Traditional Methods of Pattern Designing by Christie

Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1910. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 0x0x0. Christie, Archibald H. No jacket. Board edges rubbed, top edge stained. 1910 Hard Cover. 327 pp. 31 black-and-white plates follow text. CONTENTS: The Origin of Decoration; The Development of Typical Forms of Ornament; The Classification of Patterns; Powdered Designs Formed of Floral Elements; Further Developments of Floral Elements; Geometrical Designs; Designs Formed of Geometrical and Floral Work Combines; Animal Forms Used in Designs; Designs Formed of Straight Parallel Bands; Developments of Band Designs; Borders and Crestings, and Surface Decoration Derived from Them; Designs Formed by Imposing One Pattern Upon Another; Designs Formed by Counterchanging Elements; Interlacing Band-Designs and Knot-Work.

Clarendon Press, 1929. Hard cover. Fair/No jacket. Spine sunned, corners bumped. Spine shaken but all pages present and well attached. Clean and unmarked throughout.

Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1910, 1910. First edition. 8vo; 327 pp.; 380 illustrations from drawings and thirty-one full page plates from photographs. Bookplate; offsetting to endpapers; fading to backstrip; slightly cocked; else a good copy in original gilt-stamped red cloth. An early study of the evolution and classification of patterns, ornamental styles and decorative design..

Paperback / softback. New.

Oxford, 1929. Hardcover. Good. 1929. 313 pages. No dust jacket. Beige pictorial dust jacket over red cloth. Inscriptions to front pastedown and endpaper. Pages are lightly tanned and thumbed at the edges, with light foxing. Binding has remained firm. Boards are a little rub worn, slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped. Spine ends are mildly crushed. Light tanning to spine and edges. The clipped dust jacket has moderate edge wear, tears and chips to edges and spine ends. Moderate tanning to spine and edges.

Hardback. New.

London & Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1910. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. Octavo. The Author. Type: Book pp 327 + XXI (plates) + 16 (advertisements). 1st printing. Boards grubby, spine sunned, internally fine.

Oxford,: Clarendon Press,, 1910. Hardcover Hardcover. Very Good. Original cloth slightly used, spine slightly faded with slight tear at head, otherwise very good indeed. No dust jacket.