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A Discipline of the Mind:
The Drawings of Wilhelmina Barns-Graham
Orkney Piers Art Centre & The Barns Graham Charitable Trust 2009
49pp including 11pp introduction by Mel Gooding. 31 colour illustrations and 2 black & white photographs. Boards, 250x230mm VG indeed. Beautiful production.
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A Friendly Alien: Ein Kunsthaus für Graz. Peter Cook and Colin Fournier
Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz Verlag 2004
249pp with colour illustrations throughout. Square 4to in stiff card wrappers, fine. New copy. Radical architectural project in the Austrian city of Graz to produce a gallery space for contemporary art. Traces the building from conception to completion. Text in English and German.
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A Hand Weaver's Pattern Book: For Four Harness Looms
Swarthmore, PA, by the Author [1944] 1947
128pp with b/w photographs and diagrams throughout. 4to. Gilt lettered cloth, vg, with light shelf wear at corners and head of spine. Shelf mark on spine and library stamp on rear end paper from Morton Sundour Co. Inc. New York. Lacks front end paper. All patterns are classed according to type and illustrated. 3rd printing, signed by the author on fep. The book indicates the expansion of the UK market into the American one.
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A History of Architecture
London B.T.Batsford 1896
xv + 313pp +8pp ads, 115 collotype plates + 100s of text ills. . Sm 8vo. Original gilt lettered cloth. Very slightly rubbed at top of spine. Gutta percha repaired to make a good copy with reinforcements on inner hinges. Some slight foxing to prelims, index and advert pages at the back. Very good of the first edition of this enduring study of architecture on the comparative method. Loosely inserted bill from book binder who repaired the book.
Stock ID: 21699More details Price: £165.00 -
A History of Dunster
And of the Families of Mohun & Luttrell
Stock ID: 22687More details Price: £95.00
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A History of English Glass Painting
With Some Remarks on the Swiss Glass Miniatures of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries.
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.
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A HISTORY OF THE VYNE in Hampshire. being a short account of the building & antiquities of that house situate in the parish parish of Sherborne St. John Co Hants & of persons who have at some time lived there.
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.
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A House of Pomegranates
Stock ID: 21084More details Price: £380.00
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A Practical Treatise on the Prevention and Cure of Smoky Chimneys
with an Appendix, Containing Various Extracts Connected with the Subject, and Testimonials of the Author's Experience.
Glasgow, Blackie & Son 1836
vi, 114pp. Green cloth. small 8vo. No title labels. Yellow end papers. Good copy. Dedication leaf to The Noblemen and Gentlemen of the Counties of Aberdeen, Banff and Moray. Proposes remedies developed over a long career. The appendix starts at page 50 and thereafter there is a fascinating list of places where George Silver has worked as "smoke curer" and some case studies of how he proceeded with his cures. A quirky little book. Unusual.
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A Record of the International Fire Exhibition organised under the auspices of the British Fire Prevention Committee ..
Earls Court London 1903
London by The British Fire Prevention Committee 1903
304pp + lxxi + [4]pp appendix +270 plates + fold out plan of the exhibition forming last page. Red gilt decorated loth. Head and base of spine chipped with small tear at head of spine. Decorated end papers, these a little age toned. The exhibition included examples of the latest fire fighting equipment and there was also a substantial loan of items on the history of fire including paintings, models, historical equipment etc. Sachs is best known for his writing on Theatre Architecture. Sach wrote the introduction to this huge catalogue.
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A Rudimentary Understanding of Industry: Taking Measurements
2015
Prototype for an artist's book. 8vo pictorial boards, 43pp loose concertina format. Striking photo litho illustrations depicting the industrial landscape from various locations across the United States. These images have been worked into by hand using pen and ink . The company name and location of the sites are listed, these include refineries, chemical works, factories etc. A beautifully produced prototype. Anne Beck studied Concentration in Printmaking and Painting at McIntire Department of Art, University of Virginia, going on to study a MFA in Two-Dimensional Practice at the Pratt Institute. She has shown in numerous solo and collaborative shows, in 2016 she was involved with The New Walled Cities and Hinterlands: Models for Future Peri-urbanisms, Arena1, Santa Monica, CA.
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A Summer's Day at Windsor and Visit to Eton
London, John Murray 1841
iv + 151pp + 4pp list of popular works published by Mr. Murray. c.25 b/w illustrations including 14 engraved plates and folding frontispiece (plan of Windsor Castle). 12mo. Decorative cloth with striking gilt motif on front board. Spine slightly sunned and some small marks on upper and verso boards. Small amount of foxing on a number of the plates, else a good copy.
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A sure method of improving estates
by plantations of oak, elm, ash, beech, and other timber-trees, coppice woods. &c. Wherein is demonstrated, the necessity and advantages thereof; their manner of raising, cultivating, felling, &c. in all kinds of soils, whereby estates may be greatly improved. Offered to the consideration of the nobility of the gentry of Great-Britain
London Printed for Francis Clay and Daniel Browne 1728
First edition. 8vo., [10], xxii 274 pp., one folding engraved plate, contemporary sprinkled calf, gilt decorated spine with raised bands. Repaired at head and foot spine. New spine label. In this copy the last two pages 273 and 274 misbound between xx and page I of the book. These are index pages. Henrey 929 Dedicated to Lord Torrington [ of Southill ] and fellow admirals in the Navy advocating tree planting to ensure a good supply of timber for the future. Bookplate of Geo Irton of Irton Hall, Cumberland.
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A Town Called Alcan, 4 Circuit Linear Towns, Alcan The Scanner and Notation: The Observant Layman's Code for his Environment
Stock ID: 21131More details Price: £160.00
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A Treasury of Scandanavian Design
Golden Press, 1961
300 pp. Illus. with 188 color & 312 b/w photos. 4to. Translation of "Hjemmets Brugskunst," the standard study on Scandinavian designed furniture, textiles, glass, ceramics, and metal products. Good with slightly worn dust wrapper.
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A Treatise on the Art of Glass Painting
Prefaced with a Review of Ancient Glass
London Scott Greenwood & Son 1902
139 pp. colour frontis + 36 b/w ills. Dark green boards Spine sl. faded. 8vo. Vg. Explains the art and mysteries of producing a stained glass window. Written by the author for both artist and general reader 'with an antiquarian turn of mind'. Chapters include Designing Scale Drawings, Cartoons and the Outline, The Various Kinds of Glass-Cutting for Windows, The Colours and Brushes used in Glass Paining, and Fret Lead Glazing. With 24-page 'Abridged Catalogue of Special Technical Books'. Two colour plates, called for on title page, not present, as usual.
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A Visit to Brantwood
Bembridge The Ruskin Association 1980
Unpaginated booklet,comprising introduction by J S Deardon and printed account from a manuscript of a visit to Brantwood by Fany Talbot. Unpainated 16pp. Bound with marbled boards and end papers and paste down label. Inside is a typed note "Just a trifle from the Malvern Link Bindery. Simple and plain like the binder!" You might send another copy with respects. The manuscript was found by architectural historian and devotee of Ruskin, the late John Hutchinson of York. The introduction by James Deardon explains the origin of the manuscript. Fine. Pamphlet printed by the Yellowsands Press, Bembridge. Isle of Wight.
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A Visit to Sherwood Forest
including the Abbeys of Newstead, Rufford & Welbeck; Annesley, Thoresby, Hardwick Hall, Bolsover Castle and other interesting places in the locality.
London, Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans 1850
96pp illustrated + 20pp period ads for businesses in the area. Green blind stamped cloth with gilt decoration and title on upper board. and spine. Spine a little rubbed and gilt dull else good copy. Includes a critical essay on the life and times of Robin Hood. Organised as a series of letters to provide a description of Mansfield and the neighbourhood with 4 full page lithographed illustrations of country houses and text illustrations of other places of interest. First edition of a scarce guide book.
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ABC: A Dictionary of Graphic Cliches
Pentagram Papers no 1.
London Pentagram Design 1976
24pp illustrated in b/w. Pentagram published the first three letters of a dictionary of visual metaphors drawn together by Philip Thompson and Peter Davenport. The publication contains examples of how designers have used these clichés as a shorthand visual language to communicate complex ideas. It was the first of an occasional series which continues upto date. Very good copy although one or two thumb marks on some text pages where pages have been turned.
Stock ID: 20907More details Price: £80.00 -
Academy Architecture and Annual Architectural Review
[from 1896, Academy Architecture and Architectural Review].
Stock ID: 22608More details Price: £1,350.00