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. SHENSTONE, William.

    The Works, in Verse and Prose… in three...

    London: Printed for J. Dodsley … 1777.

    Fifth edition of the Works (1764),...

    £325

  2. [SMITH, John William.] 

    A Catalogue of the Books, Manuscripts and...

    London, Letts, Son & Co, [1870s-90s]. 

    A manuscript book catalogue employing a...

    £300

  3. SPON, Jacob.

    Voyage d’Italie, de Dalmatie, de Grece,...

    Lyons, Antoine Cellier, 1678.

    Very rare first edition of ‘one of the...

    £4750

  4. STANCOVICH, Pietro.

    Dello anfiteatro di Pola, dei gradi marmorei...

    Venice, Giuseppe Picotti, 1822.

    First edition, uncut in the original wrappers,...

    £275

  5. STODDARD, Roger.

    Jacques-Charles Brunet, Le Grand Bibliographe....

    [London], Quaritch, 2007.

    As an undergraduate in Brown University...

    £60

  6. SYMONS, Arthur, editor.

    The Savoy.

    London, Leonard Smithers, 1896.

    First edition of this outstanding, though...

    £3000

  7. TALBOT RICE, David.

    Notice on some religious buildings in the...

    Brussels, Secrétariat de la Revue, 1930.

    An offprint from Byzantion. The...

    £65

  8. [TAYLOR, John.]

    The Column called the Monument, described,...

    Bryan … for Samuel Arnott, Keeper of...

    Third edition (first 1787) of this guidebook...

    £350

  9. ‘TELL’, pseud. [i.e. Jacob EPSTEIN].

    A rude Book.

    Hartford, Edwin Valentine Mitchell, 1926.

    First edition, one of 500 copies printed...

    £350

  10. [THE BOOK COLLECTOR.]

    A special Number to commemorate the 150th...

    The Book Collector, 1997.

    A collection of essays together recounting...

    £25

  11. THEOCRITUS et al.

    Theocriti aliorumque poetarum Idyllia....

    [Geneva], Henri Estienne, 1579.

    An outstanding volume uniting the Estienne...

    £9000

  12. UNITED STATES TARIFF COMMISSION.

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

    Washington, U. S. Government Printing...

    First edition of a prodigiously comprehensive...

    £200

  13. [UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, OXFORD.]

    Subscription list for repairs to the College...

    [Oxford, c. 1860].

    A printed appeal from University College,...

    £50

  14. VERTOGRADOV.

    За антиимпериалистическую солидарность, мир и прогресс!...

    Moscow, Izdatelstvo Plakat, 1975.

    A dramatic manifestation of the Soviet...

    £250

  15. VILLA, Antonio, and Giovanni Battista VILLA. 

    Dispositio systematica conchyliarum terrestrium...

    Milan, ex typis Borroni et Scotti, 1841. 

    First edition of this catalogue of molluscs...

    £275

  16. [VILLAMENA, Francesco.]

    A fan leaf drawing of a street fight in Rome.

    [Italy, late eighteenth century.]

    A fine fan leaf drawing, Italian school,...

    £2200

  17. VOLOSHIN, Maksimilian Aleksandrovich.

    O Repine [On Repin] …

    Moscow, “Ole-Lukoie”, 1913.

    First edition thus: three pieces written...

    £450

  18. [WALLET.]

    Wallet with manuscript and printed waste.

    France, c. 1790.

    An attractive late eighteenth-century wallet...

    £950

  19. [WALLPAPER.]

    A substantial album of printed wallpaper...

    France, 1923–24.

    A delightful sample album of French wallpapers...

    £3500

  20. [WALLPAPER BINDING.]

    ‘Chassereau des Biens et Rentes deves...

    Hainaut, 1750–1773.

    A manuscript account book compiled by Joseph...

    £3500