Corpus Vitraearum Medii Aevi: Great Britain published by OUP 213

762pp illustrated in colour. 4to. 2 volumes in slip case. Significant study of glass both in terms of detail and approach, which includes a comprehensive context for the stained glass at Merton.

Oxford Oxford University Press 1996

lvii, 390pp (24), with 24 colour plates at the rear of the book. 316 b/w illustrations throughout text. 8vo. Dust wrapper. Very good. An extremely comprehensive illustrated catalogue of the medieval stained glass of the county, excluding Lincoln Cathedral. Interesting text on Lincolnshire's historical and cultural heritage.

Glasgow William MacLellan & Co. Ltd 1951

166pp. Copious black and white illustrations and designs plus 40 plates at the end of the text including three in colour. Colour frontispiece of the Tara Brooch. All "Pictish Decorations" by George Bain. Cloth covered boards with gilt titling and embossed decoration on upper board. Quarto. Previous owners name written in neat hand, along with an earlier dedication to a Jean Fraser. Good. Some minor foxing internally, and upper hinge cracked. Boards age worn and marked or nicked in some places. A good copy nonetheless, of an important and influential book which contributed to a revival of interest in Celtic art.

London, Thames and Hudson 1978

304pp illustrated with b/w plates. Large 4to. Very good with good dust wrapper.

London Gresham Publishing Company Limited no date c1904

8 Volumes. folio. 108 plates (15 in colour, 2 double-page incl. double-page coloured map). some tissue guards with legends. numerous text illus. & diagrams. A nice set in original cloth. Talwin Morris binding. Slightly rubbed else very good set.

Country Life nd 1925

xxiii pp text + 192pp b/w plates with plans and elevations. 4to. Decorated cloth. Very good copy in a dust wrapper, this a little chipped and torn in places, notably around the spine. Internally some minor foxing, although not to the detriment of the plentiful images. The focus is on large inter-war, detached houses, Architects incl. Newton, Edgar Wood, Lutyens etc. Gives a balanced view of the kinds of large private houses being produced at the time and although many were modern they were not modern movement in style.

Architectural Press (1937) 1948

Third edition with a few new houses built between 1940 and 1948 140pp illus with b/w plates and line ills. Enlarged from the first edition and second editions. Large 4to. Open weave red lettered cloth. God copy with chipped and worn dust wrapper designed by Eckersley Lombers. Architects incl. Lubetkin, Tecton, Yorke, Chermayeff, Goldfinger and many others. An essential reference for the modern movement house in England.

London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1949,

xx, 480 pp; 120 b/w plates Cloth sl. rubbed else very good . First Edition. Small 4to. First Edition. 4to. From the library of Peter Burman with nis name inscribed on fep. Errata slip states the book was not published until 1950. Scholarly text on the mosaics at Cefalu, Palermo etc.

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

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

London: J. Bumpus 1880

vi, 24 pp +[8]pp period ads, frontis + 35 plates. 4to Original cloth covered boards with gilt lettering, rebacked and with new end papers to make a good copy. Adverts include full page ad for stained glass artists, Shrigley and Hunt. Comprises images of churches alongside an essay on the principles of architectural beauty.

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.

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.