Arti decorative e design

The Decoration and Renovation of the Home... A Practical Handbook for House Owners and Tenants, Architects, Decorators and Others, with 14 Coloured Plates, showing 89 harmonious Colour Schemes for wall decoration, etc, and many Illustrations in the Text by...With a Chapter on "Period Furniture and Appropriate Mural Decoration" By Herbert E Binstead

JENNINGS Arthur Seymour · 1920 · Inch's Books

£150.00 (€179.80 | $198.16 | ¥31,644)

London, Trade Publishing Co, (1920), nd[1923] 2nd ed. 220pp plus illustrations and 22 pages related adverts. Also 19 plates of colour samples. Cloth, leather spine, probably an early rebind, 29x21. One plate has an ancient Oxford Public Library stamp on reverse. No other libr...

Art in the House; Historical, critical, and aesthetical, studies of the decoration and furnishing of the dwelling. Edited with notes by Charles C PERKINS.

VON FALKE, Dr. J · 1879 · Inch's Books

£85.00 (€101.88 | $112.29 | ¥17,931)

(translated from the 3rd German edition), Boston, L. Prang, 1879. Litho title, xxxpp (mostly editor's preface) 356pp + 60 plates (including a number of lovely coloured lithographs) and incl. 166 text figs. All edges gilt. Gilt lettered and patterned embossed cloth. 28x21. Top...

Posters 1890-1920.

HAVINDEN Ashley (foreword) · 1963 · Inch's Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

London, Lords, 1963. 3pp text, 9pp catalogue, incl. 16 illustrations. Catalogue, 21x14. Very good copy. Exhibition catalogue. Lords was a Gallery in North London. Scarce.

L'Art de L'Affiche en Belgique 1900-1980.

BAUDSON P (director) · 1980 · Inch's Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

Bruxelles, Galerie CGER, 1980. 152pp, mostly illustrations, biographies, short bibliog. Wraps, 21x21. Very good copy. Belgian posters have always been admired for their flair and creativity. Good selection of examples from across the range.

Die Frau im Politischen Plakat.

WESTPHAL Regelindas (Hrg) · 1979 · Inch's Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

Berlin, Fröhlich & Kaufmann, 1979. 143pp , mostly illustrations. Wraps, 24x17. Spine edges faintly rubbed, else good copy. Fascinating look at women in posters, mostly mirroring social movements such as votes for women, equal pay etc. Also interesting wartime exhortations for...

Das Internationale Plakat. Ausstellung Karlsruhe Stadthalle 1953.

KUSSIN Werner (ed) · 1953 · Inch's Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,164)

Frankfurt am Main [Katalog] 1953. 62pp text (indices), 48pp posters. Wraps, 21x11. Very good copy. International survey, covering all aspects of poster advertising, commercial, cultural, political, travel etc.

The Fine Art of Advertising. Irreverent, Irrepressible, Irresistibly Ironic.

HOFFMAN Barry · 2002 · Inch's Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

NY, Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 2002. Decorated end papers, 144pp, colour illustrations, selected bibliog. Pictoral boards, 26x24. Fine copy in dust wrapper. Includes consideration of poster design. Blurring the edges of advertising and fine art,

Pracownia plakatu frontowego.

POL Krzysztof · 1980 · Inch's Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.08 | ¥15,822)

Warszawa, Krajowa Agencja Wydawnicza, 1980. 118pp, mostly illustrations. Wraps, 19x21. Very good copy in pictorial dust wrapper (this a trifle edge-rubbed, but now protected). A fine collection of mostly anti-Nazi posters. Many of these posters were produced under very diffic...

Laureaci l Miedzynarodowego Biennale Plakatu.

LENICA Jan, NAGAI Kazumasa and TANAKA Hiroshi · 1968 · Inch's Books

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)

Warszawa, Muzeum Narodowe w Warszie, 1968. unpaginated, c 120 pp inc illustrations, many colour paste-in. Wraps, 22x22. Cover little tanned round edges and bottom corner creased, contents very good with lovely bright colour paste-ins. Catalogue of the exhibition of prizewinne...

Chinese Propaganda Posters from Revolution to Modernisation.

LANDSBERGER Stefan · 1995 · Inch's Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,164)

Amsterdam/Singapore, Pepin Press, (1995), 2001 reprint. 216pp, inc a great many illustrations in colour and black & white.illustrations. Wraps, 30x24. Bottom corner a trifle creased, else very good copy. Powerful images, though they tend to become blander towards the present.

Affiches sportives en Belgique 1890-1940

BERNARD Mare-Laurence and DUMONT Fabienne (catalogue eds) · 1981 · Inch's Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

Bruxelles, 1981. 143pp inc 89 illustrated numbers, Wraps, 30x21. Fine copy. Exhibition at Passage 44, Bruxelles.

Architekturplastik. Bildhauer Richard Kuöhl

SCHMIDT Rudolf · 1929 · Inch's Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.84 | ¥8,438)

Berlin, Friedrich Ernst Hübsch, 1929. xviii inc tipped-in image, 32 single-sided plates. Cloth, 25x20. Cover little foxed and number on cover, very good thus. Richard Kuöhl's work exhibited a high level of craftsmanship with many medieval references combined with expressionis...

High Wycombe Furniture

WEAVER Sir Lawrence · 1929 · Inch's Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.08 | ¥15,822)

London, Fanfare, 1929. Frontis, 84pp, inc 52 pls, 7 text drawings & list of manufacturers. Letter from Weaver to Edward Maufe dd 1929 loosely inserted with notes in reply by Maufe loosely inserted. Gilt lettered boards, 27x22. Nice copy in good dust wrapper. Interesting study...

Gas Fires and their Settings

WEAVER Lawrence · 1929 · Inch's Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.08 | ¥15,822)

London, Fanfare, 1929. Lovely coloured frontis by R. McGrath, 64pp incl 42 b&w illustrations, one colour plate. Boards with gilt motif, vellum spine, 26x22. Nice copy in browned dust wrapper, now protected. Reprinted from AR and based on an address given at the Annual Confer...

Christophe Pillet Design

DOZE Pierre (preface) · 2004 · Inch's Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

Paris, Pyramid, 2004. 120pp, nearly all full page photos with short description, mostly in colour. French and English text. Wraps, 16x15. Fine copy. Nearly all designs are of chairs, settees etc with the odd piece of glass, interior design and street furniture. Lovely illustr...

III Biennale der Deutschen Textilkunst 1982

NICOLA Gunther and MAGON Birgit (eds) · 1983 · Inch's Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

Krefeld, Deutsches Textilmuseum, 1983. c150pp incl illustrations and extensive glossary with illustrations. Wraps with textile colour chart pasted on, 21x21. Very good copy. 53 textile artists with photo and short biographical details and illustration of work on opposite page...

Polskie wspolczesne szklo artystyczne

BANAS Pawel · 1982 · Inch's Books

£50.00 (€59.93 | $66.05 | ¥10,548)

Wroclaw, Zaklad Narodowy im. Ossolinskich, 1982. 246pp incl 138 illustrations. Cloth, 20x20. Very good copy in dust wrapper. Modern Polish glass is of a very high standard. This book describes post-war glass and the various makers. Very well illustrated.

Pracownia plakatu frontowego

POL Krzysztof · 1980 · Inch's Books

£50.00 (€59.93 | $66.05 | ¥10,548)

Warszawa, Krajowa Agencja Wydawnicza, 1980. 118pp, pp45-118 being individual posters with artist, size etc. Wraps, 18x20. Looks as though the plain wraps have been removed and the dust wrapper used as a cover. Contents in good condition.

The Story of Furniture

RUSSELL Gordon and GRAOG Jacques · 1940 · Inch's Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

West Drayton, Puffin Picture Books, nd, c1940s. 31pp, illustrated. Wraps, 18x22. Very good copy.

William Morris & Kelmscott

STOPPANI Leonard et al (texts) · 1981 · Inch's Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

London, Design Council, 1981. 191pp, many illustrations, some colour, chron, bibliog. Laminated wraps. 21x20. Very good copy. Informative catalogue. Kelmscott was absolutely essential to Morris' life and work.