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Today I worked well - the picture fell off the brush. The artistry of Leslie Cole
Told for the first time by Malcolm Yorke with a note on the interesting life of Brenda Cole
Wakefield The Fleece Press 2010
200pp + colophon; 132 plates, the majority full-page in colour; Square 4to. 230 x280mm Cloth backed boards with paste down label on the spine. in the style of Simon Lawrence's previous studies of Ardizzone & Ravilious. Best known for his wartime work, Cole's watercolour technique was much influenced by Ravilious, his tutor (with Bawden) at the RCA. Fine.
Stock ID: 23525More details Price: £70.00 -
Town and Country Planning (Development Plans) Regulations 1948
Circular No.59. Statement on the preparation of development plans with an appendix containing notiations for the prescribed maps.
London, His Majesty's Stationary Office 1948
12pp with 3 loose folded pages (252 x 432mm) and 3 loose pages (140 x 210mm) offering notations to maps slotted into place at back of pamphlet. 8vo. Very Good.
Stock ID: 14593More details Price: £20.00 -
Tracing Eisenman
London Thames and Hudson 2006
400pp illustrated with colour and b/w plates and line ills. 4to. Fine in dust wrapper. Comprehensive on Eisenman's buildings and projects from House I (New Jersey) to the large sclae later works including the Memorial to Murdered Jews in Berlin 2015. The book includes contributed essays and critques by contemporary architects and writers.
Stock ID: 22614More details Price: £80.00 -
Trade Catalogue of Locks and Hardware no 2E
London The Yale & Towne Co. 1908
Frontis of Premises, 168pp illustrated catalogue products of the firm comprising locks, keys and door furniture and including an introductory note and glossary of terms used in locksmithing. Cloth backed boards. Spine lettering rubbed. Upper board repeats title but is a bit worn. Preceding the main body of the catalogue is a 10pp comparative list of old and new numbers, alterations, and additions +discount sheet sent to Mr W T Whincup, 31 Claremont Terrace, York.
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Trade catalogues and price lists 1952-1953
8 items: comprising export price lists with texts in English French and Spanish, April 1952, Price list for April 1952 revised price list April 1952, [ Campbell Horsfall written in pencil on upper wrapper], Retail price list April 1952. Whole Sale Price list September 1952, Export price list March 1953 and Gift Cases list from Ist June 1953 and leaflet "Prestige and Profit for You" a gatefold leaflet illustrate in colour, + typed letter concerning the end of rationing of beauty soaps. Mostly 4pp each. Decorated upper wrapper design. All from Yardley House, 33 Old Bond Street London
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Tradition & Modernity in Plasterwork
London G. Jackson & Sons Ltd. 1928
b/w frontis, 63pp, 48 b/w photographic illustrations, Contrasting white and blue boards with lettered titles and gilt roundel of George Jackson (1766-1840) on front board. 4to. Weaver's concise account of the work of George Jackson & Sons which began with plaster work for Robert Adam and was to continue evolving new techniques and skills into the late 20th Century. Very good copy.
Stock ID: 23643More details Price: £80.00 -
Traditional Farm Architecture in Scotland
Edinburgh The Ramsey Head Press 1976
96pp, 130 b/w photographs also taken by the author. Small 4to. Very good with good dust wrapper. Concentrates on the eastern seaboard and South West Scotland. Very attractive and useful source for vernacular stone building in Scotland. From the collection of Althony Curtis Wolffe [architect] with his signature on the front end paper. Wolffe practised mainly in South West Scotland.
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Transfer Treasures: Watercolours
Wakefield The Fleece Press 2014
Fleece Press published these together in a very long accordion-fold book measuring 275mm square and extending to a gigantic 8 metres long. They are hard-bound in a design using the water colours, and held in a slipcase with a label. The artist has drawn a title page specially for the book, and has signed each of the 250 copies on the colophon. The images are of the transferware pottery – plates, mugs and jugs – found on her dresser. Loosely inserted in this copy is the original prospectus for the book with colour paste down illustrations.
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Transformation
London RIBA Publications 2011
166pp illustrated with colour plates. Large square 4to. Grey boards, white lettered spine, embossed titles on boards. Very good indeed. Review of the projects of the firm since it got going in 1993. Useful for the first projects of this firm which focuses on reuse and reinvention of buildings.
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True Remembrances: the memoirs of an architect
London Country Life 1954
175pp illus. with c50 plates incl. major schemes by Tilden such as his scheme at Port Lympe begun by Herbert Baker, un-built work for Selfridge, Chartwell, Saltwell Castle and other projects. Only major account of his work. Good copy with slightly worn dust wrapper.
Stock ID: 21947More details Price: £40.00 -
Twentieth-Century Houses
(Architecture 3s) Frank Lloyd Wright: Fallingwater. Alvar Aalto: Villa Mairea. Charles and Ray Eames: Eames House.
London Phaidon Press 1999
no pagination, colour and b/w illustrations throughout. Square 4to. Boards. All three were originally published in the 'Architecture in Detail' Series: McCarter, 'Robert, Frank Lloyd Wright: Fallingwater' (1994). Weston, Richard, 'Alvar Aalto: Villa Mairea' (1992). Steele, James, 'Charles and Ray Eames: Eames House' (1994). Each house presented in this volume with photographs and detailed floorplans represents a high point in the œvre of their designers. Both Fallingwater and Villa Mairea were finished before the Second World War and display a luxurious approach to Modernism in contrast to Eames House (1994).
Stock ID: 16091More details Price: £30.00 -
Two autographed letters signed on postcards
and two photographs with annotations
Stock ID: 22261More details Price: £80.00
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Two Men: Walter Lewis and Stanley Morison at Cambridge
Cambridge, University Private Press 1968
vi + 48pp + 7 mounted sample sheets of work by Morison and Lewis. 12 b/w illustrations and 2 colour plates. Boards, covered with decorative paper design by Reynolds Stone. Fine, in sl chipped slipcase. Printed for his friends by the University Printer, Christmas 1968.
Stock ID: 6703More details Price: £70.00 -
Two Plays for Puritans
"The Devil's Disciple" and "Caesar and Cleopatra,"
New York Limited Editions Club 1966
Number 1169 signed by George Him on the colophon. xxxiv, 215, (3) pages. Decorated cloth, gilt and black lettered spine. In original slip case. Very good but slip case a little worn. Illustrations by George Him, who by this time had split from his partnership with the artist Jan Hewitt which ended in 1955 when Hewitt left to pursue a painting career.
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Tynecastle: Canvas, Vellum, Textures, Compo, Wood Mouldings, Adaptable & Fibrous Plaster
Manufactured by The Tynecastle Company, Incorporated in Scott Morton & Tynecastle Company Ltd., Edinburgh & London. With: Second Supplement of Fibrous Plaster, Skived Canvas and Skived Vellum Ornaments.
Edinburgh London The Tynecastle Company n.d. [1923]
152 + [48]pp, b/w photographs throughout. Folio. Original red cloth with black lettering. Slightly frayed at the head and foot of spine. Binding a little shaky with short split along outer hinge. Trade catalogue from the 1920s for the Tynecastle Company, who specialised in wall coverings, mouldings, friezes and ornaments. Illustrated throughout with samples of individual products and examples of them in situ. The company was set up in 1885 by John and James Templeton to meet the demand for their leather-like canvas product, and ran in tandem with the original Scott Morton & Co. until they were incorporated in 1920. Ownership of George Wilson Studio Leeds 1926
Stock ID: 22126More details Price: £220.00 -
TYPE BEHAVIOUR
Stock ID: 22900More details Price: £45.00 -
Une maison - un palais:
A la Recherche d'une Unité Architecturale
Paris Cres et Cie, 1928
228 pages : illustrations. Red cloth with gilt titles. Very good copy. French text. Part of the Collection de '' l'esprit nouveau.''
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UNION CASTLE LINE: Souvenir Book 1. Postcard Souvenir no 1
Stock ID: 22638More details Price: £120.00
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Unit One: Spirit of the 30s May - June 1984
London The Mayor Gallery 1984
Catalogue to accompany an exhibition to celebrate the half centenary of the first UNIT ONE exhibition held at the Mayor Gallery in Cork Street April 1934. 4to. Typographical cover based on a design by E McKnight Kauffer advertising Unit One in 1933. 98pp illus with b/w plates. Featuring the work of the original participants including Wells Coates, Colin Lucas, Edward Wadsworth, Ben Nicholson, Nash, Burra, Moore and Hepworth etc. Uncommon.
Stock ID: 9310More details Price: £30.00 -
Unit One: The Modern Movement in English Architecture, Painting and Sculpture
London, Cassell 1934
124pp, 67 plates b/w photographs. 4to. Yellow cloth with brown lettering in dw which is preserved in good order in a glassine wrapper. Signature of former owner on front end paper. Iconic book which covers work by: Sculptors: Henry Moore, Barbara Hepworth; Painters: John Armstrong, John Bigge, Edward Burra, Tristram Hillier, Paul Nash, Ben Nicholson, Edward Wadsworth; Architects: Wells Coates, Colin Lucas. Unit One was a British grouping of Modernist artists founded by Paul Nash. Despite its brief period of activity, the group is regarded as influential in establishing the pre-eminence of London as a centre of modernist and abstract art and architecture in the mid-1930s.
Stock ID: 22073More details Price: £850.00
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