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

• Catalogue of the Valuable Art Property, Antiques, Curios and Artistic Objects of Utility Removed From the Residence of the Noted Playwright, the Late Clyde Fitch, to be Sold at Unrestricted Public Sale for the Benefit of the Actors' Fund of America (estate auction catalog, 1918), by American Art Association
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• American Art Auction Catalogues, 1785-1942: A Union List (New York: New York Public Library, 1944), by Harold Lancour (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Catalogue of Magnificent Collection of Antique Carvings and Things Buddhistic, From Temples and Palaces of Japan and China, to be Sold at Public Auction on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday Afternoons, February 5, 6 and 7, at 2.30 O'Clock, in the Fifth Avenue Art Galleries, 366 Fifth Ave., Near Thirty-Fourth St., New York (1903), by Yamanaka & Company, contrib. by James P. Silo (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Catalogue of Magnificent Collection of Antique Carvings and Things Buddhistic, From Temples and Palaces of Japan and China, to be Sold at Public Sale on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday Afternoons, November 6, 7, 8, 1902, at 2.30 O'Clock, at Copley Hall, Boston (1902), by Yamanaka & Company, contrib. by Frank A. Leonard (page images at HathiTrust)

• Catalogue of Magnificent Collection of Antique Carvings and Things Buddhistic, From Temples and Palaces of Japan and China, to be Sold at Public Auction on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday Afternoons, February 5, 6 and 7, at 2.30 O'Clock, in the Fifth Avenue Art Galleries, 366 Fifth Ave., Near Thirty-Fourth St., New York (1903), by Yamanaka & Company, contrib. by James P. Silo (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Catalogue of Magnificent Collection of Antique Carvings and Things Buddhistic, From Temples and Palaces of Japan and China, to be Sold at Public Sale on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday Afternoons, November 6, 7, 8, 1902, at 2.30 O'Clock, at Copley Hall, Boston (1902), by Yamanaka & Company, contrib. by Frank A. Leonard (page images at HathiTrust)

• Objects of Art, Including Miniature Portraits, Battersea Enamels, Eighteenth Century Fans, Gold Mounted Snuff Boxes: Collection Belonging to the Estate of the Late Edith Kingdon Gould, Sold by Order of the Executors Jay Gould and Charles Prentiss Noyes (New York: American Art Association, 1929), by American Art Association
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Terre Cotte Artistiche e Decorative (illustrated catalog in Italian; Florence et al: Lit. A. Ruffoni, ca. 1900), by Manifattura di Signa (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Sikes 1939 Catalog 1940: Modern; Old Chatham; Colonist Craft (Buffalo: Sikes Co., ca. 1939), by Sikes Company (page images at HathiTrust)

• The London Chair-Makers' and Carvers' Book of Prices for Workmanship, As Regulated and Agreed To by a Committee of Master Chair-Manufacturers and Journeymen (third edition; London: T. Brettell, 1829), by Committee of Master Chair-Manufacturers and Journeymen (London, England) (multiple formats at Google)

• Colonial Furniture: The Superb Collection of The Late Howard Reifsnyder, Including Signed Pieces by Philadelphia Cabinetmakers, Formerly Contained in The Reifsnyder Residence, The Pennsylvania Museum and Mount Pleasant Mansion, Philadelphia; Sold by Order of The Executors Hannah G. Reifsnyder and Corn Exchange National Bank and Trust Company, Philadelphia (New York: American Art Association, 1929) (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer's Guide, or, Repository of Designs for Every Article of Household Furniture, in the Newest and Most Approved Taste: Displaying a Great Variety of Patterns ... in the Plainest and Most Enriched Styles: With a Scale to Each, and an Explanation in Letter Press: Also, the Plan of a Room, Shewing the Proper Distribution of the Furniture, from drawings by A. Hepplewhite and Co. (reprinted from 1794 I. and J. Taylor third edition; London: B.T. Batsford, 1897), by A. Hepplewhite and Co., contrib. by George Hepplewhite (page images at Wisconsin)

• The London Cabinet-Makers' Union Book of Prices (London: Printed by Ballintine and Byworth for the Committee, 1811), by London Cabinet Makers (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Baltimore Federal Furniture in the American Wing (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1972), by Marilynn Johnson (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• Colonial Furniture: The Superb Collection of The Late Howard Reifsnyder, Including Signed Pieces by Philadelphia Cabinetmakers, Formerly Contained in The Reifsnyder Residence, The Pennsylvania Museum and Mount Pleasant Mansion, Philadelphia; Sold by Order of The Executors Hannah G. Reifsnyder and Corn Exchange National Bank and Trust Company, Philadelphia (New York: American Art Association, 1929) (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Handbook of Mohammedan Decorative Arts (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1930), by M. S. Dimand (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)
• A Handbook of Muhammadan Art (third edition; New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1958), by M. S. Dimand (page images at HathiTrust)

• Migration Art, A.D. 300-800 (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1995), by Katharine Reynolds Brown (page images and PDF at Metropolitan Museum of Art and Google)

• American Art Posters of the 1890s in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Including the Leonard A. Lauder Collection (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1987), by Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), contrib. by David W. Kiehl, Phillip Dennis Cate, and Nancy Finlay (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• Baltimore Federal Furniture in the American Wing (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1972), by Marilynn Johnson (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 (page images at HathiTrust)
• 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)

• 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.