Decorative Arts

New York: Harry N. Abrams [0-8109-1642-8] 1982. (4to) 320pp. Fine in near fine dust jacket. 2320 illustrations, including 61 plates in full color and 1150 line drawings, notes, bibliography, index. "For eighty years Steuben Glass has represented the epitome of American crystal - internationally acclaimed, a gift of presidents, the treasured possession of generations of collectors.... In this lavishly illustrated book Mary Jean Madigan traces the fascinating history and manufacture of Steuben Glass, concentrating on the previously undocumented years since 1933 when Arthur Houghton set out to create 'the most perfect crystal the world has ever known.'". Book about Crystal. (Art, Art, Cut Glass, Decorative Art, Glassware, Steuben Glass).

Venice, Italy: Francesco Brunello , 1925. This is an about very good hardcover copy of a scarce trade catalog from the Venetian retailer, Francesco Brunello. The brown cloth leatherette covers are held together by cord. The back cover is mostly missing. The front cover has the company name and title in gilt script. Clean inside and out. Inside are 29 original photographs mounted to gray card stock leaves. All photographs bear a handstamp, either to the photograph or the margin of the leaf, with Francesco Brunello's name and adress in Venice. The first two photographs are different views of Brunello's showroom. The rest of the photographs are of individual pieces of furniture, in older Italian styles, very ornate, with elaborate veneer work and gilt mounts. Most photographs also have a tipped-on label of typed, or occasionally hand-written paper giving the model number and describing the piece, its' general style and materials. Most photographs with photographer information stamped on the… Read More

London: Privately Printed, 1936. This is an about very good hardcover copy in gray linen cloth covers with black leather spine labels printed in gilt. Some light soil to covers. This copy long ago released, as a duplicate, from a well known east coast decorative arts collection, and bearing a bookplate stamped 'duplicate' inside the front cover, and a small neat pocket inside the rear cover. Also a small date stamp to the table of contents page and a signature in a neat calligraphic script of the artist that previously owned the volume. This is the limited edition of 150 signed and numbered copies. This being copy # 145. There are 118 works catalogued and illustrated here in black & white. 12" high X 10" wide, unpaginated. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.. Signed by Author. Limited/Numbered 150 Copies.. Hard Cover. Very Good.

Paris: Chez Schemit, Libraire, 1928. This is a very good copy in cream paper-covered boards with a glassine protective jacket with some edgewear. Very clean inside, with some foxing to the endpapers. Text in French. This is volume 2 of the famous 3 volume survey of 13th to 19th century accessories including: beauty utensils and instruments, glasses and lorgnettes, clocks, tableware, combs and hairpieces, etc. Profusely illustrated in black & white photos. Folio size, 13" high X 10" wide, 389 pages. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.. limited edition of 1000 copies.. Original Wraps. Very Good.

Tacoma / Seattle: Museum of Glass / University of Washington Press, 2002. Signed by Jaroslava Brychtova on the half-title page. First edition / First printing. Black paper-covered boards. Very fine in very fine dust jacket.

Japan: Shikosha Publishing Co. Near Fine. 1984. First Edition. Soft Cover. 4879400122 . Clean soft pictorial covers. Text tight, clean & intact. Illustrated with color plates & B/W photographs. Textile catalogue. Japanese and English text. Antiques, Textile. ; Color Plates; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 252 pages .

NY: Clarkson Potter, 1997. First edition. Hard cover in original cloth and dust jacket. Published NY: Clarkson Potter, 1997, first printing. Folio, 9 1/2" x 11 1/2", xv+223pp., profusely illustrated with full color reproductions. Fine in fine dust jacket. . 1st. Hard. Fine/Fine. Folio.

Kodansha, Tokyo , 1968 Book. Good. Hardcover. Japanese text with table of contents, list of plates and captions of each plate also in english.; Hardcover (white vellum with gilt lettering on spine covered by the dust jacket. In slipcase); 36.3 x 26.3 cm, 2.100 Kg, 184 pages, with colour and black and white plates (each volume); Used books with signs of wear, namely on the slipcases. Some of the dust jacket spines are: slightly faded, chipped, show wrinkles and tears. The interior is in good condition. Each of the slip cases has a sticker with the volume number in the spine, which helps to identify the volume number when the books are in a shelf, as the volume number appears in the front cover.; This 1965-1971 edition set consists of 36 volumes showing illustrations of the main works of art, such as paintings, sculptures, ceramics, etc. from the following museums: Volume 1: Musée du Louvre (I of II); Volume 2: Musée du Louvre (II of II); Volume 3: British Museum (I of II); Volume 4:… Read More

New York: Abbeville Press, 2000. First edition / First printing. Black cloth. Very fine in a very fine dust jacket. Very slight rubbing to the back panel of the jacket. With 268 illustrations, 229 in full color.

Cappelen, 1999. Hardcover. Used- Fine condition. Book is clean and tight. Book shows very light shelf wear. No markings on the inside of the book. Photo is of the book we have here at Barbed Wire Books.

Day and Son. Lithographers to the Queen. London. Published April 2nd 1860. 1860. FIRST EDITION. 4to. (11.6 x 8.1 inches). Illustrated with a total of 102 fine full page Chromolithograhic plates; Half title, title page, 99 numbered plates - each with a tissue paper guard, and the colophon leaf. 104 pp of text, printed in black within decorative red borders. A fine copy in a beautiful designer binding by The Ashley Bindery, of Somerset. Stamped to the rear inner board- 19 AB 81. Full black morocco with multi colour design of two boxed lines in brown morocco across both boards and the spine, with tan, green and red design within each box. The spine is also lettered in gilt. Wood effect endpapers. All edges gilt. Housed in a felt lines chemise with the same wood effect paper on the boards and a black morocco spine, lettered in gilt and with one of the red designs onlaid between the title and authors. This then fits into a felt lined slip case covered with the wood effect paper. A fine and beautiful… Read More

(Pawtuxet Cove, RI): Dale Chihuly, 1982 Signed in pencil at the bottom of the front free end-paper by Dale Chihuly. First edition / First printing. Green cloth. Fine in a fine dust jacket. An exceptional copy with an early signature. Vellum sheet bound in before the title page with the exhibition schedule for 1982 show at Tucson Museum of Art, San Diego Museum of Art, and the St. Louis Art Museum. The first monograph on the artist, preceded only by by an exhibition catalogue for the Renwick Museum (1978).

Small Quarto (9 1/2 X 7 inches) London: Bernard Quaritch, 1890. First Edition. 101 + (1) pages, almost 50 lithographic plates (more than 35 printed with color), quarter leather binding over cloth boards, front cover embossed with title, author, and publisher in gilt; back cover similarly embossed in gilt with "Ye Pipes of all Nations A. D. Up to Date," and gilt bust of a soldier in cap and tunic in the form of a pipe bowl. Very good condition, minimal wear to spine; age toning in margins of plates, but not affecting images or contents.

A beautiful book: "A collection of national smoking practices and illustrations of smoking paraphernalia," with descriptive text.

Jorge Welsh Research & Publishing Book. New. Hardcover. 1st Edition. English text; VOLUMES I, II and III, 3 hardcover volumes in slipcase; 1204 pages; 927 colour illustrations, 20 black and white illustrations; 26 x 35.5 cm cm; 12 kg; ISBN: 9780955743238; Published by Jorge Welsh Books, 2011.; Limited edition of 900 numbered copies - 500 in English and 400 in Portuguese.; VOLUME IV: Hardcover in slipcase; 504 pages with 404 colour illustrations.; 26 x 35.5 cm; 4.7 kg; ISBN: 9780993506857, Jorge Welsh Research & Publishing, 2019.; Limited edition of 500 numbered copies.; VOLUME V: Hardcover in slipcase; 256 pages with 309 colour illustrations.; 26 x 35.5 cm; 2,9 kg; ISBN: 9781838216313; Limited edition of 400 numbered copies from I to XX and from 21 to 400.; VOLUME VI: Hardcover in slipcase; 392 pages; 312 colour illustrations; 26 x 35.5 cm; 4.1 kg; Limited Edition of 400 numbered copies from I to XX and from 21 to 400.; The RA Collection of Chinese Ceramics: A Collector's Vision is the… Read More

Stated first edition: August - 2008. Book and unclipped dj (no price indicated) are in 'like new' condition. There are no faults with the book. Other than a price sticker sticker on the back cover, the dj is also flawless.
A beautiful and important book of the exhibition of George Barbier, considered on of the fathers of the Art Deco movement.

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