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. [BASKERVILLE PRESS.]

    The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration...

    Third and final edition of Baskerville’s...

    £1200

  2. MYERS, Robin, Michael HARRIS, and Giles MANDELBROTE (eds).

    Lives in Book History: Changing Contours...

    Leicester, Garendon Press, 2022.

    ‘This volume has grown out of one event...

    £35

  3. NIXON, Howard M. 

    Broxbourne Library: Styles and Designs...

    London, Maggs Brothers for the Broxbourne...

    First edition, one of three hundred...

    £875

  4. PAPINI, Roberto.

    Le Arti d’Oggi: Architettura e Arti Decorative...

    Milan and Rome, Bestetti and Tumminelli, 1930.

    First edition of a thorough and extensively...

    £300

  5. [PONTIFICAL.]

    Pontificale Romanum Clementis VIII. primum,...

    Antwerp, Balthasar Moretus ‘ex officina...

    An attractive Plantin-Moretus Pontifical,...

    £4500

  6. [PSALMS.]

    Les Pseaumes de David, mis en Vers François,...

    Amsterdam, ‘aux dépens de l’Eglise...

    New edition of the metrical Psalms of...

    £950

  7. RICCI, Giovanni and PORTA, Ercolano.

    Storia della missione francescana e del...

    Bologna, Stabilimenti tipografici riuniti,...

    First and only edition of this history...

    £450

  8. STRABO.

    Strabonis geographicorum lib. XVII ......

    Basel, Johann Walder, 1539.

    Second edition of Strabo’s masterful...

    £2500

  9. TACITUS and J.N. LALLEMAND, editor.

    Quae exstant opera.

    Paris, J. Barbou for Desaint & Saillant, 1760.

    A handsomely bound set, with striking...

    £750