Paris Cres et Cie, 1928

228 pages : illustrations. Red cloth with gilt titles. Very good copy. French text. Part of the Collection de '' l'esprit nouveau.''

London The Mayor Gallery 1984

Catalogue to accompany an exhibition to celebrate the half centenary of the first UNIT ONE exhibition held at the Mayor Gallery in Cork Street April 1934. 4to. Typographical cover based on a design by E McKnight Kauffer advertising Unit One in 1933. 98pp illus with b/w plates. Featuring the work of the original participants including Wells Coates, Colin Lucas, Edward Wadsworth, Ben Nicholson, Nash, Burra, Moore and Hepworth etc. Uncommon.

London, Cassell 1934

124pp, 67 plates b/w photographs. 4to. Yellow cloth with brown lettering in dw which is preserved in good order in a glassine wrapper. Signature of former owner on front end paper. Iconic book which covers work by: Sculptors: Henry Moore, Barbara Hepworth; Painters: John Armstrong, John Bigge, Edward Burra, Tristram Hillier, Paul Nash, Ben Nicholson, Edward Wadsworth; Architects: Wells Coates, Colin Lucas. Unit One was a British grouping of Modernist artists founded by Paul Nash. Despite its brief period of activity, the group is regarded as influential in establishing the pre-eminence of London as a centre of modernist and abstract art and architecture in the mid-1930s.

c 1940

220x150mm b/w photographs. Three photographs showing the interior layout and exterior of a wartime adaptation of a van for entertainment. Microphone and piano evident in one photographs. Second-hand vans, painted camouflage green, were first used in East London and by the end of 1940 there were 500 vans bringing refreshments to troops, rescue workers and victims of bombing raids.

New York George Schlegel 1893

Two advertising items promoting Cigars which are chromolithographic images . Sizes are 260x155mm and 120x120mm. Set against the background of the Worlds Fair Buildings these two items illustrate a romanticised scene depicting the discovery of the New World by Columbus. George Schlegel Lithographing Co. (1849-1957)[1] was a New York printing company best known for its label designs for cigars and cigar boxes, and was owned and operated during its lifetime by four generations of the family. Very good

Late 19th century c1890?

Undated and hand decorated with dried flowers and ferns and with hand written captions in italics and painted borders. Dark green leather with ruled edges. 230x280mm. Split on spine and edges scuffed but lovely item. 40 pages of sepia photographs of various sizes ranging from 60x110mm to 150x240mm. Photographers stamps in some of the images internally. Isle of Man photographer's impression of the firm Patterson and James on some of the early images. Large image of Douglas Harbour and Laxey Wheel in this section. Later sections include a combination of tourist purchased photographs and vernacular ones by the maker.

Published by the firm c1901

Untitled sample book of colour lithographs which could be selected for use graphic design projects, probably for chocolate boxes. The first two images show chocolate box lids. Paper wrappers. Perfect Bound, name of firm on upper wrapper. C310x250mm. Green cloth spine. This is rather worn. There are c63 sentimental chocolate box type images, probably inter war. The firm of Sutton Sharpe and Co specialized in designing, printing, and publishing. In 1901 they were situated at 145 Quen Victoria Road London. The location of the firm in the inter war period is not known.

Arthur Dearden

Mounted on stiff card, four original photographs with impress of the photographer beneath the photographs and address. Arthur Dearman of 46 Church Street Blackpool. images 180 x 230mm 7 x 9 inches, mounts are 310x 230mm. [12 x10 inches] The images reveal the cluttered end of the 19th century look of a guest house. Long dining tables fill the main room with bentwood and other dining chairs in brown furniture style and there are images of the key living rooms including a large sitting room packed with pictures, rugs and cushions etc. Deardon evidently had a photography business also taking cabinet photographs and portraits.

Taplow, Bucks Published by the firm nd 1951

2pp introduction including long quote from George Sitwell's On Making Gardens + unpaginated section illustrating 74 projects from garden layouts to individual greenhouses. Each project located. 4to. Stapled wrappers with sepia full page landscape illustration on upper wrapper with Humphry Repton quotation.

nd 1985

510mm x630mm Colour litho on paper. Number 50 of 195

London Studio Vista, 1967.

96pp, illustrated throughout with b/w photographs and drawings. Small 4to. Decorated wrappers. Thes are slightly browned else very good. Catalogue showing the town planning and architectural design practices of Alison and Peter Smithson.

London, Dawbarn & Ward 1900

[289]pp variously paginated + 88 plates. 8vo. Decorated cloth. Edges slightly dusty, else good. A comprehensive collection of essays on such topics as Wood Carving, Bent Iron or Strip Work, and Pyrography and Wood Roasting.

Risbury The Whittington Press 2018

[10] + 86+, [2]pp of plates, XII pages of numbered plates. Total edition of 235 copies set in 13-point Poliphilus, and Ariston display types, and printed at Whittington on Zerkall mould-made paper. The pochoir reproductions and the black-and-white images printed digitally by Promprint. Many illustrations in colours. This one of 155 'C' copies half-bound in cloth and one of Vance's pattern papers, in a slipcase and two facsimile letters in a pocket at the rear. Fine copy.

Basel Editions du Griffon Neuchatel 1965

Plastic arts of the 20th Century: 194pp illustrated with full page optical images. Complete with five plastic illustrated transparencies/overlays that are not bound in. Chronology of work at the end of the book. 4to. Lettered grey cloth boards. Very good. Head of dust wrapper very slightly bumped on upper side and dust wrapper slightly browned else good.

Bruxelles: Eles éditions det ateliers d'art graphique Elsevier SA

Monographies de l'Art Belge.16pp text + 28pp superb b/w photographic images and frontis of the Tour Eternit for the Exposition de Bruxelles 1958. This image repeated as paste down on front board. Small 4to. Protected in glassine wrapper. Fine.

London, Architectural Press 1980

175pp illustrated throughout with b/w photographs and engravings. Small 4to boards with illustrated dustwrapper, a very good copy. An early collaborative venture between Gavin Stamp and Colin Amery which identified over one hundred of London's most significant Victorian buildings from St Pancreas Station and Hotel to the Infant Orphan's Asylum in Wanstead. This book provides an explanation in part for the huge collection of London related commentaries of the period that were illustrated with photographic plates and which Gavin Stamp had in his collection.