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xi, 323 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations, portraits ; 22 cm

Austin Osman Spare : the life and legend of London's lost artist / by Phil Baker ; introduction by Alan Moore.

Inferno: Earth; collection of occult illustrations.

1 print (album page 13) : line block ; image 23.5 x 17 cm

A.O. Spare aged seventeen; standing next to a naked woman seated. Line block by the "Arc" Engraving Co. after A.O. Spare, 1904.

98 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 31 cm

Austin Osman Spare, Cockney visionary : featuring several essays and a catalogue of artworks by hisself in the collection of the Southwark Art Collection / introduction, Robert Ansell ; essays, Christopher Jordan [and others] ; [conceived, designed and edited by Stephen Pochin] ; [exhibition curated by Christopher Jordan and Stephan Pochin].

35 pages : illustrations, portrait ; 21 cm

The bookplate designs of Austin Osman Spare / Robert Ansell.

86 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 x 30 cm

Borough satyr : the life and art of Austin Osman Spare / compiled and edited by Robert Ansell.

1 print (album pages 14 and 15) : line block ; image 30 x 60 cm

Left, a poem illustrated with vignettes of naked male figures; right, a man wearing a black cloak is standing on a naked body lying on the ground; a naked woman next to him; two cloaked men in the background. Line block by the "Arc" Engraving Co. after A.O. Spare, 1904.

World War One: a stretcher bearer walking towards a faint and blurred mass of wounded men receiving attention. Chalk sketch, c. 1914.

World War One: portrait of a British navy medical officer in full dress. Colour chalk drawing, c. 1914.

Poems and masks / Poems by Vera Wainwright. Masks by Austin O. Spare.

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Spare, Austin Osman, 1886-1956

Catalogue

Left, a poem illustrated with vignettes of naked male figures; right, a man wearing a black cloak is standing on a naked body lying on the ground; a naked woman next to him; two cloaked men in the background. Line block by the "Arc" Engraving Co. after A.O. Spare, 1904.

A.O. Spare aged seventeen; standing next to a naked woman seated. Line block by the "Arc" Engraving Co. after A.O. Spare, 1904.

World War One: a stretcher bearer walking towards a faint and blurred mass of wounded men receiving attention. Chalk sketch, c. 1914.

World War One: portrait of a British navy medical officer in full dress. Colour chalk drawing, c. 1914.

Poems and masks / Poems by Vera Wainwright. Masks by Austin O. Spare.

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Spare, Austin Osman, 1886-1956

Catalogue

Left, a poem illustrated with vignettes of naked male figures; right, a man wearing a black cloak is standing on a naked body lying on the ground; a naked woman next to him; two cloaked men in the background. Line block by the "Arc" Engraving Co. after A.O. Spare, 1904.

A.O. Spare aged seventeen; standing next to a naked woman seated. Line block by the "Arc" Engraving Co. after A.O. Spare, 1904.

World War One: a stretcher bearer walking towards a faint and blurred mass of wounded men receiving attention. Chalk sketch, c. 1914.

World War One: portrait of a British navy medical officer in full dress. Colour chalk drawing, c. 1914.

Poems and masks / Poems by Vera Wainwright. Masks by Austin O. Spare.

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