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.

London Crosby Lockwood & Son Ltd 1952

VII + 64pp illustrated with 35 line ills and one photograph of the Dome. Also three fold-out plates of tables in pocket to rear Long 4to. Good with slightly worn dust wrapper. The Dome of Discovery housed a temporary exhibition building designed by architect Ralph Tubbs for the Festival of Britain at the South Bank. The consulting engineers were Freeman Fox & Partners and this book is a technical analysis of the construction.

London The Victorian Society 1980

15pp typescript, mimeographed. Spiral Bound. Preserved in a hand made folder with ribbon ties. Upper board of folder has paste down showing Oliver Hill's unbuilt hotel, which is repeated on the title page of the booklet. A.L.S. Letter to Douglan Marian from Roderick Gradidge on headed note paper from his Chiswick address. undated. "With very belated - past Easter - ! Christmas Greetings and much love from Roddy." Very grand folder for a small publication.

London Hodder and Stoughton no date [1935]

23 pages of text commentary by Chesterton followed by 14 plates by Brangwyn, (12 May 1867 – 11 June 1956) each preceded by a leaf stating the title of the etching. Quarto, black boards with white lettered title to upper board and on spine Cloth rubbed at head and base of spine and on corners. Internally good. Fourteen stations of the cross are illustrated.

London The Design Council 1980

117pp illustrated with b/w plates. Square 4to Very good with good dust wrapper.

Edinburgh & London William Blackwood 1893

136pp with some text ills as line drawings, 24pp catalogue of books on rural affairs. Green gilt lettered cloth with rabbit in gilt on upper board. Very good. On how to set up a warren for commercial ends, the book represents a revival in estate management of breeding rabbits for commercial purposes. Fascinating period item for those interested in the history of estate management and landscape design of large parkland landscapes as well as those closely interested in the rabbit.

London J. M. Dent 1959

xxvi + 355 pages, illustrated with b/w illustrations of the engravings. 4to. Black boards with Gilt titling to the Spine. Very good. The original overprinted acetate lettered wrapper present but this is slightly scuffed.

London J M Dent & Sons 1959

pp.[2] xliv; 355 [3]. Quarto (29 x 23cm), A large collection of over 1000 wood engravings by Gibbings. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine and a gilt device to upper. Top edge green, and light green end papers. With the original clear plastic wrapper overprinted with titles in red on upper wrapper, as issued. Some scuff marks to plastic wrapper else very good copy.

London, The Architectural Press 1980

xi + (1) + 244pp illustrated with 138 b/w plates. Previous owner's bookplates on front paste down. Very good with very good dust wrapper. Hard to find monograph on Sir George Gilbert Scott (1811-1878), the Gothic Revival specialist who was the dominant figure in English architecture in the middle years of the nineteenth century. An appendix lists 879 of his architectural commissions. From the library of David Gerald Francis Hinge whose bookplate is on the front paste down.

London, The Architectural Press 1980

xi + (1) + 244pp illustrated with 138 b/w plates. Previous owner's bookplates on front paste down. Very good with very good dust wrapper. Hard to find monograph on Sir George Gilbert Scott (1811-1878), the Gothic Revival specialist who was the dominant figure in English architecture in the middle years of the nineteenth century. An appendix lists 879 of his architectural commissions.

Boston, Toronto, London Bulfinch Press, Little Brown and Company 1992

236pp. First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. 4to. Original publisher's red cloth, lettered black at the spine. Copiously illustrated in colour and black and white throughout. Produced alongside a touring exhibition Organised by the Dayton Art Institute, curated by co-author Marianne Lorenz. A very good copy. From the collection of Jonathan and Maggie Silver (although un-attributed)

Cambridge Cambridge University Press 1986

xvi + 260pp. 125 b/w illustrations. Very good copy in very good dust jacket. Spine slightly sunned and bottom corner of upper and back boards slightly bumped, else a nice copy in tight binding; brown cloth with bright gilt titles on spine. This is a comprehensive study of a major figure of the modern movement, in whose work philosophy, architecture and painting are inextricably entwined. Number 10 in the Cambridge Urban and Architectural Studies Series. Hard to find in this condition.

London Pall Mall Press 1972

176pp. b/w ills throughout. Red cloth boards with white titles. Missing dust wrapper, a section of which is slipped into the book. Ex Library copy from the Department of the Environment Library. Covers a little grubby else good.

John Murray 1968

316pp illus. with b/w plates. Vg in dust wrapper. Important study of the life and work of Thomas Hope who prescribed classicism in design but who Watkins reveals as a romantic at heart.

London, Humphry Milford, Oxford University Press for the British Academy 1913, A Reprint from Economic History 1939 and another reprint from the RIBA Journal 1936

Three items bound in modern green cloth with original wrappers bound in. The first pamphlet 11pp, the second paginated pp157-166 and the third 24pp, all with detailed footnotes. Fascinating group of pamphlets relating to stone masonry the last of which is particularly useful for the rise of the building trades.