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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[LOO, Pieter van, attributed.]
156 watercolours of flowers, plants, and fruits.
[Holland, c. 1760–80].
A truly stunning collection of over...
£100000
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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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DIONYSIUS of Halicarnassus.
Antiquitatum Rom. libri XI. Ab Aemylio...
Geneva, Jacob Stoer, 1614.
A rare pocket-sized edition of Dionysius...
£450
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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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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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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 cum concordantiis veteris et novi...
[(Colophon:) Lyons, Jean Marion, for Anton...
A handsomely printed Bible in a contemporary...
£5500
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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
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FREEMAN, Arthur.
Bibliotheca Fictiva: A Collection of Books...
London, Bernard Quaritch Ltd, 2024.
This fully revised and enlarged edition...
£80
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BARKER, Nicolas.
Bibliotheca Lindesiana. The Lives and Collections...
The Roxburghe Club, 1977.
The Bibliotheca Lindesiana was perhaps...
£50