ALBERTOLLI, Giocondo.

Alcune decorazioni di nobili sale ed altri ornamenti [with] Ornamenti diversi...incisi da Giacomo Mercoli.

Milan. 1787 & 1782. Folio. 2 works in one vol. Engraved title leaf, engraved dedication, one leaf printed text & 23 engraved plates; engraved title, engraved dedication & 24 engraved plates on 22 sheets. Modern calf-backed marbled boards, spine elaborately gilt in six compartments.

The first work consists of large engravings of designs by Albertolli (1742-1839) for interior ... (more)

£4,500

ref: 20667

ALCOUFFE, Daniel, Anne Dion-Tenenbaum & Gérard Mabille.

Les bronzes d'ameublement du Louvre.

Dijon. Faton. 2004. 4to. pp. 322. Colour plates throughout. Cloth, dust jacket, slipcase.

164 examples from the collection illustrated in colour and catalogued with historical and descriptive entries.

£140

ref: 37379

BOUCHARDON, Edme.

Premier (Second) livre de vases.

Paris. Huquier. (c.1735). Folio. 24 etched plates including two titles, in two suites lettered A ... (more)

Series of urns (etched by G. Huquier) of relatively simple basic shape usually with one complex ... (more)

£2,250

ref: 19501

BRANGWYN.

A large collection of original watercolours, drawings, sketches and notes by Frank Brangwyn; with many relating to the Pollard exhibition of 1930, the decoration of Temple Lodge, Hammersmith, and work at Ilkley School; as well as numerous furniture and assorted designs.

c.1930.

One of the most important groups of drawings in this major collection are Brangwyn's designs for the ... (more)

£36,000

ref: 19668

COLLINOT, E. & BEAUMONT, A de.

Encyclopedie des Arts Decoratifs de L'Orient. Recueil de Dessins pour l'Art et L'Industrie. Ornements Venetiens, Hindous, Russes, etc.

Paris. Canson. 1883. Large folio. pp. (viii). With 40 lithograph plates (the majority chromolithographs). Recently re-bound in cloth-backed marbled boards.

Ex-libary copy, with blind-stamp on title page and in margin of single plate. Slight stain affecting the final few plates, otherwise a fine copy. Limited to 500 numbered copies.

£750

ref: 38480

DAY. Hansen, Joan Maria.

Lewis Foreman Day (1845-1910) Ubity in Design and Industry.

Woodbridge. Antique Collectors' Club. 2007. 28 x 23cm. pp. 320. Illustrated throughout in colour and black & white. Hardback in dust jacket. New.

£20

ref: 37917

GARNIER-PELLE, Nicole: Forray-Carlier, Anne; Anselm, Marie-Christine.

Singeries & Exotisme chez Christophe Huet.

Saint-Rémy-en-l'Eau. Éitions Monelle Hayot. 2010. 27.5 x 21 cm. pp. 176. Colour illustrations throughout. Hardback in dust jacket.

£45

ref: 37380

GRUNER, L.

Specimens of Ornamental Art selected from the best models of the classical epochs. Descriptive text by Emil Braun.

London. Thomas McLean. 1850. 2 vols. Large folio & 4to. iv, 36, 8; v. 80 plates and 8 plates in text volume. Nineteenth-century red half-morocco, marbled boards, a.e.g.

One of the most ambitious of the early chromolithographic books. It was commissioned by the ... (more)

£4,500

ref: 33327

JONES, Owen

Grammar of Ornament

London. Day and Son. 1856. Large folio. pp. 158. 100 chromolithographics plates Ex library ... (more)

£3,500

ref: 39392

MAUDER.

Ornamente von Bruno Mauder.

Plauen. Christian Stoll. nd. ca. 1905. Folio. Decorative title page and 16 plates printed in 2 and three colours. Loose as issued in publisher's cloth-backed portfolio.

While the designs (usually 3 or 4 to a plate) show Jugendstil tendencies, the motifs are interpreted ... (more)

£1,250

ref: 38753

MAW & CO. PATTERN BOOK.

Pattern Book for Geometrical and Roman Mosaics Encaustic Tile Pavements and Enamelled Wall Decorations.

London. Maw & Co. (Later than 1850). Folio. pp. 4. Illustrated with 30 colour chromolithographs printed recto only and one monochrome plate, each with the blindstamp of Simpson & Sons. Nineteenth century maroon cloth preserving original printed front wrapper mounted to upper board.

A striking pattern book produced by Maw & Co. for W. B. Simpson & Sons (their London agent) to ... (more)

£900

ref: 30265

PREISS. Shayo, Alberto.

Ferdinand Preiss. Art Deco Sculptor. The fire and the flame.

Woodbridge. Antique Collectors' Club. 2005. 31 x 24cm. pp. 192. Colour plates throughout, documentary photographs in black & white. Hardback in dust jacket. New.

£24

ref: 37920

PREISS. Shayo, Alberto.

Ferdinand Preiss. Art Deco Sculptor. The fire and the flame.

Woodbridge. Antique Collectors' Club. 2005. 31 x 24cm. pp. 192. Colour plates throughout, documentary photographs in black & white. Hardback in dust jacket. New.

£24

ref: 37921

SABANÉEFF & WYLIÉ.

Objets d'Art Decoratif Recueillis dans les Palais Impériaux, Eglises et Collections en Russie.

St. Petersburg. Expédition pour la Confection des Papiers d'État. 1901 - 1908. 13 parts. Folio ... (more)

A fine collection of colour plates - in the original parts - depicting objects from Russian ... (more)

£30,000

ref: 30251

THURN & TAXIS SALE CATALOGUE.

Die Fürstliche Sammlung Thurn und Taxis.

Regensburg. Sotheby's. 1993. 7 vols. Colour illustrations throughout. Wrappers. The set house in the publisher's slipcase.

The catalogue is in German with brief Englih note for each lot. I: Möbel & Dekorationen. Furniture ... (more)

£25

ref: 33551

TIFFANY. De Kay, Chares.

The Art Work of Louis C. Tiffany.

New York. Doubleday, Page & Co. 1914. 4to. pp. xxxii, 91. Illustrated with tipped-in colour ... (more)

From the edition limited to 502 copies, with this one of 492 copies on Japan paper, with a ... (more)

£3,500

ref: 39859

ZANDRE.

La Peinture Decorative par Guillaume Zandre. 30 Planches

n.p. nd. ca 1900 Folio. Title leaf and 30 tipped-in colour plates. (One double plate counted as 2).

Unbound, as issued, in publisher's portfolio. Elaborate decorative schemes for panels, ceilings ... (more)

£400

ref: 38729