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.

Oxford, The University Press 200

xviii, 352 pp, 196 black and white photographs and 4 colour photographs. Large quarto. Very good. Comprehensive on the architecture of Norman England.

New York MOMA 1982

114pp illustrated with b/w plates throughout. Square 4to. Wrappers. A little worn on the wrappers else very good.

London B T Batsford 1900

xviii, 224pp, 198 illustrations, including a double-page frontis, 2 indexes, Original green cloth, gilt decorations on spine in the arts and crafts style. Very sl. rubbed on the corners and edges and green cloth a little dull and inner front hing a little cracked else a very good copy of this beautiful book - the first edition of which reveals Mawson's principles in the early part of his career. The book developed through a further four editions and can be used to reveal the development of Mawson's ideas over time. Includes perspectives of gardens by C E Mallows.

Hanborough, Oxford, Inky Parrot Press 2018

161pp + colophon; illustrations in colour throughout; Fine. A fascinating study, beautifully produced in the Artist's Choice series style. Includes essays by Peter Davidson & Michael Hall. Loosely inserted is the Prospectus for the standard edition book, the prospectus for the special edition with formed part of 35 copies with a separate folder of colour prints, the original receipt for this copy and note on a card from Alan Power to the book's recipient. Number 86 of 196 signed by Alan Powers on the colophon.

London, Longmans, Green & Co 1901

vi+ 133pp plus 68 b/w plates. Gilt decorated green cloth, slightly worn along spine and fore edge, but generally vg. Some discolouration to end papers but internally bright and clean. A collection of eight lectures on building and aesthetics, the role of art in constructing a home, on furniture and on designing small houses and cottages. Lovely Arts and Crafts style book production. First edition.

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.

London Crosby Lockwood & Co 1879

First edition. 58pp + 32pp catalogue of publications by the firm + lists of Weale's series titles on end papes. Illustrated with 12 full page line illustrations in black and white showing how to set out lettering in different styles. Spine a little worn else good. Badenoch, was a practising sign writer from Aberdeen, Scotland.

Wakefield The Fleece Press 1991

156 pp. Illustrated with engravings of printers at work. Quarter red cloth, printed paper boards. Rear pocket contains a wood engraving signed by Lawrence. Square quarto. Fine copy in cloth slipcase with a little wear. One of 250 unnumbered copies. From the library of Michael Harvey.

London, Thames & Hudson 1985

234 pages with 1 fold out, b/w and colour illustrations, 1 genealogical table, 1 map. Small folio. Very good in slipcase. £30

London Rupert Hart-Davis, 1956.

(x) 248pp illustrated with 8 b/w photo lithographic plates. Very good with very good dust wrapper. Lady Emily wrote these letters whilst being brought up in Lisbon. She went on to become became the wife of the architect Edwin Lutyens. In her own right she was a English theosophist and writer and an advocate for vegetarianism and socialism.

Petersburg Press 1977

First edition. 52pp with 20 colour etchings by David Hockney. Inspired by Wallace Stevens who was inspired by Pablo Picasso. Very good condition in very good unclipped dust wrapper. Very slightly rubbed on corners and base of spine.

London Strahan & Co. Publishers 1870 (1861)

3rd edition, with illustrations. viii + 141pp + 12pp list of publications by Weales and 32pp Crosby Lockwood titles. Decorated end papers with further information on the Weale's series of publications. Green stamped cloth boards with gilt title and paper title label on spine. Paper label, rubbed and missing in places and inside hinges cracked, else a good copy. Bookseller's label (Wm. Henry Greer) paste down in top left corner of inside upper board.

Lodon Routledge & Kegan Paul 1979

219pp + 16pp catalogue of books published by Routledge et al. Very good with dust wrapper. Previous owner's name on paste down in pencil. This is a review of urban and regional policies in the mid-1970s, with major implications for the new towns as an element of national policy at a time when forecasts were suggesting a decline in population. Covers the history and evolution of British New Towns and their part in wider urban policy.

Bromsgrove The Bromsgrove Society 1999

xi + 146 pp. 84 b/w ills throughout, 25 in colour. 8vto. Fine. Decorated wrappers. Illustrated comprehensive history of the Bromsgrove Guild of Applied Arts, founded 1898 in the West Midlands. Traces the Guild's development into a thriving commercial enterprise with an international reputation in metalwork, woodcarving, plasterwork, stained glass and other media, and cites celebrated commissions such as the wrought iron gates of Buckingham Palace, ornate metalwork on the Cunard Liners, and Liverpool's renowned 'Liver Birds'. Includes accounts from former Guild workers.

London J. M. Dent, 1925.

368pp, 63 b/w plates plus diagrams. 4to. Vg copy in orig. green cloth. 4to. ' A Contribution to the Study of Town Development and Regional Planning'. A discussion on the possibilities of building satellite towns, using Welwyn and Letchworth as examples, around large cities in an attempt to counter the suburban growth. First edition

London SPCK 1925

Xvi + 235pp. xxxi tipped in sepia plates illustrate the text. 8vo. Green cloth covered boards with gilt lettering on spine. A little dusty and book block slightly foxed, else good.

London T. Werner Laurie Ltd 1926

Colour frontispiece with tissue guard. Viii + 398pp. Last four pages uncut. 79 illustrations, 8 of these in colour. Map of Italy embossed onto front paste down. Blue end papers match the dust wrapper. This with past down colour illustration of Bergamo's Santa Maria Maggiore. Beneath this, blue cloth covered boards with gilt titling on spine and upper board along with elaborate ironwork design. Top edge of book block, is blue with other edges uncut. Dustwrapper a little bumped along top edge else a fine copy of this comprehensive text. Originally printed as three separate volumes, reissued in this new complete volume in 1926