451 Pocock (William Fuller). Modern Finishings for Rooms: A Series of Designs for Vestibules, Halls, Stair Cases, Dressing Rooms, Boudoirs, Libraries, and Drawing Rooms, with their Doors, Windows, Chimney-Pieces, and Other Finishings..., to which are added some Designs for Villas and Porticos..., 1811, eighty-six eng. plts., occasional dampstianing (mostly light), with contemporary 4pp. folding book seller’s catalogue for J. Taylor’s Architectural Library, No. 59, High Holborn, London bound-in at rear, modern half sheep, 4to (1)
457 Wyatt (M. Digby). The Industrial Arts of the Nineteenth Century at the Great Exhibition, 1851, vol. II only, 1853, chromo. title, 80 chromo. plates, a few spots and frayed foredges, contents disbound, original green morocco gilt, some wear, folio (1)
£200-300
458 Zahn (Wilhelm). Ornamente aller Klassischen KunstEpochen, 3rd ed., Berlin, 1870, 100 chromo. plates, one or two with light marginal soiling, a few frayed foredges, tape reinforced hinges splitting, original cloth, a little rubbed with edge wear, oblong folio
£200-300
(1)
£200-300
452 Richardson (Jonathan). Two Discourses: I. An Essay on the Whole Art of Criticism as it Relates to Painting... , II. An Argument in behalf of the Science of a Connoisseur... , 2 parts in 1, 1st ed., 1719, separate title to each part, advert leaf at rear, some light marginal dampstaining and browning to early leaves, a few ink lib. stamps, later related manuscript notes tipped in at rear, modern quarter morocco gilt over marbled boards, 8vo (1)
£200-300
453 Smith (Bradley). Japan. A History in Art, New York, 1964, colour illustrations, a few spots to endpapers, original cloth, d.j., one or two tears and repairs, 4to, together with Tunhuang Painted Sculptures, 1978, colour plates, text in Chinese, original cloth, d.j., light edge wear, 4to, with other Chinese and Japanese art reference including Paintings of Four Masters in Yuan Dynasty, Chinese ed., 1994, Richard Illing’s The Art of Japanese Prints, 1980 and The Art and Architecture of Japan, 1955 (21)
£70-100
454 Steadman (Ralph). The Big I Am, 1st ed., 1988, numerous colour illusts., signed and dated 16 November 1988 to half title, orig. cloth in d.j., square 4to, together with Caro (Anthony), Caro at the Trajan Markets, Rome, 1st ed., 1993, numerous colour illusts., signed and inscribed by the artist to title 'For Leonie with warm regards, Anthony Caro, 2 December 93', orig. cloth in d.j., square 4to, plus other signed artists' books and exhibition catalogues, including Wendy Taylor by Edward Lucie-Smith, Christopher Le Brun, Carel Weight, a quantity of art books, formerly owned by Ceri Richards, including several volumes from the 1930s of which one or two contain orig. pencil doodles and a copy of Maurice Nadeau's Histoire du Surrealisme, Documents Surrealistes, signed and inscribed by George Melly, and an original typescript by W. S. Meadmore entitled A Scarecrow on Matchsticks, a full-length portrait of Rowley Smart, artist and bohemian, dated 1932, bound in full morocco, thick 4to (approx. 50)
Lot 451
£100-150
455 [Tarbuck, Edward Lance]. The Builder’s Practical Director or Buildings for all Classes Containing Plans, Sections and Elevations for the Erection of Cottages, Villas, Farm Buildings, Dispensaries, Public Schools &c, [1855-57], tinted litho title, hand-col. frontis., approx. ninety plates only, including ground-plans, elevations, etc., many heightened with colour, some spotting to margins, contemp. half calf, rubbed and scuffed with some wear to extrems., 4to Sold as a collection of plates, not subject to return. (1)
£100-150
456 Vitruvius Pollio (Marcus). De Architectura libri decem. Cum notis castigationibus & observationibus Guilielmi Philandri integris, Danielis Barbari excerptis, & Claudii Salmasii passim insertis..., Amsterdam, Ludovicum Elzevirium, [1649], addn. eng. title, num. woodcut illusts., contemp. calf gilt, spine torn and chipped at head, rubbed, folio Willems 1097. (1)
£700-1000
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