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 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.'.

Zurich Amstutz & Herdeg Graphis Press 1953

Text in English, German and French. Pagination runs pp 172-254 + advertising leaves. Illustrated with b/w and colour plates including period adverts. In this issue the lead article is by Ronald Tritton on Abram Games. Additional articles7 on Pharmaceutical Advertising Design, Czech Advertising Art and After the War and on Jiri Brdeka. Cover design by Abram Games. Slightly worn at head and base of the spine else very good indeed.

Zurich Amstutz & Herdeg Graphis Press 1954

Text in English, German and French. Pagination runs pp 443- 532 + index to volume 10 at the end. Illustrated with b/w and colour plates including period adverts. Lead article is on Picasso, the Lithographer by Manuel Gasser. Also long article on Tom Eckersley by René Elvin and another on Hans Falk by Willy Rotzler. Cover design an image by Pablo Picasso. Very good copy.

London, Country Life 1964

207pp illustrated with 248 b/w plates. 4to. Orange cloth. Very good with slightly worn dust wrapper. One of those beautifully produced Country Life titles. Super illustrations supported by scholarly but readable texts.

Thames and Hudson 1989

228 pages with 320 illustrations, 10 in colour Fine in dust wrapper Large 4to. Fine. Hugely coprehensive study of Van de Velde's design work. Tranlated from the German edition Henry van de Velde Ein Europaischer Kunstler in Seiner Zeit.

London Longmans, Green and Co (1868) 1878

xiv, 304pp, 31p of plates, some col., and b/w ill in the text. Blind stamped cloth with gilt lettering on the spine in the style of the Aesthetic Movement. Inner hinge slightly cracked but holding firm else very good. Fourth ed (rev.). A guide to good taste in the design of furniture for all rooms in the house and personal dress and jewellery - a good source of 19th century domestic design.

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.

Yale University Press 2009

356pp with 300 colour illus throughout. Large 4to in cloth with decorated colour dw. Like 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.

Boston Little Brown and Company 1932

First edition xix + 291pp illustrated with photogravure plates. Silver and blue boards. Slightly bumped at corners and at the head and base of the spine. Internally a good copy of this pioneering book was first published in 1932 and introduced the idea of streamlining into design. Major design text for the period on industrial design. Hard to find. With ex libris bookplate of GS on front paste down.

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 George Bell and Sons 1905

First edition. xiv + 287 pp, b/w ill., index, original gold-decorated publisher's cloth. Spine a bit faded and a little rubbed. 235 x 155mm. Internally, decorated end papers, some text pages a little yellowed. Signature of previous owner on the half title. A collection of essays and addresses on all aspects of design. Most of the 15 papers were read before the Art Workers' Guild.

Berlin: Klinkhaydt and Biermann 1958

140pp + 2pp period ads. 195 b/w plates. Small 4to. Very good copy. On modern art pottery - a survey covering major designers including Bernard Leach, Picasso and many others. Text in German. Walter Dexel is one of the outstanding exponents of 1920s Constructivism. In 1918 Walter Dexel became head of exhibitions in Jena, where he organised first exhibitions with Campendonk and later with Bauhaus artists like Moholy-Nagy. From 1928 to 1935 Walter Dexel worked as a lecturer for graphic design at the Magdeburg "Kunstgewerbeschule". He was dismissed from his post in 1935 by the Nazis but after the war continued to work in the arts and gained critical acclaim as an art historian, exhibition maker, theorist.