The historic interior
- Aynsley, J. and Grant, C. (eds.), Imagined Interiors, representing
the domestic since the Renaissance (2006). This book sprang from the
same project as The Domestic
Interiors Database, which is an online, searchable collection of
images.
- 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).
- Kightly, C., Living Rooms: Interior Decoration in Wales
400–1960 (2005).
- Parissien, S., Interiors: The Home Since 1700 (2008).
Concentrates on the homes of merchants and the middle classes.
- Pile, J., A History of Interior Design, 3rd edn. (2009).
Worldwide.
- Thorton, P., Authentic Decor: The domestic interior
1620-1920 (1984).
- Thorton, P., Seventeenth Century Interior Decoration in England,
France and Holland (1978).
- Wood, M., John Fowler: Prince of decorators (2007).
- 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.
- Victoria and Albert Museum, Wallpaper
provides a history and comprehensive bibliography.