Art, Architecture & Design (all items)
First editions and rare books in the fields of architecture, art, crafts, design and fashion, engineering, manufacturing techniques, and furniture.
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ABRAHAMS, Ethel B.
Greek Dress. 1908
£150
First Edition, First Impression.
Octavo. Original fawn boards, titles and decoration to upper board in brown, titles to spine in brown. With illustrations. Preliminaries and edges foxed, small chip to... Read more
(ACKERMANN, Rudolph)
A History of The University of Oxford, its colleges, halls, and public buildings. 1814
£4,500
First Edition of Ackermann's lavish history of Oxford, complete with the Founders plate. The text is by William Combe, of Doctor Syntax fame.
2 volumes, quarto (342 × 282 mm). Publisher's blue straight-grained morocco, spines lettered in gilt, gilt wide bands, compartments decorated in gilt and in... Read more
(ACKERMANN, Rudolph)
The Microcosm of London [1808–10]
£7,500
First edition, early issue with a number of the plates in their first state. The plates are from drawings by Thomas Rowlandson (1756–1827) and Augustus Pugin (1762–1832)....
3 volumes, quarto (332 × 265 mm). Contemporary brown calf rebacked, spines gilt in compartments, green and red morocco labels, floral roll and cornerpieces to... Read more
ADAM, Robert.
Ruins of the Palace of the Emperor Diocletian at Spalatro in Dalmatia. 1764
£24,500
First edition. During a five week detour from his Grand Tour, Adam, joined by the renowned French draughtsman C.-L. Clérisseau, set about studying, measuring and recording the...
Folio (534 × 368 mm). Contemporary tree calf neatly rebacked to style retaining old black morocco label, sides bordered in gilt with decorative dotted roll and... Read more
AITCHISON, Craigie.
Out of the Ordinary. 2003
£125
First and only edition. Inscribed to George Melly by Aitchison on the half title. "George, Love from Craigie, Oct 2003." Published to coincide with the exhibition 'Out of the...
Quarto. Original illustrated stiff wrappers, titles to spine in white, titles to front cover in black. A near fine copy. Read more
ANNIGONI, Pietro, & Alex Sterling.
Spanish Sketchbook with a Photographic Record of the Journey. 1957
£450
First edition, first impression. Limited to 250 numbered copies signed by Annigoni. Together with an autograph card signed by Annigoni laid inside the book.
Quarto. Original cream boards, titles to front cover and spine gilt. With the dust jacket. Drawings by Annigoni and photographs by Sterling. Near fine, dust jacket... Read more
(ANTHOLOGY.)
New Paths. Verse, Prose, Pictures 1917–1918. 1918
£125
First edition, first impression. One of 6 out of series copies intended for presentation, out of a limited edition of 130 stated copies.
Quarto. Original yellow boards, printed paper label to spine, titles and pictorial decoration to boards in black. Frontispiece and 20 plates, hand-coloured... Read more
(ARCHITECTURE) Planahome.
The Planahome Book of House Plans. [c. 1960s]
£65
Catalogue advertising a variety of home designs along with advertisements for builders and appliance manufacturers. An interesting historical record of mid-20th-century suburban...
Oblong quarto. Original black cloth backed white boards, pictorial design and yellow titles to upper board. Diagrams and illustrations from photos throughout.... Read more
ART JOURNAL.
The Art Journal. 1851-62
£1,000
Covers the years 1851 to 1857 with a later volume for the year 1862.
8 volumes, folio. Full red morocco, titles and decoration to spines gilt, decoration to boards blind and gilt, all edges gilt. Some scattered spotting, a little... Read more
ASHTON, Leigh, & Basil Gray.
Chinese Art. 1953
£250
Sixth impression; first published 1935.
Octavo (242 × 150 mm). Finely bound for Asprey & Co. in full dark green morocco, titles and decoration to spine gilt, raised bands, rules and cornerpieces to... Read more
(AUSTEN, John) RICHARDSON, Dorothy.
John Austen and the Inseparables. 1930
£75
First edition, first impression. Signed by the artist on the half-title.
Octavo. Original blue boards, printed paper labels to upper board. Engraved frontispiece and illustrations throughout by John Austen. Boards very lightly rubbed and... Read more
![Athar al-Islam w al-tarikhiya fi al-Ithiad al-Sufiyati. [Historical Monuments Of Islam in the U.S.S.R.]](/content/store/products/19296/2/32696.jpg)
BABAKHANOV, Ziyautdin (intro.)
Athar al-Islam w al-tarikhiya fi al-Ithiad al-Sufiyati. [Historical Monuments Of Islam in the U.S.S.R.] 1970
£500
First edition. Superb photographic record of Islamic buildings of the former Soviet Union in Central Asia - Samarkand, Shah-i-Zindah Mausoleum, Bibi Khanum Mosque, Gur Amir...
Folio (400 × 300 mm). Original green cloth, title in white to spine and in black to upper board, green top-stain. In the original decorative card slip-case. 135... Read more
BACHHOFER, Ludwig.
Early Indian Sculpture. 1929
£1,250
First Edition. Bachhofer was one of the generation of German sinologists who were forced to emigrate under the Nazis. He taught at Munich University until 1935, and also worked at...
Two volumes, folio. Original orange half morocco on tangerine linen boards, green morocco label, spine gilt, top edge gilt. 161 collotype plates. Some foxing to the... Read more
BACON, Francis.
Derrière Le Miroir. 1966
£2,250
First and only edition. Inscribed by the artist inside the front cover "For Stephen [Spender] with love and affection Francis Bacon."
Quarto. Original illustrated wrappers, titles to front cover in black and white. 5 full page lithographs including one triptych, small colour illustrations and 17... Read more
BACON, Francis.
Derriere Le Miroir. 1966
£600
First and only edition.
Quarto. Original illustrated wrappers, titles to front cover in black and white. 5 full page lithographs including one triptych, small colour illustrations and 17... Read more
(BACON, Francis.) Carl A. Schmitz; Nicholas Yalouris; Dr. Max H. Von Freeden; Christiane Desroches Noblecourt.
The Acanthus History of Sculpture, Oceanic Sculpture, Sculpture of Melanesia; Classical Greece, The Sculpture of the Parthenon; Gothic Sculpture, The Intimate Carvings; Ancient Egypt, The New Kingdom 1960-62
£1,000
First editions, first impressions. Inscribed in the first volume mentioned by the artist Francis Bacon on the front free endpaper, "To John, with all best wishes, Francis Bacon"....
4 vols. Folio. Original lemon boards with fawn cloth spine, titles to front cover and spine gilt. Photographs throughout by F. L. Kennet. Edges of boards rubbed, light... Read more
(BACON, Francis) David Sylvester.
Interviews with Francis Bacon. 1975
£2,000
First edition, first impression. Inscribed by the artist on the front free endpaper "For Isabel with love and best wishes Francis." A series of interviews with Bacon from 1962 to 1974.
Quarto. Original illustrated wrappers, titles to front cover and spine in white. With 94 illustrations. Head and foot of spine rubbed, corners a little creased, white... Read more
(BACON, Francis) John Russell.
Francis Bacon. 1971
£2,500
First edition, first impression. Inscribed by the artist on the front free endpaper "For Dr Wolf Dube, with very best wishes and many thanks, for lending The Tryptich, yours very...
Quarto. Original brown boards, publisher's device to front cover gilt, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. 161 illustrations, including 74 in colour and 9... Read more
(BACON, Francis) LEIRIS, Michel.
Francis Bacon. 1987
£2,000
First edition, first printing. Inscribed by the artist on the front free endpaper "For Pierre Richard very best wishes Francis Bacon 12/7/89." Text in French. Together with a small...
Quarto. Original grey boards, titles to spine in black. With 155 illustrations. Foot of spine bumped otherwise near fine in near fine dust jacket. Read more
(BAIRNSFATHER, Bruce) HOLT, Tonie & Valmai.
In Search of the Better 'Ole. 1985
£45
First edition, first impression.
Quarto. Original red cloth, titles to spine gilt, pictorial endpapers. With the dust jacket. An excellent copy in the dust jacket. Read more
BASELITZ, Georg.
Baselitz. 2007
£1,500
First edition, first impression. Limited to 100 copies inscribed and dated by Baselitz with a woodcut 'The Hand (Die Hand)' in two colours on Okamata Genshi 34 gsm laid paper, signed...
Quarto. Original yellow cloth, titles to front cover in blind, titles to spine in black. With the dust jacket. Fine in fine dust jacket. Read more
BASKIN, Leonard.
To Colour Thought. 1967
£750
Limited edition of 300 copies printed at the Officina Bodoni; this is one of 10 copies specially bound for the Yale University Library.
Octavo. Bound in full terracotta morocco, titles to spine gilt, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. With the original card slipcase. With 10 illustrations in colour and... Read more
(BASKIN, Leonard) O’NEILL, Eugene.
The Iceman Cometh. A Play. 1982
£150
Limited edition of two thousand numbered copies signed by the illustrator and with an original lithograph bound in.
Tall octavo. Original grey boards. Grey paper labels printed in black to spine and upper board, grey endpapers. In the publisher's grey slipcase. Original lithograph... Read more
BEAMISH, Richard.
Memoir of the Life of Sir Marc Isambard Brunel. 1862
£500
Second edition, revised and corrected, following the first of the same year. Uncommon biography of the engineer father of the great engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel, written by their...
Octavo. Neatly recased in the original green pimple-grained, blind-stamped cloth, title gilt to the spine, pale yellow surface-paper endpapers. Engraved portrait... Read more
BEARD, Peter; Isak Dinesen; Kamante.
Longing for Darkness. Kamante's Tales from Out of Africa. 1975
£4,500
First edition, first printing. Inscribed by Peter Beard to author Lois Wyse with an elaborate ink drawing across both front endpapers, "To Lois with the rest of the picture coming...
Tall quarto. Original black boards, titles to spine in white, image of Blixen to upper board and of, tan endpapers. With the dust jacket. Illustrations throughout. An... Read more
