Netherton, Wakefield The Fleece Press

Limited edition of 300 copies (of which 250 were for sale). Quarter cloth and patterned paste paper boards, paper spine-label, large 8vo, 106, [1], blank leaf, [1] pp, illustrations, some tipped in, map in pocket at end. Fine copy in slipcase as issued.

London George Allen and Unwin Ltd 1968

Copy signed by the author on the title page. 328pp illustrated with b/w plates. Very good. Blue cloth. End papers have plans of Kingcombe garden. Front end paper, cropped along top edge but illustration unaffected.

London, Theodore Brun , Editions de Luxe Limited

Limited edition - no 20 of 35 numbered. 291pp, approx 1,100 illustrations. 4to.. Compiled by the Society of Industrial Artists as a comprehensive review of the commercial and industrial design produced in Britain.

London Andre Deutsch Ltd. 1971

283pp including wide range of illustrations (some colour) 4to. Blue boards. Unclipped dust jacket, this very slightly worn at edges else very good. Interesting end paper with front end paper partially printed on tracing paper and part forming red end paper. Covers contemporary poster, graphics, wallpaper, jewellery, textile, TV and film graphics etc. All designers featured were members of the SIAD.

Berlin Neuer Deutscher Verlag 1929

231pp, illustrated with numerous b/w photographs, 11 photomontage images by John Heartfield etc. 232 x 187mm. Later stiff card bright yellow wrappers onto which has been pasted the original wrappers, the whole stabalized by new end papers. This rebinding sympathetic to the original form of the book. Half title and title page has evidence of an old damp mark to leading edge but the text unaffected. The text of Tucholsky and Heartfield's images set out to create visual narratives that aimed to reveal the conditions of the Weimar Republic. It was effectively a collaborative work by Tucholsky and Heartfield. This is the first edition. A pioneering book in terms of both design and content.

Oxford Museum of Modern Art/Design Museum London 1990

116pp Illustrated with b/w plates. 210 x 300mm Wrappers. Exhibition catalogue for show which originated at the University of Michigan. Useful essays and biographies of architects and designers + bibliography. English text.

London Jonathan Cape - Random House 1994

208pp illustrated with b/w plates. Long 4to. Very good with very good dust wrapper. designed by David King.

Berlin Volk und Reich Verlag 1936

Unpaginated. Illustrated with plans, diagrams and b/w photographs including images of relief maps showing routes of proposed autobahns. 240 x 260mm. Cloth backed boards with brown lettered titles on upper board. Cloth a little dusty else good copy. Useful survey of the motorway scheme.

1976

Coloured screen print. Signed and dated "76" and number 39/75. 483x 488. Printed by the artist and Audrey Dalby as the Design School, Department of Fine Art, University of Newcastle upon Tyne and published by the artist in an edition of 75. Framed. Fabulous image. The print was made after specially prepared photographs of the similarly entitled construction made in 1974 ('West Front, Durham' 1974, Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne). Copy in the Tate collection [P02836] and the Tate catalogue provides a long explanation of the print making process which Rowntree said was "quite unlike" other prints he had made exploring the relationship between lettering and paintwork. Framed See: www.tate.org.uk/servlet/ViewWork?cgroupid=999999961&workid=13002&searchid=12256&tabview=text.

London, Electrical Association of Women nd 1944-45

55pp, pamphlet. b/w wrappers. Title page with ex library stamp of Association of for Planning and Regional Reconstruction + 2 ex libris stamps marring appearance. Some pencil annotations else good copy. The Electrical Association for Women (EAW) was a feminist and educational organisation founded in Great Britain in 1924 to promote the benefits of electricity in the home. The pamphlet covers careers for women in the electrical sector, planning the post war home efficiently etc.

New Haven and London, Yale University Press 1999

430pp with 100s of illustrations in b/w and colour. Large 4to. Cloth in d/w, very good indeed. Collection of essays by various scholars on one of the great figures of 19th C architecture and design. Exploring his multifaceted career as an architect, furniture designer, theatrical designer and writer. Published as a catalogue to accompany an exhibition held in 1999.

London Hamish Hamilton 1962

First edition. 285pp, b/w photographic plates. 4to. Very good dw. Jacket design by Philip Waugh. D/w slightly creased and torn on top of spine. The five Earls in the title are Burlington, Pembroke, Leicester, Oxford and Bathurst and Lees-Milne shows how they flourished at a time when the fashionable amateur exercised greater influence than ever before in British art. Previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown.

London J & A Churchill and in Leeds, Charles Goodall 1883

47pp illustrated with 10 line illustrations some in colour and black and white. 8vo. Embossed stamp of the late Derek Gibson on front end paper. Decorated cloth. This a little dusty else good with decorative motif on upper board showing a fire grate. A proposal to create efficiencies in coal burning and subsequent smog and smoke in cities by amending fire designs. Booksellers ticket on front paste down of Henry Kimpton Medical Booksellers, London.

London Thames and Hudson 1984

254 illustrations in black and white. Square 4to. Good copy with slightly scuffed and worn dust wrapper. Marked from dead insect on upper board. Stunning photographic record of the work of Edwin Smith.

London, B.T. Batsford (1926)1933

Revised edition. xiii + 258pp illustrated with 200 b/w plates, engravings and diagrams. Original gilt decorated cloth, lightly worn and faded on spine and at corners, generally bright. Ex Hull College with their ancient stamp on front end paper and withdrawn stamp on verso of the half title. Important and well illustrated survey of plasterwork in England, organised by period and location.

London Country Life

lxiv, 375pp illustrated with 521 photogravure plates. Folio. Original publisher's cloth backed green buckram boards, lettered gilt on spine and on front cover .. All edges gilt. Marbled end papers. Spine slightly faded, slight rubbing at head and base of spine else very good. Discusses, fifty two important gardens including Abbotswood, Warley Place, Munstead Wood, Gravetye, Bodnant, Chequers, Hestercombe, Iford, Powis and many more.

London Country Life Limited 1928

Folio. Quarter blue cloth. . Unusual to find this item in a dust wrapper. Dust wrapper a bit chipped at head and base of the spine. Superb record of the work of Vanbrugh with large format photographs in black and white and line ills.

Oxford University Press 1966

186pp illus with 20 b/w plates. Vg in very good dust wrapper. On the influences of literature and art on the formation of the English landscape garden and its design. Skilful analysis of the interplay of philosophy, literature and art in relation to landscape gardening.