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 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. .

nd c1960

16pp illustrated in colour throughout. Paper wrappers, stapled 750x750mm. Indanthren is a class of high-performance synthetic vat dyes and pigments> This small but beautifully produced booklet indicates how brightly coloured fabrics can enhance the home. Shows room settings, rugs, fabrics employed for blinds and curtains etc.

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.

Japan, Haga Bookstore 1977

211pp illustrated. Colour images throughout of Ukiyo-e prints. CLoth bound with tilt characters on upper board. Very good in original slip case, this rather rubbed on corners. Text in Japanese. The book focuses on Japanese Tattoo themes such as traditional hero characters. Works include, Kuniyoshi Kunisada, Kuichika and Toyokuni etc. Includes fold out images. Hard to find.

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.

Privately published by John Lampitt.using photobox 1015

28pp. 5pp Introductory text + colour plates of the designs. Long 4to. Black boards, window on upper board with title behind. Very good. Bryans seems to have initially trained with Clayton & Bell before joining to Charles Eamer Kempe's Studio in 1889 where he subsequently became the assistant to John Carter, the chief designer. He subsequently set up on his own account. He died in 1925.

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.

London Published by Department of Overseas Trade., 1925

206pp illustrated. 4to. Original cloth, leather spine label with gilt lettering, this worn at edges. Good copy of this key review of the exhibition. Very useful on Architecture, Murals, Furniture, Textiles, Metal Work, Pottery, Glass, Books, Illustration, Posters, Theatre, Gardens, and Lighting, etc. Ownership signature, hand written in calligraphic script, Doris Parton, 46 Baskeville Road Hanley. She was a ceramic artist, active 1926- 1951 and exhibited in Stoke on Trent.

Cambridge, Massachusetts The MIT Press 2012

157 pp. Extensively illustrated with colour and black and white illustrations. Boards with d/w. Very good copy. Both a visual history of an often ignored although significant urban space and a study of how it can be transformed.