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 buckram. 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. Sherborne given as the cover designer's signature on lower wrapper.

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.

London James Nisbet & Co, 1898

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

Spire Books in association with the Georgian Group 2002

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

London Chapman & Hall 1903

4 issues bound covering the whole year. 4to. Green cloth as issued with gilt lettering and vignette on upper board. Missing free end paper at the front. Scatttered foxing to preliminaries else very good. The Art Workers' Quarterly, subtitled, A Portfolio of Practical Designs for Decorative and Applied Arts, was published in five volumes by Chapman & Hall, London, between 1902 and 1906. Contributors in this volume include , Walter Crane, J. Alexander Fisher, D A Aird, R A Dawson, James Aitken, Aymer Valance, Ethel Higgins and Elizabeth F Scott. Wonderful illustrations to inspire design.

Aldershot Lund Humphries 2004

128pp illustrated with colour plates. Large square 4to. Very good copy with very good dust wrapper. Essays by Emmanuel Cooper and Simon Olding. Foreword by Christopher Frayling. The first full-length publication on the work of internationally renowned Dame Magdalene Odundo ( b.1950) with a complete illustrated catalogue of her work up until 2004. Hard to find.

New York Sloan Liniment 1939

Cardboard jigsaw, 300 x 250mm, made up and stuck together with removable tape. Mounted. Lovely colour image of the main site and its pavilions, free gift which was as a souvenir of the World's Fair by the firm. Sloan's Liniment was originally sold by Dr. Earl S. Sloan as a treatment to relieve pain associated with rheumatism and arthritis; originally used on horses and was eventually marketed for human use.

8 items: comprising export price lists with texts in English French and Spanish, April 1952, Price list for April 1952 revised price list April 1952, [ Campbell Horsfall written in pencil on upper wrapper], Retail price list April 1952. Whole Sale Price list September 1952, Export price list March 1953 and Gift Cases list from Ist June 1953 and leaflet "Prestige and Profit for You" a gatefold leaflet illustrate in colour, + typed letter concerning the end of rationing of beauty soaps. Mostly 4pp each. Decorated upper wrapper design. All from Yardley House, 33 Old Bond Street London

Published by City of Birmingham School of Printing, Central School of Arts and Crafts, Birmingham, 1937

38pp. Decorated wrappers. Slightly soiled else very good. Type set by students attending classes, compositors' work by boys in the pre-apprentice classes, printed by students in the letterpress machine classes under the direction of Leonard Jay. Pp. 38. 8vo., original printed wrappers designed by Olga Garner, a student. Due to revelations about the sculptor's personal life, Eric Gill Statues, including Prospero & Ariel on the BBC Broadcasting House have been attacked begging the question about whether the artist and the person can be separated. This pamphlet reviews his principles of design.

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.