London Lockwood & Co. 1873

Series number 182. xii + 300pp + 16pp + 32pp. With numerous b/w illustrations. Brown blind stamped cloth with gilt lettering. Re-bound with a new cloth spine and paper label to make this a good copy. Water stains throughout although not to the detriment of the text.

Stanford Stanford University Press 1999

(i-x)+1-74 pp, dark blue cloth boards with silver lettering along the spine, original white d/w, folio. This book is a collection of 44 stunning b/w photographs of the marble quarries and quarry workers in and around Carrara, northern Italy. The photographs are printed as tritones, to capture their delicacy and detail, and are preceded by an introduction that describes Leivick's goals and experiences as a photographer working at Carrara and provides a brief outline of the region's geology and long history of marble extraction

New York 308 Grand Street NY 1906

Trade catalogue for woollen worsted, cotton yarns art embroideries, canvases, knit goods, hosiery etc. 64pp illustrated with b/w steel engravings. All items priced. Stapled Lettered wrappers. 6 x8 inches. Small tear in last two pages including wrapper and tear, partially affecting the upper wrapper where it has been stapled. . The company were importers of worsted, woolen, and cotton knitting yarns, established in 1858, in downtown New York.

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.

Christie Manson & Woods 1882

234pp illustrated with sepia photographs. Very good copy indeed in bright red cloth with gilt lettering. Collection of this famous sale. This version the extra illustrated version with original sepia photographs of many of the key items.

London, Ernest Brown & Phillips Ltd at the Leicester Galleries

December 1933 16pp 43 numbers by John and 60 by Henry Lamb.

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.

London : Constable, 1915

One of a hundred copies printed. xii, 397 p. : plates. ; Large 4to. 34 cm. Ex Doncaster Library reserve stock with ancient library stamp on half title and stamp of library on front paste down. Class mark on base of spine. Red rexine. Good copy. Scarce. Important for documenting the house and its contents including the Chippendale furniture.

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.

The Sketch Society 195 Piccadilly 1912

61pp. 150mm. Paper covered boards with illustration on upper board. Advert for Newman artists materials on rear board. A little worn at all edge. Title page browned. Chairman of the Society was artist, James D Linton. List of members of the Society given at the end of the publication. There are 575 items listed and organized by artist. The Society ran between 1910-1913. It ran four exhibitions in total. These were held at the Royal Institute Galleries. The exhibitions were selling shows and the prices of each item is given in the catalogue. One copy listed on World Cat at the V&A.

London S.Leigh Sotherby 1843

129pp. 8vo. Quarter calf with gilt ruled lines and titling on spine. Marbled end-papers and book block edge. Slight fading to upper cover and a small stain (c.1cm) here. All corners rubbed, the bottom left verso corner more than the others. Internally very good indeed. An impressive list of 2937 lots sold over 13 days. Annotated in a very neat hand with sale prices and names of buyers. William Noel Hill, 3rd Baron Berwick (1773 - 1842) was a British peer, politician and diplomatist.

London Sotheby's Publications 1987

i 644, ii 604pp 4to. Illustrated in colour and black and white. Fine in dust wrappers.

Paris L'Amicale Librairie Theatrale nd c1930

36pp illustrated with b/w line illustrations. 4to. Decorated wrappers. Very good. Text in French. Designs for theatre sets and lighting themed around variant generic subjects such as room interiors, gardens, restaurants, antique scenes etc. Lovely item and very useful of theatrical set design. One hundred architectural designs and decorative elements, showcasing the artistic styles and trends prevalent around 1930

Paris Art & Culture: Office culturel de Granville 1987

64pp illustrated with b/w photographs and line ills. Useful documentary catalogue to accompany an exhibition about the life of Christian Dior with contemporary photographs reproduced of Granville, people and places with which she was associated. 4to. decorated wrappers. With, loosely inserted 16pp pamphlet, with b/w and colour plates, issued in association with the same exposition which concern the purfumes. Text of both publications in French. lovely item, protected in glassine wrappers.

Edwin Story, Bookseller, Micklegate York. c1909

32pp illustrated with 7 b/w plates. Ribbon tied pamphlet 186 x 124mm Titles on upper wrapper. Wrappers dusty. Signed dedication copy to R J Green Esq from T P Cooper, inscribed on the upper wrapper. Loosely inserted A.L.S from the author to Ms Green, from the author who lived at 16 Wentworth Road, York which accompanied the pamphlet sent, December 7 1909, to Mr Green alerting him to a talk on Old Clockmakers and requesting if he had photographs taken close up from the scaffolding on York Minster of the Striking Figures on the clock. [Green was Clerk of Works at York Minster at the time.]

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

London British School of Archaeology in Jerusalem Supplementary papers 3. 1931

47p, 13 plates incl. fold out of Fountain Court Complex and 2 colour plans and incl. text illustrations and plans. Large 4to. Grey decorated and lettered wrappers. Very good. Gives historical notes of the churches, details of individual churches and details of the Mosaics where a section is given over to each subject. Useful review of this Christian complex in the north of Jordan largely destroyed by an earthquake in AD 749.

New York Reinhold Publishing Corporation, 1963

224pp. with many black and white photographic illustrations. Long 4to. Open weave cloth. Black spine lettering. An analysis of urban forms and functions by this notable post-modern landscape designer. Signed by Lawrence Halprin on half title in a bold hand.

Princeton Princeton University Press 1979

[20]+3-827+[7]pp with extensive illustrations, maps and photographic reproductions. Long 4to. Cloth boards, with gilt lettering label on spine. Custom made slip case. Book explores the fascinating history of cultural and geographical expansion into the Western territories of North America, with particular focus on Spanish influence, urban planning and industrial progress. Sticker from previous owner on interior of upper board reads "Winston Barnett, Architect."