Victorian Wallpaper: Bibliography & Resources

Wallpaper in America: From the Seventeenth Century to World War I

Catherine Lynn

A comprehensive history of American wallpaper, produced with the Barra Foundation and the Cooper-Hewitt Museum and drawing on the museum's holdings.

ISBN: 9780393014488

The Papered Wall: History, Pattern, Technique

Lesley Hoskins (editor)

A collection of essays by specialists on the history, design and manufacture of wallpaper, with a strong emphasis on British practice.

The Grammar of Ornament

Owen Jones

The great nineteenth-century survey of world ornament in 100 colour plates; it is the source of the plates in this archive.

A History of English Wallpaper, 1509-1914

Alan V. Sugden and John L. Edmondson

An early and still-cited survey of the British wallpaper trade and its makers.

Wallpapers: A History and Illustrated Catalogue of the Collection in the Victoria and Albert Museum

Charles C. Oman and Jean Hamilton

A scholarly catalogue and history of wallpaper based on one of the largest museum collections.

William Morris

Linda Parry (editor)

The catalogue of the Victoria and Albert Museum's centenary exhibition, with extensive coverage of Morris's wallpapers.