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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. 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
  2. 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
  3. 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
  4. First edition; folio (52.5 x 37 cm); twenty aquatints, comprising uncoloured frontispiece and 8 plates (one tinted sepia plate, seven hand-coloured, including 2 double-page), five with overslips (two of the five with two overslips each), and eleven vignettes (one tinted in sepia and three hand-coloured), two with overslips, occasional marks and finger-soiling to some margins, the final folding pate with neat repair to fold, modern quarter morocco over marbled boards, a very good copy.

    £7,500
  5. 2 vols. one vol. landscape 4to (24.5 x 32.5 cm) and one vol. portrait 4to (32.5 x 24.5 cm); 2200 original designs of rings in pencil and pen , all with their catalogue number either in ink or pencil, some t inscriptions in pencil; the landscape album contains about 1000 designs on 54 pages (usually 20 per page, model numbers 2208-2845 and 1-355), in pencil , including some unfinished designs, some drawn with black ink, ( 20 blank pages at rear), the portrait album with a further 1200 designs on 138 pages (mostly 8 per album page, often on both sides, model numbers 4000-5199; both vols bound in contemporary black morocco backed patterned boards, some wear and tear to the extremities; both with brown paper labels with ink numbers; overall a very good example of an unusual jewellery catalogue.

    £3,500
  6. 3 vols, 4to; numerous illustrations, many in colour; oriignal pictorial wrappers, slip-case.

    £250
  7. Third edition; 4 volumes, folio, 60 colour plates (with captioned tissue-guards) after Shirley Slocombe, numerous black & white plates and illustrations within text, publisher's red cloth gilt, slight fading to spine heads, otherwise fine and bright, original drab printed dust-wrappers, faded with minor defects and soiling, otherwise very good and internally fine.

    £600
  8. First edition, 4to, pp. [4], list of plates, 159, 76 handcoloured aquatints including frontispiece, 5 folding, one with short split to fold, later maroon straight-grained morocco gilt, an excellent example.

    £4,000
  9. 4 volumes, octavo. Uncut in original boards, printed paper labels to spines as issued. Housed in a custom pull-off case with simulated morocco book spines and matching cloth chemise.

    £2,500
  10. First edition, number 157 of 250 copies on Vélin d'Arches from a total edition of 270; large 4to (42.2 x 32 cm); artist's signature stamp to limitation page, 150 lithographs after Giacometti, loose as issued in publisher's printed wrappers, glassine wrappers, cloth chemise and slipcase.

    £37,500
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