"A Record of Work. Being Illustrations of Printing, Stencilling and Painting, Stained Glass, Cabinet-Work and Marquetry, Embroidery, Woven fabrics and Other Decorative Works Designed and Executed by Aldam Heaton, With Notes by the Designer"
By [John] Aldam Heaton. Published in London by Aldam Heaton; probably about 1890.
J. Aldam Heaton [1830-1897] was a noted London designer and a leading member of the “Neo Classical Arts & Crafts Movement”. A member of William Morris’s circle, he was also a friend of Dante Gabriel Rosetti, who painted Heaton’s wife. Most of his designs fall well within the style of the English Arts & Crafts movement, including his stained glass, wallpapers, textile designs, ceilings and friezes. When he designed furniture, though, he veered more toward the classic English 18th century.
This is book is in fact a trade catalog, with each item described and priced. The first 26 items are Arts & Crafts overmantels, ceilings and mantels, followed by a dozen wallpapers and carpets; there are then a half-dozen carved and decorated altar panels, wall pieces and such, followed by more than 30 stained glass window designs. The catalog is completed with marquetry panels, furniture, screens and several window draperies.
A few years after the death of its’ founder, Aldam Heaton & Co. would go on to design much of the interior of the Titanic.
This is an interesting association copy, with the small bookplate of “Maurice B. Adams – Chiswick”. Maurice B. Adams [1849-1933] was an eclectic English architect who lived in and helped promote Bedford Park, the pioneering London ‘garden suburb’. From 1872 to 1923 he was the editor of ‘Building News’. Uncommon- OCLC locates only 5 copies.
Hardcover. 9”x11.5”, 6 pages of text plus 63 black & white plates, with figures numbered 1-90, plus 2 un-numbered plates of drapery; there is no item 22, but it appears never to have existed.
An albumen print of a painted frieze, apparently by Heaton, is pasted to the back of plate 14; a cabinet photo of Heaton, with the inked note “J. Aldam Heaton B.1830 D.1897” is pasted inside the rear cover.
Publisher’s elaborately decorated covers; covers worn, especially at the tips; upper tip bumped; the outer cloth covering the spine appears to have perished leaving the black inner cloth, which is stained; spine head and base chipped; rear cover creased; endpapers soiled, front hinge cracked but tight; light internal soil and a little browning.
Inside the front cover, and inside the rear cover, showing the albumen portrait of Heaton-
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