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.

London B. T. Batsford Ltd. 1948

326 pp Illustrated with double page plates, photographs, drawings and diagrams Small 4to. Blue cloth. Chipped and worn dust wrapper. Preserved in glassine. First edition of a classic text of the best British craftsmanship of the immediate pre- and post-war years.

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. Sherborne given as the cover designer's signature on lower wrapper.

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.

Paris Typographie de Firmin Didot Frèrès, imprimeurs de l'Institut 1839

28pp + 9 single sided plates which are line illustrations and some lithographs. Plates have description captions below. Stamp of H Revoil Architecte on title page. Marbled boards, cloth spine. Paste down title on upper board. 4to. Loosely inserted pencil plan and elevation of a theatre, possibly drawn by Revoil. Edges rubbed and some scattered foxing throughout. Work of surveying the antiquities of Arles and Orange, at the time when Mérimée created the Monuments service, by the architect Cariste, who oversaw the restoration of the l'arc d'Orange. Henry Revoil, Architect (1822–1900) renowned architect in church restorations and historic monuments as well as an author and surveyor of monuments.

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.

Edinburgh, Canongate Press Ltd 1994

207 pages, extensive colour and black and white illustrations. 4to. Very good with attractive dust wrapper. A groundbreaking visual analysis of over a hundred works of art exploring the philosophical ideas, hidden images and private symbolism that inspired the work of the Glasgow Four, Mackintosh, MacNair and the sisters Margaret and Frances Macdonald. The author affirms the crucial role played by Margaret Macdonald in the artistic evolution of her husband.

London Maple & Co. Unknown

[4]+22+[2]pp with several illustrations. Quarto. Decorated wrappers with string tie . Upper wrapper has small spot near leading edge. This book plots a century of history, service and commerce for the furniture company Maple and Co. Lovely illustrations. Produced to promote the firm.

Taplow, Bucks. Published by the firm 1936

48pp. Illustrated with sepia photographs throughout. Long 4to. Exceptionally good copy. Promotional publication for this firm of Garden Contractors and Horticultural Builders. Decorated flimsy card wrappers. Large photographs of the completed projects undertaken by the firm. Includes Dytchley [Ditchley] where Jellicoe designed a major new terrace and gardens close to the house, Witley Surrey, Rothwick Hants, Swimming pool and pergolas at a property in Hampstead design by Wiperis, Simpson and Guthrie. The Garden at the Kings House, Burhill. Hard landscape treatments in Chelsea and many more projects. Very good resource for the interwar projects of this firm.

London. Smith, Elder & Co. 1911

Green cloth covered boards, gilt titles to spine. text block untrimmed to leading and lower edges. Some minor shelf wear else very good. Text comprises seven lectures delivered by Benson at Magdalene College, Oxford in 1910.

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

Leicester, Magna Books 1988

160pp illus with 100s b/w and colour plates and line drawings. Cloth. New copy. This book provides a thorough survey of English furniture, decoration and style from the late Victorian to the present.