Drawing Rooms. Organized by Michael Auping.
Fort Worth: Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, (1994). First edition, square 4to, 124 pp. Black and white illustrations. Original wrappers, a little rubbed. More
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Thumbsucker. Photography from the Film by Mike Mills. Photographs by...
[N.p.]: Iconoclast, 2005. First edition. Large 8vo. (144) pp. Publisher's printed card covers with flaps. Colour photographic illustrations throughout. Fading to the spine, else very good. More
Le Poussin. Sa Vie et son Oeuvre Suive d'une Notice sur la Vie et les Ouvrages de Philippe de Champagne et de Champagne le Neveu.
Paris: Didier et Cie. 1858. Second edition. 8vo. (iv), iv, 468 pp. Contemporary half vellum over marbled paper boards, spine with gilt lettered red title label with another smaller label at the foot, the remainder of the spine richly gilt, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. Slight wear to the spine..... More
Observer.
London: Herbert Press, 1996. First edition. 4to. xvi pp. Publisher's black cloth, silver lettered to the spine, dust jacket, inscribed by Bown to the late politician Mo Mowlam "with admiration and warm wishes". 112 black and white photographic plates. A few minor marks to the cloth along the lower edges..... More
The Cinema of Japan & Korea.
London: Wallflower Press, (2004). First edition, large 8vo, (xiv), 258 pp. Black and white illustrations. Pictorial paperback, a fine copy. More
Namibia. Sun Pictures. A photographic journey in black and white.
(Steinfurt): Tecklenborg, (2013). First edition, oblong 4to, 164 pp. Numerous illustrations, inscribed in English from the author on the title page. Cloth, d.w., some very mild soiling otherwise an excellent copy. More
Thomas Chippendale. A Study of his Life, Work and Influence.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, [1924]. First edition, 4to, (xiv), 281, (1) pp, frontispiece and 83 black and white illustrations, original gilt titled cloth, slight rubbing to extremities. More
Art in Advertising. A Study of British and American Pictorial Publicity.
London: The Press Art School, [1925]. First and only edition, 4to, xvi, 496 pp. Numerous illustrations, a handful in colour, inscribed from the author on the fly leaf. Original gilt titled buckram, some marks and rubbing, spine slightly darkened. More
Shadow of Light. A Collection of Photographs from 1931 to the Present. With an Introduction by Cyril Connolly and Notes by Marjorie Beckett.
London: The Bodley Head, 1966. First edition. 4to. 128, (4) pp. Publisher's black cloth, gilt lettered to the spine, dust jacket. Photographically illustrated throughout, mostly black and white with a small handful of colour illustrations to the rear. Boards slightly bowed and quite significantly marked indicating they have previously been..... More
The Bridge. A Chapter in the History of Building. Illustrated by Frank Brangwyn and written by...
London: John Lane The Bodley Head Limited, 1926. First edition. 4to. (xx), 249, (1) pp. Publisher's brown cloth, gilt lettered to the spine and upper board, dust jacket. 24 colour plates plus 22 black and white illustrations in the text. Wear with some losses to the jacket, the partially unopened..... More
The Decorative Art of Frank Brangwyn. A study of the problems of decoration with special reference to the work of this artist...
London: John Lane, the Bodley Head, (1924). First edition, 4to, (xii), 231, (1) pp. Frontispiece and 32 coloured plates plus numerous black and white illustrations in the text. Black titled buckram, d.w. with strengthening to reverse and the top and bottom edges, some loss to the spine ends and one..... More
Prints & Drawings by Frank Brangwyn. With some other phases of his art.
London: John Lane, the Bodley Head, 1909. First edition, 4to, (x), 287, (1) pp. 50 plates - 6 double page, some occasional mild foxing. Original buckram, some light soiling. More
A Book of Bridges.
London: John Lane, the Bodley Head, 1915. First edition, 4to, (xvi), 415, (1) pp. 36 coloured plates plus 36 black and white illustrations in the text, half title heavily foxed with some further, mostly marginal foxing, throughout. Original pictorial cloth, t.e.g., spine and extremities slightly rubbed. More
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The Decorative Paintings in Christ's Hospital Chapel. [1913-1923].
(Ditchling: St. Dominic's Press, 1925). First edition. Small oblong 4to. (20) pp. Original cloth backed printed boards. Title vignette and 5 illustrations after paintings by Frank Brangwyn. Covers slightly bowed, a few light marks, else a very good copy. Taylor & Sewell, A134. More
Manuel Álvarez Bravo.
Paris: Hazan [for] Jeu de Paume and Fundacion Mapfre, 2012. 4to. 285, (3) pp. Publisher's red cloth, black and white illustration to the upper panel, black and white lettering to the spine. Photographic illustrations throughout, mostly black and white. An excellent copy. More
Ian Breakwell. Textworks 1966-1999.
(Loughborough University School of Art & Design, 1999). First edition, oblong 8vo, (70) pp. Black and white illustrations, inscribed from Breakwell to the fly leaf. Original pictorial wrappers, some mild rubbing, very good. More
The Life of Bartolomeo Colleoni, of Anjou and Burgundy.
(London): Printed (at the Chiswick Press) for the Arundel Society, 1891. First edition, small folio, (x), 93, (3) pp. 8 plates and a genealogy, marbled endpapers. Contemporary half morocco, t.e.g., some mild rubbing, some sunning to the boards. More
London. Photographs by... Introduction by Peter Ackroyd.
New York: Rizzoli, (2008). First edition, no. 2,806 of 5,000 copies, oblong folio. Numerous colour photographic illustrations, with a photographic print of Tower Bridge loosely inserted. Cloth, d.w., a fine copy. More
Baigneuses. Introduced by Christopher Buckland Wright.
Denby Dale: The Fleece Press, (1995). Limited edition, no. 6 of 30 specially bound copies signed by Christopher Buckland Wright, from a total edition of 240, folio, 28, (4) pp. 9 illustrations tipped in plus the frontispiece and 24 wood engraved illustrations. Gilt titled full vellum, folding cloth box, a...... More
Bathers and Dancers. The white line and silhouette engravings of... with an Introduction by Christopher Buckland Wright.
(Wakefield): The Fleece Press, 1993. Limited edition, one of 180 copies from a total edition of 206 copies, tall 8vo, 25, (73) pp. 47 illustrations, 5 tipped in, small booklabel to the top of the paste down. Quarter vellum, patterned boards, slipcase, a fine copy. More
Irish Botanical Illustrators & Flower Painters.
(Woodbridge): Antique Collectors' Club, (2000). First edition, 4to, 143, (1) pp. Numerous illustrations. Cloth, d.w., a fine copy. More
The Gallery of Byron Beauties. Ideal Pictures of the principal female characters in Lord Byron's poems. From original paintings by eminent artists.
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1860. Large 8vo, 186 pp. 40 plates with tissue guards, light marginal staining to several, contemporary inscription to front blank, marbled endpapers. Publisher's gilt decorated brown morocco, a.e.g., slight wear to corners and the top of the spine, an attractive copy. More
The Birth of Western Painting. A History of Colour, Form, and Iconography, illustrated from the Paintings of Mistra and Mount Athos, of Giotto and Duccio, and of El Greco.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1931. Limited edition, no. 1 of 365 copies, 4to, xvi, (ii), 236 pp. 94 black and white plates. Original teal cloth, maroon leather spine label, a fine copy. A British edition of 650 copies appeared the year before. More
The Etchings of D.Y. Cameron.
London: Halton and Truscott Smith, 1924. First edition, 4to, viii, 43, (1) pp. Frontispiece and 95 plates, some light foxing to the endpapers and the frontispiece, gilt stamped circular booklabel of Frank R. Burnet. Original gilt decorated black cloth, t.e.g., slight rubbing to extremities otherwise very good. More
The Open Road. Photography & the American Road Trip.
New York: Aperture, [2014]. Second printing. 4to. 350, (2) pp. Publisher' orange boards with blue and white detailing, illustrated wrap-around band to the lower board. Photographic illustrations throughout, many in colour. Fading to the spine and upper board, the band just slightly snagged at the foot, a few small bumps..... More