London Liberty and Co 1903

Series LX11 12pp illustrated with bw plates. Long 8vo. Stapled. Brown lettered wrappers. Very good. Individual Chinese jars, weapons and ornaments, some antique, offered by the firm. Very good copy. Good source for individual pieces. Chinese Pottery Mark representing "good luck" on the inside of the front wrapper.

London Liberty and Co 1903

Series LVX 10pp illustrated with b/w plates. Long 8vo. Stapled. Brown lettered wrappers. Very good. Antique items for sale, each with number and with provenance. They included Chinese vases, a Queen Anne Bureau from the Speakers House following a fire at the Houses of Parliament and a variety of individual Chinese trophies and ornaments. Very good indeed. Chinese Pottery Mark representing "good luck" on the inside wrapper.

London Studio Vista 1971

208pp colour + b/w ills. Small 4to purple cloth with illustrated dw. Wrapper a little chipped at the top edge else a very good copy. Ex libris Gavin Stamp, with his bookplate on the front paste down.

London, Country Life Limited 1927

xxxviii + 271pp illustrated with b/w plates and line ills. Introduction by Arthur T Bolton. Small folio. Red cloth, gilt titles. Very good copy with slightly dusty dust wrapper. Superb Country Life photographs showing plasterwork in situ mainly in the UK.

London Benn Brothers 1924

155pp illustrated with b/w plates divided into sections according to the theme of each + 8pp period ads in black and white. 4to. Black cloth with paste down paper title labels on upper board and spine. A little rubbed at head and base of the spine. 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. Includes sections on lettering, ships, British Industries Fairs' trades stands etc.

London George Allen and Unwin Ltd 1968

328pp illustrated with b/w plates. Very good . End papers have plans of Kingcombe garden. Readable autobiography of this important figure in British industrial design. The firm, Gordon Russell Ltd., continues to operate.

London Hamish Hamilton 1984

137pp. Good with good dust wrapper. Signed in purple crayon on front end paper by Eduardo Paolozzi. Loosely inserted letter from Penny Thomson [ Avonbridge Film Production Company Ltd.] to Robin Spencer. Single sided typed letter on headed paper, signed in pen by Penny. Text reads "Eduardo insisted on lendin me his copy of Theroux's Dr Slaughter during the Festival and the was that I would pass it on to you once I was finished with it....". The letter contineus to discuss other matters relating to Russell Harty's Arts Reciew Programme.

London Danasco Ltd 1964

16pp stapled pamphlet with b/w photographs featuring Danish Applied Arts including furniture, jewellery and porcelain. Firms represented included Georg Jensen, Scandia, Anne Storm and Danasco all who designed in the pared down style which flourished as part of mid-century modernism. The exhibition was held in a series of Domes in Cardiff and one of these is illustrated in the publication.

Reprinted fro Nature Vol 201 no 4926 1964

Pamphlet 18pp. Wrappers. Staples slightly rusty. Loosely inserted autographed letter, signed from Misha Black to W G Holt, Wolverhapton, on RCA headed paper and dated 1970. Misha Black notes in the letter that the pamphlet gives the "gist of the argument" of what should form an industrial design education.

Godalming Pendomer Press 1979

197pp illustrated with over 100 images including 11 in colour.4to. Very good copy with good dust wrapper which is sl. rubbed at head of spine. First trade edition. Full length study of Bawden's career with useful bibliography by Barry McKay. Various paper clippings about Bawden and his work inserted loosely. From the library of Colin Amery.

London & New York, Truslove, Hanson & Comba, Ltd 1899

First edition. xi + 115 + ii pp with 70 b/w illustrations. Decorated lettered cloth in Arts and Craft style. Good copy. The upper board and spine are slightly browned else very good. New end papers A useful handbook of embroidery for the student or craftsman. Townsend was editor of the Art Worker's Quarterly.

London Robert Sandelson, Five Cork St, W1S 3NY 2004

77(+2)pp. Many colour illustrations. 8vo black illustrated wrappers + slipcase with gilt title, minor bump to the head and base of the spine, else very good indeed. Profusely illustrated exhibition catalogue, published on the occasion of the 2004 exhibition of Erté's fashion and stage designs spanning the inter-war period held at Robert Sandelson. Loosely inserted prices list. Fold out, depicting Erté's illustrated alphabet made up of human forms (this work was started in 1932 and not fully completed until 1967). Foreword by Stella McCartney, outlines how Erté has influenced her work, thus giving a contemporary angle to this type of Art Deco illustration.

The Author, No date. c1820

8 original etchings dated in the plate as 1820. Small 4to. Flimsy green morocco binding, gilt lettering on upper board. Sewn. Bookplate of the Library of the Yorkshire Architectural Society on the front paste down. From the collection of George Pace. [Pencil note to this effect]. Worn along spine edge and all edges rubbed. Stitching largely lost. Uncommon. Uncoloured etchings from original drawings by Fowler of figures in the glass together with one of the Tomb of Barwick of Selby. Loosey inserted is a postcard which is a real photograph of the east window form the inside of the Abbey. Yorkshire Archaeological Journal 5 (1877–78): 331–49.

London, Faber & Faber 1963

104pp text + b/w plates. 4to. Very good in slightly worn dust wrapper. Illustrates the fashion styles of the Victorian and Edwardian eras. Uses reproduction of contemporary photographs to illustrate the fashion trends of the day and is therefore an excellent documentary source for fashion studies.

Carlisle Morton Sundour Fabrics Limited 1956

40pp with b/w photographic pasted down of James Morton and end page decoration with insignia of the firm. Bound in green Sundour fabric. Fine. Loosely inserted 27pp printed pamphlet entitled "Sundour Golden Jubilee; speeches given at a dinner held in Carlisle on 15 March 1956"

London published by the Company from Mortimer Street. nd c1930

22pp with 17 b/w photographs of fireplaces. Wraps, vg, with colour paste down label showing fireplace. Illustrations include views of workshops and Showroom. Correspondence loosely inserted addressed to H M Gimson RIBA from the director together with three loosely inserted leaflets for Portculis Gas Fires which all have 1934 dates in pencil on them. Humphrey Gimson was the nephew of Ernest Gimson.

London Fanfare Press 1929

Colour frontis, 64pp, 42 b/w photographic illustrations. 4to. Contrasting boards and spine with gilt lettering and decoration on upper board. Small chip in spine else good Architects noted where there are room settings with fireplaces. The book was written at a time when there was an increase in domestic usage of gas fires to replace coal fires in modern homes.

Edinburgh, HMSO 1947

79pp with 95 b/w illustrations. 8vo pamphlet in wrappers, lightly worn at spine, else vg. Guide to the principles of industrial and commercial design, explaining their importance to manufacturers. Well illustrated with examples of products from electrical appliances to furniture, fabrics, packaging and their display. With case studies outlining the processes of design, including 'the employment of designers by Josiah Wedgwood Ltd.'.