- Novelty fabrics, introduction by Valerie Mendes
- An arts and crafts experiment, the silverwork of C. R. Ashbee, by Shirley Bury
- Joseph Beuys, drawings, City Art Gallery, Leeds, Kettle's Yard Gallery, Cambridge, Victoria and Albert Museum, London
- Quilts 1700-2010
- A guide to early photographic processes, Brian Coe, Mark Haworth-Booth
- Space, Prix Prictet
- Old and modern masters of photography, [catalogue of] an exhibition of photographs selected from the collection in the Victoria and Albert Museum
- Frank Lloyd Wright, the Kaufmann office, Christopher Wilk
- Nineteenth-century fashion in detail, Lucy Johnston, with Marion Kite and Helen Persson
- An introduction to wallpaper, Jean Hamilton
- Jewels and jewellery, Clare Phillips ; photography by Ian Thomas
- Knitting, fashion, industry, craft, Sandy Black
- John Constable, the making of a master, Mark Evans, with Stephen Calloway and Susan Owens
- English printed textiles, 1720-1836
- Lucie Rie, a survey of her life and work, edited by John Houston ; with photographs by David Cripps, published to accompany an exhibition held at the Sainsbury Centre, Norwich and the Victoria & Albert Museum, 1981 and 1982
- 17th and 18th century costume, introduction by James Laver
- 80s fashion, from club to catwalk, edited by Sonnet Stanfill
- Renaissance watercolours, from Dürer to Van Dyck, Mark Evans with Elania Pieragostini
- Gates of mystery, the art of holy Russia, edited by Roderick Grierson
- Hallyu!, the Korean wave, edited by Rosalie Kim ; with contributions from Youna Kim [and 16 others]
- Fabergé, romance to revolution, edited by Kieran McCarthy and Hanne Faurby
- Lucy Brown [Postcards]
- Word & image, art, books and design from the National Art Library, edited by Rowan Watson, Elizabeth James and Julius Bryant
- Tartan, Jonathan Faiers
- The Victoria & Albert Museums textile collection, British textile design from 1940 to the present, Ngozi Ikoku
- The future starts here, edited by Rory Hyde and Mariana Pestana with Kieran Long ; assistant editor, Zara Arshad
- Modern fashion in detail, by Claire Wilcox & Valerie Mendes
- Julia Margaret Cameron, photographs to electrify you with delight and startle the world, Marta Weiss
- V&A gallery of fashion, edited by Claire Wilcox and Jenny Lister
- Four hundred years of fashion, edited by Natalie Rothstein ; text by Madeleine Ginsburg, Avril Hart, Valerie D. Mendes, with other members of the Department of Textiles and Dress ; photography by Philip Barnard
- Berlioz and the romantic imagination: an exhibition, organized by the Arts Council and the Victoria and Albert Museum on behalf of the Berlioz Centenary Committee in cooperation with the French Government, 17 October to 14 December
- Notes on quilting
- Chinese dress, Verity Wilson ; photography by Ian Thomas
- Literary Britain, photographed by Bill Brandt ; with an introduction by John Hayward ; edited with an afterword by Mark Haworth-Booth
- British studio pottery, the Victoria and Albert Museum collection, Oliver Watson
- Alexander McQueen, edited by Claire Wilcox
- The three books of the potter's art, a facsimile of the manuscript in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, by Cipriano Piccolpasso ; translated and introduced by Ronald Lightbown and Alan Calger-Smith = i tre libri dell'arte del vasaio
- Ascher, fabric, art, fashion : Zika and Lida Ascher, text Valerie D Mendes and Frances M Hinchcliffe ; design Patrick Yapp
- Surreal things, Surrealism and design, edited by Ghislaine Wood
- Decorative ironwork, Marian Campbell
- Chinese ceramics, porcelain of the Qing dynasty 1644-1911, Rose Kerr
- Gaming, the arts and living, Edward T. Joy
- Avant premiere, contemporary French furniture, edited by Garth Hall, Margo Rouard Snowman
- The art and craft of Gianni Versace, Claire Wilcox, Valerie Mendes and Chiara Buss
- Thea Porter, Laura MacLaws Helms and Venetia Porter
- Liberty's, 1875-1975, exhibition guide
- Aubrey Beardsley, by Brian Reade
- The basic stitches of embroidery, by N. Victoria Wade
- The glamour of Italian fashion since 1945, edited by Sonnet Stanfill
- English embroidery, by Barbara J. Morris