Oldham, Incline Press 2018

10 two tone colour prints. accompanying the age old poem about Magpies. 370 x 260mm Bound with a cloth spine and printed paper over boards with specially printed flyleaves by Roger Grech at his Papercut Bindery. Text set in Monotype Bembo from 24 to 72 points in size. The numerals are Winchester 30-line woodtype from Stephenson, Blake. The paper is 170gsm Zerkall.. Signed by the artist. Number 51 of 160 copies, signed by Nick Wornham on the colophon. Fine copy.

London, Printed for B. Sprint, D. Browne, J. Osborn, S. Birt, H. Lintot and A. Wilde 1736

3rd edition corrected and improved throughout. First published in 1703. Frontis, xvi + 188pp. Frontis shows the principal front and plan of the apartments of the Earl of Burlington's House at Chiswick. [ first time this image appears as the frontispiece to this book]. On front paste down states "John Wilson His Book". Rear paste down gives name in pencil of a later owner 1767 Richard Dickinson. Verso of title page has contemporary naive drawing on it, some wormholes to page edges in heart of the book. Full calf, repaired at head of spine and with new spine label. Harris 587

New York, Tokyo & Kyoto Weatherhill/Tankosha 1978

Second printing. 279 pp illustrated. Large quarto, Contrasting cloth binding with overprinted clear plastic wrapper in very good condition. Text by Teiji Itoh with photographs by Yukio Futagawa and translated from the Japanese by Richard L. Gage. Together with 206 pages of illustrations 161 in black-and-white gravure, 8 in colour and 37 of detailed architectural drawings – this is an authoritative study of modern Japanese architecture and the style in which it found it's culminating expression.

Oxford Butterworth Heinneman 1991

xii, 447 pp., 598 illustrations, 30 in colour. 4to. Very good in slightly worn dust wrapper. Published in association with the University of Stirling. This book was produced as the first complete catalogue of their executed works. Birthday dedication on the half title in neat hand.

Finishing Publications Ltd. 2009

249 pp 8 pages of colour photographs together with black and white illustrations by the author. 8vo. Gilt decorated boards, in very good dust wrapper. First published in 1962 this autobiographical book was initially withdrawn. This reprinted edition includes the author's key to the artistic characters involved in a thinly disguised St Ives artists including amongst others Barbara Hepworth, Ben Nicholson, Bernard Leach, Peter Lanyon, and Patrick Heron.

London John Lane the Bodley Head & in New York, Dodd, Mead and Company 1924

(xii), 231, (1) pp. Frontispiece and 32 coloured plates plus numerous black and white illustrations in the text. Black titles. Cream buckram. 4to Very good copy. Major projects recorded here including, St Aidan's Church, Leeds, The Royal Exchange, Decorations for Selfirdge's, Stained glass cartoons, The Panama-Pacific Exhibition amongst others. Published just before his work for the Empire Exhibition, London was shown. Lovely book.

London The Architectural Press 1938

First edition120pp illus with b/w plates including plans and elevations of the modern school. Large 4to. Open weave cloth. Slightly dusty at edges else a bright copy of this survey of contemporary school design thoughout the UK. Despite thte title the text also covers junior and senior schools. Useful case studies.

New York Princeton Architectural Press (with Ryerson Image Centre, Ryerson University, Toronto) 2013

Sporadically paginated. c. 175pp Richly illustrated with balack and white and colour photographs by Burley. Black boards. Folded Dust Jacket. Long Quarto. Foreword by Gaell Morel and Doina Popescu. Additional essays by Alison Nordstrom, Francois Cheval and Andrea Kunard. A very good copy of a book which reflects on the resilience of traditional art forms in the digital era.

London Westerham Press 194

125 + [2]pp illustrated with plates and one folded facsimile. Quarto. Gilt lettered cloth. Very good in slipcase. First edition. Copy number 120 from an edition of 500 numbered copies, of which the first 110 were reserved for members of the club. Signed by the author on verso of title page. Michael Harvey was a member of the Double Crown Club.

Worksop Pirvately printed 1904

452pp illustrated. 4to. Brown cloth, gilt titles on upper board. Spine slightly faded and with some water marks. Bookplate of Josceline Grove, along with his description of the book on front paste down. Internally very good. With crisp illustrations. Notes on the Barony of Grove, Nottinghamshire and a letter about the cost of the book loosely slipped into the pages. Robert White ( born 1820 ) of Worksop was a renowned author and biographer famous for his directories and histories of Nottinghamshire. This publication is a valuable compendium of ancient topographical information on Nottinghamshire which was much altered by the spread of industrialisation and the impact of the motorcar.

South Illinois University Press 1960

232pp illustrated with b/w plates and line illustrations. Small 4to. Decorated end papers. With two loosely inserted headed pieces of writing paper from Robert Matthew 31 Regent Terrace Edinburgh which are covered in sketches relating to geodesic dome designs in black pen. Also loosely inserted is a press cutting on Buckminster Fuller from Building Design 2005. From the library of Robert Matthew. Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion structures, are those that yield the greatest possible efficiency in terms of available technology. His inventions included a Dymaxion car, Geodesic Domes, and dwellings. Useful review and critique of his philosophies and works.

Oxford. Phaidon.1979.

315pp with 398 b/w plates, 11 line drawings and 2 maps. Orig. red cloth, gilt. 4to. Vg in very good dust wrapper. Lectures given in 1969 and trace the development of the decorated style. Very significant study by Bony who life long study has been the Romanesque and Gothic Architecture in England and France.

Batsford, London, 1912.

234 pp. 130 collotype plates by W Galsworthy Davie, and many illustrations in the text. Blue blind embossed buckram boards. Only edition. A little faded on the spine.

London Thames and Hudson c.1980

208pp, b/w & col. photographs. 4to. Cloth with photographic dw. dust wrapper sl. creased to top edge, else very good. From the library of Alec Clifton-Taylor, although without his signature or inscription. Markings in ink throughout the text. The village throughout history.

London, Pitman (1946)1948

vii +166pp with 150 figures, including 2 large fold-outs. 4to in original cloth, good copy. 'A practical book for architects, builders and students, who are seeking detailed information upon the employment of modern materials and methods in building construction.'

New York The Grolier Club 2000

95pp, Decorated title page. Blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine and motif on upper board. Catalogue of an exhibition at the Grolier Club, with an autobiography by Zapf and descriptions of the illustrations and translations of his books. One of 1,050 copies printed. Very good copy.

University of Pennsylvania Press 1999

448pp with 66 colour and 228 b/w illustrations. Fine, new copy. This is a study of the colourful flowers and blossoming shrubs which adorned the Georgian landscape garden. It focuses on the historical reconstruction of the formal and horticultural characteristics of shrubberies and flowerbeds, but also discusses the transmission of planting lore, and interaction between landscape designer, client, nurseryman, land agent, and gardener in modifying and transforming the geometric layouts of previous generations. Laird offers readers a wealth of visual and literary materials—from contemporary paintings, engravings, poetry, essays, and letters to more prosaic household accounts and nursery bills—to revolutionize our understanding of the English landscape garden as a powerful cultural expression.

London, Macmillan. 1988

xii + 206pp illustrated with b/w grainy photographs and illustrations. Very good copy with dust wrapper.

Christopher Helm 1988

224pp, 130 b/w ills and 30 colour photographs, Sm 4to. Vg in dw. Produced in association with the tercentenary of the glorious revoluetion. A celebration of the gardens in Britain and Holland at the time. Hard to find.