Birmingham Printed by James Allen, 10 Livery Street, 1858

Broadside publishing the Inscription proposed for over the Principal Entrance and including a letter republished from James Watt of 11 April 1834 and engraving of Ashton Hall, East View. The broadside announced that the hall was to be used for an exhibition of the Manufactures and Works of Art of the Town and the park was to be used for sports and to promote healthful recreation and explained the proposed funding through the establishment of the Aston Hall and Park Company through sales of shares. Frayed at edges else good. Unusual survival for a broadside relating to civic facilities.

London, George, Allen & Unwin 1982

70 pp plus 80 b/w plates. Wraps, vg. A consise, well-illustrated study of James 'Athenian' Stuart (1713-88), the father of Greek Revival. The first volume in the Studies of Architecture Series.

London George Allen and Unwin 1984

73pp + 64 plates. Wraps version. Very good copy. Number 3 in Genius of Architecture Series

London Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., To-Day and To-Morrow series nd

on spine and upper board. . Ex library. with stamp on the front paste down. A bit of wear at head and foot of spine, slight scuffing, else bright copy. From the collection of Gavin Stamp, with his bookplate.

London The Architectural Association 1980

46pp illustrated with b/w line ills. Square 4to. Very good copy. Useful summary of the work of the practice which was produced to accompany an exhibition. Biographical notes by Dean Hawkes. Hard to find.

A collection of 65 bookplates made for friends or as commissioned projects. The influence of the black-and-white style of his early- twentieth century heroes F. L. Griggs, William Nicholson, and Frank Brangwyn are evident in these but also Edward Gorey perhaps. Gavin Stamp had a significant collection of Gorey books right beside his books on lettering and book design and bookplates design on his shelves. The collection is a fascinating social document in which bookplates appear for, amongst others David Watkin, Colin Emery, Michael Burgess, Lawrence Yap and many others associated with Cambridge.

London, John Murray 1855

[vii], xx, [1], 2-287pp +32pp catalogue at rear. 74 plates including black & white engraved frontispiece, some full-page and some in colour. Additional text ills. Original blind-stamped cloth gilt. With bookplate of the Yorkshire Architectural Society. Very nice copy of this well crafted study of brick and marble in Italy which the author says in the preface was only made possible with the advent of railway travel.

London Lund Humphries 1978

140pp illustrated with colour and b/w plates, line ills etc. Square small 4to. Laminated wrappers. Very good. Hard to find study of Voysey with essays and contributions by Joanne Heseltine, Duncan Simpson etc. Ex libris Gavin Stamp with his bookplate. Loosely inserted private view card to Voysey Exhibition in Brighton

Glasgow Walter MacFarlane & Co., Architectural, Sanitary, and General Ironfounders, Saracen Foundry, Possilpark, nd c1875

3 frontispieces showing the works in Glasgow and show room in London., 595pp + xxii price list bound in at the end. Ownership inscription of Mr Fogarty in Dublin with a note of his name on the price list as well. Recent green cloth, calf spine, gilt lettered. Rebound to form a good copy. Superb illustrations of the whole range of products supplied by Macfarlane's in Glasgow. The owner could have been William Fogerty, and architect practising in Dublin at the time. Born: 1833 ca Died: 1878.

London

From the collection of Henry Potts with his bookplate.

John Baker Publishers Ltd 1969

85pp illustrated with many photographs and line ills. Fine in dw. Written and illustrated by Lindley this book covers chapels and meeting houses largely ignored by architectural historians at the time. From the collection of Gavin Stamp with his bookplate.

Leeds: T.W. Green, 1844 and later. 2 volumes in one.

pp. ii, [1], 32, 20, 16, 18, 16, 16, 16; vi, 111; illustrations including colour decorated title pages for both volumes. 8vo Quarter contemporary green moroco, gilt title and decoration on spine., Very attractive copy. A fine collection of lithographic plates, with accompanying text, title pages printed in colours. Covers the churches at Adel, Bolton Percy, Methley, Thirsk, Birkin, Skelton, Bubwith, Patrington, Skirlaugh, Rotherham, Stainburn, Nun Monkton and the Chapels at Ripon. The churches in the first volume are separately paginated indicating the work was issued as a part work. Useful descriptions of volumes some made before the churches were subsequently restored or altered.

London Conran, 5 Avon Trading Estate, Avonmore Road 1973

40pp illustrated with colour plates. 4to. Decorated wrappers, these a little worn. Loosely inserted 18pp typeset price list for December 1973 listing all the products, dimensions and stock numbers.

London The Architectural Press 1970

no 886. pp333-396 + period ads in b/w and colour incl. one fold out for the Osaka World's Fair. 4to. Decorated wrappers. Good copy. A little rubbed on spine. Introduction by Lord Kennet (Wayland Young) with detailed reports by J M Richards, R E Phal and others. Case studies of Edinburgh, The Marais, (Paris), Stax and Rome.

London Wildwood House 1974

First edition. Unpaginated. 309 "Constructions" Silver overprinted laminated boards. Pages a little sge darkened else very good. With Eduardo Paolozzi's bookplate. Explores some of the great problems in philosophy and of everyday life.

New Haven and London: Yale University Press 2010

480pp with 100s of colour and b/w illustrations throughout. Large 4to, cloth in d/w, fine. New copy. Study of the Eyre brothers' villa estate in St John's Wood, London, the earliest manifestation of the Garden City Movement. Drawing on a newly catalogued Eyre archive, this fascinating volume charts the construction and subsequent fortunes of the estate, examining its profound influence on city design.

London Liberty and Co 1903

Series LX11 12pp illustrated with bw plates. Long 8vo. Stapled. Brown lettered wrappers. Very good. Individual Chinese jars, weapons and ornaments, some antique, offered by the firm. Very good copy. Good source for individual pieces. Chinese Pottery Mark representing "good luck" on the inside of the front wrapper.

London Liberty and Co 1903

Series LVX 10pp illustrated with b/w plates. Long 8vo. Stapled. Brown lettered wrappers. Very good. Antique items for sale, each with number and with provenance. They included Chinese vases, a Queen Anne Bureau from the Speakers House following a fire at the Houses of Parliament and a variety of individual Chinese trophies and ornaments. Very good indeed. Chinese Pottery Mark representing "good luck" on the inside wrapper.

London Architectural Association 1988

175pp b/w plates + line ills with captions. Sm square 4to., illustrated wrappers, perfect binding, a very good copy. Loosely inserted private view card for the exhibition that this volume accompanies and a news cutting of an article written by Gavin Stamp on the same exhibition. There is also a printed email correspondence between Gavin Stamp and Vladimir Slapeta, an a.l.s. from Vladamir (Slapeta?) to Gavin Stamp and a photograph of a Czech Avia B-534 biplane. Ex libris Gavin stamp, with his bookplate and pencil signature on half title.