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.

Croydon Civil Engineering Publications LTD n.d c.1957

82pp, b/w plates with captions. Long 4to boards with blue cloth spine. Bristol based firm William Cowlin and Son was founded in 1834. This illustrated trade catalogue documents a variety of projects undertaken by the firm, all architects are named. Shows many early and mid 20th century public, commercial and industrial buildings in the south west of England and Wales. Including The Council House, Bristol by E. Vincent Harris and Electricity House, Bristol by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, Son & Partner.

Manchester Printed for the Housing Committee, Richard Bates Limited Printers 1947

10pp illustrated with b/w plates, plans, elevations etc. Paper wrappers. A little worn else good copy.

York William Anelay Ltd in association with Sessions York 1975

72pp illus with b/w plates. 4to. Decorated wrappers. Vg. Cover design by Russell Platt. History of this important building firm still operating as a specialist building firm with an emphasis on conservation. Includes list of completed jobs. Anelay's were the key contractors used by Walter Brierley. Signed by W P Anelay, H E C Stapleton, Charles Anelay and Russell P Croft on title page.

London F Lewis (Publishers) Ltd 1935

57pp text + 100pp b/w plates. Large 4to. Very good with very good dust wrapper. Contents discussed and illustrated include pottery by V.Bell, G. Sutherland, L. Knight, Frank Brangwyn, etc, etc. Black and white frontispiece - 'The Mall, T.S.S. "Empress of Britain". Decorations by Waring and Gillow (1932) Ltd. London. Includes reprint of the rules relating to the recommendations for an exhibition o "Good Design and Every-day Use" and other advocacy documents relating to exhibitions to promote contemporary design. Also refers to the work of individual firms involved in production and the illustrations cites the makers in all cases.

London: John van Voorst 1849

Vol. I: xii, 111pp, incl 97 ills and 6 plates; vol. II: 60 plates with a leaf of descriptive text. 228x150mm. Uniform blue gilt lettered cloth. Very good and very bright set of this study. Predates Sharpe's more well known treatise 'Architectural Parallels.' Previous owner's name in ink on front paste down of each volume.

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.

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.

Baden Verlag Lars Müller 1993

Texts in English and German. Boxed set comprising 132pp with commentaries. A Swiss avant-garde magazine - the reproduced parts in the box comprise: First series no 1 and 2 [1924] 3/4. 5 and 6 [1925] Second Series no 1-3 [1926] no 4 [1927-28] Commentary volume is 56pp texts in German and English. Box a little worn else fine.

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.

Oxford Museum of Modern Art 1983

96pp illustrated. 4to. Decorated wrappers. Good copy. Founded in 1933 as an informal group the AIA became a radical force initially along pre societ lines but ceasing to be a political force in the 1950s. Year by year analysis of what the Association did in the first 20 years of its existence.

London Weidenfeld and Nicolson 1983

203pp + (8)pp of b/w plates with captions. 8vo, illustrated wrapper. Wrapper a little worn at the head of the spine, else a very good copy. Dedication copy, signed by Amabel Williams-Ellis to Gerald Dix, Spring 1983. Pictorial dust jacket designed by Susan Williams Ellis. Ownership signature of Lois and Gerald Dix on front end paper. Amabel Strachey and Clough Williams Ellis had married in 1915.

New York Architectural Book Publishing Company, inc nd 1929

v, [1], 332 p. incl. front., illus., plans. Blue lettered cloth. 4to. Head of spine and conners a little worn else good copy. Includes list of contributing architects. Introductory section on the evolution of the American apartment house and then many detailed examples with plans of individual projects.

New York MOMA 1943

67pp illustrated with 61 b/w plates. Decorated boards. Split along part of spine, slightly chipped and with shelf wear on lower edge else good copy with striking design on covers. Large exhibition of 43 painters and artists as the second exhibition by the museum to provide a survey of Contemporary American Art trends. 265 items listed. Hard to find.

New york G. P. Putman and Sons 1975

First edition. Unpaginated, b/w ills. 4to. Pictorial boards with dustwrapper, very good indeed. Comprises 20 of Edward Gorey's stories. Loosely inserted private view card for Edward Gorey's first British Exhibition at Francis Kyle Gallery, 1979. As well as various news cuttings on Gorey including his obituary, and article from the Independent on Sunday 2003. Ex libris Gavin Stamp, with his bookplate with note that purchased in New York in 1978.

London, Glasgow and Dublin Blackie and Son Limited 1910

Unpaginated Full page colour plates throughout. First few and last few pages slightly foxed. Some light marking in places. Publishers pictorial brown paper covered boards lightly rubbed around edges. Parts of hollow paper spine chipped and damaged. One page has sympathetic repair to a tear else generally a very good copy. The alphabet is one of girls names with short verses about each of the girls illustrated.

Manchester, J.E. Cornish 1897

xv+351pp plus 6 b/w tissue guarded plates. 4to. Original cloth-backed lettered boards. A little scuffed at edges, else good. Very useful biography of this architect and amateur actor from the North West of England. Derbyshire (1839-1908) worked in the Gothic and classical idioms on a number of civic projects and churches, but was chiefly known as a theatre architect, designing theatres in Manchester (including the Comedy Theatre and the Palace Theatre) and redesigning the Lyceum in London. This fascinating book is very hard to find.