Batchelder, Ernest A. — Design in Theory and Practice

New York, Macmillan, 1918. Hardcover. Brown cloth over boards with black lettering and illustration; xx, 271 pp.; richly illustrated. Originally printed in 1910. Chapters include an Introduction; The utilitarian basis; Elementary aesthetic principles; Constructive designing; Materials; Tools and processes; Refinement of proportions; The play impulse; The idea and nature; From the parts to the whole; From the whole to the parts; Lines of study; and Conclusion, along with lists of plates and illustrations. Good (Ex-library with sticker on the spine and front cover and to rear pastedown, bookplate ifc and stamp to ffep; boards are edgeworn/scuffed/smudged; textblock edges are lightly toned and foxed/smudged; textblock is cracked; rear cover hinge is reinforced; front hinge is beginning to crack.) .