Books on Design (3). Degaast, Georges & Frot, Georges, Les Industries Graphiques. Conferences d'Enseignement Technique du Livre, Paris, aux depens des Auteurs, 1934, Tipped-in col. and other plates as samples of reproduction processes, sample pages including five embossed pages for books for the blind, 629 text illus. (8),324,(3)pp., 4to., cloth, a complete description of the contemporary printing industry in France - paper, reproduction processes, ink, typography, binding, posters, &c. a documentation and guide according to the preface; Auriol, George, Le Premier Livre des cachets, marques et monogrammes dessines par…, Paris, Librairie Centrale des Beaux-Arts, 1901, Frontis. illustration, 71 litho plates of seals and monograms printed recto only, (12)pp., printed throughout in grey-green and terra-cotta, small square 8vo., folded pictorial wrappers over card as issued, spine lightly browned. An excellent copy. Fields 331, a perfect little Art Nouveau book. the typography is in Auriol's distinctive 'Brushstroke' type, the monograms largely developed from Japanese crests. Each is designed for a named person, and it seems just about everyone prominent in the arts or literature commissioned one from Auriol; Graffe, W.G., Poster Design, London, Chapman and Hall, 1932. second edition, 70 colour plates, 100 half-tone plates (neither included in pagination), 204 illustrations in text, xvi,224pp., 4to. 26 x 20 cm, publisher's orange cloth boards, rebacked in black morocco gilt titled. 2 cm. oval library stamp on lower margin of most plates otherwise clean and fresh internally.