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.

  1. UNITED STATES TARIFF COMMISSION.

    The Tariff. A Bibliography. A select list...

    Washington, U. S. Government Printing...

    First edition of a prodigiously comprehensive...

    £200

  2. ERNST, Max.

    Une semaine de bonté ou les sept éléments...

    Paris, Éditions Jeanne Bucher, 1934.

    First edition, no. 706 of 800 copies on...

    £4500

  3. [FASCISM.]

    Ordinamento Corporativo dello Stato Fascista.

    Padua, Edizione di propaganda corporative,...

    Italian Fascism primarily followed the...

    £2500

  4. 山下 富吉 YAMASHITA Takayoshi.

    青島寫真帖 Souvenir Tsingtao.

    Tsingtao, Showa 16, [1941].

    A Japanese souvenir of Tsingtao (Qingdao)...

    £300

  5. LEWIS, Wyndham.

    Wyndham Lewis the Artist.

    From ‘Blast’ to Burlington House’...

    First edition, first issue.

    £125

  6. [NATIONAL SOCIALISM] [OCCUPIED FRANCE]

    Finis les mauvais jours! Papa gagne de...

    [Paris], Office de Répartition de l´Affichage,...

    Rare, encouraging the voluntary relocation...

    £350

  7. OSTROWSKA, Wanda; Viola G. GARVIN.

    London’s Glory.

    London, George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1945.

    First edition, a poignant collection of...

    £75

  8. CARTER, John, and Graham POLLARD.

    The Firm of Charles Ottley, Landon & Co.:...

    London, Rupert Hart-Davis, and New York,...

    First edition of Carter and Pollard’s...

    £12

  9. GANF, Iulii Abramovich, and P. PISKUNOV, editor.

    Да здравствует конституция...

    Moscow, Gosudarstvennoe izdatel’stvo...

    Typically Soviet poster illustrated by...

    £700

  10. NIXON, Howard M. 

    Broxbourne Library: Styles and Designs...

    London, Maggs Brothers for the Broxbourne...

    First edition, one of three hundred copies,...

    £875

  11. POUND, Ezra; Mary de RACHEWILTZ, translator.

    Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, con un manifesto...

    Galleria Apollinaire Milano [Milan, All’insegna...

    First edition thus, no. 123 of 500 copies,...

    £75

  12. POUND, Ezra.

    Gaudier-Brzeska, a Memoir …

    [London,] The Marvell Press, [1960].

    Revised edition, inscribed by Dorothy Pound...

    £250

  13. [AGRICULTURE.] BEIJING MUNICIPAL BUREAU FOR AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY.

    农业机械安全生产挂图 [Nongye...

    [Beijing], China Agriculture Press for...

    Very rare complete set of posters promoting...

    £1750

  14. MACDIARMID, Hugh.

    Poems to Paintings by William Johnstone 1933 …

    Edinburgh, K.D. Duval, [1963].

    First edition.

    £25

  15. [METEOROLOGY.] ZHAO Jingdong 赵静东, illustrator.

    氣象知䛊掛图(供小型展览)...

    Tianjin, Tianjin Municipal Press for the...

    An apparently unrecorded set of posters...

    £2000

  16. QUARITCH, Bernard Alexander Christian, editor.

    Contributions towards a Dictionary of English...

    London, Bernard Quaritch Ltd, 1969.

    A facsimile reprint of Quaritch’s series...

    £25

  17. [LEWIS, Wyndham.]

    Agenda. Wyndham Lewis Special Issue.

    [London, Poets and Painters Press (William...

    A triple issue of Agenda devoted...

    £75

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

    The Bookplate Design of Rex Whistler. 

    [Pinner,] Private Libraries Association...

    First edition, one of 350 copies with a...

    £350

  19. HALL, Trevor H.

    The Winder sale of old conjuring books.

    Leeds, W. S. Maney & Son Ltd., 1975.

    First edition, number 52 of 250 copies,...

    £35

  20. VERTOGRADOV.

    За антиимпериалистическую солидарность, мир и прогресс!...

    Moscow, Izdatelstvo Plakat, 1975.

    A dramatic manifestation of the Soviet...

    £250