Lot 70
  • 70

ART AND ARCHITECTURE, A COLLECTION OF WORKS, 1850-1973, (25 VOLUMES)

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800 - 1,200 GBP
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Description

  • A Collection of twenty works in twenty-five volumes, comprising:
Marryat, Joseph. Collections towards a History of Pottery and Porcelain.  John Murray, 1850.  contemporary calf gilt, collector's bookplate; Dore, Gustave (illustrator). Spain by Jean Charles D'Avillier. Bickers & Son, 1881. pictorial cloth gilt; Marillier, H.C. Dante Gabriel Rossetti. An Illustrated Memorial of his Art and Life. George Bell and Sons, 1899. pictorial cloth gilt;  Gardner, J. Starkie. English Ironwork of the XVIIth & XVIIIth Centuries. B.T. Batsford, 1911; Jones, Sydney R. The Village Homes of England. The Studio Ltd., 1912; Stratton, Arthur. The English Interior: A Review of the Decoration of English Homes from the Tudor Times to the XIXth Century. B.T. Batsford Ltd., 1920; Carrington, John Bodman, Hughes, George Ravensworth. The Plate of the Worshipful Company of the Goldsmiths. Oxford: University Press, 1926;  Wilson, Mona. The Life of William Blake. The Nonesuch Press, 1927. quarter vellum over marbled boards; Chatterton, E. Keble. Old Ship Prints. John Lane, The Bodley Head Limited, 1927; Lloyd, Nathaniel. A History of English Brickwork. H. Grevillie Montgomery, 1925; Bainbridge, Henry Charles. Peter Carl Faberge. B.T. Batsford, 1949. inscribed by the author, one of 1,750 copies; Butler, A.S.G. The Architecture of Sir Edwin Lutyens. Country Life Limited, 1950. 3 volumes, dust-jackets, minor soiling and chipping to dust-jacket; [with the additional volume] Hussey, Christopher. The Life of Sir Edwin Lutyens. Country Life Limited, 1950. dust-jacket; Jones, Barbara. The Unsophisticated Arts. The Architectural Press, 1951; Hill, Oliver. Scottish Castles of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Country Life Limited, 1953; Edwards, Ralph. The Dictionary of English Furniture from the Middle Ages to the late Georgian Period. Country Life Limited, 1954. 3 volumes, second revised and enlarged edition, dust-jackets, jackets worn and chipping; Keynes, Geoffrey. Blake's Pencil Drawings. Second Series. Nonesuch Press, 1956. patterned dust-jacket;  Baille, G.H., Clutton, C., Ilbert, C.A. Britten's Old Clocks and Watches and their Makers. E. & F.N. Spon Ltd., 1956. seventh edition, dust-jacket; Entwisle, E.A. A Literary History of Wallpaper. B.T. Batsford Ltd., 1960; Blake, William. Illustrations to "The Grave". Double Elephant Folio and Quarto Co., London, 1973; Handbook of Coloured Ornament in the Historic Styles. B.T. Batsford; various sizes and bindings (25)

Condition

Condition is described in the main body of the catalogue, where appropriate.
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