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20TH CENTURY BRITISH GLASS.
Antique Collectors’ Club, 2009. 4to., pp.480, blue hardcover, gilt, colour-illustrated; a fresh and near-fine copy, in vg+ unclipped dust-jacket.
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A RUDIMENTARY TREATISE ON THE MANUFACTURE OF BRICKS AND TILES. Lockwood’s Trade Manuals.
London: Crosby, Lockwood and Son, 1921. Small 8vo., pp.viii,273,14, olive cloth, black lettering, b/w illustrations; small bookseller sticker to front paste-down endpaper, slight soiling to front endpapers, very slight foxing throughout, creasing to lower rear endpapers, hinge slightly visible between p.97-98, light soiling to edges and slightly to boards, light sunning to spine, rubbing and slight bruising to extremities, a good + copy. No dust-jacket.
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ANCIENT EGYPTIAN JEWELLERY.
London: Methuen, 1975. Reprint, 8vo., pp.lxi,266, paperback, 4 colour plates, numerous b/w plates to rear of volume, as well as b/w in-text figures; a very good copy.
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ART OF THE MODERN POTTER.
Country Life Books, 1976. Reprint, oblong 4to., pp.207, brown hardcover, gilt, colour plates; signed by four of the potters beneath their portraits, light toning to margins, light sellotape marking to margins of boards, rubbing to extremities, slight bruise to upper LH corner of front board, a very good copy, in unclipped dust-jacket, which is lightly sunned to spine, with 2cm closed tear to front lower margin, and light rubbing/slight chipping to extremities, else very good - now in a protective cover.
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COLORS FROM NATURE. Natural Colors in Ancient Times.
Tel Aviv: Eretz Israel Museum, 1993. Bilingual exhibition catalogue in English and Hebrew, squat 4to., pp.37,102, paperback, colour illustrations; from the library of Penelope Walton-Rogers, with gift inscription to prelim blank, light toning to margins, light shelfwear to wrappers, with crease to lower corner of front wrapper, else very good.
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CREATED IN CANTON Chinese Export Watercolours on Pith
Guangzhou Municipal Bureau of Culture, Broadcasting, Press and Publication; Centre for Historical Anthropology, Sun Yat-sen University. Large 8vo., pp. xi, 376, pictorial hardcover, many colour illustrations, bilingual text with English and Chinese side by side; very good indeed.
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DERBYSHIRE BLACK MARBLE. Peak District Mines Historical Society, Special Publication No.4.
Matlock Bath, Derbyshire: Peak District Mining Museum, 1996. 8vo., pp.95, paperback, colour and b/w illustrations; a fresh and near-fine copy.
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ELEMENTS OF THE ART OF DYEING; With a Description of the Art of Bleaching by Oxymuriatic Acid. In Two Volumes.
London: printed for Thomas Tegg; Simpkin and Marshall; R. Griffin & Co., Glasgow; J. Cumming, Dublin, 1824. Second edition, two volumes, 8vo., pp.xxvii,408;vii,453, quarter leather, gilt-lettered labels, marbled boards, complete with 9 plates; a very good, fresh set, in neat modern bindings.
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GRAPHIC DESIGN MANUAL.
London: Alec Tiranti, 1965. First edition, scarce, Large 8vo.,pp. 172, cream hardcover, black lettering, b/w illustrations; ownership autograph to front free endpaper, light toning to margins, a very good copy, in a very good unclipped pictorial dust-jacket, which is toned to rear, rubbing to extremities with light wear to upper corners and head of spine, closed tear to middle of spine stretching about a cm to the rear jacket, small tear with creasing to front upper margin.
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HANDBUCH DER NATURFARBSTOFFE. Vorkommon. Verwendung. Nachweis.
Landsberg am Lech: Ecomed Verlagsgesellschaft, 1993. Large 8vo., pp.800, red hardcover with colour inlay, colour plates; guttering lightly visible, binding working loose to rear, light soiling to p.4 and p.5, slight rubbing to boards with slight soiling to rear, a good + copy. No dust-jacket.
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KAUKASISCHE VOLKEREN / THE CAUCASIAN PEOPLES.
Exhibition realized in the Hessenhuis, Antwerp, Belgium, February 24th 2001-June 24th 2001.
Antwerp: Anne de Hingh, 2001. Exhibition catalogue, bilingual text, 4to., pp.327, paperback, colour plates; tiny spot of rubbing to upper corner of front wrapper, a near-fine copy.
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LE MONDE DES TEINTURES NATURELLES.
Paris: Belim, 2003. 4to., pp.586, cloth-backed lettered in white, glazed covers, colour illustrations; light toning to edges, light shelfwear, internally fresh, a good+, clean copy.
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LEACH POTTERY ST IVES.
The Legacy of Bernard Leach.
St Ives: Beach Books, 2006. Large 8vo., pp.247, brown cloth, gilt, colour and b/w plates; small crease to lower corner of front free endpaper, a fine copy, in fine unclipped dust-jacket.
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LUCIE RIE. Modernist Potter.
China: Yale University Press, 2015. 8vo., pp.xv,328, beige hardcover, lettered in white, b/w frontispiece, 110 colour and b/w illustrations; a fine copy, in a fine unclipped dust-jacket.
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MARBLE DECORATION AND THE TERMINOLOGY OF BRITISH AND FOREIGN MARBLES.
London: Crosby Lockwood and Son, 1888. First edition, 8vo., pp.vi,122,40, (publisher’s adverts),16 (adverts), navy cloth, lettered in gilt and with border and insignia in black, 28 b/w figures; stitching/gutter occasionally visible, a couple of small pencil marks to margins, spots of rubbing to extremities, a very good, fairly bright copy.
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MAX BURCHARTZ 1887-1961; TYPOGRAPFISCHE ARBEITEN 1924-1931, IM REPRINT.
Max ist endlich auf dem richtigen Weg.
Werkbund: Verlag Lars Muller, 1993. 4to.,pp. 80 catalogue including pamphlets and fold-outs, in a boxed slip-case, b/w and colour illustrations; closed tear to paper label along fore-edge, otherwise a near-fine copy, in a near-fine boxed slip-case.
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OPERA TEXTILIA VARIORUM TEMPORUM.
The Museum of National Antiquities, Stockholm, Studies 8. To honour Agnes Geijer on her ninetieth birthday 26th October 1988.
Stockholm: Statens Historiska Museum, 1988. Large 8vo., pp.188, pictorial hardcover, b/w and colour plates; toning to edges, a very good copy. No dust-jacket.
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SAMPLERS - MAPPED AND CHARTED.
Samplers and Historic Embroideries. Exhibition at Witney Antiques.
Witney Antiques, 2005. Exhibition catalogue, 4to., unpaginated, paperback, colour-illustrated throughout; a very good, fresh copy.
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SCULPTURE.
An Essay On Stone-Cutting, With A Preface About God.
Ditchling, Sussex: Saint Dominic’s Press, 1920. Small 8vo., pp.41, pictorial beige linen cloth stamped in black; pencilled ownership autograph, dated 1929, to head of title page, light toning to free endpapers, toning to spine and margins of boards, water-staining to cloth at fore-margin of rear board, overall very good.
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SLIPWARE IN THE COLLECTION OF THE POTTERIES MUSEUM AND ART GALLERY.
London: A & C Black, 2007. 4to., pp.191, brown hardcover, gilt; a fine copy, in a near-fine unclipped dust-jacket.
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