Historic New England

The decorative arts of the China trade : paintings, furnishings, and exotic curiosities / Carl L. Crossman.

462 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 28 cm.

Date: 1991.

Creators: Crossman, Carl L. Crossman, Carl L. China trade.

GUSN: 148790

Call Number: Coll. N7343.5.C77 1991

Liverpool printed tiles / by Anthony Ray.

66 p. : ill. ; 31 cm.

Date: 1994.

Creators: Ray, Anthony.

GUSN: 148791

Call Number: Coll. NK4670.7.G72 L5 1994

American glass, 1760-1930 : the Toledo Museum of Art / Kenneth M. Wilson.

2 v. (879 p.) : ill. (some col.) ; 32 cm.

Date: c1994.

Creators: Wilson, Kenneth M. Toledo Museum of Art.

GUSN: 148792

Call Number: Coll. NK5112.A1 W55 1994 v.1 (and 1 more)

Glass signatures, trademarks and trade names : from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuryn / Anne Geffken Pullin.

368 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Date: c1986.

Creators: Pullin, Anne Geffken.

GUSN: 148793

Call Number: Coll. NK5104.P84 1986

The collector's encyclopedia of Heisey glass, 1925-1938 / Neila Bredehoft.

463 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm.

Date: 1997.

Creators: Bredehoft, Neila M.

GUSN: 148794

Call Number: Coll. NK5198.H4 B744 1997

Encyclopedia of Victorian colored pattern glass, Book 5 : U. S. glass from A to Z / by William Heacock & Fred Bickenheuser.

192 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm.

Date: 1978].

Creators: Heacock, William. Bickenheuser, Fred, 1929-

GUSN: 148795

Call Number: Coll. NK5109.8.H42

Glass in early America : selections from the Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum / Arlene Palmer.

ix, 425 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm.

Date: 1993.

Creators: Palmer, Arlene M., 1950- Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum.

GUSN: 148796

Call Number: Coll. NK5112.A1 H46 1993

Old glass, European and American, by N. Hudson Moore ... With two hundred and sixty-five illustrations.

xvi, 394 p. incl. plates. front. 25 cm.

Date: 1935.

Creators: Moore, N. Hudson, 1857-1927.

GUSN: 148797

Call Number: Coll. NK5104.M6

Identifying American brilliant cut glass / Bill and Louise Boggess.

x, 283 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 23 cm.

Date: 1986.

Creators: Boggess, Bill. Boggess, Louise.

GUSN: 148798

Call Number: Coll. NK5203.B64

Nineteenth century glass : its genesis and development / by Albert Christian Revi.

xviii, 301 p. : illus. (part col.) ; 28 cm.

Date: 1967.

Creators: Revi, Albert Christian.

GUSN: 148799

Call Number: Coll. NK5109.R4 1967

For bitters only / started by R. Bartlett Saalfrank ; contributed to by many ; compiled by Carlyn Ring ; illustrations and cover design by Diane Wheaton ; color photography by Bruce Pendleton.

543 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm.

Date: c1980.

Creators: Saalfrank, R. Bartlett. Ring, Carlyn.

GUSN: 148800

Call Number: Coll. NK5440.B6 F59

Irish glass; the age of exuberance.

155 p., [96] p. of illus. 3 col. plates. 26 cm.

Date: [1971, c1970]

Creators: Warren, Phelps.

GUSN: 148801

Call Number: Coll. NK5146.W3 1971

The American cut glass industry : T.G. Hawkes and his competitors / Jane Shadel Spillman.

320 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 28 cm.

Date: c1996.

Creators: Spillman, Jane Shadel. Corning Museum of Glass.

GUSN: 148802

Call Number: Coll. NK5203.S64 1996

Sandwich glass.

39 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 23 cm.

Date: c1981.

Creators: Sandwich Historical Society.

GUSN: 148803

Call Number: Coll. NK5198.B6 S2 1981

Glass paperweights / James Mackay.

111 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 26 cm.

Date: [1982?] c1973.

Creators: Mackay, James A. (James Alexander), 1936-

GUSN: 148804

Call Number: Coll. NK5440.P3 M28 1982

Customs and fashions in old New England, by Alice Morse Earle.

387 p. 19 cm.

Date: 1893.

Creators: Earle, Alice Morse, 1851-1911.

GUSN: 148805

Call Number: Coll. F7.E12 c.1 (and 1 more)

The Paisley pattern : the official illustrated history / Valerie Reilly ; Guide to Paisley shawls by Frank Ames.

112 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm.

Date: [1989], c1987.

Creators: Reilly, Valerie. Ames, Frank.

GUSN: 148806

Call Number: Coll. TS1781.R45 1989

The Kashmir shawl and its Indo-French influence / Frank Ames.

376 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 28 cm.

Date: 1997.

Creators: Ames, Frank. Antique Collectors' Club.

GUSN: 148807

Call Number: Coll. NK8976.A3 K334 1997

The art of dress : fashion in England and France 1750 to 1820 / Aileen Ribeiro.

257 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 30 cm.

Date: c1995.

Creators: Ribeiro, Aileen, 1944-

GUSN: 148808

Call Number: Coll. GT736.R53 1995

The art of dress : clothes and society, 1500-1914 / by Jane Ashelford ; special photography by Andreas von Einsiedel.

320 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 26 cm.

Date: 1996.

Creators: Ashelford, Jane. Einsiedel, Andreas.

GUSN: 148809

Call Number: Coll. GT730.A68 1996

Costume in detail, 1730-1930 / Nancy Bradfield.

ix, 391 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Date: 1997.

Creators: Bradfield, Nancy Margetts, 1913-

GUSN: 148810

Call Number: Coll. GT580.B67 1997

A history of dyed textiles: dyes, fibres, painted bark, batik, starch-resist, discharge, tie-dye, further sources for research.

112 p. illus. (part col.) 26 cm.

Date: [1969]

Creators: Robinson, Stuart.

GUSN: 148811

Call Number: Coll. TP897.R62 1969b

Just new from the mills : printed cottons in America : late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries : from the collection of the Museum of American Textile History / Diane L. Fagan Affleck.

108 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm.

Date: c1987.

Creators: Fagan Affleck, Diane L., 1950- Museum of American Textile History.

GUSN: 148812

Call Number: Coll. NK9500.M87 1987 (and 1 more)

Wallace Nutting's biography / illustrated by six photographs.

vii, 295 p. : plates, ports. 25 cm.

Date: [c1936]

Creators: Nutting, Wallace, 1861-1941

GUSN: 150872

Call Number: Stacks CT275.N787 A3

Rebecca Nurse : saint but witch victim / by Charles Sutherland Tapley.

xiii, 105 p. : front. (port.) plates ; 20 cm.

Date: [1930]

Creators: Tapley, Charles Sutherland, 1899-

GUSN: 150873

Call Number: Stacks BF1576.T23

Designs in architecture : consisting of plans, elevations, and sections, for temples, baths, cassines, pavilions, garden-seats, obelisks, and other buildings; for decorating pleasure grounds, parks, forests, &c. &c. Engraved on 38 copper-plates / by John Soane ...

1 p. l. : xxxviii plates ; 25 cm.

Date: 1797.

Creators: Soane, John, Sir, 1753-1837.

GUSN: 150874

Call Number: Rare NA2707.S63 D47 1797

A collection of designs in architecture : containing new plans and elevations of houses, for general use. With a great variety of sections of rooms; from a common room, to the most grand and magnificent. Their decorations, viz. bases, surbases, architraves, freezes, and cornices, properly inriched with foliages, frets and flowers, in a new and grand taste. With margins and mouldings for the panelling. All large enough for practice. To which are added, curious designs of stone and timber bridges ... likewise some screens and pavilions ... / by Abraham Swan, architect ...

2 v. : 120 plates ; 42 cm.

Date: 1757.

Creators: Swan, Abraham.

GUSN: 150875

Call Number: Rare Browne Ovr. NA7120.S93 vol.1 (and 1 more)

Original designs in architecture / by William Thomas ... consisting of twenty-seven copper-plates, in folio; which contain plans, elevations, sections, ceilings and chimney pieces, for villas and town houses; designs for temples, grottos, sepulchres, bridges, &c. in the most approved taste. To which are prefixed, a suitable introduction, and a description, explaining the several designs.

12 p. : XXVII plates ; 54 cm.

Date: 1783.

Creators: Thomas, William, d. 1800 Mèuller, Tobias, fl. 1765-1790. Malpas, E., ill. Roberts, James, 1724 or 5-1799.

GUSN: 150876

Call Number: Rare Browne Ovr. NA2620.T86 1783

The town and country builder's assistant ... : explaining short and easy rules ... / for drawing and working, the five orders of columns entire: or any part of an order, without regard to the module or diameter. And to enrich them with their rusticks, flutings, cablings, dentules, modillions, &c. Also to proportion their doors, windows, intercolumnations, portico's and arcades. Together with a variety of raking, circular, scrolled, compound, and contracted pedements ... The whole illustrated by upwards of 200 examples, engraved on 60 folio copper-plates. By a lover of architect.

12+ p. : front., LX plates ; 32 cm.

Date: [1786]

Creators: Norman, John, 1748?-1817.

GUSN: 150877

Call Number: Rare NA2517.N84

A complete body of architecture : adorned with plans and elevations / from original designs by Isaac Ware ... in which are interspersed some designs of Inigo Jones, never before published.

122 leaves of plates : ill. ; 43 cm.

Date: 1756.

Creators: Ware, Isaac, d. 1766. Jones, Inigo, 1573-1652.

GUSN: 150878

Call Number: Rare Browne Ovr. NA2517.W26

The sanitary condition of city and country dwelling houses / by George E. Waring, jr. ...

145 p. : ill. ; 16 cm..

Date: 1877.

Creators: Waring, George E. (George Edwin), 1833-1898.

GUSN: 150879

Call Number: Rare TD905.W28

Dictionnaire de l'ameublement et de la dâecoration depuis le XIIIe siáecle jusqu'áa nos jours / par Henry Havard.

4 v. : ill., plates (part col.) ; 33 cm.

Date: [1894?]

Creators: Havard, Henry, 1838-1921.

GUSN: 150880

Call Number: Rare Browne NK30.H4 1890z vol.1 (and 3 more)

Art in the house : historical, critical, and aesthetical studies on the decoration and furnishing of the dwelling / by Jakob von Falke ...

[2], [iii]-xxx, 356 p. : ill., LX pl. (part col.) ; 27 cm.

Date: 1879.

Creators: Falke, Jacob von, 1825-1897. Perkins, Charles C. (Charles Callahan), 1823-1886, tr.

GUSN: 150881

Call Number: Rare NK2110.F32

Pugin's Gothic furniture.

25 plates ; 30 cm.

Date: [182-?]

Creators: Pugin, Augustus Welby Northmore, 1812-1852.

GUSN: 150882

Call Number: Rare NK2542.P8 1820

Dekorative vorbilderj.

60 leaves of plates ; 30 cm.

Date: 1908.

GUSN: 150883

Call Number: Rare NK1160.D34 1908 vol.19 (and 2 more)

Modern decorative designs : coloured designs and sketches / by contemporary artists ; selected from "Dekorative Vorbilder."

1 portfolio (113 plates) : chiefly col. ill. ; 35 cm.

Date: [191-?]

GUSN: 150884

Call Number: Rare NK1450.M63 (and 4 more)

The decoration of houses / by Edith Wharton and Ogden Codman, Jr.

4p.¾., vii-xxii [1]-204p., 2¾. : ill. ; 22.4 cm.

Date: 1897.

Creators: Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937 Codman, Ogden.

GUSN: 150885

Call Number: Rare NK2110.W5 1897

Characteristics of old furniture : styles in England 1600-1800 / by H. P. Benn and W. C. Baldock.

79 p. : ill. ; 31 cm.

Date: 19--?]

Creators: Benn, H. P. (H. Pringuer) Baldock, W. C.

GUSN: 150886

Call Number: Rare Browne NK2529.B4

The decoration and furniture of English mansions during the seventeenth & eighteenth centuries, by Francis Lenygon.

xii, 215 p. illus. 35 cm.

Date: 1909.

Creators: Lenygon, Francis, 1877-1943.

GUSN: 150887

Call Number: Rare NK2043.L6 1909

Specimens of ancient furniture drawn from existing authorities by Henry Shaw ... with descriptions by Sir Samuel Rush Meyrick ...

2 p. l., 57 p. lxxiv pl. (partly col.) 29 cm.

Date: 1836.

Creators: Meyrick, Samuel Rush, Sir, 1783-1848. Shaw, Henry, 1800-1873.

GUSN: 150888

Call Number: Rare Browne NK2529.M4

Costume of the ancients.

2 v. 321 plates 25 cm.

Date: 1841.

Creators: Hope, Thomas, 1770?-1831.

GUSN: 150889

Call Number: Rare GT545.H6 1841 vol.1 (and 1 more)

A practical treatise on dyeing and calico-printing : including the latest inventions and improvements; also a description of the origin, manufacture, uses, and chemical properties of the various ... substances employed in these arts. With an appendix ... / by an experienced dyer. Assisted by several scientific gentlemen ...

xxi, 704 p. : X plates, diagrs. ; 23 cm.

Date: 1846.

Creators: Parnell, Edward A. (Edward Andrew)

GUSN: 150890

Call Number: Rare TP893.P25

My crochet sampler / by Miss Lambert.

160 p. : ill. ; 16 cm.

Date: 1847.

Creators: Lambert, Miss (F.)

GUSN: 150891

Call Number: Rare TT820.L36 1847

The practical book of oriental rugs.

359 p. : ill., plates (part col.) fold. map, fold. chart ; 23 cm.

Date: 1911.

Creators: Lewis, G. Griffin (George Griffin), b. 1865.

GUSN: 150892

Call Number: Rare NK2808.L65 1911

Treatise on clock and watch making : theoretical and practical / by Thomas Reid.

viii, 476 p., 20 ¾. of plates : ill., tables ; 25 cm.

Date: 1832.

Creators: Reid, Thomas.

GUSN: 150893

Call Number: Rare TS545.R35 1832

"What shall we do with our walls?" [By] Clarence Cook.

1 p. ¾., 35 p. col. front., col. plates. 24 cm.

Date: 1881.

Creators: Cook, Clarence Chatham, 1818-1900. Warren, Fuller & Lange, New York.

GUSN: 150894

Call Number: Rare NK3395.C6 1881

Le pitture antiche del sepolcro de Nasonii nella Via Flaminia / disegnate ed intagliate alla similitudine degli antichi originali da Pietro Santi Bartoli ; descritte & illustrate da Gio. Pietro Bellori.

16, 35-50, 65-76 p., XXXV leaves of plates (1 folded) : ill. (etchings) ; 34 cm. (fol.)

Date: [1---?]

Creators: Bartoli, Pietro Santi, 1635-1700. Bellori, Giovanni Pietro, 1615?-1696.

GUSN: 150895

Call Number: Rare Browne ND2575.B38

Art in northern Italy, by Corrado Ricci.

vii, 372 p., 1 ¾. col. front., illus., col. plates. 19 cm.

Date: 1911.

Creators: Ricci, Corrado, 1858-1934.

GUSN: 150896

Call Number: Rare Browne N6911.R45

The art of writing reduced to a plain and easy system : on a plan entirely new, in seven books / y John Jenkins, writing master. Book 1. Containing a plain easy and familiar introduction, which may be considered as a grammar to the art.

xx, 68, [4] p. : front. (port.) ill., plates ; 22 cm.

Date: 1813]

Creators: Jenkins, John, 1755?-1823.

GUSN: 150897

Call Number: Rare Z43.J53

The Oxford drawing book, or, The art of drawing, and the theory and practice of perspective : in a series of letters, containing progressive information on sketching, drawing, and colouring landscape scenery, animals, and the human figure : with a new method of practical perspective : detailed in a novel, easy, and perspicuous style for the use of teachers or for self-instruction / by Nathaniel Whittock ; embellished with upwards of one hundred lithographic drawings ...

vi, 159 p., [27] leaves of plates : ill. ; 23 x 30 cm.

Date: 1840.

Creators: Whittock, N. (Nathaniel), 1791-1860. Marian S. Carson Collection (Library of Congress)

GUSN: 150898

Call Number: Rare NC730.W48 1840

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