Jewellery rare books

Third edition, second issue; 4to (25 x 19 cm); richly illustrated throughout; later green morocco by Riviere for Asprey & Co, boards ruled in gilt, gilt pine, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, spine slightly faded; 186pp.

First edition, first impression. Fully illustrated. Folio. Publisher's burgundy cloth, titles to upper board and spine gilt, top edge gilt. Tissue guards inevitably browned, spine perhaps just a trace faded but an exceptionally fresh copy.

First edition; 8vo; 290 illustrations (3 colour plates, the rest duotone and line drawings); handsomely bound in decorative red cloth, lacking original slipcase; a very good copy, in archival acetate jacket, lightly rubbed spine, worming to p.271 touching text; 381pp.

First edition; 8vo; 290 illustrations (3 colour plates, the rest duotone and line drawings), handsome bookplate on front pastedown, some pages lightly bumped at edges; handsomely bound in decorative red cloth, lacking original slipcase; a very good copy, spine lightly bleached with slight rubbing to white decoration, rear hinge slightly cracked; 381pp.

A collection of 14 Art Deco designs for jewellery pen & ink and water-colour & white, on cellulose and card; the larger design of four diamond and sapphire rings measures 200 x 160 mm; the others vary but approximately, 140 x 100 mm.

2 vols. one vol. landscape 4to (24.5 x 32.5 cm) and one vol. portrait 4to (32.5 x 24.5 cm); 2200 original designs of rings in pencil and pen , all with their catalogue number either in ink or pencil, some t inscriptions in pencil; the landscape album contains about 1000 designs on 54 pages (usually 20 per page, model numbers 2208-2845 and 1-355), in pencil , including some unfinished designs, some drawn with black ink, ( 20 blank pages at rear), the portrait album with a further 1200 designs on 138 pages (mostly 8 per album page, often on both sides, model numbers 4000-5199; both vols bound in contemporary black morocco backed patterned boards, some wear and tear to the extremities; both with brown paper labels with ink numbers; overall a very good example of an unusual jewellery catalogue.

First edition; 2 vols (comprising photobook and text-booklet); photographic illustrations, text booklet printed in red in English, French & German; photobook publisher's wraparound pictorial boards, booklet original printed wrappers, a fine copy.

First edition; 8vo (17 x 11.5 cm); title within double-ruled woodcut border, title a little soiled with very minor restoration to inner margin, a good copy otherwise, ink ownership inscription to head, bookplate to front pastedown; 20th century morocco, gilt, spine slightly faded; [16], 180, 182-185pp.

First English edition; 12mo (13.5 x 8 cm); light marking and soiling to title, I2 with small portion of restoration, affecting a few words, occasional browning, margins trimmed, ink inscription 'ffor my Lady Conway' pasted to front free endpaper, ink ownership inscriptions to front free endpaper and rear pastedown, auction description tipped onto front pastedown, repair in manuscript to hole in I2; contemporary tree calf, spine gilt, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece, sympathetically rebacked, edges stained red, extremities lightly rubbed; [16], 128pp.