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An Artist's Reminiscences
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.
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An Enquiry into the Difference of Style Observable in Ancient Glass Paintings Especially in England: With Hints on Glass Painting by the late Charles Winston.
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.
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An Essay on the Construction, Hanging and Fastening of Gates; Exemplified in six quarto plates
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.
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An Essay upon Gardening: containing a catalogue of exotic plants for the stoves and green-houses of the British gardens: the best method of planting the hot-house vine; with directions for obtaining and preparing proper earths and compositions, to preserve tender exotics observations on the history of gardening, and a contrast of the ancient with the modern taste
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An Exhibition for Modern Living
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An Exhibition of Architecture at Fountain Street, Castle Street Belfast Souvenir Handbook Mary 29th-July 28th
Belfast Royal Society of Ulster Architects in association with The Council for the Encouragement of music and the arts, Northern Ireland 1951
24pp illustrated with c16pp of b/w photographs of buildings in Northern Ireland and elsewhere in the UK + a few international examples + 18pp period ads. Decorated wrappers, these a little worn. Foreword by F R Gibson. Texts on Irish architecture, prefabrication approaches in Hertfordshire, contributions from Clough Williams Ellis and Max Bill amongst others. Loosely inserted a gate fold leaflet printed on blue paper, summarising the exhibition and including on one side a large plan of the layout of the exhibition. Uncommon.
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An Exhibition of Etchings Dry Points & Lithographs by James McNeill Whistler
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.
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An Introduction to Modern Architecture
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.
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An Old Cottage Saved: How derelict cottages at Brinkstone in Suffolk, were brought into use again and what the work cost
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.
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Anthony Salvin, Pioneer of Gothic Revival Architecture.
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.
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Appearances: Fashion Photography since 1945
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.
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Arch Bridges and Their Builders 1735-1835
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.
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Architects: The noted and the ignored
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.
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Architectural Design 6 1973 Special Issue Milton Keynes
London, The Standard Catalogue Company Ltd. 1973
Pagination 332 - 410 + [4]pp Bright green covers with photograph of the Milton Keynes Team by Jon Donat. The text on Milton Keynes runs from page 348 to end including period ads. It provides a progress report on developments from the birth of the idea of a "New City" in 1962. A review thus of the first decade of works. Very good copy of this issue.
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Architectural Design December 1972 Special Issue R Buckminster Fuller Retrospective
London, The Standard Catalogue Company Ltd. 1972
Pagination 728-790pp Bright purple covers, portrait of Buckminster Fuller as part of a montage by Tervor Sutton. The text is a lengthy interview conducted by Mike Ben-Eli with a Christmas message from Buckminster Fuller. Other major article is by Monica Pidgeon on Campamentos, Latin American shanty towns. Very good copy of this issue.
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Architectural Design in Concrete
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Architectural Design July 1958 Special number of office buildings and interiors
Architectural Design 1958
Pagination is 256-3-7 + period ads, b/w and colour photographs. Large 4to. Decorated wrappers. Special section on Office Furniture by Robin Day and the major part on interiors, also edited by him, features the work of major contemporary designers inclduing Arne Jacobsen, Patrick Gwynne, Chamberlin Powell and Bon and many others. Cover design features a typewritter with a salute to Saul Steinberg!
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ARCHITECTURAL FORUM: Magazine of Building. Volume 104 no 6
June 1956
280pp illustrated including a large section of advertisements. 4to. Decorated wrappers with illustration on upper wrapper by Saul Steinberg showing airport life. Good copy. A little dusty on wrappers and worn at head and base of spine. Key subject is Airports and more widely transport with an article on Penn Station. Includes survey of international airports including Zurich, London [ Heathrow] Acapulco, Rome and others. Discusses the airport at Newark New Jersey, Puerto Rica and others. The issue also includes other articles on housing, schools etc.
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ARCHITECTURAL FORUM: Magazine of Building. Volume 106 no 1 Special issue on Technology
New York Time Inc., January 1957
Special issue on Technology Abstract design on coloured wrappers 4to. 216pp illustrated with b/w photographs and line ills + 100s of period advertisements in colour and b/w. Edited by Douglas Haskell. Key articles concern – approaches to Landscaping, New approaches to materials, prefabrication and the environment through air conditioning methods. Finally there is a long article on structure including the work of Felix Candela in a fabulously illustrated article with photography by Erwin Lang, Buckminster Fuller etc.
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ARCHITECTURAL FORUM: Magazine of Building. Volume 88 no 2
New York City: Time, Inc. February 1948
Coloured wrappers showing interiors in colour. 4to. Worn at head and base of spine with some chip out of this. Covers a bit dusty. Internally good copy. Key article on Color and Design shown where the packaging corporation redesigned its building. Features work of Egbert Jacobson, Herbert Bayer, [ Herbert Bayer's interior design and color schemes for the new CCA Chicago headquarters] Maria Berson and Morton L Pereira & Associates. Other articles on housing and design throughout. Some lovely colour and b/w images showing mid century modern solutions to design issues.
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