Search Results: Decorative Art from Royoung bookseller, Inc.

Vienna: Munk, 1911. First edition. Stiff Wraps. Orig. cream decorated stiff wrappers. Very good. 24 unnumbered pages. 31 x 26 cm. Twelve Jugendstil full page color designs by the brother-in-laws, Heinrich Lefler and Josef Urban, each plate surrounded by wide decorative borders of flowers, animals, crests and other motifs relating to the image -- enhanced by platinum gray and gilt colors, each border in different designs. Front cover and title page are also gilt decorated with latter a chromolithograph heightened in gold. Text in German. Repair to front cover upper corner head, interior contents clean, bookplate.

New York: Rizzoli, 1986. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. two-toned cloth. Fine in fine dust wrapper. 190 pages. 28 x 22 cm. More than 300 photographs in color an black and white. To endow and enhance architectural space with form, color and pattern is the raison d'etre of architectural decoration.

London: Century House, 1925. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. navy cloth lettered and decorated in gilt, beveled edges. Teg. Near fine in worn dust wrapper. 136 pages. 30 x 24 cm. More than 100 black and white illustrations and three in color. Foreword by Henry Farnham Burke. Limited edition, copy 729 of 1000. Index. Contents bright and fresh, slight toning to fore-edges.

New York: Clarkson Potter, 1997. First edition. Boards. Orig. patterned white boards. Fine in fine dust wrapper. 246 pages. 30 x 23 cm. Profusion of color photographs Index.

New York: Coward-McCann, 1966. 1st American edition. Hardcover. Orig. navy cloth. Very good. 112 pages. 25 x 19 cm. Drawings by the author. Introduction by Robert Keith Middlemans. Index. Backstrip sunned.

Seattle & London: University of Washington Press, 1988. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. white patterned cloth. Fine in fine dust wrapper. Unpaginated. 34 x 26 cm. Seventy five plates, most are full page and in color with extensive descriptions for each. Selected Bibliography and Index of Chinese names and terms.

London: Jones & Co, 1826. First edition. leather_bound. Contemporary sheep rebacked, portions of original spine laid-down, red leather spine label. Very good. 217 pages in text. 27 x 20 cm. 152 plates, colored frontispiece, additional pictorial title page, and thirty-six hand-colored plates, plus 115 plain. Index. Some plates bound out of order, number of leaves remargined, plate offsetting, and scattered light foxing throughout. Comprehensive review of Regency household furniture and interior decoration with elegantly colored examples. With the usual misnumbering of plates, examples being XXXIV, LII & CXL. Moderate foxing and dust smudging, toning mostly marginal. ABBEY LIFE 73.

London: Paul Hamlyn, 1969. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. black cloth. Very good in frayed and chipped dust wrapper. 57 pages. 28 x 20 cm. 74 color plates.

New York: Walker, 1960. Hardcover. Orig. navy cloth. Very good in chipped dust wrapper. 64 pages. Illustrated. Marks.

New York: Pitman, 1974. First American edition. Hardcover. Orig. blue cloth. Near fine in very good dust wrapper. 256 pages. 24 x 18 cm. 361 black and white photographs, eight plates in color. Bibliography. Index. This is the first work in English dealing exhaustively with Chinese export porcelain.

London: Cassell, 1963. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. maroon cloth. Fine in slightly chipped dust wrapper. 135 pages. 4to, profusely illustrated in black and white and in color from contemporary sources, and reproduced from authentic documents. The author traces the history of fashion from primitive times to the present, and presents answers to the question: what is fashion?

NY: Hirschl & Adler Galleries, 1990. First edition. Paperback. Orig. illustrated stiff wrappers. Near fine.. 112 pages. 27 x 23 cm. Illustrated in color and black and white.

London: B.T. Batsford, 1933. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. vellum spine and green cloth. Very good. Unpaginated, approx. 240 pages.Folio, 35 x 27 cm. 256 black and white illustrations. Introduction by J. Starkie Gardner. Covers furniture, metals, enamel, glass, tapestries, needlework, bindings, et al.

New Orleans: New Orleans Museum of Art, 1997. First edition. Paperback. Orig. illustrated stiff wrappers. Fine. 48 pages. 10 x 8 1/2". Host of color plates.

Stuttgart: Julius Hoffmann, 1911. Second edition. Hardcover. Orig. green cloth with front cover black morocco label lettered in gilt. Very good. 201 pages. 29 x 22 cm. Profusely illustrated: black and white photographs cover four broad periods -- William & Mary, Queen Anne, Chippendale, Adam, Hepplewhite and Sheration. Two spots front cover else clean inside and out. Backstrip reinforced with binding tape.

London: Adam & Charles Black, 1952. Fourth edition. Hardcover. Orig. navy cloth. Very good in worn dust wrapper.. 271 pages. 22 x 14 cm. Seventy-two photographs, twelve drawings and thirty marks. Bibliography. Index.

Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1961. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. ruby cloth. Very good in very good dust wrapper. 240 pages. Illustrated. Marks. Abundantly illustrated in black and white; three maps. Bibliography. Index.

London: Ernest Benn, 1965. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. black cloth. Very good in slightly nicked dust wrapper. 183 pages. 27 x 21 cm. 180 photographs, twelve in color. Bibliography. Index. General survey.

London: Faber and Faber, 1972. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. ruby cloth. Fine in near fine dust wrapper. 180 pages in text. 25 1/2 x 19 cm. 225 plates and 22 text figures. Glossary. Index. The author, a curator at the Victoria and Albert Museum presents a comprehensive guide to English furniture from medieval to modern times.

Paris: H. Ernst, 1920. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. cloth and board portfolio with ties. Very good. 4 pages in text. 22 x 17 cm. Folio, a total of forty-eight plates loose as issued -- thirty-six in color, many with multiple images per plate, and twelve in black and white. Vivid and nuanced color reproductions. Backstrip extremities chipped.