Oblong Creative Ltd Wetherby (8 results)

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

HARD BACK. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. First Edition. 195pp. 261 colour & b&w illustrations. The definitive work on the subject.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. This is a fine new copy of this splendid and well produced volume. In dust-wrapper that has a minor manufacturing crease in the laminate. 364pp illustrated throughout in colour. "Toys " were expensive luxuries such as gold snuffboxes, buckles, watches, canes, and porcelain. Toyshops also sold children's playthings, theatre tickets, elixirs and scientific instruments and much more. Paul Bertrand was born in America of Huguenot parents. He worked in London as a goldsmith until his second marriage linked him to the family of England's most successful toyshop owners, and took him to Bath. With over 230 illustrations and 364 pages, this hardback book takes a fresh approach to the history of retailing and of Bath. Through the topography and society of Bath and London in the early eighteenth century, and through Bertrand's newly-discovered bank account, it reveals how shopkeepers, craftsmen and merchants rubbed shoulders with actors and lawyers, courtiers and soldiers. Bertrand's customers included royalty, the 'middling sort', country dwellers and townsfolk. The book is about commerce, about people, about the objects that were part of their daily lives, and the development of a fashionable resort. Whereas many books on retailing, and books on Bath, focus on the last decades of the eighteenth century due to the availability of material, this book is about the first half of the century. The newly discovered bank account of this luxury shopkeeper is an important addition to the handful of known business archives relating to retailers of the period. It reveals the names of nearly 900 people of all social levels and over 100 trades and occupations. Paul Bertrand was at the centre of Bath life, not only because of his toyshop but also through the assembly rooms and carrier's business of his partners. Illustrations include portraits, landscapes, maps, the paperwork on which banking and businesses depended, and the stock of a toyshop. The book will appeal to all those with an interest in the eighteenth century and the central role of trade and luxury goods.…

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Not Applicable. 1st Edition. Glossy card covers, pp.xxxii, 285. Illustrated. A guide to arts and crafts movement sites and pieces laid out by county, with map references and directions, a comprehensive who`s who of practitioners, and an extensive bibliography. Signed by both writers with best wishes on half title page. Fire copy. Uncommon. Signed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 25x17.5cm. First edition. pp182(2) with numerous illustrations including a number in colour, references, chronology, catalogue, and index of print titles. Black boards, backstrip titled in gilt. Fine copy in Fine unclipped dust jacket.…

Hardcover. First edition. 29 x 21.5 cm. Quarto. 536pp. Photographs, plans, drawings., index, bibliography Grey cloth in dust jacket. Very light yellowing to page edges and jacket flaps. From the jacket: "The "Full relation" of the Oratory House in Rome was written down by Father Virgilio Spada but the voice is that of its chief architect, the brilliant Italian-Swiss Francesco Borromini (1599-1667). It was published only in 1725; this fully illustrated first English edition makes accessible in translation a unique and fascinating story of the architect's aesthetic and technical problems in taking over a project already under way, and his solutions - a tale indeed to hold "children from play, and old men from the chimney corner." Borromini now stands as one of the greatest artists of the Italian Baroque. The Companion draws on both previous and new research to place the Oratory building and its architect in context - historical, architectural, biographical and topographical. It leaves no doubt that Borromini was not mad, irrational or eccentric, accusations laid even in his life-time and still repeated. Although not a biography, the major sections cover his career, personality and early life, his sources and ideas, his unique approach to design and symbolism, and his relations with patrons and other architects, in particular the sculptor Gianlorenzo Bernini, whose own architectural work appears in a new light." Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 23x24cm, 146pp. With reproductions of wood engravings by George Tute, Simon Brett, Ian Stephens, Sarah van Niekerk, Hilary Paynter and Peter Lawrence, some in colour. Bound in full black cloth over boards, gilt title to backstrip, dustjacket with enlarged detail from an engraving by George Tute, prospectus laid-in. A substantial showcase for the work of these six engravers, not printed from the blocks but nevertheless the images printed with excellent crispness and depth. Near Fine (a persistent indentation to the top margin of the leaves up to p30) with Fine dustjacket and Fine prospectus. George Tute, Simon Brett, Ian Stephens, Sarah van Niekerk, Hilary Paynter, Peter Lawrence (illustrator). …

First edition, oblong 4to, 146pp., small book label to front paste-down, numerous illustrs., orig. cloth, d.w. a near fine copy.