Domestic Architecture containing a history of the science and the principles of designing public edifices and private dwelling houses by Brown, Richard

London: Architectural Review (presumed), No date. Second edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Inscription dated 1911. The first series of drawings and photographs of fine examples of architectural details. 10" x 13". Ivory cloth boards with red title label with gilt stamped lettering. Internals clean and fox-free. Previous owners' inscriptions on the flyleaf and the title page. Some light soiling and wear to covers and a lttle bumping of corners. Binding is tight and hinges sound.

London: Sotheby Wilkinson & Strand`. Good. 1876 & 1877. Hardcover. 2 soft cover catalogues with original covers in a hard cover binding. Catalogue #1: 1876. 301pp. Etched and engraved works by the best masters formed during thirty years by James Anderson Rose. First, the history and progress of etching. Second, The progress of engravings. Rare portrait illustrations. Catalogue #2: 358pp. 1877. Fine collection of engravings formed by the Rev. J. Burleigh James. Engraved illustrations. Purple cloth, leather spine has gilt title. Text tight & intact. Top edge gilt. Marbled endpaper. Deckle page edges. Spine ends are chipped. Corners are rubbed. Front internal hinge cracked with cover firmly attached. A few pages have edge chips. Burlington Fine Art Club's book plate. Art ; Engravings; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 659 pages .

Printed by Douglas Pepler, Ditchling, Sussex. 1918. 16 pp Catalogue plus invite to private view. (6.3 x 4.8 inches). Illustrated with 6 wood engravings. Contains a foreword by Pepler plus a list of the items in the exhibition, three with hand written notes, including prices for the items. Printed on Caslon O. F white paper, sewn. Loosely inserted is a hand printed invite to the private preview on Sunday may 5th, 2.30-6pm. (one sheet, 10.9 x 3.8 inches, folded once). A scarce survivor, even more so with the preview invite. --Evan Gill. Bibliography of Eric Gill. No. 364 , the preview invite is not recorded in the bibliography.

London: Thames & Hudson. 1967. Quarto Size [approx 24cm x 30.5cm]. Very Good copy in Very Good Dust jacket - now protected in our purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. Bookseller stamp/label to front paste-down. Signed by Arthur Boyd on half-title page. Illustrated with 44 colour and 134 black & white reproductions. 288 pages. Arthur Boyd, AC OBE was one of the leading Australian painters of the late 20th Century. A member of the prominent Boyd artistic dynasty in Australia, his relatives included painters, sculptors, architects or other arts professionals. Boyd's work ranges from impressionist renderings of Australian landscape to starkly expressionist figuration, and many canvases feature both. He was a member of the Antipodeans, a group of Melbourne painters that also included Clifton Pugh, David Boyd, John Brack, Robert Dickerson, John Perceval and Charles Blackman. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st Edition. Hardback.

Léon Arnoult: La Variabilité du Gout dans les Arts. Les phases ornamentales de la mode (The variability of taste in the arts. The ornamental phases of fashion). Printed and published by Devambez "À l'enseigne du masque d'Or". Paris, 1921. ARNOULT Léon - William ABLETT (1877-1937 illustrator). Preowned, Signed. A l'Enseigne du Masque d'Or, chez Devambez, 1921, in-4°, 87 pp + 7 plate illustrations, printed in 303 numbered copies. Sewn, original printed stiff wrapper over blind wrapper. Printed wrapper, interior fine, uncut and unopened copy. Two of the illustrations are mixed technique plates by William Ablett, one is signed in pencil by the artist: a circular engraving with a lithographic image printed on it and heightened with gold. Editorial paperback, Jacket with title to the framed flat, beautiful allegorical friezes, endpapers, eyelet, cover page with the same frieze (antique collection stamp). The quantity of circulation - 303 copies justified, and numbering - №120, a preface paper,… Read More

Milan: Electa Architecture, 2005. Signed by Waro Kishi. First edition / First printing. Black paper-covered boards. Very fine in very fine dust jacket.

Privately Printed, 1924. Softcover. Very Good. Original exhibition catalog issued on the occasion of an exhibition of books containing illustrations by celebrated painter, engraver, publisher and illustrator Jean-Gabriel Daragnes - specifically, woodcuts. Illustrated with an original portrait etching of Daragnes by Andre Dunoyer de Segonzac, 11 black-and-white Daragnes plates, three depicting lesbian scenes, and an original Daragnes hand-colored engraving laid in showing a husband walking in on his wife in bed with her lover - a scene from Fielding's Tom Jones. Signed and inscribed on front free endpaper thus: "Pour Madame Legat | Ce registre d'etat und des infants | qu'un pere demature confie a | l'assistance publingier | le pere indigne | Daragnes." Translation: "For Mrs. Legat: This register of state and children that a father has entrusted with the assistant publisher. The unworthy father, Daragnes." Also signed and inscribed on front free endpaper by an… Read More

Book in very good condition No DJ. Please see photos.

México, Centauro, 1946. 8vo, rústica, 214 pp., profusamente ilustrado en b/n, 48 planchas, varias de ellas con ilustraciones de Josep Renau. Imprenta Cosmos. Cubierta con raspones leves en los bordes, primeras hojas con pequeño doblez en la esquina inferior, por lo demás en excelente estado. PC: Exilio español, José Bolea, Leyenda, Atlántida

Cohen & Cohen, Reigate, Surrey, United Kingdom, 2008 Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. English text; Hardcover (cloth with dust jacket); 25.5 x 32 cm; 2,409 kg; 303 pages with colour illustrations.; Used with minor signs of wear. The dust jacket is now protected with a clearcover.; This book covers the largest and most important collection of Chinese and Export figures currently existing in the world. Collected by James E. Sowell of Dallas, Texas, there are over 170 items including over 50 bird figures, a dozen dogs, and a unique pair of leopards possibly made for the Imperial Summer Palace. It includes a history of the European trade with Canton and contains an informative guide to the dating of many of these pieces, with many pictures of the bases of the figures. The book catalogues the James E. Sowell collection in detail, arraging the animals according to approximate zoological taxanomic groups and commenting on some of the scientific knowledge available at the time. Traditional theory says… Read More