Garden Furniture and Ornament

Bedford: The Pyghtle Works. [c1915].

310x250mm. pp. 240. Illustrated throughout with black and white photographs and there are three full plate colour illustrations. Beige quarter cloth. Grey paper covered boards, with colour illustration pasted onto upper cover. Some marking and rubbing to boards and to head and foot of spine. Internally very good although with some foxing and staining to edges in places.

A very nice copy of a rare and very full catalogue of garden furniture and ornament produced by John P. Whyte at the Pyghtle Works in Bedford. The catalogue lists almost everything one could want for a garden: benches and tables, of course, but also sundials, pigeon cotes, well-heads, bridges, palm boxes and fruit storing trays. John White and the Pyghtle Works collaborated closely with many of the leading architects and designers of the Arts and Crafts Movement including Baillie Scott, Lethaby and Voysey.

None of the items in this extensive catalogue is attributed to a named designer but the quality is, as one would expect, very high and this is an excellent example of Arts and Crafts design from the high point of the movement.

JISC Library Hub locates only one copy of the catalogue with Worldcat adding one further copy.