New York, Time Inc. 1948

222pp with b/w and colour illustrations throughout. Wraps, a little dusty and chipped at base of spine. Covers 40 stores across America, each with illustration and brief commentary. Packed with period adverts in colour and black and white. Super period images of shops and stores of all sizes. Architects always given. Useful case studies for post war shopping in the USA.

Produced by Jones & Palmer Ltd nd 2004

96pp, with full page colour illustrations of the pots featured. 4to. Cloth bound. Very good with dust wrapper. Introduction by Tanya Harrod. Photography by Chris Chapman. Features the work of Svend Bayer, Bruce Chivers, Clive Bowen, Nic Collins, Tim Andrews. Beautifully produced study of contemporary ceramics.

(1615) London, The Leadenhall Press 1898

Irregularly paginated, but c134 pp. + 24 pp. ads for books published by the Leadenhall Press. Royal 8vo. Bound in velum reproduction of original binding, missing leather thong ties. Covers slightly grubby and bottom upper corner has a crease across it but lettering on upper board very bright. Additional to titles is the hand written ownership details. This is from the office of "Alfred Goslett & Co. Ltd, Antique Lead Glaziers, 26 Soho Square, London". Internal pages uniformly browned as is often the case. Facsimile of this fascinating early 17th C text and pattern book for glaziers.

Grove Press, Inc, 1968

First edition. First printing 451pp Dust jacket and edges shows shelf wear and has a number of short tears along top edge. Not price clipped but inner flap has been creased. Cloth a little faded along lower edge. he Pop Art legend's first novel, consisting of transcriptions of conversations between the author and Factory-figure Ondine. From the collection of Eduardo Paolozzi but without his ownership signature. Slight musty smell.

London J. M. Dent and Sons (1936) 1937

Unpaginated c. 120pp, b/w illus with captions, 8vo cloth,decorated endpapers. Pictorial dw has pieces missing to the upper and lower, else a vg copy. Loosely inserted article on a Hoppé exhibition. Book made at The Temple Press, Letchworth. Ex Libris Gavin Stamp, with his bookplate.

Upper Saddle River, New Jersey Gregg Press 1971

355 pp + 263 illustrations. Quarto. Blue lettered cloth. Good copy. Bookplate of Henry Potts on front paste down.

London 17 Mount Street W. nd c1910

26pp illustrated with b/w plates of various designed garden ornaments. 5pp introductory text. The remainder illustrates various terra cottas but refers to a much larger catalogue available with over 1000 examples. Last page is a list of clients supplied - mostly gentry. Manifattura di Signa, founded in Signa (Florence), in 1895 by Camillo Bondi. The factory catered to the tastes of those wanting reproductions of sculptural and decorative masterpieces from Etruscan to Greek statuary; from Roman to Renaissance; from Moorish vases to contemporary Liberty creations. Inner wrapper has pencil notes on prices of some pieces. Title page a little dusty else very good. Decorated wrappers, stitched.

Worcestershire Roy Albutt 2008

97 pp. 27 colour plates. Decorated, laminated wrappers. 8vo. Fine. This book has gazetteers of stained glass windows and decorative artwork, a bibliography and index. Colour photographs illustrate the range of works produced by this designer craftsman.

Swarthmore, PA, by the Author [1944] 1947

128pp with b/w photographs and diagrams throughout. 4to. Gilt lettered cloth, vg, with light shelf wear at corners and head of spine. Shelf mark on spine and library stamp on rear end paper from Morton Sundour Co. Inc. New York. Lacks front end paper. All patterns are classed according to type and illustrated. 3rd printing, signed by the author on fep. The book indicates the expansion of the UK market into the American one.

London: Faber and Faber, 1958

448pp. Crown 8vo. Illustrated with 9Colour frontis, 394 further illustrations in black and white and some additional colour tipped in plates. Very good copy in a slightly chipped dw. History of European illustration is surveyed from the earliest illuminated manuscripts down to the present day + a description of all the processes employed in reproduction of images etc. First edition. Loosely inserted contemporary book review from the Times by Robert Harling.

London Geroge Allen and Unwin Ltd 1948

xx + 395pp illustrated with 6 colour plates and 507 b/w plates and figures. 4to. Gilt lettered cloth. A little rubbed along spine else very good copy. Dedicated to W R Lethaby, this study is a comprehensive study of the development of cast iron and uses in building up to the second world war. A definitive and well illustrated account. Ownership signature on front paste down of William Taylor. Increasingly hard to find.

London, Longmans Green and Co 1872

xvi + 427 + (1)pp, 36 woodcut plates, 12 text ills, one leaf publishers' adverts. Many buildings illustrated erected between 1860 and 1870. This was the first published study on the gothic revival, and although it is widely available in a reprint this is a lovely copy of the original decorated and stamped cloth possibly designed by Eastlake to reflect the gothic subject matter of the book. Sl. rubbed at head and base of spine, scratch on spine and related small tear else a very good copy. Bookplate of William J Newton R S A and his stamp on half title.

Hull A. Brown and Sons Ltd 1945

92pp text, 13 folded maps in colour, full page visionary sketches of the future city and 48 b/w plates documenting the city buildings and townscape. Large 4to. Vg copy. Hull was one of the most bomb-damaged cities in the North of England during WW2. Superb publication of the scheme to reconstruct the city and improve the Region.

Middlesex Polytechnic 1989

72pp illus with b/w and colour plates. Royal 8vo. Decorated wraps with dw, this sl soiled. To accompany the important exhibition of the Silver Studio Collection. Essays contributed by Mark Pinney and Leslie Hoskins. One or two illustration pages are slightly stuck in the corners. Images unaffected. Ex libris Gavin Stamp with his bookplate.

London Crosby Lockwood and Son. 1922

11th impression xxi+(1)+394pp, 44pp adverts. 9 colour plates, numerous text ills. The colour plates show wood and marble effects created by graining and marbling. 8vo. Green decorated cloth. Very good copy. A very useful text on paint techniques which deals exhaustively with every aspect including graining, marbling and decorative panels together with setting out lettering for sign writing..

London M Taylor 1839 a new edition

Frontis, vii, 111pp and 43 elegantly engraved plates. Marble boards, quarter calf, new end papers . Evidence of faint water stain to frontis and some plates else a very good copy.

Glasgow, Blackie & Son 1836

vi, 114pp. Green cloth. small 8vo. No title labels. Yellow end papers. Good copy. Dedication leaf to The Noblemen and Gentlemen of the Counties of Aberdeen, Banff and Moray. Proposes remedies developed over a long career. The appendix starts at page 50 and thereafter there is a fascinating list of places where George Silver has worked as "smoke curer" and some case studies of how he proceeded with his cures. A quirky little book. Unusual.