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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.