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  • MENIN, Sarah and KITE, Stephen
    An Architecture of Invitation: Colin St John Wilson

    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.

    Stock ID: 22707
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  • PICK. Frank,
    An Edinburgh Address on Design and Industry

    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.

    Stock ID: 22077
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  • An Exhibition of Etchings Dry Points & Lithographs by James McNeill Whistler by Signed by Eduardo Paolozzi [WHISTLER]
    Signed by Eduardo Paolozzi [WHISTLER]
    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.

    Stock ID: 20580
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  • An Historical and Topographical Account of the town of Woburn, its Abbey and vicinity containing also a concise genealogy of the House of Russell and memoirs of the late Francis, Duke of Bedford. by [WOBURN ABBEY] DODD, S.
    [WOBURN ABBEY] DODD, S.
    An Historical and Topographical Account of the town of Woburn, its Abbey and vicinity containing also a concise genealogy of the House of Russell and memoirs of the late Francis, Duke of Bedford.

    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.

    Stock ID: 22657
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  • An Historical Essay on Architecture An historical essay on architecture by the late Thomas Hope. Illustrated from drawings by him made in Italy and Germany by HOPE, Thomas. (1769 -1831)
    HOPE, Thomas. (1769 -1831)
    An Historical Essay on Architecture An historical essay on architecture by the late Thomas Hope. Illustrated from drawings by him made in Italy and Germany

    London John Murray [1835] 1836?

    2nd edition. Two volumes with Analytical Index [1836] at rear of Vol. 1. xx, 525, verso errata, (iv), 90; xii, [98 plates]. Marbled edges. Volume One contains the essay and Volume Two contains the illustrations. Illustrated from drawings made by him in Italy and Germany. With Ninety-Seven Plates, collated, Green gilt ruled morocco. Prize binding. In gilt lettering inscribed on the upper boards of both volumes "Presented by the Architectural Society London to Mr G A Burn for the best essay 4th June 1839." Slight variation in colour between volume I and volume 2. Good copy. Paper repair to title page professionally executed and text unaffected. Second volume of plates good but a few…

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    London John Murray [1835] 1836?

    2nd edition. Two volumes with Analytical Index [1836] at rear of Vol. 1. xx, 525, verso errata, (iv), 90; xii, [98 plates]. Marbled edges. Volume One contains the essay and Volume Two contains the illustrations. Illustrated from drawings made by him in Italy and Germany. With Ninety-Seven Plates, collated, Green gilt ruled morocco. Prize binding. In gilt lettering inscribed on the upper boards of both volumes "Presented by the Architectural Society London to Mr G A Burn for the best essay 4th June 1839." Slight variation in colour between volume I and volume 2. Good copy. Paper repair to title page professionally executed and text unaffected. Second volume of plates good but a few images have finger marks on them. Published posthumously. Good and robust set.The only complete surviving structure built by Hope is the Deepdene mausoleum. The Lodon Architectural Society had been founded in 1806

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    Stock ID: 22215
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  • An Historical Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the City of York by YORK
    YORK
    An Historical Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the City of York Volume V The Central Area

    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.

    Stock ID: 22254
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  • An Old Cottage Saved: by POWYS, A. R. [ Introduction by Alfred H Powell]
    POWYS, A. R. [ Introduction by Alfred H Powell]
    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.

    Stock ID: 20500
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  • An Old York Church: All Hallows in North Street 1089-1908 by Association copy SHAW, Rev. P.J. (ed.)
    Association copy SHAW, Rev. P.J. (ed.)
    An Old York Church: All Hallows in North Street 1089-1908 Its Medieval Stained Glass, Architecture and Records

    York, The Church Shop 1908

    99pp with 34 b/w illustrations in the text, plus 9 colour and 28 b/w plates. Large 4to. Cream cloth with gilt decoration of church on upper board. Bright copy. Sumptuously illustrated by Mabel Leaf and E. Ridsdale Tate. With chapters on the history, glass, architecture, records and contemporary use of the church, plus an appendix containing abstracts of 71 wills 1389-1467. This attractive book was limited to 500 presentation copies, of which this is no. 208. Subscription list forms part of the preliminaries. Arthur Edward Hunt's copy with his signature on front paste down. Hunt was a partner in the firm of Shrigley and Hunt which produced stained-glass windows and art tiles. The firm…

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    York, The Church Shop 1908

    99pp with 34 b/w illustrations in the text, plus 9 colour and 28 b/w plates. Large 4to. Cream cloth with gilt decoration of church on upper board. Bright copy. Sumptuously illustrated by Mabel Leaf and E. Ridsdale Tate. With chapters on the history, glass, architecture, records and contemporary use of the church, plus an appendix containing abstracts of 71 wills 1389-1467. This attractive book was limited to 500 presentation copies, of which this is no. 208. Subscription list forms part of the preliminaries. Arthur Edward Hunt's copy with his signature on front paste down. Hunt was a partner in the firm of Shrigley and Hunt which produced stained-glass windows and art tiles. The firm was founded in Lancaster 1874 by Arthur Hunt when he took over Hudson & Shrigley. He is listed as one of the subscribers to this edition.

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    Stock ID: 23242
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  • COPE W.H.
    Ancient Ecclesiastical Stained Glass

    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.

    Stock ID: 22322
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  • Anthony Salvin, Pioneer of Gothic Revival Architecture. by ALLIBONE, J.
    ALLIBONE, J.
    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.

    Stock ID: 21004
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  • Architects: The noted and the ignored by PRAK Niels L
    PRAK Niels L
    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.

    Stock ID: 8675
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  • Architectural Details by RAYMOND, Antonin
    RAYMOND, Antonin
    Architectural Details

    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.

    Stock ID: 23008
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  • Architectural Perspective: Untitled 1950s Maisonette Block by Mid Century Modern Social Housing BARBER L.
    Mid Century Modern Social Housing BARBER L.
    Architectural Perspective: Untitled 1950s Maisonette Block

    1951 -1957?

    Pen and ink and watercolour. Image size 580mm wide x 340mm high. Mounted in modern mount. Mount 740mm x 510mm. Very good. Mid Century Modern colours and subject. Similar to Lansbury Estate [ Frederick Gibberd ] and other similar period social housing maisonette projects of the 1950s and 60s. Unidentified.

    Stock ID: 23626
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  • Architecture and Politics in Germany 1918-1945 by LANE, Barbara Miller.
    LANE, Barbara Miller.
    Architecture and Politics in Germany 1918-1945

    Cambridge Mass Harvard (1968) 1985

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

    Stock ID: 22208
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  • GOODHART-RENDEL. H. S.,
    Architecture in a Changing World

    London BBC/Cambridge University Press 1938

    27pp. Octavo, Decorated wrappers. Small split to base of spine c1cm. else very good. An intriguing address, outlining the parallels between architecture and society. Goodhart-Rendell was president of the RIBA when he made this address.

    Stock ID: 17919
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  • Ark. Number Thirteen
    Ark 13: The Journal of Design and Fine Art, Winter 1954

    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.

    Stock ID: 22898
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  • [ART WORKERS ASSOCIATION] TOWNSEND W G Paulson.
    Art Workers Quarterly Volume 2

    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.

    Stock ID: 22731
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  • Arup Associates by POWELL, Kenneth.
    POWELL, Kenneth.
    Arup Associates

    London RIBA Publishing Twentieth Century Architects Series. 2018

    144pp illustrated in b/w and colour. Stiff card wrappers. Very good.

    Stock ID: 23459
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  • (MIDDLESBOROUGH) Lady BELL, Florence
    At the Works: A study of a Manufacturing Town

    London Edward Arnold 1907

    Third impression of the first edition. 272pp illustrated with 10 documentary type back and white photographs of the iron works at Middlesborough. Blue cloth. Rear end paper removed else a good copy of this important text. Previous owners signature on front end paper. Important review of the life and work of those working in Iron Works at Middlesborough. The approach is one of observation leaving the reader to draw their own conclusions on labour, employers and employed. Dame Florence Eveleen Eleanore Bell was the wife of (Thomas) Hugh Bell, 2nd Baronet of Rounton Grange. The book is dedicated to Charles Booth, it nevertheless rejects an approach dominated by statistics rather it focuses on an…

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    London Edward Arnold 1907

    Third impression of the first edition. 272pp illustrated with 10 documentary type back and white photographs of the iron works at Middlesborough. Blue cloth. Rear end paper removed else a good copy of this important text. Previous owners signature on front end paper. Important review of the life and work of those working in Iron Works at Middlesborough. The approach is one of observation leaving the reader to draw their own conclusions on labour, employers and employed. Dame Florence Eveleen Eleanore Bell was the wife of (Thomas) Hugh Bell, 2nd Baronet of Rounton Grange. The book is dedicated to Charles Booth, it nevertheless rejects an approach dominated by statistics rather it focuses on an evidence based approach using one thousand families, emphasizing especially the role of women in household management and containing much unique information on working-class habits. The evidence for this classic study was gathered by Lady Bell, Gertrude Bell, and a few others over a period of nearly thirty years.

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    Stock ID: 15726
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  • Aus englischen Gartenstädten. Beobachtungen und Ergebnisse einer sozialen Studienreise. by (Deutsche Gartennstadt-Gesellschaft, [German Garden City Soceity])
    (Deutsche Gartennstadt-Gesellschaft, [German Garden City Soceity])
    Aus englischen Gartenstädten. Beobachtungen und Ergebnisse einer sozialen Studienreise.

    Berlin Berlin, Deustsche Gartenstadt-Gesellschaft and Renaissance Publishing, Robert Ferdern 1910

    188pp illustrated with b/w plates. 4to. Cloth backed and illustrated boards. Front end paper detached and frayed, last four pages have scattered foxing else very good. Documents a study trip by the German Garden City Society. Their tour took in New Earswick (the Joseph Rowntree garden village on the outskirts of York), Port Sunlight, Bournville, Letchworth Garden City and Hampstead Garden Suburb. It included visits to study public housing schemes in Manchester, Liverpool, Birmingham, and London. Efforts were made to make the German delegation welcome. The little touches included a floral reception gate at New Earswick with a German inscription "A Warm welcome our German cousins" and a lunch…

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    Berlin Berlin, Deustsche Gartenstadt-Gesellschaft and Renaissance Publishing, Robert Ferdern 1910

    188pp illustrated with b/w plates. 4to. Cloth backed and illustrated boards. Front end paper detached and frayed, last four pages have scattered foxing else very good. Documents a study trip by the German Garden City Society. Their tour took in New Earswick (the Joseph Rowntree garden village on the outskirts of York), Port Sunlight, Bournville, Letchworth Garden City and Hampstead Garden Suburb. It included visits to study public housing schemes in Manchester, Liverpool, Birmingham, and London. Efforts were made to make the German delegation welcome. The little touches included a floral reception gate at New Earswick with a German inscription "A Warm welcome our German cousins" and a lunch at Port Sunlight. The publication includes a list of members and guests in the auditorium at Port Sunlight who attended the lunch. This was a large delegation of visitors including a number of well known architects of the day active in Germany. (Includes Luwig Mies - aka Mies van der Rohe) as a young man.

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    Stock ID: 22580
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