Pattern Without Pain by Seaby, Allen W - 1948

London: B.T. Batsford, 1948. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. vi, 120 pp., illustrations, many color. 22 cm. Hardcover. Publisher's original goldenrod colored cloth over boards with red lettering to spine. Book Condition: faint signs of handling, else fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Sybyl James designed jacket with correct intact price of 10s 6d; showing some age: chipped and frazzled at the usual extremities, one walnut size chip to rear panel. Illustrations collated and perfect; given the teaching orgin of this title it's prudent to check for all the color plates as enthusiastic students often removed the more brilliant examples. Contents: Introduction -- First Exercises -- Brush Patterns -- Pattern "In the Round" -- Counterchange -- Interlacing Patterns -- Repeating Pattern -- Proving a Pattern -- Pattern Upon Pattern -- Patterns, Light and Dark -- Borders -- Convention -- Nature Study -- Some Crafts with Pattern -- Children's Patterns -- Colour -- Patterns of the Past -- Modern Pattern -- Some Technical Hints.