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. 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 -
First Edition, limited issue; one of 500 numbered copies, specially bound and signed by the author and Hirst who designed the dust jacket; 8vo; patterned endpapers; publisher's red cloth, with the laminate dust-jacket designed by Damien Hirst, a fine copy.
£575 -
First edition, signed by the artist; 4to; tipped-in 'toxicological report', 2 folding plates, illustrations; publisher's red cloth with gilt flow-chart to upper cover, printed paper sleeve, a near fine example.
£750 -
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 -
First edition, two volumes, 4to. xxiv, 321, (1); xxiv, 323-592 pp., both volumes inscribed by the Author to the same recipients on the half-title, numerous tipped-in colour plates, further black and white images, publisher's taupe cloth, lettered to the spine and upper board, dust jackets, usual slight age-toning to the jacket of vol. 1, else a fine set preserved in the original cloth slip-case.
£500 -
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 -
First edition; 4to; 65 plates, pictorial endpapers by Charles Ricketts; publisher's blue cloth, printed dust-jacket, partly toned, overall a very good copy; with an offprint retrospective on Charles Ricketts by the poet Gordon Bottomley, initialled presentation copy from Bottomley to 'L.B.' [possibly Laurence Binyon(ý)], in original printed wrappers, some browning; with another work on Ricketts by Sturge Moore.
£75 -
First edition; 4to; colour illustrations throughout; publisher's patterned wrappers, a fine copy.
£225 -
4to (295 x 210 cm), exhibition catalogue comprising colour plates and the poem translated into English; original plain, card binding, printed dust-jacket, a few minor marks, mild toning and wear, otherwise very good and internally fine.
£75 -
French edition; large 4to (28.8 x 29.5 cm); original Chagall double-page colour lithograph; yellow cloth and dust jacket; in excellent condition.
£350