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London: Signature, November 1946. [Art Periodical] ORIGINAL PERIODICAL. Octavo (25 x 19cm), pp.52. With numerous black and white plates. Publisher's plain soft covers, with the original glassine jacket. Light toning to covers. Jacket lightly toned and spotted, with some light chipping and closed tears to edges. Near fine. Including a...... More
London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1882. [Artist Biography] FINELY BOUND FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.xii; 75 [3]. With 14 engraved illustrations, including a large folding plate and a frontispiece portrait of the subject. Contemporary tan full calf for Stamford School, with gilt titles to navy label..... More
London: Methuen & Co., 1948. [Pedagogical Lecture] FIRST EDITION. Octavo pamphlet (19 x 13cm), pp.[2] 30. Publisher's pink soft covers, priced at 1s and stapled twice. Light toning to spine, and a neat black ink ownership to front cover. Black ink definitions of key terms in the lecture copied in..... More
Vatican City: Vatican Radio, 1954. [Radio Transcript] FIRST EDITION THUS. Octavo pamphlet (22 x 16cm), pp.12. Publisher's grey paper covers, stapled once. Light toning and handling. Near fine. An English transcript of a radio programme originally broadcast on 30th March 1954 on Vatican and Italian Radio. Portuguese poet Pina Martins..... More
London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1958. [Caricatures] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (29 x 23cm), pp.10. With 46 black and white sketches by Beerbohm on 23 double-sided plates, including 35 not previously published. Publisher's burgundy quarter cloth, with gilt titles to spine and stripy red and white paper-covered boards. Black endpapers; top edge red..... More
New York, NY: The Ecco Press, 1981. [Philosophy, Politics, Aphorisms] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.93 [19]. Publisher's cream cloth with black titles to spine and black monogram to upper. With the grey dust-jacket titled in red and black, priced at $9.95. Jacket sunned to spine. Near fine. Originally..... More
London: Methuen & Co., 1957. [Art and Aesthetics] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.219 [5]. With 12 black and white half-tone plates. Publisher's orange cloth with gilt titles to spine and gilt device to upper. With the dust-jacket illustrated in colour by the author, priced at 25s. Offsetting to..... More
Orpington: George Allen, 1889. [Aesthetics] FINE PRIZE BINDING, the ninth edition thus. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[2] viii; 184 [2]. Contemporary red full calf by BICKERS & SON of London for Radcliffe and Browne's School, Stamford, with gilt titles to green label and further gilt decoration to spine, as well..... More