London: printed for T. Lowndes, No 77, in Fleet-Street, and S. Bladon, in Paternoster-Row, 1779. Half-Calf. Small 8vo: [4],107,[3]pp, with a frontispiece and 23 further full-page copper-engraved plates, each showing the cock, hen, and (often) egg of a different songbird. Without the final leaf of advertisements. Recently rebound to period..... more

San Francisco: Fraenkel Gallery, 2002. First Edition (so stated). Glued Binding. First Trade Printing, one of 5,000 copies (there was also a "special" edition of 100 copies signed, numbered, and slipcased and issued with an original signed Avedon print). Essay by Judith Thurman. Royal 8vo (384 x 287mm): 56 unnumbered..... more

London: Dennis Dobson [through 1964], 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. Illustrated in color throughout by Carol Barker. First Impressions of the second and third works, Second Impression of Achilles the Donkey (first published 1962), all three volumes signed by Bates on half-title or title pages; two dated 1969. Royal 8vo (285..... more

Newcastle upon Tyne: printed by and for S. Hodgson, R. Beilby, & T. Bewick, Newcastle: sold by them, by G. G. J. & J. Robinson, & C. Dilly, London, 1791. Second Edition. Full Calf. A superlative example of the second (and best) edition: "no mere reprint: it was a largely..... more

London: Printed for J. Rodwell, (successor to Mr. Faulder,) New Bond Street, by S. Hamilton, Weybridge, Surrey, 1815. Half-Calf. "A New Edition, Corrected. In three volumes." Small 8vo: [4],xli,[3],223,[1]; [4],272; [2],304pp, with 52 superb wood cuts by John and Thomas Bewick. Beautifully bound by Orrock & son in half-burgundy morocco..... more

Berlin: Ernst Wasmuth, 1936. Early Printing. Cloth-Backed Boards. "New Edition" of one of the founding works of the "New Objectivity" movement in Germany and one of the iconic books in the history of photography. Text in German. Royal 8vo (320 x 250mm): XVI, with 96 full-page, gravure-printed plates (many with..... more

New York: Amphoto, 1961. Hardcover. First Edition of the work in which Brandt's "formal inventiveness and keen eye for the surreal are most evident." (Roth 101) With preface by Lawrence Durrell and introduction by Chapman Mortimer. Squarish royal 8vo (275 x 240mm): 14,[2], with 90 numbered gravure plates (some double-page)..... more

London: Printed for the Proprietor, and sold by James Carpenter and Son, Old Bond Street, 1827. First Edition. Full Calf. First Collected Edition of this standard early nineteenth century art text in three parts. 4to: [4],31,[1]; vi,[2],45,[1]; ix,[3],64pp, with 9 and 8 leaves of etched plates to parts I and..... more

Minneapolis: Privately printed for Edmund D. Brooks and Alvin Langdon Coburn & their friends . . . by Chiswick Press, 1914. Limited Edition. Quarter-Cloth. Tall, slim 8vo: 19,[1]pp, with portrait frontispiece (showing G. K. and Frances Chesterton with Edmund D. Brooks, the Minneapolis bibliophile who financed this book) and 10..... more

London: Elkin Matthews, Cork Street, 1915. First Edition. One of Coburn's "most exquisite interpretations" (Newhall), with twenty photogravures in the pictorialist style of the "grandest 18th-century mansion in Hertfordshire taken" (Pevsner), made while Coburn was teaching photography to Moor Park's owner, Lady Emilie Ebury. With an introduction by Lady Ebury..... more

London / Edinburgh / Glasgow: Matthew Iley, Somerset Street / Bell and Bradfute; W. Blackwood / W. Turnbull, 1821. First Edition. Morocco. First Edition. Tall 8vo: [4],251,[1]pp, with 20 leaves of hand-colored aquatints by William Read and C. Williams (after, but not by, Rowlandson, as often asserted). Text in verse..... more

New York: George Wittenborn, 1960. First Edition. Hardcover. First Printing of this typographic analog of one of the "most complex as well as one of the most rewarding artistic experiences of modern times" (from the appendices). Tall 8vo (229 x 150mm): unpaginated (including one leaf folding and another printed on..... more

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1893. First Printing. Decorative Cloth. Scarce First Edition of one of the first tennis books to show action photographs illustrating various racket strokes. Small 8vo: xvi,168,[6 adverisements]pp, with 25 full-page photographic plates, 6 tables and 4 text figures. Publisher's navy blue decorative cloth, upper cover..... more