BOOKS

A colour sample book produced by the Indestructible Paint Company.

A scarce colour sample book intended to standardise colours in British industries.

The autobiography of English surrealist artist Eileen Agar.

The first issue of America's colour standard system.

The 1941 edition of America's colour standard system.

The second volume in David Hick's classic series of design volumes, with the iconic stripy dust jacket.

See through the eyes of Fornasetti with this inspirational scrapbook of ideas and designs.

A prose poem from the Surrealist art patron Edward James.

Inscribed by Edward James to Penelope Betjeman.

The sale catalogue for the auction of Edward James' Surrealist and Neo-Romantic art collection.

The contents of Versace's South Beach, Malibu palazzo.

The auction catalogue for the contents of Versace's Manhattan townhouse.

The baroque theatricality of the Duquettes and Dawnridge.

Auction catalogue of Princess Margaret's jewellery collection and the contents of her Kensington Palace apartment.

One man's Rococo vision.

Antonio Lopez's eighties take on Scheherazade's tales.

Hugh Cecil's 1920s photographs of society beauties.

A signed copy of Sophie Calle's explorative artist's book.

The only book available on the work of the 1920s and '30s German female painter and illustrator.

A macabre tale with illustrations by Salvador Dali.