published by the firm. No date c 1910?

28pp. Landscape 16mo Decorated wrappers. Upper wrapper a little foxed. Illustrated with sepia photographs which document the factory, Impington Hall, [ run at the time as an educational and social centre for Chivers staff but demolished in the 1950s] farms and orchards where the produce was grown. Lovely small item. Text describes the history of the firm, its factory, and orchards and the role of the company in the local community. Great, if small, documentary photographs. For most of the 20th century Chivers was the leading jam manufacturers in the UK but is now owned by the Boyne Group although the group still use the original name.

Dublin Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery of Modern Art 1978

Foreword by Peter Lake. Unpaginated. 392pp illustrated with sepia photographs and a few colour images. Long 4to. Wrappers. Good copy. Useful resource on the history of Irish Theatre production and design.

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 Geo Aug. Mate & Son Printers and Publishers, Fleet Street 1934

62pp including period ads and maps +[4]pp period ads in colour for motor cars by the Austin Car Company. Paste down advert in colour for Frames Tours ticket agency. 16mo. Cream lettered wrappers. Stapled. Good copy. Events listing publication which served to promote them and the Hotel who distributed it and the printing firm who published it. From Robin de Beaumont's collection with his tiny monograph label on inside of front paste down.

Foulis Press Archive Press Glasgow School of Art 1973

First edition no 36 of 50 copies designed by Gordon Huntly from material by James Murray 14pp printed on 14 leaves french folded. MOunted fontis of gold thistle design blocked onto cream buchram. Fine in original wrappers with Morris design in back and green. Loosely inserted letter from John Tomlinson and Christmas card blank from the Foulis Press

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.

Amsterdam, Lettergieterij 'Amsterdam', 1960

48 pp., illustrated. 8vo. Presented to the members of the tenth International Congress of Master Printers, June 1960; Paper wrappers sun faded else good. Text in English, French, German. Illustrated with black and white images, sketches and photographs, some on coloured sheets of paper.

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. .

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.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1924

Limited Edition. 1086/2050. 64pp Illustrated with engravings. Uncut. 4to. Quarter black cloth, printed paper boards. Edges a little rubbed, corners worn else good copy. From the collection of Bob Brooks with his signature on front end paper. Brooks was a designer and artist based most of his life in Stoke on Trent.

London, Macmillan & Co., Ltd., 1924

Portrait frontispiece of Morris engraved by Emery Walker from a photograph by Sparling, ix + 177pp + [2]pp advertising leaf at the end and 16 plates. 8vo., original linen backed, blue holland paper covered boards with paper printed spine label. Fine. A very useful study of the operation and histor oc the Kelsmcott Press, founded by Morris in 1891. Henry Halliday Sparling was the son-in-law of William Morris between 1890 and 1898 He had married May Morris but this ended over her involvement with George Bernard Shaw.

Liverpool Walker Art Gallery 1960

Held 12th February to 4 March. Touring exhibition organised by the Arts Council. The exhibition spanned 1960 to 1961. The pioneering exhibition included glass by contemporary makers including Peter Lanyon, John Piper, Pauline Boty, Geoffrey Clarke amongst others. 510x760mm Printed at the Shenval Press.

London James Nisbet & Co, 1898

ix + 336pp illustrated with portrait frontis. 8vo. Cloth, paper label, this darkened. Light wear to all edges.

London, Studio Vista 1969 (1967)

96pp with numerous b/w illustrations. Printed wraps. Square octavo. Good. Spine a little bumped at top edge. Upper hinge cracked. Pencil annotations on some of the pages. A stimulating book in which Cook considers architecture as an extension of our personalities, our aspirations, motives and what this means in terms of reading contemporary architecture.

Spire Books in association with the Georgian Group 2002

224pp illustrated with b/w plates. Colour laminated wrappers. Fine

Reading: Spire Books 2008

295pp with over 300 photographs, the majority in colour. 4to, cloth in d/w, new copy. A collection of essays on this elusive but prolific Hungarian artist (1891-1975) including scholarly studies and personal reminiscences. Tracing his life and career against the turbulent background of twentieth century Europe, this collection explores the richness of his legacy. A valuable addition to the study of 20th C stained glass and ecclesiastical design. Published at £65.