Arti decorative e design

Derby Porcelain

Barrett, Franklin A., and Arthur L. Thorpe · 1971 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

London, Faber and Faber, 1971. Hardcover. Green cloth with gilt lettering. White dj with color illus. and black lettering. xv + 206 pp. with 8 color and 177 bw plates. A full history of the Derby china factory and its principle manufacturers. Appendices include employee biogra...

Tiles: A General History

Berendsen, Anne et al. · 1967 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$29.97 (€27.19 | £22.69 | ¥4,786)

New York, The Viking Press, 1967. Hardcover. Buff cloth, white & illus. dust jacket with mylar cover. 286 pp. Profuse color and bw plates. First comprehensive history in English of the subject of tiles. Addresses early Mesopotamian, Egyptian and Persian tiles, the development ...

American Potters and Pottery

Ramsey, John · 1939 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$35.00 (€31.76 | £26.49 | ¥5,589)

Hale, Cushman & Flint, 1939. First Printing. Hardcover. Buff cloth with gilt lettering. xx, 304 pp. 91 bw plates + drawings of marks. Exhaustive study of American pottery that provides valuable information regarding definitions; regions, including Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Del...

Frederick K. And Margaret R. Barbour's Furniture Collection: A Supplement

Barbour, Frederick and Margaret · 1970 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

Hartford, The Connecticut Historical Society, 1970. Hardcover. White boards with original tissue dust jacket, 31 pp. 31 bw plates. Furniture in the collection includes chairs, bedsteads, tables, chests, lowboys, highboys, chest-on-chests, desks, secretaries, and clocks. Entrie...

Frederick K. And Margaret R. Barbour's Furniture Collection

Barbour, Frederick and Margaret · 1963 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

Hartford, The Connecticut Historical Society, 1963. Softcover. White wraps. 71 pp. 42+ bw plates. Furniture in the collection includes chairs, bedsteads, tables, chests, lowboys, highboys, chest-on-chests, desks, secretaries, and clocks. Entries are illustrated and annotated a...

American Furniture 1650-1850: A Brief Background and an Illustrated History

Nagel, Charles · 1949 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$29.97 (€27.19 | £22.69 | ¥4,786)

New York, Chanticleer Press, 1949. Hardcover. Red cloth, gilt letters on spine, gilt decoration on front cover, 112 pp. 4 color and 65 bw plates. Follows the trends of American furniture building over two centuries. Color plates are still quite nice. Please note that this is n...

Furniture of Eastern Virginia: The Product of Mind and Hand

Gusler, Wallace B. · 1978 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

Richmond, The Virginia Museum, 1978. Softcover. White embossed, stapled wraps. 32 pp. 12 bw plates. May have mylar wrap. Extensive essay by exhibit curator, Wallace Gusler. Discusses Anthony Hay Shop and Edmund Dickinson. Covers regions of Norfolk, Williamsburg, Southeast Virg...

Loan Exhibition of Early American Furniture and the Decorative Crafts: For the Benefit of Free Hospital for Women, Brookline, Mass. / Held at the Park Square Building, December Eight to Twenty-Nine, 1925

1925 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$29.97 (€27.19 | £22.69 | ¥4,786)

Boston, McGrath-Sherrill Press, 1925. Hardcover. Brownish boards. 100 pp. 9 bw plates. Contains ADDENDA pamphlet in the back of book. Exhibition includes furniture, silver, painting, prints, glass, ceramics, textiles, silver, pewter and lighting. Comprised mostly of checklist....

Furniture and Decorative Arts of the Period, 1636-1836 : Catalogue of Furniture, Silver, Pewter, Glass, Ceramics, Paintings, Prints, Together with Allied Arts and Crafts of the Period, 1636-1836

Forbes, Edward W. · 1936 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University, 1936. Hardcover. Grey-green boards. ix, 114 pp. of text + 70 bw plate pp. Part of the Harvard Tercentenary Exhibition. The annotated catalogue addresses 472 items, and some are pictured here as well. Categories are: portraits, mini...

The Cabinetmakers of America

Bjerkoe, Ethel Hall · 1957 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$29.97 (€27.19 | £22.69 | ¥4,786)

New York, Bonanza Books, 1957. Hardcover. Red cloth, red pictorial DJ. x, 246 pp. 32 bw plates. Study of American furniture making. Biographical sketches of notable cabinetmakers. Includes glossary and bibliography. VG .

The Cabinetmakers of America

Bjerkoe, Ethel Hall · 1957 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

Garden City, New York, Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1957. Hardcover. Green cloth, red ill. DJ. xvii, 252 pp. 32 bw plates. Begins with an essay-study of American furniture making. The majority of the book is a dictionary of biographical sketches of notable cabinetmakers, in alpha...

Winterthur in Bloom: Winter, Spring, Summer, Autumn

Bruce, Harold · 1968 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$29.97 (€27.19 | £22.69 | ¥4,786)

Winterthur, The Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum, Inc, 1968. Softcover. White pictorial wraps. 196 pp. Profuse bw and color plates. Photographs by Gottlieb and Hilda Hampfler. Foreword by Henry du Pont. Essay, "A History of the Gardens", by C. Gordon Tyrrell. VG, slight...

Glas Aus 5 Jahrhunderten / Glass of 5 Centuries

Kovacek, Michael and Regine · 1993 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$40.00 (€36.29 | £30.28 | ¥6,387)

Vienna, Austria, Glasgalerie Michael Kovacek, 1993. Hardcover. Navy cloth, navy DJ with white lettering. 383 pp. 318 high-quality color plates. Text in German and English. Catalog commemorating the opening of the Kovacek Glass Gallery. 320 entries with color plates and extensi...

European Glass from 1500 - 1800: The Ernesto Wolf Collection

Klesse, Brigitte, and Hans Mayr · 1987 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

Vienna, Kremayr and Scheriau, 1987. Hardcover. Pictorial boards. 151 pp. + 220 color plates. A survey of German, Dutch, and Bohemian painted, enameled and engraved glass. Entries are annotated and include dimensions, provenance, and origin. Very heavy, postage will be extra. V...

The Silversmiths of Little Rest

Miller, William Davis · 1928 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$90.00 (€81.66 | £68.13 | ¥14,372)

Kingston, R. I. William Davis Miller, 1928. Limited to 150 copies of which 100 were for sale (according to Joslin Hall Rare Books). Hardcover. Brownish boards, brown cloth spine, gilt letters on spine & front cover, gilt top edges, marbled flyleaves. xii, 50 pp. 18 bw plates. ...

Silversmiths of Delaware, 1700 - 1850

Harrington, Jessie · 1939 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$55.00 (€49.90 | £41.63 | ¥8,783)

Delaware, National Society of Colonial Dames of America, 1939. Hardcover. Red cloth w/ silver spine printing. book x, 132 pp. 32 bw illus. Limited to 300 Copies. Surveys 33 individual Delaware silversmiths. Each section provides detailed biographical information, occupations, ...

The Heritage Foundation Collection of Silver with Biographical Sketches of New England Silversmiths, 1625-1825

Flynt, Henry N. and Martha Gandy Fales · 1968 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

Old Deerfield, The Heritage Foundation, 1968. Hardcover. Red cloth with silver spine lettering, red dust jacket with bw illustration and white lettering, decorative end pages, bw frontispiece, xiv, 391 pp. 118 bw illlustrations along with 100s of makers' marks. Exhaustive comp...

American Silver

Phillips, John Marshall · 1949 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$29.97 (€27.19 | £22.69 | ¥4,786)

New York, Chanticleer Press, 1949. Hardcover. Navy cloth. 128 pp. 4 color and 32 bw plates. Survey of American silver between the 17th and 19th centuries. VG, corners slightly bumped .

New England Begins: The Seventeenth Century (Volume 2: Mentality and Environment)

Fairbanks, Jonathan L. and Robert F. Trent et al. · 1982 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$60.00 (€54.44 | £45.42 | ¥9,581)

Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1982. Softcover. White wraps with maroon spine, diecuts in front cover, pp.100 through 360. 8 color plates, profuse bw illus. The second volume of the three-volume set based on an exhibition that addresses a plethora of fine, functional and...

Marks of American Silversmiths in the Ineson-Bissell Collection

Belden, Louise Conway · 1980 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$90.00 (€81.66 | £68.13 | ¥14,372)

Charlottesville, University Press of Virginia, 1980. Hardcover. Navy cloth with silver lettering. viii, 505 pp. with 239 bw illusrations. Compilation of 1700 marks of more than 1400 American silversmiths who were active between 1670 and 1870. Includes photographs of marks prev...