Yale University Press 2009

356pp with 300 colour illus throughout. Large 4to in cloth with decorated colour dw. New. A timely and groundbreaking study of the history and reception of Walpole's collection at Strawberry Hill which coincides with a planned restoration of this endangered house. With contributions from an international team of distinguished scholars who explore how Strawberry Hill and its collections engaged with the creation of various and interconnected political, national, dynastic, cultural, and imagined histories.

London The British Colour Council in Collaboration with the Royal Horticultural Society. 1938

Each volume with a staple-bound booklet and 100 loose colour sheets, in folding hardcover case, in slipcase. The colours consist of a spectrum range of 64 full hues, 26 (lighter) tints and 10 (darker) shades of the 64 full hues. Loosely inserted in volume one is a sheet of black card with central square cut out to allow each colour to be isolated by the viewer. The charts are known also as the Wilson Colour Charts.

London, Ditto Press 2011

Very good with original glassine wrapper. Decorated end papers and double page typographical titles to each chapter in Day-Glo colours. Loosely inserted details of the book launch, a signed Christmas card from Duncan Fallowell to Gavin Stamp and signed on the half title with an inscription to Gavin. Loosely inserted further details of the 2nd printing of the book. Five compelling and quirky travelogues in which Duncan Fallowell sets out to odd corners of the world in pursuit of some extraordinary and improbable characters some of whom were momentarily famous.

London Liberty and Co nd c 1930

50 tiny samples of coloured silk in binding. Lovely miniature item. 3 x 5 inches approximately. One or two samples have been clipped. Very good. Colours have not faded over time.

London and Derby Bemrose and Son Ltd nd c1890

13th edition. ix +49pp text + 4pp period ads. and 14 lithographed plates in sepia and red. Blind stamped and decorated cloth. Small 4to. Corners bumped. New end papers. Rebacked with almost matching blue cloth to make a good copy. Detailed images of wood working tools, mouldings, church furnishings, pilasters and domestic applications of carved wood work. Beautiful plates throughout.

Paris L. Debaeker, 92 rue de la Roquette, 4 Passage Charles Dallery nd 1886 dated on first leaf.

Double page chomolithographed plate, illustrating 97 samples of tiles, 23 further chromolitho coloured plates of stoves and fireplaces. Folio Gilt lettered on upper board. Cloth which faded and repaired on spine. Final leaf is the price list forming plate 24 in b/w. Not listed on OCLC, COPAC or KVK.

London & New York Studio Publications

124 + xiipp period ads. 4to. Decorated boards with worn and slightly chipped dust wrapper designed by John Mansbridge. "The Annual for Commercial Art & Industry," Includes posters, booklets etc, packaging, press advertising.

London & New York Studio Publications

144 + xxpp period ads. 4to. Decorated wrappers. Worn along spine. "The Annual for Commercial Art & Industry," Includes posters, booklets etc, packaging, press advertising.

Edinburgh, National Galleries of Scotland 1993

96pp catalogue to accompany an exhibition. Illustrated with colour and b/w plates. 4to. Decorated wrappers.

London Heal and Son Ltd, 193 to 198 Tottenham Court Rd W1 1934

80pp, photographic illustrations with prices etc. Small 8vo decorated beige paper wraps, staples have come loose + rusted, edges a little creased else very good. Loosely inserted ticket for hire purchase items. During the 1930s Heals managed to strike a balance between modernity and tradition, as illustrated in this trade catalogue. Hard to find.

London United Kingdom Lead Oxide Convention no date c 1937

56pp illustrated with b/w plates + 1 page of paint samples in colour. 4to. Silver cloth spine with contrasting orange boards and silver and black lettering. Very good indeed. Ownership signature on front end paper of Humphrey M Gimson. April 1937. Includes material on paint for Blackpool Tower, Tyne Bridge, Newcastle and other projects protected with the paint. The book is to provide technical details on the use of the paint to protect iron and steel structures.

London 48 Watling Street, John Newman & Co, nd c1848-1874

Set of six black and white engravings with tissue guards. This set comprises: 1. Farmer's daughters, Farm Servant, Market Woman, Farmer's Wife., 2. Welsh Costumes no 2., 3. Market Scene North Wales. 4. Going to Market. 5. Market Scene, Cardiganshire, 6. The Bidding. [after 'The Bidding' attributed to Richard Dadd, c. 1840] Newman and Co. produced prints of Welsh costumes in the second half of the 19th century for the tourist market and were sold locally. Some of these images bear the name of the seller which was D LL Lewis of Rhyl.. All these prints have been mounted in the past but are now preserved in a modern gilt lettered folder.

London Messrs., Christies Manson and Wood 1916

71pp, 633 numbers, 7 b/w plates mainly of Chinese and Japanese pieces. Boards, cloth spine. A little dusty else good. Sold on Monday May 29 1916 and during the following three days. Trevor Lawrence, (1831-1913) trained as a surgeon, before becoming an MP and eventually President of the Royal Horticultural Society. He was a well-known collector of objets d'art, particularly oriental, and especially Japanese art, western porcelain and old lace.

781-848pp + 4pp period ads including wrappers. Colourful decorated wrappers depicting Britannia. 270x380mm Centre fold by Donald Maxwell, which is a colour panorama of the exhibition. Staples rusted so this has become detached. Upper wrapper dusty else very good. An extensive review of the exhibition focusing on the contributions of Great Britain, India and Canada with a double page on States ruled by Women.

London W S Orr and Co 1838

Fourth edition, with a new preface. 94pp, 5 colour plates with tissue guards. Each plate is hand coloured. Maroon cloth with gilt lettering on upper board. New spine label sympatheticaly applied to what was a blank spine. Small spit in cloth at upper hinge. Some minor foxing to text pages. Hay is described as "House Painter and Decorator to the Queen, Edinburgh." The study was first published in 1818, and in the subsequent editions it evolved considerably with the addition of the striking colour plates, and in the elaboration of the author's color theories and their practical application in painting interiors.

279x380mm Colourful wrappers. Very good. Pp60+100 + 22pp period ads. Centre fold loosely inserted image of The King, The Queen and Prince of Wales by F Matania entitled "The three royal makers of Wembley. " Fascinating for the insights into how ethnicity was viewed at the exhibition with superb documentary photographs throughout

Boston, U.S. 1999

60pp. 15 bw and colour illustrations. Decorated wraps, very good. Short illustrated essay on influential British stained glass artist Christopher Whall.