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Chris Beetles Gallery is renowned for the high quality of its numerous books and exhibitions catalogues. We invest hugely in the literature that we produce, publishing original research, biographies and essays to accompany most of our exhibitions. We have published several comprehensive monographs, catalogues raisonnés and biographies of our gallery artists, including W L Wyllie, The Fraser Family, Louis Wain, George and Eileen Soper, S R Badmin, Betty Swanwick, Ronald Searle and Peter Coker. A large stock of signed books by or relating to our gallery artists is available.

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The Illustrators The British Art of Illustration 1791-2024
£20.00
Melissa Scott-Miller En Plein Air
£15.00
The Best of Matt 2024
£10.00
More Cats Galore: A Second Compendium of Cultured Cats
£15.00
Swoop Sing Perch Paddle
£15.00
Chris Beetles Summer Show 2024
£15.00
The Body-Snatcher and Other Stories
£30.00
Michael Foreman: A Life in Pictures
£20.00
S. R. Badmin RWS
£5.00
Terence Donovan: Image Maker and Innovator
£10.00
S R Badmin RWS Paintings, Drawings & Prints
£10.00
Paul Cox. A Journey Through his Art
£15.00
Cartoons, Comics and Art: The Sawwaf Collection
£60.00
Anthony Green: Printed Pictures
£30.00
The Snowman and the Robin
£15.00
Rowland Emett From 'Punch' to 'Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang' and Beyond
£15.00
Mervyn Peake. The Man and His Art
£20.00
Thelwell
£10.00
The Illustrators The British Art of Illustration 1831-2023
£20.00
Portraits of Vanity Fair The Charles Sigety Collection
£25.00
Louis Wain's Cats (2021 edition)
£30.00
Jack Russell 60 Years 60 Pictures
£15.00
Peter Brookes: Torrid Times
£30.00
Piano Fingers
£12.99
Harold Swanwick 1866-1929 Rural Life and Landscapes
£20.00
Donald McGill A Selling Exhibition of the Original Postcard Artwork from The Donald McGill Museum & Archive Collection
£10.00
Enzo Plazzotta
£50.00
Diana Armfield: A Lyrical Edge
£37.50
Flying Scotsman and the Best Birthday Ever
£13.00
Edward Ardizzone Artist and Illustrator
£40.00
Val Archer 'with pleasure'
£15.00
The Best of Alex 2022 SIGNED COPIES
£20.00
Lockdown Love Letters from Anthony Green *Signed & Numbered Limited Edition*
£50.00
Trouble for Trumpets
£100.00
The Illustrators. The British Art of Illustration 1800-2014
£20.00
Geraldine Girvan 2005
£5.00
Geraldine Girvan 1995
£5.00
The Illustrators The British Art of Illustration 1871-2022
£20.00
Poppy Field
£13.00
W. L. Wyllie Marine Artist, 1851-1931
£25.00
Larry on Larry. My Life in Cartoons
£8.00
The Art of George and Eileen Soper
£25.00
Hercules Brabazon Brabazon Neac (1821-1906)
£10.00
The Best of Matt 2022
£9.00
More Than a Touch Of Poetry. Landscapes by Charles Knight 1901-1990
£10.00
Muriel Pemberton
£50.00
S R Badmin RWS RE – A Master-Etcher The Catalogue Raisonné of Prints
£20.00
Albert Goodwin RWS (1845-1932) The John & Mary Goodyear Collection
£15.00
The Best of Alex 2021
£20.00
Patrick Cullen
£10.00
Carnival of the Animals
£15.00
The Best of Matt 2021
£9.00
A Century of British Art Volume Two: 1945-2010
£20.00
Chris Beetles Summer Show 2014
£10.00
A Century of British Art Volume One: 1900-1945
£20.00
Hercules Brabazon Brabazon (1821-1906) and the New English Art Club
£5.00
Chris Beetles Summer Show 2021
£15.00
The Wine Show. Edward Ardizzone and the Art Of Wine
£10.00
Albert Goodwin RWS 1845-1932 (1986)
£10.00
Fairies in Victorian Art
£25.00
Nicholas Romeril Sand Surf Stone
£10.00
John Burningham: Behind the Scenes
£75.00
The Illustrators: The British Art of Illustration 1894-2020
£15.00
Oliphant's Presidents Twenty-five Years of Caricature by Pat Oliphant
£10.00
The Figurative Tradition A Celebration of Contemporary British Art
£15.00
The Short The Long and The Tall Illustrated by Paul Cox
£40.00
Out of This World The Surreal Art of Leonora Carrington by Amanda Hall
£13.00
The Wine Show
£5.00
Chris Beetles Summer Show 2012
£10.00
Chris Beetles Summer Show 2020
£20.00
A Sparrow's Life's as Sweet as Ours In Praise of Birds and Seasons
£20.00
Albert Goodwin RWS 1845-1932 (1996)
£15.00
Keith Grant: Invention & Variation
£20.00
Red Riding Hood
£13.00
Coming to love Florence: fifteen walks around the city
£15.00
The Illustrators: The British Art of Illustration 1865-2019
£15.00
In Search of Sun and Shadow The Art of Albert Goodwin
£25.00
Lesley Anne Ivory
£20.00
Chris Beetles Summer Show 2019
£15.00
Breaking Ice: Nicholas Romeril in Antarctica
£10.00
Maya & Cat
£12.00
John Piper in the 1930s Abstraction on the Beach
£100.00
Michael Foreman: Travels With My Sketchbook
£18.00
Lesley Fotherby Walking With Nature Dancing for Joy
£10.00
The Long Nineteenth Century Volume Two
£10.00
The Long Nineteenth Century Volume One
£10.00
The Illustrators: The British Art of Illustration 1837-2012
£20.00
The Illustrators: The British Art of Illustration 1837-2011
£20.00
Lesley Fotherby: The World in Motion (2011)
£5.00
The Illustrators: The British Art of Illustration 1870-2010
£20.00
The Illustrators: The British Art of Illustration 1870-2009
£15.00
Peter Coker RA
£5.00
Bliss Was It In That Dawn To Be Alive. British Watercolours And Drawings 1750-1850
£20.00
Cats
£7.00
The Illustrators: The British Art of Illustration 1800-2008
£15.00
The Illustrators. The British Art of Illustration 1780-1996
£20.00
Albert Goodwin RWS 1845-1932, Limited Edition, Hardback (1986)
£250.00
Roland Batchelor. Water-Colours and Drawings. A 20th-Century View of the Human Comedy
£20.00
W L Wyllie and L’Entente Cordiale
£5.00
Ronald Searle, 2003
£10.00
Richard Shirley Smith
£5.00
Chris Beetles Summer Show 1998
£15.00
Chris Beetles Summer Show 1999
£10.00
Chris Beetles Summer Show 2000
£10.00
Chris Beetles Summer Show 2001
£10.00
Chris Beetles Summer Show 2002
£10.00
Chris Beetles Summer Show 2003
£10.00
Chris Beetles Summer Show 2004
£10.00
Chris Beetles Summer Show 2005
£10.00
Chris Beetles Summer Show 2013
£10.00
Chris Beetles Summer Show 2015
£10.00
The Illustrators. The British Art of Illustration 1800-1992
£15.00
The Illustrators. The British Art of Illustration 1780-1993
£20.00
The Illustrators. The British Art of Illustration 1800-1997
£20.00
The Illustrators. The British Art of Illustration 1800-1999
£25.00
The Illustrators: The British Art of Illustration 1900-2018
£15.00
The Illustrators. The British Art of Illustration 1850-2000
£10.00
The Illustrators. The British Art of Illustration 1800-2001
£5.00
John & Isobel Morton-Sale
£10.00
Picnic
£35.00
John Burningham's France
£40.00
Al Hirschfeld 1903-2003
£10.00
Louis Wain. Postcards
£20.00
An Unreliable History of Tattoos
£15.00
The Diaries of Randolph Schwabe British Art 1930-48
£25.00
Randolph Schwabe
£25.00
Ronald Searle Remembered
£20.00
Chris Beetles Summer Show 2016
£10.00
Chris Beetles Summer Show 2017
£15.00
Chris Beetles Summer Show 2018
£15.00
Artists of Radio Times. A Golden Age of British Illustration
£15.00
The Brothers Robinson. Charles, Thomas Heath and William Heath Robinson (1992)
£50.00
William Heath Robinson 1872-1944 (2011)
£15.00
Nicholas Romeril Over Sea
£5.00
Thomas Rowlandson
£10.00
Geraldine Girvan 2019
£10.00
The Best of Matt 2018
£8.00
Keith Grant: Antarctica
£10.00
Helen Oxenbury: A Life In Illustration
£30.00
Anthony Green RA Among Royal Academy Artists & Friends
£10.00
Lucky Button, illustrated by Michael Foreman
£10.00
The Illustrators Today
£15.00
The Illustrators. The British Art of Illustration 1880-2017
£15.00
Take Care, Son The Story of My Dad and His Dementia
£8.00
The Best of Matt 2017
£8.00
Michael Foreman: Telling Tales
£15.00
Keith Grant: North by New English
£10.00
Anthony Green: Painting Life
£30.00
John Burningham An Illustrator for all Ages
£15.00
The Best of Matt 2016
£8.00
The Illustrators. The British Art of Illustration 1900-2016
£15.00
Gardens Drawing and Painting in Watercolour
£16.00
The General, illustrated by Michael Foreman
£11.00
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, illustrated by Michael Foreman
£10.00
Lesley Fotherby (1993)
£5.00
Lesley Fotherby (1989)
£3.00
The Ceremonial Funeral of Baroness Thatcher
£14.99
Eric Fraser (1902-1983) 2013
£20.00
Chris Beetles Summer Show 2011
£10.00
The Fraser Family
£40.00
Val Archer. Touching the Surface of Time 2011
£10.00
Keith Grant. Elements of the Earth
£10.00
Val Archer 1998
£5.00
Eric Fraser. Designer and Illustrator
£100.00
Peter Coker RA
£30.00
Mervyn Peake. Letters From a Lost Uncle
£12.99
Geraldine Girvan 2009
£10.00
The Life and Works of Alfred Bestall. Illustrator of Rupert Bear
£20.00
S R Badmin and the English Landscape
£15.00
Louis Wain. The Man Who Drew Cats (2000) Hardback
£25.00
Louis Wain. The Man Who Drew Cats (2000) Paperback
£15.00
The Definitive Thelwell
£15.00
Chris Beetles Summer Show 2006
£10.00
Chris Beetles Summer Show 2008
£10.00
Ronald Searle. A Biography
£20.00
Muriel Pemberton. Paintings
£20.00
Betty Swanwick: Artist and Visionary
£30.00
Donald McGill. The Michael Winner Collection
£10.00
The Illustrators. The British Art of Illustration 1786-2003
£20.00
The Illustrators. The British Art of Illustration 1800-2002
£20.00
Cecil Arthur Hunt VPRWS RBA 1873-1965 (Paperback)
£20.00
Cecil Arthur Hunt VPRWS RBA 1873-1965 (Hardback)
£50.00
Albert Goodwin RWS 1845-1932 (2007)
£15.00
Michael Foreman. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
£20.00
Lesley Fotherby (1996)
£5.00
Art and Sunshine. The Work of Hercules Brabazon Brabazon 1821-1906
£20.00
Val Archer 2001
£5.00
Mabel Lucie Attwell
£20.00