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  • HAJDAMACH, Charles R.
    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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  • ART OF THE MODERN POTTER. by BIRKS, Tony. [Signed by Lucie Rie, Hans Coper, Janet Leach, and Gordon Baldwin]
    BIRKS, Tony. [Signed by Lucie Rie, Hans Coper, Janet Leach, and Gordon Baldwin]
    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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  • LUCIE RIE. by COOPER, Emmanuel.
    COOPER, Emmanuel.
    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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  • GILL, Eric.
    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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  • THE MODULOR: A Harmonious Measure to the Human Scale Universally applicable to Architecture and Mechanics. by LE CORBUSIER.
    LE CORBUSIER.
    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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  • GRAPHIC DESIGN MANUAL. by HOFMANN, Armin.
    HOFMANN, Armin.
    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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  • BLAGROVE, George H.
    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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  • WILKINSON, Alix.
    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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  • BANKS, Langley.
    THE JOINERS’ COMPANION TO A NEW SYSTEM OF HANDRAILING, NAMELY THE SQUARE CUT.

    Manchester: Privately published, and printed by Wilcock and Norbury, 1853. 4to., unpaginated, comprises 48 engraved plates with accompanying text, contemporary half brown calf with brown moire cloth boards, gilt-lettered to front board, unlettered spine with gilt-ruled compartments, additional frontispiece portrait of author, with tissue guard; neat ink ownership inscriptions to front free endpaper, front free endpaper, frontispiece and tissue guard have vertical crease (production fault), foxing and toning to prelims, with some light foxing - especially to margins - throughout, partial sunning and light marking to cloth, rubbing and light wear to extremities, a good(+) copy. Contains two different plates numbered ‘IV’, and no plate ‘XXXIII’ - believed complete; The British Library copy also has 48 plates as does…

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    Manchester: Privately published, and printed by Wilcock and Norbury, 1853. 4to., unpaginated, comprises 48 engraved plates with accompanying text, contemporary half brown calf with brown moire cloth boards, gilt-lettered to front board, unlettered spine with gilt-ruled compartments, additional frontispiece portrait of author, with tissue guard; neat ink ownership inscriptions to front free endpaper, front free endpaper, frontispiece and tissue guard have vertical crease (production fault), foxing and toning to prelims, with some light foxing - especially to margins - throughout, partial sunning and light marking to cloth, rubbing and light wear to extremities, a good(+) copy. Contains two different plates numbered ‘IV’, and no plate ‘XXXIII’ - believed complete; The British Library copy also has 48 plates as does the only other copy we have found once offered for sale. Banks designed and built the Grand Twin Geometrical staircase in the Crystal Palace, London, for the Great Exhibition of 1851; which plate one illustrates in plan and elevation. Rather scarce.

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  • JOSEPH, Adrian M.
    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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