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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
Keijser, Hans, Lars SjöbIn Pristine Condition. unknown
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1932BOOKS070108ILondon: M. Harris and Sons 1932. PB. good brown cloth spine hardcover edgewear SEE NOTE. B&W illustrations. IMAGES AVAILABLE -- ".LATE SIXTEENTH CENTURY TO EARLY NINETEENTH CENTURY PART III c1770 to c1840 . Including a Section showing French examples of earlier date and recent purchae of various periods." THIS VOLUME ONLY - Volume III of the three volume set. Brown cloth spine with paper covered boards - book block is a tad loose within the casing images available. This landmark catalogue has been used over the years by leading auction houses to establish provenance and/or supply information on various antiques. p315-p497. M. Harris and Sons unknown
189534162N Y: William Helburn. Good with no dust jacket. 1895. Hardcover. B&W Illustrations; Folio 13" - 23" tall; 3 55 plates pages; A collection of scale-drawings details and sketches of what is commonly known as colonial furniture. 12.25" x 17.25". Folio plates bound in. Drawings of various colonial types of furniture. 55 fulll page plates Publishers 3/4 brown morocco leather over broan cloth. Losses to leather at top and bottom of spine. Contents VG. . William Helburn hardcover
197029356New York: Praeger Publishers 1970. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 10.9x9.3x1.7in. reprint edition; light shelf wear light foxing to top edge of text block dust jacket darkened on spine lightly chipped at foot of spine several tiny edge tears at top and bottom edges of front and back panels. Dust jacket in clear protector. <br>With 158 plates. <br>33pp 3.82lb 10.9x9.3x1.7in Praeger Publishers hardcover
198823039Bracken Books 1988. Folio with a frontispiece and many hundreds of fine coloured and monochrome photographs a number full-page in the text; green cloth gilt back a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Excellent reissue of MacQuoid's standard reference. Bracken Books, hardcover
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
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
1396363866.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
19650006839Boston: Special Publications 1965. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. color plates. Quarto 105 pages pictorial brown cloth faded <br/><br/>The major study on these craftsmen. The Supplement vol. cites 73 additional pieces. Illustrated with color and b&w plates. Special Publications hardcover
191711828Framingham and Boston MA: Old America Company 1917. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good. 7.0x5.2x0.7in. with 4 extra plates at rear; light wear to tips ownership information in pencil on front endpaper. <br>192pp 0.75lb 7.0x5.2x0.7in Old America Company hardcover
1905002413Chicago: A. J. Johnson & Sons Furniture Company 1905. First Edition. Very good. Trade catalog n. d. ca 1905; oblong folio 18 1/4 x 13; pp. 58 recto only; textured olive wraps 1/4 cloth and large rivets as published; a small cut to cloth on spine; wraps with a few spots to margins and nicks and cuts along edges of paper; faint vertical crease; numerous sepia-tone illustrations; very good condition. A beautiful lavish trade catalog for the A. J. Johnson & Sons Furniture Company - established in 1869 and known for manufacturing luxury furniture. Each page featured an entire suite ie. beds bureau chifforette vanity foot stool etc. the materials the pieces were made of Mahogany Walnut the style of the furniture Queen Anne Hepplewhite William and Mary and the dimensions. A. J. Johnson & Sons Furniture Company hardcover
1984BOOKS073822IMarlborough Wiltshire UK: The Crowood Press 1984. HC. good w/good dustjacket hardcover. B&W and color illustrations. ISBN 0946284504 200pp. The Crowood Press unknown
0265282918.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
1391821599.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
1391821696.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
1995007115Munich New York:: Prestel 1995. A clean tight copy. Sharp corners. Inner hinges are perfect. The Dust Jacket is bright and shiny with just a little rubbing/fraying to the corners and spine ends. No owner's name or bookplate. No remainder mark. Pages are fresh crisp and unmarked. English translation of AFRIKANISCHE SITZE with essays by Ezio Bassani Hans Himmelheber Lorenz Homberger Piet Meyer Andrea Knecht Oti-Amoako and Roy Sieber. Handsomely illustrated with 414 photos by Heini Schneebeli including 123 beautiful full-color plates. Bound in the original dark brown cloth. From the Dust Jacket: "The first general survey of the vanishing seating culture of sub-Saharan Africa. Drawing on over 170 examples this book offers a survey of the seats of sub-Saharan Africa an integral part of a traditional culture that is already disappearing. The various essays by noted ethnologists address the cultural histories and aesthetics of African seats and other objects as well as their regional characteristics. In addition there is a wealth of photographic evidence documenting the use of seats and their original contexts both past and present.". First Edition in English. Oversize Hardcover. Fine condition./Very Good dust jacket. Illus. by Schneebeli Heini photographs. 200pp. Prestel Hardcover
