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Temple Moore, an Architect of the Late Gothic Revival
Stamford Paul Watkins 1997
ix, 310pp. 214 bw illustrations of photographic plates on non-numbered pages at the rear of the book. 8vo. Black cloth with gilt title on spine, very good dust wrapper. Essay on Gothic Revival architect Temple Moore, small section of biography, influences and responses with the focus of the book being on church architecture and fittings work with bw architectural plans in the text and lots of photographic reference.
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Tenements and Towers:
Glasgow Working - Class Housing 1890-1990
Edinburgh HMSO: Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland 1990
92pp illustrated with 110 b/w plates and line illustrations. Square 4to. Perfect bound. Wrappers. Focuses on modern mass housing of Glasgow and written in the year when the city was European City of Culture. Reviews late Victorian Tenements, 1950s Council schemes and huge multi storey buildings. Many images taken from Strathclyde Regional Archive and collection of the National Monuments Record Scotland.
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Thames House by the New Lambeth Bridge
Stock ID: 21287More details Price: £45.00
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The Adventure of Building
Being something about Architecture and Planning for Intelligent Young Citizens and their Backward Elders
London The Architectural Press 1946
With drawings by Edward Robson. 90pp illustrated in duotone illustrations, some full page. Small 4to. Cloth. Edge worn dust wrapper which is chipped at head and base of spine. Protected in glassine wrapper.
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The Adventures of Little Manchester
or, Recollections of the Royal Jubilee Exhibition
Manchester Abel Heywood and Son 1887
[18] pages illustrated with coloured line illustrations. Produced for Children. Worn and chipped at edges and wrappers dusty else good copy. ELiabeth Houghton was a painter, illustrator and ceramic artist [nee Bolton] in Warrington, Lancashire. Amongst other things she designed ceramic tiles, many of children's subjects for Minton's.
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The Almshouses of York
York: Quacks Books 2011
168pp with colour photographs throughout. New. Wraps copy. A new study tracing the thousand year history of almshouses in York. The second half of the volume is a useful gazetteer containing descriptions of fifty foundations in the city and its environs, many no longer extant.
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The American Architecture of Today
Stock ID: 1729More details Price: £48.00
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The Anatomy of Melancholy
What It Is, With All the Kinds, Causes, Symptomes, Prognostickes, & Several Cures of It.
Stock ID: 21038More details Price: £500.00
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The Andy Warhol Diaries
London Simon & Schutster Ltd 1989
xix + 807pp with 2 gatherings of black and white photographs, largely taken by Warhol himself. Black cloth boards with silver titling on spine and original dustwrapper. Very good, with slight sun mark along top edge of boards. Spans the period from 1976 to Warhol's early death in 1987. Warhol, who had phoned his long-time friend and collaborator, Hackett, every morning since '76, to recount the events of the previous 24 hours left Hackett with over twenty thousand resulting manuscripts of which this book is a selection. An illuminating social document and inside view into the art world and social happenings of the period.
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The Appreciation of Architecture
Stock ID: 21171More details Price: £65.00
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The Architect King
George III and the Culture of the Enlightenment
London Royal Collections Publications 2004
224pp, b/w & colour illustrations including colour portrait of the King as frontispiece. Small 4to. VG in dust wrapper. Private owner's book-plate. A close analysis of the King's contribution to the area that interested him most deeply - architectural design. George III's lifelong involvement in building and landscaping is placed in the context of his keen support for manufacturing, the scientific revolution and agricultural development.
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The Architectural Review: Vol. xviii September 1905, No. 106 and Vol. xviii October 1905, No. 107
2 issues
Stock ID: 21247More details Price: £110.00
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The Architecture of Colin Campbell
Manchester University Press 1967
186pp + 141 plates in b/w grouped at the end of the text. Small 4to. Cloth. Very good in sl. worn dw with tiny chip on front cover . Best known for Vitruvius Britannicus, Campbell had a wide ranging architectural career besides and this book is concerned with his significance as the first Georgian Palladian. Hard to find.
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The Architecture of George G. Pace
London: B T Batsford, 1990
288 pages, 300 b&w and 14 colour photographs, 100 line drawings and plans plus bibliography and references. Boards in dust jacket, vg. A detailed account of the built and written works of the 20th-century architect, George G Pace. Many of Pace's ideas raise issues at the heart of today's debates about modern architecture and design, and this volume throws light on the fundamentals of church architecture and furnishings from new churches to conserving ancient cathedrals. Includes a useful gazetteer of projects. The author, Peter Pace, is George Pace's son, and is himself an architect specialising in the conservation of churches and other ancient buildings
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The Architecture of Sharpe, Paley and Austin
London English Heritage 2012
282pp illustrated with colour and b/w photographs by Mark Watson. Contributions to the text by Tim Austin, John Hughes, James Price. Important study of this Lancaster based practice with details on how the firm developed in the second half of the 19th century and onwards into the early 20th century. Bookplate of David Hinge.
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The Art of Floating Land
As is Practised in the County of Gloucester, Shewn to be Preferable to any other Method in use in this Country; With a Particular Examination of what Mr. Boswell, Mr. Davis, Mr. Marshall, and Others Have Written on the Subject. Minute and Plain Direction are Afterwards Given, for the Formation of a Floated Meadow, with Three Descriptive Plates.
Stock ID: 22327More details Price: £280.00
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The Art of Garnishing Churches at Christmas and Other Times
A Manual of Directions
London Cox Sons, Buckley & Co. 1882
70pp. 25 plates. Plus a 15-page appendix of a few materials which could be obtained from Cox and Sons etc. The Strand which is essentially a trade catalogue section. Royal 8vo. Red decorated cloth. A little shaky on spine and binding a little dusty. End papers are adverts.
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The book of small house plans: "Ideal Home" magazine and Royal Institute of British Architects present 30 winning designs in the Small House Architectural Competition, 1959
London Ideal Home 1959
Unpaginated. Large format spiral bound book showing the 30 schemes + period ads. Red Wrappers, these a little rubbed else good copy of this scarce publication featuring contemporary architects and their post war housing projects.
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The Bookplates of Leo Watt
Wakefield West Yorkshire, Fleece Press 1988
75pp, illustrated with tipped-in b/w plates, and reproductions of bookplates. Limited edition, this one of 270 copies bound with decorated paper covered boards, cloth spine with paper label in slip case. Label very slightly sun faded else very good.
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The Boots Millennium Sculpture Garden
Nottingham Boots Company June 2000
Mark Lutyens Associates designed the garden. Introductory text + gatefold colour photographic section of 34 images showing the garden + 14 single sided cards each with b/w high quality photo image of sculpture or plants in the gardens + map showing layout. The parts are stored in a white box with photo image on upper surface.
Stock ID: 22395More details Price: £28.00