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Art & Architecture
We have a wide and varied collection of books on all forms of Art and Architecture, encompassing Engineering, Design, Furniture and Fashion. Many with fantastic plates and some real rarities included.
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1947 L'Allegro; Il PenserosoLondon: 1947A striking edition of John Milton's two poems, 'L'Allegro' & 'Il Penseroso', illustrated by British painter Bernard Meninsky. -
1958 Motif: A Journal of the Visual Arts. Issue No. 1London: 1958The first issue of the 'Motif' journal of the visual arts, with interesting articles on art and design, with contributions from the likes of Laurie Lee and Edward Ardizzone. -
1953 In Your Garden AgainLondon: 1953The first edition of Vita Sackville-West's second collection of articles from her gardening column in the Observer. -
1914 BlastLondon: 1914The first edition of the first issue of Wyndham Lewis' Vorticist literary magazine, an example of the modernist movement before World War One. -
1923 On the Morning of Christ's NativityCambridge: 1923John Milton's important ode, 'On the Morning of Christ's Nativity', paired with beautiful facsimile reproductions of the illustrations by William Blake. -
1941-46 Britain in PicturesLondon: 1941-46A lovely collection of four books from the 'Britain in Pictures Series', published in the 1940s with works from the likes of Vita Sackville-West. Illustrated with numerous colour plates, with two of the volumes in their original unclipped dust wrappers. -
1915 Blast War NumberLondon: 1915The second installment of Wyndham Lewis and Ezra Pound's very scarce, and pioneering literary magazine 'BLAST'. 'Blast' was the magazine for the Vorticist movement.