An exquisite series displaying fashion in magnificent and imaginative illustrations by George Barbier the noted early twentieth century French art...

The complete six-volume set of George Walter Thornbury's (1828-1876) narrative history of London, nicely illustrated and full of insightful reflec...

Tennyson's favourite portrait, signed by him. John Jabez Edwin Mayall (1810-1901) was an English photographer, born Jabez Meal in Lancashire, who f...

A well illustrated account of rings from the earliest time to the present, with full descriptions of the origin, early making, materials, etc. Cer...

A history of book design. This visual history brings together an extraordinary collection of books to illustrate a canon of more than five hundred ...

The complete suite of hand-coloured plates depicting London street life in the early 1800's. Each plate strikes some telling contrasts, placing so...

With contemporary hand colour. Beautiful plates, scarce with vibrant original hand-colour: a complete set of pilasters from the first part of the L...

Deemed worthy of exhibition at the Paris World's Fair 1900. The finest and most meticulous images of the moon until the 1970's.The Atlas photograph...

Jewellery and other artist design work by the German artist and craftsman David Bielander.First edition; 2 vols (comprising photobook and text-boo...

Signed and numbered by the artist. A monumental book with striking full-page etchings by Frink depicting the figures, animals and birds that charac...

Rare German costume book of the Nuremberg carnival Hand-coloured illustrations of carnival scenes, the second volume also contains a facsimile of ...

Art Deco style personified. A fine and rare complete set of one of the most beautiful fashion magazines to appear in France after the Great War; wi...

The first appearance of the famous doctor syntax. Containing some of Thomas Rowlandson's best-known images. Abbey states that the magazine was prob...

Deluxe edition one of 10 copies signed by the artist . One of the most delightful of all Cubist illustrated books with an introduction by Tristan T...

Surrealist work beautifully bound . La femme 100 têtes was the first of three collage-novels by Max Ernst. The artist forges a universe of mystery,...

Signed by Miro in red pencil. A fine example of the limited edition, signed by Miro in red pencil. Both the Spanish artist Joan Miro and the French...

One of 20 hors commerce copies . with 15 supplementary plates and two extra suites of all the illustrations. Set in the period between the second a...

Inscribed by the author. Richard Cork (b. 1947) is an award-winning art critic, historian, broadcaster and curator. Formerly Art Critic of The Even...