Art & Architecture
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Art & Architecture encompasses a broad sweep of material, from early works concerning architecture and architectural history, and books and manuscripts on the fine arts and aesthetics, antiquities and archaeology, to pattern and design books, and private press books and fine bindings. The department also handles original artwork, artistic archives, posters, and propaganda material.
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FARINGTON, Susan Maria (illustrator).
The 104th Psalm. Illustrated by Susan...
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The Faringtons or Ffaringtons were an ancient...
£650
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PIECK, Henri C.
10 Dagen Die De Wereld Deden Wankelen.
Amsterdam, Skovino, 1927.
A rare lithograph of Pieck’s dramatic...
£300
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[COSTUME.]
6 Blätter Altenburger Trachten.
Altenburg, Schnuphase’sche Buchhandlung,...
Charming Altenburg costume plates, lacking...
£150
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[LEWIS, Wyndham.]
Agenda. Wyndham Lewis Special Issue.
[London, Poets and Painters Press (William...
A triple issue of Agenda devoted...
£75
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[HILLER, Johann Adam, editor].
Anecdoten zur Lebensgeschichte berühmter...
Leipzig, Lankisch, 1762.
Scarce first edition of Hiller’s two-volume...
£175
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DASSIER, Jean and Jacques-Antoine.
‘An Explanation of Dassier’s Medals...
London, c. 1795–1800.
An exceptionally fine illustrated manuscript,...
£6500
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GAWSWORTH, John.
Apes, Japes and Hitlerism, a Study and...
London, Unicorn Press, [1932].
First edition.
£50
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BORBONI, Domenico.
Architectura Dominici Borbonii celeberrimi...
[Bassano,] ‘ex typographio Remondiniano...
Only known edition of this very rare...
£3750
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[ANTIQUARIAN]
Architectural Antiquities from the Sussex Coast.
[Sussex], July 21st – 10th August 1837.
An interesting and charming antiquarian...
£950
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BRADLEY Gertrude M., illustrator.
An archive of drawings for Just Forty...
[c. 1897].
Fifty-eight delightful preliminary pencil...
£850
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GRUBBE, Margaret Julia Maria.
Archive of drawings, watercolours, and...
England and Scotland, c. 1900 – 1960s.
A charming archive of the Suffolk artist...
£1500
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[PAPER TRADE.]
Arrest du conseil d’état du roi, portant...
[Besançon?, 1772?]
A seemingly unrecorded issue of this...
£175
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BURY, Stephen.
Artists’ books: the book as a work of...
London, Bernard Quaritch Ltd, 2015.
The history of artists’ involvement with...
£60
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DREYFUS, John.
Aspects of French Eighteenth Century Typography. ...
Cambridge, The Roxburghe Club, 1982.
A history of French type design in the...
£120
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RICKMAN, Thomas.
An attempt to discriminate the styles of...
London, [1819].
Second, much enlarged edition, of Rickman’s...
£275
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DAVY, Sir Humphry.
Autograph letter, signed, to Charles Stuart,...
‘23 Grosvenor Street London’, 26 May 1821.
An unpublished letter in which Davy...
£750
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CROOKES, William, Sir.
Autograph letter, signed, to Sir John Evans.
London, 7 Kensington Park Gardens, 26 May 1892.
The scientist Sir William Crookes writes...
£250
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[BIBLE.]
Biblia sacra vulgatae editionis … [with:]...
Paris, Jacques Vincent, 1741/1740.
An attractively bound copy of the Old...
£975
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MORROW, Bradford, and Bernard LAFOURCADE.
A Bibliography of the Writings of Wyndham...
Santa Barbara, Black Sparrow Press, 1978.
First edition.
£75
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DIODORUS Siculus.
Bibliothecae historicae libri XV. Hoc est,...
Basel, Heinrich Petri, August 1559.
Important edition, the first to be overseen...
£2500