London SPAB August 1921

36pp illustrated with b/w photographic plates and line ills. The illustrations show the interiors and exteriors of the buildings before and after rennovation. There is a table at the end of the book providing detailed costings for the various elements. Photographs by C C Winmill, Architect ad C S Cousins, Photographer Bury St Edmunds. Pamphlet. Original wrappers bound into relatively modern binding with cloth spine, black lettered and boards to make a very good copy.

Cambridge University Press 1979

254pp illus with over 200 b/w plates. 4to. Very good with very good dust wrapper. Exhaustive study based on primary sources with much of individual bridge projects. Hard to find. With the bookplate of Gavin Stamp.

New York John Wiley 1984

242pp illus with b/w plates. Vg in sl. worn dust wrapper. "This book discusses the relationship between the few famous "artistic" architects and their more practical colleagues." Includes material on Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier, Welton Becket, Hendrikus P. Berlage, Johannes Duiker, Peter Eisenman, Aldo van Eyck, Michael Graves, Walter Gropius, Philip Johnson, J. J. P. Oud, Paul Rudolph, Frank Lloyd Wright and many others. Useful for the diversity of post modern architecture.

London, The Standard Catalogue Company Ltd. 1973

Pagination 332 - 410 + [4]pp Bright green covers with photograph of the Milton Keynes Team by Jon Donat. The text on Milton Keynes runs from page 348 to end including period ads. It provides a progress report on developments from the birth of the idea of a "New City" in 1962. A review thus of the first decade of works. Very good copy of this issue.

London, The Standard Catalogue Company Ltd. 1971

Pagination 460-520. Bright covers, Small advert clipped out of p520 not affecting the main part of the magazine. In this issue p485-507 given over to considering the work of archigram to coincide with the 10th anniversary of the broadsheet and 8th anniversary of the group and almost two year of Archigram the office. Portrait of key individuals on page 460. Contributions by Peter Vook, Ron Herron, David Green and others. Cover design of the whole magazine by Dian Jowsey, "Mon Repos" - Peter Smithson also contributed to this issue with an article on "repetition" as well as others on current architectural practice.

London, The Standard Catalogue Company Ltd. 1972

Pagination 728-790pp Bright purple covers, portrait of Buckminster Fuller as part of a montage by Tervor Sutton. The text is a lengthy interview conducted by Mike Ben-Eli with a Christmas message from Buckminster Fuller. Other major article is by Monica Pidgeon on Campamentos, Latin American shanty towns. Very good copy of this issue.

London John Henry Parker 1849

xii, 283[5]pp, frontis, text device, 38 plates, 8 plans, text illustrations, printed throughout in red and black with each page of text within a double ruled red border. Blue later blue cloth with gilt lettering. Attractive binding. New end papers. Slight Book block very good. List of subscribers at the end of the book. The volume was produced by an editorial committee. Contributions by E.A.Freeman and M.H.Bloxam, but although Freeman contributed the lengthy description of the church at Higham Ferrers, the most prolific subsequent contributor was Rev.G.A.Poole,

London, George Allen & Unwin Ltd 1944

118 +[2]+ c8pp line ills. Photographs and line ills throughout . The images at the end of the book are chronologically arranged line ills as historical charts showing style of architecture at different periods. Small 8vo. Very good in slightly worn and chipped dust wrapper. Published at the height of the debate about post war reconstruction, These two modernist designers provide an introduction for children to modern architecture and sets architecture at the heart of social renewal. Fascinating. Considered recently in Kimberley Richard's recent book "Left Out: The forgotten tradition of radical publishing for children." Dust wrapper shows a family looking at what might well be Erno Goldfinger's Willow Road house.

London Longmans, Green and Co. 1902

269pp. New Edition. Original cloth. Cloth, Original spine label lost. Spine slightly sunned. Sympathetic repair to spine joint where it has been split. Collected papers by William Morris aspects of design, art and socialism and the principles of conservation. Mainly given in the 1880's. There is a Kelmscott Press edition of these essays but this is the commercial edition.

London, Rivington, Percival & Co. 1897

vi + 260pp, 4to, Cloth covered spine, original boards. Paper spine label. Spine sl. sunned and paper label has small stain on it. , Internally some light foxing especially on the end papers. Five Lectures printed exactly as given in 1896 at the New Gallery by members of the the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society. Opens with a tribute to the recently late William Morris, previous president to the society. Considers the idea of beauty in art as well as in utility in the decoration of the city. Insciption of owner's name on front paste down with a note saying it was a gift from Peter Ferriday.

London Yale University Press 2015

336pp illustrated with sumptuous colour plates throughout. 4to. New, dust wrapper. Based on more than three decades of research, Arts & Crafts Stained Glass is the first study of how the late-19th-century Arts and Crafts Movement transformed the aesthetics and production of stained glass in Britain and America. Much on key individual designers and the role of Christopher Whall in the period in drawing attention to glass and teaching techniques. This is a democratic art in so far as both men and women were active in the craft at the time.

Wetherby Oblong Creative 2013

370pp illustrated with colour plates. Decorated wrappers. Uniform with Arts and Crafts of the North West and Arts and Crafts of the North East. A fabulous gazetteer with scholarly notes on the arts, crafts, decorative metalwork and stained glass across the Region. A wonderful book which draws widely on the authors' knowledge and experience.

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 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.

Paris E Chambrelent Ste Ame E.T.I.O.P. 1933

Cockade 'Vent du Nord' type fan with wooden handles.The paper leaf is printed on one side with an adaptation of a poster design showing male and female hands holding footwear by Bally; signed and dated d'apres CAPPIELLO, 1933.BALLY: Swiss company designing/producing shoes for the high end market. Founded in 1851 by Carl Franz Bally (1821–1899) and his brother Fritz in the basement of their family home. CAPPIELLO, Leonetto: b. 1875, Livorno, Italy - d. 1942, Cannes, France. Celebrated Italian poster art designer who lived in Paris. Beautiful condition.

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.

Published by Statni Galerie ve Zline, 1991

Square 4to. Very good copy. Signed on the title page by the author. Bookplate of Gavin Stamp on inside of the wrapper. Bata Factory Building in Zlin, Czech Republic and the associated village was a pioneering factory town experiment built using standardised building components. Zlín became one of the most important centres of inter-war modern architecture in the Czech lands and the only strictly constructed Functionalist town in Europe.

London British Broadcasting Corporation 1933

16pp with 32pp b/w plates in centre fold. Useful bibliography. Wrappers with collaged image in black and white which are very slightly worn else a good copy. Notes on eleven radio talks given by key designers of the day including John Gloag, Wells Coates, Maxwell Fry, Frank Pick, Gordon Russell. Employs comparative photographs to reveal good and bad aspects of design.