[Art and Design]

i) Frink, Elisabeth. Sculpture: Catalogue Raisonné. Harpvale, 1984, inscribed by the artist, dust-jacket, publisher's slipcase, upper hinge weak, together with 4 other books on the artist, 3 of which inscribed; ii) Twitchett, John and Better Bailey. Royal Crown Derby. New York: Clarkson N. Potter, 1976, presentation copy, signed by the authors, dust-jacket, together with 2 other inscribed books on Derby porcelain; iii) [Freud, Lucian]. Drawings 1940. New York: Matthew Marks Gallery, 2003, dust-jacket, together with 2 other Freud exhibition catalogues; iv) Hampton, Mark. Legendary Decorators of the Twentieth Century. New York: Doubleday, 1992, inscribed, dust-jacket, together with 5 other books on interior design, 2 of which inscribed; v) Brown, Christopher and others. Rembrandt: the Master and his Workshop. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1991, 2 volumes, publisher's slipcase; vi) Levey, Santina M. The Embroideries at Hardwick Hall. National Trust, 2007, signed, including a foreword by Deborah, Duchess of Devonshire, dust-jacket; together with 18 others, of which 3 inscribed to the Duchess, mostly 4to, original cloth and wrappers, all but one with the Duchess's bookplate, some wear to dust-jackets, where present (37)

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