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(MIRÓ, Joan; Rita Hayworth.) PRÉVERT, Jacques & G. Ribemont-Dessaignes. Joan Miró.Paris : 1956
First edition, first printing. Miro has drawn and signed a self-portrait of himself meeting Hayworth across the endpaper and half title page in his inimitable style in black ink and watercolour. Prévert has inscribed across the same two pages "á Rita Hayworth, En amitié d'un soir... et de layt???, Jacques Prévert" with a drawing of a flower; Ribemont-Dessaignes... Learn More£22,500.00Stock Code: 131185
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(GRAPHIC ART). Arts et Métiers Graphiques Numéro 48.Paris : 1935
First edition, first impression. This French graphic art magazine was published monthly from 1937 to 1939 and contained articles of varying areas of the graphic arts, such as typography, illustration, bibliophily, etc. Learn More£200.00Stock Code: 129220
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DUSSAUSOY, Maille. Le citoyen désinteressé, ou diverses idées patriotiques,Paris : 1767-8
First edition of Dussausoy's programme of public works, the main purpose of which was to provide labour for the idle masses and to inspire patriotism by installing honorary monuments of monarchs and men of military and political renown across Paris, with chapters on the causes of depopulation and the degeneration of the French nation (and how to remedy... Learn More£1,750.00Stock Code: 122620
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(GILL, Eric.) TEGETMEIER, Denis. The Seven Deadly Virtues.London : [1934]
First edition, first impression. One of a limited edition of 250 numbered copies signed by both Tegetmeier and Gill on the limitation leaf. Learn More£475.00Stock Code: 74601
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KOONS, Jeff; Damien Hirst; Gerhard Merz; Matthew Barney; Douglas Gordon; Cy Twombly. Re-Object/Mythos.Bregenz : 2007
Signed limited edition of these luxurious catalogues, published in conjunction with the Kunsthaus Bregenz two-part series of exhibitions of the same name. Both volumes are number 37 of 170 copies; Re-Object signed in pencil on the jacket by Koons, Hirst, and Merz; Mythos signed in pencil on the jacket by Barney and Gordon. Text in German and English.... Learn More£800.00Stock Code: 136326
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THORNTON, Joseph Patrick. The International System of Garment Cutting,London : c.1924
Seventh edition of this title, with relevant contemporary annotations, following and much expanding upon Thornton's earlier Sectional System (1901). This is an uncommon and attractive work offering detailed insight into this misunderstood and under-appreciated art. Under 20 copies of various editions dated between ?1885 and 1935 have been located through... Learn More£950.00Stock Code: 139135
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HOBSON, John Atkinson. John Ruskin, Social Reformer.London : 1898
Second edition, following the first of 1895. John Ruskin's work and thought were a major influence on Hobson's own beliefs regarding social reform. In the present work, a highly favourable account of Ruskin's sociological ideas, Hobson argues that these beliefs are as important as Ruskin's artistic theories, and are deserving of wider appreciation. Learn More£75.00Stock Code: 124616
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CAHUN, Claude. Two autograph postcards signed to Surrealist poet Robert Desnos, the second also signed by Marcel Moore.Paris & Jersey : 1932 & 1938
Two exceptionally rare autograph postcards signed from the French photographer and mixed-media artist Claude Cahun to Surrealist poet Robert Desnos, one written from Paris, the other from Jersey in exile; in the first thanking him for a gift of flowers, and in the second reporting on her reclusive life in Jersey with her collaborator, lover, and step-sister... Learn More£6,500.00Stock Code: 131539
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(NECKWEAR.) Antonio Apostolo & Co., Milano. - illustrated catalogue of ties, cravats and scarves &c.Milan : 1931
A spectacular and notably scarce illustrated catalogue of luxury neckwear, with no other copies of the present or any subsequent issues traced. Superbly realised by Milanese art printers Pizio e Pizzi, this stylish work illustrates an extensive range of ties, cravats, pocket squares, and mufflers, all in vibrant colours on a gold ground. Learn More£850.00Stock Code: 139212
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(DADA.) SCHWARZ, Arturo (ed.) Dada Germanico.Milan : 1970
Limited edition, one of 500 copies, a portfolio from the unnumbered series Documenti e periodici Dada (five portfolios in total, including Dada Svizzero, Dada Americano, Dada Francese, and Dada Italiano). This portfolio of seven facsimile pamphlets, predominately in German and originally published in Berlin,... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 116922
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(FASHION.) Extensive 1920s atelier archive of beadwork couture detailing.Nancy, France : c.1920
Exceptional artefact of the extravagant Parisian fashions of "les années folles", a mammoth studio sample album crammed with wonderfully flamboyant examples of the complex beaded tambour work known as Lunéville embroidery, a hugely popular feature of 20s haute couture.
By the end of the 1920s, driven by the demands of designers such as Madeleine... Learn More£6,000.00Stock Code: 141909
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(HARING, Keith.) PINCUS-WITTEN, Robert; Jeffrey Deitch; David Shapiro. Keith Haring.New York : 1982
First and limited edition, first printing, one of 2,000 copies of the Tony Shafrazi Gallery's exhibition catalogue for one of Keith Haring's early exhibitions with the gallery, which took place in 1982. It includes excerpts from "Questions for Keith Haring" as well as essays upon the artist and his works by Jeffrey Deitch, Robert Pincus-Witten and David... Learn More£2,000.00Stock Code: 123544
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VAN VELDE, Bram. Das graphische Werk.Worpswede : [1969]
First and limited edition, one of 1,000 copies. Published to coincide with the exhibition of his prints at the Worpsweder Kunsthalle, this edition includes a preface by Jacques Putnam and two fold-out four colour lithographs signed by the artist. By 1969 van Velde's work had been exhibited three times at the Galerie Knoedler in New York to critical... Learn More£750.00Stock Code: 116817
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![Arkhitekturnie pamiatniki Samarkanda [i.e. The Architectural Monuments of Samarkand]](https://d3dzzbbvj9im7s.cloudfront.net/media/catalog/product/cache/ae0834d12b7cf129fc73bcc000ea526a/1/3/133933.jpg)
POLUPANOV, Stefan Nikolaevich. Arkhitekturnie pamiatniki Samarkanda [i.e. The Architectural Monuments of Samarkand]Moscow : 1948
First edition. "Official" study of the ancient mosques of Samarkand, suggestive of then current developments in Soviet architectural doctrine. The author Stefan Polupanov (1904-1957) was a leading Tashkent-based architect; "A graduate of the Kharkov Artistic-Construction Institute, Polupanov enjoyed a long career in Tashkent city planning " (Stronski,... Learn More£500.00Stock Code: 133933
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AMHERST, William Amhurst Tyssen-. A collection of views of different places, seen during a tour on the Continent, February 1852.France and Italy : 1852
An attractive Grand Tour album, consisting largely of architectural subjects and views in Nîmes, Arles and Rome amongst others, together with "types" and scenes of local life, compiled by the seventeen year-old William Amhurst Daniel-Tyssen, later William Amhurst Tyssen-Amherst, 1st baron Amherst of Hackney, art collector, bibliophile and politician.... Learn More£2,000.00Stock Code: 122697
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WINTER, A. Trichologia.London : 1869
First and only known edition of this unusual and uncommon book on hair, including its physiology, diseases, and cultural significance. An ad at the rear reports that the author, Mr. Winter, "may be consulted on Diseases of the Hair at his Residence, 205 Oxford Street, London, between the Hours of 10 and 4." For those unable to visit in person, a questionnaire... Learn More£275.00Stock Code: 120113
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ARMSTRONG, Sir Walter. Gainsborough & his place in English art.London : 1899
Limited edition of 250 copies. An important and lavish monograph with superb photogravure reproductions: "Armstrong 1849-1918 is also remembered for his massive monographs, with accompanying catalogues, of some of the major British painters of the second half of the eighteenth century and the early nineteenth, Gainsborough (1894), Reynolds (1900), Raeburn... Learn More£975.00Stock Code: 113625
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WILLIS, Browne. An History of the Mitred Parliamentary Abbeys, and Conventual Cathedral Churches.London : 1718-9
First editions. Educated Westminster and Christ Church, Oxford, "through his father Willis inherited Whaddon Hall, where he was to live until his death, together with the adjoining manor and advowson of Bletchley. He also owned the manor of Burlton in Burghill, Herefordshire, and his estate was augmented by the dowry of 7000 obtained through his marriage...... Learn More£450.00Stock Code: 139647
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[DEPEW, Wally, ed.] PN2 experiment flipbook, nos 2 & 5.Scranton, PA : [c.1964-1966]
Two rare flipbooks of avant-garde mimeo-art/concrete poetry issued by the Poetry Newsletter, which was published by Pennsylvania native Wally Depew in the mid-1960s and ran through 12 issues. The somewhat tongue-in-cheek "Bibliography" for each flipbook includes the Works of Rabelais, "Eadweard" Muybridge's Human Figure in Motion, John Cage's Silence,... Learn More£500.00Stock Code: 135171
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WILKINSON, Norman. Water-colour Sketching Out-of-Doors.London : [1953]
First edition, first impression, of this work on water-colour techniques, volume 21 in the second series of The New Art Library. Learn More£85.00Stock Code: 141870
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CHAGALL, Marc. Dessins Pour la Bible.Paris : 1960
First edition, first printing, of this lavish collection of Chagall's artwork inspired by the Old Testament. In 1930 Chagall set out to produce etchings to illustrate the Bible, at the request of the avant-garde art book publisher Ambroise Vollard. Chagall worked on the project for many years even after Vollard's death in 1939, eventually publishing... Learn More£3,750.00Stock Code: 139176
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WOOLF, Virginia. Roger Fry: A Biography.London : 1940
First edition, first impression, of Woolf's biography of Roger Fry, English painter and fellow member of the Bloomsbury Group. Woolf wrote the biography at the request of the Fry family. Learn More£850.00Stock Code: 138410
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(GRAND TOUR DIARY.) NELSON, John Horatio. Grand Tour diary.1846-47
An entertaining Grand Tour diary, chatty and discursive. John Horatio Nelson (1825-1917) was great-nephew of the hero of Trafalgar, the second son of Thomas Bolton, who changed his surname on becoming the 2nd Earl Nelson. Born at Brickworth House, Whiteparish, Wiltshire, he was educated at Eton and Harrow, and Trinity College, Cambridge. He took holy... Learn More£2,250.00Stock Code: 114065
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OLUFSEN, Ole. The Second Danish Pamir-Expedition.Copenhagen : 1904
First edition of this important architectural study from the two Danish Pamir Expeditions. Olufsen commanded both of these trips into Central Asia, 1896-9, during which the team visited Bokhara as a guest of the Emir; carried out exhaustive scientific surveys throughout the Pamirs; made the first anthropological study of the Siaposh and the mountain... Learn More£2,750.00Stock Code: 103825
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(SILK WEAVING) SIMMONDS, S. Théorie du Tissage [Theory of Weaving]?Lyon : c.1900
Exceptional French course workbook in superb, fresh condition, concentrating entirely on silk production and weaving and containing a spectacular array of fabric samples from simple taffetas and serges to pekins, fantasies, and royales, in a range of superb colours and patterns. Most likely generated at the École de Tissage in Lyons, the French silk... Learn More£2,500.00Stock Code: 139189
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GYSIN, Brion. [Roller Poem.]Antwerp : 1977
First edition, number 14 of 90 copies signed and dated by Gysin at the foot. This is a very scarce piece of original Gysin poem-art, bringing his obsession with experimental cut-up techniques to bear upon his own name to create a quasi-incantatory scroll of nonsense. Only two copies are listed on WorldCat, one at SUNY and the other at the National Library... Learn More£2,250.00Stock Code: 131065
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GRABAR, Oleg; Gülru Necipoglu; et al. (eds.) Muqarnas.New Haven & Leiden : 1983-2015
First editions, a few issues signed by contributors and editors, including several by the founding editor, Oleg Grabar. This journal aimed to "provide a regular vehicle for scholarship and critical essays on Islamic art... and to make scholarship and discussions as widely available as possible, especially in Muslim countries" (vol. 1, p. ix). was founded... Learn More£3,000.00Stock Code: 127347
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BURCKHARDT, Jacob. Die Cultur der Renaissance in Italien.Basel : 1860
First edition, from the library of Otto Wesendonck, husband of Mathilde Wesendonck and friend of Wagner.
Otto Wesendonck's (1815-1896) success as a silk merchant made him a generous patron of the arts and allowed him to provided significant financial support to one of his favourite composers, Richard Wagner, throughout the 1850s. For a period of... Learn More£1,000.00Stock Code: 120920
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COVARRUBIAS, Miguel. Negro Drawings.New York : 1927
First and limited edition, number 82 of 100 specially bound copies, each with an original signed artwork by Covarrubias, in this case a sketch based on "Chorus Girl" (plate 29). Negro Drawings was an early work from the Mexican artist Miguel Covarrubias (1904-1957), following his move to New York in 1924 and subsequent immersion in the Harlem Renaissance.... Learn More£4,000.00Stock Code: 139911
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PEACHEY, Emma. The Little Flower Maker.London : 1869
First edition. A rare, beautifully produced work designed by 'Mrs Peachey, a first rate artist in her department... favourably known to the public, by a former work on Modelling Wax Flowers to enable her youthful friends, who have often admired specimens of her skill, to become adepts in the charming art of paper flower making'. The techniques of paper... Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 136827
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MOHANTY, Bijoy Chandra; K. V. Chandramouli; H. D. Naik. Natural Dyeing Processes of India.Ahmedabad : 1987
First edition, first printing, of this comprehensive guide to the dyeing techniques of India, retaining all the original samples of different textiles. Learn More£250.00Stock Code: 140149
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![Yamato-ryu Kyudo Kyokun no maki. [Precepts for Archery of the Yamato School].](https://d3dzzbbvj9im7s.cloudfront.net/media/catalog/product/cache/ae0834d12b7cf129fc73bcc000ea526a/1/0/107836.jpg)
MORIKAWA, Kozan. Yamato-ryu Kyudo Kyokun no maki. [Precepts for Archery of the Yamato School].Tokyo : 1928
First facsimile edition of a work first published in 1652, and untraceable thus, no copy on OCLC. The text lays out the philosophical precepts underlying Mokikawa Kozan's (1631-1701) style of Kyudo, created essentially as a fusion between the two most prominent schools of the time, Heki-ryu and Ogasawara-ryu. Morikawa was the first to define the martial... Learn More£375.00Stock Code: 107836
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(FASHION; DACHÉ, Lilly.) La Dépêche.Paris : 1949-50
A largely unbroken, notably scarce, run of 40 issues of La Dépêche (September 1949 until October 1950) together with three issues of La Note de Paris (August and October 1950). This run has a key fashion association, the subscriber being renowned milliner, fashion designer, and female entrepreneur Lilly Daché (?1892-1989) during her "heyday in the... Learn More£8,750.00Stock Code: 126533
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HAMILTON, Sir William. Collection of Etruscan, Greek, and Roman AntiquitiesNaples : 1766-7 [actually 1767-76]
First edition of this magnificent and notably rare work, of which only 100 complete sets were produced, a publication which had an enormous influence on contemporary taste.
Sir William Hamilton (1731-1803), diplomatist and art collector, was appointed British envoy-extraordinary to the Spanish court at Naples in 1764, during that city's Golden... Learn More£160,000.00Stock Code: 124586
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SCHMOLLER, Hans. Mr Gladstone's Washi.Newtown, PA : 1984
First edition, limited to 500 copies printed on mouldmade Hahnemühle paper in Van Dijck types, of which this is number 352. A most attractive production, incorporating a facsimile of Sir Harry Parkes's original report and handsome reproductions of various artefacts that he collected in the course of his inquiry. "At the request of the Foreign Secretary... Learn More£225.00Stock Code: 113217
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(CHROMOLITHOGRAPHY.) The Chromolithograph. A journal of Art, Decoration and the Accomplishments.London : 1867-9
First edition. Uncommon, COPAC locates sets at Oxford, Cambridge, the Universities of London and Nottingham, and the V & A; OCLC adds the Getty, the Huntington, Yale and McGill. No complete set at auction in the last 40 years, this run, in common with that V & A, lacks the last issue for 27 March 1869. A short-lived periodical, in an already short run... Learn More£1,275.00Stock Code: 67422
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BURCKHARDT, Jacob. Die Cultur der Renaissance in Italien.Basel : 1860
First edition. Written by Burckhardt (1818-1897) between 1855 and 1858, Die Kultur der Renaissance is a milestone in cultural history. While the author's definition and historical description of the Renaissance have been rightfully questioned, "no criticism can detract from the powerful spell which Burckhardt's book has exercised upon such widely different... Learn More£850.00Stock Code: 91256
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(CHINA; ROYAL ACADEMY OF ARTS.) The Chinese Exhibition.London : 1936
First edition, first impression, of the commemorative catalogue of the Royal Academy's Chinese exhibition of 1935-6, the most important exhibition of Chinese art ever exhibited in Britain. The Chinese government loaned 800 objects, including 352 ceramics, some which of a type never before seen in the country. The exhibition helped to establish in western... Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 130464
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RHEIMS, Bettina. Gender Studies.Göttingen : 2014
First edition, first printing, signed by the artist on the half-title, "Bettina Rheims, 2015, Paris". Gender Studies is a series of portraits first exhibited in 2012 in Düsseldorf featuring the "sound design" of Frederic Sanchez, included here on CD. In 2011 Rheims posted an advertisement on Facebook looking for models that felt "other" to... Learn More£300.00Stock Code: 130721
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WARHOL, Andy. Andy Warhol's Interview. December 1977. Vol. VII No. 12.New York : 1977
First edition, first printing. Signed by Andy Warhol on the front cover across a photo of Mick Jagger dressed as Father Christmas carrying Iman and Paul von Ravenstein in a sack over his shoulder. The cover is designed by Richard Bernstein. Bernstein painted, sliced, and stenciled celebrity designs which graced the covers of over a decade's worth of... Learn More£1,000.00Stock Code: 139536
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(CHURCHILL, Winston S.) Two-page typed letter signed to the artist Walter Sickert.Chartwell Manor : 1927
A wonderfully characterful pair of letters from Winston and Clementine relating to their long-term friendships with the great British painter Walter Sickert (18601942) and his artist wife, Thérèse (née Lessore, 1884-1945), strongly suggestive of Churchill's very real emotional and intellectual investment in the practice of painting.
While... Learn More£17,500.00Stock Code: 135858
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ZABAGLIA, Nicola. Castelli, e Ponti …Rome : 1743
First edition of this fundamental work for the history of the restoration and maintenance of St Peter's Fabbrica and for an understanding of early building practice. The master mason and engineer Nicola Zabaglia (1664-1750) invented many ingenious mechanical devices to aid restoration. Here he illustrates his techniques, with the help of Giovanni Bottari... Learn More£5,000.00Stock Code: 77359
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HURET, Gregoire. Optique de portraiture et peinture, en deux parties,Paris : 1670
First edition, with an appealing near-contemporary French provenance: bookplate and ownership inscription of Hieronimus (Jérôme) Beausire. The Beausires were a famous French architectural dynasty - our Beausire may be Jérôme (1708-1761) architect and son of Jean Beausire, chief of public works in Paris under the Sun King and Louis XV. "The draughtsman... Learn More£5,000.00Stock Code: 96431
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PUGIN, Augustus Welby Northmore. Autograph letter, with original captioned ink sketch, to Henry Ridgard Bagshawe.Ramsgate, Kent : 1841
A wittily satirical sketch by Pugin, the Roman Catholic architect, sent to his friend Henry Ridgard Bagshawe (1799-1870), a prominent Catholic lawyer. Bagshawe sat on the committee of the Lincoln's Inn Fields district New Church Erection Fund. That area already had the Sardinian Chapel, well-known as the oldest Roman Catholic chapel in London and restored... Learn More£12,500.00Stock Code: 46369
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(MOORE, Henry.) SWEENEY, James Johnson. Henry Moore.New York : 1946
First edition, first printing, of this important monograph. Presentation copy from Moore, inscribed on the front free endpaper, "To Eric, from Henry, July 5th 1947". The recipient may be the British art critic Eric Newton (1893-1965), a personal friend of Moore and a champion of his work; Newton became a household name in Britain in the 1950s largely... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 87773
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[LANG, Herbert Gordon.] The "Walking-Stick" Method of Self-Defence.London : [1926]
First edition of this idiosyncratic stick-fighting handbook combining the "canne" method of Swiss master Pierre Vigny (referred to by Lang as "Vigui") with the "bois" method widespread in the West Indies. The author, a police superintendent in Kathiawar, was born in Grenada in 1887, and possibly came into contact with canne in London, where Vigny taught... Learn More£875.00Stock Code: 117850
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LEWIS, Wyndham. The Caliph's Design.London : 1919
First edition, first impression, 1,000 copies were printed. With the rare publisher's flyer for Lewis's debut novel Tarr, "some were laid into copies of The Caliph's Design" (Morrow & Lafourcade). "In The Caliph's Design: Architects! Where is Your Vortex?, Lewis offers the most sustained and considered of his early critiques of the art scene of the... Learn More£425.00Stock Code: 106471
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MORRIS, William. An Address.London : 1898
First editions, first impressions, of these Chiswick Press fine publications of William Morris's lectures printed in the Golden type he designed for the Kelmscott Press; in an attractive arts and crafts style binding by the amateur binder, bibliophile, and author, Fletcher W. Battershall (1866-1929), and with his bookplate on the front pastedown.
Fully... Learn More£1,750.00Stock Code: 142015
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(PICASSO, Pablo.) BALZAC, Honoré de. Le Chef-d'oeuvre inconnu.Paris : 1931
Limited edition, number 171 of 240 copies printed on Rives paper, from a total edition of 340 copies (of which 65 were printed on imperial japon and signed, and 35 for private distribution and numbered using roman numerals).
In 1926 Picasso was commissioned by the publisher Ambroise Vollard to do a series of illustrations for Balzac's novella Le... Learn More£25,000.00Stock Code: 136550
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HIRST, Damien. Beautiful Inside My Head Forever.London : 2008
First and only edition, signed and dated "Damien Hirst '08" on the title page of the first volume, also signed in both supplements which cover lot 213, The Kingdom, and lot 237, The Golden Calf. Published for the two-day sale in three parts of new work by Hirst held at Sotheby's, London on 15 and 16 September 2008. Hirst bypassed traditional galleries... Learn More£600.00Stock Code: 134003
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DALÍ, Salvador. Le Mythe Tragique de L'Angélus de Millet.Paris : 1963
First edition, first printing. Learn More£600.00Stock Code: 71472
