Key books

 

De Bruijn, E., Chinese Wallpaper in Britain and Ireland, National Trust, 2017

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​Dodwell, C. R., (Foreword) A Decorative Art: 19th Century Wallpapers in the Whitworth Art Gallery, Greater Manchester Council, 1985

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Hendon, Z., Wallpaper, Shire Publications, 2018

 

Hoskins, L., [ed], The Papered Wall: the History, Patterns and Techniques of Wallpaper, Thames & Hudson, 2005

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Rosoman, T., London Wallpapers: their Manufacture and Use 1690–1840, Oxford University Press, 2010

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Saunders, G., Wallpaper in Interior Decoration, V&A, 2002

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Wells-Cole, A., Historic Paper Hangings from Temple Newsam and Other English Houses, Leeds City Art Galleries, 1983

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Wells-Cole, A. & Walker, B., Wallpapers at Temple Newsam 1635 to the present, Leeds Art Fund, 2018

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Additional resources

 

Ackerman, P., Wallpaper: its History, Design and Use,  Heinemann, 1923

 

Anderson, J., Glorious Splendor: the 18th-Century Wallpapers in the Jeremiah Lee Mansion in  Marblehead, Massachusetts, Donning Company, 2013

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Andrews, W.D., 'The Cowtan Order Books, 1824–1938: an analysis of wallpaper and decorating records
and their use as historical sources' (PhD thesis, University of Cambridge)

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Clouzot, H., Histoire du papier peint en France, FB&C Ltd (republished), 2018

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Cooper Union Museum for the Arts of Decoration, Wallpaper: a Picture-book of Examples in the Collection of the Cooper Union Museum. New York. 1961

 

Crace, J.G., (Author) and Sugden A.V & Entwistle E.A. (Foreword) Crace, J. G., The Crace Papers: Two Lectures on the History of Paperhangings, 1839

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De Bruijn, E., Bush A. P., Clifford, H., Chinese Wallpaper in National Trust Houses, National Trust, 2014

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De Salvo, D., & Massie, A. (curation); Saunders, G. (essay) Apocalyptic Wallpaper, Wexner Center for the Arts, Ohio State University, 1997

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Ellis, L., 'I Believe in Wallpaper': Examining Salesmanship through The Wallpaper Magazine 1920–1939'

(MA dissertation, University of Brighton, 2019)

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Entwisle, E.A., A Literary History of Wallpaper, Batsford, 1960

 

Entwisle, E.A., The Book of Wallpaper: a History and an Appreciation, Kingsmead Reprints, 1970

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Fischer, C., Wallcoverings: Applying the Language of Color and Pattern. From the F. Schumacher & Co Collections, Universe, 2003

 

Fischer, J., Wallpaper - Tapeten - Papiers peints,  Ullman. 2008

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Greysmith, B., Wallpaper, Studio Vista, 1976

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Hawksley, L., Bitten by Witch Fever: Wallpaper & Arsenic in the Victorian Home, Thames and Hudson, 2016

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Jennings, A.S., Wallpapers and Wall Coverings, Trade Papers Publishing Co, 1903

Jennings, A.S., Wall-paper Decoration, Trade Papers Publishing Co, 1907

 

Hapgood, M.O., Wallpaper and the Artist: from Dürer to Warhol, Abbeville Press, 1992

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Jaqué, B., Le Papier Peint: Decor d’Illusion, Editions Jean-Pierre Gyss, 1989

 

Kelly, R. M., The Backstory of Wallpaper: Paper-Hangings 1650–1750, WallpaperScholar.com, 2013

 

Khan, S., Paper Tapestry, Epsom Wells & The Origin of English Wallpaper 1680–1720, 2012

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Koldeweij, E., The Marketing of Gilt Leather in Seventeenth-Century Holland, Print Quarterly, XIII, 1996

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Kosuda-Warner, J., Kitsch to Corbusier: Wallpapers from the 1950s.  Exhibition catalogue, Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution, New York, 1995

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Kosuda-Warner, J., Landscape Wallcoverings, Scala, London; Cooper-Hewitt New York, 2001

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Lawrence, D., 'Getting the decorators in: trade and practice c1850–1950',  WHS website blog

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Lynn, C., Wallpaper in America from the Seventeenth Century to World War I, Norton, 1980

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Mapes, P., 'The English Wallpaper Trade 1750–1830'

(PhD thesis, University of Leicester)

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Nouvel-Kammerer, O., (Ed) French Scenic Wallpaper, 1795–1865, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris 1990; English ed. 2000

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Nouvel-Kammeerer, O., (Ed) Wallpapers of France 1800–1850, Zwemmer, 1981

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Nylander, R.C., et al, Wallpaper in New England, SPNEA, 1986

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Nylander, R.C., Wallpapers for Historic Buildings, The Preservation Press, 1992

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Oman, C.C., and Hamilton, J., Wallpapers: a History and Illustrated Catalogue of the Collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum, V&A, 1982

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Parry, L., ed., William Morris, Philip Wilson Publishers in association with the Victoria & Albert Museum, 1996

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Sanborn, K., Old time wall papers; an account of the pictorial papers on our forefathers' walls, with a study of the historical development of wall paper making and decoration, Literary Collector Press, Greenwich, Conn.,1905

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Saumarez Smith, C., Eighteenth-Century Decoration: Design and the Domestic Interior in England, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1993

 

Saunders, G., Woods, C., Heyse-Moore, D., Keeble, T. Walls Are Talking, The Whitworth Art Gallery, University of Manchester & KWS Publishers, 2010

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Schoeser, M., Sanderson: the Essence of English Decoration, Thames & Hudson, 2010​

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Skinner, D., Wallpapers in Ireland 1700–1900, Churchill House Press, 2014

 

Stavenow-Hidemark, E. (ed.), New Discoveries, New Research, papers from the international wallpaper conference at the Nordiska Museet, Stockholm 2007. (2009).

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Sugden, A.V., and Edmondson, J.L., A History of English Wallpaper; 1509–1914, Batsford 1926

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Sugden, A.V., WPM: The Pattern of a Great Organisation, The Wallpaper Manufacturers Ltd, 1949

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Sugden, A.V. and Entwisle, E. A., Potters of Darwen: a Century of Wallpaper Printing by Machinery 1839–1939, G. Falkner &Sons, 1939

 

Taylor, L. (foreword) Wallpaper in the Collection of the Cooper-Hewitt Museum, the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Design,  Cooper-Hewitt Museum. New York, 1981

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Teynac, L., et al, Wallpaper: a History, Thames and Hudson, 1982

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Thibaut-Pomerantz, C., Wallpaper: a History of Style and Trends, Flammarion, 2009

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Turner, M. et al, A Popular Art: British Wallpapers 1930–1960, Middlesex Polytechnic,1989

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Velut, C., Murs de Papier 1798–1805, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, 2018

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Ward, G.W,. Wall paper, its origin, development and manufacture, Pitman, 1922

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