New York and London: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1974. 4to. First edition. Original grey cloth. Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white. John Cornforth's bookplate (by Reynolds Stone) on front paste down. Inscribed by the author to John Cornforth "with boundless admiration" on half-title. Blind embossed round ownership on title-page...
London: Duckworth Overlook, 2004. 8vo. First edition. Original black hardcovers. Black and white photographic plate section. Mint in dust-wrapper.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1974. 8vo. First edition. Original brown cloth, gilt. The essay on Lord Boothby has corners folded down and highlighting in blue and black ink. D/w creased on spine and faded. Very good + in very good + dust-wrapper. From the library of The Right Honourable The Lord...
London: Profile Books, 2010. 8vo. First edition. Original purple hardcovers. Black and white photographic plate section. Mint in dust-wrapper.
London: Jonathan Cape, 2015. 8vo. First edition. Original black boards, gilt. Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white. Mint in dust-wrapper.
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...
Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1971-5. 8vo. 6 volumes, set. Reprints. Volumes 1-4 originally printed in 1934. Volumes 5 & 6 first printed in 1950. Original maroon cloth, lettered in gilt. D/ws uniformly faded on spines. The heads of the spines of volumes 1-3 have very short closed tears. Near fine...
Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1991. 8vo. First edition. Original navy cloth, gilt. D/w faded on spine (as usual) else fine in fine dust-wrapper. The first of a projected three volume study of Goethe and his times. Magnificent.
London: Allen Lane, 2005. 8vo. First edition. Original black hardcovers. Mint in dust-wrapper.
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.
London: Constable, 1969, 1983 & 1996. 8vo. Three volumes, set. First editions. Original brown, green and burgundy buckram, gilt. Volume 1 d/w toned on spine, rubbed and nicked at head of spine and with a small patch of abrasion to the leading edge of the front panel. Volume 2 d/w...
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.
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.
London: Sinclair-Stevenson, 1994. 8vo. First edition. Original black hardcovers, gilt. Black and white photographic plates. D/w spine slightly faded. Fine in near fine dust-wrapper.
London: John Murray, 2009. 8vo. First edition. Original green hardcovers, gilt. Black and white photographic plate sections. Mint in dust-wrapper.
London: Country Life, 1948. 4to. First edition. Original burgundy cloth, gilt. Illustrated with a section of plates in black and white. Fine.
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...
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.
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.
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1998 & 2005. 8vo. 2 volumes, set. First editions. Original cloth, gilt. Illustrated throughout in black and white with colour plate sections. Small stain to fore edge of volume 1. Blind embossed round ownership on title-pages. Near fine in fine dust-wrappers.
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. D/w price-clipped. Fine in near fine dust-wrapper. A completely rewritten account of the master of English landscape gardening and still the...
London: Country Life Ltd, 1950. 4to. First edition. Original sand cloth, gilt. Colour frontispiece and black and white photographic plates. D/w with a few nicks and chips along top and bottom edges and remains of tape repair at head of spine. Slight foxing to back panel. Near fine in very...
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...
London: The Bodley Head, 1979. 4to. First edition. Original navy hardcovers, gilt. Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white. Fine in fine dust-wrapper.