New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1924

Limited Edition. 1086/2050. 64pp Illustrated with engravings. Uncut. 4to. Quarter black cloth, printed paper boards. Edges a little rubbed, corners worn else good copy. From the collection of Bob Brooks with his signature on front end paper. Brooks was a designer and artist based most of his life in Stoke on Trent.

London, T. Werner Laurie Ltd. 1912

x+226pp plus 36 plates from drawings by Wilfrid Drake. 4to in cloth-backed boards, slightly scuffed and bumped at corners and spine, but generally vg. Internally there is some spotting, confined to endpapers and the first 20pp. Important early survey of stained glass, extending from the seventh century to the Gothic revival. Later chapters deal with Heraldry, Swiss glass (as a point of comparison), decay and advice for the collector. With useful appendices and bibliographies of early material. Many of the lovely full page plates are in colour.

Wakefield The Fleece Press 1990

One of 241 of 300 copies. 92pp 32 wood engravings by Agnes Miller Parker, 3 half-tones of the young artist at her easel, with her fellow students at the Glasgow School of Art and, later in life, holding one of her Siamese cats + further sketches in black and white + one in colour "The horsefair". 230x280mm Half blue cloth with paper label on spine, Claire Mazairezyk paste paper covered boards. Good in slip case with paper label. Paper label on slip case a little foxed.

Dublin Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery of Modern Art 1978

Foreword by Peter Lake. Unpaginated. 392pp illustrated with sepia photographs and a few colour images. Long 4to. Wrappers. Good copy. Useful resource on the history of Irish Theatre production and design.

London Heal and Son and printed at the Arden Press nd [1902]

12mo. Original grey paper covered boards, cloth backstrip title label in red and black pasted onto front board. 22pp + 2pp including advertisement for Heal's catalogue. Boards a little dusty and cloth a little more so, else good copy. End papers slightly browned. Book by the typographer and journalist Joseph Thorp (1873-1962) offering independent polemical notes on taste, the traditions of Heal's as a source of good taste in design and "directing inspiration." Lovely wood block full page illustrations throughout. Thorp moved from working at the Arden Press, became involved in the Curwen Press and wrote, later in life, a biography of Eric Gill.

Edinburgh Design and Industries Association (Edinburgh Branch) 1917

23pp. Pamphlet containing a D.I.A Address by Frank Pick. Paper wrappers with paste down label. Very good ephemeral item. First pamphlet to be published by the DIA Edinburgh Branch. Pick was working for London Transport at the time towards unifying its brand. The key principles to make good design are explored in this pamphlet. Scarce.

London 1897

24pp illustrated with 4 chromolithographed plates. 4to. Original wraps preserved within recent gilt lettered cloth binding to make a very good copy. Print edition of a paper read before the British Archaeological Association 1st March 1882. Pages a little worn at edges else very good.

London, Studio Vista 1969 (1967)

96pp with numerous b/w illustrations. Printed wraps. Square octavo. Good. Spine a little bumped at top edge. Upper hinge cracked. Pencil annotations on some of the pages. A stimulating book in which Cook considers architecture as an extension of our personalities, our aspirations, motives and what this means in terms of reading contemporary architecture.

London Chapman & Hall 1903

4 issues bound covering the whole year. 4to. Green cloth as issued with gilt lettering and vignette on upper board. Missing free end paper at the front. Scatttered foxing to preliminaries else very good. The Art Workers' Quarterly, subtitled, A Portfolio of Practical Designs for Decorative and Applied Arts, was published in five volumes by Chapman & Hall, London, between 1902 and 1906. Contributors in this volume include , Walter Crane, J. Alexander Fisher, D A Aird, R A Dawson, James Aitken, Aymer Valance, Ethel Higgins and Elizabeth F Scott. Wonderful illustrations to inspire design.

Manchester Wallpaper Manufacturers Ltd c1930

Single sided colour illustrations of room settings which have been wallpapered. Tissue guards between each page. 4to. Cloth backed boards. Red lettering on upper board. Boards slightly soiled. Text in English, Spanish and French. Traditional layouts of spaces with traditional furniture. A key provider of popular wallpapers in the UK in the first half of the 20th century. It was established as an association of manufacturers in 1899. The Wallpaper Manufacturers Ltd. became Reed Decorative Products Ltd in 1965. The Whitworth Art Gallery in Manchester hold the major archive of samples.

Foulis Press Archive Press Glasgow School of Art 1973

First edition no 36 of 50 copies designed by Gordon Huntly from material by James Murray 14pp printed on 14 leaves french folded. MOunted fontis of gold thistle design blocked onto cream buchram. Fine in original wrappers with Morris design in back and green. Loosely inserted letter from John Tomlinson and Christmas card blank from the Foulis Press

London Geo Aug. Mate & Son Printers and Publishers, Fleet Street 1934

62pp including period ads and maps +[4]pp period ads in colour for motor cars by the Austin Car Company. Paste down advert in colour for Frames Tours ticket agency. 16mo. Cream lettered wrappers. Stapled. Good copy. Events listing publication which served to promote them and the Hotel who distributed it and the printing firm who published it. From Robin de Beaumont's collection with his tiny monograph label on inside of front paste down.

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 Lockwood & Co. 1873

Series number 182. xii + 300pp + 16pp + 32pp. With numerous b/w illustrations. Brown blind stamped cloth with gilt lettering. Re-bound with a new cloth spine and paper label to make this a good copy. Water stains throughout although not to the detriment of the text.

New York 308 Grand Street NY 1906

Trade catalogue for woollen worsted, cotton yarns art embroideries, canvases, knit goods, hosiery etc. 64pp illustrated with b/w steel engravings. All items priced. Stapled Lettered wrappers. 6 x8 inches. Small tear in last two pages including wrapper and tear, partially affecting the upper wrapper where it has been stapled. . The company were importers of worsted, woolen, and cotton knitting yarns, established in 1858, in downtown New York.