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.

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.

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.

B T Batsford Ltd 1949

viii + 96pp with 68 b/w, colour and half-tone plates and 35 b/w line figures, 4to, cloth, dw. Dw sl. faded along spine and bumped along edges else vg copy. Second edition. A detailed survey of architectural draughtsmanship in England.

Thames & Hudson, 1990.

64pp, 74 b/w illustrations. Very slighly bumped on one corner else very good in dust wrapper. The book of Richards Roger's talk given at the 22nd annual Walter Neurath Memorial Lecture covering four inter-related themes of Patronage and Capitalism, Modernism, Post-Modernism and the Future. Signed by Richard Rogers and with Michael and Jose Manser's book plate on front end paper. Loosely inserted printed card saying "With all good wishes for the New Year, Richard Rogers."

Country Life Ltd 1944

224pp illus. with b/w plates throughout. Sm 4to. VG. With chipped dust wrapper. Important review of the work of Sir Herbert Baker, tracking his career and friendship with Cecil Rhodes, his move to New Delhi, Kenya and back to the UK where he became active with the War Graves Commission work and Country House architecture alike.

Cambridge Mass Harvard (1968) 1985

reprint. 278pp illus. with b/w plates. 4to. Good. Previous owner's name on front end paper.

New York. Harper and Brothers 1877

211pp illustrated with b/w plates. Elaborately decorated cloth. A little shelf worn else very good. Bookplate of Geo C Nightingale on front paste down and ownership name on title page in pen. Looks at art education in the broadest sense and surveys approaches taken in Europe and in the USA as a basis for advocating better quality design education in the USA covering all aspects of instruction across disciplines informing industry, applied art, design and craftsmanship.

London Nicholls & Clarke Liimited undated. c 1920

Catalogue no 21 26pp catalogue with colour illustrations, many full page illustrating their domestic leaded lights and wrought iron casements. 4to. Decorated wrappers. Fine. Hard to find. Nicholls and Clarke were ironmongers and architectural supply merchants who produced large catalogues of general building supplies. This is an unusual survival of one of their specialist catalogues. Aimed proabably at the suburban house market. Also includes a design for a war memorial window. Price list on back page.