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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PEACHAM, Henry.
The Compleat Gentleman: 1661
£1,250
Third edition, first published in 1622. The Compleat Gentleman "occupies a significant place in the history of courtesy literature. Its immediate inspiration was Peacham's...
Small quarto (183 × 140 mm). Contemporary dark calf, blind-ruled spine and boards, later red morocco spine label. Additional engraved title-page as frontispiece... Read more
PAZ, Octavio.
Marcel Duchamp or The Castle of Purity. 1970
£150
First English language edition, first impression, casebound issue.
Octavo. Original brown boards, titles to spine in silver. With the dust jacket. Colour title page with cut-out profile of Duchamp, colour plate. Contents a little... Read more
PASMORE, Victor.
Burning Waters. 1988
£750
First edition, first impression. (Copyright page states printed in an edition of 200 copies and a signed deluxe edition of 50 copies with an original lithograph. Norbert Lynton's...
Quarto. Original fawn brown mottled cloth, titles to spine in black. Housed in the original fawn brown cloth slipcase. Visual and poetic images by Pasmore. Fine in... Read more
PARMENTIER, H.
Les Sculptures Chames au Musée du Tourane. 1922
£450
First Edition. Volume IV in the "Ars Asiatica" series published under the aegis of L'École Française d'Extrème-Orient. A trained architect and one of the founding...
Folio. Near contemporary sheep-backed patterned paper boards, wraps bound in. Map frontispiece and 30 photogravure plates. Light browning, spine scuffed and... Read more
PARMELIN, Helene.
Cinq Peintres et le Theatre. Decors et Costumes de Leger, Coutaud, Gischia, Labisse, Pignon. 1956
£750
First edition, first impression of a full study of the sceneography and costume designs of these five theatre artists. One of a limited edition of 150 copies with a separate suite of...
Tall quarto. Original red wrappers printed in red, blue, and yellow. In the publisher's cloth slipcase and chemise. 4 original lithographs and illustrations... Read more
OVENDEN, Graham.
Childhood Streets. 1998
£45
First edition, first printing.
Quarto. Original black boards, titles to upper board and spine gilt. With the dust jacket. . Fine in fine dust jacket. Read more
ORPEN, William.
An Onlooker in France, 1917-1919. 1921
£2,500
First edition. This copy inscribed in pencil on the front free endpaper beneath a full-page pencil sketch of the artist at work; "To Miss Elsie de Wolfe from the person who attempted...
Quarto. Original sage green buckram, title gilt to spine. Portrait frontispiece of Earl Haig, and 95 other plates. De Wolfe's Villa Trianon book-stamp to the front... Read more
OLDENBURG, Claes.
The Multiples Store. 1996
£45
First Edition, First Impression.
Ringbound octavo. Original printed boards. No dust jacket issued. Fine. Read more
O' KEEFFE, Georgia.
One Hundred Flowers. 1987
£200
First edition, first impression.
Folio. original grey boards, illustration to front cover and titles to spine in silver. With the dust jacket and printed acetate wrap-a-round band. Illustrated with... Read more
NITSCH, Hermann.
O. M. Theater Lesebuch. 1985
£750
Second edition. One of a limited edition of 50 copies specially bound, signed by the author, and with a piece of fabric covered in goat's blood tipped-in on the half-title.
Octavo. Original brown calf, titles to spine and upper board in blind. Lightly rubbed. An excellent copy. Read more
NICHOLSON, William.
The Book of Blokes. 1929]
£1,750
First edition, first impression. One of a limited edition of 50 numbered copies coloured by hand and with an original drawing of a bloke on page 15 by the illustrator, and signed by...
Octavo. Original black and white pictorial boards. In a black cloth solander case. Original crayon drawing to page 15 and 29 illustrations printed in red, black, and... Read more
NICHOLSON, William.
The Book of Blokes. 1929]
£850
First edition, first printing. Inscribed by Nicholson in crayon on the front pastedown, "for New Year 1938 from William Nicholson". This copy from the library of collector, who has...
Octavo. Original green and white pictorial boards. 29 illustrations printed in red, black, and green. Small bookplate to rear pastedown. Lightly rubbed, lower joint... Read more
NEVINSON, C. R. W.
Modern Masters of Etching. 1932
£60
First Edition, First Impression.
Quarto. Original blue boards, titles to paper label adhered to upper board in red and black, titles to spine label in black. With 12 tipped in plates after etchings... Read more
NATTES, John Claude.
Bath, illustrated by a Series of Views, 1806
£13,500
First edition, a very good, complete copy - "The half-title is frequently missing. Some copies have the vignettes uncoloured" (Tooley) Abbey suggests that although no precedence can...
Folio (451 × 321 mm) Modern green morocco, title gilt direct to spine, raised bands, gilt arabesque decoration in the compartments, wide gilt palmette and floral... Read more
(NASH, Paul) READ, Herbert.
Art and Society. 1937
£250
First edition thus, first impression, originally published in a different form by Faber & Faber in 1936. Nash, designer of the dust jacket, earned fame as an enlisted artist during...
Quarto. Original red cloth, titles to spine and roundel to cover gilt, yellow endpapers. With the dust jacket. Black and white images throughout. Faint spotting to... Read more
(NASH, Paul) BERTRAM, Anthony.
Paul Nash The Portrait of An Artist. 1955
£75
First edition, first impression.
Octavo. Original red boards, titles to spine gilt against white ground, pictorial block to front board gilt against white ground, black and white patterned endpapers.... Read more
NASH, Joseph.
The Mansions of England in The Olden Time. 1874
£1,250
First edition, four series bound as one.
Folio, in four parts. Bound for Sotheran's in full brown morocco, gilt titles and decoration to spine, decorative gilt titles to front board, elaborate gilt border... Read more
(MUSEO REALE BORBONICO)
Raccolta, delle pui interefsanti Dipinture e de piu belli Musaici rinvenuti negli Scavi di Ercolano, di Pompei, e di Stabia che ammiransi nel Museo Reale Borbonico. c. 1837
£150
First edition. Approximate date of publication taken from the title page, dated "183" and the signature of H. M. Bunbury on the initial blanks dated 1837.
Quarto (270 × 210mm). Contemporary straight-grain calf, boards ruled in blind and gilt, spine decoratively gilt in compartments, marbled edges and endpapers. 120... Read more
MUSELWHITE, Katherine.
The Principles and Practice of Interior Decoration. 1936
£300
First edition, first impression.
Octavo. Original pattened black and gold cloth, decoration and titles to upper board and spine gilt, blue endpapers. With the dust jacket. Illustrated throughout with... Read more
MURAKAMI, Takashi.
Super Flat. 2005
£65
First collected edition, first printing. The Superflat Project consists of three books, part 1 Superflat, part 2 Coloriage and part 3 Little Boy: The Arts of Japan's Exploding...
Quarto. Original illustrated wrappers, titles to spine in white. With the dust jacket and wrap-a-round band. Together with the original plastic bag with Murakami... Read more
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MOULY, Francois, & Art Spiegelman (eds.)
Raw Magazine. # 1-8. [Maus] 1980-86
£1,500
First editions, first printings. The first eight issues of Raw magazine (Volume 1.) Lacking the "Reagan Speaks for Himself" Vinyl Record from No. 4. 4500 copies were printed of the...
8 vols. Folio. Original illustrated wrappers. Spiegelman's Two-Fisted Painters: Action Adventures booklet bound into vol 1 and Maus booklets bound into vols 2-7.... Read more
MORRIS, William.
The Collected Works. 1910
£3,750
The best collected edition of the works of William Morris, including introductions by the author's daughter, May Morris. One of a limited edition of 1050 numbered sets and very...
24 volumes, octavo. Recent red half calf, spines gilt in compartments, brown and black morocco labels, red cloth sides, top edges gilt, others untrimmed. Portrait... Read more
MOORE, Henry, & John Hedgecoe.
Henry Moore. 1968
£400
First edition, first impression. With a signed presentation inscription on the title page, 'For Sally Harding, with best wishes from Henry Moore - May 1st 1980.
Quarto. Original brown cloth, titles to front cover and spine in white, black silhouette to front, back and spine. Housed in the original cloth slipcase with pictorial... Read more
(MOORE, Henry) HALL, Donald.
Henry Moore. The Life and Work of a Great Sculptor. 1966
£150
First edition, first printing. Inscribed by the author on the half-title "for Ruven Brooks with real pleasure, to a sculptor, Donald Hall, 11 April 1966".
Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to spine in black and silver, sculpture illustration to upper board in black, grey endpapers. With the dust jacket. Illustrated... Read more
(MOORE, Henry) HALL, Donald.
Henry Moore. The Life and Work of a Great Sculptor. 1966
£65
First edition, first impression.
Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to spine in silver. With the dust jacket. Illustrated throughout. Light spotting to spine and endpapers, faint white marks to edges... Read more
