Zwemmer Ltd 1985. Series editor Peter Willis 1985

192pp illustrated with b/w line ills and photos. Wraps. Fine. Account of Unwin's life and career setting his life and work in the context of the radical thinkers and social philosphers of the end of the 19th century. Armorial bookplate on inside front cover.

London Ernest Benn 1927

5pp + 102 b/w full page plates. 4to. Red cloth. Good copy of this scarce title on the planning of Welwyn. Contributions by Charles Benjamin Purdom. Hard to find. Louis de Soissons was involved with the establishment of the master plan for Welwyn Garden City and was appointed architect for the town in 1920. It was the first major commission for the practice and it remained significantly involved in its development over the next 60 years. Previous owner's name on front end paper. Hard to find.

London Bemrose and Sons Ltd 1907

Illustrated with Forty Drawings by Sidney Heath and Rubbings from Sepulchral Brasses by W. De. D. Prideaux. Red cloth covered boards with gilt lettering. Top edge gilt. Large 4to. Upper board faded on one corner. Spine also marginally faded. Corners a little bumped and some general, random foxing particularly through early pages of the book. A couple of the b/w plates are loose. Good. And a comprehensive overview of most of the houses in the county. Bookplate of Josceline Grove on front paste down.

London Art Worker's Quarterly August and December 1908

[1] + 1-76 + [1] + 1-88pp illustrated with examples of work in the arts and crafts style giving the names of individual makers. 4to. Green cloth, titles on upper board. Bookplates of Ian Monins. These special issues are additional to the The Art Workers' Quarterly published 1902-1906 and were published in August and December 1908. These contained the papers and extracts of papers read at the Third International Art Congress for the development of Drawing and Art Teaching and the Application to Industries held in London, August, 1908, as well as a record of the Retrospective Exhibition of Students' Works, held at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, in connection with the Congress. Hard to find.

London B.T. Batsford, Ltd. 1939

xvi + 52pp. Fully illustrated with b/w 133 plates from photographs and drawings. Maroon cloth covered boards with gilt lettering. Spine a little faded and bumped at top. Last two gatherings beginning to come loose and front hinge cracked slightly. Good otherwise. And a scarce item. Previous owners bookplate - Josceline Grove - and his description of the book pasted down on front paste down. "October 1939"also written in neat hand on bottom edge of front paste down.

London R.E. Thomas & Co. 1908

64pp, with 6 b/w plans and 2 b/w, single-sided photographic 'views.' Blue paper wraps. Internally slightly browned. Wrappers rather worn and chipped around some edges. Crossed out writing in red pen on upper cover. Previous owner's signature - 'G. Walton' in pencil on title page. A good copy nonetheless and an informative guide. Supplemented by an additional 24 page pamphlet - "Recent Decoration of St Paul's 1891 - 1896", which lists all the arts and crafts people involved in carrying out work at St. Paul's. Note from the previous owner 'G.W' slipped into pamphlet.

London Willliam Morris & Co. 1953

36 pp. Colour frontis of windows in the Church of the Ascension, Mitcham, Surrey, colour and b/w plates throughout and decorations in the text. 4to. Cloth boards with d/w. Embossed with title and trade mark of the firm on the upper board. D/w sunned and chipped around most edges. Front and rear end papers slightly foxed. Internally though very good. Includes a brief account of the origins, history, uses and types of stained glass with details of the firm's projects. Designed to promote the work of the firm. Nice item with a typed letter to George G. Pace from William Morris & Company slipped in. From the library of George Pace

H Morris & Co Ltd. Milton Street Glasgow c1954

4pp pamphlet advertising stacking chairs originally designed by Anniki and Llmari Tapiovaara for Hilsinki University. Exhibited at the Spetember 47 exhibition in New York and in production at Morris's Glasgow factory. Very good. Ticket of Norman Hodgson, Empire Arcade Morecambe and Heysham on front wrapper.

London RIBA Publishing 2011

Twentieth Century Architects Series. Foreword by Alan Powers. Colour and black and white images throughout. Soft cover. Paper wraps. Very good. Ink mark from printer/end of paper roll on upper and verso of inside cover, else looks unread.

London B W Publications Ltd 1987

Large folio (620x450mm). 16 engraved plates after Rigaud, of which 4 are double page, original calf backed spine, gilt lettered. Marbled slip case. Slip case split along one edge and rather worn but the book itself is very good indeed. Limited to 450 copies. This is numbered F. This is the facsimile of the wonderful illustrations of Stowe by Rigaud to which is added descriptive notes by George Clark, a key authority on the Stowe landscape. Bookplate of Colin Amery.

London Thames and Hudson 1983

224 pp illustrated with photographic illustrations including some in colour. Small 4to. Very good with dust wrapper. Draws widely on Classical, Baroque and Rococo examples throughout Europe

London Guild Publishing 1987

224pp illus with b/w plates and line ills. Square 4to. Vg in wrappers. Useful and very well illustrated overview on all the elements of the suurban houses and its details including fittings and fixtures. More than 300 photographs with 100 in colour. List of sockists for elements at the back.

Stockholm Swedish Design Institute 1958

14 +[2] +65 pages plates in colour and b/w of products. 4to. Perfect bound. Decorated wrappers. Wrappers a little worn else good. Loosely inserted 4pp list of manufacturers.Covers fabric, glass, ceramics, furniture etc.

London Thames and Hudson 1988

533pp b/w + colour illustrations. 4to. Black cloth boards with red embossed title on the spine + embossed publisher's logo on the upper board. Illustrated dust wrapper, slightly rubbed in places else a very good copy. An extensive analysis of Tatlin's work with over 500 colour and b/w illustrations. Foreword by K. M. Simonov, a speech that opened Tatlin's exhibition in Moscow 1977.

London The Architectural Association 1987

56pp illustrated. White decorated wrappers. Produced to accompany an exhibition of original drawings by Michael Webb held at the Architectural Association in London from 30 April to 23 May 1987. Hard to find. A founding member of the London Archigram group, Mike Webb subsequently moved to New York. His Temple Island study uses the form and proportions of the classical folly that sits on Temple Island near Henley and the grid structure of the Regatta course markers to create a world of objects that move close to the speed of light.

Stamford Paul Watkins 1997

ix, 310pp. 214 bw illustrations of photographic plates on non-numbered pages at the rear of the book. 8vo. Black cloth with gilt title on spine, very good dust wrapper. Essay on Gothic Revival architect Temple Moore, small section of biography, influences and responses with the focus of the book being on church architecture and fittings work with bw architectural plans in the text and lots of photographic reference.