London, Phaidon and Christie's 2002

496pp with 241 colour and 141 b/w illustrations. Cloth in d/w, fine. Study of the late eighteenth-century metalworker, his ormolu or 'ground gold' gilded ornaments and his manufactory near Birmingham during the years 1768-1782. Explores the processes of design and manufacture alongside the development of the business.

Oxford The University Press 1958

Edited by Herbert Davis and Harry Carter. lxiii + 480pp, 34 text illustrations, 40 plates, including 2 fold-outs. Royal 8vo. Good in worn and slightly chipped dust wrapper which is a little foxed. Internally very good. Previous typographic ownership plates and dedication in latin to Michael Harvey.

No's 50, 51, 84 Fetter Lane, Holborn Circus, London [Melhuish and Co.] 1913

562pp illustrated with b/w plates. Green decorated cloth. Slightly shaky at hinges else very good. Loosely inserted 4pp reprinted article about the firm initially issued by World's Work "A Famous house in Fetter Lane". + loosely inserted order form and period ad for knife cleaning machine. Richard Melhuish and Co were Ironmongers, Electrical and Sanitary Engineers. The firm was founded in 1828.

No's 50, 51, 84 Fetter Lane, Holborn Circus, London Melhuish and Co. 1903

256pp illustrated with b/w plates, Original decorated wrappers. A little faded on spine else very good copy. Richard Melhuish and Co were Ironmongers, Electrical and Sanitary Engineers. They issued their catalogues in sections according to product types and this is section 17.

London, Derek Verschoyle 1954

xi 116pp. 4to. Boards. Good with worn and chipped dust wrapper. Eleven historic balls and their importance in in festivities associated with Court and politically significant historic events. Effectively a series of essays by individual authors including Harold Acton, R W Ketton Cramer, Christopher Sykes and the editor.

Netherlands: Groningen Museum, 1994.

199 pp., numerous col. photos & drawings 4to .Very good in dust wrapper The catalogue of the Exhibition. Profusely illustrated. Superb piece of book design. With contributions by Charles Jencks on the new museum design. Text in Dutch and English throughout.

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.

Donnington Shaun Tyas 2008

302pp illustrated. 8vo. Fine in dust wrapper. From the collection of Gavin Stamp with his book ticket on front paste down. The only book on modern memorial brasses. It covers the history of the trade is set within the context of the ecclesiological developments of the period and the general decline in the use of memorials for commemoration within church building during the twentieth-century. Additionally, there is a checklist of the most significant late-nineteenth- and twentieth-century brasses.

London Hyphen 1992

206pp Wrappers with fold in flaps. Sm 4to. Good copy. Essays which cover the history of Western typography, from the time (c.1700 in France and England) when it can be said to have become 'modern'. The essays each focus on different cultures in different times, to trace the developments and shifts in modern typography. First edition

Kobenhaven Host & Sons Forlag 1953

140pp illustrated with b/w plates showing room settings and furniture designs. FLimsy wrappers. Slightly worn else good

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.

London Concrete Publications Limited 1957

96pp with numerous black and white diagrams and illustrations by T. Raffles Davison. Long Octavo. 25cm x 18.2cm. Blue Paper Wrappers. Fine. With only slight damage to top 1.5cm of spine. First Edition printed 1930. This is the 4th reprint. An informative and practical publication presenting detailed working drawings of a wide range of common shapes produced in cast stone and concrete.

Oriel Press, 1970.

224pp, 99 b/w ills. 8vo. Good copy in slightly worn dw. 'The Life and Works of John Claudius Loudon' plus his influence on architecture and furniture design.'

London British Petroleum Anglo Iranian Oil Company Ltd nd Before 1960

Printed at the Baynard Press. 300x460mm On stiff card. Very good. A Cat Craker is a unit in an oil refinery in which mineral oils with high boiling points are converted to fuels with lower boiling points by a catalytic process.

London Faber & Faber 1951

213pp, b/w illustrations and letter type samples in part two of publication. 8vo. Cloth boards with red title lettering embossed on spine. Printed dust wrapper. Top edge of page block red. Foxing on front end and end papers else a very good copy. Dust wrapper slightly torn around corners and top and base of spine. The second printing of this well-recognised book, first published in 1938. Later to be enlarged and reprinted under the title Nineteenth Century Ornamented Typefaces. Michael Harvey's name written on front end paper.

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.

London B T Batsford 1929

xvi.432pp, Blank Notes. Errata leaf. Plates and text illustrated. 4to. Red cloth. T.e.g. Edges a little worn and spine lettering a little faded else very good.

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.