Truman.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1992. 8vo. Reprint. 19th impression. Original navy cloth spine with blue paper boards. Black and white photographic plate sections. Bookplate of Lord Carrington (1919-2018) on fly. Fine in fine dust-wrapper.
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Earls of Creation. Five Great Patrons of Eighteenth-Century Art.
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1962. 8vo. First edition. Original blue cloth, lettered in gilt. Black and white photographic plates throughout. Jacket designed by Philip Gough. Covers slightly rubbed. Bookplate of Lord Carrington (1919-2018) on fly. Near fine. The subjects are Burlington, Pembroke, Leicester, Oxford and Bathurst.
The Work of William Kent. Artist, Painter, Designer and Landscape Gardener. With an Introduction by Christopher Hussey.
London: Country Life, 1948. 4to. First edition. Original burgundy cloth, gilt. Illustrated with a section of plates in black and white. Fine.
Edward Bawden.
Loxhill: The Pendomer Press, [1980]. 4to. De Luxe limited edition. #139 of 200 copies. Quarter black leather, gilt, with patterned paper boards. Top edge gilt. Issued in paper-covered slipcase. With a folder containing the lithograph 'Nekayah, the Prince and Imlac in Cairo' drawn in four colours and printed in an...
Dancing to the Precipice. Lucie de la Tour du Pin and the French Revolution.
London: Chatto & Windus, 2009. 8vo. First edition. Original black hardcovers, gilt. Black and white plate sections. Author presentation inscription on title page. Mint in dust-wrapper.
Sir William Chambers. Knight of the Polar Star.
London: A. Zwemmer Ltd, 1970. 4to. First edition. Original navy buckram, gilt. Top edge stained blue. Black and white photographic plate section at rear. Pirce-clipped d/w is very slightly faded on spine. Fine in near fine dust-wrapper.
The Life and Work of John Nash, Architect.
London: George Allen & Unwin, 1980. 4to. First edition. Original maroon cloth. Section of black and white plates. Fine.
James Gibbs.
New Haven and London: Yale University Press for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, 1984. 4to. First edition. Original brown cloth, gilt. Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white. Fine in fine dust-wrapper.
The Architectural Outsiders. Introduction by Kerry Downes.
London: Waterstone and Company, 1985. 4to. First edition. Original green cloth, gilt. Illustrated throughout in black and white. Fine in near fine dust-wrapper. Subjects include Sir Roger Pratt, John Vardy and Ernest Newton.
The Wyatts. An Architectural Dynasty. Foreword by Woodrow Wyatt.
London: Oxford University Press, 1979. 4to. First edition. Original brown cloth, gilt. Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white. D/w price-clipped. Fine in near fine dust-wrapper.
John Soane. An Accidental Romantic.
New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 1999. 4to. First edition. Original maroon hardcovers, gilt. Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white. Fine in fine dust-wrapper.
George Dance, Architect, 1741-1825.
London: Faber and Faber, 1971. 4to. First edition. Original blue cloth, gilt. Black and white photographic plate section at rear. Fine in fine dust-wrapper. Architect to the City of London for nearly half a century, his greatest official achievement was Newgate Gaol, but he was also a huge influence on...
Capability Brown. With an Introduction by Christopher Hussey.
London: Faber and Faber, 1975. 4to. New edition. First published in 1950. Original green cloth, gilt. Illustrated with sections of black and white, and a few colour, photographic plates. Small stamp of the Society of Antiquaries to front pastedown. D/w very slightly rubbed along the top edge. Near fine in...
The Prodigal Father. Dumas Père et Fils and 'The Lady of the Camellias'.
London: Longmans, Green and Co, 1951. 8vo. First edition. Original blue cloth, gilt. Jacket and vignette on the title page by Joan Hassall. Portrait plates scattered throughout. Ink ownership on fly. D/w toned and rubbed with a few nicks along the top edge. Near fine in near fine dust-wrapper.
Vogue's Book of Houses, Gardens, People. Introduction by Diana Vreeland. Photographed by Horst.
New York: The Viking Press, 1968. 4to. First edition. Original beige cloth. Illustrated throughout in colour. Price-clipped d/w is slightly faded on the spine with light rubbing to ends. Fine in near fine dust-wrapper. People featured include Nancy Lancaster, the Desmond Guinnesses, Baron and Baroness Philippe de Rothschild, the Duke...
William Burroughs. El Hombre Invisible.
London: Virgin Books, 1992. 8vo. First edition. Original black hardcovers. Black and white photographic plate section. A few marks to edge of text block. D/w faded on spine. Near fine in near fine dust-wrapper.
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