Syrie Maugham

Richard B. Fisher.

Duckworth. London & Dallas. 1978. Hardback, quarto; brown boards, dust jacket. 78 pages. 7 colour plates and 32 b&w photographs. English. 285 x 225mm. 0.6kg. 9780715613078. Very good, in very good dust jacket; light fading to spine, not price-clipped; light spotting to top edge, light staining to fore edge, no inscriptions.

This was the first book to fully examine and illustrate the decorative work of Syrie Maugham. The photographs illustrate her many projects as an influential decorator of the early twentieth century, including the infamous all-white drawing room in the house she shared with Somerset Maugham on the King's Road.