Design & the decorative arts : Britain 1500-1900 / Michael Snodin and John Styles

London : V&A Publications, 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth title-blocked copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description : xiv, 488 p : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.), ports. (chiefly col.) ; 30 cm. Notes : Editors and principal authors: Michael Snodin and John Styles; contributors: Malcolm Baker, Julia Bigham, Christopher Breward, Clare Browne, Jim Cheshire, Helen Clifford, Frances Collard, Ann Eatwell, Suzanne Fagence Cooper, Paul Greenhalgh, Mark Haworth-Booth, Robin Hildyard, Laura Houliston, Maurice Howard, Nick Humphrey, Rachel Kennedy, Karen Livingstone, Elizabeth Miller, Tessa Murdoch, Kate Newnham, Susan North, Linda Parry, Sara Pennell, Michael Snodin, John Styles, Rowan Watson, Dinah Winch, Hilary Young. ""the publication celebrates the opening of the Museum's new British Galleries 1500-1900. It draws on the V&A's unequalled resources for the study of design and the decorative arts""--dust-jacket front flap. ""This book was written and put together mainly in the Research Department at the V&A""--p. xii. Foreword by Christopher Wilk. Black paper boards, col. ills. on dust-jacket, burgundy-coloured end-papers; paperback (29 cm.) with col. ills. on wrappers. Designed by Janet James. Originated by Bright Arts (HK) Ltd. Printed and bound in Italy.""New photography of V&A objects illustrated in this publication has been produced by the photographers of the V&A Museum Photographic Studio""--p.472. Includes bibliographical references (p. 466-467) and index. Contents : Tudor and Stuart Britain, 1500-1714 -- Georgian Britain, 1714-1837 -- Victorian Britain, 1837-1901 -- Chronologies of events and publications. Subject : Victoria and Albert Museum ; Catalogs. Victoria and Albert Museum. British Galleries (2001-). Victoria and Albert Museum ; Catalogs. Victoria and Albert Museum (London) (Perm.)Decorative arts Great Britain History. Design Great Britain History.