HOUSTON John

Caroline Broadhead. Jewellery in Studio

London, Bellew Publishing, 1990. 64pp incl illustrations, biography, list of exhibitions. Wraps, 21x14. Very good copy. Useful short monograph on this important jeweller, b1950.

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Book number: 25293

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HUGHES Graham

Gerald Benney Goldsmith. The story of fifty years at the bench.

Alfriston, East Sussex, Starcity, 1998. 224pp, ove 230 high-quality col. and four-tone photos, list of exhibitions, bibliography. Open-weave blue cloth. 29x26. Fine, dw. A fine monograph on Benney (born 1930), outstanding British goldsmith.

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HUISMAN Philippe, DORTU M.G. (translated by Corinne BELLOW)

Lautrec by Lautrec

New Jersey, Chartwell 1964 275pp, many bw and colour illustrations. 31x27, green decorated boards, illustrated dw. Very good in very good dw - very nice copy indeed. Excellent and comprehensive survey of the artist and his work [heavy item, may require additional postage].

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Book number: 36279

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HULTEN K. G. Pontus

The Machine: as seen at the end of the mechanical age.

NY, Museum of Modern Art, 1968. 216pp, very well illustrated throughout, mainly in b&w with some blue-tinted plates. Metal pictorial covers, with colour image. 24x22. Small Swedish office publicity note pasted to half title (not without interest), metal somewhat tarnished, else good copy. The celebrated 'metal catalogue' for this significant MoMA exhibition, including works by many major contemporary artists and inventors. A classic of 60's book design.

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Book number: 36014

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HURRELL John Weymouth

Measured Drawings of Old Oak English Furniture... ...and some remains of architectural woodwork, plasterwork, metalwork, glazing, etc

London, Batsford 1902 2pp, index, 110 plates with bw drawings. 38x29, green cloth, glt lettering, bevelled edges. Cloth damaged with a piece missing from the front, some other rubbing and marks, end papers slightly split, contents good. Beautifully executed drawings of design details, especially the plasterwork and woodwork, as well as the furniture.

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Book number: 35895

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L'ILLUSTRATION

L'Automobile et le Tourisme

Paris, L'Illustration (Special Issue, 4935, 2 Octobre) 1937. 68pp, 66pp of adverts, many lovely illustrations in colour and b&w. 38x29, wraps with colour image. Good copy, a little rubbing to wraps, chip from spine. Special issue on the pleasures of car-bound gastronomic tourism around France; good then, good now.

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Book number: 35180

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IMPERIAL WAR MUSEUM

A concise catalogue of Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture of the First World War 1914-1918

London, 1963, 2nd ed. xi, 336pp inc catalogue of nearly 5000 items. Wraps, 25x15. Very good copy. Many items were added to the original 1924 edition.

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Book number: 33087

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INUI Yoshiaki

Moderne Japanische Keramik.

Berlin, Ministrium für Kunstaustellungen der DDR, 1987. 58pp, mostly photos. Wraps, 19x20. Very good copy. Exhibition in conjunction with the Japanese Foundation.

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Book number: 28078

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JACKSON Mrs F Neville with JESURUM Ernesto

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.

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.

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JACKSON Mrs F Neville with JESURUM Ernesto

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.

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.

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JACKSON Lesley

Robin and Lucienne Day: Pioneers of Contemporary Design

London, Mitchell Beazley 2001 192pp, many ills throughout 29x24, black cloth, illustrated dw Near fine in similar dw Very nicely illustrated survey of two of the most important and influential designers in the UK in the second half of the 20th century. Robin's furniture designs can be found in both domestic and institutional settings - his railway station benches are familiar across the UK for example - while the influence of Lucienne's abstract fabric pattern designs is still clear today.

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Book number: 38895

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JANSSENS, Dr J (vorwoord)

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

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.

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Book number: 34101

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JEAN Marcel, with MEZEI Arpad

The History of Surrealist Painting

London, Weidenfeld & Nicholson, (1959) 1960. 383pp, hundreds of ills throughout, some in colour, text translated from French by Simon Watson Taylor. Cloth. 24x21. Name on fep, otherwise very good. Arguably still the best book on this subject.

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Book number: 34552

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JENKINS Ian & SLOAN Kim

Vases & Volcanoes: Sir William Hamilton and His Collection

London, British Museum for the Trustees, 1996. 320pp, copious ills, many col, chron, bibliog. Laminated wraps. 28x22. Very good. Very informative and lavishly illustrated exhibition catalogue. Hamilton(1730-1803) was a key collector of his age and a renowned connoisseur.

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Book number: 33463

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JENNINGS Arthur Seymour

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

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 library markings at all. Good copy. An outstanding work. The plates are particularly fine with many being subtle tipped-in colour sample tones, as well as drawings of upper class room settings. The author was editor of "The Decorator" and a consultant on the subject in Britain and America. Outstanding work, especially for the colour samples. These are exquisite and include distemper (really lovely), woodstains, enamels, water paints etc, as well as oil paints.

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Book number: 30160

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