New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1983. Second Printing. Cloth over Boards. Quarto, pp. 353, illustrated with b/w line drawings. A treasury of information for professionals, hobbyists, and educators throughout the United States and Canada. Compiled by one of the foremost authorities in the field, in contains thousands of entries and..... More

Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1999. First paperback printing. Perfect Bound. Quarto, pp. 335, indexed, illustrated with b/w and color photographs. Color is fundamental to life and art yet so diverse that it has seldom been studied in a comprehensive way. This ground-breaking analysis of color in Western culture..... More

Boston, MA: L. Prang and Company, 1876. First American edition. Cloth over Boards. Octavo, pp. xxxiii, 274, indexed, illustrated with chromolithographic plates and woodcuts. Ex-library markings. This book was intended to make artists and persons engaged in industrial artistic pursuits familiar with the results of investigation into the physical and..... More

Canton, OH: Stark Brick Company, 1930. First edition. Staplebound Wraps. Quarto, pp. 24, illustrated with b/w architectural specification drawings. Stark Salt Glazed Brictile is a smooth fire clay unit, glazed on the face, back and both ends. It is essentially a double brick, and the glaze is a thin coating..... More

London: Crosby Lockwood & Co., nd c. 1875. Revised. Cloth over Boards. 12mo, pp. 222, plus 30 pp. publisher's catalog, indexed, illustrated w/ b/w drawings. Title page missing, last index page torn in half with the detached portion missing. A scarce early edition of this influential work. George Field, 1777..... More

Detroit, MI: Detroit Steel Products Company, 1926. First edition. Trade Pamphlet, teal blue. Quarto, pp. 128, indexed, illustrated with b/w photographs and architectural drawings. Industrial windows, mechanical operators, residential windows, architectural windows, swinging and sliding doors, interchangeable partitions, and windows of unusual design, are some of the items shown in..... More