Art, Architecture And Design from Zetetic Books

Torino: Centro Studi Piemontesi, 1995. [13], 12-170pp, [6], plates. Original cloth, author and title in gilt to spine and upper cover. Spine slightly faded and a little creased, board edges bumped, otherwise quite bright and clean. With sixteen colour photographic plates and sixty-three monochrome photographic plates. The first in a series on bookbinding in the Piedmont region of northern Italy,… Read more about this item

London: Ernest Benn, 1926. [6], vii-xvi, 178pp, plates. Original cloth, title, author and publisher in gilt to spine. Small tear to head, corners bumped, cloth worn through in a couple of places to bottom edges. Internally the page corners are lightly bumped, text slightly browned, but generally clean. With sixty-four plates (six in colour and tissue guarded, and fifty-eight monochrome).… Read more about this item

London: Sherwood, Neely and Jones, 1816. [6] vii-xxxii, [1] 2-412pp, [4]. Original boards, later rebacked with a new title label. Boards worn and (suitably) flecked with paint. Internally lightly water stained to margins, especially bottom margin, but not too obtrusive. P5 and P6 with closed tears catching text but with no loss. Slightly later ownership inscription of Geo. Cossham? to… Read more about this item

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1930. [6], vii-xix, [3], 3-120pp, [2], plates. Original two colour cloth in DJ. DJ spine lightly browned, remainder very lightly browned with some very minor soiling, some wear and chipping to head of spine. Internally quite bright and clean. Slightly odorous. With monochrome photographic frontispiece and four plates and three maps on two sheets. Pendlebury (1904-1941)… Read more about this item

London & Boston: The Medici Society xx, 164pp with sixty-four plates, n.d. but 1928, original cloth with bevelled boards in DJ, t.e.g. DJ slightly chipped to spine ends, lightly browned and slightly rubbed, corners bumped. Internally the top corner has been clipped from ffep, text lightly browned to edges, monochrome illustrations with light staining to top edge, but generally fairly… Read more about this item

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996. x, 214pp, original buckram in DJ. Front flap of DJ creased, otherwise bright and clean. First Edition. Hardback. Very Good/Good+. 4to.

London: The Gnome Press, 1967. [48]p, original card covers. Spine slightly faded, pages lightly browned, but clean. Steadman illustrations throughout. First Edition. Card Covers. Good+. Illus. by Steadman, Ralph. 24mo.

London: No Publisher, 1840. [4]p, with the last page being the integral address panel, each page approximately 180mm x 225mm in size. Lightly soiled, creases from old folds, remnants of wax seal to final page, with address panel and date stamp, but lacking postage stamp. Fitzalan writing to his architect Robert Abraham on December 12th, 1840, noting the presence of… Read more about this item

London: J. Booth and T. Clay, 1820. [4], iv, 91pp, [1], five plates. Original boards, new spine to match, lacking original printed label. Rubbed to extremities, corners and edges bumped and worn, light white marks to top left corner of lower cover. Previous owners name to head of title, very slightly browned, otherwise fairly bright and clean. With five plates… Read more about this item

London: The Tate Gallery, 1971. [4], 5-112pp, original boards in DJ. DJ rubbed and lightly soiled to extremities with slight lifting to laminate, foxing to pastedowns and endpapers, light foxing to half-title, otherwise internally quite bright and clean. Catalogue of an exhibition at the Tate in 1971. With the card bookmark in the shape of a US GI's boot. First… Read more about this item

London: J. Taylor, Architectural Library, 1811. [4], xxii, [1], xviii-xix, [1], 135pp, [1], plates. Slightly later full Russian calf, smooth back divided into six panels by gilt rules, leather title label to second panel, remaining panels with central gilt device, thick and thin line border to covers, marbled endpapers. Chipped with small amount of loss to head of spine, split… Read more about this item

London: J. Taylor at the Architectural Library, 1800. xxiii, [1], 149pp, [3], plates. Contemporary full calf, smooth back, spine divided into six panels by gilt double rules, leather title label to second panel, gilt roll to edges of covers. Slightly rubbed to extremities, large bump to fore-edge of upper cover, corners bumped, internally bright and clean, with ten engraved plates… Read more about this item

Glasgow: Allan & Ferguson Single sided lithographic ticket, approximately 125mm x 90mm in size, n.d. c.1850? Very minor soiling, corners of reverse lightly glue stained, but generally quite bright. There are several James Millers in McEwan's 'Dictionary of Scottish Art & Architecture', but only one seems to work with the probable date of the card, but he is known as… Read more about this item

Glasgow: Allan & Ferguson Single sided lithographic ticket, approximately 150mm x 115mm in size, n.d. c.1844? Light surface soiling, small ink stain to reverse, corners of reverse lightly stained with glue, otherwise fairly clean. Sir David Wilkie (see McEwan's Dictionary of Scottish Art & Architecture, pages 605-6 and ODNB), died in 1841, however the dates on the card don't work,… Read more about this item

London: T.Cadell, Jun. And W. Davies, 1798. Three volumes complete - Volume One - [2], cxxiv, 288pp; Volume Two - [4], 427pp, [1] and Volume Three - [4], 370pp. Contemporary full tree calf, smooth back divided into six panels by gilt rules, morocco title label to second panel, volume number in gilt to fourth, old private library paper label to… Read more about this item