London Cement and Concrete Association c1935

2nd edition. 28pp pamphlet. Stapled. A little worn on edges else good. The Association's mission was to improve and extend the uses of concrete. Illustrations and text exploring detailed designs to reduce impact of direct and indirect attacks. Information drawn widely from European publications on the subject.

London Royal Institute of British Architects 1937

99pp lxi advertisements. B/W plates. 4to, with nicely illustrated wrapper, some shelf-wear and worn on the spine, otherwise good. An in-depth and technical account of the subject. Consists of three main sections: Progress in the air, Airports and Aerial Photography. To accompany an exhibition at the RIBA under chairmanship of H. S. Goodhart-Rendall.

London Archetype Publications and English Heritage 2007

218pp illustrated. 4to. Boards as issued with no dust wrapper. Proceedings of a symposium on secular wall painting, conservation methods through case studies etc.

Northern Aluminium Company [NORAL] nd c1970

111pp illustrated with b/w plates, + 16 figures which are line ills and diagrams showing specifications for Aluminium. Makers of Noral Sheet, Strip. Plate, Bars, Sections, Tubing etc. 4to. Silver decorated cloth. Good copy. Boards a liitle dusty. Includes examples of installed systems in many cases locations and architects given. Frontis is the Laruentien Hotel, Montreal. Many world wide examples of projects. Produced by the firm to promote products.

London Heal and Son and printed at the Arden Press nd [1902]

12mo Original gray paper covered boards, cloth backstrip title label in read and black pasted onto front board. 22pp + 2pp including advertisement for Heal's catalogue. Boards a little dusty and cloth a little more so else good copy. End papers slightly browned. Book by the typographer and journalist Joseph Thorp (1873-1962) offering independent polemical notes on taste, the traditions of Heals as a source of good taste in design and "directing inspiration" Lovely wood block full page illustrations throughout. Thorp moved form working at the Arden Press. He was involved in the Curwen Press and wrote later in life a biography of Eric Gill.

London Lund Humphries 2005

xviii + 341pp. Numerous b/w ills throughout the text. D/w over red cloth boards. D/w a little bumped at the corners. A very good copy of this distinctive study of the life and architectural career of Colin St John Wilson, architect, teacher, theorist.

Edinburgh Design and Industries Association (Edinburgh Branch) 1917

23pp. Pamphlet containing a D.I.A Address by Frank Pick. Paper wrappers with paste down label. Very good ephemeral item. First pamphlet to be published by the DIA Edinburgh Branch. Pick was working for London Transport at the time towards unifying its brand. The key principles to make good design are explored in this pamphlet. Scarce.

Colchester Benham 1953

8vo. Grey paper covered boards overprinted with the title. Original glassine wrapper partially present. Very good copy. For private distribution. no 242 of 500 copies. Image of Liverpool Street Station and eleven further images all in Essex itself mainly in colour or duotone with one in black and white. Fascinating introduction on how the prints were made from O'Connor's original drawings adding to the interest of this title.

London published by the firm 1914

32pp illustrated with b/w plates. 230x310mm Frayed paper wrappers, ribbon tie. The exhibition was held at the RHS Spring Sow at Chelsea Hospital Gardens 1914. Thomas Crowther & Son were established as stone masons in the late 19th century but also dealt in antique garden ornaments and associated materials acquired from Architectural Salvage sales. This catalogue, for instance shows a design by Oliver Hill, architect reusing garden ornaments as part of one of his projects. Several images in the publication show items removed from Cheyne House Chelsea.

Sold by the booksellers in the neighbouring towns; and Baldwin Chadock and Joy, London 1818

[xvi including subscribers list] + 17 + 140pp; [2] ads. Frontis of Woburn CHurch + 1 plate of the house. 195 x175mm. Half calf, marbled boards, recent red spine label. Original boards. Raised bands Very good. Bookplate of previous owner on second end paper. Small stain on half title and title page where coat of arms has been hand painted in blue with a neat hand. Useful on the history of the area and family. Includes a useful description of the modern abbey, its contents, [ in brief ] and grounds.

HMSO Royal Commission on Historical Monuments in England 1981

xcviii + 282pp with text ills throughout and b/w photographs. Very good copy with very good dust wrapper. Descriptions of more than 300 buildings erected before 1850 illustrated with photographs and line ills. 4to. Cloth, vg, in very good d/w.

London 1897

24pp illustrated with 4 chromolithographed plates. 4to. Original wraps preserved within recent gilt lettered cloth binding to make a very good copy. Print edition of a paper read before the British Archaeological Association 1st March 1882. Pages a little worn at edges else very good.

Manchester The Manchester Collection 1984

185pp with 297 black and white photographs. Quarto. Paper wrappers - slightly sunned. Upper cover, top right corner marginally creased. A very good copy. Exhibition catalogue for shows in Manchester and Salford, organised by Harold Riley who worked with Kertesz and the owner of company Norwest Holst - Mr Raymond Slater - to bring the collection featured in this book to Europe as part of a trust available for study by students. Printed in the form of a Festschrift on the occasion of the 90th birthday of Kertész. Includes contributions by Henri Cartier-Bresson, Harold Riley, Mark Haworth-Booth, Lady Marina Vaisey, Weston J. Naef, Colin Ford and Charles Harbutt.

Cambridge, Lutterworth Press, 1987

207pp, 181 b/w photographs and drawings. Sm. 4to, Very good copy with dw. Foreword by Mark Girouard. Including a comprehensive catalogue listing of all the known data for 356 of Salvin's works. The book incorporates previously unpublished material, including letters, diaries, building accounts and reproductions of Salvin's architectural drawings.

London Art Media 2001

304pp, with over 800 colour and b/w plates. 4to. Boards, Very good with good dust wrapper. 18 essays which provide a definitive picture of the life and work of Archibald Knox, designer originating from the Isle of Man and who made his name as a jewellery designer etc for Liberty and Co amongst others and has great stature as someone who bridged in his work the Arts and Crafts Movement, Celtic Revival, Art Nouveau, and Modernism.

London Archigram 1968

Milanogram/Milan Triennale/population growth). Yellow envelope folder with pocket; cover image on inside. Contents: eight pages 420mm x 150mm, folded; seventeen sheets, double sided, 210mm x 150mm, and one 300mm x 210mm. Not numbered or ordered, but punch card codification down the edge of sheets. Sheets inserted in folder. Wallet designed to be posted to readers. Priced at 5 shillings. Collated from the Archigram Archival Project. Envelope a little browned and dusty.