London Cassell & Company 1885

Sixty-fifth thousand. 206pp + 5pp on paste downs as end paper + 1 additional page which are testimonials for the book. Specimen stamped on upper board and also front end paper. Chapters on food, drink, and cooking, but also washing, how to mind the baby and account keeping and health. Henrietta Barnett was a notable social reformer and active in founding Hampstead Garden Suburb.

Corpus Vitraearum Medii Aevi: Great Britain published by OUP 213

762pp illustrated in colour. 4to. 2 volumes in slip case. Significant study of glass both in terms of detail and approach, which includes a comprehensive context for the stained glass at Merton.

Oxford Oxford University Press 1996

lvii, 390pp (24), with 24 colour plates at the rear of the book. 316 b/w illustrations throughout text. 8vo. Dust wrapper. Very good. An extremely comprehensive illustrated catalogue of the medieval stained glass of the county, excluding Lincoln Cathedral. Interesting text on Lincolnshire's historical and cultural heritage.

London Lion and Unicorn Press 1963

no 205 of approximately 400 copies. 64pp + monochrome and colour reproductions Cloth spine with silver lettered titles, embossed boards with devices and with Paolozzi designs in silver across on upper and lower boards. Decorated end papers. Originally issued with clear acetate wrapper not present in this copy. The Metallization of a Dream is the title of a collaborative project between the critic Lawrence Alloway and the artist Eduardo Paolozzi, which resulted in the publication of this limited edition. The book was designed by John Munday in collaboration with the artist.

[1929] The Architectural Press 1986

UK reprint in parallel with Princeton University Reprint. 199pp illustrated with b/w line ills. 4to. Black dust wrapper with red titles. Very good copy this reprint edition of Ferris's first book on the contemporary city illustrated with his famous moody images of the city focusing on skyscrapers and cityscapes often made against night skies or in the fog. Black wrapper slightly faded. Previous owner's name in neat hand on half title.

London, Thames and Hudson 1978

304pp illustrated with b/w plates. Large 4to. Very good with good dust wrapper

London Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Company Limited, 1916

66pp Red paper boards, titles in black lettering. Worn and dusty binding.

Newcastle Upon Tyne Frank Graham 1979

30pp illustrated with b/w plates. 8vo. Pamphlet. Wrappers a bit discoloured else good copy. Useful overview and narrative about this key exhibition. The North East Coast Exhibition of Industry, Science, and Art ran for the summer season. The Hancock Museum and gardens which still surround it are a survival from the exhibition.

London The Architectural Association 1987

64pp illustrated with colour and black and white plates, many full page. Paper-covered Boards. Long 4to. Boards a little dusty else a very good indeed. Photographs form part of a project to document the scene between Manchester and Oldham undertaken 1984-1986. Lovely immediate colour photographs + many black and white ones of mills, terraces and buildings revealing a crumbling but evocative urban fabric and the spaces between.

London G. P. Putnam 1927

308pp illus with b/w plates. Blue cloth. Edges a little worn and spine very slightly faded else good copy of this hard to find text on The Picturesque. This book was pioneering in the history of taste and which dragged, from relative, obscurity figures like Richard Payne Knight, "a Regency prophet of modernism," together with his contemporaries, and explored the links between painting and landscape design.

Letchworth Garden City Press undated [1990]

Facsimile reprint. 33pp illustrated with b/w plates + [c8]pp period ads. Decorated wrappers. Includes colour and folded map of Brentham Garden Suburb. This garden suburb, near Pitshanger in Ealing, was the first garden suburb in London to be built in cooperative principles, predating the larger and better-known Hampstead Garden Suburb by some years. It was mostly built between 1901 and 1915. Reprint of original documentaion.

London Brodie & Middleton, Simpkin Marchall & Co c1877

205pp illustrated. Decorated boards, cloth spine. Very good copy. 5th edition. Ex libris with his bookplate Frank Harwood. A handbook for modest commercial and amateur craftsmen. Five editions between c.1874 and c.1877. Covers Mouldings; Picture and Looking-glass Frames; Plate Glass; Silvering Plate Glass; Composition Ornaments; Gilder's Tools; Preparations Used in Gilding; Gilding; Interior and Exterior Gilding; Cleaning and Restoration of Oil Paintings; Picture Frames and Their Manufacture, mitring, mounting etc. Whilst not uncommon it is hard to find in this condition.

Connecticut Privately Printed 1946

11pp wrappers. Short essay on the specific function of public fountains in Townscape. Ex library. Discrete stamp on inner wrapper. Illustrated wrapper.

London Basilisk Press 1976

no 305 0f 515. Folio and oblong 8vo. 4 vols. Limited numbered edition of 515 sets, quarter red morocco gilt over marbled boards, in cloth box, a very good set. A sumptuous facsimile edition, the first published edition thus, of the surviving Red Books; Anthony House, Cornwall; Attingham Park, Shropshire and Sheringham Hall, Norfolk, with an explanatory volume by Edward Mallins containing recent photographs by Eric de Mare. Repton's drawings are meticulously reproduced in collotype and printed on wove paper as close as possible to the original Whatman stock.

The Imprint Society, Barre, MA, USA, 1971

xxii, (1), 261, (1) pages, illustrated by John O'Connor. One of 1,950 numbered copies designed and produced by Will Carter and printed by W. S. Cowell. Decorated boards, red morocco spine with gilt lettering. Decorated matching slip case with paper title label. Head and base of spine slightly rubbed else very good copy with good slipcase. Numbered 1336 and signed on the colophon by John O'Connor.

London Norfolk and Norwich Archaeological Society 1911

30pp + 12 b/w plates described by the author, with illustrations of the bosses in the northern alley from drawings by C.J.W. Winter. Folio. Red cloth spine and decorated upper board with title of publication.

London Lynton PLC 1990

240 x 280mm. unpaginated fine hardback copy with black boards and black wraparound with punched hole detail, echoed inside the book with front free end and rear papers. Signed by the photographer on the title page. Number 102 of 600 copies. The book was commissioned to record the people who are often the unsung heroes of a construction site, the on-site workforce. The project was the demolition and reconstruction of Henrietta House, a 10-storey housing block in the Hammersmith London originally constructed beside Hammersmith Bridge in 1955-56. High quality black and white portraits of various workers

Yale University Press 1974

Volume 1: 119pp + 665 colour and black and white plates. Volume 2; Catalogue of window and glass designs. Large 4to. Good set with slightly worn and darkened dust wrappers. Internally very good. Previous owners name on front end papers. A. Charles Sewter thoroughly describes the firm's work from its founding in 1861 to its closing in 1940. Drawing on his first-hand knowledge of almost every Morris window in the United Kingdom and throughout the world, and on account-books and other unpublished sources, he treats in detail the firm's major commissions. He describes the preparation of cartoons and windows and comes to new conclusions about the creative role of Morris and the other artists. Hard to find.

National Museum of Wales 1981

154pp illustrated with b/w plates and line ills. Small 4to. Decorated stiff card coloured laminated wrappers. To accompany a centenary exhibition. Hard to find.