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British Achievement in Design
London The Pilot Press Limited prepared by the Design and Industries Assoc. nd c1946
68pp illus with b/w photographs and line ills and 8 color plates.. Large 4to. Colour wrappers. Good copy. Staples a little rusted. Superb period item produced in the immediate post war period to promote good design.
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By Hammer and Hand: The Arts and Crafts Movement in Birmingham.
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.
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Carpentry and Joinery
Elementary Principles of Carpentry Chiefly Composed from the Standard Work of Thomas Tredgold, C.E.With Additions, Alterations, and Corrections from the Works of the Most Recent Authorities and a Treatise on Joinery Containing a Detailed Account of the Various Operations of the Joiner
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.
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Catalogue no 115 1906-1907
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.
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Catalogue of the Pictures Sherborne Castle.
Stock ID: 22652More details Price: £375.00
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Christian Dior l'autre lui-même
Paris Art & Culture: Office culturel de Granville 1987
64pp illustrated with b/w photographs and line ills. Useful documentary catalogue to accompany an exhibition about the life of Christian Dior with contemporary photographs reproduced of Granville, people and places with which she was associated. 4to. decorated wrappers. With, loosely inserted 16pp pamphlet, with b/w and colour plates, issued in association with the same exposition which concern the purfumes. Text of both publications in French. lovely item, protected in glassine wrappers.
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Companion to the Iron Trade being a general assistant to the iron-master and merchant, engineer, iron and brass founder, lead merchant, copper-smith, machine-maker, white-smith etc., in a series of comprehensive tables
J Y Knight & Co 1851
3rd edition revised and enlarged. An oddity with dedication written in ink in October 1837 to William Cubitt [ father of Joseph] at Kirkstall Forge. Title page, [3]pp introduction, 267pp illustrated with tables etc + [2]pp advert for the company at Kirkstall Forge. Joseph Cubitt's stamp at Great George Street, Westminster, identifies him as a Civil Engineer
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Corpus vitrearum Medii Aevi. Great Britain. Vol. 1. The County of Oxford : a catalogue of medieval stained Glass
London Oxford University Press for the British Academy 1979
246 + plates in colour and b/w. 4to. Original black cloth with gold lettering to spine. Very good with very good dust wrapper, slightly chipped at head of spine. Signature of H G Wayment [ who published on the glass of Fairford Church] on front end paper and inscription from him on title page concerning Peter Newton and providing anecdotal information on how it came to be volume I in the Corpus Vitrearum series. A catalogue of important medieval stained glass housed within buildings in the county of Oxford.
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Court & Garden: From the French Hotel to the City of Modern Architecture
US MIT Press 1986
285 pp. Over 400 b/w ills, incl. line drawings, historical maps, diagrams, engravings and photographs. Cloth boards in illustrated dust wrapper, slight scuff marks at edges. Very good. Large 4to. Eloquent, superbly illustrated study of the origins of the modern city, and the social, psychological, and formal transformations influencing architects in the design of public spaces in cities. Focusses on the French 'hotel' as a development from an Italian prototype, and 'sophisticated instrument of urbanism', in its internal and external organisation of buildings and gardens.
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Decorative needlework
Stock ID: 22946More details Price: £600.00
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Designer's Trade
London George Allen and Unwin Ltd 1968
Copy signed by the author on the title page. 328pp illustrated with b/w plates. Very good. Blue cloth. End papers have plans of Kingcombe garden. Front end paper, cropped along top edge but illustration unaffected.
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Designers in Britain 2. The Biennial Reivew of Graphic and Industrial Design compiled by the Society of Industrial Artists
London, Theodore Brun , Editions de Luxe Limited
Limited edition - no 20 of 35 numbered. 291pp, approx 1,100 illustrations. 4to.. Compiled by the Society of Industrial Artists as a comprehensive review of the commercial and industrial design produced in Britain.
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Designers in Britain 7 : A Review of Graphic and Industrial Design by the Society of Industrial Arts and Designers.
London Andre Deutsch Ltd. 1971
283pp including wide range of illustrations (some colour) 4to. Blue boards. Unclipped dust jacket, this very slightly worn at edges else very good. Interesting end paper with front end paper partially printed on tracing paper and part forming red end paper. Covers contemporary poster, graphics, wallpaper, jewellery, textile, TV and film graphics etc. All designers featured were members of the SIAD.
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Designing for Machine Made Goods 1911
Being an address delivered at the Municipal School of Art, Manchester on the occasion of the opening session 1911-1912
Manchester School of Art 1911
Unpaginated 12pp 4to. Wrappers. Decorated title page and tailpieces. Burton was a founding director of Pilkington's Tile Works, renowned chemist and expert on tiles and this history of pottery. He was actively involved with the establishment and running of the Northern Art Workers Guild.
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El Lissitzky: Life Letters Texts
London Thames and Hudson [1967] 1992 reprint
410pp 284 illustrations, 103 in colour. 4to. Fine in dust wrapper. Compiled by Lissitzky's widow this is a key documentary study of the artist and comprises biographical material, based on his letters and a series of plates revealing the range of his work. The book further includes collections of literary documents and theoretical writings by Lissitzky and accounts of him by his contemporaries.
Stock ID: 18098More details Price: £85.00 -
En Super-Follies.
Paris Folie bergère
34pp, 240x310mm, red wrappers, star cut into upper wrapper to reveal Josephine Baker at Folies Bergere from Paris, France. Loosely inserted colour fold out image of La Jungle Merveilleuse with Joan Baker. Colours are bright with gold embossed letters, these a little tarnished. Includes lots of period ads. There are 50 photographs in the main body of the book in sepia showing scenes from the production by Paul Derval. Also includes period ads. Hard to find.
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English Interior Woodwork of the XVI, XVII & XVIII Centuries A Series of the Best and Most Characteristic Examples of Chimney-Pieces, Paneling, Staircases, Doors, Screens &c. Measured and Drawn and with Introductory and Descriptive Text.
London, B.T Batsford 1902
viii + 10pp and 50 b/w litho plates. Folio in original cloth with gilt lettering, top edge gilt. Very good indeed with light wear to spine. Some foxing to endpapers, Stamp of Ellery, Anderson and Rosier on fep. Collection of measured drawings and cross-sections taken from major buildings of post-Reformation England, including: Hardwick Hall, , Broughton Hall, Haddon Hall, Knole House, Hatfield House, Bolsover Castle, Clopton House, Thorpe Hall, Farnham Castle, Hampton Court, Chelsea Hospital, various churches and Oxford and Cambridge Colleges. An impressive attempt to trace the development of specifically English Renaissance design, and to introduce its 'picturesqueness and originality' to a contemporary audience.
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Everyday Things Exhibition
London RIBA 1936
117pp + lvipp advertisements, b/w illustrations throughout. Small 4to in lovely decorated wrappers designed by Digby Firth - these a little worn, and foxed. Internally very good. Important catalogue for the 'Everyday Things' Exhibition, organized by The Royal Institute of British Architects. Includes sections on Furniture, Glassware, Cutlery, Textiles, Plastics, China, Building Materials and others. Illustrates four Gerald Summer designs along with the works of other designers across a range of fields including Keith Murray in the glass section.
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Examples of Modern Woodwork
Bedford and London John P. White, The Pyghtle Works, Bedford. nd c1930
Unpaginated. 20pp. b/w plates + line ills. 4to wrappers. Illustrations show examples of the products produced by the firm for the architects Sir Edwin Cooper, T.C. Howitt, H.P. Creswell & W.A. Forsyth, M. EyreWalker & A.W. Harwood, C.H. Croxford, F. Lacey, W. Campbell Jones, W. Pite & Son & Fairweather, C.H. Slatter, and J.E. Rowlands. J P White are best known for their garden furniture and domestic work so this is an interesting departure from their main area of work. It also gives a list of Hospitals where the company supplied wood doors.
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Exhibition of Steuben Glass Park Lane House 45 Park Lane, London
Stock ID: 20429More details Price: £145.00