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. FARINGTON, Susan Maria (illustrator). 

    The 104th Psalm.  Illustrated by Susan...

    ...

    The Faringtons or Ffaringtons were an ancient...

    £650

  2. [LOO, Pieter van, attributed.]

    156 watercolours of flowers, plants, and fruits.

    [Holland, c. 1760–80].

    A truly stunning collection of over 150...

    £100000

  3. [LEWIS, Wyndham.]

    Agenda. Wyndham Lewis Special Issue.

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

    A triple issue of Agenda devoted...

    £75

  4. [RAYNAL, Guillaume-Thomas, Abbé;] Johann Adam HILLER, translator.

    Anecdoten zur Lebensgeschichte berühmter...

    Leipzig, Lankisch, 1762.

    First edition in German of this collection...

    £250

  5. DIONYSIUS of Halicarnassus.

    Antiquitatum Rom. libri XI. Ab Aemylio...

    Geneva, Jacob Stoer, 1614.

    A rare pocket-sized edition of Dionysius...

    £450

  6. GAWSWORTH, John.

    Apes, Japes and Hitlerism, a Study and...

    London, Unicorn Press, [1932].

    First edition.

    £50

  7. BORBONI, Domenico.

    Architectura Dominici Borbonii celeberrimi...

    [Bassano,] ‘ex typographio Remondiniano...

    Only known edition of this very rare collection...

    £3750

  8. [PAPER TRADE.] 

    Arrest du conseil d’état du roi, portant...

    [Besançon?, 1772?] 

    A seemingly unrecorded issue of this decree...

    £175

  9. BURY, Stephen.

    Artists’ books: the book as a work of...

    London, Bernard Quaritch Ltd, 2015.

    The history of artists’ involvement with...

    £60

  10. DAVY, Sir Humphry.

    Autograph letter, signed, to Charles Stuart,...

    ‘23 Grosvenor Street London’, 26 May 1821.

    An unpublished letter in which Davy discusses...

    £750

  11. 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

  12. MORROW, Bradford, and Bernard LAFOURCADE.

    A Bibliography of the Writings of Wyndham...

    Santa Barbara, Black Sparrow Press, 1978.

    First edition.

    £75

  13. DIODORUS Siculus.

    Bibliothecae historicae libri XV. Hoc est,...

    Basel, Heinrich Petri, August 1559.

    Important edition, the first to be overseen...

    £2500

  14. FREEMAN, Arthur.

    Bibliotheca Fictiva: A Collection of Books...

    London, Bernard Quaritch Ltd, 2024.

    This fully revised and enlarged edition...

    £80

  15. BARKER, Nicolas.

    Bibliotheca Lindesiana. The Lives and Collections...

    The Roxburghe Club, 1977.

    The Bibliotheca Lindesiana was perhaps...

    £50

  16. MARKHAM, Sheila.

    A Book of Booksellers: Conversations with...

    London, 2007.

    First paperback edition of the first collection...

    £20

  17. [BASKERVILLE PRESS.]

    The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration...

    Third and final edition of Baskerville’s...

    £1200

  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. [BRISTOL.] 

    The Bristol Contest, being a Collection...

    Bristol, ‘sold by the Printing-Office...

    Extremely rare first edition of this Bristol-printed...

    £650

  20. NIXON, Howard M. 

    Broxbourne Library: Styles and Designs...

    London, Maggs Brothers for the Broxbourne...

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

    £875