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.

Cambridge, MA/Oxford Harvard University Press/Oxford University Press 1966

198pp, b/w photographic plates + line illus. Long 4to blue cloth with pictorial dw. Wrapper a little chipped and creased else very good indeed. pen inscription to the fep. Ex libris Gavin Stamp, with his bookplate on the front paste down.

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.

London Alec Tiranti Ltd nd 1964

271pp illustrated with b/w photographs, plans and diagrams. Long 4to. Very good indeed in sl. worn and dust wrapper. Pen ownership inscription on the fep. Records Alvar Aalto's complete executed works, with projects up to 1962. Parallel German, French and English texts. Parallel European edition published by Editions Girsburger Zurich.

New York Architectural Book Publishing Company, inc nd 1929

v, [1], 332 p. incl. front., illus., plans. Blue lettered cloth. 4to. Head of spine a little worn else good copy.

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.

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.

London Methuen and Co 1907

2nd edition. 520pp illus with 123 b/w plates and line ills. Original blue cloth with white decorative overprinting, showing shelf-wear, particularly to spine. Top edge gilt. Dec. end papers. Library shelf mark in white on spine. From Morton Sundour Fabrics Library with Mawson Collection typed on bookplates on front paste down. Internal hinges slightly shaky.

Glasgow 1938

Description by Colin Sinclair M.A. Ph. D. F.R.I.B.A. 8pp booklet. Inside front cover are list of suppliers to fit out the exhibit which was just off the Paisley Road. Good condition.

Oxford James Parker and Co. 1867

8vo, two volume set. Red gilt decorated cloth with tracery outline on upper boards. Repaired on spines to make a good set. Bookplate of Anthony St John Midman Carew in each copy and also pen signature on end papers of Helen Armory Vol. I, i-xxiv, 422pp + [2pp adverts] + 27 b/w ills. Vol. II, i-iv, 98pp, + list of 75 ills. 23 pages of text that identify 49 b/w and 26 hand coloured illustrations. Volume Two with attractive hand coloured frontispiece. Important study of stained glass techniques, including examination of borders, patterns, figures and foliage.

London Printed by C Whittingham, Dean Strreet, Fetter Lane for Lackington, Allen and Co 1804

Second edition, revised. vi + [2 advertisement & errata] + 116pp illustrated. Rebound with quarter green morocco, marbled boards and matching end papers, gilt rulings and title to make a very good copy. Six fold out engraved plates. Title page a little dusty and some scattered foxing else a very good copy. Standard work on how to make gates, drawing on the authors' experience of working in Shropshire. Superb illustrations on the details of construction including hinges and fastenings for which the book is praised by John Claudius Loudon.

London Conaghi & Co Limited 1971

71pp, b/w plates. Sugar paper wrappers printed with black titles. Small 4to. Signed in back pen by Eduardo Paolozzi on the front end paper.

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, Lutterworth Press, 1987

207pp, 181 b/w photographs and drawings. Sm. 4to, Very good copy with dw. Foreword by Mark Girouard. Including a comprehensive catalogue listing of all the known data for 356 of Salvin's works. The book incorporates previously unpublished material, including letters, diaries, building accounts and reproductions of Salvin's architectural drawings.

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.