New York, Rand, McNally & Co 1914 (1902)

160pp, with colour frontis and lovely b/w illustrations throughout. Decorated cloth vg with light shelf wear and lovely design. Stamp and plate of Sundour fabrics on front end paper and their class mark in white ink on base of spine. .

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.

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 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.

Orpington, Kent George Allen 1879

New edition Quarter green morocco, marbled boards and end papers. Gilt lettering on spine. Spine and corners rubbed. Internally some scattered foxing. With ornate bookplate of William Sinclair Glasgow and ex libris bookplate of Gavin Stamp. The address considered how to establish a School of Art for workmen, and discusses the benefits in making citizens wiser and better; and if this would enable them to produce better and more valuable work.

London James Gardner 1993

464pp. Profusely illustrated with bw and coloor figures. Autobiography of the English industrial designer responsible for the QE2, the Battersea Park Fun Fair. 4to. Wrappers. These slightly worn.

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.

Montreui sur Bois Published by the firm nd c1920

16pp, stapled, 4pp text including covers and 12pp chromolitho plates of the wafers etc including their dimensions. One page shows equipment for sale for ice cream dispensing. The firm patented the ice cream scoop. The Gomez-la Basquaise biscuit factory was operating from about 1900. It ceases its activity in 1980. The biscuit factory specialised in articles for ice cream parlours and gauffreteries. It won a bronze medal in Limoges in 1927 and a gold medal at the colonial exhibition in 1931. Lower wrapper has pencil notes and scribbles, unrelated to content.

London The Fanfare Press 1930

82pp illustrated with b/w photographic plates of furniture and interiors. 4to. Boards with pasted down decoration on upper board. Foreword by Christopher Hussey. Sir Lawrence Weaver's articles from Architectural Journal, The Architectural Review and Shipping World published after his unexpected and sudden death. Relates to the perfection of Laminated boards to decoration and furniture. Features illustration and works of F. A Breuhaus, E G Asplund, Jospeh Pemberton, P L Troost and many others. With many examples from Great Liners, Furniture for Exhibitions etc. Fascinating publication. Boards a little dusty. End paper rather foxed. Ownership label on front paste down of J Henry Sellers.

Paris Librarie Renouard. n.d. c1908

Title-page, list of plates (slightly discoloured) 12 fascicles, each of 4 plates thus in total 48 plates, each coloured and illustrating several articles to be made in tooled Art Nouveau pattern coloured leathers. Each plates tissue guarded with tracing patterns to aid making up the articles illustrated. Ribbon tied paper backed folio 260 x 370mm. New spine in sympathetic paper to make a good copy. Issued by L'Academie d'Arts Decoratifs in Paris and made at a time where handicrafts was in the ascendancy.

Chartres É. Houvet 1926

Four volumes. Volume I, text, xx+ 532pp illustrated Volume 2-4 plates comprising 262 b/w plates & 28 in colour plates. Text volume is bound in wrappers and the plates volumes are loose leaf each with printed folio wrappers protected in cloth backed boards to protect the portfolios. Very nice set. Spine of text volume has small tears at the head and base of the spine and some annotations in margins. Exceptionally thorough but standard work on the stained glass at Chartres. Hard to find in this edition. For sale with Houvet's monograph on Chartres Cathedral [ 1930] a classic text [ in French] which stands alone yet complements this set to make five volumes in all.

Paris Caisse nationale des monuments historiques (1 Jan. 1959) 1959

357pp illustrated. Very good with dust wrapper

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, Royle Publications Limited nd c1950

87pp text with line illustrations by John Lawrence +xvipp b'/w plates. Pick decorated wrappers - rubbed on spine and a little sunned else a very bright copy. Exuberant designs for popular culture of the day. Smithells, best known for his books of advice for the home owner on fabrics, interiors, furniture etc. He wrote widely for the News of the World, Daily Mail ideal homes book series and international newspapers as a columnist on the subject. This is an all in one guide to all aspects of interiors published by Royle who themselves aimed their market at the up an coming home owner.

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.