London Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Company Limited, 1916

66pp Red paper boards, titles in black lettering. Worn and dusty binding.

Manchester MCR Publications 2024

168pp illustrated with colour and b/w plates. Square 4to. Decorated wrappers. New This beautifully illustrated book examines the impact of the Arts and Crafts movement in Manchester and the overlooked history of the Northern Art Workers' Guild from its formation in 1896 through its demise in 1912.Unlike the London-based Art Workers' Guild, it had active women members from the outset. This book tells the history of a northern craft revival that was neither rural, nor London-focussed, but an essential component of the Arts and Crafts movement located in the heart of industrial England.

London Black Dog Publishing 2006

192pp illu with 110 b/w ills. 21x27cm. Wraps. Owner's signature in ink to front endpaper. With introduction by the architect and writer Ellis Woodman. Re-edition of one of St John Wilson's key texts on architectural theory. As new. Published at £19.95

London Lund Humphries with John Taylor 1989

184pp including 68 full page color plates with 6 black and white illustrations. 4to. Fine in very good wrapper. Definitive text and record of David Jones' watercolours. Beautifully produced book.

Trevor Hickman at the Brewhouse Private Press, Leicester 1974

Unpaginated c. 100pp, illustrated throughout with b/w drawings and photographs by Graham as well as brass rubbings, historical memorabilia etc. Cloth-backed boards with illustrations by Graham, vg indeed in protective glassine, this a little worn. Recording the travels of author, illustrator and binder along this ancient Norfolk coastal path. A synthesis of text and image, meditation and historical information, photograph and illustration, this is an evocative exploration of memory and place. No. 82 of 100 copies.

Letchworth Garden City Press undated [1990]

Facsimile reprint. 33pp illustrated with b/w plates + [c8]pp period ads. Decorated wrappers. Includes colour and folded map of Brentham Garden Suburb. This garden suburb, near Pitshanger in Ealing, was the first garden suburb in London to be built in cooperative principles, predating the larger and better-known Hampstead Garden Suburb by some years. It was mostly built between 1901 and 1915. Reprint of original documentaion.

London, Chapman & Hall, Lawrence and Jellicoe 1910

450 and 457pp. 24 colour plates which have tissue guards overprinted with titles. 280x190mm. Olive green cloth, boards decorated with gilt image on upper board of each and gilt lettering on spine and black lettering on upper boards. Some slight rubbing to the lettering on the boards and scattered foxing on some text pages else good.

London Lund Humphries 2022

127pp, illustrated throughout with specially commissioned colour photography by Sylvain Deleu Quarto. Laminated boards. New. The first account of the life and work of a major British potter which places his work within the history of British Studio Pottery.

London Brodie & Middleton, Simpkin Marchall & Co c1877

205pp illustrated. Decorated boards, cloth spine. Very good copy. 5th edition. Ex libris with his bookplate Frank Harwood. A handbook for modest commercial and amateur craftsmen. Five editions between c.1874 and c.1877. Covers Mouldings; Picture and Looking-glass Frames; Plate Glass; Silvering Plate Glass; Composition Ornaments; Gilder's Tools; Preparations Used in Gilding; Gilding; Interior and Exterior Gilding; Cleaning and Restoration of Oil Paintings; Picture Frames and Their Manufacture, mitring, mounting etc. Whilst not uncommon it is hard to find in this condition.

Reading Spire Books 2012

Spire Studies in Architectural History Volume 2. 240pp illustrated with b/w images. With dust wrapper. Like new. 240pp. Useful source material; Essays on a series of individuals including Henry Roberts, William Culshaw and Henry Sumners, William hill, Bassett Keeling, E S Prior, Harold Peto and Hugh Thackery Turner. Each essay is illustrated and written by an architectural expert. Notes on the contributors included at the back of the book.

London Crosby Lockwood and Son nd (1867)

A new edition with notes by Robert Maller. xii + 241pp, + 16pp, +32pp with small number of diagrams and tables. Green blind stamped cloth with gilt titling and paper label on spine. Book text preceded and ending with end papers listing Weale's publications on civil engineering. Slight foxing to early pages. Purple ink stamp 'T:J. Hurley sporadically stamped on a number of pages and front end paper. Inner hinges slightly cracked else a good copy.

Aldershot, Hants Scolar Press 1993

208 pp, including 100 large reproductions, 62 in colour: altogether over 500 illustrations. Large 4to. Very good with dust wrapper. A major catalogue of the work of one of the most exciting British printmakers of the 20th century.

London, Batsford. 1929

48 pp. including 7 b&w ill. and 1 colour frontis of estate plan. 4to in green blind stamped boards with gilt lettering and crest on front board. First gathering bound upside down. Binding slightly rubbed at head and base of spine, else vg. Preliminary report on the design of the Priory Estate, of considerable interest in light of its subsequent history and the proposed demolition and redevelopment of the northern part of the estate. It is especially interesting in retrospect to read the sections on road planning at a time when a future of mass car ownership was still debatable. Fascinating report, containing notable line drawings.

Milton Keynes Milton Keynes Exhibition Gallery 1990

First edition. Limited to 1000 copies to accompany an exhibition at the Milton Keynes Exhibition Gallery. Unpaginated. 52pp illustrated with b/w photographs. Wrappers. Stapled. 230x200mm. Documents Milton Keynes in black and white photography. Jardine's work work varies between Street Photography, Urban Landscape and Conceptual Art. Peter Laws in the introduction refers to 'layer upon layer of allusion, complexities and contradictions beneath a deceptively surface.' Loosely inserted review and order form. Very good copy.

London Faber and Faber c1967

344 + [3]pp, b/w photographs, line ills., maps, plans. Long 8vo. Cloth with white lettering to front and spine in dw, this is a little worn and scuffed. Corners scuffed. Internally good. Bookplate of the Town Planning Institute on front paste down. No other institutional stamps. Translated from the French by Pamela Knight, Eleanor Levieux and Derek Coltman, this edition makes use of the 1933 French original, La Ville Radieuse. A classic work on architecture and city planning: a blueprint for the present and for the future. From the Conder and Casson Architectural practice.

London Basilisk Press 1976

no 305 0f 515. Folio and oblong 8vo. 4 vols. Limited numbered edition of 515 sets, quarter red morocco gilt over marbled boards, in cloth box, a very good set. A sumptuous facsimile edition, the first published edition thus, of the surviving Red Books; Anthony House, Cornwall; Attingham Park, Shropshire and Sheringham Hall, Norfolk, with an explanatory volume by Edward Mallins containing recent photographs by Eric de Mare. Repton's drawings are meticulously reproduced in collotype and printed on wove paper as close as possible to the original Whatman stock.

London, Crosby Lockwood and Son 1897 (c1890)

9th edition. xii + 116pp Illustrated with 68 woodcuts + 16pp + 48pp catalogue of publications at back. End papers also are advertisements for the Weale's architectural series and these are printed in blue. Buff coloured cloth. Cloth slightly grubby nd marked on upper board and spine. Internally very good. Previous owner's signature on half title page.