London David Rowell & Co ltd, 66/72 Clapham Junction, no date c 1970

44pp catalogue illustrated with line ills and illustrating the range of gates and railings supplied by the firm. Firm first established in 1855. Green wrappers, stapled. 240x180mm. Has been folded else very good.

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.

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 by The British Fire Prevention Committee 1903

304pp + lxxi + [4]pp appendix +270 plates + fold out plan of the exhibition forming last page. Red gilt decorated loth. Head and base of spine chipped with small tear at head of spine. Decorated end papers, these a little age toned. The exhibition included examples of the latest fire fighting equipment and there was also a substantial loan of items on the history of fire including paintings, models, historical equipment etc. Sachs is best known for his writing on Theatre Architecture. Sach wrote the introduction to this huge catalogue.

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.

(The Studio 1935) Universe Books New York 1988

124pp illus with b/w plates. Sm 4to. Vg in dw. Facsimile of classic Le Corbusier's study of the airplane, symbol of the new age.

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.

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 Academy Editions 1995

143 pages consisting of an introduction by Stephen Martin, nine essays by Knox scholars including illustrations, 63 pages of plates, the majority in colour and a bibliography and index. The book establishes Knox's central role in the evolution of British and Modern design, sheds light on the influences that shaped his career and succeeds in clearing away the mystery and uncertainty that surrounds this major British designer and his personal affairs. Very good copy. The dust jacket has been price-clipped

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 buckram. 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

Birmingham Central School of Arts and Craft, Margaret Street 1926-1928

Unpaginated c12pp - 20pp per issue. All with variant decorated printed wrappers, 220 x 295mm. Ribbon ties. The publications were produced to show the range of printing work produced by the school Issue One indicates Bernard Sleigh as teacher of wood engraving in the staff list. Lovely production and each includes several colour images alongside reproduction of letter press work. en issues in total were produced in the series. Uncommon.

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.