Search Results: Titles starting with I from Bow Windows Bookshop

(New York): David Zwirner Books, (2023).. Second printing, folio, (104) pp. Colour illustrations. Pictorial boards, fine.

London: Arthur Barker, 1934.. First edition, 8vo, 494 pp. Folding genealogy at the end. Original black cloth, some marking, light wear to the top of the lower joint.

(Shrewsbury): Airlife Publications, (1978).. First edition, 8vo, (vi), 247, (1) pp. Black and white illustrations, inscribed from the author on the fly leaf, folded flyer for the book loosely inserted. Cloth, d.w., an excellent copy.

[London]: Mack, (2019).. First edition, 4to, (84) pp. Coloured photographic illustrations. Cloth, a fine copy.

Bombay: Thacker & Co., 1944.. First edition, large 8vo, 30 pp. 5 colour plates, with 20 folded sheets containing patterns inserted into a paper envelope inside the upper cover, contemporary inscription to fly leaf. Cloth, with mild fading, d.w. slightly foxed and marked with minor loss to the top of the spine. No other copy located.

London: Scolar Press, 1980.. First edition thus. Two volumes. 4to. xl, (160); xxiv, 122, (2) pp. Publisher's linen backed boards, printed spine labels, black cloth slipcase. Profusely illustrated throughout reproducing the original manuscript plus eight colour plates in volume II. Slipcase slightly dusty, a few minor marks to the spines, an excellent set.

(Loughborough University School of Art & Design, 1999).. First edition, oblong 8vo, (70) pp. Black and white illustrations, inscribed from Breakwell to the fly leaf. Original pictorial wrappers, some mild rubbing, very good.

London: Sampson Low, Marston & Company, Ltd., 1903.. First edition. 8vo. xvi, 146 pp. Recent quarter speckled calf over marbled boards, spine with raised bands, twin gilt lettered red labels. Frontispiece and 7 black and white plates, all but one photographic. Very good.

Praha: Nakladatelstvi Ceskoslovenske Akademie Ved, 1956.. 8vo. (276) pp. A fine bespoke binding of tan full morocco with a fold-over flap in the Middle Eastern style, elaborate gilt corner pieces with a matching circular roundel to the upper cover, a central leaved rosette with inlaid green and red morocco panels and gilt tooling, a pared down version of the same design appears on the rear cover, marbled endpapers. Slight wear to the green leather on the upper cover, else a lovely copy of what is almost certainly a unique binding. The first volume only of bilingual edition of the work featuring the Arab text, the French translation would be in the other volume not present here.

London: Tate Publishing in association with with the Museum for African Art, 2013.. 4to. 191, (1) pp. Publisher's card covers, colour illustrated to the upper panel. Profusely illustrated, mostly in colour. Some mild edge wear, very good.

(London): Jonathan Cape and Hodder & Stoughton, (1983).. First edition, 8vo, 250 pp. Faint marginal browning throughout. Cloth, d.w., not price clipped, lower wrapper with light scuffing and some creasing to the top edge.

London: The Folio Society, 1999.. First printing. Large 8vo. xxii, 809, (1) pp. Quarter faux leather over pictorial boards, gilt lettered to the spine, top edge blue, slipcase. Frontispiece and 15 colour plates plus map endpapers. A few minor marks to the slipcase, an excellent copy overall.

London: Phaidon, 2012.. Folio. 270, (2) pp. Publisher's blue cloth, silver lettered to the spine and upper board, colour illustrated dust jacket. Colour photographic illustrations. A little light edge wear to the jacket, else very good.

London: Constable & Company, (1937).. First edition, 8vo, xii, 307, (1) pp. 32 photographic plates and a folding map, contemporary signature to fly leaf. Cloth, d.w. with some loss and soiling.

London: George Newnes, 1903.. Limited edition, no. 40 of 250 copies, folio, 35, (1) pp. 20 plates with captioned tissues, of which 14 are in colour, bookplate of the Society of Writers to the Signet. Original cloth backed printed boards, a little marked, label removed from the foot of the spine, generally a very good copy. A beautifully printed volume which was never repeated, including reproductions of paintings by Turner and Velasquez.

London: The Folio Society, 2010.. First edition, 8vo, xviii, (ii), 370, (2) pp. Photographic illustrations. Decorative cloth, slipcase, an excellent copy.

London: The Folio Society, 1971.. First edition thus. 8vo. 670, (2) pp. Publisher's illustrated cloth. Black and white illustrations. Spine slightly dulled, a few minor marks to the fore edge, very good overall.

London: Collins, 1969.. First edition, 8vo, 224 pp. Inscribed from the author on the fly leaf. Cloth, d.w., price clipped, mild wear to the top of the spine and one corner.

Venetia [Venice]: nelle case de figlioli di Aldo [I Manuzio], 1545.. Fourth Aldine printing. Small folio. (122) ff. Eighteenth century full pigskin, gilt lettering to the spine, all edges green, a single leaf in book three lacking but the text supplied in consummate manuscript, predating or contemporary with the binding. Faint dampstain cutting across the upper corner of the last 16 leaves at the gutter, also evident on both pastedowns, a few marks to the boards, an attractive copy. Baldessare Castiglione (1478-1529) was very much a man of his day, educated in a Humanist school in Milan in the 1490s where he also served at the court of Duke Ludovico Sforza. He returned to his native Mantua on the death of his father at the age of 21, whereupon he entered the service of the local marquis, Francesco Gonzaga, for the next five years. During this time he became acquainted with Guidobaldo da Montefeltro, Duke of Urbino, whose court he entered in 1504. Castiglione acted in various capacities for Guidobaldo… Read More

London: Henry Lintot, 1756.. Six volumes. 12mo. Contemporary vellum, gilt lettered tan labels, ownership inscription of Admiral Sir Augustus Phillimore dated 1848 to the front free endpaper of volume I and II. Covers sound but worn and soiled with a small old repair to the foot of the spine of volume I, fairly even browning throughout, else very good.