Collection: Featured items
A relatively-random selection of our favourite things from across all of our collections. Vintage and rare second-hand material, with a particular focus on 20th century art and design.
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Drawing for Illustration by Lynton Lamb | Oxford University Press, 1962
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Let’s Look at Houses and Homes by Joan Morey | Frederick Muller, 1964 illustrated by Kenneth E. Carter
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Middle England twenty four photographs by John R. Myers c1974
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The Shaker [furniture] Shop London catalogue and price list. Dated 1989
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The Music of Painting by Peter Vergo | Phaidon. 2012 reprint
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R.B. Kitaj. Pastels and drawings | Marlborough Fine Art 1980
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Kandinsky, Marc & Der Blaue Reiter | Hatje Cantz, Berlin, 2016 English edition
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Henry Moore – Back to a Land | Yorkshire Sculpture Park, 2016
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Machines which seem to think by Marie Neurath. Max Parrish, London, 1954 Isotype Institute
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Rockets and Jets by Marie Neurath. Max Parrish, London, 1951 Isotype Institute
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Henry Lamb. The Artist and his Friends by Keith Clements | Redcliffe Press, 1985
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The Story of Graphic Design by Patrick Cramsie | British Library, 2010
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Cambridge New Architecture. A guide to modern buildings | Nikolaus Pevsner, 1964
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Surrealism Permanent revelation by Roger Cardinal & Robert Stuart Short | Studio Vista, 1970
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Contemporary British Sculpture 1960 | Arts Council catalogue, 1960
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Japanese Colour-Prints | Victoria and Albert Museum | Arthur W. Ruffy | HMSO 1952
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A Masterpiece Born of a Benedictine Monk's Secret | Tolmer, Fécamp undated
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The Printed Book by Harry G. Aldis | Cambridge University Press, 1929 reprint
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Graham Sutherland by Edward Sackville-West | Penguin Painters, revised 1955
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Where Shall I Live. The Building of the First Garden City at Letchworth Nottingham University Art Gallery, 1978
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The James Bond Dossier by Kingsley Amis | Jonathan Cape, 1965
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Archigram edited by Peter Cook. Revised edition published by Princeton Architectural Press, 1999. New foreword by Mike Webb
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Country Walks London Transport (3 vols) by Charles White. Eric Ravilious woodcuts Vol 1 (1936); Vol 2 (second and revised edition 1938, first published 1936); Vol 3 (second and revised edition 1939, first published 1937)
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Petit Atlas Des Champignons. Delachaux & Niestlé. Neuchâtel. Undated believed to date from 1900. Text in French. Small pocket sized book with fold out pages
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A Ballade Upon A Wedding a discourse between two countrey men by Sir John Suckling. The High House Press, 1925. Edition of 162 this being numbered 44. Includes original bookseller’s receipt
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Cryséde: The Unique Textile Designs of Alec Walker by Hazel Berriman | Royal Institution of Cornwall, Truro, 1993
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Meredith Frampton by Richard Morphet. Tate Gallery, 1982. Signed/inscribed by Meredith Frampton to Diana. Includes private view invitation for the exhibition and original envelope plus newspaper clipping
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British Industries Fair BIF 1956. Earls Court, London guidebook covering the event organised by British Industries Fair Limited between 22 February and 2 March 1956
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Ivon Hitchens by Patrick Heron | The Penguin Modern Painters, 1955
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The Age of Automation by Leon Bagrit. The Reith Lectures 1964 | Pelican, 1966 edition
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Polemic 2 edited by Humphrey Slater. Rodney Phillips & Co, January 1946. Cover design by Ben Nicholson. Typography by Anthony Froshaug
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Bill Brandt Photographs | Arts Council, Hayward Gallery, 1970
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Marlborough Graphics. New Portfolios 1966-67 Marlborough Fine Art catalogue booklet | Gordon House
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Contemporary British Landscape | Exhibition catalogue, Arts Council 1960-1
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Le Corbusier | The Modulor | Faber Paperbacks, 1977 edition
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Sunlight Almanac For the Home 1899. Lever Brothers, Port Sunlight
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