COPIES OF ORIGINAL TILE CATALOGUES/PATTERN BOOKS:
(Note new reduced prices for CD-ROM versions)
BC01 Malkin Tiles Ltd, ‘A selection of modern designs for wall and floor tiling’, c1920.
Contents:
a) b&w frontispiece, 1p;
b) 12 colour plates of designs for tiled dadoes (22 actual designs);
c) 2 colour plates of fittings (covings/skirtings etc);
d) 18 colour plates of ceramic mosaic floor designs (20 actual designs);
e) 14 colour plates of geometric/encaustic floor designs (47 actual designs);
f) 6 b&w pages of price lists.
Price: Paper: £49.00 CD-ROM: £10.00
BC02 Gibbons, Hinton and Co, ‘Decorative Faience, Terra-Cotta, Mosaic, Tiles &c.’, 1895.
Contents:
a) 6 colour plates of geometric/encaustic floor designs (50 actual designs);
b) 3 monochrome photographic plates of relief moulded tiles/hearths;
c) 1 monochrome etched plate of terracotta mouldings etc
Price: Paper: £8.50 CD-ROM: £10.00
BC03 Mosaïque Céramique de Mauberge, France, ‘Carreaux, Grés Cérame’ 1920.
Contents: a folder of 43 designs for mosaic, pseudo-mosaic, geometric and encaustic floors. (Copies to 8 sheets A4)
Price: Paper: £10.00 CD-ROM: £10.00
BC04 Richards Tiles Ltd, ‘General Catalogue of Products; 1936 edition’
Contents:
a) Title page, aerial views of factories, list of overseas agencies and preface, 4pp, b&w;
b) Wall Tiling: introduction, 2 pp, b&w; 12 colour plates of room settings/shop fronts etc; 7 colour plates of dado designs; 6 colour plates of individual and border tile designs.
c) Modern Bathrooms: introduction, 1p, b&w; 16 colour plates of bathroom room settings; 1p ‘Tiling-in a Bath’, b&w.
d) Tile Fittings/Built-in bathroom fittings, 29pp b&w
e) Modern Fireplaces: introduction, 1p, b&w; 14 b&w plates + 3 colour plates of fireplace designs
f) Swimming Pools: 9pp b&w illustrated article
g) Floor Tiles: introduction, 1p, b&w; 16 colour plates of geometric floor designs etc (110 actual designs); Stock sizes of geometric floor tiles, b&w chart, 1p
h) Mosaics: introduction, 1p, b&w; 16 colour plates of mosaic floor designs (over 100 actual designs), The Fixing of Mosaics: 2pp, b&w
Price: Paper: £89.00 CD-ROM (2): £20.00
BC05 Richards Tiles, ‘Reference Book of Ceramic Tiling’, c1950
Contents:
a) Wall Tiles: 6 colour plates of mottled tiles and decorative strips (border tiles)
b) Tile Fittings: 16 three-colour plates of skirtings, cappings, coves etc.
c) Recesso Accessories: 3pp b&w + 4 three-colour plates of bathroom fittings
d) Bathrooms: 22 colour plates of bathroom room settings, tiles etc
e) Commerce & Industry: 18 colour plates of shops, garages, factories, individual tiles etc
f) Swimming Pools: 19 pp illustrated article (some illustrations three-colour - copy in b&w)
g) Fireplaces: 14 colour plates of fireplace designs
h) Floor Tiles: 13 colour plates of geometric floor designs (very muted colouring)
i) Mosaics: introduction, 4pp, b&w, illustrated; 20 colour plates of very 1950s designs! (over 150 actual designs)
Price: Paper: £99.00 CD-ROM (2): £20.00
BC06 Godwin’s Encaustic Tileworks, Lugwardine, Hereford: Hand-painted Factory Pattern Book, c1865
Contents: 27 large pages, each with 6 pasted-in, water-coloured, geometric/encaustic tiled floor designs.
Price: Paper: £54.00 (A3) CD-ROM: £10.00
BC07 Woods Tileries, Hanley, ‘Exclusive Fireplace Designs’, c1950
Contents: 61 b&w plates, 2 colour plates, each with a single fireplace design, illustrated photographically
Price: Paper: £8.50 CD-ROM: £10.00
BC08 Abbey Fireplaces, ‘Tiled Fireplaces’, 1936
Contents: Foreword, 4pp, b&w; 77 double page b&w spreads, 1 colour plate, illustrated photographically, a number of super Art Deco designs
Price: Paper: £9.50 CD-ROM: £10.00
BC09 Tomlin & Ford Ltd, ‘Naturecraft Fireplaces’, c1950
Contents: b&w broadsheet illustrating 15 tiled fireplaces photographically, (copies to 6 x A3 overlapping sheets)
Price: £1.50 (Paper only)
BC10 PTP (Pilkington’s Tile Products), c1960
Contents: Folder containing 6 tinted photographs of tiled fireplaces, + 4 water-coloured drawings of fireplace designs
Price: £11.50 (Paper only)
BC11 Candy & Co, ‘The Devon Fire’, 1927
Contents: 40 x 2pp colour spreads of tiled fireplaces, some with wood surrounds, + several pages of prelims and price list etc
Price: Paper: £50.00 CD-ROM: £10.00
BC12 Candy & Co, ‘Devon Surrounds with Devon Tiles’, 1932
Contents: 22 b&w pages, 2 colour pages, most with two surrounds per page
Price: Paper: £5.00 CD-ROM: £10.00
BC13 Philippona Catalogue, c1905:
Catalogue of plaques and tile panels based on old master paintings etc, made by De Porcelayne Fles, Delft. (Philippona were agents for the pottery, based in The Hague). Contents: Format sheet detailing sizes of plaques/panels, 18 pages of tipped-in photographs of plaques/tile panels. 19 x A3 copies, b&w.
Price: Paper: £12.00 CD-ROM: £10.00
BC14 A J WADE, c1920
Contents: 15 colour pages showing tiled schemes for shops and homes, and dadoes, plus one sheet of late Art Nouveau tile designs.
Price: Paper: £15.00 CD-ROM: £10.00
BC15 MALKIN TILE WORKS COY. LTD., Modern Tiling, c1926
Contents: 10pp in full colour showing dadoes etc, 2pp border and majolica tiles in colour, 3pp (b & w) tile fittings and 8pp (colour) geometric and encaustic floor designs.
Price: Paper: £25.00 CD-ROM: £10.00
BC16 GENTIL ET BOURDET, Manuel d'application des Grès, Billancourt, France, c1910
Contents: 108pp showing an astonishing range of architectural ceramics, including tile, faience and terracotta panels, 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!
Price: Paper: £21.00 (b & w) CD-ROM (colour): £10.00
BC17 ETABLISSEMENTS LAUZUN, Carrelages Lithoïdes, Bourg-St Andeol, France, c1890
Contents: 41 full colour pages (12.5 x 24 cm) plus 10pp prelims and notes. Features over 100 encaustic and geometric floor designs, together with a few terrazzo designs (?) in superb colour. Some really interesting and unusual designs, a number of which look strikingly modern.
Price: Paper: £55.00 CD-ROM: £10.00
BC18 MARSDEN TILES LTD, c1920
Contents: 18 pages, 13 in full colour featuring a wide range of late Art Nouveau designs, dadoes and suggested uses. A fascinating insight into British tile design of the period.
Price: Paper: £24.95 CD-ROM: £10.00
BC19 MODERN PRACTICE IN ARCHITECTURAL TERRA COTTA
Anon, Hathern Station Brick & Terra Cotta Co Ltd/Buckland Books, c1930/2002, (facsimile edition), 66pp, 3 in colour, slide binding
Contents: 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 terracotta. Fabulous Art Deco!
Price: Paper: £12.50 (b & w) CD-ROM: (colour) £10.00