Arti decorative e design

Räume und Menschen. Mit Einführenden Gedanken von Hanns H Josten.

TRUEB Aug. · 1923 · Inch's Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,383)

Stuttgart, Hädecke, 1923. 66 very thick sheets, 25 highly coloured images tipped-in. Gold decorated boards with red cloth spine with gilt lettering and red corners, 32x25. Very nice copy. Lovely book of designs for gentlemen's rooms. Many of the plates are interiors deisgned ...

Hâusliche Kleinkunst und Bestelarbeit in Wort und Bilder. Ein Beschäftigungsbuch für alle....

PFEIFFER Hermann (ed) · 1911 · Inch's Books

£50.00 (€59.93 | $66.05 | ¥10,548)

Leipzig, Hermann Zieger, 1911. vii, 184pp incl illustrations plus 8pp publisher's adverts. Decorated cloth, 20x15. Covers rubbed, contents very nice and bright. Charming book descibing a multitude of domestic pastimes: Origami, shadow pictures, paper-folding, straw-doll makin...

Gendai shogyo bijutsu: (4) [Modern Commercial Art: Volume 3 - Product Display Windows]

ARS · 1928 · Inch's Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.08 | ¥15,822)

ARS, Tokyo 1928 24pp, 104pp plates (text in Japanese), many in colour. 27x19, wraps, now protected. Very good, small mark on the cover, a few pages with light foxing. Beautifully designed and illustrated magazine, published in 24 issues over 3 years in the late 1920s, which ...

Kontakt od kontemplacji do agitacji: Contact from contemplation to agitiation. Exhibition at Palace of Art Krakow Szezepanski sq. 4 June-August 1980

URBANSKI Stanislaw · 1980 · Inch's Books

£50.00 (€59.93 | $66.05 | ¥10,548)

Krakow, 1980. c45 booklets of 4pp each, some with illustrations. Polish and English text. Pamphlets in held in matching sleeve, 23x22. Very good copy.

Plakat. Tadeusza Trepkowskiego.

LENICA Jan · 1958 · Inch's Books

£50.00 (€59.93 | $66.05 | ¥10,548)

Warszawa, Artystyczno-Graficzne RSW "Prasa", 1958. 115pp, mostly full-page illustrations. Index of works. Cloth, 20x15. Very good copy in chipped dust wrapper. Earliest poster is from 1937. Very attractive survey, covering the subsequent two decades of Poland's tragic modern ...

Dmitri Baltermanz.

PESKOW Wassily (Einführung) · 1981 · Inch's Books

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)

Leipzig, VEB Fotokinoverlag, 1981, 1.auflage, 1.-5. tausend. 111pp, including 94 photos by Baltermanz, 10pp introduction by Peskow. Boards, 23x20. Boards very faintly rubbed on edge, else vg. Baltermanz was a Soviet army photographer. His Eastern Front images have become clas...

The Upholsterer and Interior Decorator (1919 Jan to November) in three volumes.

STEPHENSON John (ed) · 1919 · Inch's Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.84 | ¥8,438)

New York, Clifford and Lawton 1919 11 issues bound in three volumes without advertisements, each issue c. 40pp, many illustrations. 34x25, brown cloth glt text. Ex lib, usual marks, with couple of small stamps and a performation stamp to first page, pp66-67 of the November ...

Upholsterer & Interior Decorator, 3 bound volumes - 1924 (vols 72-73), 1925 (74-75), 1926 (76-77).

STEPHENSON John (ed) · 1920 · Inch's Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.26 | ¥12,657)

New York, Clifford and Lawton 1920-1922 Each bound volume contains 12 issues with the advertisements removed, each of approx. 40pp - c.500pp in total, many illustrations. 31x24, uniform cloth. Cloth slightly grubby, contents very good. Trade magazine, full of samples, patte...

The Grammar and Chinese Ornament. Selected from objects in the South Kensington Museum and other collections.

JONES Owen · 1867 · Inch's Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

London, Studio Eds, (S T Gilbert 1867), (1987) 1988 paperback edition. 13pp, plus 100 colour plates. 33x23, illustrated wraps. Very good. Nicely produced edition, with good colour.

Upholsterer & Interior Decorator (vols 64a, 66, 67, 68)

STEPHENSON John (ed) · 1920 · Inch's Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.26 | ¥12,657)

New York, Clifford and Lawton 1920-1922 Vol 64a - Jan-Mar1920 issues, complete with advertisements, c. 350pp; Vols 66 and 67, Jan-Jun and Jul-Dec 1921 issues respectively, advertisments largely removed, c. 300pp each volume;Vol 68, Jan-Dec 1922 issues, advertisements removed,...

Modern Drapery and Allied Trades (Volumes I to IV)

MURPHY William S (ed) · 1914 · Inch's Books

£80.00 (€95.89 | $105.68 | ¥16,877)

London, Gresham Publishing Company 1914 xvii, 274pp, 22 plates (some in colour); xi, 294pp, 11 plates (some colour); ix, 276pp, 28 plates (7 in colour); 230pp, 9 plates (8 in colour). 4 uniform volumes, 26x18, cloth, attractively decorated in two colours, glt text to spine. ...

Measured Drawings of Old Oak English Furniture... ...and some remains of architectural woodwork, plasterwork, metalwork, glazing, etc

HURRELL John Weymouth · 1902 · Inch's Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.84 | ¥8,438)

London, Batsford 1902 2pp, index, 110 plates with bw drawings. 38x29, green cloth, glt lettering, bevelled edges. Cloth damaged with a piece missing from the front, some other rubbing and marks, end papers slightly split, contents good. Beautifully executed drawings of de...

The Studio (Vols XLII and XLIII, October 1907-May 1908) (including Issues 175 to 182)

THE STUDIO · 1907 · Inch's Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.84 | ¥8,438)

London, The Studio 1907-08 338pp, 346pp, 8 lots of iv pp prize awards lists (one per issue) bound at the end. 30x22, green cloth, glt lettering to spine. Cloth a bit rubbed, contents very good, bookplate of William J Newton. Eight issues of The Studio, from its most influe...

The Art of Show Card Writing. A Modern Treatise Covering All Branches of the Art

STRONG Lawrence J and STRONG Charles J · 1919 · Inch's Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.84 | ¥8,438)

Chicago, Frederick J Drake & Company (1919) 1922 revised edition 202pp, 153 illustrations, 32 lettering plates. 27x21, grey cloth, coloured lettering and decoration. Cloth a bit marked, ink splash on cloth and edge, contents very good. Lovely item, with a wide range of let...

Illustrated History of Furniture From the Earliest to the Present Time

LITCHFIELD Frederick · 1892 · Inch's Books

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)

London, Truslove and Shirley 1892 xvi, 280pp, c 300 illustrations 28x21, brown cloth, glt lettering and top edge, bevelled edges. Cloth edges a bit rubbed, pages a little roughly cut, some foxing, generally good. This is the first edition of the Litchfield's very successful ...

Curtains & Draperies: A Survey of the Classic Periods

DUBOIS MJ · 1967 · Inch's Books

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)

London, Batsford 1967 252pp, illustrated throughout, many in colour. 29x21, green cloth, glt lettering and pattern, slipcase. Spine cloth sunned, case slightly shelfworn, very good thus - nice bright copy. Translated from the Swiss French-language edition published in 1964, ...

The Book of Furniture and Decoration: Period and Modern

ARONSON Joseph · 1936 · Inch's Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

New York, Crown Publishers (1936) revised edition 1941 357pp, many bw drawings and photographs. 28x22, red cloth. Good. Nice guide to the subject, with interesting contemporary interior photographs.

Inside London. Discovering London's Period Interiors

FRIEDMAN Joe & APRAHAMIAN Peter (photos) · 1988 · Inch's Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

New York, Prentice Hall, 1988. 128pp, 125 photos (100 in colour). 29x24. gt lttd cloth, illustrated dw. Very good in gv dw. A unique photo record of 100 interiors from shops, restaurants, hotels to pubs, cinemas, civic buildings etc.

A Second Paradise: Indian Courtly Life 1590-1947 9780283992681

PATNAIK Naveen · 1985 · Inch's Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

London, Sidgwick and Jackson 1985 192pp, many colour illustrations. 26x24, brown cloth, illustrated dw. Good. Study of the life and in particular the art of the Mughal and British periods of rule in India.

Home Making. The mid-twentieth century guide to the practical yet subtle art of making a house a home

CAIRNS Julia · 1950 · Inch's Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

London, Waverley Book Co, nd c1950. Portrait frontis, 334pp, b/w and colour ills. 25x19, glt lttd cloth, clear protective dw. Very good, small piece missing from protector. With three photographic supplements, one of which is of the home of Princess Elizabeth and the Duke o...