London: Alec Tiranti, 1954. Hardcover. First edition.  Slim foolscap 8vo (179 x 124mm): 38pp and 56 full-page plates. Publisher's original pictorial paper-covered boards, dust jacket repeating cover design by William Scott (one of the nine artists), priced 7s / 6d. Neat ownership inscription and date on fly-leaf. Jacket's spine panel folds lightly..... more

Harmondsworth & London: British Broadcasting Corporation & Penguin Books, 1972. Stiff Wrappers. Scarce true First Edition ("First published 1972) of this provocative art history text, based on the BBC television series. The first hardcover edition, published in New York, appeared only the following year. Crown 8vo (195 x 129mm): 170pp..... more

London: L-13, 2010. Hardcover. First Edition (so stated), one of only 500 copies privately published for subscribers. Oblong royal 8vo (210 x 230): [2],7-230pp, copiously illustrated in color throughout. Publisher's saffron quarter-cloth over thick card boards, spine lettered in black, paper AHH label in green, red, and black tipped to..... more

London: printed for J. Robson, Bookseller to the Princess Dowager of Wales, at the Feathers, in New Bond Street, MDCCLXVIII [1768]. First Edition. Paper-Covered Boards. First Edition of the first standard guide on print collecting in England, including detailed commentary on Hogarth's Rake's Progress. Crown 8vo (171 x 102mm): [2],iv,4,[2],249,[13]pp..... more

London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, Paternoster-Row, 1844. Decorative Cloth. First Edition of this key scientific study of the action and effect of solar rays on various chemicals used in photography, and generally considered the first history of that art, uncut and entirely unopened in the original binding. Demy 8vo..... more

Milano: Published by Electa Editrice, 1955. Limited Edition, No. 48 of 1000 copies, of Berenson's bibliography of books and articles on the history of art, notably Renaissance Italian painting. Royal 8vo (249 x 174mm): 74 French-folded leaves (printed on one side of the leaf), with four tipped-in facsimiles of holograph..... more

New York: Published by Howard Greenberg Gallery, 2005. Stiff Wrappers. First Printing of a catalogue for an exhibition, "Jinx Allen in Florence," September 16 to October 22, 2005, at Howard Greenberg Gallery, in New York, devoted entirely to images Orkin made over the course of a day, one of which..... more

New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1920. Quarter-Cloth. Limited Edition (2,000 unnumbered copies printed, of which 1,200 for sale in Great Britain and 800 in the United States), collecting portraits of Rothenstein's friend and contemporaries (including Max Beerbohm, Joseph Conrad, Sir Edward Elgar, André Gide, Thomas Hardy, A. E. Housman, T. E...... more

London: Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, 1921. Limited Edition. Half-Morocco. Large Paper copies, each number 3 of 125 sets of which 60 were for sale, with printed prices and buyer’s names. Complete in two volumes (Printed Books and Old Engravings). Royal 8vo (277 x 182mm): [2],iv,62,[2],vii,[1], with portrait frontispiece and twelve..... more

London: Printed for P. Elmsly, in the Strand, M.DCC.LXXIX [1779]. Half-Calf. A superb First Edition (in period binding) of this account of a sojourn to Spain, "an exact investigation of the soil, cultivation, government, commerce, and manners." 4to (283 x 220mm): xv,[1],427,[15]pp, with folding engraved map and 18 plates (five..... more

New York: Cos Cob Press, 1933. First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. Text, in French, by Max Jacob. Crown 8vo (180 x 133mm): 9,[1]pp. Publisher's original tan wrappers printed and decorated in red and black. Front wrapper inscribed: "love & faithfulness / Alfred / from / Virgil." "Alfred," according to a notation..... more

London: Henry G. Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden, 1849. First Edition thus. Original Cloth. First Printing of the Dallaway and Wornum edition, a "New Edition, Revised, with Additional Notes," complete in three volume in original cloth. Demy 8vo (220 x 135mm): xxxii,351,[1]; [5],352-479,514-720; [4],721-1007,[2],[Appendix & Index]482-510,[36]pp, with three tissue-guarded frontispiece..... more

London: Printed by W. Stratford, Crown-Court, Temple-Bar; For J. Taylor, at the Architectural Library, 1802. Early Reprint. Original Wrappers. "A New Edition" of this enchanting pattern book of architectural follies, describing designs for huts, hermitages, grottoes, and other rural retreats in which many bizarre building materials are incorporated. Tall 8vo..... more