Janette Ray - Specialist Dealer in Books, Periodicals and Trade Literature about Architecture Design and Gardens

Got books to sell?

We are always keen to purchase individual titles of interest or libraries of books on architecture, design and landscape design, fine art and photography. If you have books to sell, please contact us.

Specific areas of interest are:

Architectural Photography - Especially albums that depict particular building types or individual buildings inside and out.

Building Types - 18th and 19th century books that illustrate house designs, churches, skyscrapers, factories, offices, town halls, theatres and cinemas.

Building Construction - Especially books dealing with traditional techniques such as plastering, carpentry and masonry.

Building Conservation - Philosophy and management of cultural property and sites and appropriate technologies.

Period detailing and decoration - We buy all those loose leaf folios of building details, ironwork, wood moldings, fireplaces as well as earlier pattern books and also recipe books for paint and manufacturers samples.

Design History - Books and trade catalogues for the fittings, fixtures and furnishings of domestic interiors.

Landscape Designers - Especially titles on the lives and works of individual garden designers.

Landscape Styles - Formal layouts, the picturesque etc.

Public Parks - Particularly books that commemorate or describe individual public parks.

Gardens - Seed catalogues and trade material which illustrate the tools of the trade, greenhouses and garden ornaments.

Fine Art - Monographs, Exhibition Catalogues and Art Theory

If you have books to sell, please contact us.

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Janette Ray - Specialist dealer in books about Architecture, Designs, Gardens and Fine Art, 8 Bootham, York, YO30 7BL.

We aim to make buying our books easy for you. Just find the book you want, press "Add to basket" and follow the instructions.

We specialise in the sale and purchase of rare and out of print books on architecture and building, landscape design, design history, international exhibitions, town planning and fine art mainly published 1800-1950. Our stock includes original drawings and photographs.

Can't find what you are looking for? If you cannot find what you want you can register your want here and we will aim to find the book for you. We have a good reputation for finding elusive titles. The hallmark of the business is to offer high quality personal service to those interested in either buying or selling books in this area. We send books worldwide.

Our website compliments our shop in York, England. It is located just five minutes from York Minster and opens Wednesdays to Saturdays 9.30am - 5.30pm other times by appointment. More Information