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190024278Editions Guérinet, sd 1900 In-folio, en feuilles, chemise cartonné, dos toilé, 1 ff. de table & 29 pl. légendées num. 1ère série 1 à 30, une double. Bon exemplaire.
1857WRCAM28019Baltimore: John D. Troy 1857. 29pp. Original printed wrappers. Slight foxing. Very good. "Being the entire Furniture and Fixtures contained in the Dwelling of Mr. William Key Howard." Administered by F.W. Bennett & Company. Early auction catalogues such as this are rare even more so in this condition. Items of note include a lavish engraving of "Washington Crossing the Delaware." John D. Troy unknown books
18965063Rud. Loose Nachflg.) Kunstgewerbliche Werkstatt für Intarsien, eingelegte Arbeiten und Kunst-Möbel. 25 Blatt Intarsien. Photographische Aufnahmen nach ausgeführten Arbeiten. Musterplatten sowie verschiedene Möbel mit Intarsien. 2te Auflage (Einbandtitel). 25 Lichtdrucktafeln mit zahlr. Abb. Hamburg, Selbstverlag, 1896. 4to. (29,0 x 21,0 cm). 2 Bl. Orig.-Halbleinwandband (Vorderdeckel mit Holzfurnier bezogen).
1858223601858 Paris Bance 1858 pour le tome 1(edition originale),Librairie Morel pour les autres tomes T2=1871,T3=1872,T4= 1873,T5=1874,T6=1875: 443+535+478+506+498+490 pages, illustrées de chromolithographies et gravures noir et blanc dans et hors texte. reliures uniformes demi chagrin noir,dos lisse à flets dorés.Titre, tomaison et caissons dorés. Tome 1: Meubles - Tome 2: Ustensiles - Tomes 3 et 4: Vêtements - Tome 5 et 6: Armes de guerre. In-8 Relié. Bon état. Dos satisfaisant. Intérieur frais quelques rousseurs.Ouvrage illustré de très nombreux dessins dans le texte et de 117 planches hors-texte dont 43 chromolithographies. Ensemble complet de ses 6 volumes . Illustré de LVI planches (dans les volumes 1 et 2, avec numérotation continue, XVI planches (dans les volumes 3 et 4, avec numérotation continue), VIII et 10 planches dans les deux derniers volumes. Certaines de ces planches en chromolithographie. Très nombreuses illustrations en noir dans le texte par ailleurs. --- An encyclopedic survey of the decorative & applied arts in all spheres of civil, religious & military life in France, with sections on furniture, domestic objects, music, games, tools, textiles, costume & related clothing accessories, military clothing & arms, middle ages - ca 17th c; over 2000 works shown, including many medieval textiles in color, especially in v3. Vol 3 & v4 is devoted to textiles & costume; & v6 contains a general index. One of the major 19th century reference works on the applied arts. COLAS 3024 (with detailed collation). LIPP Fa36 (with detailed contents). CRESWELL 882. GARB 1619. GLAH P45. [CSROT 1832].
190079019Stuttgart, W. Kohlhammer, [ca. 1900]. 41 zweifarb., lithograph. Tafeln, lose in 6 OBroschuren. Folio (43 x 34). Zusammen in OHLn-Mappe mit Bindebändern.
190079020Stuttgart, W. Kohlhammer, [ca. 1900]. 44 zweifarb., lithograph. Tafeln, lose in 6 OBroschuren. Folio (43 x 34). Zusammen in OHLn-Mappe mit Bindebändern.
187858315Paris: V.L. Quetin ca. 1878. Oblong 4to. 11.5 x 7.75 in. 1 leaf lithograph title 94 i.e. 110 lithographed plates 1 leaf of index on blue-tinted paper stock. Quarter-green leather over pebbled green cloth raised bands embossed borders in blind gilt lettering on spine minor scuffing & wear rubbing bumping & wear to couple corners w/o ffep. still VG- copy w/ bright plates from the library of Victor Colas 256 13d Voltaires Paris notation on front marbled pastedown. A well-illustrated printer’s specimen book issued to depict the varieties of Second Empire French furniture featuring styles such as Louis XV Louis XVI and the decorative styles of Napoleon III’s designers. Victor Joseph Quetin 1822-1877 was an entrepreneurial printer who began producing these Furniture style books for Parisian craftsmen cabinetmakers and would sell these volumes of specimen sheets to manufacturers to show their prospective clients. The furnishings shown in these leaves encompass tables chairs toilettes some with bidets built in many with attached mirrors bed frames armoires buffets desks and desks with built-in bookcases. The index which is often missing provides an excellent quick reference to the styles types of furnishings as well as the specific plate. Demand increased as Paris & France underwent tremendous renovations and progress during the Second Empire and many of the furnishings inspired by the designs of Carlin Weisweiler and Riesener were presented to the public at the 1867 Exposition Universelle. His son Victor Leon Quetin b. 1852 would later in the 1870’s take up the family business released the albums under a new imprint of “V.L. Quetin†and also began issuing colour chromolithograph specimen catalogues of elaborate draperies bed curtains window treatments and casements. Also issued was a newspaper Journal le magasin de meubles†which offered details of the specimen catalogues he would assemble subscriptions and pricing with details on colour lithography and hand-colouring as well. His designs were dependent upon using a specialized machine which would enlarge reduce or even alter lithographic designs for clients. See: Victor Quetin De la papeterie a la lithographie D’Avoise a Meung-sur-Loire en passan par les Moulins de Paillard 16e-18e siecle; Alfred Lemercier La lithographie francaise de 1796 a 1896 et les arts qui s’y rattachent: manuel pratique p. 344. V.L. Quetin, hardcover
187486092Ve A. Morel et Cie 1874 6 volumes. In-8 24,5 x 17 cm. Reliures postérieures demi-chagrin rouge, dos à nerfs, 440-535-476-506-498-480 pp., 2154 figures dont LXXXI planches en chromolithographie.
18605921860 Couverture rigide Paris, Victor Quétin éditeur, sans date [circa 1860]. Un volume in-8 oblong (16,5 x 25 cm), reliure demi veau, cartonnage percaline, dos à nerfs, coiffe supérieure absente, charnière du second plat fendue et fendue (second plat tenu par les lacets). Album de sièges : page de titre, 40 planches en couleurs (chaises et fauteuils Louis XV, canapés, divans, ottomanes...) ; album de tentures : page de titre, 40 planches en couleurs (croisées, décors de lit, paravents...). Rendu des couleurs superbe pour ces deux recueils de lithographies aquarellées. Bon exemplaire.
189852137North La Crosse WI; Chicago IL; Detroit MI; Blawnox PA; Cambridge MA; Grand Rapids MI; Augusta ME: A.F. Spettel 806 Caledonia St.; Perkins 125 South 4th Street for the North La Crosse Reed & Rattan Works La Crosse Reed Furniture Works; Ford & Johnson Co.; Wolverine Reed Co.; Fibre Furniture; J.L. Hammett Co.; Grand Rapids Fibre Cord Company; Needlecraft Publishing Co. 1898-1929. First -- 11 sepia-tinted cabinet photos 2 albumen 9 photos of printed images embossed photographer’s name at lower edge of cabinet card a few w/ pencil & ink pricing & inventory information on backs minor dustsoiling edgewear; 2nd -- 25 original linen-backed photographs some sepia-tinted sized from 5 x 7 in. up to 6.5 x 8.5 in. nearly all the larger size nearly all w/ pencil & ink pricing annotations furniture descriptions and a few w/ La Crosse Reed Furniture Work stamp on verso soiling edgewear some creasing minor fraying; 3rd -- Oblong 8vo. 95 1 pp. photo plates throughout burgundy-coloured softcovers gilt lettering stamped on front chipping head & foot of spine soiling edgewear wear to corners preserving part of original mailing envelope dated 1910 to North La Crosse Reed & Rattan Works; 4th -- 8vo. 78 pp. Photo-illustrated throughout w/o self-printed softcovers some soiling edgewear; 5th -- Oblong 8vo. 64 pp unpaginated with photo illustrations throughout beige printed softcovers lettering in gray & black on front cover soiling edgewear rubbing wear to corners; 6th -- 8vo. 40 pp. photo plates & text illustrations beige softcovers printed in decorative red black & orange on front cover minor dustsoiling edgewear thumbing; 7th -- 4to. 48 pp. Photo-illustrated title photo text illustrations throughout decorative printed borders Beige softcovers yapp edges Arts & Crafts cover art in gray green & brown on front cover lettering in black silver & red minor shelfwear rubbing preserving original price list and order forms in rear; 8th -- 4to. 23 1 pp. text and photo illustrations throughout self-printed colour-illustrated softcovers minor tear head of spine edgewear creasing still G copy stapled as issued all from the collection of Erma Wilson Multhauf of Cedar Falls IA and noted rattan furniture restorer who purchased the material from the La Crosse Reed Furniture Works when it went out of business after World War II. This amazing salesman sample photo archive for the North La Crosse Reed & Rattan Works and the La Crosse Reed Furniture Works provide an indispensable visual record of reed and rattan wicker furniture produced and sold in Wisconsin during the Arts & Crafts era. Wicker furniture experienced a tremendous rise in popularity during the last decades of the 19th century with many manufacturers producing items in Wisconsin and other Midwest States and the domestic reeds used by American manufacturers proved especially flexible and were more capable of being painted or stained while Rattan was harder to weave and could only be shellacked. The cabinet photos by Spettel and Perkins include images of high-backed fancy Victorian rockers a foot stool magazine rack sewing basket a Turkish chair a round table and several other wicker rocking chairs. Spettel 1866-1935 was brought into his brother Clement Spettel’s photography studio in 1886 because his business was so popular and they would thrive in North La Crosse WI until 1906 when Aloysius moved his business to North Dakota. The business location on 806 Caledonia was established by the brothers in 1888 and was initially called the New Gallery then the National Art Studio and sometime around 1897-98 it was simply A.F. Spettel while Clement worked at 320 North 4th on the City’s south side. Of particular interest is the “Perkins†Studio Cabinet photo as there is no known other example of a Perkins photographer at that location although that studio location served eight other known photographers between 1888 and 1900. The collection of factory linen-backed photographs depict a wide variety of Victorian rattan furniture including wing-back chairs & rockers stacking children’s stools children’s high chair rocker sewing baskets waste baskets and more. Nearly all of them have inventory numbers and prices on verso some individually priced others priced by the dozen ranging from $ 2.75 to $ 8.50. The Ford & Johnson Fiber-Rush and Malacca furniture catalogue includes a wide range of Mission-style and Arts & Crafts period furnishings including tables library tables settees rockers and more. The Art Fibre Weaving catalogue not only includes excellent photographic images of wicker furniture but also images of fibre art weaving classes schools and equipment. See: Edwin L. Hill A History of Photography in La Crosse Wisconsin 1853-1930 pp. 160-170 175; Raether Wisconsin Family Albums & Photographers’ Imprints and Biographies 1800s to early 1900s pp. 315-316; George M. Brown The White Directory of Manufactures of Furniture and Kindred Goods of the United States pp. 20-21; Tracing the Trends of Wicker Furniture Through History Patio Productions 2014. A.F. Spettel, 806 Caledonia St.; Perkins, 125 South 4th Street for the North La Crosse Reed & Rattan Works, La Crosse Reed Furni paperback
1816315888Paris: Hamelin-Bergeron 1816. Second expanded edition. xxxii-50 i.e. 509; xi-1-542 pp. Atlas: first 8 plates with 9 hand-coloured figures per plate of wood grains; IX-XXXIX; Atlas Tome II LVII plates some folding. 96 plates in all. 3 vols. 4to atlas; 8vo text. Contemporary quarter tan calf rubbed. Signed by the publisher opposite opposite title page of volume 1 and along title page margin as receipt of purchase for 60 fr. Text and plates clean and fresh. Atlas vol. rebacked preserving spine. Second expanded edition. xxxii-50 i.e. 509; xi-1-542 pp. Atlas: first 8 plates with 9 hand-coloured figures per plate of wood grains; IX-XXXIX; Atlas Tome II LVII plates some folding. 96 plates in all. 3 vols. 4to atlas; 8vo text. Second edition of the definitive contemporary work on the lathe originally published in 1792-96. The illustrations show wood turning machinery and tools finished products and hand-colored depictions of 72 varieties of wood grain. Brunet I-785; Ogden Bibliography of Turning item 27 Hamelin-Bergeron unknown
1816315888Paris: Hamelin-Bergeron 1816. Second expanded edition. xxxii-50 i.e. 509; xi-1-542 pp. Atlas: first 8 plates with 9 hand-coloured figures per plate of wood grains; IX-XXXIX; Atlas Tome II LVII plates some folding. 96 plates in all. 3 vols. 4to atlas; 8vo text. Contemporary quarter tan calf rubbed. Signed by the publisher opposite opposite title page of volume 1 and along title page margin as receipt of purchase for 60 fr. Text and plates clean and fresh. Atlas vol. rebacked preserving spine. Second expanded edition. xxxii-50 i.e. 509; xi-1-542 pp. Atlas: first 8 plates with 9 hand-coloured figures per plate of wood grains; IX-XXXIX; Atlas Tome II LVII plates some folding. 96 plates in all. 3 vols. 4to atlas; 8vo text. Second edition of the definitive contemporary work on the lathe originally published in 1792-96. The illustrations show wood turning machinery and tools finished products and hand-colored depictions of 72 varieties of wood grain. Brunet I-785; Ogden Bibliography of Turning item 27 Hamelin-Bergeron unknown books
18403532Modèles dans le Style du 15e Siècle. Mit gest. Titel u. 24 gest. Tafeln nach Pugin. Paris u. Lüttich, Noblet & Baudry, o. J. (ca. 1840). 4to. (34,5 x 25,5 cm). Lose Tafeln in illustr. Orig.-Halbleinwandmappe.
18074044<p>A charming book toy where an early user has converted a book into a book box housing a secret compartment for notes and correspondence. The compartment houses eight blank sheets which have been cut to size and then had their edges gilded. Any sent letters are by definition no longer present but nor alas are any billet doux received. The binding itself itself is dated 1807 and the supralibris gives the ownership of the book as 'Ignace Mehl fils d'Haguenau'.</p>
18363503Mit 44 (statt 48) kolorierten lithogr. Tafeln von Caron, gedruckt bei Lemercier, Bernard & Cie. [Paris, 1836]. 4to. (ca. 30,0 x 22,5 cm). Lose in neuer Pappkassette.
189356869Salem OR: Buren & Hamilton 1893-1904. 4to. 90 mylar sleeve leaves unnumbered. containing 403 invoices shipping & waybills TLS ALS TL copy letters and more many of which appear on steel-engraved letterhead many printed on colour-tinted paper often shipping and weight bills still retaining original stamps a few mailing envelopes a number of check receipts many w/ manuscript and stamped autographs others w/ corrections and/or annotations in ink or pencil; also included are actual samples of velvet fabrics wallpapers and textured colour sample papers printing sample for perforated business card. All preserved in recent 3-ring cloth binder stamping on front cover. An exceptional archive of original letters invoices waybills business cards and receipts all documenting the thriving business of Buren & Hamilton at the end of the Gilded Age and beginning of the Progressive Era in Salem Oregon in the aftermath of the 1893 economic crash. Drawing from suppliers in California just a few years before the San Francisco Earthquake & Fire the company also sourced from Seattle WA New York and Chicago. Portland was the manufacturing and industrial hub of Oregon as can be seen in these invoices and receipts: such companies as The Columbia Chair Company Dealers who sold chairs office chairs and rockers from 309-311 Front St. shipped rocking chairs and office chairs to Salem in 1903; Henry Jenning & Sons located at 172-174 First St. shipped a load of leather oak chairs in 1903; J.G. Mack & Co. located at 86 & 88 Third St. in Portland supplied velvet rugs oil cloths and lamp shades in 1903; while the A. Merle Co. and McCord & Work located on Water St. supplied brass and iron bed frames the same year. Buren & Hamilton also sourced mattresses and sacks of recycled denim cotton “Shoddy†from Peters & Roberts Furniture Co. for mattresses; and purchased often from the Portland Mattress & Upholstery Co. at 18-20 Front St. which supplied wool-combed coverings mattresses mattress tops from 1900-1904 -- their factory would be gutted by fire in 1907. Many of the items were shipped down the Willamette River on the Oregon City Transportation Co. ships with a note from 1904 indicating the company had completed a sale of odd sized mattresses to them; numerous Southern Pacific Oregon Division freight bills; as well as a shipment on the SS Oregonian via the American-Hawaiian Steamship Co. of five crates of chair seats from Marshall Field & Co.In addition it appears that Oregonians in and around Salem purchased heavily from the store luxury goods such as beveled mirrors framed artwork sleek wallpapers velvet fabrics tapestries oriental rugs and more. Many of the invoices letters waybills and documents record many items supplied by the storied W.P. Fuller & Co. of San Francisco & Sacramento CA as well as their subsidiary in Portland OR. They were main suppliers of beveled and mirrored glass on the Pacific Coast which often had to be imported from England into the U.S. and several of the orders in 1899-1901 note that the company was having issues supplying such pieces to Buren & Hamilton due to labor difficulties finally sourcing mirrors from Pilkington Bros. English Picture Glass. They occasionally canceled orders and the Fuller Co. writes in 1901 over a canceled order of “deadening felt.†The W.P. Fuller Co. explain that “your reasons for wishing to cancel your order are not considered sufficient to justify us in doing so . . . †and that they were aware that “some of our competitors are circulating unjust and untrue reports concerning us all the time.†Included amongst these letters are samples of cotton backing for carpets and even three original samples of wallpaper. There are also present a number of letters and invoices from the firm of Tozer & Son which took over the W.P. Fuller Wallpaper division about 1901 with letters present making that announcement. Of additional interest are the many invoices letters and waybills back and forth with the storied Schussler Bros. on 119-121 Geary St. Star King Building in San Francisco detailing many of the popular framed and matted photographs and images for Salem shoppers. These encompassed the “Lone Indian†which were often reproductions of the iconic End of the Trail sculpture by James Earle Fraser; Athletes Dutch Windmills Shakespeare prints of assorted types and sizes Lone Arab a Chinese print a boxing series of matted “Deal of a Fellow†Madonna Artotypes -- typically reproductions of Raphael’s Madonna and Taber art photos. Many of the letters bill heads and invoices sport steel engraved architectural vignettes documenting buildings which would be destroyed in the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake & Fire as well as many of the business records for those companies. One of the freight bills bears the photographic letterhead of the Chicago & North-Western Railway Co. dated 1904. Another significant supplier was the D.N. & E. Walter & Co. of San Francisco which supplied linoleum flooring fabrics and more for Buren & Hamilton from 1899-1904 and even includes in one of the letters a piece of the red velvet fabric they no longer carried.Buren & Hamilton was originally founded in the late 1880’s by A.T. Yeaton as a furniture/undertaker business later sold to A.B. Buren and finally sold to Max O. Buren and Clarence Hamilton who operated at three locations along Commercial St. including Greenbaum’s Building at 298 Commercial the building at 136 Commercial 340 Court St. now Sid’s Furniture. Clarence bought out Max Buren’s shares in 1916 becoming the C.S. Hamilton Furniture Co. and operating until it was sold to Rubenstein’s in the 1960’s. See: Norma Hamilton Cochran Historic Businesses -- Hamilton Furniture Salem History Matters March 17 2017; New Stationery Department of Schussler Brothers San Francisco The American Stationer Vol. LIV 1903 pp. 4-5; John Caldbick Panic of 1893 and its Aftermath HistoryLink Essay 20874 Oct. 1 2019. Buren & Hamilton, hardcover
1868WRCAM32817Philadelphia: Henry Carey Baird 1868. 4pp. plus forty-eight engraved plates. Oblong octavo. Original green cloth gilt- stamped cover. Front hinge starting. Internally bright and clean. Very good. The third furniture pattern book published in America issued simultaneously with another Baird title GOTHIC ALBUM FOR FURNITURE MAKERS. It was preceded by books called THE CABINET-MAKER'S ASSISTANT published in 1840 and 1842. Depicted are a variety of bed stands bureaus wardrobes tables bookcases and more in a Renaissance Revival style. They are patterned after mid-19th- century French designs. All early American furniture books are rare. Henry Carey Baird hardcover books
19008941<p>London: Various 1900. 50 books and pamphlets from the personal library of the furniture designer and high-end London shop-keeper Sir Ambrose Heal which reflect his love for the Arts and Crafts movement and his passion as a pioneer and champion of design. The collection reveals Heal's connections with many of the leading figures of the time with inscribed copies from his fellow furniture designer Hamilton Smith review copies of works by William Lethaby and his own copies of early publications by the Designs and Industries Committee which he had helped found. There are polemics by Clough Williams Ellis as well as obscure exhibition catalogues and reports several unrecorded from organisations that he supported and helped to run. Altogether a fascinating insight into the life of an influential taste-maker and businessman in England in the first half of the century who ran Heal and Son on Tottenham Court Road for 40 years and played an active role in cultural life in London and further afield. The collection includes: BOOKS 1 'The Caliph's Design Architects ! Where is Your Vortex' by Wyndham Lewis. First edition. First Impression. Scarce one of only 1000 copies produced. A printed label to the front cover. Original blue marbled wrappers over card worn away to spine panel. Internally in very good condition. Published by The Egoist Ltd. 2019. Laid in is a printed invitation from the Royal Society of British Artists requesting the company of Mr A Heal dated March 29th 1930. 2 GIFT TO HEAL FROM A FURNITURE DESIGNER 'The People's Album of London Statues'. Described by Osbert Sitwell. Drawn by Nina Hammett. Published by Duckworth London 1928. Ambrose Heal book plate to front paste down. Hand written pencil note to front free end paper reads 'Given to me by Hamilton Smith Christmas 1928' - Hamilton Temple Smith was a fellow furniture designer with whom Heal shared a patent. Brown cloth boards with decorative embossing to front in good condition. Contains black and white illustrations throughout. Clean pages and illustrations with light tanning and mild foxing. 3 'England and the Octopus' by Clough Williams Ellis. 1928. Boards and internally in good condition. All that remains of dust jacket is front cover which has been excised neatly and laid in. An influential polemic against urban sprawl. 'Heal' inscribed in pencil to front paste down. 4 'Britain Must Rebuild A Policy for Regional Planning' by Frank Pick. Published by Kegan Paul. In good condition. 'Ambrose Heal' written in pencil across front board. Front free end paper inscribed 'Ambrose Heal Nov '41'. 5 GIFT TO HEAL 'Henry Irving'. The Vellum Parchment Shilling Series. No III. Published by Field & Tuer. By William Archer. In good condition. Annotated 'HH from C.C.B. '92'. 6 'Guinevere' by Alfred Lord Tennyson. Illustrated by Byam Shaw. Published by TC & EC Jack. Pocket book. Inlaid decorative gift card reads 'From Philip Carr To Mr Ambrose Heal'. 7 'Cosmic Vision' by TJ Cobden Sanderson. First Edition 1922. Blue cloth covered boards a little worn to edges end papers and text clean. b/w frontispiece protected by dust sheet in very good condition overall throughout. 8 'Lettering in Ornament' by Lewis F Day. First Edition 1902. Good copy in the original title-blocked cloth. 218 pp. 9 'William Richard Lethaby 1857-1931'. Published by Central School of Arts and Crafts 1957. First Edition. Hardcover. Boards a little discoloured. Text block sound overall in good condition. 86 pp. Laid in is a compliments slip from the Principal of London County Council. 10 REVIEW COPY 'Art and Handicraft' by John D Sedding. First Edition 1893. Green cloth covered boards with gold titles. Edges and spine sunned /darkened but in very sound condition. End papers clean some foxing text clean throughout. Inlaid is a printed note from Kegan Paul Trench Trubner & Co. To the reverse is a faint pencil drawn sketch of a building with tree in foreground. 11 'Handicrafts and Reconstruction. Notes by Members of the Arts & Crafts Exhibition Society'. Published for John Hogg. 1919. 139 pp. Original green cloth boards frayed to edges. Internally in good condition leaves age toned throughout. 12 'The Attribute Proper to Art: Pure Art Value' by Thomas Henry Lyon M.A. Brown card wrappers in good condition. Front free end paper inscribed 'Ambrose Heal from J H Lyons. April 20th 1932' presumably a family member related to the Cambridge architect and designer Thomas henry Lyon. PAMPHLETS AND BOOKLETS DESIGN & INDUSTRIES JOURNAL: Heal co-founded the Design and Industries Association which aimed to encourage greater design values within industrial production. 15x DIA journals news sheets and lecture booklets dated variously between 1919 1927. Includes Booklet Number One 'The Future Of Industrial Design' by Herbert Read with other contributions by Anthony Bertram and John Grey and William Lethaby's Art and Workmanship - all very scarce. Laid in is an overdue subscription reminder payable to The Design & Industries Association dated July 1925 made out in hand to Mr Ambrose Heal who in 1915 had helped to found the Association DIA 2 'A Note Regarding Script Types' by Douglas C McMurtie. Published by Press of Ars Typographica New York 1925.32 pp. In very good condition throughout. Ambrose Heal book plate to inner front wrapper. 3 Annual Reports of the Committee of the Art-Workers' Guild dated 1926 1929 & 1935. In very good condition. 4 3x pamphlets published by The Civic Arts Association dated 1927. Titled 'On Medals On Inscriptions Lest We Forget'. In good condition. 5 'The Future of the Past by John Leighton'. Programme for a production dated AWG Revels 1924. Card wrappers darkened and bumped to edges Text clean and unmarked. Catalogue for a production of 'The Statue of Artemis' signed 'with compliments from John Leighton'. Card wrappers. In fair condition. 6 2x pamphlets titled 'The History of Writing' from The Ideal Home Exhibition Olympia 1934. In good condition. 7 Oxford Copy Books x2 unused. 8 Mermaid Society 1903 programme for a production of 'Comus'. Card wrappers bound by orange string to spine. Age worn leaves foxed overall in good condition. Unrecorded programme for a performance in Regent's Park which included Mrs Beerbohm Tree in the cast. 9 Der Zwiebelfisch x2 dated 1909. In good conditiom. 1 x Kultur des handwerks Dec 1926. 10 'Undescribed Copy Books in the Ekstrom Collection Svenska Skolmuseet Stockholm' by Carl Bjorkbom. Inscribed to front ' With compliments from the author'. Inlaid is a signed letter to Mr Heal from Carl Bjorkbom. 11 The Statue of Artemis Shrovetide Revels Art Workers' Guild 1919 inscribed 'With Compliments John Leighton' - Master of the Art Workers' Guild. 12 Catalogue of a Book Exhibition at the Central School LCC 1912 elaborately annotated by Heal to the rear. A further collection of pamphlets which include exhibitions members lists Imperial Arts League 1915 listing Heal's membership annual reports and catalogue lists for various societies and arts organisations. Please contact Christian White Rare Books Ltd for more information or images of this item 1900</p> Various hardcover
1825WRCAM56380Greenfield Ma 1825. 108pp. Publisher's advertisements on rear board. 16mo. Original printed paper-covered boards. Moderate staining to boards minor chipping to spine ends minor edge wear. Moderate scattered foxing. Very good and wholly unsophisticated. Untrimmed. The first American printing of the first American furniture finisher's manual reprinted from the original British edition by G.A. Siddons. "A new edition with considerable additions. Including an appendix containing several valuable tables." Clear and concise instructions are given for dying and staining woods making glue making and applying varnish polishing japanning cleaning woods and metals and much more. For example to make furniture oil "Take linseed oil put it in a glazed pipkin with as much alkanet root as it will cover; let it boil gently and you will find it become of a strong red color: let it cool and it will be fit for use." Six tables in the appendix provide assistance for figuring lengths and weights and an index follows. <br> <br> Western Massachusetts was obviously a place of great architectural and design innovation during the American Federal period as both the present title and Asher Benjamin's landmark architecture book THE COUNTRY BUILDER'S ASSISTANT. were printed in Greenfield. Not in AMERICAN IMPRINTS. Highly desirable and a landmark in American crafts. RINK 1793. hardcover books
1830315876Birmingham 1830. 163 engraved plates irregularly numbered 1 to 278. 1 vols. Oblong 4to 13 x 9 inches. Quarter brown leather and boards with the same printed index B-W on front and back pastedowns. worn. 163 engraved plates irregularly numbered 1 to 278. 1 vols. Oblong 4to 13 x 9 inches. Rare engraved early nineteenth century brassfounder's trade catalogue with the manufacturer's name given usually not noted in such a work. While the actual catalogue appears to be ca. 1820-1830 some of the actual copper plates would appear to have been engraved somewhat earlier ca. 1800-1810<br /> <br /> Plates present :<br /> 111 17 19 26 29 31 33 37. 39 41 47 59 65 66 74 75 7980 84 86 90 9899 101 102 105111 112 116 117 118 125 128 129 130 131 132 134 136 137 138 140 141 142 143 145 147 149 152 163-190 192-196 199-203 205-222 224 226 227 230 230A 231 232 234 235 240 241 242 242A 243-248 248A 249 250 253 254-265 267-278. unknown
1830315876Birmingham 1830. 163 engraved plates irregularly numbered 1 to 278. 1 vols. Oblong 4to 13 x 9 inches. Quarter brown leather and boards with the same printed index B-W on front and back pastedowns. worn. 163 engraved plates irregularly numbered 1 to 278. 1 vols. Oblong 4to 13 x 9 inches. Rare engraved early nineteenth century brassfounder's trade catalogue with the manufacturer's name given usually not noted in such a work. While the actual catalogue appears to be ca. 1820-1830 some of the actual copper plates would appear to have been engraved somewhat earlier ca. 1800-1810<br/><br/>Plates present :<br/>111 17 19 26 29 31 33 37. 39 41 47 59 65 66 74 75 7980 84 86 90 9899 101 102 105111 112 116 117 118 125 128 129 130 131 132 134 136 137 138 140 141 142 143 145 147 149 152 163-190 192-196 199-203 205-222 224 226 227 230 230A 231 232 234 235 240 241 242 242A 243-248 248A 249 250 253 254-265 267-278. unknown books
18903212Paris 1890. Oblong folio 395 x 260 mm. 135 drawings of ornate furniture in lead and watercolor highlighted in gum arabic on 104 leaves of heavy paper later pencil foliation including four mounted drawings on tinted paper and two smaller loose drawings one of the latter signed A. Archambaut del. both with notes of measurements and pattern or stock numbers the second with specifications of colors and material. No. 93 a bed apparently unfinished. Foxing and soiling to first and last leaves occasional light foxing elsewhere marginal soiling especially to first few leaves fol. 104 detached two drawings on fols. 15 and 25 with small abraded areas 5 other drawings with tiny abrasions or white flecks the rest of the drawings in fine condition. The drawings on guards bound in half shagreen and pebble-grained cloth rubbed spine gilt lettered “Album Meubles Fantaisies.â€<br /> <br /> A spectacular manuscript album of watercolor designs of colorfully decorated painted and inlaid furniture in Louis XV Louis XVI and Second Empire styles by a female artist and furniture designer.<br /> <br /> Depicted are commodes large and small tables desks cabinets wardrobes sideboards dressers armchairs mirrored stands stands holding manicure sets multi-drawered sécrétaires beds clocks and even bellows and brooms for the chimney. Most are highly ornate and include colorful painted or inlaid decoration meticulously rendered often in minute detail by the artist-designer. With their cabriole legs serpentine curves and lavish inlay and marquetry these delightful creations express to a sometimes impractical degree the late 19th-century vogue for Louis XV and Louis XVI-style furniture. <br /> <br /> The artist can be identified as Aline Anne Archambault née Carrausse 1847-1908 thanks to the one signed drawing  loosely inserted which matches stylistically those of the album. The only child of the Paris furniture designer Jean Marie Carrausse Archambault moved in artistic and artisanal circles: in 1877 she married Arthur Eugène Archambaut a graveur ciseleur or engraver of luxury metalwork; the four witnesses at their marriage were his uncle a sculptor; his cousin a printer; and two friends identified respectively as a printer and a furniture maker this information from Geneanet.org. The Victoria and Albert Museum holds six furniture drawings by her also signed with her first initial and last name and a few lithographs after her one of the drawings V&A accession number E.284-1952 has an additional printed signature “P. Levant Carrausse del.†clearly a member of her family. Since Aline was married and died in the 4th arrondissement in Paris it is likely that this album was created there. <br /> <br /> The title on the binding “Album of Furniture Fantasies†implies that at least some of the pieces were not intended to be built: they abound in bright colors and witty details such as the tree-branches wrapping around two basket stands fol. 17 or the wildly ornate bed with which the album ends. While the element of fantasy in these accomplished paintings is thus clear many probably did function as specimens of furniture that could be ordered from members of the artist’s entourage of furniture makers. This is evident from the two inserted drawings both of chests of drawers which have measurement notes and stock numbers. One has the inkstamped name “G. Cauvet†on the verso.<br /> <br /> The archival records indicate that Aline lost a daughter in infancy in 1877 when she was 30. She had no other children. The ebullient drawings in this album betray no hint of tragedy and it is tempting to view them as a work of youth before shadows arrived to dim the joy of creation.<br /> <br /> “The best known of the nineteenth-century revivals was that for Louis XV and Louis XVI furniture. The Louis XV revival intensified during the Second Empire when it departed so much from the 18th-c. prototype that it is best called `Rococo’.†H. Osborne ed. The Oxford Companion to the Decorative Arts 1988 p. 359 unknown