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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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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The Quest for Corvo by A.J.A. Symons | The Folio Society, 1952 | S.L. Hartz wood engraving on cover
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Travelers All, the story of how plants go places. Written & drawn by Irma E. Webber. William R. Scott, New York. Undated, c. 1945
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An Approach to Type by John R. Biggs | New revised edition, Blandford, 1961
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Edward Bawden Storyteller | Morley Gallery London 2014 | Nick Rampley, Peyton Skipwith, Elaine Andrews and Alan Powers
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Bridget Riley | Paintings and drawings 1961-1973 Arts Council
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Gerhard Richter | Deutsche Bank collection catalogue booklet | Ulrich Wilmes, 1988
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Planes / The Planar Dimension by Margaret Rowell | Solomon Guggenheim Foundation, 1979
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Foundations of Modern Art by Ozenfant | Dover Publications, New York, 1952
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Brazil Builds Architecture New and Old 1652-1942 / Construção Brasileira: Arquitetura Moderna e Antiga 1652-1942 by Philip Lippincott Goodwin | MoMA, New York, 2nd revised edition 1943
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Type specimen for Garaldus | Società Nebiolo, Torino Aldo Novarese, 1956
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Saint Roch Healer. Leaflet as broadsheet. Printed by 'E.W.' Edward Walters, 1934
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Real Art 1996 Vol 2 No. 9 edited by Malcolm Gibson limited edition signed artwork
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Michael Craig-Martin. Surfacing | Milton Keynes Gallery, 2004
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Au Printemps magazine 3 Fevrier 1937/38 | Guillaume et Huot, Paris
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Typographica 10 (new series) December 1964 | Lund Humphries, edited by Herbert Spencer
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A Typographer's ABC | Elsi Vasdal Ellis, 1992 | limited edition signed Eve Press
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