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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. Folio, xii, 361, [1], pp., 41 engraved plates, some double-page, engravings in text, occasional light browning, contemporary russia, covers with wide gilt borders, spine richly gilt, a very handsome example.

    £1,500
  2. First edition, one of 500 deluxe copies signed by the publisher and with an additional etching bound before half-title; 4to; additional etching, portrait frontispiece, colour plates, captioned tissue-guards, illustrations, scattered faint spotting; bound in full decorative green crushed morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, small patch of discolouration to lower fore-corner of upper cover, but overall fine.

    £595
  3. First edition, 4 vols; folio (46 x 35.5 cm); 8 hand-coloured engraved titles, 4 engraved leaves of dedication, etched initials and head and tail pieces, 437 etched and engraved plates (of which 182 hand-coloured, 77 double-page or folding), last plate in Vol. III with minor worming, occasional minor spotting or offsetting, a few plates slightly shaved, text in French and English in Vols I-II, English engraved title in Vol. III with repairs to verso; handsome modern red morocco to style by Aquarius, green morocco spine labels; a fine set.

    £125,000
  4. First edition; folio (58 x 42.5 cm); two title-pages, dated 1837 and 1839, engraved title, 100 plates (of which 30 are lithographic views); some spotting; contemporary red leather spine over marbled boards, spine in seven parts, corners bumped, loose joints.

    £12,500
  5. Landscape folio (48.5 x 36.5 cm), 10 thick card sheets containing 67 chromolithographs of pots, tins, bottles, etc, black morocco lettered in gilt on upper cover, light wear to spine and corners.

    £2,500
  6. Folio (46 x 33.5 cm); half-title, title, 20 colour pochoir lithograph plates; loose as issued in publisher's blue cloth-backed portfolio with ties.

    £5,000
  7. First edition, 8vo., [i], 47pp., later half crimson calf gilt, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt, a little faded and scuffed but sound and internally fine.

    £125
  8. Folio (49.5 x 38 cm); title, 20 pochoir lithographs by J. Saudé after Benedictus; original cloth-backed black boards, pochoir plate to upper cover, original ties; rebacked, neat repairs to extremities.

    £5,000
  9. 2 volumes folio (55 x 39 cm), 3 colour titles, register of plates and 196 lithograph plates of which 113 are in colour (some heightened with gold and silver) by Johann Haupt, Anton Hartinger, J. Lowy, Friedrich Jasper, Eduard Sieger, E. Beck, after designs by Anton Seder, original cloth-backed printed boards portfolios, original ties, a very good, clean set.

    £7,500
  10. New edition. 4to (32.5 x 23.9 cm), 463pp, over 685 colour illustrations, bound in black cloth, lettered in spine, publisher's pictorial dust jacket.

    £42
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