London: Astolat Press c.1900

Second edition. Half title, photogravure frontis with tissue guard, and title + 28pp with 6 numbered sepia photogravures and 22 b/w drawings. Square 4to in open weave cloth with stamped decoration and title on spine. Rubbed and bumped on edges, especially spine. Overall a good copy of the second edition of this scarce text. The b/w illustrations are taken from pen drawings by Louis R. Deuchars and Mary herself, and the sepia photogravures from negatives by George Andrews. The Watts Chapel (Compton Chapel) was designed and built by Mary Watts, the wife of the artist G F Watts. It is an intricately ornate building: a mixture of art nouveau, Romanesque and Celtic with the unmistakable influence of the Arts and Crafts movement, of which Mary Watts was a pioneer. Bookplate of Gavin Stamp on front paste down. Previous owner inscription on the half title. Loosely inserted clippings on matters related to the book and Watts.

Ross printed and sold by W Farror 1818

First edition. viii + 154pp illustrated with portrait frontis, tipped in plates of Goodrich Castle unnumbered and naively drawn map with key at page x. Further illustration of Tintern Abbey. Guide book to the key sites of interest to tourists of the Wye Tour. Small 8vo. Full calf, contemporary binding. Marbled end papers. Small split at head of spine and spine slightly rubbed. Minor foxing to prelims. Interesting local printing from Ross on Wye. Some contemporary annotations on the verso of the dedication leaf concerning the frontis of John Kyle. One or two other minor supplementary notes in the same neat hand on elements mentioned in the guide. Gilpin's 'Observations on the River Wye and Several Parts of South Wales etc., relative chiefly to Picturesque Beauty' was made in the summer of the year 1770 was published in 1782 and became a resounding success. This guide was a one of a number produced in response to the development of the tourist trail in this part of Wales which remains popular today.

London Arthur Sanderson & Sons Ltd, 53, Berners Street, W1. n.d c.1930?

Unpaginated. c40pp combing real samples of wallpapers and colour illustrations of room settings using the wallpapers and giving specifications of design types. 8vo textured paper wraps made from a further sample of wallpaper. Arthur Sanderson & Sons Ltd was founded in 1860. In 1879, the firm established their first wallpaper factory in Chiswick, due to high demand the factory was extended in 1902, the extension was designed by Voysey. Later in the C20 the firm took over many prestigious wallpaper manufacturers, including Jeffrey and Co. who printed designs by Walter Crane, Owen Jones, Heywood Sumner, William Morris amongst others. Title page includes the quote form Morris "Whatever you have in your rooms, think first of your walls, for they are what makes a house a home." These papers are typical of those favoured by suburban home owners at the time.

London IPC no date 1934

19pp, 235x166mm. Black and white and colour illustrations. Stapled pamphlet with upper design featuring the home elected by the Magazine editors as their Model Home called "Sunshine House". The house was designed by Evelyn Simmons and Cecil Grellier and built by Messrs G T Crouch who named it the Sunway Home. A single page descibes the house, the plans of which are also given opposite. Most of the publication is given over to furnishings. Centre fold has 8pp of room settings. Covers orange and black two tone art deco design. The Sunway house was featured at the Ideal Homes Exhibition in 1934 and a version of it constructed with the name Sunway at Bay Walk, Aldwick in Bognor Regis in the same year to the designs of Simmons and Grelllier. Project cited in C20 Journal 2 p124 ( J. Gould).