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. ALAI, Beatrice.

    Le miniature Italiane del Kupferstichkabinett...

    Florence, Edizioni Polistampa, 2019.

    From the presentation leaf: ‘Bernard...

    £75

  2. ALBUM

    of watercolours and pencil drawings including...

    England, mid-eighteenth century?

    An attractive sketchbook, seemingly...

    £2250

  3. BEARDSLEY, Aubrey, art editor; Henry HARLAND, literary editor

    The Yellow Book.  An Illustrated Quarterly. ...

    London [– & New York], Elkin Mathews...

    An excellent set of the first edition...

    £2000

  4. [BERLIN.]

    Verzeichnis der Werke lebender Künstler...

    Berlin, Hofbuchdruckerei, 1860.

    Exhibition catalogue of contemporary artists.

    £45

  5. [BOLOGNA.] 

    Delle oggetti di belle arti nel famoso...

    Bologna, ‘nella stamperia di San Tommaso...

    First edition of this detailed description...

    £275

  6. BURNE-JONES, Edward.

    The Little Holland House Album … with...

    The Roxburghe Club, 2024

    The Little Holland House Album was compiled...

    £75

  7. BUSTEED, Henry Elmsley. 

    The Serampore Portrait.  Is it Madam Grand? 

    Calcutta, Thacker, Spink, & co., 1903. 

    First edition of a study probing the...

    £125

  8. CARTARI, Vincenzo. 

    Le imagini con la spositione de i dei de...

    Venice, per Francesco Marcolini, 1556. 

    First edition of Cartari’s influential...

    £800

  9. CELLINI, Benvenuto. 

    Vita di Benvenuto Cellini orefice e scultore...

    ‘Cologne’ [i.e. Florence],...

    The counterfeit edition of Benvenuto...

    £675

  10. CHEESMAN, Thomas. 

    No. I. Six Heads Drawn and Engraved, by...

    [London,] T. Cheesman, No. 40 Oxford...

    First and only edition, extremely rare,...

    £850

  11. CORBOULD, Henry (illustrator). 

    [Cover title:] Illustrations to...

    London, Edward Lacey, 1829. 

    Unrecorded, a suite of five engravings...

    £650

  12. [COSTUME.]

    6 Blätter Altenburger Trachten.

    Altenburg, Schnuphase’sche Buchhandlung,...

    Charming Altenburg costume plates, lacking...

    £150

  13. COX, John Roalfe.

    Horses in Accident and Disease: Notes and...

    Edinburgh, George Waterston & Sons for...

    First edition of an elegantly illustrated...

    £70

  14. DASSIER, Jean and Jacques-Antoine. 

    ‘An Explanation of Dassier’s Medals...

    London, c. 1795–1800. 

    An exceptionally fine illustrated manuscript,...

    £6500

  15. DIEDO, Antonio.

    Sui Soffitti memoria.

    Venice, Alvisopoli, 1838.

    New edition, dedicated to Count Antonio...

    £45

  16. DODGSON, Campbell (editor).

    Woodcuts of the XV Century in the Department...

    London, British Museum, 1934 [– 1935].

    First edition, scarce, of Dodgson’s...

    £750

  17. [DOVES PRESS.] 

    Pervigilium Veneris. 

    Hammersmith, ‘printed by T.J. Cobden-Sanderson...

    One of 150 copies on paper of the elusive...

    £950

  18. ERNST, Max.

    Une Semaine de Bonté ou les sept éléments...

    Paris, Éditions Jeanne Bucher, 1934.

    First edition, no. 706 of 800 copies...

    £4500

  19. FARINGTON, Susan Maria (illustrator). 

    The 104th Psalm.  Illustrated by Susan...

    ...

    The Faringtons or Ffaringtons were an ancient...

    £650

  20. FIORILLO, Johann Dominicus.

    Geschichte der zeichnenden Künste, von...

    Göttingen, bei Johann Georg Rosenbusch,...

    First edition. Fiorillo began as a painter,...

    £600