Ha Bun Shu: a Japanese Book of Wave and Ripple Designs (1919)
Wonderful selection of wave and ripple designs produced by the Japanese artist Mori Yuzan, which would have found their way onto swords and associated paraphernalia…more
Wonderful selection of wave and ripple designs produced by the Japanese artist Mori Yuzan, which would have found their way onto swords and associated paraphernalia…more
This delightful book features a collection of nineteenth-century textile samples — in the form of watercolour copies — from the Robert Maison company….more
True to the ideas held within — that blue light is bearer of unique and special properties — this book is entirely printed with blue ink on blue paper….more
This charming book from 1917 presents a manual training in what the author William S. Marten terms constructive-play, full of how-to guides for making all manner of…more
A delightful little alphabet book in which the letters are made up from acrobatically contorted bodies, and the accompanying text from often as equally contorted rh…more
As the subtitle eloquently explains “The choicest passages of God’s word put in the fascinating garb of pictures”….more
A facsimile with explanations of a “very curious Pack of Cards” which used to belong to Lord Nelson and date from around 1660. The cards feature various satirical a…more
A book of observations on the peculiarities of writing styles as shown by asylum patients, by G. Mackenzie Bacon, a medical superintendant at Cambridgshire County A…more
Beautiful hand-written and illustrated treatise on firework design and manufacture, including ‘blue-prints’ for the devices and explosive recipes….more
A 17th century German book on the art of writing. A great range of different styles are represented seemingly increasing in elaborateness, and also illegibility, as…more
A catalogue showing the entries for a competition to design a new tower for London. The year previous, 1889, saw the hugely successful Eiffel Tower go up in the cen…more
Oliver Byrne’s version of ‘Euclid’s Elements’ which used coloured graphic explanations of each geometric principle, remarkable for its innovative graphic conception…more