1990

42 pp, illustrated with colour plates. Text in German. Spiral bound, glassine wrapper with white titles. Good copy. Text in German, English and French.

New York MoMA 1953

3rd edition revised, with sections on organic and geometric design styles for objects and paintings in the home. Stapled. Decorated wrappers in red and black on cream card, designed by Paul Rand. Wrapper a little dusty else good copy. Includes work by Arp, Mondrian, Miro with furniture and textiles as well as images and sculpture. Key exhibition on post war ideas on modern design.

Liverpool Walker Art Gallery 1960

Held 12th February to 4 March. Touring exhibition organised by the Arts Council. The exhibition spanned 1960 to 1961. The pioneering exhibition included glass by contemporary makers including Peter Lanyon, John Piper, Pauline Boty, Geoffrey Clarke amongst others. 510x760mm Printed at the Shenval Press.

London B. T. Batsford 1903

94pp with line illustrations in the text. Decorated wrappers, water marked else good copy. A discourse on whether hand made objects should be made by the craftsman who designed them or produced more widely by assistants or through industrial production. A key issue amongst craft workers men and women alike.

Burton on Trent printed for Messrs Bass Ratcliff & Gretton 1958.

Pamphlet. 16pp illustrated. Lovely colourful end papers and decorated stiff paper wrappers. The little publication, to promote the firm, illustrates the history of the company. Some scattered foxing else very nice ephemeral item.

Oxford, printed at the Perpetua Press, 1984 1984

(2)+21pp. wraps with detail and title on cover. Printed in an edition of 200 copies of which a number have beeen reserved for presentation to the members of the Couble Crown Club. Contains three voyages of the Bembo in verse. .

London The Nonesuch Press, 1981

Out of Series. Limited edition of 950 copies. xv, [1], 319, [3] pp illustrated. Royal 8vo. Very good with slightly yellowed but very good dust wrapper. Indispensable bibliography.

Thames and Hudson 1981

176pp illustrated with 91 b/w plates and line ills. Foreword by John Lehmann. Small 4to. Very good in dust wrapper. The Omega Workshops were started in London in 1913 by the art critic Roger Fry. Brought together Vanessa Bell, Frederick Etchells, Mark Gertler, Duncan Grant, McKnight Kauffer and Wyndham Lewis among others. The workshops closed in 1919

Thames and Hudson 1979

200pp with 154 illustrations including 14 in colour. Small 4to.Vg in good dust wrapper. Useful in bringing together sources for chinese and other oriental designs imported into Europe including the UK. Much on the way in which the Orient influenced Walpole, Repton and NAsh. Draws on contemporary sources of its illustrations.

Helsinki/Konstindustriförbundet I Finland Ornamo 1949

97pp.Stiff card wrappers which are decorated. 4tol Some old sellotape marks on end papers and the base of the spine is chipped else good copy. Illustrated with colour and b/w plates showing industrial design product ranges. Text in Finnish, Swedish, and English.

San Francisco Published by the firm 1940

[1pp introduction] 10pp text + 10 full colour illustrations of the site showing impact of flood lighting. Text describes the methods of lighting the site and this is illustrated with b/w plates. Blue folder with gilt lettered label. Text reprinted from 1940 AIEE Transactions for General Electric Company. Uncommon.

Published by City of Birmingham School of Printing, Central School of Arts and Crafts, Birmingham, 1937

38pp. Decorated wrappers. Slightly soiled else very good. Type set by students attending classes, compositors' work by boys in the pre-apprentice classes, printed by students in the letterpress machine classes under the direction of Leonard Jay. Pp. 38. 8vo., original printed wrappers designed by Olga Garner, a student. Due to revelations about the sculptor's personal life, Eric Gill Statues, including Prospero & Ariel on the BBC Broadcasting House have been attacked begging the question about whether the artist and the person can be separated. This pamphlet reviews his principles of design.

Kodansha Japanese Art Libary 1977

178pp illustrated with 248 colour and b/w plates. 4to. Very good with dust wrapper. An account of the late 16th Century Japanese Ceramics. Includes Production, Kilns and Kiln Marks

published by the firm. No date c 1910?

28pp. Landscape 16mo Decorated wrappers. Upper wrapper a little foxed. Illustrated with sepia photographs which document the factory, Impington Hall, [ run at the time as an educational and social centre for Chivers staff but demolished in the 1950s] farms and orchards where the produce was grown. Lovely small item. Text describes the history of the firm, its factory, and orchards and the role of the company in the local community. Great, if small, documentary photographs. For most of the 20th century Chivers was the leading jam manufacturers in the UK but is now owned by the Boyne Group although the group still use the original name.

London Art Worker's Quarterly August and December 1908

[1] + 1-76 + [1] + 1-88pp illustrated with examples of work in the arts and crafts style giving the names of individual makers. 4to. Green cloth, titles on upper board. Bookplates of Ian Monins. These special issues are additional to the The Art Workers' Quarterly published 1902-1906 and were published in August and December 1908. These contained the papers and extracts of papers read at the Third International Art Congress for the development of Drawing and Art Teaching and the Application to Industries held in London, August, 1908, as well as a record of the Retrospective Exhibition of Students' Works, held at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, in connection with the Congress. Hard to find.

London Cassell & Co. Ltd (1972, New York) 1974

192 pp. b/w photographs, architectural drawings, maps and plans throughout. Long 4to. White cloth boards with black lettering, in decorated glassine dust wrapper. Good copy although slight discolouration at cloth edges and glassine wrapper has tears at spine and partly missing against back board. Photographic record of the design and manufacture of the Sydney Opera House glass walls, carried out by the author during their construction. The design won the Engineering Excellence Award of 1972 by the Association of Consulting Engineers of Australia. With detailed captions and brief descriptive chapters. From the library of Winston Barnett Architects, with ownership ticket inside front cover.

London Crosby Lockwood & Co 1879

First edition. 58pp + 32pp catalogue of publications by the firm + lists of Weale's series titles on end papes. Illustrated with 12 full page line illustrations in black and white showing how to set out lettering in different styles. Spine a little worn else good. Badenoch, was a practising sign writer from Aberdeen, Scotland.

Ditchling St Dominic's Press 1926

The "Small Rhyme Sheets". These two each folded once. No. 16, Dressmaker; No. 12, Milkmaid. Reduced Eric Gill engraving. Bound in half calf with hand made paper covered boards. Arts and crafts style binding. Taylor and Sewell, B39 & B35. originally issued in string tied light grey wrappers.

London and New York The Studio 1947

144pp illustrated with b/w plates grouped together after the text pages. Small 8vo. Good. Dust wrapper chipped and worn but protected in glassine. End papers slightly foxed. Fascinating publication on design remedies which can be achieved by using a consultant. A greater part of Mercer's life was spent working for The Studio and he was editor of Modern Publicity, Modern Posters and Art and Industry. He was on the board of the RSA for many years and this book was produced from a paper he wrote for the RSA and for which he was awarded a silver medal.