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ART DECO - ART NOUVEAU - BAROMETERS - BAYONETS - BOOK PLATES - BRONZES
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ART—see Visiting Art Galleries pp. 45-70
ART DECO
Battcrsby, H. The Decorative Twenties. 1969 Hillier, B. Art Deco of the 20s and 30s. 1968
ART NOUVEAU
Amaya, M. Art Nouveau. 1966; Tiffany Glass. 1968 Barilli, R. Art Nouveau. 1969 Battersby, M. The World of Art Nouveau. 1968 Burdett, D. The Beardsley Period. 1925
Howard, T. Charles Rennie Mackintosh and the Modern Movement. 1952
Koch, R. Tiffany Coloured Glass. 1964 (1966)
Madsen, S. T. Art Nouveau. 1967
Rheims, M. Tke Age of Art Nouveau. 1966
Schmutzlcr, R. Art Nouveau. New York, 1962
Taylor, J. R. The Art Nouveau Book in Britain. 1966
Walker, R. A. (Introduction by) The Best of Beardsley. 1948 (1967)
AUTOGRAPHS
Benjamin, M. A. Autographs: A Key to Collecting. New York, 1946 Broadlcy, A. M. Chats on Autographs. 1910
Munby, A. N. L. The Cult of the Autograph Letter in England. 1962 BADGES
Chichester, II. M. and Short, G. B. Records and Badges of the British Army. 1900
Cole, H. N. Badges on Battledress. Aldershot, 1953 Edwards, T. J. Regimental Badges. Aldershot, 1951 (1966)
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the buying antiques reference book
Fanner, J. S. Regimental Records. 1901
Parkyn, M. Shoulder Belt Plates and Buttons. 1956
Perry, O. L. Rank and Badges. 1887
BAROMETERS
Bell, G. 11. and E. F. Old English Barometers. Winchester, 1951 (1970) Goodison, N. English Barometers. 1969
Middleton, W. E. K. The History of the Barometer. Baltimore, 1964
BAYONETS—see Edged Weapons BELLS
Ingram, T. Bells in England. 1954
Morris, E. Bells of All Nations. 1957; Tintinabula. 1959
BOOKS AND BOOK COLLECTING—see also Prints Bland, D. A History of Book Illustration. 1958 (1969) Boughot, II. F. The Printed Book, Its History. 1887
Garter, J. Taste and Technique in Book Collecting. 1948; Books and Book
Collectors. 1956; A B C for Book Collectors. 1952 (1966) Collison, R. L. Book Collecting. 1957
Crane, W. Of the Decorative Illustration of Books Old and New. 1896
Dcringer, D. The Illuminated Book. 1958
Doyle, B. The Who’s Who of Children’s Literature. 1968
Duff, E. G. Early English Printing. 1896
Ede, C. The Art of the Book. 1951
Ellis, R. W. Book Illustration. Kingsport, 1952
Franklin, C. The Private Presses. 1969
Garvcy, E. M. and Hofer, P. The Artist and the Book, 1860 1900. Boston, 1961
Glaistcr, G. A. Glossary of the Book. 1960
Goldschmidt, E. P. The Printed Book of the Renaissance. Cambridge, 1950 Hamilton, S. Early American Book Illustration. Princeton, 1958 James, P. English Book Illustration, 1800-1900. 1947 Jcnnctt, S. The Making of
Books. 1951
McLean, R. Victorian Book Design and Colour Printing. 1963
Macmurtrie, D. C. The Book: The Story of Printing and Bookmaking. New
York, 1937; London, 1938 Muir, P. H. English Children’s Books, 1600-1900. 1954; Book Collecting as
a Hobby. 1944
Pitz, II. A. Treasury of American Book Illustration. New York, 1947
Pollard, A. W. Fine Books. 1912
Pridcaux, S. T. Aquatint Engraving. 1909 (1968)
Ramsden, C. London Bookbinders, 1780-1840. 1956
Rcid, F. Illustrators of the Sixties. 1928
Sadlcir, M. The Evolution of Publishers’ Binding Styles. 1930
Simon, H. Five Hundred Years of Art in Illustration. New York, 1942
Slater, J. H. How to Collect Books. 1905
Smith, J. A. Illustrated Children’s Books. 1948
Steinberg, S. II. Five Hundred Years of Printing. 1955
Storm, C. and Peckham, H. Invitation to Book Collecting. New York, 1947 Thomas, A. G. Fine Books. 1967
Thorpe, P. English Book Illustration: The Nineties. 1935
Toolcy, R. V. English Books with Coloured Plates, 1790-1860. 1954
White, G. English Book Illustration: The Sixties (1855-1870). 1897
books for reading and reference
BOOK PLATES
Kim ham, H. W. The Artists and Engravers of British and American Bookplates. 1897
BOTTLES—see Glass
BOXES—see also Snuff Boxes
Bedford, J. All Kinds of Small Boxes. 1964
Berry-Hill, H. and S. Antique Gold Boxes. London, New York and Toronto, 1960
Delieb, E. Silver Boxes. 1968
Snowman, A. K. Eighteenth-Century Gold Boxes of Europe. 1965 (1968)
BRASSWORK—sec also Horse Brasses and Monumental Brasses Burgess, F. W. Chats on Old Copper and Brass. 1954 Franklyn, J. Brasses. 1964
Grove, J. R. Antique English Brass Candlesticks, 1450-1750. 1968 Hamilton, H. The English Brass and Copper Industries to 1800. 1926 Lindsay, J. S. Iron and Brass Instruments oj the English House. 1964 Wills, G.
Collecting Copper and Brass. 1962; Copper and Brass. 1969
BRONZES
Dent, H. C. Old English Bronze Wool-Weights. 1927
Koop, A. J. Early Chinese Bronzes. 1924
Lamb, W. Greek and Roman Bronzes. 1928
Lanfer, B. Archaic Chinese Bronzes. New York, 1922
Montague, J. Bronzes. 1963
Pope-Hennessy, J. Italian Bronze Statuettes. 1961 Radcliffe, A. European Bronze Statuettes. 1966 Savage, G. A Concise History of Bronzes. 1968 Underwood, L. Bronzes of West Africa. 1967
BUTTONS—sec also Badges
Albert, L. S. and Kent, K. The Complete Button Book. 1949 (1952) Epstein, D. Buttons. 1969
Parkyn, M. Shoulder Belt Plates and Buttons. 1956 BYGONES—sec also Treen
Monson-Fitzjohn, C. J. Drinking Vessels of Bygone Days. 1927 Robins, F. W. The Story of the Lamp and the Candle. 1939 Scott, A. and C. Collecting Bygones. 1964 Wright, P. Old Farm Implements.
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Antique Collections. BRITISH AND AMERICAN ANTIQUES.
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Antique Collections. BRITISH AND AMERICAN ANTIQUES.
Fenton House. Eighteenth-century furnishings in a William and Mary house. Geffrye Museum. Periods rooms showing middle-class furnishings from the Jacobean period to the present. Children are obviously welcome.
Victoria and Albert Museum. Fine furniture from Elizabethan to Art
Nouueau in period rooms.
Outside London
Barnsley: Gannon Hall Art Gallery and Museum. Eighteenth-century house with period rooms.
Birmingham: Aston Hall. One of the finest furnished Jacobean houses in Britain, with a panelled gallery and superb oak staircase.
Brighton: The Royal Pavilion. Furnished throughout in the Regency style.
Bristol: The Georgian House. Furniture of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries arranged as it might have looked in a wealthy merchant’s house of the period.
Bristol: The Red Lodge. Rooms furnished in styles of seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries.
Colchester: The Minories Art Gallery. Rooms in Georgian style.
Dumfries: Old Bridge House Museum. Seventeenth-century house with period rooms.
Hereford : The Old House. Jacobean period rooms.
Hull: Wilberforce House. Several period rooms. (See p. 79).
Huntingdon: The Cromwell Museum. Reflects life in the Commonwealth period. (See p. 74).
Kendal: Abbot Hall Art Gallery. Eighteenth-century period rooms.
Leeds: Abbey House Museum. Nineteenth-century nouses, shops and workshops with working-class furnishings.
Lewes: Anne of Clcves House. Victorian room.
Northampton: Abington Museum. Period rooms, including Victorian. Petersham: Ham House. Built before the Commonwealth and changed hands
in Stuart times. The resurgence of craftsmanship in late seventeenth
century is well evidenced. Plymouth: Elizabethan House. Elizabethan furnishings.
Port Sunlight: Lady Lever Art Gallery. Tudor and Stuart, William and Mary, early eighteenth century, Adam, and Napoleon rooms.
Salford: Museum and Art Gallery. Reflects northern industrial life in a nineteenth-century ’street’ with period rooms.
Salisbury: Salisbury and South Wiltshire Museum.
Scunthorpe: Borough Museum and Art Gallery. Period rooms.
Scunthorpe: Normanby Hall. Regency furnishings in a Regency mansion.
Southport: Botanic Gardens Museum. Victorian room.
Stockton : Preston Hall Museum. Period rooms.
Totnes: Elizabethan House. Elizabethan furniture.
Wakefield: City Museum. Period rooms and shops.
West Bromwich : Oak House Museum. Fifteenth-century building with period furniture.
Wemouth: No. 3 Trinity Street. Seventeenth-century house and furnishings.
Wolverhampton: Wightwick Manor. Furnished with William Morris wallpapers, glass, tiles, embroidery, etc., with Pre-Raphaelite paintings on the walls.
Worthing: Museum and Art Gallery. Period rooms.
York: Castle Museum. Period rooms and a cobbled street with period
facades.
AMERICAN ANTIQUES IN BRITAIN
There is considerable trans-Atlantic traffic m antiques, though mainly from east to west. Nevertheless, there is considerable interest in American
collections of antiques open to the public
antiques in Britain. The American Museum at Claverton Manor, near Bath, has a series of twenty furnished rooms covering American domestic life from the late seventeenth century to the middle of the nineteenth
century. See page 49.
Americana may also be seen at Capesthorne, near Macclesfield, which lies on the A34 between Wilmslow and Congleton. Ashburton Museum in Devon has some American Indian exhibits.
ARMS AND ARMOUR—see also Edged Weapons and Firearms In London
H.M. Tower of London : The Armouries.
National Army Museum. (To open mid-summer, 1971.)
Victoria and Albert Museum.
Wellington Museum.
Outside London
Abingdon: Borough Museum Collections. Arundel Castle.
Bournemouth: Rothesay Museum.
Bridgnorth: Acton Round Hall. European and Oriental arms and armour. Calstock: Cotehele House.
Canterbury: The Westgate. Museum of Arms and Armour. Edinburgh: National Museum of Antiquities. Highland weapons. Edinburgh: Scottish United Services Museum.
Farleigh Hungerford: Castle Museum. Arms and armour of Civil War period.
Glasgow: Art Gallery and Museum. Scott and Whitelaw Collections. Hatfield : Hatfield House. Armour.
Hungerford: Littlecote House. Cromwellian armoury: hide coats and seventeenth-century firearms on walls of the Great Hall. Jersey: Gorey Castle Museum.
Kilmarnock: Dick Institute Museum. Walker Collection of basket-hilted swords.
Lincoln: City and County Museum.
Llandundno: Rapallo House.
Ludlow: The Museum.
Maidenhead : Cliveden. Suits of armour.
Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Keep and Black Gate Museum.
Nuneaton: Museum and Art Gallery.
Ormskirk : Rufford Old Hall.
Pontefract: The Castle Museum. Medieval arms and armour. Poole: The Museum.
Stockton-on-Tees: Preston Hall Museum. Spence Collection. Turton: Ashworth Museum. Windsor Castle.
Many of the Services Museums have early weapons. For a complete list of these see Museums and Galleries in Great Britain and Ireland, an Index Publication, issued annually at 5s.