Reproductions of historic catalogues
BC16 GENTIL ET BOURDET, Manuel d'application des Grès, Billancourt, France, c1910 £21.00
108pp showing an astonishing range of architectural ceramics, including tile, faience and terracotta panels, bricks, window surrounds, doorways, fountains, columns - in fact, you name it, it's here! The original is in monochrome blue and brown so to make it clearer, our facsimile is in b & w with one colour plate and a colour copy of the cover. A must for every Art Nouveau fan!
BC19 MODERN PRACTICE IN ARCHITECTURAL TERRA COTTA £12.50
Anon, Hathern Station Brick & Terra Cotta Co Ltd/Buckland Books, c1930/2002, (facsimile edition), 66pp, 3 in colour, slide binding
The latest in our own series of historic facsimiles. Half the book is taken up with terracotta manufacture and use, illustrated with superb, dimensioned scale drawings, the other half is a photographic record of cinemas, theatres, shops, swimming pools and other terracotta buildings of the 1920s, all using Hathernware