Suggested Reading List for Interiors and Wallpaper

This bibliography cites books and articles that will be useful for inquiry into the history and use of wallpapers as well as the history of interior decoration.

Ackerman, Phyllis. Wallpaper: Its History, Design, and Use. 2nd ed. New York: Tudor Publishing Co., 1938.

Adams, Stephen. The Arts and Crafts Movement. London: Quintett Publishing Limited, 1987.

Alswang, Hope, and Donald C. Pierce. American Interiors, New England and the South: Period Rooms at the Brooklyn Museum. Brooklyn, N.Y.: Brooklyn Museum, 1983.

Aslin, Elizabeth. The Aesthetic Movement: Prelude to Art Nouveau. New York: Frederick A. Praeger, 1969.

Ayers, James. The Shell Book of the Home in Britain: Decoration, Design, and Construction of Vernacular Interiors, 1500-1850. London: Faber and Faber, 1981.

Barnes, Joanna. A Decorative Art: 19th Century Wallpapers in the Whitworth Art Gallery. Manchester: The Whitworth Art Gallery, 1985.

Carlisle, Lilian Baker. Hat Boxes and Band Boxes at Shelburne Museum. Shelburne, Vermont: The Shelburne Museum, 1960.

Clark, Fiona. William Morris: Wallpapers and Chintzes . London: Academy, 1973.

Clouzot, Henri, and Charles Follot. Histoire du Papier Peint en France . Paris: Editions D'Art Charles Moreau, 1935.

"Conservation of Historic Wallpaper," Special issue of the Journal of the American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works , Spring 1981.

Cooke, Clarence. The House Beautiful . New York: Scribner, Armstrong and Company, 1878.

Cooper-Hewitt Museum. Wallpapers in the Collection of the Cooper- Hewitt Museum . Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, 1981.

Cooper, Nicholas. The Opulant Eye: Late Victorian and Edwardian Taste in Interior Design . London: Architectural Press, 1976.

Cornforth, John. English Interiors 1790-1848: The Quest for Comfort . London: Barrie and Jenkins, 1978.

_______. The Inspiration of the Past: Country House Taste in the Twentieth Century . New York: Viking, 1985.

_______. The Search for Style: Country Life and Architecture 1897-1935 . London: Andre Deutsch, 1988.

_______. "Vitality and Variety: The Musee du Papier Peint at Rixheim, near Mulhouse, France." Country Life, April 9, 1987, pp. 138-142.

_______. "The Vitality of Papier Peint." Country Life , July 11, 1985, pp. 103-106.

Davidson, Caroline. Women's Worlds: The Art and Life of Mary Ellen Best 1809-1891 . New York: Crown Publishers, 1985.

Dornsife, Samuel A. "Wallpaper." In The Encyclopaedia of Victoriana , edited by Harriet Bridgeman and Elizabeth Drury. New York:Macmillan, 1975.

Downing, A.J., The Architecture of Country Houses, with Remarks on Interiors, Furniture . New York, 1850. Reprint. New York: Dover, 1969.

Dresser, Christopher. Principles of Decorative Design . London, 1873.

Eastlake, Charles L. Hints on Household Taste . London, 1868. 4th ed., 1878. Reprint. New York: Dover, 1969.

Entwisle, Eric A. The Book of Wallpaper . London: Arthur Barker, 1954.

_______. French Scenic Wallpapers 1800-1860 . Leigh-on-Sea, England: F. Lewis, 1972.

_______. A Literary History of Wallpaper . London: B.T. Batsford, 1960.

_______. Wallpapers of the Victorian Era . Leigh-on-Sea, England: F. Lewis, 1964.

Forge, Suzanne. Victorian Splendor: Australian Interior Decoration 1837-1901 . Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1981.

Fowler, John, and John Cornforth. English Decoration in the 18th Century . Princeton, N.J.: Pyne Press, 1974.

Frangiamore, Catherine Lynn. Wallpapers in Historic Preservation . Washington, D.C.: National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior, 1977.

_______. "Wallpaper: Technological Innovation and Changes in Design and Use." Technological Innovation and the Decorative Arts: Winterthur Conference Report 1973 , pp. 277-305. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1974.

_______. "Wallpapers Used in Nineteenth Century America," The Magazine Antiques , December 1972, pp. 1042-51.

Garrett, Elisabeth Donaghy. At Home: The American Family 1750-1870 . New York: Harry N.Abrams, Inc., 1990.

Gere, Charlotte. Nineteenth-Century Interiors: The Art of the Interior . New York: Abrams, 1989.

Giouard, Mark. Life in the English Country House: A Social and Architectural History . New Haven: Yale University Press, 1978.

_______. Sweetness and Light: The 'Queen Anne' Movement 1860-1900 . New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1977.

_______. The Victorian Counrty House . Rev. ed. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1979.

Greysmith, Brenda. Wallpaper . New York: Macmillan, 1976.

Guibert, Mireille. Papiers Peints , 1800-1875. Paris: Societe des Amis de la Bibliotheque Forney, 1980.

Halen, Wildar. "Christopher Dresser and the aesthetic interior," The Magazine Antiques , January, 1991, pp. 256-267.

Hamilton, Jean. An Introduction to Wallpaper . London: Her Majesty's Stationary Office, 1983.

Hoskins, Lesley, ed. The Papered Wall . London: Thames & Hudson, 1994.

Hotchkiss, Horace. "Wallpaper Used in America, 1700-1850." In The Concise Encyclopedia of American Antiques , edited by Helen Comstock, vol. 2, pp. 488ff. New York: Hawthorne Books, 1958.

Hunter, George Leland. Home Furnishing . New York: John Lane Company, 1913.

Jackson-Stops, Gervase, and James Pipkin. The English Country House: A Grand Tour . Boston: Little, Brown, 1985.

Jacque, Bernard, and Odile Nouvel-Kammerer. Le Papier Peint Decor d'Illusion . Schirmeck: Editions Jean-Pierre Gyss, 1986.

Jones, Chester. Colefax & Fowler: The Best in English Decoration . Boston: Little, Brown, 1989.

Jones, Owen. The Grammar of Ornament . 1856. Reprint. London:Bernard Quantritch, 1910.

Katzenbach, Lois and William. The Practical Book of American Wallpaper . Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1951.

Kelly, Robert, ed. Wallpaper Reproduction News . Lee, MA.

Lynn, Catherine. Wallpaper in America from the Seventeenth Century to World War I. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1980.

_______. "Decorating Surfaces: Aesthetic Delight, Theoretical Dilemma," and "Surface Ornament: Wallpapers, Carpets, Textiles, and Embroidery." In Pursuit of Beauty: Americans and the Aesthetic Movement . New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Rizzoli, 1986.

Kosuda - Warner, Joanne. Landscape Wallcoverings. New York: Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, 2001.

Kaplan, Wendy. 'The Art That Is Life': The Arts and Crafts Movement in America, 1875-1920. Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1987.

Lancaster, Clay, ed.. New York Interiors at the Turn of the Century . New York: Dover, 1976.

Landsun, Susan. Victorians at Home . New York: Viking, 1981.

Leopold, Alison Kyle. Victorian Splendor: Re-creating America's 19th Century Interiors . New York: Stewart, Tabori and Chang, 1986.

Loudon, J. C. An Encyclopaedia of Cottage, Farm, and Villa Architecture and Furniture . London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1833.

Mayhew, Edgar de N., and Minor Myers, Jr. A Documentary History of American Interiors from the Colonial Era to 1915 . New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1980.

McClelland, Nancy V. Historic Wall-Papers from Their Inception to the Introduction of Machinery . Philadelphia and London: J. B. Lippincott, 1924.

_______. The Practical Book of Decorative Wall Treatments . Philadelphia and London: J.B. Lippincott, 1926.

Murphy, Phyllis, comp. The Decorated Wall: Eighty Years of Wallpaper in Australia, c. 1850-1930 . Elizabeth Bay: Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales, 1981.

Musee des Arts Decoratifs. Trois Siecles de Papiers Peints . Paris: Musee des Arts Decoratifs, 1967.

"Musee du Papier Peint." Special issue of the Bulletin de la Societe Industrielle de Mulhouse , No. 793, 1984.

Naylor, Gillian, ed. William Morris by himself: Designs and writings . Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1988.

Nouvel, Odile. Wallpapers of France 1800-1850 . New York: Rizzoli,1981.

Nylander, Richard C. "Elegant Late Nineteenth-Century Wallpapers," The Magazine Antiques. August 1982, pp. 284-87.

_______. "English Wallpaper in New England," Country Life , April 26, 1979, pp. 1304-07 .

_______. "Wallpaper and the Historic House." Slide tape. Nashville: American Association for State and Local History, 1977.

_______. "Wallpaper Before 1830," Early American Life. February 1980, pp.4O-43.

_______. Wallpapers for Historic Buildings: A Guide to Selecting Reproduction Wallpapers. Washington, D. C.: Preservation Press, 1983. Revised 1992.

Nylander, Richard C., Redmond, Elizabeth, and Sander, Penny J. Wallpaper in New England. Boston, Mass., Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities, 1986.

Olligs, Heinrich, ed. Tapeten: Ihre Geschichte bix zur Gegenvart. 3 vols. Brunswick: Klinkhardt & Breimaun, 1970.

Oman, Charles C. Catalogue of Wallpapers, Victoria and Albert Museum. London: 1929.

_______ and Jean Hamilton. Wallpapers: An International History and Illustrated Survey from the Victoria and Albert Museum. New York: Abrams, 1982.

Parry, Linda. William Morris and The Arts and Crafts Movement: A Design Source Book. New York: Portland House, 1989.

Peterson, Harold L. Americans at Home. New York: Scribner's, 1971. Reissued as American Interiors: From Colonial Times to the Late Victorians. New York: Scribner's, 1979.

Praz, Mario. An Illustrated History of Furnishing from the Renaissance to the Twentieth Century. New York: Braziller, 1964. Reissued as An Illustrated History of Interior Decorating from Pompeii to Art Nouveau. New York: Thames on Hudson, 1982.

Rosoman, Treve. London Wallpapers: Their Manufacture and Use 1690-1840. London: English Heritage, 1992.

Reichlin, Ellie, Jean Caslin, and Dan Younger. A Photographic Intimacy: The Portraiture of Rooms, 1865-1900. Nineteenth Century Photographs of Domestic Interiors from the Collections of the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities. Boston: SPNEA and the Photographic Resource Center, 1984.

Sanborn, Kate. Old Time Wall Papers . Greenwich, Conn.:Literary Collector Press, 1905.

Saunders, Gil. Ornate Wallpapers . Exeter: Webb & Bower in association with the Victoria and Albert Museum, 1985.

Seale, William. Recreating the Historic House Interior . Nashville: American Association for State and Local History, 1979.

_______. The Tasteful Interlude: American Interiors Through the Camera's Eye, 1860-1917 . New York: Praeger, 1975. Nashville: American Association for State and Local History, 1981.

Stickley, Gustav. Craftsman Homes . New York: Craftsman Publishing Company, 1909.

Sugden, Alan V, and Edmondson, J. L. A History of English Wallpaper, 1509-1914 . New York: Scribner's, 1925; London: B.T Batsford, 1926.

Teynac, Francoise, Pierre Nolot, and Jean-Denis Vivian. Wallpaper: A History . New York: Rizzoli, 1982.

Thornton, Peter. Authentic Decor. The Domestic Interior: 1620-1920 . New York: Viking Penguin, 1982.

Tunander, Ingemar. Tapeter i Sverige . Vasteras, Sweden. ICA bokforlog, 1984.

Watkins, Walter Kendell. "The Early Use and Manufacture of Paper-Hangings in Boston." Old-Time New England , 12 (January 1922): 109-19.

Wells-Cole, Anthony. Historic Paper Hangings from Temple Newsam Collection and from other English Houses . Leeds: Leeds City Art Galleries, 1983.

Wheeler, Candace. Principles of Home Decoration. New York: Doubleday, Page and Company, 1908.

Whitworth Art Gallery. Historic Wallpapers in the Whitworth Art Gallery. Manchester, England: Whitworth Art Gallery, 1972.

Winkler, Gail Caskey, and Roger W. Moss. Victorian Interior Decoration: American Interiors 1830-1900. New York: Henry Holt, 1987.

Woods, Christine, ed. Sanderson, 1860-1985. London: Arthur Sanderson & Sons, 1985.


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