Arti decorative e design

French Wood Carvings from the National Museums: Third Series

ROWE Eleanor · 1896 · Inch's Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

London, Batsford 1896 4pp, 4pp, 10pp, 18 plates 47x34, folder with pages and plates loosely inserted. Ex library, folders rather tatty with ribbons missing, plates and text generally good. Nicely produced survey [heavy item, may require additional postage]

French Wood Carvings from the National Museums: Second Series

ROWE Eleanor · 1896 · Inch's Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

London, Batsford 1896 ii, 10pp, 4pp, 18 plates 47x34, folder with pages and plates loosely inserted. Ex library, folders rather tatty with ribbons missing, plates and text generally good. Nicely produced survey [heavy item, may require additional postage]

French Wood Carvings from the National Museums: First, Second, Third Series

ROWE Eleanor · 1896 · Inch's Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.26 | ¥12,657)

London, Batsford 1896 iv, 4, 8pp, 18 plates; ii, 10pp, 4pp, 18 plates; 4pp, 4pp, 10pp, 18 plates 47x34, folder with pages and plates loosely inserted. Ex library, folders rather tatty with ribbons missing, old auction label on First Series folder, plates and text generally go...

A Treatise on Landscape Painting in Water Colours

COX David, with foreword by AL BALDRY · 1922 · Inch's Books

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)

London, The Studio 1922 20pp, 72 plates of which are 16 tipped-in colour plates. 30x22, bevelled boards, patterned eps. Ex library, usual stamps and marks, tape repairs on spine, paper browning but not affecting plates, fair to good copy of a lovely book. Number 58 of the or...

Bill Brandt: Photographs

CAMPBELL Robin (foreword) · 1970 · Inch's Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

London, Arts Council of Great Britain 1970 16pp, bw photographs. 24x21, stapled wraps. Wraps a bit rubbed, slight bump to top edge, good thus. Guide for an exhibition of Brandt's work organised by MOMA and promoted by the Arts Council at the Hayward Gallery and then across t...

Imitation

TROOSTWYK David · 1977 · Inch's Books

£50.00 (€59.93 | $66.05 | ¥10,548)

London, David Troostwyk and the Felicity Samuel Gallery 1977 c100pp (unpaginated), text in alternate pages of red and black. 28x21, card wraps. Small damp mark on spine and back cover, not affecting pages, neatly written dedication on title page (in two colours as the book), ...

Private Act

TROOSTWYK David · 1999 · Inch's Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

London, Matt's Gallery 1999 60pp, many bw and colour illustrations, invitation to private view loosely inserted. 28x21, card wraps. Very good. A catalogue of a Troostwyk show at the London gallery probably mostly closely associated with him. One of Britain's most important co...

Furnishing the Small Home

MERIVALE Margaret · 1938 · Inch's Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,164)

London, The Studio (1938) new ed (1943) 1944 repr. 112pp, a great many b/w ills, 2 col plates. 25x19, cloth. A few marks on the cloth, light foxing on early pages, good thus. Good survey of furntiture, decor, tableware and so on, incl Hill, Ashley, Gluck, Russell, Liberty ...

Some Examples of Ironwork and Metalwork by Charles Rennie Mackintosh at Glasgow School of Art

BARNES H Jefferson (Intro) · 1968 · Inch's Books

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,274)

Glasgow, Glasgow School of Art, 1968. Not paginated, c.64pp, c50 ills & figs. Laminated wraps. 23x24. Very good. Well illustrated survey, very hard to find.

Charles Rennie Mackintosh (1868-1928). Architecture, Design and Painting

YOUNG Andrew McLaren (Catalogue) · 1968 · Inch's Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

Edinburgh, Scottish Arts Council/Edinburgh Festival Society, 1968. 72pp, 32 b/w plates with 350 illustrations, bibliography. 26x24, illustrated wraps. Chip on spine, good thus. Detailed informative catalogue.

Design in the Home

CARRINGTON Noel · 1933 · Inch's Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.84 | ¥8,438)

London, Country Life, 1933 130pp, 530 illustrations. 29x22, cloth, illustrated dw. Good copy, in tatty, chipped and creased dw (now protected). Attractive modernist work, incl. Breuer, Crittall, Fry, Gropius, Hill, Lubetkin, Thonet etc etc.

Early English Furniture and Woodwork (Vols I and II)

CESCINSKY Herbert and GRIBBLE Ernest R · 1922 · Inch's Books

£150.00 (€179.80 | $198.16 | ¥31,644)

London, The Waverley Book Company Ltd 1922 xvi, frontispiece, 382pp, 401 bw figs (Vol I), 387pp, 527 bw figures (Vol II). Quarter bound in brown cloths, glt lettering on spine. Spines slightly pulled, some light edgewear and marking to cloth, very good thus. A nice set of t...

The Things We See: Houses

BRETT Lionel · 1947 · Inch's Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

West Drayton, Penguin, 1947. 64pp, c75 b/w ills. 22x18, stiff card wraps, dw. Spine covered with sellotape, endpapers also taped, small piece missing from top of ffep, contents good. Part of the Design Council inspired series.

Little Books About Old Furniture - English Furniture Vol IV - The Sheraton Period - Post-Chippendale Designers 1760-1820

REVIERS-HOPKINS A E · 1912 · Inch's Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

London, William Heinemann (1912), new impression 1919 xi, 135pp, 100 bw illustrations on plates. 19x13, patterned brown cloth, paste on illustrated label. Good. Nice little guide to furniture, well illustrated.

Characteristics of Old Furniture: Styles in England 1600-1800

BENN HP, BALDOCK WC · 1910 · Inch's Books

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)

London, Simpkin Marshall Hamilton Kent & Co and Benn Brothers nd c. 1910 79pp, over 50 plates, some ads. 31x25, brown wraps Splitting along spine, binding sound, old and discreet auction house label on front, fair copy of fragile item. Nice guide to history of furniture styl...

Ancient Church Chests and Chairs in the Home Counties round Greater London. Being a tour of an antiquary with pencil and camera through the churches of Middlesex, Hertfordshire, Essex, Kent and Surrey.

ROE Fred · 1929 · Inch's Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

London, Batsford, 1929. eps maps, fp, xii, 130pp incl 95 figs, chronological index plus 8pp publisher's adverts. Foreword by Reginald Grundy. 28x22, cloth, dw. Cloth a little edge rubbed, dw slightly torn and rubbed and price clipped but otherwise essentially complete, very g...

Modern English Furniture.

ROGERS J C · 1930 · Inch's Books

£80.00 (€95.89 | $105.68 | ¥16,877)

London, Country Life, 1930. 208pp, pp19 to end being plates, list of designers. 29x22, dark red patterned cloth, striking dw with coloured design by Chermayeff. Chipped, rubbed, torn but not price-clipped dw (now protected), cloth very good, very slight foxing to a couple of ...

Old English Furniture. I. The Oak Period 1500-1630

GARDSIDE JT · 1924 · Inch's Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

London, Batsford 1924 154pp, many plates and illustrations. 23x16, red cloth, decorative design in black. Cloth slightly fading, corners lightly bumped, good thus. Very nice survey of furniture of the period, well illustrated.

The Practice of Design

READ Herbert (Intro) · 1946 · Inch's Books

£50.00 (€59.93 | $66.05 | ¥10,548)

London, Lund Humphries, 1946. 227pp, many ills, texts by Alastair MORTON et al. 25x20, decorated green cloth over spiral binding. Cloth on spine slightly soft at top and bottom, very good thus. Important statement of design modernism, including pleas for its use in reconstr...

Furniture From Machines

LOGIE Gordon · 1947 · Inch's Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

London, George Allen & Unwin, 1947. xii, 150pp, 159 photos, diagrams etc, bibliography. Intro by John Gloag. 25x19, cloth. Cloth a bit grubby, good thus. Important modernist study, including examples by Breuer, Heal, Matheson, Aalto etc. Scarce.