Arti decorative e design

The Things We See: Ships

BRETT Lionel · 1950 · Inch's Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

West Drayton, Penguin, 1950 64pp, c75 b/w ills. 22x18, stiff card wraps, dw. Spine rubbed, contents good. Part of the Design Council inspired series.

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 rubbed and chipped, contents good. Part of the Design Council inspired series.

Reconstruction and the Home

ROBERTSON Howard · 1947 · Inch's Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

London & NY, The Studio, 1947. 87pp, incl c100 ills. 21x25, cloth, dw. Good in tatty wrapper. Aspects of design & equipment for all types of housing. Good modernist details.

Reconstruction and the Home

ROBERTSON Howard · 1947 · Inch's Books

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)

London & NY, The Studio, 1947. 87pp, incl c100 ills. 21x25, cloth, dw. Very good in tatty, now protected, wrapper. Aspects of design & equipment for all types of housing. Good modernist details.

Eating Sleeping & Living. A guide to design in the home

STEPHENSON Henry & Lilian · 1964 · Inch's Books

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)

Loughborough, Co-operative Union, with CoID, 1964. 96pp incl photos, drawings etc. Wraps, 22x14. Good. A very 'period' 60s study by these notable designers

The Impressionist and the City: Pissarro's Series Paintings

BRETTELL Richard R and PISSARRO Joachim · 1992 · Inch's Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

New Haven and London, Yale University Press 1992 234pp, 154 colour illustrations. 28x25, illustrated wraps. Fine. Published to accompany a major exhibition in Dallas, Philadelphia and then the Royal Academy of Arts, London in 1992 and 1993.

L'Automobile et le Tourisme

L'ILLUSTRATION · 1937 · Inch's Books

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,274)

Paris, L'Illustration (Special Issue, 4935, 2 Octobre) 1937. 68pp, 66pp of adverts, many lovely illustrations in colour and b&w. 38x29, wraps with colour image. Good copy, a little rubbing to wraps, chip from spine. Special issue on the pleasures of car-bound gastronomic to...

L'Amérique Lutte...

VU · 1931 · Inch's Books

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)

Paris, VU (196, 16 Décembre) 1931 c 76pp, many illustrations in colour and b&w. 37x28. Wraps with striking colour image. Fair to good copy, some rubbing and marks to covers, spine heavily rubbed by not quite split. Special issue on the United States, especially New York. Ver...

Outlines from the Figures and Compositions upon the Greek, Roman, and Etruscan Vases of the late Sir William Hamilton : with engraved borders. Drawn and engraved by the late Mr. Kirk.

HAMILTON William, KIRK Thomas · 1814 · Inch's Books

£350.00 (€419.52 | $462.37 | ¥73,835)

London, T McLean 1814 (second edition) xix, 52pp, 62 engraved plates 26x17, boards, printed label to spine The later binding is tight and secure, though slightly bumped and rubbed; the text pages are fragile and somewhat crockled, the plates - on better paper - are clear and ...

The Ornamental Designs of Chippendale From the Gentleman and Cabinet-Makers' Director 1762

SYMONDS RW (preface) · 1949 · Inch's Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

London, Alec Tiranti 1949 24pp of text in English and French, 80 bw line drawings. 25x16, black cloth, no dw. Slight rubbing to edges of cloth, contents good, owner's signature to fep. Facsimile extract from Chippendale's catalogue of his furniture designs; the images are ...

Chippendale Furniture Designs From the Gentleman and Cabinet-Makers' Director 1762

SYMONDS RW (preface) · 1948 · Inch's Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

London, Alec Tiranti 1948 24pp of text in English and French, 80 bw line drawings. 25x16, black cloth, no dw. Good, owners' names on fep. Facsimile extract from Chippendale's catalogue of his furniture designs; the images are taken from the 1762 third edition.

Sheraton Furniture Designs from the Cabinet-Maker's and Upholsterer's Drawing-Book 1791-94

SHERATON Thomas (preface by Ralph EDWARDS) · 1945 · Inch's Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

London, John Tiranti 1945 (1946 reprint) 12pp plus 84 bw plates. 19x13, black cloth, no dw. Good, owners' names on fep.

Ritual Art of India

MOOKERJEE Ajit · 1985 · Inch's Books

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,274)

London, T&H, 1985 176pp, incl 135 illustrations, 101 in colour. 28x25, red cloth, illustrated dw. Near fine in similar wrapper. Beautifully illustrated record of India's sacred art.

Rediscovering American Roads

BOYER Winston Swift (photographs), HEAT-MOON William Least (Introduction) · 1989 · Inch's Books

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)

Boston, Bulfinch Press 1989 Unpaginated, 64 full colour plates, text. 26x30, green cloth, illustrated dw. Very good. Nice photo essay looking at roads in rural America, away from the multi-lane interstate highways.

The Artist in the Changing City

WILLIAMS Jennifer (Prefaces), BIRCH Roger (Photos) · 1993 · Inch's Books

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)

London, British American Arts Association, 1993 104pp, bw photographs. 26x22, illustrated card wraps. Little bit of rubbing to edges, very good thus. The culmination of a six year study by the BAAA.

The Burrell Collection

GASSON Barry, NORWICH John Julius · 1997 · Inch's Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

London, Harper Collins, 1997 (new edition) 160pp, many colour illustrations. 26x19, illustrated wraps. Fine. Guide to the great Glasgow museum.

Social Role of Art: 34 Essays in Criticism for a Popular Newspaper

CORK Richard · 1979 · Inch's Books

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)

London, Gordon Fraser 1979 xi, 104pp 22x14, red cloth, illustrated dw. Very good in very good, now protected, wrapper. Collection of Cork's articles as art critic of the London Evening Standard; elegantly acerbic in his attacks on the elitism of contemporary art in the 1970s.

The Life and Death of Conder

ROTHENSTEIN John · 1938 · Inch's Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

London, JM Dent 1938 300pp, 25 bw illustrations, colour frontispiece. 24x16, red cloth, no dw. Cloth faded, slightly split at top of spine, dedication on ffep, binding and contents good. Overall fair to good copy. Biography of the artist, generally seen as a key figure in ...

Chippendale Furniture Designs From the Gentleman and Cabinet-Makers' Director 1762

SYMONDS RW (preface) · 1948 · Inch's Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

London, Alec Tiranti (1948), second impression 1950 24pp of text in English and French, 80 bw line drawings. 25x16, black cloth, no dw. Slight rubbing to edges of cloth, contents very good, neat book plate on fep. Facsimile extract from Chippendale's catalogue of his furni...

The Art of Ancient Mexico

GROTH-KIMBALL I (photographs) and FEUCHTWANGER F (text) · 1954 · Inch's Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,164)

London, Thames and Hudson 1954 125pp, 195 bw photographs. 31x23, orange cloth with glt decoration. Foxing to ffep and rfep, cloth slightly sunned, mark on back, contents very good.