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.

Ditchling St Dominic's Press 1926

The "Small Rhyme Sheets". These two each folded once. No. 16, Dressmaker; No. 12, Milkmaid. Reduced Eric Gill engraving. Bound in half calf with hand made paper covered boards. Arts and crafts style binding. Taylor and Sewell, B39 & B35. originally issued in string tied light grey wrappers.

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.

Gold Coast, Accra 1025

29pp description on the exhibition and the arrangements for African participants in terms of accommodation, facilities, trips etc. Fascinating period report describing the development of the project for a village and pavilion representing the Gold Coast and West African colonies. The London Gold Coast Committee was presided over by Lady Guggisberg then John Maxwell. The exhibit was designed and constructed by MacAlpine and the whole report written from a British perspective. The report includes very useful insights into how ethnic groups were involved in the exhibition. Lists those who loaned material, a list divided racially between British and African lenders. Flimsy wrapper which are partially detached and chipped.

London, Thames and Hudson, 1962

257pp with 257 b/w and 24 colour illustrations Square 4to. Very good copy in sl. worn and scuffed dust wrapper with one inch piece missing from spine top. Nonetheless a striking copy. A comprehensive review of the Russian contribution to the modern movement.

London The Arts Council 1964

Unpaginated. 12pp illustrated with b/w plates. This catalogue reviews the work of the first eight Gregory Fellows appointed at Leeds University. They were Reg Butler, Martin Froy, Kenneth Armitage, Terry Frost, Hubert Dalwood, Alan Davie Trevor Bell and Austin Wright. The Gregory Fellows was the brainchild of Mr Eric Craven Gregory who established the fellowships in 1949 to promote contemporary art and sculpture. He was a Yorkshire business man and chair of the art publishing company, Percy Lund, Humphries & Co., Hard to find catalogue. Note in red ink on upper wrapper providing a name and address in neat hand.

New York The Grolier Club 1967

52pp + 8pp b/w photographs showing the club interiors and facade. 8vo. Limited to 2000 copies printed by the Spiral Press. Very good copy in slipcase with good paper label.

Nomad Letterpress & Beaufort Bookshop, (nr Cheltenham) printed at the Whittington Press 2023

29, (2) pages. Illustrations by Hilary Paynter. Small oblong folio. Decorated paper covered boards, with paste down paper label on cover. Limited to 900 numbered copies, of which this is number 354 of 874 copies bound by Green Street Bindery using Bugra-Bütten covers. Printed on Zerkall mould-made paper using Walbaum and Stern typefaces using a Heidelberg Cylinder SBB. The illustrations are printed from lemonwood blocks engraved by the artist. These sheets are the last to come from the Zerkall Mill which was forced to close following the Ahr Valley floods in 2021.