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The Wood Engravings of Gwen Raverat.
London: Faber and Faber, 1959. [Wood Engraving] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (29 x 23cm), pp.136. A fine catalogue of wood engravings by Raverat, selected with an introduction by Stone. Publisher's grey cloth with gilt titles to a green background on spine; top edge yellow. With the green and pink dust-jacket, priced..... More
Glenn Murcutt: A Singular Architectural Practice.
Mulgrave, VI: The Images Publishing Group, 2002. [Australian Architecture] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (31 x 23cm), pp.256. Heavily illustrated throughout in both colour and black and white. Publisher's plain black cloth, with red and black endpapers. With the black dust-jacket and separate red wrap-around band. A fine, as-new copy... More
The Thessaloniki Photographs.
Thessaloniki: Thessaloniki Museum of Photography, 2008. [Greek Photography] FIRST EDITION. Small quarto (22 x 23cm), pp.104. A collection of colour and black and white photographs accompanying the contemporaneous exhibition, recording life in Thessaloniki between the late 1960's and the mid 1990's. Publisher's plain paper-covered boards with titles in red and..... More
Tennis, Lawn Tennis, Rackets, Fives. With Contributions by the Hon. A. Lyttelton, W.C. Marshall, Miss L. Dod, H.W.W. Wilberforce, H.F. Lawford, Spencer W. Gore, R.D. Sears and Herbert Chipp. The Badminton Library of Sports and Pastimes.
London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1897. [Racquet Sports] FOURTH EDITION. Octavo (20 x 15cm), pp.[2] xiv; 488. With numerous black and white illustrations, both plates and in-text, including a frontispiece with tissue guard. Publisher's brown cloth with a mixture of gilt, black, and white titles and decoration to spine and..... More
Swimming. The Badminton Library of Sports and Pastimes.
London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1893. [Swimming] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 15cm), pp.xvi; 452. With numerous black and white illustrations, both plates and in-text, including a frontispiece with tissue guard. Publisher's brown cloth with a mixture of gilt, black, and white titles and decoration to spine and upper. Green..... More
The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life.
London: John Murray, 1880. [Evolutionary science] Sixth Edition, twenty-second thousand. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.xxii; 458. With a folding tree diagram. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine. Brown endpapers. Black ink ownership to front pastedown. An old paper repair to upper hinge, coloured to match. A 1cm tear..... More
The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex.
London: John Murray, 1888. [Anthropology] SECOND EDITION, revised. The Twenty-first thousand. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[2] xvi; 693 [1]. Complete in one volume with occasional in-text illustrations. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine. Dark brown endpapers. Repairs to split hinges. Binding quite weak, with a few gatherings a...... More
Gilbert & George: Moscow 1990.
Moscow: Central House of Artists, 1990. [Exhibition Catalogue] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Quarto (30 x 35cm), pp.121 [3]. A full colour catalogue of all 44 exhibits, printed on clay paper. All text in Russian. INSCRIBED by Gilbert & George in red ink to first blank: 'For Michael and Miriam | love..... More
The Theory and Practice of Landscape Painting in Water-Colours. Illustrated by a series of twenty-six drawings and diagrams in colours, and numerous woodcuts.
London: George Routledge & Sons, 1871. [Fine Art] FINE COLOUR PLATES, a new edition. Large octavo (27 x 20cm), pp.[8] 286 [2]. With 26 fine colour-printed plates, including a frontispiece, each with a tissue guard, as well as 69 in-text woodcuts. Publisher's green cloth with elaborate gilt titles and decoration..... More
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