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Table setting and decoration

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• Decoration and ornament
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• Glassware

• Table decoration

• American Glassware, Old and New: A Sketch of the Glass Industry in the United States and Manual For Collectors of Historical Bottles (Philadelphia: David McKay Company, ca. 1900), by Edwin Atlee Barber (page images at Wisconsin)

• Glass and Glazes from Ancient Egypt (1948), by Brooklyn Museum and Elizabeth Riefstahl (page images at HathiTrust)

• Glass in the Collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1982), ed. by Jane Hayward (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• American Glassware, Old and New: A Sketch of the Glass Industry in the United States and Manual For Collectors of Historical Bottles (Philadelphia: David McKay Company, ca. 1900), by Edwin Atlee Barber (page images at Wisconsin)

• Decoration and Glass (Waterloo, NSW: Australian Glass Manufactures, 1935-1949) (full serial archives)

• Stained Glass Work: A Text-Book for Students and Workers in Glass (reprint: London et al.: Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons, 1920), by Christopher Whall (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Die Glasmalerei in Österreich (in German; Vienna: E. Holzel and Co., 1922), by Franz Kieslinger (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Conservación de Vidrieras Históricas (in Spanish; Los Angeles: Getty Conservation Institute, 1997), ed. by Miguel Angel Corzo and Nieves Valentín (page images and PDF with commentary at getty.edu and Google)

• Conservación de Vidrieras Históricas (in Spanish; Los Angeles: Getty Conservation Institute, 1997), ed. by Miguel Angel Corzo and Nieves Valentín (page images and PDF with commentary at getty.edu and Google)

• A Book of Drawing, Limning, Washing or Colouring of Maps and Prints (London; M. Simmons, 1652), by Thomas Jenner (PDF at shipbrook.net)

• Radiance and Reflection: Medieval Art from the Raymond Pitcairn Collection (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1982), by Jane Hayward and Walter Cahn (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• Glass in the Collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1982), ed. by Jane Hayward (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• Louis Comfort Tiffany at The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York and London: Harry N. Abrams, 1998), by Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen (page images and PDF at Metropolitan Museum of Art and Google)

• The Bertrand Bottles: A Study of 19th-century Glass and Ceramic Containers (Washington: National Park Service, 1974), by Ronald R. Switzer (page images at HathiTrust)

• Catalogue of Glass Models of Invertebrate Animals, H. A. Ward's Natural Science Establishment, Rochester, N.Y. (Rochester, NY: E.R. Andrews, 1888), by Henry A. Ward (page images at HathiTrust)

• Glass and Glazes from Ancient Egypt (1948), by Brooklyn Museum and Elizabeth Riefstahl (page images at HathiTrust)

• Nishapur: Glass of the Early Islamic Period (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1995), by Jens Kröger (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• The Botanic Garden: A Poem, In Two Parts (2 parts in 1 volume; New York: T. and J. Swords, 1807), by Erasmus Darwin (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Botanic Garden: A Poem, in Two Parts, With Philosophical Notes, by Erasmus Darwin
  • Part I: Gutenberg text
  • Part II: Gutenberg text

• Nishapur: Glass of the Early Islamic Period (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1995), by Jens Kröger (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Anthropology Design Series (full serial archives)
• The Bases of Design (second edition; London: G. Bell and Sons, 1902), by Walter Crane (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Decorative Arts, Their Relation to Modern Life and Progress: An Address Delivered Before the Trades' Guild of Learning (London: Ellis and White, 1878), by William Morris
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • HTML (may be from different edition) at burrows.com
• Styles of Ornament, Exhibited in Designs, and Arranged in Historical Order, With Descriptive Text (1906), by Alexander Speltz, ed. by David O'Conor (page images at Wisconsin)
• 1050 Jewelry Designs: Antique, Primitive, Classic, Modern (1946), by Yvonne Françoise Jossic (illustrated HTML pages at farlang.com)
• Applied Art: Drawing, Painting, Design and Handicraft, Arranged for Self-Instruction of Teachers, Parents and Students (Mountain View, CA et al.: Pacific Press Pub. Assoc., 1920), by Pedro J. Lemos
  • color page images at HathiTrust; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org; black-and-white images, not all matching those in HathiTrust copies
• Art Recreations, by L. B. Urbino (page images at MOA)
• Line and Form (London: G. Bell and Sons, 1914), by Walter Crane (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
• Peter Hunt's Workbook: With Text and Pictures (Chicago and New York: Ziff-Davis, c1945), by Peter Hunt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ladies' Fancy Work: Hints and Helps To Home Taste and Recreations (New York: H. T. Williams, 1876), by Mrs. C. S. Jones and Henry T. Williams (page images at HathiTrust)
• Manual of Design, Compiled from the Writings and Addresses of Richard Redgrave (New York: Scribner, Welford, and Armstrong, ca. 1876), by Richard Redgrave, ed. by G. R. Redgrave (page images at HathiTrust)
• Manual of Design, Complied from the Writings and Addresses of Richard Redgrave (London: Pub. for the Committee of Council on Education by Chapman and Hall, 1876), by Richard Redgrave, ed. by G. R. Redgrave (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Needlework as Art (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, 1886), by Marian Alford
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Two Paths, by John Ruskin (Gutenberg text)
• Architecture and Democracy (1918), by Claude Fayette Bragdon
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • Gutenberg text
• Decorative Needlework (London: J. Hughes and Co., 1893), by May Morris
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Student's Manual of Fashion Drawing: Thirty Lessons with Conventional Charts (New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1919), by Edith Young (page images at Wisconsin)

• Six Birds, Accurately Drawn and Coloured After Nature, With Full Directions for the Young Artist (1817), by George Brookshaw (page images at Wisconsin)
• Die Altgermanische Thierornamentik: Typologische Studie Über Germanische Metallgegenstände aus dem IV. bis IX. Jahrhundert, Nebst Einer Studie Über Irische Ornamentik (in German; Stockholm: K. L. Beckman, 1904), by Bernhard Salin, trans. by J. Mestorf
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Nature Index: 5000 Selected References to Nature Forms and Illustrations of Nature in Design, Painting and Sculpture (Boston: F. W. Faxon Co., 1930), by Jessie Croft Ellis (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Handbook of Muhammadan Art (third edition; New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1958), by M. S. Dimand (page images at HathiTrust)

• The American Builder's Companion: or, A New System of Architecture, Particularly Adapted To The Present Style of Building in the United States of America (Boston: Etheridge and Bliss, 1806), by Asher Benjamin
  • page images at Wisconsin
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The House Decorator and Painter's Guide: Containing a Series of Designs for Decorating Apartments, Suited to the Various Styles of Architecture (London: Thomas Kelly, 1840), by Henry William Arrowsmith and A. Arrowsmith (page images at Wisconsin)

• Creators of Decorative Styles: Being a Survey of The Decorative Periods in England From 1600 To 1800, With Special Reference to the Masters of Applied Art Who Developed the Dominant Styles (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page, and Co., 1917), by Walter A. Dyer
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Historical Color Guide: Primitive to Modern Times (New York: W. Helburn, c1938), by Elizabeth Burris-Meyer (page images at HathiTrust)

• Carved and Painted Designs From New Guinea (Anthropology design series #5; Chicago: Field Museum of Natural History, 1931), by A. B. Lewis (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Decorative Art (1926-1960) (partial serial archives)
• "The Studio" Yearbook of Decorative Art (full serial archives)
• Art et Décoration (in French) (partial serial archives)
• The Burlington Magazine (partial serial archives)
• The Studio: An Illustrated Magazine of Fine and Applied Art (issues online 1893-1925) (partial serial archives)
• Design (British industrial design magazine, online issues 1965-1974) (partial serial archives)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.