DECORATIVE ARTS

Edited with an Introduction by Oliver Brackett

(Book #ID 110225)

Published by Robert M. McBride & Company, New York First American Edition 1927. 1927.

First American edition hard back rebound in utilitarian slate grey paper covered boards, black tape spine. 4to. 11½'' x 9''. Contains 14 pp followed by 310 captioned monochrome plates on loaded art paper. 'Peter Miller & Sons, Antiques, Edinburgh' stamp to the end papers. Heavy volume weighing 2 kg, extra postage will be requested over and above our default setting for destinations outside of the UK. Member of the P.B.F.A.

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Sotheby Parke Bernet & Co. Auction Sale Catalogue

(Book #ID 110000)

Published by Sotheby's 34 & 35 New Bond Street, London 13 and 14th October 1980. 1980.

Publisher's original jade card wrap covers (soft back). Quarto. 10'' x 7½''. Sale Catalogue name 'ABAQA'. Auction sale catalogue with colour and monochrome photographs throughout. List of Buyer's names and prices realised sheets loosely inserted. In Fine condition. Member of the P.B.F.A.

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Clayton, Muriel [Victoria and Albert Museum | Department of Engraving, Illustration, and Design] Prefatory Note by Eric Maclagan.

(Book #ID 110306)

Published by Victoria and Albert Museum, London Revised Edition 1929. 1929.

Revised edition in publisher's original olive green card wrap covers (soft back). Quarto. 9½'' x 7½''. Contains 250 pp followed by 72 plates on loaded art paper classified by costume, military, civil, ecclesiastical &c. Small tears to the foot of the spine, else in Very Good condition, no dust wrapper as issued. Member of the P.B.F.A.

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Glover, Sydney [Edited by]

(Book #ID 83334)

Published by The Apollo Press Ltd., Six Robert Street, Adelphi, London September 1930. 1930.

Publisher's original dove grey card covers, black lettering to the spine and the upper panel, advertisements to the front end papers. Folio 12'' x 10''. Produced on superior quality paper. Tipped-in colour and monochrome plates mounted on black card stock, other monochrome illustrations throughout. In Very Good clean condition, no dust wrapper as issued. Member of the P.B.F.A.

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Wood, Violet

(Book #ID 83353)

Published by G. Bell & Sons Ltd., Portugal Street, London First Edition 1960. London 1960.

First edition hard back binding in publisher's original navy blue cloth covers, gilt title and author lettering to the spine. 8vo. 8½'' x 5½''. Contains 175 printed pages of text with monochrome illustrations and photographs throughout. Spine ends scuffed, ghosting to the free end papers. Very Good condition book in near Very Good condition dust wrapper with age darkened spine, rubs to the spine ends and corners, not price clipped 30s. SIGNED by the Author to the front free end paper 'Violet Wood, 30th August 1960'. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection, it does not adhere to the book or to the dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A.

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Bennett, Douglas

(Book #ID 83560)

Published by Trinity College Dublin Press, Dublin 2, Ireland First Edition 1988. Ireland 1988.

First edition hard back binding in publisher's original navy blue paper covered boards, silver title and author lettering to the spine. 8vo. 9½'' x 7''. Contains 154 printed pages of text with colour and monochrome photographs throughout. Minimal wear to the spine ends. Near Fine condition book in near Fine condition dust wrapper with spine ends a little creased, not price clipped. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection, it does not adhere to the book or to the dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. ISBN 1871408008

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Géza von Habsburg-Lothringen [Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert]

(Book #ID 83720)

Published by R. & A. Gilbert First Edition 1983. 1983.

First edition hard back binding in publisher's original brown cloth covers, gilt title lettering to the spine and the front cover, brown patterned end papers. 4to 11¼'' x 8½''. 1 of 5,000 Limited Edition copies. Contains 125 printed pages of text with colour photographs throughout. Fine clean unopened condition book in Fine condition dust wrapper. Loosely inserted Gilbert Collection Exhibition flyer. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection, it does not adhere to the book or to the dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. ISBN 0961039809

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Chapel, Jeannie and Charlotte Gere

(Book #ID 109301)

Published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London Reprinted Edition 1985. 1985.

Publisher's original colour illustrated card wrap covers [soft back]. 4to 11'' x 9''. Contains 360 pp with colour and monochrome illustrations and archive photographs throughout. In Fine condition, no dust wrapper as issued. Member of the P.B.F.A. ISBN 0297789120

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Lacroix, Paul [Paul Lacroix (April 27, 1806 - October 16, 1884) was a French author and journalist. He is known best by his pseudonym P. L. Jacob, bibliophile, or Bibliophile Jacob, suggested by his great interest in libraries and books generally. [and others].

(Book #ID 110035)

Published by Frederick Ungar Publishing Co. 131 East 23rd Street New York, Republished Edition 1964. 1964.

First edition thus hard back binding in publisher's original cherry red cloth covered boards, blocked and lettered black back. Quarto. 10'' x 8''. Embraces the arts including arms and armour, carriagework, saddlery, jewellery, clocks, playing cards, manuscript painting, engraving, printing, etc. Contains (xix), 464 pp with over 400 monochrome wood cut illustrations throughout. Brown tea stain to the front paste down, foxing to the front free end paper. Very Good condition book in Good condition dust wrapper with brown spotting down the spine, not price clipped, $10.00. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection. Member of the P.B.F.A.

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Pearsall, Ronald

(Book #ID 92968)

Published by David & Charles Ltd., Brunel House, Newton Abbot, Devon First Edition 1974. 1974.

First edition hard back binding in publisher's original sky blue paper covered boards, gilt title and author lettering to the spine. 8vo. 8½'' x 6''. Contains 278 printed pages of text with monochrome illustrations and photographs throughout. Minimal wear to the covers. Very Good condition book in near Fine condition dust wrapper, not price clipped. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection, it does not adhere to the book or to the dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. ISBN 0715363549

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[Message from Michael Heseltine]

(Book #ID 93669)

Published by Somerset House First Edition 1979. 1979.

First edition in publisher's original illustrated card wrap covers [soft back]. Quarto 10'' x 8''. Contains 200 printed pages of text with photographs throughout. In Fine condition, no dust wrapper as issued. Member of the P.B.F.A.

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Snodin, Michael and Cynthia Roman [Horace Walpole 1717-1797]

(Book #ID 102508)

Published by Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University, Yale Center for British Art, Victoria & Albert Museum in Association with Yale University Press, New Haven and London First Edition 2009. 2009.

First edition hard back binding in publisher's original black cloth covers, gilt title and author lettering to the spine. 4to. 12'' x 10''. Horace Walpole (1717-1797), as the youngest son of the powerful Whig minister Robert Walpole, grew up at the centre of Georgian society and politics and circulated amongst the elite literary, aesthetic, and intellectual circles of his day. His brilliant letters and writings have made him the best-known commentator on the rich cultural life of eighteenth-century England. In his own day, he was most famous for his extraordinary collections of rare books and manuscripts, antiquities, paintings, prints and drawings, furniture, ceramics, arms and armour, and curiosities, all displayed at his pioneering Gothic Revival house at Strawberry Hill, on the banks of the Thames at Twickenham. This timely and groundbreaking study of the history and reception of Walpole's collection as it was formed and arranged at Strawberry Hill coincides with a planned restoration of this endangered house. Horace Walpole's 'Strawberry Hill' assembles an international team of distinguished scholars to explore the ways in which Strawberry Hill and its collections engaged with the creation of various and interconnected political, national, dynastic, cultural, and imagined histories. Contains (xvi), 368 printed pages of text with monochrome and colour illustrations and archive photographs throughout. Fine condition book in Fine condition dust wrapper, unused new book. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection. Heavy volume weighing 2.5 kg, extra postage and insurance will be requested over and above our default setting for destinations outside the UK. Member of the P.B.F.A. ISBN 9780300125740

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Turner, Eric

(Book #ID 97817)

Published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London First Edition 1985. 1985.

First edition hard back binding in publisher's original colour illustrated glazed boards. Quarto 10½'' x 8¼''. Contains 47 printed pages of text with monochrome illustrations and photographs throughout. In Fine condition, no dust wrapper as issued. Member of the P.B.F.A. ISBN 0112904122

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Timothy Schroeder and Rachel Layton

(Book #ID 98674)

Published by Philip Wilson Publishers in Association with The Gilbert Collection First Edition 2000. 2000.

First edition in publisher's original colour illustrated stiff deep French flap card wrap covers [soft back]. 8vo. 9½'' x 7''. Contains 32 printed pages with stunning colour photographs throughout. In Fine condition, no dust wrapper as issued. Member of the P.B.F.A. ISBN 0856675148

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Clark, Garth [Photography by Tony Cunha]

(Book #ID 98741)

Published by Thames and Hudson, 30 Bloomsbury Street, London First Edition 2001. 2001.

First edition hard back binding in publisher's original blue covers, gilt title and author lettering to the spine, publisher's device to the front cover. 4to. 12'' x 9½''. Contains 256 printed pages of text with 285 illustrations, 250 in colour. Fine condition book in near Fine condition dust wrapper with one small tear to the top front cover. Heavy volume 2.2 kg, extra postage will be requested over and above our default setting for destinations outside the UK. Member of the P.B.F.A. ISBN 0500510458

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Montagu, Jennifer

(Book #ID 110154)

Published by Octopus Books Limited, 59 Grosvenor Street, London First Edition Thus 1972. 1972.

First edition thus hard back binding in publisher's original colour illustrated paper covered boards. Quarto 10½'' x 8¼''. Contains 96 pp illustrated with 137 bronzes in monochrome and colour throughout. Printer's pin hole stab marks showing to the front end papers. Very Good condition book in Very Good condition dust wrapper with slight sun fading down the spine, not price clipped. Member of the P.B.F.A.

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Hayward, J. F. [Samuel Courtauld] John Forrest Hayward (1916-1983)

(Book #ID 99473)

Published by Sotheby Parke Bernet Publications, 36 Dover Street, London, First Edition 1975. 1975.

First edition hard back binding in publisher's original olive cloth covers, silver title and author lettering to the spine, illustrated paper onlay to the front cover. Quarto. 10'' x 8''. Contains 30 printed pages of text on superior quality laid paper, followed by 62 monochrome plates. Fine condition book in Fine condition dust wrapper. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection. Member of the P.B.F.A. ISBN 0856670189

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Bly, John

(Book #ID 102197)

Published by Prentice Hall Press, 15 Columbus Circle, New York First Edition 1986. 1986.

First edition hard back binding in publisher's original green cloth covers, gilt title and author lettering to the spine. Quarto. 10'' x 8¼''. Contains 224 printed pages of text with colour plates, monochrome illustrations and archive photographs throughout. Ink message to the front free end paper. Near Fine condition book in Fine condition dust wrapper, price clipped. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection. Member of the P.B.F.A. ISBN 0131674870

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Rosemary Ransome Wallis (Curator)

(Book #ID 103339)

Published by The Goldsmiths' Company, Goldsmiths' Hall, Foster Lane, London First Edition 2000. 2000.

First edition in publisher's original colour illustrated card wrap covers [soft back]. 4to. 13'' x 9¼''. Contains 184 pp with wonderful colour photographs throughout. In Fine condition, acetate dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. ISBN 0907814305

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Willer & Riley Ltd., Boston, Lincolnshire

(Book #ID 107821)

Published by Willer & Riley Factory, Boston, Lincolnshire Ltd., 1910. 1910.

8 section 3½'' x 2'' double-sided advertising booklet on thin paper opening to 3½'' x 15½''. In Very Good condition without an tears. Member of the P.B.F.A.

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Adrian Bury [Raymond Lister (1919-2001) was an English blacksmith, ironworker, author, artist, and a leading authority on Samuel Palmer]

(Book #ID 110258)

Published by The Connoisseur, London 1959. 1959.

First bound edition hard back binding in publisher's original purple cloth covered boards, blocked and lettered gilt back and front. 4to. 11½'' x 9¼''. Contains 140 pp with colour plates, monochrome illustrations and archive photographs throughout. Light marks to the boards, contents in Fine condition. Member of the P.B.F.A.

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Baker, Hollis S. [Introduction by Designer Sir Gordon Russell]

(Book #ID 110257)

Published by The Connoisseur, London 1966. 1966.

Hard back binding in publisher's original slate blue cloth covered boards, blocked and lettered gilt back. 4to. 11'' x 9¼''. Contains colour frontispiece, 351 pp with over 466 illustrations and archive photographs throughout, 9 measured drawings. Very Good condition book in Very Good condition dust wrapper with rubbing to the tips and corners, not price clipped, £6/6/0. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection. Heavy volume weighing 2 kg, extra postage will be requested over and above our default setting for destinations outside of the UK. Member of the P.B.F.A.

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Davis, Frank

(Book #ID 108138)

Published by Vista Books, Longacre Press Ltd., 161-166 Fleet Street, London Second Edition 1962. 1962.

Second edition hard back binding in publisher's original black cloth covered boards, blocked and lettered gilt back and front. 4to. 11'' x 8''. Contains (xvi), 160 pp with 404 monochrome photographs throughout. Small bumps to the corners and in Very Good condition, no dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A.

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Burgess, Fred W.

(Book #ID 109340)

Published by George Routledge and Sons Ltd., Broadway House, 68-74 Carter Lane, Ludgate Hill, London First Edition 1919. 1919.

First edition hard back binding in publisher's original burgundy engine turned cloth covered boards, blocked and lettered gilt back and front, bevelled edges. 8vo. 9'' x 6''. Extensive historical survey across the subject including aesthetic, technical, commercial, historical etc. covering Assyrian, Phoenician, Celtic, Roman, Anglo-Saxon, Mediaeval, Victorian, with a chapter on Royal and Ecclesiastical Jewels. Contains (xii), 399 pp + 142 illustrations over 24 monochrome plates (23 double-sided) on loaded art paper. Spine titles oxidised, tanning to the page margins, else in Very Good clean condition, no dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A.

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Zimelli, Umberto and Giovanni Vergerio

(Book #ID 109661)

Published by Paul Hamlyn Ltd., Middlesex First UK Edition 1969. 1969.

First UK edition hard back binding in publisher's original light grey paper covered boards, blocked and lettered gilt back. 8vo. 8'' x 5½''. Contains 159 pp with 70 colour plates. Fine condition book in Fine condition dust wrapper, not price clipped. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection. Member of the P.B.F.A. ISBN 60001228x

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Chadwick, Oliver

(Book #ID 109663)

Published by Merlin Press, London First Edition 1975. 1975.

First edition hard back binding in publisher's original black paper covered boards, blocked and lettered gilt back. 8vo. 8'' x 5½''. Contains 73 pp with monochrome illustrations and archive photographs throughout. Ex Library copy with date plate to front free end paper. Very Good condition book in Fine condition dust wrapper, not price clipped. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection. Member of the P.B.F.A.

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Snowman, Kenneth [Carl Fabergé]

(Book #ID 110925)

Published by Faber and Faber Ltd., 24 Russell Square, London Second Revised and Enlarged Edition 1957. 1957.

Second revised and enlarged edition hard back binding in publisher's original slate grey cloth covered boards, blocked and lettered red and gilt back, top edge gilt. Quarto. 10'' x 8''. Contains 186 pp with colour and monochrome archive photographs throughout. Lower spine end softened. Very Good condition book in near Fine condition dust wrapper, not price clipped 6 guineas. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection. Heavy volume weighing 2 kg, extra postage will be requested over and above our default setting for destinations outside of the UK. Member of the P.B.F.A.

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Bliss, Douglas Percy (1900-1984) Charles Rennie Mackintosh (1869-1928)

(Book #ID 111357)

Published by The Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow First Edition 1961. 1961.

First edition in publisher's original wire stitched illustrated card wrap covers (soft back). 8vo. 9'' x 9''. Contains 24 pp with monochrome floor plans and elevations and archive photographs throughout. Light tanning to the covers, else in Very Good condition. Member of the P.B.F.A.

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