Wakefield The Fleece Press 1990

One of 241 of 300 copies. 92pp 32 wood engravings by Agnes Miller Parker, 3 half-tones of the young artist at her easel, with her fellow students at the Glasgow School of Art and, later in life, holding one of her Siamese cats + further sketches in black and white + one in colour "The horsefair". 230x280mm Half blue cloth with paper label on spine, Claire Mazairezyk paste paper covered boards. Good in slip case with paper label. Paper label on slip case a little foxed.

London A & C Black 1929

236pp, 40 photo-gravure plates. 28x22, decorated cloth. Good, decorated cloth a bit worn but with good dust wrapper the design of which echoes the cloth design. Lower part of dust wrapper missing against back board. With striking early bookplate of Gavin Stamp on front paste down alongside London Institution stamp. Isabel McAllister, was a journalist and admirer of his work. After a period when he created few artworks, she helped rehabilitate his career in the 1920s. Gilbert's most highly profiled work is the statue of Anteros in Piccadily Circus but he had a wide ranging career in sculpture which is well illustrated here..

London B T Batsford nd. [1960]

174pp. 4to. Cloth. Very good with slightly worn dust wrapper. International survey of modern post war house design. 310 photographs, plans and diagrams. Succinct guide to house design

London, Oxford University Press 1977

118 pp. Black and white illustrations. Small 4to. Cloth Very good in dust wrapper. A little shelfwea to base og spine. Previous owners name on front end paper. Excellent source for recent design projects as well as introducing earlier designs.

London Faber & Faber 1954

8vo. [pp. 5]. illus. title & 2 other illus. (1 full-page colour) by Edward Ardizzone. A fine copy in orange printed wrs. in very good original blue printed envelope. Envelope a little dusty

Dropmore Press Edition 1949

Limited edition no 599 decorations by John Piper. Very good copy with very good dust wrapper although this is slightly faded on the spine. Introduction by Osbert Sitwell. Best illustrated edition. Hard to find in this condition. Originally published by J. Murray in 1909 when Sitwell described the design of Italian gardens, this edition illustrated with three single-page and three double-page colour illustrations by John Piper.

Colchester Benham 1953

8vo. Grey paper covered boards overprinted with the title. Original glassine wrapper partially present. Very good copy. For private distribution. no 242 of 500 copies. Image of Liverpool Street Station and eleven further images all in Essex itself mainly in colour or duotone with one in black and white. Fascinating introduction on how the prints were made from O'Connor's original drawings adding to the interest of this title.

London published by the firm 1914

32pp illustrated with b/w plates. 230x310mm Frayed paper wrappers, ribbon tie. The exhibition was held at the RHS Spring Sow at Chelsea Hospital Gardens 1914. Thomas Crowther & Son were established as stone masons in the late 19th century but also dealt in antique garden ornaments and associated materials acquired from Architectural Salvage sales. This catalogue, for instance shows a design by Oliver Hill, architect reusing garden ornaments as part of one of his projects. Several images in the publication show items removed from Cheyne House Chelsea.

Reading Spire Books 2013

330pp illustrated. Sequel to an earlier volume by the same authors on Anglican Church Building 1915-1945. Wide ranging study with associated gazetteer of projects. Extensively illustrated with b/w plates throughout. Like new.

Imprimeries Lemereicer, Paris, Boot & Son, London, L Darbyshire, New York 1900

viii + 240pp, Fold out frontis of the exhibition as a panorama, With Map of Paris, Map of the Exhibition Grounds & Buildings enlarged plans of various sections, upwards of 100 illustrations and 10 maps. Colour wrapper featuring red, blue and black figure draped in Union Jack and USA Flags over white wrapper. Wrapper design by John Hassall. Superb guide to the Exposition reputedly the "only English Guide sold at the Official Book Stalls inside the Exhibition"

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.

London Archigram 1968

Milanogram/Milan Triennale/population growth). Yellow envelope folder with pocket; cover image on inside. Contents: eight pages 420mm x 150mm, folded; seventeen sheets, double sided, 210mm x 150mm, and one 300mm x 210mm. Not numbered or ordered, but punch card codification down the edge of sheets. Sheets inserted in folder. Wallet designed to be posted to readers. Priced at 5 shillings. Collated from the Archigram Archival Project. Envelope a little browned and dusty.

London, Studio Vista 1967

First paper back edition. 96pp illustrated with b/w plates. Decorated collaged b/w wrappers. A little rubbed on spine. Studio Vista was founded in 1961 that specialised in leisure and design topics.[1] In the 1960s, the firm published works by a number of authors that went on to be noted designers. This book along with a series of companion volumes by other contemporary designers provided affordable and accessible insights into issues of the day. All were edited by typographer and designers John Lewis. Distinctive design series.

New York Oxford University Press 1984

256pp illustrated with b/w plates, line ills and plans. Square 4to. Very good copy with very good dust wrapper. Twelve contributions by Christopher Alexander, Edward Cullinan, Giancarlo De Carlo, Ralph Erskine, Eldred Evans and David Shalev, Norman Foster, Denys Lasdun, Leslie Martin, Alison and Peter Smithson, James Stirling, Jorn Utzon and Aldo Van Eyck.

Cambridge Mass MIT Press

506pp. Wrappers. Very good copy. Dalibor Vesely proposes an alternative to the narrow vision of contemporary architecture as a discipline that can be treated as an instrument or commodity. In doing so, he offers an account of the ontological and cultural foundations of modern architecture. Loosely inserted newspaper article about Vesely.

London Phaidon [1995] 2000

256 pages illustrated. Square 4to. Wrappers with silvered over wrappers simulating the aluminium work which Grimshaw was known for in his early career. Colin Amery's own copy. Nicholas Grimshaw is ranked alongside Sir Norman Foster and Sir Richard Rogers as a leading figure of the high-tech movement in British architecture. This book reviews the early work of the Grimshaw. Superb documentary photographs supported by Amery's text. Volume 2 of a series on the work of the firm which extends to four volumes.

New York Museum of Modern Art, distributed by Doubleday & Company. 1958

126pp illustrated with b/w plates and one colour images on cardboard with cut outs. Articles by Jean Hans Arp, Richard Huelsenbeck, Robert Melville, Carola Giedion-Wilcker. 4to. Very good but with slightly worn dust wrapper.

Letchworth, Herts The Country Gentleman's Association Ltd., 1914

144pp period ads b/w plates. Small long 8vo. Red boards with b/w pastedown of bungalow and black titles on upper board. Some slight shelf-wear otherwise good. Includes chapters on the Garden City movement, interiors, thatched houses and cottages, farm buildings and garden design in relation to buildings. Illustrations are in black and drawn mainly from buildings at Letchworth, Hampstead Garden Suburb, rural Sussex. Buckinghamshire etc. Each has a descriptive caption and in some cases locations exactly given. Section of period ads at the end of the book.