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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 POTTER’S BOOK.
London: Faber and Faber, 1967. Reprint, 8vo., pp.xxvii,294, pictorial oatmeal cloth lettered in red, 4 colour plates, 77 b/w plates plus numerous in-text figures; a very good copy, in price-clipped pictorial dust-jacket, which is rubbed and creased to extremities, with slight chipping, and with ring mark to rear panel, good+ and now in a protective cover.
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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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CHINESE AND ANNAMESE CERAMICS FOUND IN THE PHILIPPINES AND INDONESIA.
London: Hugh Moss, 1973. Limited edition of 1020 copies, 4to., pp.208, brown hardcover, gilt, 125 colour plates, plus b/w illustrations and map; small scuff to upper edge of front board, a very good, fresh copy, in matching pictorial slip-case, which is just lightly rubbed to edges, else very good.
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DRESSING THE PAST.
Ancient Textiles Series Vol. 3.
Oxford: Oxbow Books, 2008. 8vo., pp.xxiii,167, paperback, colour illustrations; light vertical crease to front wrapper, light crease to spine, an otherwise very good, fresh 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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ENCYCLOPEDIA OF HANDSPINNING.
London: B.T. Batsford, 1988. Small 4to., pp.224, blue hardcover, gilt, 4pp. colour plates as well as numerous b/w illustrations throughout; a very good copy, in very good price-clipped dust-jacket.
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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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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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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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LUCIE RIE.
A Retrospective Exhibition of Earthenware, Stoneware and Porcelain, 1926-1967, Organized by the Arts Council.
London: The Arts Council, 1967. Small 4to., pp.32, 12 b/w plates, stapled card wrappers (paperback); sellotape stains at corners of title and final page, a very good copy.
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LUCIE RIE.
A Survey of her Life and Work.
Crafts Council, 1981. Large 8vo., pp.92,(iv), grey cloth lettered in black, full page colour plates and thumbnail b/w plates; near-fine, in near-fine unclipped dust-jacket.
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MADDER RED: A History of Luxury and Trade.
Plant Dyes and Pigments in World Commerce and Art.
Richmond: Curzon Press, 2000. 8vo., pp.384, red hardcover, gilt, b/w illustrations; from the library of Penelope Walton Rogers, with author’s presentation inscription to half title, a fresh and near-fine copy, in vg 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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MEDIEVAL GARMENTS RECONSTRUCTED.
Norse Clothing Patterns.
Aarhus University Press, 2011. 4to., pp.143, pictorial hardcover, colour illustrations and b/w figures; from the library of Penelope Walton Rogers, with co-editor’s inscription to half-title, a near-fine copy. No dust-jacket, as issued.
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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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SCOTTISH TEXTILE HISTORY.
Aberdeen University Press, 1987. 8vo., pp.xiii,193, red cloth, gilt, colour and b/w plates; a very good copy indeed, in unclipped dust-jacket, with two small closed tears to front upper edge.
More details Price: £48.00