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Arts & Crafts Movement: A Superb Visual Guide to This Significant period of Design Reform 1850-1920. New York: Todtri, 2002. First American Edition. Hardcover in dust jacket. Fine/fine. This superb guide filled with beautiful color illustrations shows the influence of the Arts and Crafts movement in an extraordinarily broad range of work -- from furniture, metalwork, textiles to glasswork and pottery. The book charts the eclectic output of the movement, as well as its intriguing historical and intellectual development, illuminating the careers and creations of the major Arts and Crafts proponents and artisans. Includes an index and a listing of the major craftsmen. Book #01277. $22.00.


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Art Deco Spot Illustrations and Motifs: 513 Original Designs
Rowe, William
New York:
Dover, 1985


Here's a fine collection of crisp art deco motifs, combining nature elements with abstract forms.

Takamiya, Toshiyuki. From the Deep Waters: Maidens of Myth and Mystery. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1996. Hardcover in dust jacket. First American Edition ("First published in Japan in 1993 by Treville Co. Ltd."). Fine/fine. A sumptuous treasury of Pre-Raphaelite images that "seduce the eye and beguile the mind," by such artists as John Everett Millais, Edward Burne-Jones, John Williams Waterhouse, and more. Book #01271. $17.00.






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