The Unphotographable.
(San Francisco: Fraenkel Gallery, 2013). Sole edition, 4to, (2), 57, (2) leaves. Colour photographic illustrations. Cloth, a fine copy. More
Art
The Americans. Introduction by Jack Kerouac.
New York: Scalo, in association with the National Gallery of Washington, (2000). Small 4to, 176, (6) pp. Black and white photographic illustrations, very faint marginal browning throughout. Cloth, d.w., a little browned. More
Story Lines.
(London): Tate Publishing, (2004). First edition, oblong 4to, 205, (3) pp. Numerous black and white photographic illustrations. Original pictorial soft plastic covers, a fine copy. More
Eric Fraser. Designer & Illustrator. With an essay by Wendy Coates-Smith.
London: Lund Humphries, (1998). First edition, 4to, 151, (1) pp. Numerous illustrations, a handful in colour, neat inscription to fly leaf. Cloth, d.w., a fine copy. More
A Parallel of the Antient Architecture with the Modern, In a Collection of Ten Principal Authors who have Written upon the Five Orders, Viz. Palazzo and Scamozzi, Serlio and Vignola, D. Barbaro and Cataneo, L.B. Alberti and Viola, Bullant and De Lorme, Compared with One Another. The Three Greek Orders, Dorick, Ionick, and Corinthian, Comprise the First Part of this Treatise. And the Two Latin, Tuscan and Composita, the Latter...
London: Printed by T.W. for D. Brown, J. Walthoe, B. and S. Tooke, D. Midwinter, W. Mears, and F. Clay, 1723. Third edition. Small folio. (xxiv), xx, xxv-xxxviii, 115, (1); (vi), 74 pp. Contemporary blindstamped calf boards, rebacked to style with a gilt lettered dark green label, early annotations to..... More
Leonard Freed. Photographs 1954-1990. Introduction by Stefanie Rosenkranz.
(Manchester): Cornerhouse, (1991). First edition, 4to. Black and white photographic illustrations. Cloth, d.w. with light browning otherwise very good. More
Barnett Freedman. The Graphic Art. With an essay on Freedman as master lithographer by Michael Twyman.
(Upper Denby): The Fleece Press, 2006. Limited edition, one of 500 copies, 4to, 253, (3) pp. Numerous coloured illustrations, several folding and tipped in, lacking the original copy of the DVD of the documentary "The King's Stamp" (Freedman's design for George V's Jubilee stamp) but with a homemade copy inserted..... More
A Painter's Progress. A Portrait of Lucien Freud.
London: Jonathan Cape, (2014). First edition, 4to, 272, (4) pp. Colour illustrations throughout. Cloth, d.w., price clipped, otherwise an excellent copy. More
Photographs.
(New York): Haywire Press, (1978). First edition, 4to, (108) pp. Black and white photographic illustrations. Original cloth, faded and slightly rubbed. More
Early Netherlandish Painting. The Van Eycks-Petrus Christus. Rogier van der Weyden and the Master of Flémalle. Dieric Bouts and Joos van Gent. Hugo van der Goes. Geerttgen tot Sint Jans and Jerome Bosch. Hans Memlinc and Gerard David (Parts A and B). Quentin Massys. Jan Gossart and Bernart van Orley. Joos van Cleve, Jan Provost, Joachim Patenier. Parts A and B). Lucas van Leyden and Other Dutch Masters of His Time. The Antwerp Mannerists [and] Adriaen Ysenbrant. Jan van Scorel and Pieter Coeck van Aelst. Antonis Mor and His Contemporaries. Pieter Bruegel. Comments and Notes by Nicole Veronnee-Verhaegen [and later] Henri Pauwels [with and assisted by others]. Translation by Heinz Norden.
Leyden: A.W. Sijthoff and Brussels: Édicions de la Connaissance [later] La Conaissance, 1967-76. First edition thus. Fourteen volumes bound in sixteen plus the "Supplements" part. 4to. Publisher's blue cloth, gilt lettered to the spines and upper boards, dust jackets, "Supplements" in plain white printed wrappers, stapled as issued. Profusely illustrated..... More
Eleonor Friedrich.
Belvdere Wien [Vienna]: Österreichische Galerie, [1993]. 4to. 119, (1) pp. Publisher's plain black card covers with glossy black lettering to the spine and upper panel, inscribed by Friedrich on the first page. Colour illustrated throughout. Very good. A catalogue of an exhibition that toured in 1993 and 1994. More
Photo Trouvée. Collected and Curated by...
London: Phaidon, 2006. First British edition. 8vo. 319, (1) pp. Publisher's glossy green boards, dust jacket. Photographic illustrations throughout, mostly monochrome. Small superficial scratch to the lower panel of the jacket, Very good. More
A Guide to Contemporary Architecture in America. Volume I. Western U.S.A.
(Tokyo): Toto, (2005). First edition. 8vo. 315, 5 pp. Publisher's printed wrappers. Profusely illustrated in colour throughout. An excellent copy. With parallel text in English and Japanese. More
Cottages and Villas. The Birth of the Garden Suburb.
New Haven: Yale University Press, (2010). First edition, 4to, 544 pp. Numerous illustrations in both colour and black and white. Cloth, d.w., a fine copy. More
Ryan Gander: Catalogue Raisonnable Vol. 1.
(New York: Westreich/Wagner Publications & Zurich: JRP/Ringier, Christopher Keller Editions), 2010. First edition, 4to, lxxx, 288 pp. Numerous illustrations, further publication details (Franco Fitzpatrick Publishing) neatly crossed through in black marker pen in two places. Inscribed from the artist to the fly leaf. More
Maharajas' Palaces. European style in Imperial India. Photographs Anne Garde. Text Sylvie Raulet. Foreword Laure Vernière.
(London): Philip Wilson, (1997). First English edition, 4to, 295, (1) pp. Numerous photographic illustrations. Cloth, d.w., a fine copy. More
Painting the Modern Garden. Monet to Matisse.
(London): Royal Academy of Arts, (2015). First edition, 4to, 325, (1) pp. Numerous illustrations. Cloth, d.w., a fine copy. More
Antoni Gaudi.
London: The Architectural Press, (1960). First edition, 4to, 191, (1) pp. Numerous illustrations, a few in colour. Cloth, d.w. designed by Joan Miro lightly soiled, some minor tears without loss. More
What Was True. The Photographs and Notebooks of William Gedney.
(Durham, NC): Center for Document Studies; New York: W.W. Norton & Company, (2000). First edition, small 4to, 192 pp. Black and white photographic illustrations. Cloth, d.w., an excellent copy. More
Roger Fenton. Photographer of the Crimean War. His Photographs and his Letters from the Crimea. With an Essay on his Life and Work by...
London: Secker and Warburg, 1954. First edition. Small 4to. (xii), 106 pp. Publisher's pink cloth, silver lettered to the spine, dust jacket, not price clipped. 85 black and white photographic illustrations. Jacket worn and torn, occasionally with loss, with repairs on the verso, the book itself generally very good. More
Fourteen Wood Engravings, from drawings made on Orient Line Cruises.
(Waltham Saint Lawrence: Printed at the Golden Cockerel Press for the Orient Line, 1932). Sole edition, folio, (16) leaves. Title and one other vignette engraving plus 14 full page wood engravings, Orient Line compliments leaf (also printed at the Golden Cockerel Press) loosely inserted. Original yellow wrappers, some very mild..... More
The Wood Engravings of... with some Recollections by the Artist. Edited by Patience Empson. Introduction by Thomas Balston.
London: J.M. Dent & Sons, (1959). First edition, 4to, xliv, 355, (1) pp. Coloured frontispiece and over 1,000 wood engravings, 13 copper engravings and 4 photographs of sculptures. Gilt titled black cloth, clear plastic wrapper lettered in red with some mild marks otherwise an excellent copy. A complete collection of..... More
What is Gilbert & George?
(London): Heni, (2017). First edition, 8vo, 162 pp. Well illustrated, mostly in colour, inscribed from Gilbert & George on the fly leaf. Pictorial boards, faint rubbing to the top of the spine otherwise fine. More
London Pictures 2011.
(Oxted: Hurtwood Press, 2012. First edition, oblong 4to, 321, (3) pp. Illustrated throughout, inscribed from the artists on the half title. Pictorial wrappers, an excellent copy. More
Art and Scholasticism. With Other Essays by... Translated by J.F. Scanlan.
London: Sheed and Ward, 1930. First edition thus. 8vo. xii, 232 pp. Publisher's black cloth, gilt lettered to the spine, Eric Gill's copy, inscribed by him in his distinctive hand on the front free endpaper "E.G. Pigotts. Mch, 1930 from G.K.'s Weekly (for review)". Occasional light edge wear and a...... More