London A. Zwemmer Ltd. 1988

2 Vols. 648pp (continuous pagination) . Over 400 b/w + colour photographs. Publishers blue cloth, gilt title on the spine with illustrated dust wrappers and slipcase. Spine of the wrappers a little faded else very good indeed. Comprehensive study, explores the origins of the neo-classical movement in British architecture during the second half of the 18th century and analyses the interiors and exteriors of a wide range of neo-classical building types. Covers the work of Robert Adam, James Wyatt, George Dance, John Soane + many more. Profusely illustrated.

London Architectural Association 1990

100pp, introductory text and then mostly full page b/w plates with captions. 102 duotone plates. Small folio, flimsy wrapper with overprinted dust wrapper. The book was produced to mark Eric de Maré's 80th birthday and was sponsored by Michael Hopkins and Partners. Beautifully produced study of Eric de Maré's superb architectural photographs. Eric de Maré is best known for his work in The Architectural Review in the 1950s, when his photographs of functional buildings such as warehouse and canal structures.

Boston David R Goldine 1994

208pp illustrated. Very good in very good dust wrapper. Appraisal of the inscription designs of Eric Gill in his capacity as artist craftsman. Over 50 half tone illustrations and numerous line illustrations in the text.

London RIBA Publishing; 1st edition 2006

240pp illustrated with colour and b/w plates, some from the original brochures for the Span housing schemes. Suare 4to. Laminated boards. Well researched, this book celebrates the work of the architect Eric Lyons OBE (1912-1980), whose famous post-war housing projects. . Built almost entirely for Span Developments, its mission was to provide an affordable environment "that gave people a lift".

London Architectural Association Mega VI 1987

43pp illustrated with colour and b/w plates and line illustrations. Small folio. Black wrappers. Czech-born architect Eva Jiricna provides the architectural setting for some of the most stylist fashion outlets in London, Paris, Germany and the USA, it features 12 of her London schemes. A fully illustrated interview tells the story of her background in Czechoslovakia and the impact on her work of the architectural scene she discovered on moving to London after the Soviet invasion of Prague in 1968. The book includes contribution by John Thackara and a conversation with Alvin Boyarsky. Slightly rubbed at base of front wrapper and edges a little dusty. Internally very good. Hard to find.

London, Town and Country Planning Association 1987

xii + 164pp illustrated with 31 plates. Good in dust wrapper. His efforts led to the New Towns Act of 1946. He was a devotee of Ebenezer Howard. If Howard was the driving force behind the Garden Cities and Suburbs, it was Osborn who was the driving force behind the New Towns. A very informative book.

Darwen Shaws Glazed Brick Company 1962

12pp catalogue on faience for swimming pools which was designed to assist architects with their design. Includes image of Wythenshawe, Manchester public baths and some images of tile types as well as practical specification material. Hole punch marks through who brochure. Loosely inserted additional specification sheets + letter from the company Lake District architects E Donald Haigh, Kendal with details of prices.

London Collins 1950

127pp illustrated with b/w plates. 4to. Good copy with slightly frayed and worn dust wrapper protected in glassine wrapper. Useful introduction to the modern movement and eight of it's pioneers including Aalto, Oud, Frank Lloyd Wright etc. Oliver Hill himself combined a career in architecture and landscape architecture and designed in The White Style. This is an interesting selection of buildings reflecting those that Hill considered pioneering and thus a good period indicator of the movement.

Published by Privately Printed, Chicago, 1934

Unpaginated. Includes colour portrait of A B Dick, full page photogravure plates of the mimeograph machines and the offices of the firm + decorations by Rockwell Kent. 4to. Gilt decorated cloth. Gold end papers. Very good copy. Printed at the Lakeside Press Limited. Dedicated to Albert Blake Dick, this company history commemorates fifty years of Progress and Achievement. It was produced as a Golden Anniversary souvenir of the firm. A. B. Dick Company was a major American manufacturer of copy machines and office supplies in the late 19th century and 20th centuries.

London Macmillan and Co 1933

First edition. illustrated with drawings and photographs, mostly by the author including coloured frontispiece. Colour frontis. Blue cloth. Good. No dust wrapper. Bright copy. A little bumped at corners. With bookplate of Colin Amery. Byron travelled to India in 1929 as special correspondent for the Daily Express, and also took in Tibet. An appreciation of architecture is a strong element in Byron's writings. He was a forceful advocate for the preservation of historic buildings and a founder member of the Georgian Group. His interest in architecture shines through in this book.

London Country Life 1907

xi +98pp + c10pp catalogue of Country Life Publications. Illustrated with b/w photogravure plates showing flower and fruit arrangements. 8vo. Blue cloth, discoloured on edge of front board, with gilt titles. Loosely inserted invoice form 1958 identifying the bookseller as H V Day of Dorcheser with his ticket on front paste down and ex libri of David erald Francis Hinge.

London Collins 1946

224pp. 8 photogravure illustrations. Good copy with dust wrapper but the latter is a bit grubby and worn. Series of studies relating to the characters and places which featured significantly in Sykes' life. Includes chapter on Isfahan and also a longish chapter on Robert Byron amongst other explorations of people and place. Bookplate of Gavin Stamp on front paste down and from his library. Loosely inserted Obituary from 1986 inserted for Christopher Sykes.

USA, Princeton 2003

240pp illustrated from the corpus of Frith's photographs. Scholarly assessment of Francis Frith in the Middle East. Useful text. Significant addition to scholarship on photography.

London Architectural Association 1984

16pp introductory text, 30 boxed plates. Decorated box. 320x320mm.. Dedication copy from the autor with hand drawn sketch. "For Yolanda e Gerald during a beautiful dinner in A.A. London 2/5/84" Introduction by Franco Purini, essays by Vittorio Gregotti, Pierluigi Nicolin and Micha Bandini. The plates comprise drawings with the quality of etchings in which Purini explores the concept of the eternal city. Presumed to be Yolanda Adams and Gerald Levert

London The Architectural Association Mega IV 1987

144pp, illustrated in colour and black and white throughout. Small folio. White wrappers with wrap around dust wrapper which is slightly scuffed. Produced to accompany an exhibition at the Architectural Association. Yerbury witnessed the rise of the modern movement and recorded it thus. One of the only publications documenting his life and work in this key period.

New York Harry N. Abrams, Inc 1990

Masters of American Design Series. 144pp, 250 illustrations. Large 4to. Decorated end papers. Very good in similar dust wrapper. Critical biography of this key American designer of typefaces.