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. [TAYLOR, John.]

    The Column called the Monument, described, erected to perpetuate the dreadful Fire of London in the Year 1666;...

    Bryan … for Samuel Arnott, Keeper of the Monument. [1805?]

    Third edition (first 1787) of this guidebook to London’s Monument, with an account of the Great Fire of 1666 which it commemorates, authored by the Monument’s first keeper.

    £350

  2. [UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, OXFORD.]

    Subscription list for repairs to the College Chapel.

    [Oxford, c. 1860].

    A printed appeal from University College, signed by the Master Frederick Charles Plumptre (1796–1870), for funds to improve the interior of the Chapel, with an admission that ‘the College has no funds whatever to devote to such a purpose’. The list of subscribers contains some ninety names.

    £50

  3. 山下 富吉 YAMASHITA Takayoshi.

    青島寫真帖 Souvenir Tsingtao.

    Tsingtao, Showa 16, [1941].

    A Japanese souvenir of Tsingtao (Qingdao) published during the second period of Japanese occupation of the city.

    £300

  4. YAMAZAKI Kane’ichirō 山崎 鋆一郎.

    满洲の展望 [Manshū no tenbō, i.e. Views of Manchuria].

    Dalian, Kane’ichirō Yamazaki for Kinjirō Hamai, 10 May Shōwa 7 [1932].

    A highly illustrated photobook on Manchuria published soon after the Japanese invasion.

    £650