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Hardcover. Zustand: Good. New Edition. 205pp, neat inscription to front pastedown, decorative boards are heavily rubbed especially to spine but internally sound with fold out illustration to front and numerous illustrations throughout text plus some fascinating adverts. Nice piece of social history. Heavy book, will require additional postage outside the UK.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Very good condition. Clean text without highlighting or underlining. Tight spine. Light wear to the exterior with some fading to the spine.

First edition in publisher's original colour illustrated card wrap covers (soft back). 4to. 11½'' x 9''. Contains full-page colour plates, French text. In Very Good condition, no dust wrapper as issued. Member of the P.B.F.A. ART [French].

Modern Half Calf. Zustand: Very Good. New Edition. With fresh matter for this edition, nearly 100 engravings, and the folding frontispiece of a drawing room. Attractive modern binding.

, xvi (including a tipped in colour frontispiece), pages 1 - 42 with 17 tipped in colour plates and 3 in black and white, pages 43 - 235 being lists of pedigrees and the races won by various horses, with black and white designs and illustrations throughout, this compilation is a commemoration of General W. Hall Walker's gift to the government of his stud, this edition is limited to 300 copies First Edition limited to 300 copies , minor foxing in places, especially front and rear preliminary pages, page edges often untrimmed and with slight foxing, illustrations bright and vibrant, an excellent copy in very good condition , blue cloth, gilt decoration and titles on front and spine , 35.5 x 27 cms Hardback ISBN:

First edition thus Endre Szász illustrated hard back binding in publisher's original blue paper covered boards, gilt title lettering and line illustration to the spine and to the front cover. 8vo. 9½'' x 6¼''. Printed on French-folded pages joined in tandem. Hungarian Rubáiyát over unnumbered pages carrying the 102 quatrains of Edward FitzGerald's version enriched with a single fine illustration to each by Endre Szász, followed by xxi pp. Fine condition book, in Fine condition dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. ISBN 9632088484 Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám.

Octavo / Quarto / Folio. Hardcover Folder with loosely inserted material like letters and photographs, envelopes, signed and inscribed books and rare pamphlets with designs etc. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Fantstic Archive and lots of unpublished material of one of the more eminent Cabinet, Furniture and Chair - Designers which resulted from inspiration by William Morris' Kelmscott - School. Percy A. Wells Chairs are still in regular demand today and sell for stunning prices (3000 £ etc.). Please see here a detailed description of the Archive, which we display with permission of the composer of the Bibliography, Dr.Christian White from Christian White Rare Books and which we have embellished only by listing everything in more detail: Percy A. Wells [with] May Morris; Ambrose Heal etc. The Batsford-published author and arts and crafts designer Percy Wells's retained collection of drawings, a notebook, letters, photographs, and articles. Wells (1867-1956), a cabinet maker and disciple of William Morris, lectured, taught and wrote extensively during the later phase of the Arts and Crafts movement in Britain. His typescript autobiography is included in the archive which follows him through an apprenticeship in London's City Road with early practice as a cabinet maker before working alongside William Lethaby at the Central School and subsequently leading the cabinet department at the Shoreditch Technical Institution in London. His two most significant works, both published by Batsford, were "Modern Cabinet Work" (1909) which brought him to a wider audience and "Furniture for Small Houses" (1924) but as revealed by this archive, his work went much wider. Included in the archive is the following material: I. PHOTOGRAPHS A fantastic collection of gelatin photographs of furniture, many used as illustrations in Wells' books and labelled as such to verso. Contained within an envelope labelled in a later hand: 'Furniture designed by Percy Wells. (Including Shoreditch).' Small sheaf of personal photographs including images of Wells in old age gardening in Dulwich. Two photographs of a house exterior project in New Barnet, with Wells' handwritten explanations overleaf of 'treatment of Wall with trellis and boxes' and additional larger furniture photographs. 60 (sixty) silver gelatine photographs of Furniture designed by Percy A. Wells, many with his signature or monogram and titled verso 1 (one) silver gelatine print of a Livingroom setting with Furniture by Percy A. Wells (Photograph by Monger and Marchant) 1 (one) silver gelatine print of a Bedroom setting with Furniture by Percy A. Wells (Photograph by Monger and Marchant) 2 (two vintage Albumen print photographs showing a courtyard - design by Percy A. Wells: a. Concrete Yard with border of flowers and Trellis of Flowers and Shelter designed by Percy A. Wells (Annotated and signed verso) b. Yard - with Treatment of Wall with trellis and Boxes and Outdoor Shelter designed by Percy A. Wells (Annotated and signed verso) 4 (four) wonderful silver gelatine portrait photographs of Percy A. Wells 3 (three) negatives of vintage photographs showing cupboards and one chair designed by Percy A. Wells 1 (one) fantastic Group Photo of British Furniture Makers, signed by most of those depicted, showing C.C.Beetles and others II. PERCY WELLS' TYPESCRIPT AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Containing 22-page (A4) Typescript Autobiography titled 'Fifty Years in the Furniture Trade' by Percy Wells, 1934 (according to a handwritten note by Wells, it was published on three instalments inside the publication: "The Cabinet Maker" (in the year 1934). The short autobiography describes Wells' poor background, his apprenticeship in the City Road as a cabinet maker; mentored by Stephen Webb and W. R. Lethaby and then teaching-work at Central School and Shoreditch Technical Institute. The Typescript - Autobiography is included in a Folder (Numbered "9") which also includes: a. Typescript Autobiography b. Page from "The Cabinet Maker", June 11th, 1933 in which it is announced that Percy Wells has retired from his position as head of the department of cabinet-making at L.C.C. Shoreditch Technical Institute. A photograph shows a Chair and writing - desk, made and presented to Percy Wells by night students of the Institute (Photo by Bloomsbury Trade School). "The Writing Desk is veneered with Walnut.the whole of the front pigeon-holes in fine Cuba Mahogany.Students responsible under their instructors for various features [of the desk]: Abbott, Beetles, Nash and Starling conytributed the carcase and veneered work; Elder the interior fitment; Hilliard and Wheeler the carving, Marritt the chair frame and Miller the Upholstery.". c. Account in local paper (Shoreditch) of Percy Wells' retirement in December 1932 d. Personal Note with photograph of Wells, mentioning his authorship for Pamphlets for the National Association of Boys Clubs. III. PERCY WELLS' SKETCHBOOK c1900-1920: Small quarto, c. 200 pages, bound in quarter-roan over textured black boards; back strip largely missing; binding remains intact. Inscribed in ink to first blank 'Percy A Wells' with pencil addition '31 Hindmans Rd East Dulwich SE'. Starting with the endpapers Wells has used almost every page for drawings, some vignette sized, many full page. There are for example variations on William Morris titled in handwriting: 'Border Designs - Corners from W. Morris's Books, a series of heraldic shield-fillings, credited to William Morris and a full page attempt at what seems to be a graphic tribute to Morris with the names of 'Dante Rossetti', 'Madox Brown', 'Burne Jones' contained within a column in the right margin and the slogan 'ARTS - CRAFTS - POETRY - BEAUTY - BROTHERHOOD' at the foot of the page. Much of the sketchbook is dedicated to drawings for furniture and other design such as tiles, architectural details, often connected to Wells' emergent book projects, thus 'Fences and Gates. Screens Chapt ?' There are s.