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Louis Comfort Tiffany and Laurelton Hall. With contributions by Elizabeth Hutchinson, Julia Meech, Jennifer Perry Thalheimer, Barbara Veith, and Richard Guy Wilson.

ALICE COONEY FRELINGHUYSEN. · 2006 · Clearwater Books

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,274)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, in association with Yale University Press, New Haven & London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing), issued to accompany a 2006 exhibitions at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. 4to. xiii, 262pp. Blue cloth lettered in silver at the …

Beaton Portraits. With essays by Roy Strong and Peter Conrad.

CECIL BEATON. Terence Pepper. · 2004 · Clearwater Books

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)

National Portrait Gallery, London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing), issued to accompany a major 2004 retrospective exhibition, 'Cecil Beaton: Portraits', at the National Portrait Gallery, London, and the following year at Kunstmuseum, Wolfsburg. 4to. 240pp. Black clo…

Bawden, Ravilious and the Artists of Great Bardfield. Edited by Gill Saunders and Malcolm Yorke.

EDWARD BAWDEN AND ERIC RAVILIOUS. · 2016 · Clearwater Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

Yorke. V&A Publishing, London in association with the Fry Art Gallery, Saffron Walden, 1st Edition, Second impression of the first edition, issued a year after the original impression. Landscape 4to. 208pp. Black boards lettered in white at the spine. With patterned endpapers an…

Princely Gardens. The Origins and Development of the French Formal Style.

KENNETH WOODBRIDGE. · 1965 · Clearwater Books

£50.00 (€59.93 | $66.05 | ¥10,548)

Thames & Hudson, London and New York, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 4to. 320pp. Green cloth lettered in gold at the spine. With over three hundred monochrome engravings and photographs. A miniscule blemish to the title page, else a fine copy in virtually fine dust…

Alfred Waterhouse 1830-1905.

ALFRED WATERHOUSE. Sally Maltby, Sally MacDonald and Colin Cunningham. · 1983 · Clearwater Books

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)

R. I. B. A., London, 1st Edition, First edition, issued to accompany a 1983 exhibition at the R. I. B. A. Heinz Gallery. Slim landscape 8vo. 64pp. Glossy decorated card wrappers. Illustrated with over sixty plans, photographs and reproductions, some in colour. Tiny crease to one…

Aristology; or The Art of Dining. With illustrations by Lynton Lamb.

THOMAS WALKER. Lynton Lamb. · 1965 · Clearwater Books

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Printed by Brooke Crutchley at The University Printing House, Cambridge, Lynton Lamb, The first edition with these Lynton Lamb illustrations, limited to 500 copies. Square 8vo. viii, 64pp. Cloth-backed decorated paper-covered boards, lettered in gold at the spine. With a title p…

Contemporary Cookery. Vogue Receipts 1945-1947. Edited by Evelyn Forbes, and with decorations by John Minton and Denton Welch.

JOHN MINTON AND DENTON WELCH. Doris Lytton Toye. · 1947 · Clearwater Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

Conde-Nast Publications Ltd., London, 1st Edition, John Minton & Denton Welch, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 136pp bookended with advertisements. Lettered and decorated red card wrappers, very lightly chafed at several extremities. Some spotting to the inner front wrapper…

Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon as Statesman, Historian, and Chancellor of the University. A lecture.

C. H. FIRTH. · 1909 · Clearwater Books

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,274)

Oxford University Press, 1st Edition, First edition of this 1909 lecture. Slim 8vo. 28pp bound into yapped lettered wrappers, which are slightly faded at the margins. A very good unopened copy, with some leaves uncut at the upper margin. [A light item, UK postage will be reduced…

Helen. A novel. With illustrations by Chris Hammond, and an introduction by Anne Thackeray Ritchie.

MARIA EDGEWORTH. · 1896 · Clearwater Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

Macmillan & Co. Ltd., London, 1st Edition, First edition thus, newly illustrated and introduced. 8vo. xiv, 490pp + [vi], 56pp publisher's catalogue. Red cloth with an embossed repeating pattern, lettered and bordered in gold at the spine and upper board. With a tissue-protected …

Towers and Transformations. Edited by Timothy Wilson, and with contributions from Anne Desmet, Anne Stevens, and David Lee.

ANNE DESMET. · 1998 · Clearwater Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,164)

Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 1st Edition, First edition, issued on the occasional of a 1998 retrospective exhibition at The Ashmolean Museum and subsequent tour. Square 8vo. 60pp. Card wrappers. With over twenty reproductions, predominantly in colour. The wrappers fractionally soil…

Urban Vodou. Politics and Popular Street Art in Haiti. With an introduction by carl-Hermann Middelanis.

PABLO BUTCHER. · 2010 · Clearwater Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,164)

Signal Books Ltd, Oxford, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). Landscape 4to. iv, 118pp. card wrappers with French flaps (not issued in casebound format). A fine copy. With nearly 150 colour photographs Haitian graffiti and street art, much of which was subsequently dest…

contributes his hitherto unprinted lengthy autobiographical poem 'Briggflatts' to an issue of the periodical 'Poetry'. Vol. 107, no. 4, January 1966.

BASIL BUNTING · 1966 · Clearwater Books

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Poetry. Vol. 107, no. 4, January, 1st Edition, First edition. Slim 8vo. Paginated 213-280pp + [ii] advertisements and subscription form. Card wrappers. A trace of soiling to mostly unprinted rear wrapper, else a fine copy. The poem was subsequently published as a stand-alone pam…

A Voyage to Cacklogallinia. With a Description of the Religion, Policy, Customs, and Manners of that Country. Reproduced from the original edition, 1727, with a new introduction by Marjorie Nicolson.

CAPTAIN SAMUEL BRUNT. · 1940 · Clearwater Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

Published for The Facsimile Text Society by Columbia University Press, New York, First edition thus. 8vo. xv, 167pp. Brown cloth lettered in gold at the spine. Former owner name neatly inked to the front free endpaper. Two tiny indentations to the head of the upper board. Very g…

Paintings by Michael Ayrton. With an introduction by James Laver.

MICHAEL AYRTON. · 1948 · Clearwater Books

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)

The Grey Walls Press Ltd., London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 4to. 17pp + il plates. Grey cloth lettered in gold at the spine and with a small gilt-stamped decoration to the upper board. Illustrated with forty mostly full-page plates of reproductions, including…

The Oxford Nursery Rhyme Book. Assembled by Iona and Peter Opie, and with illustrations by Joan Hassall.

ANTHOLOGY. Iona and Peter Opie. · 1955 · Clearwater Books

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Oxford University Press, London, 1st Edition, Joan Hassall, First Edition (first printing). Tall 8vo. xii, 224pp. Navy blue cloth, lettered, ruled and decorated in gold at the spine. With a half-title decoration and 150 of wood-engraved decorations in the text by Joan Hassall, a…

Catalogue of the Well-known Collection of Old Master Drawings, Principally of the Italian School formed in the 18th Century, by John Skippe. Now the Property of Edward Holland Martin, Esq., which will be sold at Christie, Mason & Woods Ltd.

JOHN SKIPPE. · 1958 · Clearwater Books

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,274)

Christie, Mason & Woods Ltd., 1st Edition, First edition of this November 1958 sale catalogue. 8vo. 224pp + 39 plates. Paper-covered boards. The backstrip lightly toned, and with a homemade spine label. Top edge and board margins very lightly spotted. Reynolds Stone-designed boo…

Swift's Satire on Learning in A Tale of a Tub.

JONATHAN SWIFT. Miriam Kosh Starkman. · 1950 · Clearwater Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,164)

Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. xix, 159pp. Russet-coloured cloth lettered and ruled in gold at the spine. The title page printed in black and brown. A trace of light spotting to the head of the boards, endpaper and pa…

Home and Garden. Notes and Thoughts, Practical and Critical, of a Worker in Both. Illustrated with photographs, mostly by the author.

GERTRUDE JEKYLL. · 1982 · Clearwater Books

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)

Antique Collectors' Club, Woodbridge, 1st Edition, First edition thus, with new colour photographs by Kenneth Scowen and some additional comments by the author. 8vo. 374pp + [i] publisher's advertisement. Green cloth lettered in gold at the spine and upper board. With photograph…

Richard Jefferies. A Critical Study.

RICHARD JEFFERIES. W. J. Keith. · 1965 · Clearwater Books

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University of Toronto Press, 'Department of English Studies and Texts' series, Toronto, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 199pp. Blue cloth lettered and ruled in gold at the spine. The edges and one or two preliminary and concluding leaves very lightly spotted, a…

Laird of Auchinleck 1778-1782. Edited by Joseph W. Reed and Frederick A. Pottle.

JAMES BOSWELL. · 1977 · Clearwater Books

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,274)

McGraw-Hill Book Company, 'The Yale Editions of The Private Papers of James Boswell' series, New York, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. xxxiv, 570pp. Quarter cloth with paper-covered sides, lettered in gold at the spine. A touch of soiling to the boards, and a l…