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TEXTILE TERMINOLOGIES.
In the Ancient Near East and Mediterranean From the Third to the First Millennia BC.
Oxford: Oxbow Books, 2010. Large 8vo., pp.xix,444, glazed pictorial hardcover, numerous b/w illustrations; gutter lightly visible on p.442, bump to lower edge of rear board, wear to lower corner of front board, tear along paper covering for 7cms at head of lower external joint, internally clean and otherwise very good.
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TEXTILIEN DES MITTELMEERRAUMES AUS SPATANIKER BIS FRUHISLAMISCHER ZEIT. Textilsammlung der Abegg-Stiftung, Bd. 4.
Riggisberg: Abegg-Stiftung, 2004. Folio, pp.520, red cloth, gilt, colour and b/w illustrations; very good indeed, in very good unclipped dust-jacket, which has light creasing and chipping to head of spine, and small nick to front flap-fold. [German language.]
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THE ART OF DYEING WOOL, SILK, AND COTTON.
London: Scott, Greenwood & Co, 1901. 8vo., pp.xx, 446, green cloth, gilt, b/w plates; ownership autograph to half title page, with occasional light foxing to prelims, slight rubbing to extremities, with very slight wear to extremities and small stain at foot of spine and rear board, generally very good copy.
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THE FORGOTTEN ARTS & CRAFTS.
London: Dorling Kindersley Limited, 2001. 4to., pp.384, pictorial hardcover; very slight bruising to lower extremities, a near fine copy, in an unclipped pictorial dust-jacket which is very slightly rubbed to extremities, else near fine.
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THE JOINERS’ COMPANION TO A NEW SYSTEM OF HANDRAILING, NAMELY THE SQUARE CUT.
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THE LAMBETH METHOD OF CAKE DECORATION AND PRACTICAL PASTRIES.
London: Virtue and Company Limited, 1936. First edition, folio, pp.xv,308,(8) adverts, textured decorative claret cloth, gilt, top edges red, illustrated with colour and b/w plates, loose folding plate for a gondola design; occasional fingermarking to margins, light foxing to edges, 2cm tear to cloth over spine, spine lightly rolled, rubbing to extremities, overall very good.
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THE MODULOR: A Harmonious Measure to the Human Scale Universally applicable to Architecture and Mechanics.
London: Faber and Faber, 1954. 8vo.,pp. 243, grey cloth, lettering in black and red, b/w figures; ownership autograph to front paste down endpaper, toned to endpapers and lightly to margins, webbing visible to p.96-7 all contents firm, rubbed to extremities, with rubbing to lettering on spine, pencil annotation to rear, still a very good copy. No dust-jacket.
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THE SEMANTICS OF COLOUR.
A Historical Approach.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. 8vo., pp.xiv,257, glazed hardcover; small tear inner margin of front endpapers, lightly bruised to extremities, a very good copy. No dust-jacket.
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VICTORIA AND ALBERT MUSEUM - THE TAPESTRY COLLECTION: Medieval and Renaissance.
London: Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1980. Oblong 8vo., pp.83, oatmeal cloth, lettering in brown and gilt, colour frontispiece, 108 b/w plates; a near-fine copy, in unclipped dust-jacket, with one small closed tear to rear upper margin, else very good indeed, and now in a protective cover.
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WEAVES AND PATTERN DRAFTING.
London: B. T. Batsford Limited, 1978. Reprint, small 4to., pp.100, black hardcover, gilt, numerous b/w plates; pencilling throughout, light toning to edges, slight rubbing to boards, a very good copy, in an unclipped dust-jacket which is lightly creased toned and has a large tear (21cm) to front stretching to spine and small area of loss to spine, else good.
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