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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[FLEMING, Ian.] WORRALL, Dave.
The Most Famous Car in the World. The Complete History of the James Bond Aston Martin DB5. 1991
£450
First edition, first impression. Limited to 1,000 copies signed by Worrall and the book designer Graham Rye. Additionally inscribed by Worrall "Lance, Thanks for your support and...
Quarto. Original black boards, titles to spine in silver. With the dust jacket. Insert highlighting the difficulties that the author had over a 6 year period before... Read more
(HILL, C. F.) BLOMBERG, Eirk.
Drawings by C.F. Hill. 1950
£450
First Edition, edition of 625 copies "375 are for sale numbered 1-375, and 250 copies numbered I-CCL", this copy XV. Born in Lund, Sweden, Hill travelled to France in 1873 in search...
Quarto. Text and plates loose, as issued, in publisher's printed stiff wrappers, glassine dust jacket, in original ecru rough linen clamshell box. Colour frontispiece... 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
SCHÜRMANN, Ulrich.
Teppiche aus dem Kaukasus. [1964]
£450
Originally issued as the catalogue for the first exhibition of Caucasian carpets at the Hamburg Museum of Arts and Crafts in 1961. This revised edition was produced in response to...
Tall octavo. Original mid-blue cloth with title gilt to spine and stylized weaver device to the upper board. In the dust jacket. 160 colour illustrations, 140 of them... Read more
(TARTAN SILK SAMPLES)
Lista True Tartans - All British. c.1920]
£450
Wonderful sample books for "true" tartans, that is fabrics woven with accurate thread counts to match the approved sett or pattern for recognized clan tartans. A total of 146...
2 volumes, folio (375 × 225 mm). Original green cloth, titled as above in gilt. One containing 15 leaves with 4 mounted silk samples to each, the other with 20... 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
(WOOLF Virginia) BELL, Vanessa.
Recent Paintings. 1930
£450
First edition, published 4 February 1930. Approximately 500 copies were printed, and probably freely distributed. Scarce.
4 page pamphlet staple-bound and printed in black. Wrappers a little rubbed and spotted, staples rusting. A very good copy. Read more
HIRST, Damien.
I Want to Spend the Rest of My Life Everywhere, with Everyone, One to One, Always, Forever, Now. 1997
£425
First edition, first impression. Hirst's first publication and a wonder of modern printing innovatively illustrated with photographs, graphic design, pop-ups, transparencies, movable...
Quarto. Original red cloth, titles to front board blindstamped and gilt, titles to spine in black. With the dust jacket. With over 700 diagrams and illustrations,... Read more
FROST, Terry
Terry Frost. 1994
£400
First edition, first impression. Inscribed on the half title "To Dear Molly [Parkin], lots of love to a great friend, Terry Frost, Sept 94." With a drawing of a sun lying low over...
Quarto. Original cloth boards, titles to spine in red. With the dust jacket. Illustrated throughout in colour. Top edge of front cover a little dusty, top and bottom... Read more
KERTESZ, A. (ed.)
The Diamine Colours of the Aniline Colour Works of Leopold Cassella & Co., 1895-6
£400
First and only edition, uncommon, just 10 copies on OCLC. Cassella were the foremost producers of these aniline dyes in the late nineteenth century, in 1925 they became part of IG...
Large octavo (249 × 164 mm) Original sand- and morocco-grained cloth, title gilt to spine, gold patterned endpapers. Double frontispiece of the company's works,... Read more
(GILL, Eric) SHAKESPEARE, William.
The Sonnets. 1933
£400
First edition thus, first impression. One of a limited edition of 500 copies. A lovely copy of this beautifully-produced edition of the sonnets. Uncommon in the jacket.
Octavo. Original green cloth, title gilt to spine, initials to upper board, top edge gilt. With the dust jacket. Engraved frontispiece by Eric Gill. Very good in... Read more
HOCKNEY, David.
The Blue Guitar. 1977
£400
First edition, first impression. Inscribed by the Hockney on the half title "For Karl with love from David x." Also signed by Hockney on the title page.
Octavo. Original blue grey boards, titles to paper label on front cover. With the dust jacket. Fine in edge rubbed dust jacket. Read more
HOCKNEY, David.
Paper Pools. 1980
£400
First edition, first impression. Inscribed by the artist "For Pat & Shay from David Hockney. Christmas 1980."
Quarto. Original blue cloth, publisher's logo to front cover and titles to spine in black. With the dust jacket. 122 illustrations, 87 in colour. Damp stain to foot of... Read more
VIRILIO, Paul.
Bunker Archéologie. 1975
£400
First edition. Catalogue for the Exhibition of Virilio's photographic studies of the bunkers around the Western and Northern coasts of France. Accompanied by a theoretical...
Small square quarto. Original stiff card wraps with wide French-fold turn-ins. Profusely illustrated from Virilio's photographs Wraps very slightly yellowed at the... 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
LEVY, Julien.
Surrealism. 1936
£375
First edition, first impression.
Quarto. Original white boards printed in purple. With the dust jacket. Printed on white, green, yellow, and pink paper. Illustrations throughout. Ownership inscription... Read more
(FROST, Terry.) GOODING, Mel.
Terry frost: Act & Image. Works on Paper through Six Decades. 2000
£375
First edition, first impression. Signed on the front free endpaper by Frost.
Quarto. Original red cloth, titles to spine in silver. With the dust jacket. Fine in fine dust jacket. Read more
HAMNETT, Nina & Osbert Sitwell.
The People's Album of London Statues. 1928
£375
First edition, first impression, one of a limited edition of 116 numbered copies signed by the author and illustrator on the limitation leaf. Nina Hamnett's copy,inscribed by her on...
Octavo. Original cream cloth, titles to spine gilt, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Illustrations throughout. Binding rubbed, dulled, and spotted, corners bumped. A... Read more
McCARTHY, Justin, & Joseph Pennell.
Charing Cross to St. Paul's. 1893
£375
First edition, presentation copy from the artist to the publisher Thomas Fisher Unwin, with the gift inscription in Pennell's distinctive autograph: "Mr Thomas Fisher Unwin his book...
Octavo. Original maroon cloth, panel blocking in blind to boards, front board decorated and letterd in gilt, spine lettered in gilt, 39 engraved illustrations... Read more
FRINK, Elisabeth.
The Art of Elisabeth Frink. 1972
£375
First edition, first impression. Inscribed by the artist on the front free endpaper "For Reg and Elaine, with love, from, Lis. Elisabeth Frink, 1 Sept. 1973." Together with a post...
Quarto. Original black boards, titles to spine in white. With the dust jacket. Spine bumped, spotting to front joint, bright dust jacket lightly rubbed. Read more
MOORE, Henry.
Catalogo della Mostra Firenze - Forte di Belvedere 20 Maggio 30 Settembre 1972. 1972
£375
First edition, first printing. Inscribed by the artist. "To Mr and Mrs McGregor. With best wishes from Henry Moore, Forte dei Marmi, September 17th '72."
Square quarto. Original photographic wrappers, titles to spine in black, titles to front cover in white. Illustrated throughout 333 pages. Light crease to lower... Read more
DAHL-WOLFE, Louise.
A Photographer's Scrapbook. 1984
£375
First edition, first printing. Inscribed by the author on the half-title, "To Monty Montgomery – Louise Dahl-Wolfe".
Quarto. Original black cloth backed grey boards, titles to spine in silver, tan endpapers. With the dust jacket. Illustrations throughout from photos by the author. An... Read more
(BOULLÉE, Étienne-Louis) ROSENAU, Helen (ed.)
Boullée's Treatise on Architecture. 1953
£375
First edition. One of the foremost proponents of neo-classical architecture in eighteenth-century France, Boullée went to visionary extremes developing an abstract geometrical...
Octavo. Original dark blue buckram, title gilt to upper board and spine. In the dust jacket. 24 plates. Very good in slightly rippled jacket. Read more
SCHNABEL, Julian.
C. V. J. Nicknames of Maitre D's & Other Excerpts From Life. 1987
£375
First edition, first impression. Inscribed by the artist on the front free endpaper "Joseph and Anna, love Julian, 1994".
Large octavo. Original red and white cloth, pictorial endpapers. With the printed acetate dust jacket with titles to spine and front panels in black. Colour... Read more
(CHAGALL, Marc.) BRION, Marcel.
Chagall. 1961
£375
First edition, first printing. Inscribed by Chagall on the title page, "Pour les Net amicalement, Marc Chagall, 1968, Washington".
Octavo. Original white cloth, titles to spine and front cover gilt. With the dust jacket. Illustrated with 36 full colour reproductions. Edges a little darkened, dust... Read more
