Wpm the Pattern of a Great Organisation (8 results)

Condition: Good. No Edition Remarks. Unpaginated. Illustrated dust jacket over blue cloth boards. Gilt lettering. Contains black and white illustrations. Clean pages and illustrations with light tanning and mild foxing throughout. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces and bumping to corners. Gilt lettering is bright and clear. Unclipped jacket. Panels and spine have moderate edgewear with chips, tears and creases. Moderate loss to spine and edges. Visible wear marks to spine and panels.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st ed. 4to blue leather boards with gilt titles. No pagination. Illus colour & b & w throughout. The first 50 years of the Wallpaper Manufacturers company outlining its achievements & the present branches of the organisation & the work they are responsible for. Nice colour reproductions of some of their products. A little foxing but generally internally VG. The boards are sl. bumped & marked but OK. They do not lie quite flat. An uncommon history.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Hardback. 4to. Circa 200 pages. Sepia photos throughout, some colour.Original full blue leather lettered gilt at spine and on cover.Inner gilt dentelles. Very good indeed.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition. 4to. Unpaginated [203pp]. Pebbled cloth with five raised bands, three blind-stamped borders and gilt lettering to the upper board. Blue and gold patterned endpapers with gilt-decorated inner dentelles. A touch of light wear to the extremities. A very good copy of this handsomely produced company retrospective. A foreword by Chairman Alfred Whittle precedes an unaccredited text detailing the various national branches, Wallpaper and Design, Colour Making, Engineering, Overseas Manufacturing and Export, and Distribution, accompanied by over 300 photographs and lithographic illustrations, including some in colour. The Wallpaper Manufacturers Ltd. was established in 1899 as an amalgamation of the manufacturing interests of 31 undertakings, and soon controlled 98% of UK wallpaper production, employing most of the trade union members referred to in the National Union of Wallcoverings, Decorative and Allied Trades.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Hardback. 4to.Catalogue dimensions:290mm H x 215mm.pp.circa 200. Pages not numbered. No date c.1950. Original publisher's blue leather binding with gilt lettering, monogram, and dentelles. Attractive endpapers with a printed repeat pattern of the Wallpaper Manufacturers monogram in blues and gilt. Foreword by the Chairman, Alfred Whittle, with the Frontispiece a b/w portrait photograph of Alfred Whittle. Colour and b/w photographs generously illustrate the text. Very good. Leather faintly rubbed at spine.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Blue calf on boards with gilt title on upper cover and crown motif on spine. Spine has raised bands. Outers are rubbed around margins and spine. Label residue on decorated endpapers and small inscription on half-title page, otherwise very clean contents.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. 4to.Catalogue dimensions:290mm H x 215mm. Sepia photos throughout, some colour.Original full blue leather lettered gilt at spine and on cover. slight wear and rubbing, otherwise very good in a near very good, slightly torn and chipped dust jacket. Attractive endpapers with a printed repeat pattern of the Wallpaper Manufacturers monogram in blues and gilt. Foreword by the Chairman, Alfred Whittle, with the Frontispiece a b/w portrait photograph of Alfred Whittle. Colour and b/w photographs generously illustrate the text.

hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust jacket damaged. Book undated. Photograph available on request.