Arti decorative e design

Conversation Pieces: A Survey of English Domestic Portraits and Their Painters

SITWELL Sacheverell · 1969 · Inch's Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

London, Batsford 1969 (second edition) xvi, 119pp, 130 bw illustrations. 25x19, red cloth with glt lettering to spine, illustrated dw. Ex library with usual stickers and marks, wrapper chipped and discoloured, contents clean and tight. Reproduction of the 1936 original edi...

Catalogue of valuable printed books and a few manuscripts from the renowned library formerly at Britwell Court, Burnham, Bucks, the property of the Trustees of the late S R Christie-Miller

SOTHEBY & Co. · 1971 · Inch's Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

London, Sotheby & Co. 1971 117pp, 19 plates. 25x19, green card wraps. Very good. Catalogue from a sale of part of the famed Christie Miller library, held on 29-30th March 1971.

The Paintings in the Studiolo of Isabella d'Este at Mantua

VERHEYEN Egon · 1971 · Inch's Books

£75.00 (€89.91 | $99.10 | ¥15,827)

New York University Press for the College Art Association of America 1971 xiii, 106pp, 45 bw illustrations. 29x22, maroon cloth with glt text. Very good bright copy. Detailed study, including catalogue raisonné of the contents of the Palace.

A History of Hand-Made Lace: Dealing with the Origin of Lace, the Growth of the Great Lace Centres, the Mode of Manufacture, the Methods of Distinguishing and the Care of Various Kinds of Lace.

JACKSON Mrs F Neville with JESURUM Ernesto · 1900 · Inch's Books

£20.00 (€23.98 | $26.43 | ¥4,221)

Detroit, Tower Books (1900) 1971 245pp, c.220 bw illustrations. 24x16m cloth, glt lettering on spine. Very good. Reprinted facsimile version of the 1900 original of this comprehensive history of lace-making.

A History of Hand-Made Lace: Dealing with the Origin of Lace, the Growth of the Great Lace Centres, the Mode of Manufacture, the Methods of Distinguishing and the Care of Various Kinds of Lace.

JACKSON Mrs F Neville with JESURUM Ernesto · 1900 · Inch's Books

£75.00 (€89.91 | $99.10 | ¥15,827)

London, L. Upcott Gill 1900 245pp, 19 plates and c. 200 engravings. 25x20, beige cloth with spine decoration, gold cobweb and lettering to cover. Cover slightly discoloured and bumped to edges, foxing to endpapers, contents clean and tight. Comprehensive and detailed survey.

Glas aus 5 Jahrhunderten: Glasgalerie Michael Kovacek, Wien im Mai 1990.

KOVACEK Michael · 1990 · Inch's Books

£20.00 (€23.98 | $26.43 | ¥4,221)

Wien, Glasgalerie Kovacek 1990 423pp, 354 colour illustrations, price-list loosely inserted. 31x23, blue cloth, illustrated wraps. Very good in vg wrapper. Extensive and lavishly illustrated catalogue of a sale of glassware at the Viennese gallery in 1990. Useful historica...

Glassammlung Helfried Krug Volume 2.

KLESSE Brigitte · 1973 · Inch's Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

Bonn, Rudolf Habelt Verlag 1973 316pp, more than 700 illustrations in colour (some) and bw (most), coloured card dividers, range of six art paper weights used throughout. 31x26, blue cloth with silver lettering, dw. Very good in slightly rubbed wrapper; slight waving to so...

Tapestries from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: At the Philadelphia Museum of Art

DUBON David · 1964 · Inch's Books

£50.00 (€59.94 | $66.07 | ¥10,551)

London, Phaidon 1964 152pp, 104 illustrations 31x24, cloth, illustrated dw, now protected. Very good in very good wrapper.

Alfred Stevens and his Work

STANNUS Hugh · 1891 · Inch's Books

£250.00 (€299.71 | $330.34 | ¥52,757)

London, The Autotype Company. 1891 vii, 35pp, 57 plates, marbled end papers. 50x38, dark green cloth with glt and blind stamped design. Cloth heavily rubbed, on spine in particular. Binding loose, with some edges rubbed as a result. Contents complete and in generally good c...

Early Christian and Byzantine Art

VICTORIA AND ALBERT MUSEUM · 1949 · Inch's Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

London, HMSO 1949 ( 3rd impression 1955) 4pp plus 28 bw plates. 19x12, pamphlet with card wraps. Very good, owner's name on inside front cover. From the V&A's Small Picture Book series (number 14).

Nineteenth-Century Design: From Pugin to Mackintosh

GERE Charlotte and WHITEWAY Michael · 1993 · Inch's Books

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,276)

London, Weidenfeld and Nicholson 1993 312pp, c. 350 bw and colour illustrations, illustrated endpapers. 26x27, red cloth, illustrated dw. Very good, in very good wrapper. Very attractive and comprehensive survey of design in the period, richly illustated. [nb heavy item, m...

Of Divers Arts: The A.W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts, 1959

GABO Naum · 1962 · Inch's Books

£50.00 (€59.94 | $66.07 | ¥10,551)

Faber and Faber, London 1962. Col. fp, xviii, 206pp, 73 ills, 15 in col. 26x20, cloth Very good in very good dw, protected. Includes works by Mikhail Vrubel, religious & folk art. First UK edition of this attractive book.

Kunst und Wissenschaft Vortrag gehalten zu Wien am 27. November 1904.

OSTWALD Wilhelm · 1905 · Inch's Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

Leipzig, Verlag von Veit & Comp. 1905 40pp 21x14, wraps Heavily annotated; fair only.

The Tate Gallery's Wartime Acquistions Second Exhibition

NATIONAL GALLERY · 1945 · Inch's Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

National Gallery 1945 8pp plus 8 bw plates 23x17, stapled pamphlet Two marks on cover, otherwise good. Catalogue of acquisitions made by the Tate during the war years, which it had been unable to exhibit because of war damage. Plates include works by Spencer, Burra, Burne-Jon...

Denk-beelden meubelideeen na 1980: 125 jaar St-Lucas Gent 1862/1987/88

JANSSENS, Dr J (vorwoord) · 1987 · Inch's Books

£20.00 (€23.98 | $26.43 | ¥4,221)

Gent, Hoger Architectuurinstituut St-Lucas Gent 1987 95pp plus unpaginated adverts, many bw illustrations. 20x20, illustrated wraps. Good to fair; cover has creases and is rubbed, but contents are good. Exhibition from 1987 on furniture design ideas.

English and French Romantic Painting. Apropos number 4.

WENGRAF Paul (ed) · 1946 · Inch's Books

£20.00 (€23.98 | $26.43 | ¥4,221)

Transatlantic Arts Co Ltd, London 1946 24pp, 20 bw illustrations, one tipped in. illustrated wraps Wraps somewhat grubby and creased, contents generally good with a few marks, Essays by Geoffrey Grigson, John Russell, Denys Sutton etc.

Six Painters Hitchens, Hilton, Heron, Frost, Wells, Mackenzie

1962 · Inch's Books

£20.00 (€23.98 | $26.43 | ¥4,221)

London, 1962 13pp, 6 bw reproduction of works from the exhibition 21x26, blue card wraps Very good. Catalogue for exhibition in January 1962, featuring four works by each artist, who were primarily linked through their connection to Cornwall.

Church Tiles of the nineteenth century.

BEAULAH Kenneth · 1987 · Inch's Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

Aylesbury, Shire Publications no 184, 1987 32pp. Pictoral wraps, 21x15. Very good. Attractive and interesting guide, including notes on manufacturers and how to identify their tiles.

The Woodblock Engravers.

LINDLEY Kenneth · 1970 · Inch's Books

£20.00 (€23.98 | $26.43 | ¥4,221)

Newton Abbot, David & Charles, 1970. 128pp, incl many beautiful examples, bibliog. Glt lttd cloth,dw. 21x15. Good Delightful source book for designers. Covers history, techniques, Artists' prints. Nicely designed work

Tubular Steel Furniture. Conference Papers.

CAMPBELL-COLE Barbie & BENTON Tim (eds) · 1979 · Inch's Books

£20.00 (€23.98 | $26.43 | ¥4,221)

London, Art Book Co ("Art Documents" no 2), 1979. 69pp, many interesting ills. Intro. by Reyner Banham. Cloth, pictorial dw. 30x22. Very good. Very good source on the early days of this material, much used in 1930s modernist furniture.