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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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VISIONS OF THE HEAVENLY SPHERE.
A Study in Quaker Religious Art.
Published for the Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum by the University Press of Virginia, Charlottevsille, 1969. First edition, squat 4to., pp.xvi,138, blue cloth, gilt, with gilt decoartion to front board, 12 colour plates, 18 b/w illustrations; ink ownership autograph to front free endpaper, slight rubbing to extremities, a very good copy indeed, in an unclipped pictorial dust-jacket, which has area of loss to rear lower corner, light loss also to rear upper corner, toning to margins, with two tears to front upper margin, and slight chipping at head and foot of spine. In a protective cover.
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KNITTING FOR TOMMY.
Keeping the Great War Soldier Warm.
The History Press, 2016. Reprint, square 4to., pp.114, paperback, colour and b/w illustrations; a very good copy.
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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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WARP AND WEFT.
A Textile Terminology. Adapted and expnaded from the Vocabulary of Technical Terms, 1964, with permission of the Centre International d’Etude des Textiles Anciens.
Toronto: Royal Ontario Museum, 1980. 4to., pp.xiv,216, blue hardcover, gilt, b/w illustrations, with diagrams by the author; ex libris Penelope Walton-Rogers, with her bookplate to front free endpaper, light toning to margins, sunning at head and foot of spine, light partial sunning to boards, else a very good copy, in unclipped but chipped and edgeworn dust-jacket, with loss to head of spine.
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THE FIRST BOOK OF FASHION. The Books of Clothes of Matthaus & Veit Konrad Schwarz of Augsburg.
London/New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2015. 4to., pp. ix,410, red hardcover, gilt, colour frontispiece, many colour illustrations and plates; a near fine copy in a vg+ unclipped dust-jacket with light creasing to upper margin and a small closed tear to rear left corner.
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TEXTBOOK OF FOOTWEAR MATERIALS.
London: The National Trade Press, 1955. First edition, 8vo., pp.xii,474, red cloth, gilt, numerous b/w illustrations; light sellotape staining to endpapers, very slight soiling to edges, light rubbing to extremities, a very good copy, in an unclipped dust jacket which is lightly soiled and slightly chipped to extremities, otherwise very good.
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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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COLOUR PRINTING: A Practical Demonstration of Colour Printing. By Letterpress, Photo-Offset Lithography and Drawn Lithography.
London: Faber and Faber, 1948. Two volumes, in a slip-case, 8vo.,pp. xi,35; green cloth, gilt, 10 pamphlets in card case, including colour charts and illustrations; lightly toned to endpapers and margins, sunned to spines, otherwise very good and clean, in a very good terracotta cloth covered slip-case, with title label to spine, sunned to spine, lightly rubbed and toned to extremities, cloth cover coming away to head of spine.
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THE RED DYES: Cochineal, Madder, and Murex Purple. A World Tour of Textile Techniques.
Lark Books, 1994. 4to., pp.215, red hardcover, colour illustrated; small bookseller sticker to front paste-down endpaper, light sunning to foot of spine, very good indeed, in a very good unclipped dust-jacket.
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SWATCH 88 89 90 91 92
Zurich: Farner Publicis, 1992. 4to., paperback, pp. 93, 276, index unpaginated, two magazines with many full colour illustrations and a separate index book; a near fine copy in a transparent plastic slipcase.
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ENCYCLOPEDIA OF MEDIEVAL DRESS AND TEXTILES OF THE BRITISH ISLES, c.400-1450.
Leiden: Brill, 2012. Large 8vo., pp.692, pictorial hardcover, colour plates and b/w illustrations; upper corner of front board bumped, slight bruise to tailband, internally clean and otherwise very good.
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THE ART OF DYEING IN THE HISTORY OF MANKIND.
Vicenza: Nevi Pozza, 1973. Large 8vo., pp.xviii,467, blue hardcover lettered in white, illustrated with 178 b/w and 7 inlaid colour plates; from the library of Penelope Walton, with ownership bookplate to front free endpaper, spine broken at rear inner hinge, with gutter open, extremities rubbed, a working copy, with very partial 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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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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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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WATSON'S ADVANCED TEXTILE DESIGN.
Compound Woven Structures.
London: Newnes-Butterworths, 1977. Fourth edition, 8vo., pp.(vi),435, red cloth, gilt, b/w illustrations; ex library, with stamps and stickers to prelims, else clean and very good, in very good unclipped dust-jacket, which is lightly sunned to spine.
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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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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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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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