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  • Stephen Dykes Bower by SYMONDSON, Anthony
    SYMONDSON, Anthony
    Stephen Dykes Bower

    London RIBA Publishing 2011

    Twentieth Century Architects Series. Foreword by Alan Powers. Colour and black and white images throughout. Soft cover. Paper wraps. Very good. Ink mark from printer/end of paper roll on upper and verso of inside cover, else looks unread.

    Stock ID: 22700
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  • MULLAN, Bob.
    Stevenage Ltd.: Aspects of the Planning and Politics of Stevenage New Town, 1946-78

    London Routledge & Kegan Paul 1980

    480pp. Good copy. Dust Wrapper. Very good

    Stock ID: 22697
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  • [PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM]
    STONE HOUSE, STONE 1925

    Brown cloth with gilt title lettering on upper board. Album size 10x13 inches. Album worn at edges else good. Internally very good. 20 sepia photographs, each 165x210mm [c7x9 inches] and in landscape format. Most photographs have the monogram W D H in pencil beneath and the first photograph has the signature of Henry Howard on the card mount. The images show the house in its garden setting, the layout of the gardens and main rooms of the house including a large scale detail from the Sheldon Tapestry. [ Howard appears to have owned a number of tapestries.] This house, is an 18th century house with late 19th century additions. [Some latterly removed] The photographs may have been taken by…

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    Brown cloth with gilt title lettering on upper board. Album size 10x13 inches. Album worn at edges else good. Internally very good. 20 sepia photographs, each 165x210mm [c7x9 inches] and in landscape format. Most photographs have the monogram W D H in pencil beneath and the first photograph has the signature of Henry Howard on the card mount. The images show the house in its garden setting, the layout of the gardens and main rooms of the house including a large scale detail from the Sheldon Tapestry. [ Howard appears to have owned a number of tapestries.] This house, is an 18th century house with late 19th century additions. [Some latterly removed] The photographs may have been taken by Henry Howard. The history of the house and its occupants is recorded in a planning statement of 2024. https://docs.planning.org.uk/20240823/68/SI74VGSIHW800/l6whvi7z1yetdz2w.pdf This reveals that the Howard family, occupied the property from 1881. It appears to have been a leasehold property in the ownership of Lieutenant Henry Calvins Russell-OldnalI at this time but the Howards occupied it until just sold before the second world war to the Garrett family. The Garrett's subsequently moved to Canada. The photo album reveals the house arrangements, furniture, and the layout of the gardens 100 years ago and is an excellent record for that moment. I could form a useful document for garden and house restoration.

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    Stock ID: 23290
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  • Striped Lily by COOPER, Gerald [1898-1971]
    COOPER, Gerald [1898-1971]
    Striped Lily

    School Prints 1946

    no 12 First Series. Gerald Cooper attended the RCA and worked s a sculptor, painter and teacher. He became principal of Wimbledon School of Art and is known for his meticulous drawings of flowers.

    Stock ID: 22023
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  • BARRETT Helena and PHILLIPS John
    Suburban Style: The British Home 1840-1960

    London Guild Publishing 1987

    224pp illus with b/w plates and line ills. Square 4to. Vg in wrappers. Useful and very well illustrated overview on all the elements of the suurban houses and its details including fittings and fixtures. More than 300 photographs with 100 in colour. List of sockists for elements at the back.

    Stock ID: 22213
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  • [SULGRAVE MANOR] SMITH, H Clifford
    Sulgrave Manor and the Washingtons: a history and guide to the tudor home of George Washington's Ancestors

    London Jonathan Cape 1933

    260pp illus with cxvpp b/w plates and further text ills. 4to. Gilt lettered and green cloth. Some pages uncut. Foreword by Viscount Lee of Fareham. Corners sl. rubbed else very good copy. Bookpate of Josceline Grove on front paste down and a description of the book pasted-down onto f.e.p. Detailed account of the house and garden and its purchase and in 1914.

    Stock ID: 22655
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  • CRAIG, James [KYNOCH Ltd.]
    Summer Sunshine Spring, 1927. Summer Sunshine. Introducing "Sunshine Yellow" by James Craig. lllustrated by the well-known Artist Helen McKie.

    Keith, Scotland G. & G. Kynoch Ltd. Fine Cloth Makers 1927

    Unpaginated. [15pp] 150 x 20mm. 4-colour litho ills. Ribbon tied: ribbon has perished. Wraps. Very good. A lovely item promoting the new spring-summer fashion trends from Fine Cloth Makers, G. & G. Kynoch Ltd. whose "cloth's reflecting the latest London ideas and containing many new and original novelties, are on view at Kynoch's London Showrooms [on Saville Row]."

    Stock ID: 22770
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  • STOCKER, David & EVERSON, Paul.
    Summoning St Michael, Early Romanesque Towers in Lincolnshire

    Oxford Oxbow Books 2006

    309 pp, extensive black and white illustrations, maps, photographs, and drawings. 4to. Cloth with paste down label on upper board. Very good. A scholarly although accessible study in excellent condition of the group of 60 churches in Lincolnshire built in the 11th century nearly all of which have distinctive west towers that are the subject of this book.

    Stock ID: 23364
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  • Part of the Survey of London described and illustrated by J. P. Sayer, which included 17 maps in total. Further maps continuing the survey were issued each month by Strand Magazine. Like Sayer's other works, the map features numerous vignettes of places of interest, alongside detailed annotations of the history of the area, many references to the historic buildings, landmarks and to the famous men and women from the locale.
    SAYER, J.P
    [Survey of London] A Prospect of Westminster As it appears today showing the Abbey, Westminster Hall, the School, the Houses of Parliament, St. Margaret's Chruch etc. To which is added a MAP of that area about Two Hundred Years ago.

    London Strand Magazine 1947

    The Fourth Part of the Survey of London. Single sheet folded in half. Chromolithograph. w265mm x 196mm. Very good. Some discolouring of paper due to age and slight tears at top and base of centre fold. Fold is off centre. Right hand edge of the Prospect image is slightly bumped. Verso includes historic map whilst central image is a prospect view with annotations around the image edge

    Stock ID: 22625
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  • BLACK, Clementina
    Sweated Industry and the minimum wage

    London Duckworth & Co 1907

    With an introduction by A G Gardiner. xxiv + 281pp. Small 8vo. Cloth spine, gilt titles. Very good copy. Clementina Maria Black (27 July 1853 – 19 December 1922) was an English writer, feminist and pioneering trade unionist, suffragist and social reformer. The Sweated Industries exhibition, 1906 had been held the year before this book appeared and is reported on in detail in the introduction to this book. Clementina Black played a key role in the 1906 "Daily News" Sweated Industries exhibition, a campaign to expose and address the exploitation of workers on low wages and this book offers a survey of the conditions of the poorest working in sweated industries and at the…

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    London Duckworth & Co 1907

    With an introduction by A G Gardiner. xxiv + 281pp. Small 8vo. Cloth spine, gilt titles. Very good copy. Clementina Maria Black (27 July 1853 – 19 December 1922) was an English writer, feminist and pioneering trade unionist, suffragist and social reformer. The Sweated Industries exhibition, 1906 had been held the year before this book appeared and is reported on in detail in the introduction to this book. Clementina Black played a key role in the 1906 "Daily News" Sweated Industries exhibition, a campaign to expose and address the exploitation of workers on low wages and this book offers a survey of the conditions of the poorest working in sweated industries and at the end proposes some solutions. She had been involved in various campaigns since the late 1880s when she was actively involved in the Bryant and May strike.

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    Stock ID: 23286
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  • Sydney Opera House Glass Walls by (UTZON) SOWDEN, Harry.
    (UTZON) SOWDEN, Harry.
    Sydney Opera House Glass Walls

    London Cassell & Co. Ltd (1972, New York) 1974

    192 pp. b/w photographs, architectural drawings, maps and plans throughout. Long 4to. White cloth boards with black lettering, in decorated glassine dust wrapper. Good copy although slight discolouration at cloth edges and glassine wrapper has tears at spine and partly missing against back board. Photographic record of the design and manufacture of the Sydney Opera House glass walls, carried out by the author during their construction. The design won the Engineering Excellence Award of 1972 by the Association of Consulting Engineers of Australia. With detailed captions and brief descriptive chapters. From the library of Winston Barnett Architects, with ownership ticket inside front cover.

    Stock ID: 16657
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  • Tapestry Weaving in England; by THOMSON W G
    THOMSON W G
    Tapestry Weaving in England; from the Earliest Times to the End of the XVIIIth Century

    London B T Batsford 1914

    172pp with 63 plates, frontis and a two further images in colour. Large 4to. Original gilt decorated cloth. Sl. rubbed at head of the spine else a good copy. Review of tapestries from the 14th century through the end of the 18th.. Also describes the crafts and craftsmen behind the production of many of the wall hangings in Britain, and comments on the economic development of the trade.

    Stock ID: 5402
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  • Tatlin by ZHADOVA ALEKSEEVNA Larissa (Edited by)
    ZHADOVA ALEKSEEVNA Larissa (Edited by)
    Tatlin

    London Thames and Hudson 1988

    533pp b/w + colour illustrations. 4to. Black cloth boards with red embossed title on the spine + embossed publisher's logo on the upper board. Illustrated dust wrapper, slightly rubbed in places else a very good copy. An extensive analysis of Tatlin's work with over 500 colour and b/w illustrations. Foreword by K. M. Simonov, a speech that opened Tatlin's exhibition in Moscow 1977.

    Stock ID: 21676
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  • Team 10 Primer by Review copy SMITHSON, Alison Margaret (Compiled by), and Team 10
    Review copy SMITHSON, Alison Margaret (Compiled by), and Team 10
    Team 10 Primer

    London Studio Vista 1968

    112pp. illustrated with b/w plates and line ills. 4to. Good with worn dust wrapper protected in glassine. One inch piece of dust-jacket missing from front top edge and some closed tears on upper wrapper. From Jose and Michael Manser's collection with their bookplate on front end paper. Team 10's theoretical framework was disseminated through teaching and publications, had a profound influence on the development of architectural thought. Initially established initially in 1953 at a CIAM meeting, its key participants included the Smithson's, Jacob Bakema, Aldo van Eyck, George Candilis and Giancarlo de Carlo. The book is a good overview of the philosophies of the group members. The group split and lead to the Smithson's leading…

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    London Studio Vista 1968

    112pp. illustrated with b/w plates and line ills. 4to. Good with worn dust wrapper protected in glassine. One inch piece of dust-jacket missing from front top edge and some closed tears on upper wrapper. From Jose and Michael Manser's collection with their bookplate on front end paper. Team 10's theoretical framework was disseminated through teaching and publications, had a profound influence on the development of architectural thought. Initially established initially in 1953 at a CIAM meeting, its key participants included the Smithson's, Jacob Bakema, Aldo van Eyck, George Candilis and Giancarlo de Carlo. The book is a good overview of the philosophies of the group members. The group split and lead to the Smithson's leading the New Brutalists in the UK. Dutch members formed their own Structuralist group. In this copy loosely inserted is a review ticket from Studio Vista and a copy of the review... which is anonymous but highly critical of the book which makes a fascinating read.

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    Stock ID: 23067
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  • Temples, Ancient and Modern; or notes on church architecture by BARDWELL William (1795-1890)
    BARDWELL William (1795-1890)
    Temples, Ancient and Modern; or notes on church architecture

    Published for the author 1837

    Engraved frontispiece, xiii + (3) + 234 + (2)pp, (12) engraved plates, 1 chromolitho plate, also woodcut text ills. Modern morocco backed cloth, 4to. Very good copy. The book commences with an overview of temples and churches from the earliest times. Bardwell advocates the Italianate as his preferred style for Protestant church architecture. Bardwell 's career as an architect was much taken up with improvement of buildings and planning in London.

    Stock ID: 8161
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  • Tenements and Towers: by [GLASGOW] HORSEY, Miles
    [GLASGOW] HORSEY, Miles
    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.

    Stock ID: 22089
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  • Thames House by the New Lambeth Bridge by [THAMES HOUSE] BAINES, Sir Frank (Architect) WORMALD, Charles photographs by
    [THAMES HOUSE] BAINES, Sir Frank (Architect) WORMALD, Charles photographs by
    Thames House by the New Lambeth Bridge

    London Undated c1929

    Metal spiral bound. Stiff card wrappers which when opened out show a panorama of the New Lambeth Bridge and its relationship to Thames House. 240 x340mm Promotional booklet produced at the time of initial construction a description of the buildings which could be used to promote it office accommodation. 40 sepia photographs with captions. Shows parts of the building furnished and unfurnished. Effectively the whole building was two blocks linked by a bridge structure. At the time of publication, the offices of Pearson and Dorman Long Limited and the International Nickel Company of Canada Limited were in occupation. Their suites are illustrated. Thames House served as the ICI Headquarters till 1994. Part has been occupied by MI5.

    Stock ID: 21287
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  • The American Vitruvius: The Architect's Handbook of Civic Art. by HEGEMANN Werner, & PEETS Elbert,
    HEGEMANN Werner, & PEETS Elbert,
    The American Vitruvius: The Architect's Handbook of Civic Art.

    New York The Architectural Book Publishing Company, 1922

    298pp, with 1203 figs (high-quality photos, line illustrations, plans, maps etc.,), bibliography. Gilt lettered cloth. 410x310mm. Folio. Fine in very good dust wrapper. First edition. The American Vitruvius refers extensively to European design, taking many examples from Hegemann's earlier book on the Berlin 1910 exhibition. Hegemann spent his career between Germany and the USA. Initially working in the USA immediately after World War I, he advised on the planning of Boston. He returned to Germany but ultimately fled on the rise to power of Hitler. Beautifully illustrated book .

    Stock ID: 19538
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  • The Anatomy of Nature by BEDELL Rebecca
    BEDELL Rebecca
    The Anatomy of Nature Geology and American Landscape Painting. 1825 - 1875

    Princeton and Oxford Princeton University Press 2001

    185pp. 31 color plates, 55 black-and-white illustrations. Decorated boards with cloth spine and gilt titling, in dust wrapper. Book and d/w both fine. A comprehensive study of the Hudson River School in the nineteenth century.

    Stock ID: 22932
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  • The Andy Warhol Diaries by [WARHOL] HACKETT, Pat [Editor]
    [WARHOL] HACKETT, Pat [Editor]
    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.

    Stock ID: 22552
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