Burford Church is one of the most visited in the Oxfordshire area. This small group of souvenir cards c1949 are from original rubbings by Benjiman Consitt Boulter and similarly the drawings are by him. He was a British schoolmaster and illustrator (1876-1960) who as well as these cards illustrated the guide book to the church issued to visitors at the time.

Wakefield The Fleece Press 1982

[112]pp. b/w wood engravings. 4to. Quarter buckram with gilt decoration and title, marbled paper covers and green slipcase. Limited edition, standard copy, no. 209 of 350. Exquisite collection of illustrations made from original wood engragvings, created as a second volume following 'S.T.E. Lawrence: Boxwood Blockmaker', printing work of artists missed out from the first book. With an introduction by John Lawrence. Fine.

London, Robinson & Fishe 1904.

99pp illustrated, 4to. Gilt lettered cloth with original wrappers bound in. Ownership signature of William H Brook 1904 on front paste down. Cloth binding worn at head and base of spine and corners. Internally very good. A key sale of the collection of William Massey-Mainwaring comprising French and English furniture, valuable porcelain, jewellery, enamels, stained glass, and paintings etc with 1037 lots in total. Additional items were sold at high-profile auctions by Christie's in 1907 following his death.

Robinson and Fisher 1900

Catalogue of the 12th June 1900 of the topographical library of Sir Robert Peel. 76pp 953 lots listed. 4to. Rebound. Bookplate on front paste down. End papers renewed, prelims a little foxed. Earlier sales in May had seen the disposal of furnishings etc including fine engravings, clocks, candelabra, decorative furniture, China, curios, sculpture.

8vo. Bound in 18th century tree calf bindings. All edges gilt. Marbled end papers. Rebacked. Bookplates of Dorothy Fortescue illustrating garden scenes, in each volume. Useful for the contents on Country Houses. The articles are monographs on individual properties and include Clumber Park, Castle Howard, Blenheim Palace, Compton Wynyates, Battle Abbey, Belvoir Castle to name but a few. A super curiosity. The Pall Mall Magazine was a monthly British literary magazine published between 1893 and 1914.Dorothy Fortescue [Dorothy Augusta Hoste Fortescue 1862-1941] created a garden at Bocconoc, Cornwall. It remains in the Fortescue family

London Horatio Phillips [1829]

xx, [3]-212pp and 8 plates. 8vo. Edges uncut. Original boards, rebacked & with new spine label. Ex libri Roger Quick with note in pencil about the publication.

London: Hamilton Adams and Co. Newcastle-upon-Tyne: M & M W Lambert, 1880

[vi], 160pp, xiii[i]pp index and 'corrections and alterations.', 32 steel-engraved plates with tissue-guards, head and tailpieces, decorated capitals. 4to. Original red Morocco binding with gilt decorations and raised bands on the spine. Worn at head and base of spine else a very attractive copy.

London, Barbican /Corvina 1989

197pp. With bw and colour illustrations. 4to. Cloth with gilt lettering on front and spine. Bright dw a little crockled at back. A collection of illustrated essays to accompany an exhibition organised by the Barbican Art Gallery. Loosely inserted exhibition guide. Excellent source documenting the output of the art colonies in and around Budapest at the turn of the century.

London, T. Werner Laurie Ltd. 1912

x+226pp plus 36 plates from drawings by Wilfrid Drake. 4to in cloth-backed boards, slightly scuffed and bumped at corners and spine, but generally vg. Internally there is some spotting, confined to endpapers and the first 20pp. Important early survey of stained glass, extending from the seventh century to the Gothic revival. Later chapters deal with Heraldry, Swiss glass (as a point of comparison), decay and advice for the collector. With useful appendices and bibliographies of early material. Many of the lovely full page plates are in colour.

London Hamilton Adams and Co 1846

Frontis, iv+96pp. Small 8vo. Blind stamped red cloth with gilt monogram on upper board. Rebacked. Forde Abbey is a privately-owned former Cistercian monastery and Grade I listed building. Forde Abbey was bought by Edmund Prideaux, MP for Lyme Regis and Oliver Cromwell's Attorney General. Before his death in 1659 Prideaux converted the buildings from a monastic residence to a private home. It has 18th century gardens and a landscape park. This early guidebook describes the early history of the estate from the establishment of it as a monastic foundation to its conversion into a country house. Hard to find.

Winchester & London., Jacob & Johnson & Simpkin, Marshall & Co. , 1888

x, 173pp. 13 black & white plates including frontispiece, plus numerous black & white illustrations within the text. Half vellum over grey boards. Quarto. First edition. t.e.g. Vellum sl. grubby and titling on spine a little worn, but a very good copy of this late 19th century history of the house. Upper board bumped along top edge. Internally, some discolouration on f.e.p else very clean and bright. Bookplate of Josceline Grove along with descriptions of the books from previous owners pasted down on front end papers. Name of C. L. Chute (Sir Charles Lennard Chute MC 1879 - 1956) inscribed in pen on front paste down.

Leeds City Council 2009

136pp illustrated with b/w plates and thumbnails in an end section on contrasting yellow paper. Beautifully designed book with essay by Caryl Phillips inserted as a special section in the book. A Lasting Moment showcases Marc Riboud's photographs of Leeds in 1954, in which he captured post-war lifye in the city. The photographs were lost and then rediscovered in 2004, on a visit when Riboud returned to Leeds. This copy has some scuff marks on upper boards but a very good copy.

London Bell and Daldy 1870

xxiv, 416pp, engraved frontis and 40 hand coloured engravings. 8vo. Prize binding from the Aldenham School with the coat of arms on upper board. gilt decorations, raised bands. Marbled end papers. In manuscript notes book awarded to Godfrey Clarke for French & Classics. The school was founded in 1597 by Richard Platt, owner of a City of London brewery and Master of the Worshipful Company of Brewers. Aldenham's foundation stone was laid in 159.7 E R and the date 1597 appear on the upper board along with the heraldic shield of the school.

London, Enitharmon Press, 1974

Half title, frontis, title page [2] + 17 b/w plates with facing commentary, each separately numbered. Colophon with limitation noted. 4to marbled boards, cloth spine, very good condition with slightly worn dustjacket. Trevelyan gave Raine a series of drawings he had done towards the end of the second world war. Thirty years later she provided a commentary alongside them. The drawings, reflect the privations of the war and anxieties about the new world after by an important English surrealist artist.

London Lund Humphries 1951

28pp. 60 plates including five in colour. Folio. Open weave cloth. Small stain on upper board else good copy. One of Leach's key texts.

London, John Weale and the author. 1852

xii + 153 + (1) + 9 + (1)pp. Publisher's cloth, rebacked. Rebacked sympathetically. Eckstein was an ironmonger from Lloyd Square, Pentonville, who specialised in stoves and cooking ranges and inevitably with all the associated problems of smoking chimneys and inadequate ventilation he worked to establish solutions to smoking chimneys. This short book is largely devoted to the correct design of flues, so crucial for the effective working of the fire beneath. Hard to find.

London: RIBA 1978

First Edition. 74pp. illustrations and line drawings. White card cover. 200mm x 200mm (8" x 8"). Includes contributions from Edward Cullinan, Philip Dowson, Ron Herron, Leon Krier, Sir Denys Lasdun, Robert Maxwell, Rijk Rietveld, Richard Rogers, Quinlan Terry and Piers Gough. Texts from a Colloquium on the intractable nature of style. Soul searching by key practitioners and theorists of the day. Bolton was one of the sub-editors of this publication. Uncommon.