London’s Ours! Images From The Greater London Council 1981-1986, by Hazel Atashroo, will be published in May, bringing together over 250 images from a remarkable time in the life of the capital.
London’s Ours! Images From The Greater London Council 1981–1986
For our Familiars series: Shiraz Bayjoo has produced artwork for a new edition of Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson.
Treasure IslandA survey of the memorable, playful products of Richard Loncraine and Peter Broxton: from desktop toys to liquid puzzles like the Mercury Maze with a real blob of mercury. This new volume features commentary by Loncraine & Broxton with over 150 photographs of their classic products to amuse and delight.
Loncraine Broxton: Innovations & Executive Toys 1969-1997Written by See Red members, detailing the group’s history, the book features their brilliant screenprints from the 1970s and 1980s.
See Red Women’s Workshop: Feminist Posters 1974-1990For the second book in the Irregulars series, David Clarke has selected material from the Ministry of Defence’s UFO Desk, now held at The National Archives, to present the remarkable stories behind these images, including alien craft on the A1, flying saucers over Hampstead, and a spaceship landing at a primary school.
UFO Drawings From The National ArchivesA new book surveying the manuals, pamphlets, posters and ephemera from the Cold War about Britain’s readiness — or not — for nuclear attack.
Nuclear War In The UKTo increase access to our books, we supply copies of our publications free of charge to lending libraries in the UK (including university libraries). If you think your library would be interested...
Read MoreLaunching our Irregulars series: from the hiss and crackle of Britain’s CB radio heyday, comes Eyeball Cards. These alternate identities of ‘breakers’ are sometimes amusing, occasionally mundane, dark or bawdy, but always personal creations: social media identities from a time before the internet.
Eyeball CardsAt Four Corners Books we seek to bring art history to life. Our aim is to explore unfamiliar corners of visual history, share the stories we find, and publish them as well as we can.
Run by Richard Embray and Elinor Jansz, we’ve been making books since 2003. Our aim is to create a space to reflect on artists and creative outputs from our recent past that have often been overlooked. It’s our mission to champion this creativity, in an accessible way.
We’re interested in those hidden pockets of art that can spark a bit of joy. Books that can amuse or educate, challenge or intrigue, delight or provoke. They are more than books about art. They are a way to experience it.
Publishing enquiries
Our main focus is art historical, with a particular interest in British art and design from c. 1945 to c. 2000; art or design that appeared outside of the art world, or work that wasn’t made for a gallery context; ephemera, protest, overlooked work, or collections that give an insight into social history.
Our books are primarily visual, although alongside that, we love to commission historians and art historians with new and interesting stories to tell.
For the most part we do not publish art theory or artists’ books. However we also occasionally commission artists to produce new illustrations for classic novels in our Familiars series. We are only able to commission titles in that series sporadically as these books are often slow to make.
Please contact us by email in the first instance. If you are a retailer wishing to make a trade order, please refer to our distributors listed below.
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Trade enquiries / distribution:
UK & Republic of Ireland: Art Data
North America: Artbook
Elsewhere: Idea
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