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.

London Chapman Hall 1932

115pp illustrated with 44 b/w plates and line ills 4to. Very good with slightly worn dust wrapper. Front end paper has crease mark. A study of different types of fashion illustration, including big names such as Harrods, Jaeger, Burberry and more. Super images. Dust wrapper design by the author. Hard to find.

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.

Bristol Cashmore & Co Ltd 1933

Trade catalogue for the firm who were merchants of plate and sheet glass, bevellers, silverers, brilliant cutters, wallpaper and decorators' merchants and paint manufacturers. [ established 1829].48pp illustrated with photo litho plates and 4 single sided coloured pages of designs for domestic leaded lights - for 1930s houses. Other images show etched glass for pubs, figured and rolled glass etc. Stapled catalogue with ribbon hanger punched through the upper corner. Title page a bit dusty else good. Decorated wrappers.

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.

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.

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.