London Geo Allen and Unwin 1929

192pp illustrated with b/w photo lithographic plates. Blue cloth. Signed dedication copy from the author to Mrs. Corrie. First edition. Very good. John Howard Whitehouse, [1873-1955] a Guild companion, Ruskin Society and University Settlements Secretary, and a Parliamentarian, was a Ruskin devotee and a key figure in developing the legacy of Ruskin. He played a part in many of the institutions where Ruskin's ideas flourished.

New York: Syracuse University Press 1992

180pp with 16 colour plates and 33 b/w illustrations. Cloth in vg dust wrapper. Bolton (1816-84), created some of the finest and earliest Gothic revival glass in 19th C America. This comprehensive study of his life and works includes a catalogue raisonné which covers drawings, paintings and stained glass. Photography by Leland A. Crook.

London Scala Arts & Heritage Publishers Ltd 2017

104pp illustrated with over 100 high quality colour plates. 4to. Laminated wrappers. Photographs by Nick Teed. Lovely publication which documents the glass of the Minster and brings up to date the descriptions of the glass.

Reading: Spire Books 2009

420pp with 150 colour illustrations. New copy. This eagerly awaited study provides a complete record of Pugin's extraordinary achievements in stained glass design and manufacture. Beautifully illustrated with photography by Alastair Carew-Cox, it shows how Pugin rose to the challenges of creating stained glass in the early Victorian period according to medieval principles, his working relationships, his customers and what he sought to express in his windows. A detailed gazetter gives all the known information about each window.

Yale University Press 1974

Volume 1: 119pp + 665 colour and black and white plates. Volume 2; Catalogue of window and glass designs. Large 4to. Good set with slightly worn and chipped dust wrappers. Internally very good. Previous owners name on front end papers. A. Charles Sewter thoroughly describes the firm's work from its founding in 1861 to its closing in 1940. Drawing on his first-hand knowledge of almost every Morris window in the United Kingdom and throughout the world, and on account-books and other unpublished sources, he treats in detail the firm's major commissions. He describes the preparation of cartoons and windows and comes to new conclusions about the creative role of Morris and the other artists. Hard to find.

Edward Arnold 1956

144pp with b/w plates. Vg in vg dw. Traces the complex development of Manchester's 19th c architecture, illustrating the work of Barry, Waterhouse, Edward Walters and Thomas Worthington, and others.

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.