London Bovril Limited 1953

34+ (8)pp. illustrated with b/w woodcut reproductions and some plates showing the tradition of advertising campaigns. . 4to. Good in slightly worn and chipped dust wrapper. Published by the John Roberts Press. Series of catalogue descriptions included clipped from book sellers catalogue showing the price migrated upward over the period from which the clippings date.

Bovril Ltd 1953

34 +[8]pp illustrated with b/w illustrations. 4to. Green cloth covered boards. Pictorial lettering and outline of a cow on upper board. Pictorial dust wrapper very worn and chipped. Compliment slip from Bovril, loose in the book. Illustrations on most pages almost all by Robert Gibbings.

London: Country Life limited 1933

36pp, illus with 25 b/w plates + (3)pp plans of the house. With notes on the heraldry at Montacute by Oswald Barron. Cloth backed boards. 8vo. Very good copy. Ellaborate slip case with red morocco and gold tooling has protected this copy.

Norwich, Random Spectacular. 2021

140 pages text plus cover - printed in full colour throughout. With printed dust jacket. Square 250mm x 250mm.Collaboration between musician Richard Jobson and illustrator Jonny Hannah. Fine. Out of print.

London Crosby Lockwood & Son Ltd 1952

VII + 64pp illustrated with 35 line ills and one photograph of the Dome. Also three fold-out plates of tables in pocket to rear Long 4to. Good with slightly worn dust wrapper. The Dome of Discovery housed a temporary exhibition building designed by architect Ralph Tubbs for the Festival of Britain at the South Bank. The consulting engineers were Freeman Fox & Partners and this book is a technical analysis of the construction.

Leeds T W Green 1843

Original blind stamped cloth. Red edged title page, cxxxv +(1) + 252pp. Corners bumped. Repaired at head and base of spine. Bookplate of the Library of the Central Council for the Care of Churches. Title page and next three pages worn at edges else good copy of this study written as context to the growing interest in ecclesiology by the Camden Society. The original book was written in 1286. This translation covers the first book of eight which comprised the whole. The first part deals with the church, altar, pictures, bells, churchyard, etc. The whole is a key treatise on the ritual of the medieval church.

Newton Abbot David and Charles

222pp 31 plates, illustrations and drawings by Paul Dong. Vg in dw. Useful history of timber framed houses in England

Oxford University Press 1979

552pp illus with b/w plates thoughout. Vg in slightly worn dw. Introductory volume in the Center for Environmental Studies series presenting his theory of architecture, planning and building. Hard to find.

London P.S. King & Son Ltd 1926

132pp in wrappers. Wrapper s little soiled else good and with repaired tear on lower wrapper. Reiss was active in the fields of land reform, housing and town planning, writing on all these subjects concise publications which synthesised key details of importance for those in practice. He was a director of the Hampstead Suburb Housing Trust at one time and also Chairman of the Executive of the Garden Cities and Town Planning Association.

London Tate Gallery 1976

98pp, illustrated throughout in black and white. 4to. Red clotth. Very good with dust wrapper.

London Essex House Press, Published by Edward Arnold, 1898

pp.xvi, 164, colophon + errata + ad. 4to. Cloth green buckram. Original spine label rather browned and there is wear to the head and base of the spine which has faded to a brown colour. Internally very good. no 370 of 600 copies printed in Caslon Old Face on watermarked Guild of Handicraft handmade paper specially made for the book. 11 inserted plates and 7 text diagrams. Cellini's Treatise is the first book printed at the Essex House Press.

London B.T. Batsford 1932

xii + 51pp + 106 b/w photo plates + 29pp Batsford Catalogue. From the library of Alec Clifton-Taylor, with his signature in ink to fep. Loosley inserted hand written notes by A. C.-T. referring to points in the text. Annotations and underlinings in pencil throughout. Also loosely inserted although this is listed in the Contents, a Geological Map, annotated in pencil. A regional survey of the villages of England with a section on place-names. Green cloth. This slightly faded

New York Letter Press American Lithographic Co. 1903

Unpaginated. [ 62pp] Paper wraps. Gold embossed title on upper cover. Landscape octavo. H19.8cm x W23.3cm First 8 pages, text, highlighting points of special interest for visitors, alongside available facilities at the hotel. Remainder of book, black and white photographs taken by George C. Boldt documenting the bedrooms, public and service areas of the hotel. A fascinating and illuminating item. Wraps a bit age worn and foxed, and all edges chipped. Internally, some foxing throughout and the latter pages are torn at the bottom right corner, approx, 2-4cm. Images and text not affected by these age appropriate flaws however. Very scarce.

Edinburgh & London William Blackwood 1893

136pp with some text ills as line drawings, 24pp catalogue of books on rural affairs. Green gilt lettered cloth with rabbit in gilt on upper board. Very good. On how to set up a warren for commercial ends, the book represents a revival in estate management of breeding rabbits for commercial purposes. Fascinating period item for those interested in the history of estate management and landscape design of large parkland landscapes as well as those closely interested in the rabbit.

Liverpool, The Wood Lea Press 1987

148 + [3]pp, with 164 b/w illustrations and four colour paste-downs. Cloth backed boards with lovely woodcut design in slipcase, Very good. A beautifully presented catalogue of Nash's 140 woodcuts, all of which were made between 1919 and 1935. With an introduction by John O'Connor and a loosely inserted presentation copy of a review from Hortus, bound in the same decorative paper. One of 750 copies, this is a lovely pieces of book design, and a valuable collection of some of Nash's less well-known work. Typed letter from Jeremy Greenwood, signed, concerning delay in publication loosely slipped in.

Stuttgart : Institut für Leichte Flächentragwerke 1978

64 p. ill. Long 4to. 210 x 280mm. Decorated wrappers. Text in English. Useful study of his tensile structures around the world. Nicely produced.

London, The Architectural Press 1980

xi + (1) + 244pp illustrated with 138 b/w plates. Previous owner's bookplates on front paste down. Very good with very good dust wrapper. Hard to find monograph on Sir George Gilbert Scott (1811-1878), the Gothic Revival specialist who was the dominant figure in English architecture in the middle years of the nineteenth century. An appendix lists 879 of his architectural commissions. From the library of David Gerald Francis Hinge whose bookplate is on the front paste down.