Colour and Pattern in the Home, Carrington (7 results)

Hard cover. Beautiful copy. Small chips along top edge of jacket spine, but jacket is protected by a mylar cover. Binding is secure. Some foxing on text block, but lithographs and text are clear and bright, and pages are otherwise unmarked.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. DJ is clean but there are a few small tears to corners. Contents are clean but lightly toned. Free from markings or inscriptions.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Illustrations. (illustrator). First edition. First edition. Small 4to. Original red cloth. Dust-jacket. An attractive period guide to interior design by English book designer, editor, publisher, and the founder of Puffin Books, Carrington. Cloth a little dulled at spine ends; jacket with section of loss to head of spine. Book.

Condition: Very Good. First edition. Hardback. Original cloth with slight edge wear, slight fading, otherwise near very good indeed. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First printing. 4to. 160 pp. Red cloth. Good in Good dust jacket. Wear and some fraying to extremities of boards. Jacket worn and chipped. Lithographs by Roland Collins.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. [160] pp. w/ Lithographs by Roland Collins CARRINGTON, Noel B.T. Batsford 1954 10" x 7 3/4" Noel Carrington's design book, exploring ways to integrate 1950s colour and pattern in the post-war home. It was published to accompany the earlier volume by Carrington, Design and Decoration in the Home (1938). The text and images offer practical advice and examples on the theory of colour, room pattern and planning, and the use of materials. Roland Collins' colourful lithographs illustrate real homes and settings, incorporating designs by manufacturers and designers such as Liberty, Heals, Lucienne Day and Edward Barnsley. Scarce in the striking wrap-around dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. The First UK Printing published by B. T. Batsford, London in 1954. Large 8vo., red publisher's cloth, ruled and lettered in gilt to spine; upper edge red; in the vibrant wraparound wrapper (30s. net) featuring a design by Roland Collins; with frontis and a further 30 full-page and full-colour lithographs by Collins, as well as numerous other black and white photographs; The BOOK is in Very Good++ or better condition, many pages entirely unopened; the boards have a hint of fading and rubbing to the edges, with light spots to end-papers and a previous ownership inscription to the ffep; the near-Fine wraparound WRAPPER with just minimal shelf wear, creasing, and darkening. The wrapper is protected in a removable Brodart archival cover. This copy previously in the collection of Robin de Beaumont, with his bookplate affixed to the front paste-down. Noel Carrington (1895-1989) was an English book designer, editor, and the founder of Puffin Books. He was the author of several works on design and recreation, and served on the Council of Industrial Design and the Design and Industries Association. In the present work, Carrington provides a companion work to his earlier publication Design and Decoration in the Home (1952), which gave insights into post-war style. With a slackening of restrictions and a flow of new materials, Carrington intended to illustrate both the possibilities inherent in various colour combinations and the pattern of modern room arrangement . Offering practical advice, the examples are illustrated by Roland Collins, and show real homes and settings incorporating designs by manufacturers and designers such as Liberty, Heals, Lucienne Day and Edward Barnsley. Robin de Beaumont was the former President of The Private Libraries Association, and a leading expert in Victorian decorative bindings. His extensive library was described by one visitor as "The closest one could get to looking through the window of Hatchard's in the 1860s", and was awarded an MBE in 2009 for services to bibliography. His collection was sold in three parts, the final sale through Bonhams in 2024, with standout items in the collection including examples of early auto-lithography and Chivers bindings. Seldom found in the wrapper and in such collectible condition. More images available on request. Ashton Rare Books welcomes direct contact.