New York. Harper and Brothers 1877

211pp illustrated with b/w plates. Elaborately decorated cloth. A little shelf worn else very good. Bookplate of Geo C Nightingale on front paste down and ownership name on title page in pen. Looks at art education in the broadest sense and surveys approaches taken in Europe and in the USA as a basis for advocating better quality design education in the USA covering all aspects of instruction across disciplines informing industry, applied art, design and craftsmanship.

London Nicholls & Clarke Liimited undated. c 1920

Catalogue no 21 26pp catalogue with colour illustrations, many full page illustrating their domestic leaded lights and wrought iron casements. 4to. Decorated wrappers. Fine. Hard to find. Nicholls and Clarke were ironmongers and architectural supply merchants who produced large catalogues of general building supplies. This is an unusual survival of one of their specialist catalogues. Aimed proabably at the suburban house market. Also includes a design for a war memorial window. Price list on back page.

Paris E Chambrelent Ste Ame E.T.I.O.P. 1933

Cockade 'Vent du Nord' type fan with wooden handles.The paper leaf is printed on one side with an adaptation of a poster design showing male and female hands holding footwear by Bally; signed and dated d'apres CAPPIELLO, 1933.BALLY: Swiss company designing/producing shoes for the high end market. Founded in 1851 by Carl Franz Bally (1821–1899) and his brother Fritz in the basement of their family home. CAPPIELLO, Leonetto: b. 1875, Livorno, Italy - d. 1942, Cannes, France. Celebrated Italian poster art designer who lived in Paris. Beautiful condition.

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 Academy Editions/St Martins Press 1992

Architectural Monograph no 10 144pp, plates in colour and b/w. Large 4to. Stiff card laminated and decorated wrappers. Very good indeed .

London HMSO 1951

188pp catalogue of exhibits + 144 period ads in colour. Original Abram Games wrapper with Festival insignia. Good copy although wrapper edges are a little worn and creased.

William Holmes Printer Ulverston Fifth edition 1919

38pp. Small 8vo. Decorated wrappers. Foreword by W G Collingwood. Ruskin died at Brantwood of influenza on 20 Jan 1900. His colleague W.G. Collingwood organised a memorial exhibition in the newly extended Assembly Room of Coniston Institute. The proceeds from the exhibition not only paid off the outstanding debt on the Assembly Room but raised sufficient funds to build a further extension to house a permanent memorial exhibition there to Ruskin.d. This is now the Ruskin Museum. An important record of Ruskin's letters, books, manuscripts and over 200 drawings and watercolours; arguably, the most comprehensive collection of Ruskiniana ever presented to the public. Artifacts now housed in the Ruskin Museum at Coniston.

Woodbridge Antique Collector's Club 2005

320 pp with over 400 colour and 250 b/w illustrations. 4to. Cloth in d/w, fine. A readable but comprehensive look at the work of the prolific designer of household objects who blended affordability and style in the industrial age. With chapters covering ceramics, floor coverings, furniture, glass, metalware, textiles and wallpaper, all generously illustrated.

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.

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.

Berlin Neuer Deutscher Verlag 1929

231pp, illustrated with numerous b/w photographs, 11 photomontage images by John Heartfield etc. 232 x 187mm. Later stiff card bright yellow wrappers onto which has been pasted the original wrappers, the whole stabalized by new end papers. This rebinding sympathetic to the original form of the book. Half title and title page has evidence of an old damp mark to leading edge but the text unaffected. The text of Tucholsky and Heartfield's images set out to create visual narratives that aimed to reveal the conditions of the Weimar Republic. It was effectively a collaborative work by Tucholsky and Heartfield. This is the first edition. A pioneering book in terms of both design and content.

Oxford Museum of Modern Art/Design Museum London 1990

116pp Illustrated with b/w plates. 210 x 300mm Wrappers. Exhibition catalogue for show which originated at the University of Michigan. Useful essays and biographies of architects and designers + bibliography. English text.

Boston David R Goldine 1994

208pp illustrated. Very good in very good dust wrapper. Appraisal of the inscription designs of Eric Gill in his capacity as artist craftsman. Over 50 half tone illustrations and numerous line illustrations in the text.

Darwen Shaws Glazed Brick Company 1962

12pp catalogue on faience for swimming pools which was designed to assist architects with their design. Includes image of Wythenshawe, Manchester public baths and some images of tile types as well as practical specification material. Hole punch marks through who brochure. Loosely inserted additional specification sheets + letter from the company Lake District architects E Donald Haigh, Kendal with details of prices.