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
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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
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
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
Architecture for Children.
London: George Allen & Unwin, (1944). First edition, 8vo, 118, (2) pp. Numerous illustrations. Cloth, spine and edges sunned, d.w. with some tears and loss. 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
The Modern Woodcut. A study of the evolution of the craft... with a chapter on the practice of Xylography by W. Thomas Smith.
London: John Lane, the Bodley Head, (1924). First edition, 4to, xxviii, 271, (1) pp. Numerous illustrations, a handful in colour. Pictorial buckram, slightly sunned to the spine ends and lower edge, d.w. with some loss and old repairs to the reverse. 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
Iranian Carpets. Art, Craft and History.
London: Thames and Hudson, (1978). First edition, 4to, 546, (20) pp. Colour plates. Cloth, d.w., card slipcase slightly browned otherwise an excellent copy. 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
Old Silver Spoons of England. A practical guide for collectors.
London: Herbert Jenkins, 1926. First edition, 4to, 189, (1) pp. 32 black and white plates, some light foxing to text leaves. Original gilt titled green cloth, a couple of minor marks, very good. 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. Fading to the jacket spine, a little spotting and some mild wear to the edges, very good overall. More
The Origins of Photography.
London: Thames and Hudson, 1982. First British edition. 4to. 280 pp. Publisher's black cloth, silver lettered to the spine with publisher's matching logo to the upper board, dust jacket, inscribed by Gernsheim on the title page "... for Tom Ward with best wishes, Bradford, 14 April 1985". Photographically illustration, predominantly..... 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
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
The Engravings of Eric Gill.
Wellingborough: Christopher Skelton, 1983. First edition. One of 1,350 copies. 4to. xxiv, 545, (3) pp. Original two-tone cloth, with one of Gill's illustrations blindstamped to the upper cover, slipcase. With over 1,000 examples of Gill's work - several folding. An attractive copy. Compiled by Gill's nephew, this brings together a...... More
Art and Manufacture. Handworkers' Pamphlets No. 4.
London: New Handworkers' Gallery, [1929]. 8vo, (iv), 43-56, (2) pp, including wrappers. Title device plus 2 wood engravings by Beedham after designs by Gill. Sewn as issued, a few minor marks otherwise a fine copy. Originally delivered as a lecture entitled "Art in Relation to Life", and distinct from a...... More
Art and Manufacture. Handworkers' Pamphlets No. 4.
London: New Handworkers' Gallery, [1929]. Limited edition, no. 38 of 60 signed copies, 8vo, (iv), 43-56, (2) pp, including wrappers. Title device plus 2 wood engravings by Beedham after designs by Gill. Later card covers with a hand written label to the upper cover, owner's small label to the inside..... More
Art-Nonsense and other Essays.
London: Cassell & Co., 1929. First edition, 8vo, x, 324, (2) pp. Wood engraving to title page, brief inscription to fly leaf. Original blue buckram, d.w., spine and edges browned, some light soiling, a very good copy. Evan Gill 18. The first book to use Gill's perpetua type... More
Autobiography by...
London: Jonathan Cape, 1941. Fifth impression. 8vo. 283, (1) pp. Contemporary brown half morocco, with a leather strip to the fore edge of both boards, over patterned paper, spine with raised bands, gilt lettered direct to to one panel, top edge pale green, gift inscription to one of the front..... More
Clothes. An Essay upon the nature and significance of the natural and artificial integuments worn by men and women.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1931. First edition, 8vo, (viii), 197, (3) pp. 10 wood engraved illustratons. Buckram, spine and edges slightly faded, d.w. browned with loss to the spine ends. More
The Engravings. Edited by Christopher Skelton.
(London): The Herbert Press, (1990). First trade edition, 4to, 478 pp. 997 illustrations. Cloth, d.w., not price clipped, the red lettering to the spine faded otherwise very good. More
An Essay on Typography.
London: Readers Union [by arrangement with] J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd, 1954. Small 8vo. 127, (1) pp. Publisher's green cloth, blue lettered to spine, dust jacket. Slight tanning to the jacket spine plus a few spots to the upper panel, just some slight wear to the spine ends and corners..... More