London Festival of Britain 1951

52pp + period ads. 4to. Wrappers. Abram Games Festival logo on the front. Discrete hand written note giving date of previous owner's visit to the exhibition. Very good copy. Hard to find catalogue of the Architecture Exhibition. Some loose insertions relating to Aluminium products.

The Arts Council 1951

(4)pp + 54pp b/w plates. Long 4to. Decorated colour wraps.Introduction by Philip James. Catalogue of specially commissioned works for the Festival of Britain by British contemporary painters and sculptors. A little dusty. Slight wear to spine Trace of damp marks to some page edges but images not affected. Hard to find.

London J. M. Dent and Sons (1936) 1937

Unpaginated c. 120pp, b/w illus with captions, 8vo cloth,decorated endpapers. Pictorial dw has pieces missing to the upper and lower, else a vg copy. Loosely inserted article on a Hoppé exhibition. Book made at The Temple Press, Letchworth. Ex Libris Gavin Stamp, with his bookplate.

Edinburgh, Oliver and Boyd, 1949.

115 pgs.54 plates. and many tables and diagrams. Also 25 folding colour maps (3 in pocket at end). Decorative Cloth. Vg with slightly worn dw. Beautifully produced survey and plan for Edinburgh. Ex libris Gavin Stamp with his bookplate.

Dublin W Wilson 1773

11th edition. First Dublin edition with small embossed stamp of F H Cripps Day 1906 to head of title and his signature on the Free end paper. 77pp, 8vo. Limp calf, gilt, a little worn, rebacked. Henry 549, Harris 117. This treatise was conceived as a response to the landscape gardening style of Capability Brown. It was first published in 1772 both in English and French and was especially influential on the Continent. Its publication invoked a response of a satiric and heroic epistle by Mason which is included here. Note in hand writing of Cripps Day listing publications by the same author and also on the front paste down stamp of the Rohamsted Experimental Station.

Butterworth Heinemann in association with ICCROM 1999

354pp illus. with b/w plates and line ills. Small 4to. Laminated boards. Fine. Comprehensive study providing the first major overview of history theory and architectural conservation with world wide examples and relevance. Various notes on the production of the book loosely inserted.

London, Longmans Green and Co 1872

xvi + 427 + (1)pp, 36 woodcut plates, 12 text ills, one leaf publishers' adverts. Many buildings illustrated erected between 1860 and 1870. This was the first published study on the gothic revival, and although it is widely available in a reprint this is a lovely copy of the original decorated and stamped cloth possibly designed by Eastlake to reflect the gothic subject matter of the book. Sl. rubbed at head and base of spine, scratch on spine and related small tear else a very good copy. Bookplate of William J Newton R S A and his stamp on half title.

London George Allen & Unwin 1920

160pp 8 full page plates. 8vo blue boards with paste down title. Account of a summer tour of National Trust 'possessions' (national parks, reserves, houses etc) in the West of Britain. Rawnsley is remembered chiefly for his campaigns to preserve the Lake District landscape and as a founder of the National Trust. Ex Libris Gavin Stamp, with his bookplate on the front pastedown.

London Privately printed by Charles Whittingham & Co., at the Chiswick Press for Morris & Company Ltd., (1913) nd c1919

40pp + 16 b/w plates, Small 8vo. Original wrappers, red lettering. Very good indeed. The publication comprises a short history of Morris and Co. and the stained glass works together with a list of churches and public buildings containing Morris glass 1862-1919. An earlier edition of this book was made in 1913 from 449 Oxford Road, London which is dated on the wrapper 1913. But this covers the projects up to 1919 and therefore over the war years as well. The majority of orders placed at Morris & Co. in the 1860s were for stained glass, which the company produced from 1861 through 1930.

Middlesex Polytechnic 1989

72pp illus with b/w and colour plates. Royal 8vo. Decorated wraps with dw, this sl soiled. To accompany the important exhibition of the Silver Studio Collection. Essays contributed by Mark Pinney and Leslie Hoskins. One or two illustration pages are slightly stuck in the corners. Images unaffected. Ex libris Gavin Stamp with his bookplate.

Brighton and Hove The Royal Pavilion Libraries and Museums/Philip Wilson publishers

141pp, sepeia color + b/w ills. 4to, perfect bound illustrated wrappers. Fine. Loosely inserted postcard and leaflet for Volks Electric Railway. Ex libris Gavin Stamp, with his bookplate.

The British Council 1995

84pp, colour + b/w ills. Sq 4to perfect bound pictorial wrappers. Catalogue for the exhibition of the same title that toured 18 locations across India. Starting at the National Gallery of Modern Art, Delhi, Oct- Nov 1995 and finishing at Soochan Bhaven, Bhubaneswar, 7-13 Sept 1996. Ex libris Gavin Stamp, with his bookplate.

January 1950 Vol CV11 no 637

Edited by J M Richards, Nickolaus Pevsner, Osbert Lancaster and H de C Hastings. Marking the half way point of the Century, this special issue covers details of landscape elements, trim, texture and colour. Good copy with very small chips on bottom edge and a bit worn on the spine. Paginated page 1-67 +89pp period ads. Superb photographs throughout including ones by Eric de Maré, John Piper, Gordon Cullen, McCallum Arphot and others. Special applications of the functional tradition drawn by Gordon Cullen for Lyme Regis and Stevenage.

The Crafts Council 1983

136pp, colour and b/w illus. Sm 4to. Wraps. Published to accopany a major exhibition of Ethel Mairet's work and illustrating her range of weaving and important collection of Oriental textiles. the book also describes her life as a member of the crafts community continuing William Morris' ethic into the 20th Century and her weaving workshop n Ditchling where she worked alongside Eric Gill, edward Johnston and Douglas Pepler.

London, Thames and Hudson 1966

234pp illustrated with 264 b/w plates .Square 4to. Very good with good dust wrapper. Signature of Gavin Stamp on front end paper together with his bookplate on front paste down.

Walter F Foster nd c1950

40pp illustrated with 4 monotone and many b/w plates. Folio. Stapled. Striking colour wrappers. USA graphic designer ending up eventually with his own Hollywood advertising agency moving on to Laguna Beach where he specialised in design and illustration.

Cambridge, MA/Oxford Harvard University Press/Oxford University Press 1966

198pp, b/w photographic plates + line illus. Long 4to blue cloth with pictorial dw. Wrapper a little chipped and creased else very good indeed. pen inscription to the fep. Ex libris Gavin Stamp, with his bookplate on the front paste down.