Country Life 1913

5th edition. 177pp, colour frontis with tissue guard + many b/w photographic plates. Cloth sl. rubbed. White lettered titles on upper board, and gilt lettered spine. Previous owners name scribbled out on front end paper.

Distributed by Peter Dix Leamington Spa 1978

112pp including high quality b/w plates of his work. 4to. White decorated and lettered wrappers. Scuff on upper wrapper has removed the work "in" from the title else a good copy. Loosely inserted Christmas card designed and signed by Ritchie. Last apprentice to Eric Gill, he became well known in his own right as a sculptor in many media but mainly in brick with which he was fascinated as a material. He spent his whole life in the Midlands, living in Kenilworth. The book catalogues his early public and private commissions. Uncommon.

London Park Books 2017

220 pages. Illustrated in colour and black and white. Large 4to. Laminated boards, cloth spine. Very good copy. Shows all houses of the entire estate during their construction and their present state. Twenty houses in all. Features the German-born architect Walter Segal, a strong proponent of the 1970s self-builders movement.

1984

Untitled water colour framed and mounted 225 x 295mm. Village set in landscape.

1984

Untitled water colour framed and mounted 225 x 295mm. Landscape with rain clouds.

c.1854

Stunning interior view of this ornate Neo-Norman church. Showing its lavish plasterwork decoration, original polychromy and stained glass by William Wailes. Watercolour. 420x610mm possibly by Thomas Atkinson, brother of one of the Architect brothers whose practice was originally that of John Carr of York. Built by a member of the Atkinson family for Lord Hawkes of Scarthingwell Hall in 1854, the church originally functioned as a private chapel. The Hall was demolished in the 1960s (though some of the landscaped grounds survive) and the church now stands alone but adjacent to modern sheltered housing. This water colour is of particular interest as it shows the vibrant original colour scheme, now whitewashed over.

London: Athroposophical Publishing Company 1927

vii + 60pp + b/w full page illustrations. 4to. Cloth backed decorated boards. Bright copy. Small section of front end paper has been clipped out to remove previous owner's signature. The first Goetheaneum was made by a wide variety of crafts people, visual artists etc. and the focus of design debate. The six lectures here record the principles of Steiner design ideas. The first building constructed in wood burnt down and was replaced in concrete after 1922. With ex libris bookplates of Gavin Stamp.

London Yale 2014

656pp illustrated throughout with colour and b/w plates. Published to coincide with a major exhibition at the Bard Graduate Center in New York, and the V & A in London, this grand volume provides a comprehensive survey of William Kent's work in fields as diverse as landscape architecture and book illustration. Sumptuously illustrated and consisting of essays by top international experts, this is the most thorough investigation to date of the designer who truly shaped the taste of 18th-century Britain. New copy.

Hassocks, Sussex Harvester and New Jersey, Humanities Press 1977

800pp. Used - Very Good in slightly worn dust wrappers with illustration of Kelmscott on each. In cardboard slipcase as issued. Translated by Frank Gubb with a preface by Robin Page Arnot

Totnes Dartington Hall Trust 1987

80pp +illustrations. Illustrated with 16 b/w plates with [6]pp notes on the images. Small 8vo. Fine in dust wrapper. From the collection of Gavin Stamp with his book ticket pasted onto lower edge of front paste down. Weir was a conservation architect, contemporary with Philip Webb and William Morris. The book describes and discusses his career with the last part of the book detailing the conservation work he did at Dartington Hall for the Elmhirsts where he was restoring the old buildings alongside pioneering new buildings which were being planned or under construction which employed William Lascaze, Oswald Milne and others.

London Phaidon 2006

144pp illustrated. Very good copy with dust wrapper. Designer and typographer Teresa Monachino rounds up and breaks down a variety of unruly words: words lacking in integrity, misleading words that do not mean what they say, words that mean more than they say, words with inconsistent pronunciation or spellings that are just plain cruel! From the collection of Gavin Stamp but without his signature.

Milano Edizioni di Comunita 1969

4to. Wrappers. 277pp illustrated with colour and b/w plates and including period ads. These a little worn at edges. Bright copy. Articles by Virgil Thomson, Maria Bottero, R. Buckminster Fuller, Alfred Neumann, Anne Griswold Tyng, John McHale, Moshe Safdie, Walter Kuhn and Joachim Steiner, with material about Frederick Kiesler, Architecture as Ornament, Geometric Extensions of Consciousness, Global Ecology, Urban Building, Cubic structures,. Text in Italia , French, German and English.

Leningrad and Moscow Iskusstvo 1943

403pp illustrated with b/w photographs. Text in Russian. Tipped in photograph of Lenin, plan of the city + 100s of b/w slightly grainy plates showing the city's buildings both historical and contemporary. Red decorated end papers, brown rexene, gilt lettered titles. Very good. Shows the main ceremonial and civic spaces in plan form alongside the illustrations. A superbly illustrated album on the history of the architecture of Leningrad. The book contains four essays, covering the stages of the city's development, plans and prospects for development. Text in Russian. With large bookplate of Gavin Stamp and written on edge Prague 1975.