and the grotesquely ugly – are some of the most idiosyncratic and fascinating works ever produced by this archetypal genius. This book looks in detail HARDBACK at 80 examples of these drawings from 290 x 230 mm the unrivalled collection preserved in the 192 pages 105 illustrations, 80 in colour Royal Library at Windsor Castle, and is ISBN 1 902163 97 4 the first work on the subject aimed at the Rights sales only general reader. RCT_TradeCat18/19_AW.indd 7 15/08/2018 12:32 8 NEW & RECENTLY PUBLISHED RUSSIA Art, Royalty and the Romanovs EDITED BY In the first publication to examine the CAROLINE DE GUITAUT relationship between Britain and Russia AND STEPHEN PATTERSON through the lens of art in the Royal Collection, Russia: Art, Royalty and the Romanovs interweaves the familial, political, diplomatic and artistic stories of the two countries and their royal families over more than 400 years. From initial contacts in the mid-sixteenth century, through alliances, marriages and two HARDBACK World Wars, to the current reign, this richly 270 x 235 mm illustrated book gives readers a glimpse into 496 pages Over 400 colour illustrations the public and personal dealings of these ISBN 978 1 909741 55 3 two fascinating dynasties. £49.95 With new research on previously November 2018 unpublished works, including porcelain, CAROLINE DE GUITAUT is Senior arms, costume, insignia and photographs, Curator of Decorative Arts, Royal together with paintings by both Russian Collection Trust. She has published artists and British artists working in Russia, and lectured internationally on the subject of Fabergé and has curated this is the first time that the uniquely several major exhibitions on the interlinked narrative of the art connecting subject. the two royal families has been presented in STEPHEN PATTERSON is Head a full-scale publication. of Collections Information, Royal Collection Trust. He is an expert Accompanies the major exhibition opening at on insignia and has written widely The Queen’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace, in and contributed to exhibitions on November 2018 and at The Queen’s Gallery, the subject. Palace of Holyroodhouse, in June 2019 RCT_TradeCat18/19_AW.indd 8 15/08/2018 12:32 9 NEW & RECENTLY PUBLISHED SHADOWS OF WAR Roger Fenton’s Photographs of the Crimea, 1855 SOPHIE GORDON In March 1855 Roger Fenton, a former solicitor and founding member of what is now known as the Royal Photographic ‘This wonderful book Society, travelled to war-torn Crimea to underlines Fenton’s capture the brutality of war through the pioneering skill as medium of photography. a war photographer The Royal Collection has the most important holding of his work in the world, and the enduring power with some 350 of his photographs of the of the war photograph’ Crimean conflict. This publication brings MUSEUM BOOKSTORE together all these works and highlights the impact that such images had on those back in Britain, who saw in them the realities of war documented in pictures for the first time. HARDBACK Royal Collection Trust curator Sophie Swiss binding 265 x 210 mm Gordon also includes new and fascinating 256 pages research into the commissioning of Approx. 250 colour illustrations the images and the interplay between ISBN 978 1 909741 38 6 £35.00 photography and paintings during the mid-nineteenth century. SOPHIE GORDON is Head of Photographs, Royal Collection Trust, and has published widely on nineteenth- and early twentieth- century photography, including Cairo to Constantinople: Francis Bedford’s Photographs of the Accompanies the major exhibition opening at The Queen’s Middle East (2013). Gallery, Buckingham Palace, in November 2018 RCT_TradeCat18/19_AW.indd 9 15/08/2018 12:32 10 NEW & RECENTLY PUBLISHED GEORGE IV Gentleman and King EDITED BY KATE HEARD George IV was arguably the most magnificent AND KATHRYN JONES of British monarchs. Visual display played an important role in his public image, an image that he worked hard to control. Through the spectacular interiors of his houses and palaces in London and Brighton, numerous flattering portraits, carefully choreographed state occasions and his fashion choices, George IV attempted to HARDBACK shape public perception of his person as 290 x 230 mm 252 pages heir to the throne and as king. In so doing he Over 300 colour illustrations formed an unrivalled collection of art, much ISBN 978 1 909741 60 7 of which remains in the Royal Collection. £45.00 This monograph, published to December 2019 accompany the major Royal Collection Trust KATE HEARD is Senior Curator exhibition, examines George IV the man of Prints and Drawings, Royal through the works he collected.
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