Norwich Art Angels 2020

Lovely mantelpiece calendar for 2021 organised as a concertina strip which when extended has all the months of the year visible and shows the changing seasons on an allotment. New

New York Architectural Book Publishing Company, inc nd 1929

v, [1], 332 p. incl. front., illus., plans. Blue lettered cloth. 4to. Head of spine and conners a little worn else good copy. Includes list of contributing architects. Introductory section on the evolution of the American apartment house and then many detailed examples with plans of individual projects.

New York MOMA 1943

67pp illustrated with 61 b/w plates. Decorated boards. Split along part of spine, slightly chipped and with shelf wear on lower edge else good copy with striking design on covers. Large exhibition of 43 painters and artists as the second exhibition by the museum to provide a survey of Contemporary American Art trends. 265 items listed. Hard to find.

New york G. P. Putman and Sons 1975

First edition. Unpaginated, b/w ills. 4to. Pictorial boards with dustwrapper, very good indeed. Comprises 20 of Edward Gorey's stories. Loosely inserted private view card for Edward Gorey's first British Exhibition at Francis Kyle Gallery, 1979. As well as various news cuttings on Gorey including his obituary, and article from the Independent on Sunday 2003. Ex libris Gavin Stamp, with his bookplate with note that purchased in New York in 1978.

London, Glasgow and Dublin Blackie and Son Limited 1910

Unpaginated Full page colour plates throughout. First few and last few pages slightly foxed. Some light marking in places. Publishers pictorial brown paper covered boards lightly rubbed around edges. Parts of hollow paper spine chipped and damaged. One page has sympathetic repair to a tear else generally a very good copy. The alphabet is one of girls names with short verses about each of the girls illustrated.

Manchester, J.E. Cornish 1897

xv+351pp plus 6 b/w tissue guarded plates. 4to. Original cloth-backed lettered boards. A little scuffed at edges, else good. Very useful biography of this architect and amateur actor from the North West of England. Derbyshire (1839-1908) worked in the Gothic and classical idioms on a number of civic projects and churches, but was chiefly known as a theatre architect, designing theatres in Manchester (including the Comedy Theatre and the Palace Theatre) and redesigning the Lyceum in London. This fascinating book is very hard to find.

London Methuen and Co 1907

2nd edition. 520pp illus with 123 b/w plates and line ills. Original blue cloth with white decorative overprinting, showing shelf-wear, particularly to spine. Top edge gilt. Dec. end papers. Library shelf mark in white on spine. From Morton Sundour Fabrics Library with Mawson Collection typed on bookplates on front paste down. Internal hinges slightly shaky.

Oxford James Parker and Co. 1867

8vo, two volume set. Red gilt decorated cloth with tracery outline on upper boards. Repaired on spines to make a good set. Bookplate of Anthony St John Midman Carew in each copy and also pen signature on end papers of Helen Armory Vol. I, i-xxiv, 422pp + [2pp adverts] + 27 b/w ills. Vol. II, i-iv, 98pp, + list of 75 ills. 23 pages of text that identify 49 b/w and 26 hand coloured illustrations. Volume Two with attractive hand coloured frontispiece. Important study of stained glass techniques, including examination of borders, patterns, figures and foliage.

London Printed by C Whittingham, Dean Strreet, Fetter Lane for Lackington, Allen and Co 1804

Second edition, revised. vi + [2 advertisement & errata] + 116pp illustrated. Rebound with quarter green morocco, marbled boards and matching end papers, gilt rulings and title to make a very good copy. Six fold out engraved plates. Title page a little dusty and some scattered foxing else a very good copy. Standard work on how to make gates, drawing on the authors' experience of working in Shropshire. Superb illustrations on the details of construction including hinges and fastenings for which the book is praised by John Claudius Loudon.

London Conaghi & Co Limited 1971

71pp, b/w plates. Sugar paper wrappers printed with black titles. Small 4to. Signed in back pen by Eduardo Paolozzi on the front end paper.

Oxford John Henry Parker 1847

+xiv, 384 pp. B/w line drawings in text. Deep red cloth boards with decorative detail impressed into front (gilt) and back covers, in protective sleeve. Spine with gilt lettering and horizontal lines of decoration at the head and base of spine. Some wear at spine and slight foxing, else vg copies. Part II (plates) 75 b/w and hand-coloured plates. 23 page text illustration list preceding plates. Important study of stained glass techniques, including examination of borders, patterns, figures and foliage.

London Penguin, Pelican Books 1940

126 p., 32 p. of plates : ill., plans. Good copy with unclipped dust wrapper. Dust wrapper a little worn at head of the spine. Probably J M Richard's most well known and popular book. First edition. Book ticket of Gavin Stamp on inside of wrapper. Written for "the man in the street" as an introduction to contemporary design in buildings.

Readers Union, Newton Abbot 1978

151pp with 167 b/w illustrations. 4to. Cloth, very good with similar d/w. Readable and generously illustrated account of the artist and his works.

London SPAB August 1921

36pp illustrated with b/w photographic plates and line ills. The illustrations show the interiors and exteriors of the buildings before and after rennovation. There is a table at the end of the book providing detailed costings for the various elements. Photographs by C C Winmill, Architect ad C S Cousins, Photographer Bury St Edmunds. Pamphlet. Original wrappers bound into relatively modern binding with cloth spine, black lettered and boards to make a very good copy.

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 Jonathan Cape (1991) 1992

312pp illustrated with superb b/w plates and colour plates. Large square 4to. Decorated wrappers. A little rubbed at base of spine else very good copy. A social history of the post-war period that argues fashion photography has now acquired serious artistic legitimacy.

Cambridge University Press 1979

254pp illus with over 200 b/w plates. 4to. Very good with very good dust wrapper. Exhaustive study based on primary sources with much of individual bridge projects. Hard to find. With the bookplate of Gavin Stamp.

New York John Wiley 1984

242pp illus with b/w plates. Vg in sl. worn dust wrapper. "This book discusses the relationship between the few famous "artistic" architects and their more practical colleagues." Includes material on Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier, Welton Becket, Hendrikus P. Berlage, Johannes Duiker, Peter Eisenman, Aldo van Eyck, Michael Graves, Walter Gropius, Philip Johnson, J. J. P. Oud, Paul Rudolph, Frank Lloyd Wright and many others. Useful for the diversity of post modern architecture.