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: Percy Lund, Humphries & Co., n.d. [1963?]. First British Edition. Hardcover / Pictorial Wrappers. On offer are two complementary works: the artist Richard Hamilton's typographic interpretation of Marcel Duchamp's Green Box (1963) and the scarce documentation of Hamilton's yearlong reconstruction of Duchamp's "The Large Glass" (1966). First Printing of..... 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

San Francisco: Thomas C. Russell [and] Bedford Arts, 1910 [and] 1990. Folding halftone (11 panels) of Eadweard Muybridge’s famed 360-degree panoramic view of San Francisco made from the original seventeen-foot-long photograph. With margins, the folding halftone measures 1511 x 171mm and folds into the original red cloth binding lettered in..... more

London: George Allen, Sunnyside, Orpington, Kent [through 1881], 1875. Leatherette. First Editions (excepting Santa Croce, which is a second edition, with preface folios in Roman numerals), complete in six parts, of this great classic on Renaissance art. Crown 8vo (172 x 115mm): iv,23,[1]; [4],25-52; [4],57-95,[1]; [4],97-120; [4],121-151,[1]; [4],153-187,[1]pp. Original red..... more

London: Philip Allan & Company, 1925. First Edition. Hardcover. First (and only) Printing of this scarce book of verse, tales, and illustration, a collaboration between Tennant, "brightest" of the "Bright Young People," and Pamela Grey, Lady Glenconner (famously painted by John Singer Sargent) and Tennant's mother. Blue buckram-backed paper-covered boards..... more

London: J. Weale, 1849-1850. Decorative Cloth. Scarce First Edition of this dictionary of architectural terms, summing up mid-century practice and terminology. Complete in four parts over two volumes. Foolscap 8vo (177 x 109mm): 4,276pp; 277-564pp, with frontispiece, tables, and numerous text engravings. Publisher's elaborately blind-stamped limp red cloth, beige paper..... more