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Arts & Architecture

A selection of rare books relating to art and design, including decorative design, architecture, gardens, fashion, costume and caricature. Please use the image-links here for specific areas of interest, or continue below to view all of the books relating to these subjects.

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  1. First edition, inscribed by the photographer on preliminary blank leaf; 4to (275 x 215 mm.); black & white photographic illustrations throughout, photographic endpapers, slight toning to top edge of text block; publisher's cloth, slight loss of colour near spine on upper cover, otherwise very good, wrap-around dust-jacket, worn at corners and spine ends with slight loss, a few other chips & creases; with the accompanying 18pp. booklet.

    £3,500
  2. First edition, first impression, trade issue; small 4to (255 x 215 mm.); photographic illustrations by Fay Godwin; original cloth-backed boards, photographic dust-jacket, price-clipped, a fine copy.

    £250
  3. First edition, first printing; signed presentation copy from the artist; 4to (305 x 240 mm.); photographic portraits throughout; publisher's blue cloth, mild sunning to extreme top-edge, dust-jacket, small bar of fading to top edge of upper panel, otherwise very good.

    £500
  4. First edition, fourth printing; signed presentation copy from the artist; 4to (c. 270 x 260 mm.); photographic portraits throughout; publisher's red cloth, dust-jacket, a fine, sharp copy.

    £450
  5. Revised & enlarged edition; 4to (330 x 270 mm.); 100 photographic illustrations by the author, photographic endpapers; publisher's cloth-backed boards, dust-jacket, some light toning and rubbing, some chipping to edges with a few closed tears, overall a very good copy.

    £175
  6. First American edition; folio (300 x 225 mm.); black & white photographs throughout; publisher's stiff card covers with design by June Leaf, minor rubbing to extremities but overall a near fine copy.

    £350
  7. First edition, signed on front free endpaper; sml. 4to (220 x 190 mm); colour and black & white photographic illustrations; publisher's black cloth, lettering in white to spine, slight fading to edges, pictorial dust-jacket, toned, slight rubbing to extremities, otherwise very good.

    £200
  8. First edition, folio, (447 x 315 mm); half-title, 125 Blanquart-Evrard process prints, printed tissue guards, 3 engraved plans (one double-page), contemporary half morocco gilt, rebacked preserving spine, lightly rubbed, all edges gilt.

    £300,000
  9. First edition, signed by the authors, number 386 of an edition limited to 950 copies plus 50 proofs, landscape folio (44.5 x 34 cm), 336 pp., 330 full photographic illustrations and 15 duotones, original fine grey goatskin binding, velvet doublures and flyleaves, linen and velvet-lined archival box, fine.

    £1,650
  10. First edition, landscape 8vo (28.5 x 19 cm), pictorial lithograph title, 20 original photographs mounted on beige surrounds, printed captions beneath image, tissue guards, all edges gilt, original red cloth decorated in gilt and blind, upper cover and spine utterly faded and lightly soiled, photographs clean and fresh with good tonal range.

    £6,500
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