A History of English Wallpaper 1509-1914 by Sugden, Alan Victor & John Ludlam Edmondson - 1925

B. T. Batsford Ltd, London, 1925. Book Hardcover. Very Good. Blue cloth with embossed gilt titling. 279pp. 70 plates and 190 illustrations in half-tone. Spine faded and shelf-worn, corners bumped. This is an ex-library copy from Ipswich and small unobtrusive stamps appear throughout the book. Attractive library book plate inside front cover.This is a very heavy book and will incur extra overseas postage.

B T Batsford, London 1925. 34.0 x 26.0cms, 282pp, 70 tipped-in colour plates & 190 half-tone illusts, very good hardback (No dustwrapper as issued; foxed text pages) The chapters are: wallpaper's ancestry; early wallpapers; 18th century developments; famous pioneers; Chinese papers & English imitators; late Georgian achievements; the coming of machinery; how wallpaper 'found' itslef; the coming of William Morris; developments in taste & technique; mill records; raised materials for relief decorations.

New York & London: Charles Scribner's Sons / B.T. Batsford Ltd, 1925. First edition. Hardcover. 281 pages. Text by Alan Victor Sugden and John Ludlam Edmondson. Includes 70 tipped in color plates along with 190 half-tone illustrations. An about very good copy in blue cloth boards that have some wear, some sunning to the spine, with the remnants of a label there as well, some edge wear to the spine ends corners and some other minor wear as well. Internally a clean copy. No dust jacket. This is a heavy and oversized book and will require extra shipping.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1925. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near fine. Hardcover with gilt stamped blue cloth boards in dust jacket and original clamshell slipcase, 1925 (date from end of foreword), quarto, 281pp., illustrated with 70 tipped in color plates and 190 illustrations in half-tone. Book near fine with handsome and bright cloth boards, binding tight, text clean and unmarked with foxing throughout, with handsome gilt to top edge of text block. DJ near fine with mild edgewear, in protective mylar wrap. Clamshell case VG with toning, some scuffs and chips to paper, shelf wear. THIS LARGE, HEAVY BOOK WILL REQUIRE ADDITIONAL SHIPPING FEES.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1926. Hardcover. VG. Blue cloth boards with gilt ruling, design and lettering on front cover and spine, top edge gilt with others uncut, tipped in color illustrated frontispiece, XIII, 281 pp , 70 tipped in color plates, 190 bw plates. List of illustrations and extensive index. Excerpt from foreword; "The pages, then, that follow are intended chiefly as a tribute to the pioneers whose work, whether in an artistic, a mechanical, or any other capacity, ladi the foundatins of the very important art-industy of manufacturing paper-hangings which has been built up in this country. The scope of the book is as comprehensive as it has been practicable to make it. Beginning with the first crude attempts to use paper bearing a design or picture as a form of decoration in substitution for the costly gilt embossed leathers and figured textiles of the period, the development in technical and artistic achievement is traced down to the year 1914.

London: B. T. Batsford, 1925. First trade edition. Fine in near fine dust jacket with a few short closed tears in complete but worn publisher's clamshell slipcase with tape repairs to corner seams and partially broken long seams.. Blue cloth titled and decoratively stamped in gilt.