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BRIDGEWATER, ALAN / BRIDGEWATER, GILL: The Craft of Wood Carving.
David and Charles. 1981
Size 6.75 x 10.0 inches. In dark brown cloth covers with gilr to spine. With illustrated dustwrapper. 159pp. With b/w photographs, line drawings and diagrams. In very good condition with very good dustwrapper (dw; spine slightly faded. Covers part faded. Not price clipped). A clean and tight copy. A step-by-step guide to wood carving and an exploration of carving traditions and styles.
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9.00 GBP
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COMINO, MARY: Gimson and the Barnsleys. ‘Wonderful furniture of a commonplace kind’
Evans Brothers Limited. London. 1980 1st edition.
Size 76.5 x 10.0 inches. In light brown cloth covers with gilt to spine. With illustrated dustwrapper. 224pp. With b/w photographs. In very good condition with very good dustwrapper (dw; slightly creased along top edge. Not price clipped). Mild foxing to endpapers. Owner’s bookplate to front endpaper. Else a clean and tight copy. The story of Edward Gimson and the Barnsley brothers who were part of the Cotswold Art and Crafts movement. With illustrations of their furniture and buildings.
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12.00 GBP
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de DILLMONT, THERESE: Encyclopaedia of Needlework. New edition, revised and enlarged. D.M.C. Library.
Editions de Dillmont. Mulhouse, France. n.d. ca 1920.
Size 3.5 x 5.5 inches. In green cloth covers with black lettering and bamboo design to spine and front. Patterned endpapers. 825pp. With colour plates, b/w photographs and illustrations with line drawings in text. In very good condition. Spine slightly faded. Small marks to front. Mild foxing to edges. Owners’ inscriptions to half title and first blank page. Slight browning throughout. Colour plates clean and bright. Else a clean and tight copy. Comprehensive guide to needlework. Includes tapestry, knitting, crochet, applique, embroidery, macrame, lace.
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14.00 GBP
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DIXON,MARGARET: The Wool Book.
Hamlyn 1979 (1st.).
Tall 8vo. Beige cloth gt. Num.col.& b/w ills.; 140 pp. Very good in very good dustwrapper. An introduction to the art of spinning, and an account of the subject of wool and its value and use today.
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5.00 GBP
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ELLIS, CHRIS: The Scale Modeller’s Handbook.
Hamlyn. London. 1979 1st edition.
Size 7.5 x 10.5 inches. In red cloth covers with gilt to spine. With illustrated dustwrapper. Red endpapers. 207pp. With b/w and colour photographs and illustrations. In very good condition with very good dustwrapper (dw; Price clipped). A clean and tight copy. A guide to scale modelling from the simplest plastic kit to the most sophisticated displays. For beginners to the most experienced modellers.
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12.00 GBP
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Emily G Jones A Manual of Plain Needlework and Cutting-Out
London: Joseph Hughes. 1885
4th Edition Size 8vo,Volume II, Bound in original cloth boards, Folding plates, pp 112 plus 32 pp grid paper. Rubbing to edges, with corners bumped, plus a few marks to covers, Most of frontis folding plate missing. Inside some foxing, a few of grid pages at rear have work drawn on.
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GEDDES, ELISABETH: Design for Flower Embroidery.
Mills and Boon. London. 1961 1st edition.
4to. In dark blue cloth covers with gilt to spine. With illustrated dustwrapper. 103pp. With colour frontis, b/w line drawings and photographs. In near fine condition with very good dustwrapper (dw; Small chips at top of spine and back fore edge. Not price clipped). A very clean and tight copy. This book is a plea for better design with some suggestions as to how this may be achieved.
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10.00 GBP
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HORNE, JONATHAN: English Tinglazed Tiles.
Jonathan Horne. 1989 1st edition.
Size 9.25 x 12.25 inches. In blue cloth covers with gilt to spine. With illustrated dustwrapper. Pink endpapers. 136pp. With colour and b/w photo illustrations. In very good condition with very good dustwrapper (dw; very slightly creased at edges. slightly bumped at top end of spine. Not price clipped). A very clean and tight copy. The author gives brief histories of the places which produced tiles mainly in the 18th century. This is followed by a short guide to identification. The bulk of the book has illustrations, many in colour, with explanatory captions.
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45.00 GBP
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LAMBOURNE, LIONEL: Utopian Craftsmen. The Arts and Crafts Movement from the Cotswolds to Chicago.
Astragal Books: London. 1980 1st edition.
Size 7.5 x 9.75 inches. In dark green cloth covers with gilt to spine. With illustrated dustwrapper. 218pp. With colour plates and b/w photographs. In very good condition with very good dustwrapper (dw; spine faded. Not price clipped). Owner’s bookplate to front endpaper. Else a clean and tight copy. The author describes the ideals that led craftsmen to leave the the cities for the Cotswolds to practice their crafts and who made craft respectable counterbalancing the industrialisation and mass production of the 19th century.
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10.00 GBP
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PARKER, FREDA: Victorian Embroidery.
Anaya Publishers Ltd. London 1990 1st edition.
4to. In red cloth covers with gilt to spine. With illustrated dustwrapper. Decorated endpapers. 128pp. With colour photographs and examples throughout. In near fine condition with very good dustwrapper (dw; edges slightly creased. Not price clipped). Else a clean and tight copy. Victorian Embroidery is a magnificent book that evokes a by-gone, gracious age when gentlewomen plied their needles in the pursuit of excellence in needlework and the creation of beauty.
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14.00 GBP
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