The historic interior
- Ayres,
J., The Shell Book of the Home in Britain: Decoration,
design and construction of vernacular interiors 1500-1850
(1981).
- Beard,
G., Craftsmen and
Interior Decoration in England 1660-1820 (1981).
- Beard, G., The
National Trust Book of the
English House Interior (1990).
- Cornforth,
J., The Quest for Comfort: English Interiors 1790-1848 (1978).
- Cooper, N., The
Opulent Eye: Late Victorian and
Edwardian Taste in Interior Design (1976).
- Fowler,
J. and Cornforth, J., English Decoration in the 18th
Century (1984).
- Gore, A. and A., The
History of English Interiors (1991).
- Hardyment, C., Behind
the Scenes: Domestic
arrangements in historic
houses (1997).
- Jackson, L., Twentieth-Century Pattern Design: Textile and Wallpaper Pioneers (2002).
- Thorton, P., Authentic
Decor: The domestic
interior 1620-1920
(1984).
- Thorton,
P., Seventeenth
Century Interior Decoration in England, France and Holland
(1978).
- Yarwood,
D., English
Interiors: A pictorial guide and glossary (1983).
- See also the works listed
under dating
historic buildings for many examples of fixtures and
fittings.
- See
also pages on specific styles,
such as Georgian
and Chinoiserie.
Plasterwork
- Bankart,
G., The Art of the Plasterer (1908; facsimile
edition Donhead 2002).
- Beard,
G., Decorative
Plasterwork in Great Britain (1975).
- Lucey,
C., The Stapleton Collection: Designs for the Irish
neoclassical interior (2007).
- Curran,
C.P., Dublin Decorative Plasterwork of the 17th and 18th
Centuries (1967).
- McDonnell, J.,
Irish Eighteenth-Century Stuccowork and its European Sources
(Dublin, 1991).
- Millar,
W., Plastering
Plain and Decorative (1897; reprinted Donhead 1998).
- Musson, J., Period
Details - Plasterwork: From
the Archives of Country Life (2000).
Wallpaper
- Crick, C., Historic
Wallpapers in the Whitworth Art Gallery (1972).
- Historic New England, Wallpaper in New
England provides a history and online database of
its large collection of wallpapers from the 1750s to the
1950s. Most of the Georgian examples were imported from England; there
are also papers from China.
- Mapes,
P., Historic
Wallpaper Conservation, The Building
Conservation Directory (1997)
- Saunders, G., Wallpaper
in Interior Decoration
(Victoria and Albert Museum 2002).
- Sugden, A.V.
and Edmondson, J.L., The History of English Wallpaper
1509-1914 (1926).
- The
Historic Wallpaper Review is published by the Wallpaper
History Society.
- See
also the comprehensive bibliography
of wallpaper history provided by the Victoria and Albert
Museum.
