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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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  1. [WALLPAPER BINDING.]

    ‘Chassereau des Biens et Rentes deves a joseph Paul Roegier et marie margu te [sic] Bourdeau son espouse,...

    Hainaut, 1750–1773.

    A manuscript account book compiled by Joseph Paul Roegier and his son, recording receipts over a quarter-century, in an attractive and unusual binding reusing a large fragment of gilt leather wallpaper.

    £3500

  2. [WANG Gai 王概, WANG Shi 王蓍, and WANG Nie 王臬.]

    [芥子園畫譜 Jieziyuan huapu; ‘The Mustard Seed Garden Manual of...

    [China], s.n., (prefaces:) Qianlong renyin [i.e. 1782] and Jiaqing 23 [i.e. 1818].

    A handsome set comprising the third and fourth series of ‘without question the best-known opus of Chinese color woodblock printing’ (Splashes of Color, pp. [2]–[3]).

    £10000

  3. [WHISTLER, Rex.] Brian North LEE.   

    The Bookplate Design of Rex Whistler. 

    [Pinner,] Private Libraries Association for the Bookplate Society, 1973. 

    First edition, one of 350 copies with a tipped-on rather than a printed frontispiece, a fully-illustrated catalogue of Whistler’s designs for the bookplates of Osbert Sitwell, Lady Diana Duff Cooper, Victor Rothschild, Pamela Countess of Lytton etc. 

    £350

  4. WISE, Francis.

    A Letter to Dr Mead concerning some Antiquities in Berkshire, particularly shewing that the White Horse, which gives...

    Oxford, Printed for Thomas Wood … 1738

    First editions. A Letter to Dr Mead was the first serious archaeological study of the Uffington White Horse. Francis Wise, Keeper of the Archives at Oxford University and later a friend of Samuel Johnson, contends that the horse, which he eulogises as a work of art, had Saxon origins, because...

    £350

  5. ‘WOODLAND SKETCHES.

    With poetical Selections …

    Frome. 1836’.

    A delightful illustrated manuscript commonplace of uncommonly coherent design, assembling relevant quotations from Shakespeare, Milton, Byron, Cowper, Spenser, Coleridge, and others, alongside illustrations of ten British trees – Beech, Willow, White Poplar, Cedar, Elm, Pine, Oak, Birch, Yew,...

    £1250

  6. 山下 富吉 YAMASHITA Takayoshi.

    青島寫真帖 Souvenir Tsingtao.

    Tsingtao, Showa 16, [1941].

    A Japanese souvenir of Tsingtao (Qingdao) published during the second period of Japanese occupation of the city.

    £300

  7. YAMAZAKI Kane’ichirō 山崎 鋆一郎.

    满洲の展望 [Manshū no tenbō, i.e. Views of Manchuria].

    Dalian, Kane’ichirō Yamazaki for Kinjirō Hamai, 10 May Shōwa 7 [1932].

    A highly illustrated photobook on Manchuria published soon after the Japanese invasion.

    £650

  8. ZACHARIÄ, Just Friedrich Wilhelm.

    Les quatre parties du jour, poëme traduit de l’allemand de M. Zacharie.

    Paris, J. B. G. Musier fils, 1769.

    First edition in French of this proto-Romantic poem on the times of day, splendidly bound with the arms of its dedicatee, the mentally ill Christian VII of Denmark and Norway.

    £1500