Newton Abbott David and Charles 1972

Extensivley illustrated.4to cloth boards with illustrated dust wrapper . Spine slightly faded otherwise a very good copy. A compilation publication reproduced from 12 Heal and Son catalogues to trace taste in furnishings of smaller homes.

Chicago Published by the firm, 193 Wabash Ave, Chicago. 1902

19pp, Colour ill, long 8vo decorated wrappers. Very good indeed. Beautifully illustrated trade catalogue. Shows a range of elaborate domestic interior decoration. This was the third of a series of booklets showing the range of styles which they executed from aesthetic style to colonial. Lovely item. Well known Chicago firm who operated as decorators and fitters for interiors from the late 19th century onwards.

B.T. Batsford (1899) 6th edition 1948

Present edition revised and enlarged with 184pp + 670 illustrations by the author, + 72 photo plates in b/w. Green cloth. Very good in very good dust wrapper. Prize bookplate of the previous owner who was a prize winning apprentice in painting and decorating etc.

London Scott Greenwood & Son 1902

139 pp. colour frontis + 36 b/w ills. Dark green boards with embossed border, gilt lettering on cover and spine. Spine sl. faded. 8vo. Vg. Explains the art and mysteries of producing a stained glass window. Written by the author for both artist and general reader 'with an antiquarian turn of mind'. Chapters include Designing Scale Drawings, Cartoons and the Outline, The Various Kinds of Glass-Cutting for Windows, The Colours and Brushes used in Glass Paining, and Fret Lead Glazing. With 24-page 'Abridged Catalogue of Special Technical Books'. Two colour plates, called for on title page, not present, as usual.

London: John van Voorst 1849

Vol. I: xii, 111pp, incl 97 ills and 6 plates; vol. II: 60 plates with a leaf of descriptive text. 228x150mm. Uniform blue gilt lettered cloth. Very good and very bright set of this study. Predates Sharpe's more well known treatise 'Architectural Parallels.'

Dublin Browne and Nolan Limited. 1957

77 pp. 12 plates in colour and b/w including colour frontispiece. 8vo. Buckram covered boards with title embossed on upper board. Small area of discolouration on buckram. Internally very good. Previous owner's signature on front end paper. Contributions and recollections dedicated to the memory of these two Irish artists, assessing their work, including notable figures, such as John Piper, Elizabeth Bowen, C.P. Curran, Raymond Mortimer and others. Both Evie Hone.[1894-1955] and Mainie Jellett [1897-1944] were important figure in Irish art history, both as an early proponents of abstract art and as a champions of the modern movement. Having met at Wesminster School of Art, they became life long friends, both trained under cubist teachers including Albert Glezies and André Lohte. Hard to find.

London George Harrap and Co Limited. 1937

xvi, [2] 428 pages, Illustrated with tipped in colour plates on thick art grade paper on black backgrounds. 4to. Gilt lettered cloth. A little worn at edges else very good. With two loosely inserted printed greetings cards from Charles Connick dated 1940. Connick's studio continued to operate, and remained a leading producer of stained glass, until 1986. Connick's archive is at the Rotch Library, MIT Boston. Foreword by Charles D. Maginnis FHIH.

London Heal & Co., Printed at the Arden Press Letchworth nd c1909

22pp+ 2pp illustrated with b/w line illustrations. Original sugar paper wrappers with paste down label which wrap around inner paper binding. Small 8vo. Very good indeed. Advert for Heal's catalogues and products at the end. Beautiful item in fine condition The author is the typographer and journalist Joseph Thorp (1873-1962) offering independent polemical notes on taste, the traditions of Heals as a source of good taste in design and "directing inspiration" Lovely wood block full page illustrations throughout. Thorp moved form working at the Arden Press. He was involved in the Curwen Press and wrote later in life a biography of Eric Gill.

Cambridge University Press 1937

First edition. xiv + [3] + 234pp illus with 24 b/w plates, 4to, cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Very good although with some browning of endpapers. Pevsner made this carefully and well-researched survey of the conditions and artistic value of design in English industries and it remains a key text on the subject in which he considers the European perspective, particularly German design, and links it to the United Kingdom.

Oxford John Henry Parker 1847

Two volume set. Vol. I, i-xxiv, 422pp + [2pp adverts] + 27 b/w ills. Vol. II, i-iv, 98pp, + list of 75 ills. 23 pages of text that identify 49 b/w and 26 hand coloured illustrations. Attractive full calf binding with tooling to spine. Important study of stained glass.

London Yale University Press 2015

336pp illustrated with sumptuous colour plates throughout. 4to. New, dust wrapper. Based on more than three decades of research, Arts & Crafts Stained Glass is the first study of how the late-19th-century Arts and Crafts Movement transformed the aesthetics and production of stained glass in Britain and America. Much on key individual designers and the role of Christopher Whall in the period in drawing attention to glass and teaching techniques. This is a democratic art in so far as both men and women were active in the craft at the time. Published at £50

London (1936) Faber and Faber 1939

46pp b/w illustrations + coloured maps, decorated end papers + paste down. Small 4to, cloth boards, covered plastic spiral binding boards over + illustrated dust wrapper. Dust wrapper slightly worn at the head of the spine. An excellent first edition of Nash's guide to Buckinghamshire. 2nd edition of the Bucks guide. First Faber edition.

Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery 1984

169pp with 111 b/w illustrations. Small square 4to in wraps, vg. A collection of 8 essays, each dealing with a different aspect of Birmingham as an important provincial centre for the Arts and Crafts Movement in Britain. Subjects covered include architecture, decorative painting, book illustration, metalwork and stained glass. With useful gazetteer of works by Birmingham based craftsmen and a catalogue of books illustrated by Birmingham artists.

London John Murray 1961

294pp illus with 4 colour and 144 b/w plates. Very good with sl. in good wrapper. Previous owner's bookplates on front end paper. On the inspiration of China in western design, art, architecture and landscape.

(1915) Williams & Norgate Limited new and revised edition 1949

242pp with 32 pages of illustrations. Cloth. Faded on spine. Authoritative study of planning by this key figure. Revision omitted five chapters in the original considered then to be only of historical significance. Nonetheless a very useful edition of a hard to find book with new material.

Des Moines, Iowa: Wallace-Homestead Book Company 1970-1980

Three volumes, all spiral bound. Parts 1 and 2 each contain 24 colour plates plus 1pp introduction and 24pp facing-page commentary. Part 3 also contains 24 colour plates with commentary, several of which are reproductions of period advertisements. Overall in vg condition for ephemeral items, with a small crease to front cover of part 3 and very light spotting to part 2. A fabulous catalogue of the colourful pressed or 'tank' glassware produced in huge quantities throughout the 1920s-40s. Increasingly appreciated by collectors, these pieces also provide an insight into popular design in the early 20th C.

HMSO for the Council of Industrial Design 1946

144pp illus with b/w plates and line ills. Colour decorated wrappers. 4to. Sl. worn along edges and a little bumped on bottom corner at spine else a good copy of this ephemeral publication which documented the key design items in the exhibition including modern household appliances, furniture, fabric, silver, fashion etc. Uncommon.

London Ernest Benn Ltd. n.d. (1927)

xii + 161pp + c.60pp 'Gallery of Publicity Art' or advertising supplement. Cloth-backed boards in good condition. Many b/w plates illustrating the best contemporary design in architecture, furniture, advertising, etc. Contributions from Frank Pick, G. Russell and others. An essential text on design for the period.

London Benn Brothers 1922

157pp illustrated with b/w plates. 4to. Maroon paper-covered boards, paste-down label. The D.I.A. was founded in 1915 by designers, businessmen and industrialists, with the slogan "Nothing need be Ugly". The Yearbook illustrates contemporary design for interiors and objects. Designers identified. The illustrations in this publication indicate the growing influences in domestic design of early modernism. More volumes available.

London, The Studio 1927

vii+ 31pp plus 119 photogravure plates, 8 in colour and 5pp period ads. Paper wraps worn at spine, else very good indeed. A special edition of The Studio Magazine focusing on theatrical design including sets, costumes and the work of British and Continental designers. With commentary by George Sherringham and James Laver, together with literary contributions by E. Gordon Craig, Charles B. Cochran and Nigel Playfair. The text is accompanied by a fascinating collection of plates, showing sketches and photographs of elaborate costumes and scenery with a strong 1920s aesthetic.