Beard, Geoffrey.

The National Trust Book of English Furniture.

Middlesex, Penguin Books, 1986. 14.5cm x 21cm. 295 pages. Original softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

Blacker, J.F.

The ABC of Collecting Old English China. Giving a Short History of the English Factories, and showing how to apply Tests for Unmarked China before 1800.

Second edition. London, The London Opinion Curio Club, 1908. 23 x 15 cm. 142 pages with 75 illustrations. Original Hardcover. Good condition with minor external wear and some foxing.

Blair, Claude.

The History of Silver.

London/Sydney, Macdonald & Co., 1987. 4°. 256 pages. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket. Very good+ condition of this important outline of Silver-History.

By A Graduate of Oxford (Vol. 1 and 2) / Ruskin, John.

Modern Painters. Volume I. Containing Parts I and II. / Volume II. Containing Part III. Sections 1. and 2. Of the Imaginative and Theoretic Faculties. / Volume III. Containing Part IV. Of Many Things. / Volume IV. Containing Part V. Of Mountain Beauty. / Volume V. Completing the Work, and Containing Parts VI. Of Leaf Beauty. VII. Of Cloud Beauty. VIII. Of Ideas of Relation. 1. Of Invention Formal. IX. Of Ideas of Relation. 2. Of Invention Spiritual.

Vol. 1: Third Edition – Revised by the Author. Volumes 2-5 First Editions. Five Volumes – Complete Set. London, Smith, Elder and Co. 1846, 1846, 1856, 1856, 1860. 26 x 18 cm. Vol.1: lxiii, 422 pages plus 32 pages publishers list / Vol.2: xvi, 217 pages plus 3 pages publishers list / Vol.3: xix, 348 pages plus 16 pages publishers list and 18 Plates / Vol. 4: xii, 411 pages. With 35 Plates / Vol.5: xvi, 384 pages plus 32 pages publishers list and 34 Plates. Also small illustrations in text. Green cloth with elaborate blind decorations to boards. Gilt titles and decorations on spine. Small binder label in volume 1: ‘Westleys & Clark, London’. Very good condition. All bindings are rubbed, bumped and some are stained. Various degrees of fraying to spine ends. Spines age darkened / browned. Edges and end papers age darkened. Internally dust dulled and occasionally mildly foxed. All Plates are present, a few are lose. Bindings sound. A nice complete set of this important publication.

Caplan, Ralph.

Design in America. Selected work by members of the Industrial Designers Society of America. Introduction and text by Ralph Caplan.

First Edition. New York a. o, McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1969. 22cm x 28.5cm. 185 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket with protective Mylar. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of wear.

Chaffers, William.

The Collector’s Hand-book of Marks and Monograms on Pottery & Porcelain of the Renaissance and Modern Periods. Selected from His Larger Work.

London, Reeves and Turner, 1906. 19.5cm x 13cm. XXX, 234 pages. With historic illustrations. Original Hardcover. Good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Gilted cover and spine.

Disher, M.L.

American Factory Production of Women’s Clothing.

First Edition. Limited Edition, copy no. 868. London, Devereaux Publications Ltd, 1947 24 x 19 cm, xvi, 251 pages with 24 full page plates. Original ‘velvet’ type dark blue cloth. Hard cover. Paper labels on front cover and spine. Binding seriously rubbed on corners and spine. Part of spine label missing. Internally very good condition. Minor amounts of foxing. Some age darkening.

Eastlake, Charles L.

Hints on Household Taste in Furniture, Upholstery and other Details.

Rare First English Edition. London, Longmans, Green, and Co., 1868. 21.5 x 15.5 cm. xiv, 269 pages. With illustrations in text and various plates, some in colour. Contemporary quarter brown morocco over paper covered boards. Hard cover with gilt title on spine. Fore and tail edge deckle. Very good condition. Some shelf wear, rubbing and bumping. Edges and end papers age darkened. Ex Libris of previous owner (‘Thos. Gaisford’) on front paste down. From the library of Howth Castle, Dublin, Ireland. Internally mildly foxed, otherwise clean. Partially unopened. Complete with all Illustrations and Plates, as listed, including 14 colour Plates / Samples.

Egan, Desmond (Editor).

James McKenna. A Celebration.

First Edition. Newbridge, Co. Kildare, Goldsmith Press, 2002. 23 x 15 cm. (4), 168 pages. With illustrations in colour and B&W. Original decorated stiff paper covers. Soft covers. Very good condition. Minor shelf wear. Internally bright and clean.

Epstein, Diana.

Buttons.

First Edition. London, Studio Vista, 1968. 21.5cm x 15.5cm. 84 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear.