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Paris: Chez Charles de Sercy, 1699 Book. Good. Hardcover. A[xx], 540 pages + additional pages numbered *487-490 + the engraved frontispiece. Author not named on the title page, but identified on catalogue records on Library Hub. In remains of old full leather binding - front board and front free end paper completely detached. Ink owner's name to the title page.… Read more about this item

Contemporary Sculpture Center, 2001 Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 61, [3] pages. Exhibition catalogue with illustrations. Original printed paper covers. Just light signs of use..

Scala Publishers, 2012 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 352 pages. Hardback in the original binding, with the dustwrapper. Just light signs of use. This is a heavy volume and extra postage may be required to send it outside the UK.

London: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1927 Book. Good. Hardcover. xi, [i], 307, [1] pages + frontispiece and 29 other plates. In the original cloth binding, spine faded. Some pages browned presumably from the use of newspaper as book marks - 70 and the plate facing, 119 and the rear of the plate facing, also pages98/99 and 126/127. Plate XI is numbered… Read more about this item

London: Chiswick press, 1898 Book. Good. Hardcover. [Colophon] Printed at the Chiswick Press and finished on the 18th day of April 1898. Published by Longmans & Co, Paternoster Row, London. [ii], 25, [1] pages. Loosely inserted printed note states that it was printed in the Golden type designed by Morris for the Kelmscott Press. In the original paper covered boards… Read more about this item

Aldershot: Ashgate, 2002 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. ix, [vii], 256 pages + 16 pages of colour plates. Hardback with the dustwrapper which has a lightly faded spine. Vertical creasing to pages 33-42. Just light signs of use..

1939 Book. Poor. Disbound. 31, [1] pages + 4 plates each with tissue interleaving. With the original paper covers, but these are detached, very browned and brittle. They are chipped and torn at the edges with loss, please see the images attached. The first and final pages are lightly browned from contact with the covers. Lower outer corner of pages… Read more about this item

Boston: Society of Printers, 1937 Book. Good. Soft cover. 15, [1] pages + 2 plates. In the original brown thin card covers. Light fading and some light creasing. Numbered to the colophon 269 of the 500 copies printed. There is a signature in blue in to the base of the portrait print of the author facing page 8 - there… Read more about this item

London: Nelson, 1964 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. xviii, 429, [1] pages + plates. In the original cloth which has some light fading. With most of the original dustwrapper although this is torn and with a section missing from the head of the spine..

London: John Murray, 1904 Book. Good. Hardcover. xvi, [ii], 264 pages + plates, complete as listed. In the original green cloth, lightly soiled and lightly worn. Corners a little bumped and the spine creased. End papers are browned and this affects adjoining pages. Some light browning to page edges throughout. Brief ink note to page 61..

London: Chez Guillaume Bowyer, 1725 Book. Fair. Disbound. [ii], xii, [vi], 308, [8] pages + plate facing page 265. Here lacking the frontispiece. ESTC T133317, a small paper copy. Bowyer ledgers show 300 ordinary paper and 100 large paper copies were printed. Disbound, front and rear boards detached. Leather missing from much of rear board. Bookplate of Edward J. Poynter… Read more about this item

Cardiff: Oriel, 1995 Book. Good. Hardcover. 39, [1] pages. In the original paper covered boards. Dated in pencil to the foot of page 39 - 13/2/98.Just light wear..

Stratford upon Avon: Shakespeare Head Press, 1928 Book. Very Good. Original Cloth. xviii, 93, [1] pages This numbered 203 of the 325 copies printed. Original cloth with a little light bubbling. Page edges untrimmed. End papers lightly browned. .

A Verone - In Verona: Chez Augustin Carattoni Libraire Rue Neuve - Presso Agostin Carattoni Librajo sulla Via Nuova, 1751 Book. Very Good. Full leather. Text throughout in French on the left hand pages and Italian on the right. xxii, [i], 111, [1] pages + 52 plates, including the frontispiece. Some light soiling. Ink inscription to the front free end… Read more about this item

London: Printed for S. Harding on the Pavement St Martin's Lane, 1747 Book. Very Good. Full-Leather. xii, 112, [1], 112-225, [1] pages + 10 plates. ESTC T84861 which notes the same pagination. In old full leather binding with wear and some splitting to the edges of the spine. Lacking the lettering label to the spine. Bookplate of Nevile Rodwell… Read more about this item

London: J. Davy and Sons Printers, 1861 Book. Very Good. Half leather. iv, 78 pages. Catalogue is neatly ruled in red ink - priced and with buyers' names for each lot. In attractive marbled paper covered boards with green leather. Printed paper label to the front board. Armorial bookplate of Frederick Parr to the front pastedown. A number of binder's… Read more about this item

London: John W. Parker, West Strand, 1844 Book. Fair. Hardcover. 199, [1], pages + an 8 page publisher's catalogue at the rear. Ink prize inscription to the front pastedown partly erased, dated 1860. Front free end papers torn out. Original cloth binding, spine dulled and light wear..

Rome: Presso Arcangelo Casaletti, 1783 Book. Good. Soft cover. 175, [1], xvi pages. Sometimes found with varying frontispieces - here without. Also this the version with the woodcut arms to the title page rather than the engraved arms sometimes found. In original decorated card covers. Binding though very nearly detached, split internally completely at the rear before the rear end… Read more about this item

San Francisco: The Arion Press, 1975 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 60 unnumbered pages. 500 copies printed, signed by Hoyem below the colophon. Presentation inscription above this to Philip & Dorothy Smith. In the original cloth binding with printed paper labels to front board and spine. Occasional spot to page edges..

Evergreen Press, 2014 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. xiv, 116, [6] pages + plates and with many tipped in illustrations. Bound in paper covered boards and leather spine. The spine has darkened unevenly. Numbered 48 of the 150 copies printed. Loosely inserted are the original prospectus and order form. A large and heavy volume, extra postage will be required to send… Read more about this item