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.

London The Bodley Head Limited 1924

xiii, [ii], 268pp, [iv] with 79 illustrations in colour and black and white. Quarto. Quarter cloth and paper covered boards. Original dust wrapper - this a little chipped at the top of the spine. Very good. Limited to 1000 copies for sale in Great Britain and the United States. A comprehensive overview of Kauffman's life and her important artistic output. The production of this book was prompted by a discovery in the RA archives of a manuscript in Kauffmann's handwriting, written in Italian, which gives an account of her paintings post-1781. (This document is reproduced in this volume.]

London B. T. Batsford [1896] 1906

2nd edition revised and enlarged. 8pp text + 63pp plates in black and white. Revised and enlarged edition. Small folio. Cloth spine, decorated boards. Cloth backed boards. Corners rubbed else very good. Trade catalogue produced by B T Batsford for this key contemporary joinery firm. Includes full size profiles of details etc. + designs for fireplace, mantels and over mantels etc. Loosely inserted 8pp small price list from the firm by this date noted in stamp overprinting F A Fawkes, as Crompton and F A Fawkes Ltd. Title page of catalogue is stamped by the firm Morris Shemeld and Wilde of Northampton [ Shop Fitters] and dated April 1 1911.

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.

New York & Tokyo The Architectural Forum & Antonin Raymond , printed in Japan 1938

116pp illustrated with line illustrations and b/w plates. Second printing. Hardcover burlap covered boards are spiral bound. Japanese paper end papers and title. Bright copy. Slightly bumped on Both authors' autographs are printed in facsimile on the title page, above rows of Japanese characters. The self-published Architectural details provides advice for the designer using Raymond's work and philosophy as a model. In interior plans and elevations, sectional drawings, and examples of dramatic self-supporting staircases, concrete proves an optimal material in both aesthetics and durability. Raymond's talent for incorporating traditional Japanese elements.

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.

London, Studio Vista 1969 (1967)

96pp with numerous b/w illustrations. Printed wraps. Square octavo. Good. Spine a little bumped at top edge. Upper hinge cracked. Pencil annotations on some of the pages. A stimulating book in which Cook considers architecture as an extension of our personalities, our aspirations, motives and what this means in terms of reading contemporary architecture.

Cambridge Mass Harvard (1968) 1985

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

London, Studio Vista 1965

96pp with numerous b/w and 3 colour illustrations. Wraps, good. Square octavo. Considers the ways in which a more coherent approach to our environment can become the norm. Very good copy.

London Royal College of Art, 1954

Unpaginated. Illustrated. Oblong 12mo. 180x240mm. Original card covers. These slightly dusty. Contains Illustrated essays on 'Three Young Contemporaries' by John Minton, Len Deighton 'Impressions of New York', Bernard Myers on tattoos, Herbert Spencer on 'Recent Developments in Typography', colour lithographs by Tony Puig, colour lithographs of Under Milk Wood by Roy Morgan, wo colour lithographs by Anthony Whishaw. Includes many period ads.

London Chapman & Hall 1903

4 issues bound covering the whole year. 4to. Green cloth as issued with gilt lettering and vignette on upper board. Missing free end paper at the front. Scatttered foxing to preliminaries else very good. The Art Workers' Quarterly, subtitled, A Portfolio of Practical Designs for Decorative and Applied Arts, was published in five volumes by Chapman & Hall, London, between 1902 and 1906. Contributors in this volume include , Walter Crane, J. Alexander Fisher, D A Aird, R A Dawson, James Aitken, Aymer Valance, Ethel Higgins and Elizabeth F Scott. Wonderful illustrations to inspire design.

Settle privately published 2QT 2020

275pp, 295 illustrations in colour. Decorated wrappers featuring Lethaby's Herefordshire masterpiece, All Saints, Brockhampton. Square 4to. 210 x 210mm The Arts and Crafts Movement is less well known for its public buildings than domestic projects. Many of the leading personalities were commissioned to design or decorate churches, and these too were highly influential on subsequent architectural developments. Their patrons played a key role in bringing these revolutionary buildings into being. The book examines the churches as a group, the influences of designers on each other, and assess their impact on design in the the 20th century and after.

Market Drayton Tern Press 1976

no 138 of 200 signed by Gerallt Jones. Includes prints by Nicholas Parry. Unpaginated. Green decorated wrappers. 240x300mm. Perfect bound. Slightly sunned on spine else good copy.

London Faber and Faber 1958

289pp with 66 b/w photographs. 4to. Dust wrapper rather worn and with annotations in ink. Cloth to head and foot of spine and corners rubbed. From the library of Alec Clifton-Taylor, with his signature in ink, dated 1958 to fep. Loosely inserted copious handwritten notes and a hand drawn map of Germany by A. C.-T. and several postcards to A C.-T. featuring church interiors from Germany and Switzerland. Newspaper review clippings pasted onto rear endpapers. Brown paper wrapper between cloth and dw. The historical background and social forces behind the dvelopment of Baroque architecture, and a country by country description of Baroque churches.