Search Results: Decorative Arts from Bygone Books

London: Her Majesty's Stationary Office, 1953. First Edition . Soft cover. VG. First published September 1953. 12mo, paperwraps, 30 items with b/w photographs. Condition: VERY GOOD with light rubbing to spine edges..

Aylesbury, UK: Shire Publications, 1975. 2nd Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. 2nd edition [1975], 16mo, stiff card wraps, 48 pages, b/w text illustrations, b/w photographs, index. No. 29 in the Shire "Discovering" series, first published in 1968. Condition is VERY GOOD+ with little wear.

NY: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1955. Soft cover. VG+. Wraps, unpaginated pamphlet, 28 illustrations. VERY GOOD+ with slight edgewear.

NY: Old Print Shop/ Harry Shaw Newman, [1957]., 1957. Soft cover. VG+. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. 12mo, [8p.]. Stapled pamphlet wraps. Includes listing of items with one illus only on title page. VERY GOOD+: lite soiling at edge.

Beaux Arts Editions, 1989. Hardcover. VG+/VG+. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Copyright 1989,Hugh Lauter Levin Associates. With introductions by Gerald Hill, G. G. Smorodinova, and B. L. Ulyanova. Folio, red boards, 320 pages, full-page color illustrations throughout , index. Condition is VERY GOOD+ book / VERY GOOD+ jacket: slight rubbing to spine extremities; jacket has light scuffing. Very nice condition of this beautiful book.

Des Moines, IA: Wallace-Homestead Book Company, 1971. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. 1st edition (no additional printings), 8vo, spiral-bound stiff illustrated wraps, unpaginated, includes 24 plates on the recto with illustrations of china with description on the verso page opposite. Condition is VERY GOOD+ with slight edgewear to covers and a blue marker spot on bottom page edge.

Southampton, NY: Cracker Barrel Press, 1970. Reprint Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. Undated reprint, circa 1970s, of the original edition published for the Tercentenary Commission of the State of Connecticut Committee on Historical Publications (Yale University Press, 1933). 8vo, stapled wraps, [16] Pages, b/w photographs of chairs. Condition: VERY GOOD, with some toning to edges of front cover, internally clean and tight. Nothing better in the world than a Connecticut-made Hitchcock Chair.

New York: Rizzoli, 1990. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Hugh Palmer. 1st ed. 4to, green boards, 224 pages, bibliography, index, 177 illustrations (77 in color) and special photography by Hugh Palmer. Condition: NEAR FINE book / NEAR FINE jacket: nearly new, slight rubbing mark to spine gutter and along top edge; jacket has slight wear along top edge. A lovely copy of this lovely book, filled with images of how the gentry lived, dressed and were entertained in their houses in the country and Town during the Georgian and Regency Periods - the wallpaper, the furniture, the workings of the kitchen - and all with informative extracts from Austen's letters and novels.

London: Thames & Hudson, 1996. 2nd Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. Hugh Palmer, photographs. Small 4to, stiff wraps, 224 pages, profusely illustrated in color and b/w, a Directory of Georgian Designs, bibliography, index. Condition: VERY GOOD with very light edgewear. Previously published as "Jane Austen's Town and Country Style," this is the 1996 edition with corrections. Expounds on the visual style of Jane Austen's era - the furniture, fabrics, and interior design to include wallpaper, china, glass. A must-have for the Jane Austen reader!

London: Bethnal Green Museum of Childhood / Her Majesty's Stationary Office, 1977. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. Exhibition at the Bethnal Green Museum of Childhood, May to September 1977 to celebrate the Silver Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II; catalogue compiled by John May. Drawn entirely from the collection of James Blewitt, it ranges from English delft ware of the reign of Charles II to mass-produced wares made to mark the most recent royal jubilee, that of George V in 1935. Oblong 24mo, stapled wraps, 26 pages of text, pages of b/w photographs of various items on glossy paper, color photographs on both covers. Condition is VERY GOOD with light rubbing to cover edges, a crease to front cover and corner crease to rear cover.

London: Her Majesty's Stationary Office, 1961. Soft cover. VG+. First published March 1952, reprinted with amendments 1961. 12mo, paperwraps, 30 items with b/w photographs. Condition: VERY GOOD+ with slight edgewear.

New York: Britannia & Eve / Tri-Arts Press, 1933. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. No additional printings noted, 8vo, stapled wraps, [20] pages, 2 double-sided color plates of Spode china. Conditon is VERY GOOD, with light edgewear to covers, 1" closed tear top front cover.

Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, , 1956. Soft cover. Fine. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. 4to, stiff card wraps, unpaginated - lists 65 b/w plates of Revere silver, 1 page of Revere marks. Cover design adapted from Revere's engraving of "Landing of British Troops in Boston", 1700. Condition is NEAR FINE with slightest of edgewear. Book is composed by The Stinehour Press in Lunenburg, Vermont.

Shelburne, VT: Shelburne Museum, 1957. Soft cover. Very Good. Museum Pamphlet Series, Number 2, on the famed (and fabulous!) quilt collection at the Shelburne Museum. 8vo, wraps, 96 pages, b/w illustrations, 1 in color, bibliography. Condition is VERY GOOD: light spotting to pages edges and on title and last page, the paste-on title label to front cover is missing,owner address label inside from cover, light pencil notation inside rear cover.

London: Her Majesty's Stationary Office, 1959. Soft cover. Near Fine. First published March 1951, second impression 1959. 12mo, paperwraps, 28 items with b/w photographs. Condition: NEAR FINE.

Old Sturbridge Village, MA: Old Sturbridge Village / Meriden Gravure Company, 1955. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Near Fine. No additional printings or editions noted, 8vo, stapled pamphlet wraps, 32 pages, blue and white illustrations. Condition: NEAR FINE: no visible wear. The fascinating story of young America as found in old blue Staffordshire.

Haverfordwest, Dyfed, U.K.: Shire Publications, 1992. Soft cover. NF. 8vo, stapled wraps, 32 pages, b/w illustrations, bibliography. NEAR FINE.

Trowbridge, Wiltshire, UK: Baros Books, 1989. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 1st edition (no additional printings noted). 8vo, blue boards, 149 pages, b/w photographs throughout, bibliography, index. Condition: NEAR FINE book / NEAR FINE jacket: small stain to top page edge, otherwise looks unread. The author discusses the history and development of visiting cards and their cases with more than 300 illustrations of the various cases and the materials of which they were made (silver, mother-of-pearl, ivory, lacquer, papier mache, Tunbridge wear, etc) and the decoration with which they were embellished, reflecting the social history of the Regency and Victorian periods (from the jacket). Georgette Heyer would have made great use of this book.

Guildford, Surrey, UK: Lutterworth Press, 1983. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Near Fine. Antique Pocket Guides. Guildford, Surrey: Lutterworth Press, 1983. 1st ed, 16mo, stiff wrappers, 64 pages, b/w illustrations throughout (110 to be exact), listing of silversmiths known to have made card cases, index. Condition is NEAR FINE with just an old price sticker on rear cover. Nostalgia at its finest, now we just get a "beep" when someone leaves a text message or voicemail.

Washington, DC: National Museum of Women in the Arts Thamese and Hudson, 1990. First Edition . Soft cover. NF. No additional printings stated, quarto stiff wraps, 176 pp, color and b/w illustrations, bibliography, biographical list of British and Irish Women Silversmiths. Condition is NEAR FINE: as new, has a small faint stain on fore edge.