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  • ERCOL: Furniture in the Making

    ISBN: 978 0957209534
    Price: £25.00
    SECOND EDITION- BRINGING IT UP TO 2019

    - ON SPECIAL OFFER AT £15 FOR A LIMITED TIME ONLY

    Ercol is the book that post-war design enthusiasts have been waiting for. It tells the fascinating story of Ercol, one of Britain's best-loved and most successful furniture companies. Founded in 1920 at High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire by Italian-born Lucian Ercolani (1888-1976), who came to Britain at the age of 10, Ercol is still going strong today and the company is still family-owned and run.
    The book focuses... Read more...

  • MOORCROFT 1897-1993 - NEW SOFTBACK EDITION 2018

    ISBN 978 0957209 527
    PRICE: £28
    PUBLICATION DATE: JANUARY 2018

    This essential book for collectors is now available in a softback edition.
    240pp, including approximately 450 colour plates and 70 black and white images.

    This popular book is a fully detailed guide to all Moorcroft pottery from 1897-1993 with more designs, colourways, shapes, drawings and information to previous editions. It includes all the known designs by William and Walter Moorcroft and Sally Tuffin for Moorcroft. Read more...

  • NEW PUBLICATION - AUTUMN 2017

    MOORCROFT POTTERY: SIGNED BY DESIGN; The Making of William Moorcroft. 15 pages, 10 illustrations.

    An interesting new essay / pamphlet by Jonathan Mallinson of Oxford University, discussing William's signature on his pottery in the context of the evolution of artist signed ceramics Read more...

  • MEDICINE AND DUTY: THE FIRST WORLD WAR DIARY OF DR HAROLD DEARDEN

    FOREWARD BY PAUL ATTERBURY
    Harold Dearden's diaries were first published in 1928. This was a sanitised version - the names, places and much detail had been omitted. A century later with access to the original diaries, we felt it permissible to reinstate these names, places, gossip and personal impressions. Contemporary accounts of a personal nature are rare and invaluable. We have included photographs and maps to explain and illustrate the infrastructure and introducted many of the personalities.
    His two years in France illustrate the extr... Read more...