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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Arts & Architecture
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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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
Folio (386 x 287mm), with 12 pochoir plates on stiff card, 1 plate highlighted with silver, some toning to outer margins, else good, unbound as issued in rag-rolled, board portfolio with mounted labels, rubbed at extremities, otherwise a superior copy.
£2,500 -
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