London The Crafts Council 1981

Book to accompany a major retrospective exhibition held at the V&A in 1981 and 1982. Edited by John Houston who also contributes in the book an essay on her career and was the exhibition organiser. Very good in dust wrapper. Hard to find. Taped to paste down is the admission ticket to the V & A and presumably the show.

Aldershot Lund Humphries 2004

128pp illustrated with colour plates. Large square 4to. Very good copy with very good dust wrapper. Essays by Emmanuel Cooper and Simon Olding. Foreword by Christopher Frayling. The first full-length publication on the work of internationally renowned Dame Magdalene Odundo ( b.1950) with a complete illustrated catalogue of her work up until 2004. Hard to find.

London Lund Humphries 1971

159 pp illustrated with 81 black and white drawings. Large 8vo boards with very good dw. The influential work of a key Bauhaus figure. Compiled from reproductions of Schlemmer's notebooks and notes for his Bauhaus course "Man". Heimo Kuchling selected the contents from a wealth of unsorted notes and over 200 drawings, at the heart of which is his section on figure drawing.

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.

Wormerveer, Netherlands: In Usum Bibliophili, 1964

Unpaginated. 30pp. With a two-page introduction by Ruari McLean. Contains reproductions of various pages of 13 Doves Press books; with some of the printing in red. Grey cloth, dust jacket. First edition, No 302 of 325 numbered copies. Number in pen on colophon. The Minor wear along the edges of the wrapper which is slightly browned. Internally a good copy.

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.

England Osborne & Little c.1970

Original, unused full roll of Osborne and Little, white, silver and gold foil Wallpaper. Design No. 103. By Anthony Little. Measures 1044cm x 56cm. Slight creases from handling over the years, but near fine. An early example of co-founder and creative director Anthony Little's designs. Little had been responsible for the iconic black and gold Biba logo of the 60s and dreamed up most of the company's designs.

London Crafts Advisory Committee 1976

80pp illustrated with portrait frontis and illustrations in black and white of the ceramics. Small square 4to. Decorated wrappers. Very good. Contributions by Ray Finch, John Hewston and others.

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: Country Life 1930

208pp, including 193pp b/w photographs. Blue cloth. Spine a little bumped at the base. Internally there is some light foxing to endpapers and text pages, but images are unaffected. D/w present but not visible beneath a scanned and 'cleaned-up' reproduction of the d/w and protective, archival plastic wrapper. Wonderful collection of early 20th C furniture, both moderninst and traditional, by designers including Robert Lorimer, Edwin Lutyens, Gordon Russell etc. Illustrations show individual items and interior scenes.

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.