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Harmondsworth Penguin Books 1939
Penguin 1st Printing . Printed Wrappers. Penguin original,1939, No S19 with touch of wear at corners. Spine and page edges are a little browned. No dust wrapper. Good copy.
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Building to the Skies: the romance of the skyscraper
Studio 1934
152pp illus with fine b/w plates. Small 4to. Good copy with worn and chipped dust wrapper. Old sellotape marks on the end papers. Stunning photo images of early skyscrapers including drawings by Hugh Ferris. Written by an advocate of skyscraper architecture by this key architect involved in their construction in New York and elsewhere. Specific chapters on construction technology and case studies of the Empire State Building and Woolworth Building among others. Hard to find in this condition. From the library of Miles Glendinning with his ownership stamp.
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Bungalows and Country Residences: A series of designs and examples of recently executed works.
London London B T Batsford 1894
2nd edition with additional plates xxpp itext and a description of the plates + 35 plates which are mostly line ills. Blue cloth with gilt titles. Bright copy although some slight foxing to title page and prelims.
Stock ID: 21661More details Price: £120.00 -
Burning to speak The Life And Art Of Henri Gaudier Brzeska.
Oxford Phaidon 1978
141pp.will illustrated. Cloth. 4to. Very good with good dust wrapper.
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By Hammer and Hand: The Arts and Crafts Movement in Birmingham.
Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery 1984
169pp with 111 b/w illustrations. Small square 4to in wraps, vg. A collection of 8 essays, each dealing with a different aspect of Birmingham as an important provincial centre for the Arts and Crafts Movement in Britain. Subjects covered include architecture, decorative painting, book illustration, metalwork and stained glass. With useful gazetteer of works by Birmingham based craftsmen and a catalogue of books illustrated by Birmingham artists.
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Byker Revisited
Northumbria Press; First Edition 2009
192pp illustrated. Long 4to. Very good with slightly worn dust wrapper. A portrait in complexity of life in Ralph Erskine's Byker Wall and its setting following the initial honeymoon period.
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C F A Voysey
London Academy Editions/St Martins Press 1992
Architectural Monograph no 10 144pp, plates in colour and b/w. Large 4to. Stiff card laminated and decorated wrappers. Very good indeed .
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Capability Brown
Country Life Ltd (1950) 1957
Revised edition. 228pp illustrated with b/w plates and line ills showing Brown's style. 4to. Fair copy. D/w torn on top reverse and some foxing on the cloth boards. assessment of Brown's life and work including a list of properties where Brown was involved with design. Previous ownersl bookplate on front pastedown.
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Catalogue of Sculpture at Woburn Abbey
in the collection of His Grace the Duke of Bedford
London printed for private circulation. 1900
4 + 98pp including 51 woodcuts. Tall 8vo. Red cloth, gilt titles on upper board within ruled lines. Pasted down onto front paste down is Hugh Pagan's catalogue entry for this item Catalogue 41 October 2001. Front end paper has ownership bookplate of Josceline Grove and notes on his purchase of this copy. Slightly rubbed at head and base of spine. A few spattered spots on upper board else internally very good. Details 254 numbers following a short [3]pp note on the Sculpture Gallery at Woburn built originally as a conservatory by Henry Holland.
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Catalogue of the Drawings Collection of the Royal Institute of British Architects.
C.F.A. Voysey
Farnborough, Gregg International Publishers Limited 1976
95pp + 120 text figures on un-numbered pages. Large 4to. Very good in slightly worn dw. with small tear. Ex institutional library with bookplate and with drawn stamp on fep and class mark on dw. else very good and with no other library markings. Essential reference for Voysey drawings.
Stock ID: 22219More details Price: £120.00 -
Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery & Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge
2 Volumes
Cambridge The Antique Collectors' Club 1987 (1935)
Volume I - Text and Coloured Plates: xlvii + 49 colour plates + 431pp. Volume II - Monochrome Plates: xv + 266pp. Blue cloth covered boards with gilt titles. Dustwrapper. Very good. Limited to 1000 copies. The Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection was originally published in 1935 and limited to just 350 copies of the 2 volume sets. Considered one of the great ceramic collections of the world, the Graisher collection was assembled by Dr J.W.L Glaisher and catalogued by Bernard Rackham, Keeper of Ceramics at the V&A and this printed catalogue remains a firm favourite amongst ceramics collectors and curators alike, worldwide.
Stock ID: 22514More details Price: £110.00 -
Catalogue of the pictures belonging to His Grace The Duke of Portland, at Welbeck Abbey, and in London 1894
London Printed at The Chiswick Press
xvi + 223pp. Frontispiece of William Blentinck, 1st Early of Portland, plus numerous plates (some with original tissue guards) illustrating the works addressed. Number 86 of 250 copies produced. Top edge gilt. Quarter binding. Original publishers morocco on spine with more recent cloth covered boards. f.e.p. has laid in bookplate of Josceline Grove and neat note in pen "Cat: Bought February 1896. H.J.F." Front paste down has plate from Wigan Free Public Library pasted-down. Blind stamps from the library intermittently throughout. Marginal foxing, to end papers and to book block. Very good internally.
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Catalogue of the Pictures Sherborne Castle.
Stock ID: 22652More details Price: £375.00
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Catalogue of the Ruskin Museum Coniston
William Holmes Printer Ulverston Fifth edition 1919
38pp. Small 8vo. Decorated wrappers. Foreword by W G Collingwood. Ruskin died at Brantwood of influenza on 20 Jan 1900. His colleague W.G. Collingwood organised a memorial exhibition in the newly extended Assembly Room of Coniston Institute. The proceeds from the exhibition not only paid off the outstanding debt on the Assembly Room but raised sufficient funds to build a further extension to house a permanent memorial exhibition there to Ruskin.d. This is now the Ruskin Museum. An important record of Ruskin's letters, books, manuscripts and over 200 drawings and watercolours; arguably, the most comprehensive collection of Ruskiniana ever presented to the public. Artifacts now housed in the Ruskin Museum at Coniston.
Stock ID: 22500More details Price: £45.00 -
Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil-Paintings [Volume One 1895-1914] and Volume Two 1915-1951]
London Sotheby's Publications 1987
i 644, ii 604pp 4to. Illustrated in colour and black and white. Fine in dust wrappers.
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Charles Luckman Associates Progress
Nasa Manned Spacecraft Center
Stock ID: 20870More details Price: £40.00
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Charles Sheeler: The Photographs
Stock ID: 22523More details Price: £55.00
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Christopher Alexander
The Search for a New Paradigm in Architecture
Stocksfield Oriel Press Ltd. 1983
xviii + 306pp. B/w photographic illustrations. Bibliography. Good. Spine slightly sunned. D/w stuck onto book with sticky-back-plastic
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Christopher Dresser: The People's Designer 1834-1904
Woodbridge Antique Collector's Club 2005
320 pp with over 400 colour and 250 b/w illustrations. 4to. Cloth in d/w, fine. A readable but comprehensive look at the work of the prolific designer of household objects who blended affordability and style in the industrial age. With chapters covering ceramics, floor coverings, furniture, glass, metalware, textiles and wallpaper, all generously illustrated.
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Circular respecting memorial studies of St. Mark's Venice : now in progress under Mr. Ruskin's direction
1879
16pp. Paper wrapper. These a little browned else good copy. Last two pages uncut. Upper wrapper notes "This Circular will be given to Visitors to the Old Water-colour Society's Exhibition, Pall Mall East or on application to the Fine Art Society 148 New Bond Street."
Stock ID: 21122More details Price: £35.00