Taplow, Bucks Published by the firm nd 1951

2pp introduction including long quote from George Sitwell's On Making Gardens + unpaginated section illustrating 74 projects from garden layouts to individual greenhouses. Each project located. 4to. Stapled wrappers with sepia full page landscape illustration on upper wrapper with Humphry Repton quotation.

nd 1985

510mm x630mm Colour litho on paper. Number 50 of 195

London Studio Vista, 1967.

96pp, illustrated throughout with b/w photographs and drawings. Small 4to. Decorated wrappers. Thes are slightly browned else very good. Catalogue showing the town planning and architectural design practices of Alison and Peter Smithson.

London, Dawbarn & Ward 1900

[289]pp variously paginated + 88 plates. 8vo. Decorated cloth. Edges slightly dusty, else good. A comprehensive collection of essays on such topics as Wood Carving, Bent Iron or Strip Work, and Pyrography and Wood Roasting.

Risbury The Whittington Press 2018

[10] + 86+, [2]pp of plates, XII pages of numbered plates. Total edition of 235 copies set in 13-point Poliphilus, and Ariston display types, and printed at Whittington on Zerkall mould-made paper. The pochoir reproductions and the black-and-white images printed digitally by Promprint. Many illustrations in colours. This one of 155 'C' copies half-bound in cloth and one of Vance's pattern papers, in a slipcase and two facsimile letters in a pocket at the rear. Fine copy.

Basel Editions du Griffon Neuchatel 1965

Plastic arts of the 20th Century: 194pp illustrated with full page optical images. Complete with five plastic illustrated transparencies/overlays that are not bound in. Chronology of work at the end of the book. 4to. Lettered grey cloth boards. Very good. Head of dust wrapper very slightly bumped on upper side and dust wrapper slightly browned else good.

Bruxelles: Eles éditions det ateliers d'art graphique Elsevier SA

Monographies de l'Art Belge.16pp text + 28pp superb b/w photographic images and frontis of the Tour Eternit for the Exposition de Bruxelles 1958. This image repeated as paste down on front board. Small 4to. Protected in glassine wrapper. Fine.

London, Architectural Press 1980

175pp illustrated throughout with b/w photographs and engravings. Small 4to boards with illustrated dustwrapper, a very good copy. An early collaborative venture between Gavin Stamp and Colin Amery which identified over one hundred of London's most significant Victorian buildings from St Pancreas Station and Hotel to the Infant Orphan's Asylum in Wanstead. This book provides an explanation in part for the huge collection of London related commentaries of the period that were illustrated with photographic plates and which Gavin Stamp had in his collection.

London Headley Brothers Publishers, 1917

v + 116pp. Printed wrappers. Very slightly worn at head of spine else a very good copy. This is the official report of the Conference held on February 9th and 10th 1917 covering aspects of rural life including planning, village halls, playing fields, facilities, education etc. List of delegates included. The Rural Organisation Council was established in 1916 by some 20 organisations who aimed to improve the quality of rural life. Draper was involved as an organiser representing the Garden Cities and Town Planning Council.

Brooklyn, New York, Power House Books 2011

128pp, b/w plates. 4to. With very good dust wrapper. A great collection of images by Maier who took huge numbers of photographs alongside working as a nanny. From the 1950s until the 1990s took over 100,000 photographs worldwide and was discovered only after she died by John Maloof following a purchase of a box of her photographic negatives and championed her work. Like new.

New York Rizzoli International Publications, 1989

272pp illustrated. Decorated wrappers. Small stain on upper wrapper else a very good copy Text in English and Russian. Loosely inserted is an invitation to a memorial to him to be held at The Cooper Union Foundation Building and an associated printed letter sent out to Alumni.

Lund Humphries, 1984.

127pp, 90 b/w illus. 4to. A companion volume to the exhibition at the Central School of Art and Design which Lethaby helped to found and became the first principal. The contributors examine his many roles and his influence in Britain and abroad.

Rotterdam Uitgeverij 010 1989

59pp illustrated. Square 4to. Wrappers. Good copy. Wiel Arets is a Dutch architect, architectural theorist, urbanist, industrial designer. This is an early assessment of his highly regarded, often minimalist work. Series of projects are illustrated and described, following the introductory section which includes a short essay by Arets. Text in Dutch and English.

London RIBA Publishing Twentieth Century Architects Series 2012

163pp illustrated with colour and b/w plates. Very good.

London Routledge 1947

217pp, small line illustrations throughout by Le Corbusier. 8vo. Cloth. some discolouring to the boards + spine else a good copy. First English edition of the French original published in 1936. Le Corbusier examines the architecture and people of New York. He loves the latter but deems the architecture haphazard. He imagines an improved New York.

Madrid, Poligrafa 1983

284pp illustrated with colour and b/w plates. . 4to. Very good with very good dust wrapper.

(1954) Published with the aid of the Pincs Bernhard Fund, by G can Saane, "lectura architectonica" Amsterdam 1957

2nd impression. 168pp illustrated with b/w plates and line ills. Quarto. Turquoise cloth with gilt blocked lettering on front board and spine. Slightly dusty dust wrapper. Signed by previous owner on the front end paper in neat hand. Material collected for the book by R M H Magnée. Modern typographic layout. Includes reviews of all the major projects with photo illustrations and line ills. Includes the famous Nassau School at Hilveresum, housing schemes, town hall etc and this garden city project alongside other projects undertaken in the Netherlands. Produced for the 70th birthday of Dudok.