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England's Thousand Best Houses.
London: Allen Lane, 2003. [Architecture] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.[xl]; 950. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles, red endpapers, in pictorial dust-jacket. Internally clean, author's signature in blue ink to title page. No rubbing or wear, wrapper is unclipped. Fine. Columnist for the Guardian and the Evening... More about England's Thousand Best Houses
The Illustrated Handbook of Architecture. Being A Concise and Popular Account of The Different styles of architectures prevailing in all ages and countries.
London: John Murray, 1855. [Architecture] FINELY BOUND. Two volumes, octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.[lx]; 470; [ii]; pp.[4]; 471-1004; [2]. Contemporary brown half morocco over marbled boards, raised bands and gilt decoration to spine. Top edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Frontispiece and title page vignette to each volume plus numerous in-text illustrations... More about The Illustrated Handbook of Architecture. Being A Concise and Popular Account of The Different...
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Elizabeth Magill. [Ikon Gallery; Milton Keynes Gallery; Baltic Gallery].
Manchester: Cornerhouse Publications, 2004. [Exhibition Catalogue] FIRST EDITION. Small quarto (25 x 29cm), pp.64. With full colour illustrations. Publisher's colour illustrated paper-covered boards. A fine, as-new copy. More about Elizabeth Magill. [Ikon Gallery; Milton Keynes Gallery; Baltic Gallery
A General View of the Agriculture of the County of Kent; with Observations on the Means of its Improvement. Drawn up for the Consideration of the Board of Agriculture and Internal Improvement, from the original Report transmitted to the Board; with Additional Remarks of several Respectable Country Gentlemen and Farmers.
London: Printed for G. Nicol, 1796. [Kent Farming] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.iii-xvi; 206 [4]. With a folding hand-coloured map as a frontispiece; two engraved plates, and a folding table. Contemporary marbled calf boards, recently rebacked with matching calf spine. Gilt titles to original red morocco label laid... More about A General View of the Agriculture of the County of Kent; with Observations on the Means of its...
The Half: Photographs of Actors Preparing for the Stage.
London: Faber and Faber, 2010. [Photography] FIRST SOFTCOVER EDITION. Quarto (28 x 21cm), pp.xii; 308. Black and white photographs throughout. With the black and white soft covers, priced at £20.00. A fine as-new copy. From the library of the writer, media and film executive Edward Milward-Oliver. More about The Half: Photographs of Actors Preparing for the Stage
Landscape into Art.
London: John Murray, 1949. [Landscape Art] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.xx; 148. With 52 double-sided half-tone plates at rear. Publisher's cream cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the colour-illustrated dust-jacket by Graham Sutherland, priced at 25s. Blue ink gift inscription to flyleaf. Slightly short jacket toned to... More about Landscape into Art
Angling for Pike: A Practical and Comprehensive Work on the Most Approved Methods of Fishing for Pike or Jack; including an account of some new tackles for spinning, live-baiting, and trolling.
London: L. Upcott Gill, 1888. [Fishing] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.viii; 96 [24]. Illustrated with wood engravings, including a frontispiece. Publisher's blue/grey cloth with silver titles to spine and upper board. All edges untrimmed. Black ink ownership inscriptions to front pastedown, and a blind address stamp to front... More about Angling for Pike: A Practical and Comprehensive Work on the Most Approved Methods of Fishing for...
Woodland, Moor and Stream, being the Notes of a Naturalist.
London: Smith, Elder, and Co., 1890. [Nature Writing] FINELY BOUND, the second edition. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[10]; 224; [2]. In contemporary or slightly later blue full crushed morocco for bookseller C.J. Sawyer. A fine example of the West End style, likely by either Zaehnsdorf or Sangorski and Sutcliffe. Raised... More about Woodland, Moor and Stream, being the Notes of a Naturalist
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