Monument Builders. Modern Architecture and Death.
London: Academy Editions, 1999. First edition. 4to. 224 pp. Publisher's black cloth, gilt lettered to the spine, dust jacket. Illustrated in colour and black and white throughout. Very good. More
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Jazz Bibliography. International Literature on Jazz, Blues, Spirituals, Gospel and Ragtime Music with a Selected List of Works on the Social and Cultural Background from the Beginning to the Present.
München: K.G. Saur, 1981. 8vo, viii, 368 pp, marginal browning throughout, original orange cloth, spine a little darkened. More
Stephen Heller: His Life and Words. From the French of H. Bardbedette.
London: Ashdown & Parry, 1877. First edition, small 8vo, (x), 89, (1), xii pp. Photographic portrait frontispiece and a folding plate of music. Original gilt titled and decorated green cloth, light rubbing to extremities otherwise a very good copy. Heller was a Hungarian composer and concert pianist. More
Mira Calligraphiae Monumenta: A Sixteenth-Century Calligraphic Manuscript Inscribed by Georg Bocskay and Illuminated by Joris Hoefnagel.
Los Angeles: The J. Paul Getty Museum, 1992. First edition thus. 8vo. x, 412 pp. Publisher's brown cloth, gilt to the spine and upper board, slipcase on the same design. Colour illustrations reproducing the original manuscript throughout. Slight fraying to the edges of the cloth slipcase, else very good. More
Japanese Crafts: Materials and their Applications. Selected Early Papers from the Japan Society of London.
London: East-West Publications, (1978). First reprint, viii, 360 pp, black and white illustrations, cloth, d.w., a fine copy. More
Nicola Hicks. Introduction James Dellingpole.
(London): Momentum, (1999). First edition. 4to. 107, (1) pp. Publisher's grey cloth, black lettered to the spine, dust jacket. Illustrated in black and white throughout. Some wear to the edges of the dust jacket, else very good. More
Photographs.
(New York): Aperture, (2005). First edition, oblong folio, 96 pp. Coloured photographic illustrations. Pictorial boards, fine. More
Seizing the Light. A Social History of Photography.
New York: McGraw Hill, 2009. Second edition. 4to. xiv, 480, (2) pp. Publisher's glossy illustrated card covers. Photographically illustrated throughout, predominantly in black and white. An excellent copy. More
Hockney on Photography. Conversations with Paul Joyce.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1988. First edition. 4to. 192 pp. Publisher's blue cloth, gilt lettered to the spine, dust jacket. Illustrated in colour and black and white throughout. Very good. More
Cameraworks. True to Life by Lawrence Weschler.
London: Thames and Hudson, 1984. First British edition. 4to. 43, (3) pp. Publisher's blue cloth, white lettered to the spine with the publisher's matching logo to the upper board, dust jacket. 176 illustrations, 104 in colour. An attractive copy. More
Hogarth. The Complete Engravings.
London: Thames and Hudson, (1968). First edition, folio, 30, (282) pp. 267 black and white illustrations with a folding plate list at the end. Cloth, d.w., a few minor marks, near fine. More
The Complete Works of... in a series of... steel engravings from the original pictures; with an Introductory Essay by James Hannay and descriptive letterpress by Rev. J. Trusler and E.F. Roberts.
London: William Mackenzie, [c.1890]. Six volumes, 4to. Frontispiece and engraved second title in volume I plus 148 of 150 engraved plates, two plates in volume VI apparently never bound in. Original gilt, red and black decorated cloth, a.e.g., spine ends bumped, small patch of wear to the upper joint of..... More
The Works of...
London: Published by J. Dicks, [1875]. 4to, (iv), 136 pp. Title vignette and 68 plates. Rebound with new endpapers in black cloth, preserving the original gilt decorated blind stamped covers. More
Downlandscapes. Edited by Nicholas Sinclair. Afterword by Ian Jeffrey.
(Nicholas Sinclair, 2004). Sole edition, oblong 4to, (52) pp. Black and white photographic illustrations, signed by Holloway on the half title. Pictorial wrappers, lower corners slightly bumped. More
What is Wrong with Modern Painting? by The Editor of "The Studio".
London: The Studio, [1932]. First edition. 8vo. 15, (1) pp. Publisher's wrappers, stapled as issued, contemporary ownership inscription to the head of the upper cover. Fading to the edges, some minor foxing, very good overall. More
The National Gallery. Italian Schools. The Netherlands, Germany, Spain. France and England.
London: G. Bell & Sons, (1935). Three volumes, 8vo. 32, 32, and 40 plates respectively. Cloth, d.w.'s with some light soiling and wear to edges, that to volume II with marking from old sellotape repairs and a couple of tears. More
Thomas Hope. Regency Designer
New Haven and London: Published for the Bard Graduate Centre in the Decorative Arts, Design and Culture, New York by Yale University Press, 2008. First edition. 4to. xxiv, 526, (2) pp. Publisher's black cloth, gilt lettered to the spine, dust jacket. Profusely illustrated, mostly in colour. An excellent copy. With..... More
Hong Kong Flowers.
(Tokyo: Heibonsha Limited, 2000). First edition. Oblong 8vo. (116) pp. Publisher's red cloth, dust jacket, inscribed by the artist on the front free endpaper "May 12, 2001 in Hong Kong" with her name underneath in Japanese. Illustrated throughout with fine colour photographic illustrations. An excellent copy. More
An Artist's Odyssey.
London: Richard Green, (2011). Square 4to. 98 pp. Publisher's glossy illustrated card cover, signed and dated by Howard on the title page. Illustrated in colour throughout. An excellent copy. The catalogue of an exhibition of "70 recent oil paintings" by the artist which coincided with the publication of Howard's autobiography..... More
The Habsurg Empire. The World of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy in original photographs 1840-1916. Edited by Andrew Wheatcroft. (Translated by Charles Kessler).
Wien: Verlag Fritz Molden, (1971). First English edition, 4to, 320 pp. Numerous black and white photographic illustrations. Cloth, d.w., some mild rubbing to edges, still held in the original publisher's box, this rather browned. More
Sven Boltenstern. Goldschmied in Wien. Goldsmith of Vienna.
Vienna & London, [1993]. First edition, 4to, 176 pp. Numerous illustrations, mostly in colour. Cloth, d.w., a fine copy. More
Reflections. 25 Years of Photography by... Essays by Julian Cox, Arthur Ollman & John Wood.
San Rafael: Insight Editions, 2009. First edition. 4to. 183, (1) pp. Publisher's glossy colour photographically illustrated boards, dust jacket. Black and white photographic illustrations throughout. Slight fading to the jacket spine, very good. More
Art-Hints. Architecture, Sculpture, and Painting.
London: Sampson Low, Son, & Co., 1855. First edition. 8vo. xvi, 398, (6) pp. Contemporary full parchment, spine with ornate gilt tooling, gilt lettered red label. Crack to to the head of the upper joint, but holding, else very good. More
Photography for Young People.
New York: Frederick A. Stokes and London: W. & R. Chambers, 1908. First edition, 8vo, (xii), 328 pp, frontispiece and 15 plates plus illustrations in the text, occasional light foxing, marbled endpapers and edges, Prize inscription on front blank dated 1914, contemporary full calf, gilt tooling, blue morocco label, a...... More
100 Contemporary Concrete Buildings.
Cologne: Taschen, 2015. First edition. Two volumes. 4to. 350, (2); (4), (351)-730 pp. Publisher's illustrated boards, matching slipcase. Photographic illustrations throughout. Slight bumping to one corner of volume II, a little wear to the head of the slipcase, very good overall. More