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 John Lane and the Bodley Head 1918

190pp + [2] illustrated with b/w plates. Decorated cloth. Superb insights into contemporary house keeping, arrangement of rooms etc. Includes contemporary issues such as electric lighting, the arrangement of entrance halls and indeed all the rooms of the house. Peel wrote a series of books aimed at improving the lot of women in the home over her career and was given the OBE for her work in the first world war relating to women and the war and food preparation etc. She deserves to be better known for her contributions in writing and on government committees relating to home economics.

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.

Newcastle Upon Tyne Frank Graham 1979

30pp illustrated with b/w plates. 8vo. Pamphlet. Wrappers a bit discoloured else good copy. Useful overview and narrative about this key exhibition. The North East Coast Exhibition of Industry, Science, and Art ran for the summer season. The Hancock Museum and gardens which still surround it are a survival from the exhibition.

London Brodie & Middleton, Simpkin Marchall & Co c1877

205pp illustrated. Decorated boards, cloth spine. Very good copy. 5th edition. Ex libris with his bookplate Frank Harwood. A handbook for modest commercial and amateur craftsmen. Five editions between c.1874 and c.1877. Covers Mouldings; Picture and Looking-glass Frames; Plate Glass; Silvering Plate Glass; Composition Ornaments; Gilder's Tools; Preparations Used in Gilding; Gilding; Interior and Exterior Gilding; Cleaning and Restoration of Oil Paintings; Picture Frames and Their Manufacture, mitring, mounting etc. Whilst not uncommon it is hard to find in this condition.

Yale University Press 1974

Volume 1: 119pp + 665 colour and black and white plates. Volume 2; Catalogue of window and glass designs. Large 4to. Good set with slightly worn and darkened dust wrappers. Internally very good. Previous owners name on front end papers. A. Charles Sewter thoroughly describes the firm's work from its founding in 1861 to its closing in 1940. Drawing on his first-hand knowledge of almost every Morris window in the United Kingdom and throughout the world, and on account-books and other unpublished sources, he treats in detail the firm's major commissions. He describes the preparation of cartoons and windows and comes to new conclusions about the creative role of Morris and the other artists. Hard to find.

London Crosby Lockwood & Son Ltd 1952

VII + 64pp illustrated with 35 line ills and one photograph of the Dome. Also three fold-out plates of tables in pocket to rear Long 4to. Good with slightly worn dust wrapper. The Dome of Discovery housed a temporary exhibition building designed by architect Ralph Tubbs for the Festival of Britain at the South Bank. The consulting engineers were Freeman Fox & Partners and this book is a technical analysis of the construction.

John Murray 1968

316pp illus. with b/w plates. Vg in dust wrapper. Important study of the life and work of Thomas Hope who prescribed classicism in design but who Watkins reveals as a romantic at heart.

Edinburgh London The Tynecastle Company n.d. [1923]

152 + [48]pp, b/w photographs throughout. Folio. Original red cloth with black lettering. Slightly frayed at the head and foot of spine. Binding a little shaky with short split along outer hinge. Trade catalogue from the 1920s for the Tynecastle Company, who specialised in wall coverings, mouldings, friezes and ornaments. Illustrated throughout with samples of individual products and examples of them in situ. The company was set up in 1885 by John and James Templeton to meet the demand for their leather-like canvas product, and ran in tandem with the original Scott Morton & Co. until they were incorporated in 1920. Ownership of George Wilson Studio Leeds 1926

London Lund Humphries. 1949-1967

1-16 all published. This complete set of the New Series is a remarkable survival of the 60s and a testament to Herbert Spencer's innovative approach to design. Contributors included Dieter Rot, Alexander Rodchenko, Herbert Bayer, John Heartfield, Kurt Schwitters. They are a wide-ranging in their coverage of all things graphic including; Road Signs in Holland, forty-nine photographs by Margaret Wissing; Penguins on the March which examines Penguin paperback designs, by Herbert Spencer; Reading by touch, by Donald Bell; Typography in Britain; Chance, by Barbara Jones Sex and Typography, Tombstone Lettering on Slate, etc. The journal also assessed Modernist pioneers and environmental photography. From the collection of typographer Michael Harvey.

Liverpool Walker Art Gallery 2007

48pp Unnatural Selection: Jewellery, Objects and Sculpture by Peter Chang was produced to accompany an exhibition. Illustrates selected items from the exhibition, and provides a background of his life and work, includes his own views about his work.

New York George Schlegel 1893

Two advertising items promoting Cigars which are chromolithographic images . Sizes are 260x155mm and 120x120mm. Set against the background of the Worlds Fair Buildings these two items illustrate a romanticised scene depicting the discovery of the New World by Columbus. George Schlegel Lithographing Co. (1849-1957)[1] was a New York printing company best known for its label designs for cigars and cigar boxes, and was owned and operated during its lifetime by four generations of the family. Very good

London Nicholson & Watson (The New Democracy series) 1945

126 pages with 13 pictorial colour charts designed by the Isotype Institute and black & 65 white photos. Good copy in slightly worn dust wrapper. Hard to find. Assessment of the role of women in wartime Britain and the future potential it unleashed. Hard to find. Book design by Adprint.

Oxford: Oxford University Press for the British Academy 1987

96, 16 col. pls., 15 b and w pls., 2 microfiches with 220 b and wills. 4to. Very good with good dust wrapper. Out of Print.