Search Results: a history of english wallpaper 1509 1914 by sugden alan victor

B. T. Batsford Ltd, London, 1925. Book Hardcover. Very Good. Blue cloth with embossed gilt titling. 279pp. 70 plates and 190 illustrations in half-tone. Spine faded and shelf-worn, corners bumped. This is an ex-library copy from Ipswich and small unobtrusive stamps appear throughout the book. Attractive library book plate inside front cover.This is a very heavy book and will incur extra overseas postage.

New York & London: Charles Scribner's Sons / B.T. Batsford Ltd, 1925. First edition. Hardcover. 281 pages. Text by Alan Victor Sugden and John Ludlam Edmondson. Includes 70 tipped in color plates along with 190 half-tone illustrations. An about very good copy in blue cloth boards that have some wear, some sunning to the spine, with the remnants of a label there as well, some edge wear to the spine ends corners and some other minor wear as well. Internally a clean copy. No dust jacket. This is a heavy and oversized book and will require extra shipping.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1925. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near fine. Hardcover with gilt stamped blue cloth boards in dust jacket and original clamshell slipcase, 1925 (date from end of foreword), quarto, 281pp., illustrated with 70 tipped in color plates and 190 illustrations in half-tone. Book near fine with handsome and bright cloth boards, binding tight, text clean and unmarked with foxing throughout, with handsome gilt to top edge of text block. DJ near fine with mild edgewear, in protective mylar wrap. Clamshell case VG with toning, some scuffs and chips to paper, shelf wear. THIS LARGE, HEAVY BOOK WILL REQUIRE ADDITIONAL SHIPPING FEES.

London, B.T. Batsford Ltd, 1925 1st Signed Limited edition.. Large hardback, 4to. approx 13.5 x 11 inches. In blue cloth covers with gilt decorative paneled lettering to spine and front. With patterned dustwrapper and hard card case. Marbled endpapers. Top edge gilt. In very good condition with very good dustwrapper and case (dw; rubbed at edges and ends of spine, some minor tears to corners and edge-flaps. Case edges rubbed and slightly chipped, front hinge reinforced with cloth). Colour plates clean and bright. Bright binding. Numbered plate to front endpaper “No. 45” and signed by authors. Some light foxing to pages. Else a very clean and tight copy. 281pp. With 70 plates in colour and 190 illustrations in half-tone. “The pages that follow are intended chiefly as a tribute to the pioneers whose work, whether in an artistic, a mechanical, or any other capacity, laid the foundations of the very important art industry of manufacturing paper hangings...” Includes Mill Records.

New York and London: Charles Scribner's Sons; B. T. Batsford Ltd., 1925. First edition. Cloth. Near Fine. Folio, 13 by 10 inches. xiii, 281 pp. Lavish book on subject, with heavy paper, beautiful plates, 70 in color, with an extensive history that makes this work serve well as both a scholarly treatise on the subject and a pleasurable "coffee table" book as well, inviting casual dips into its pages. Minor scuffs on blue cloth. Otherwise tight and clean.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1926. Hardcover. VG. Blue cloth boards with gilt ruling, design and lettering on front cover and spine, top edge gilt with others uncut, tipped in color illustrated frontispiece, XIII, 281 pp , 70 tipped in color plates, 190 bw plates. List of illustrations and extensive index. Excerpt from foreword; "The pages, then, that follow are intended chiefly as a tribute to the pioneers whose work, whether in an artistic, a mechanical, or any other capacity, ladi the foundatins of the very important art-industy of manufacturing paper-hangings which has been built up in this country. The scope of the book is as comprehensive as it has been practicable to make it. Beginning with the first crude attempts to use paper bearing a design or picture as a form of decoration in substitution for the costly gilt embossed leathers and figured textiles of the period, the development in technical and artistic achievement is traced down to the year 1914.

B.T. Batsford, London. [1925]. First edition. DW. 1925. Large 4to. 281pp. incl. index and references. Coloured tipped-in frontis + 69 tipped-in coloured plates, all on grey hand-made paper and 190 b/w plates. Top edge gilt, others uncut. VG+ in slightly worn wallpaper-like wrapper. The whole presented in a matching clam shell box which is rubbed and worn but sound. A lovely item.

London: B. T. Batsford, 1925. First trade edition. Fine in near fine dust jacket with a few short closed tears in complete but worn publisher's clamshell slipcase with tape repairs to corner seams and partially broken long seams.. Blue cloth titled and decoratively stamped in gilt.

London: B. T. Batsford Ltd., 1925. First edition. Full Vellum. Near Fine. Georgeous full vellum binding, with gilt lettering, and a special autographed copy, numbered 5 (of an unspecified number), signed by both authors and presented to "The Wall Paper Manufacturers Ltd". Folio, 33.5 by 26.5 cm, 13 by 10 inches. xiii, 281 pp. Lavish book on subject, with heavy paper, beautiful plates, 70 in color, with an extensive history that makes this work serve well as both a scholarly treatise on the subject and a pleasurable "coffee table" book as well, inviting casual dips into its pages. Minor soiling on the vellum, with also trivial rubbing of the gilt lettering. Slight looseness of the front hinge.