London and New York Published by the firm 1909

20pp illustrated throughout in colour. Colour centre fold over two pages. Original wrappers, Arts an Crafts Movement style, sympathetically pasted down onto boards and new end papers. This makes a good sturdy copy of this otherwise fragile catalogue. Advert for New York premises within text pages. Introductory text on the design scope of the business.

London Cassell & Co. Ltd (1972, New York) 1974

192 pp. b/w photographs, architectural drawings, maps and plans throughout. Long 4to. White cloth boards with black lettering, in decorated glassine dust wrapper. Good copy although slight discolouration at cloth edges and glassine wrapper has tears at spine and partly missing against back board. Photographic record of the design and manufacture of the Sydney Opera House glass walls, carried out by the author during their construction. The design won the Engineering Excellence Award of 1972 by the Association of Consulting Engineers of Australia. With detailed captions and brief descriptive chapters. From the library of Winston Barnett Architects, with ownership ticket inside front cover.

London B T Batsford 1914

172pp with 63 plates, frontis and a two further images in colour. Large 4to. Original gilt decorated cloth. Sl. rubbed at head of the spine else a good copy. Review of tapestries from the 14th century through the end of the 18th.. Also describes the crafts and craftsmen behind the production of many of the wall hangings in Britain, and comments on the economic development of the trade.

London Crosby Lockwood & Co 1879

First edition. 58pp + 32pp catalogue of publications by the firm + lists of Weale's series titles on end papes. Illustrated with 12 full page line illustrations in black and white showing how to set out lettering in different styles. Spine a little worn else good. Badenoch, was a practising sign writer from Aberdeen, Scotland.

Bromsgrove The Bromsgrove Society 1999

xi + 146 pp. 84 b/w ills throughout, 25 in colour. 8vto. Fine. Decorated wrappers. Illustrated comprehensive history of the Bromsgrove Guild of Applied Arts, founded 1898 in the West Midlands. Traces the Guild's development into a thriving commercial enterprise with an international reputation in metalwork, woodcarving, plasterwork, stained glass and other media, and cites celebrated commissions such as the wrought iron gates of Buckingham Palace, ornate metalwork on the Cunard Liners, and Liverpool's renowned 'Liver Birds'. Includes accounts from former Guild workers.

London John Lane the Bodley Head & in New York, Dodd, Mead and Company 1924

(xii), 231, (1) pp. Frontispiece and 32 coloured plates plus numerous black and white illustrations in the text. Black titles. Cream buckram. 4to Very good copy. Major projects recorded here including, St Aidan's Church, Leeds, The Royal Exchange, Decorations for Selfirdge's, Stained glass cartoons, The Panama-Pacific Exhibition amongst others. Published just before his work for the Empire Exhibition, London was shown. Lovely book.

London Westerham Press 194

125 + [2]pp illustrated with plates and one folded facsimile. Quarto. Gilt lettered cloth. Very good in slipcase. First edition. Copy number 120 from an edition of 500 numbered copies, of which the first 110 were reserved for members of the club. Signed by the author on verso of title page. Michael Harvey was a member of the Double Crown Club.

Ditchling St Dominic's Press 1926

The "Small Rhyme Sheets". These two each folded once. No. 16, Dressmaker; No. 12, Milkmaid. Reduced Eric Gill engraving. Bound in half calf with hand made paper covered boards. Arts and crafts style binding. Taylor and Sewell, B39 & B35. originally issued in string tied light grey wrappers.

New York The Grolier Club 2000

95pp, Decorated title page. Blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine and motif on upper board. Catalogue of an exhibition at the Grolier Club, with an autobiography by Zapf and descriptions of the illustrations and translations of his books. One of 1,050 copies printed. Very good copy.

Gold Coast, Accra 1025

29pp description on the exhibition and the arrangements for African participants in terms of accommodation, facilities, trips etc. Fascinating period report describing the development of the project for a village and pavilion representing the Gold Coast and West African colonies. The London Gold Coast Committee was presided over by Lady Guggisberg then John Maxwell. The exhibit was designed and constructed by MacAlpine and the whole report written from a British perspective. The report includes very useful insights into how ethnic groups were involved in the exhibition. Lists those who loaned material, a list divided racially between British and African lenders. Flimsy wrapper which are partially detached and chipped.

New York The Grolier Club 1967

52pp + 8pp b/w photographs showing the club interiors and facade. 8vo. Limited to 2000 copies printed by the Spiral Press. Very good copy in slipcase with good paper label.

Hereford, published by the firm nd. c1938

8pp catalogue with b/w illustrations, including 3 full-page b/w sketches of Holmer fireplaces and surrounds in situ. Stiff card wraps, stapled 240x190mm. With installation and cleaning suggestions on inner wrap. With loose 4pp price list. The firm specialised in tiles and was wound up c 1960.

London and New York The Studio 1947

144pp illustrated with b/w plates grouped together after the text pages. Small 8vo. Good. Dust wrapper chipped and worn but protected in glassine. End papers slightly foxed. Fascinating publication on design remedies which can be achieved by using a consultant. A greater part of Mercer's life was spent working for The Studio and he was editor of Modern Publicity, Modern Posters and Art and Industry. He was on the board of the RSA for many years and this book was produced from a paper he wrote for the RSA and for which he was awarded a silver medal.

London Kings Cross Station 1926

Unpaginated. Colour illustrations of Railway Posters illustrating places accessible via the rail network on the east coast + coat of arms of the company and lithographs of places in grey scale. Cloth spine, boards. Decorated end papers which are maps of railway routes which shows LNER hotels. 4to. Very good copy. Original ownership signature on front end paper.

London Cassell & Company 1885

Sixty-fifth thousand. 206pp + 5pp on paste downs as end paper + 1 additional page which are testimonials for the book. Specimen stamped on upper board and also front end paper. Chapters on food, drink, and cooking, but also washing, how to mind the baby and account keeping and health. Henrietta Barnett was a notable social reformer and active in founding Hampstead Garden Suburb.

Corpus Vitraearum Medii Aevi: Great Britain published by OUP 213

762pp illustrated in colour. 4to. 2 volumes in slip case. Significant study of glass both in terms of detail and approach, which includes a comprehensive context for the stained glass at Merton.

Oxford Oxford University Press 1996

lvii, 390pp (24), with 24 colour plates at the rear of the book. 316 b/w illustrations throughout text. 8vo. Dust wrapper. Very good. An extremely comprehensive illustrated catalogue of the medieval stained glass of the county, excluding Lincoln Cathedral. Interesting text on Lincolnshire's historical and cultural heritage.

Glasgow William MacLellan & Co. Ltd 1951

166pp. Copious black and white illustrations and designs plus 40 plates at the end of the text including three in colour. Colour frontispiece of the Tara Brooch. All "Pictish Decorations" by George Bain. Cloth covered boards with gilt titling and embossed decoration on upper board. Quarto. Previous owners name written in neat hand, along with an earlier dedication to a Jean Fraser. Good. Some minor foxing internally, and upper hinge cracked. Boards age worn and marked or nicked in some places. A good copy nonetheless, of an important and influential book which contributed to a revival of interest in Celtic art.

London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1949,

xx, 480 pp; 120 b/w plates Cloth sl. rubbed else very good . First Edition. Small 4to. First Edition. 4to. From the library of Peter Burman with nis name inscribed on fep. Errata slip states the book was not published until 1950. Scholarly text on the mosaics at Cefalu, Palermo etc.