(1615) London, The Leadenhall Press 1898

Irregularly paginated, but c134 pp. + 24 pp. ads for books published by the Leadenhall Press. Royal 8vo. Bound in velum reproduction of original binding, missing leather thong ties. Covers slightly grubby and bottom upper corner has a crease across it but lettering on upper board very bright. Additional to titles is the hand written ownership details. This is from the office of "Alfred Goslett & Co. Ltd, Antique Lead Glaziers, 26 Soho Square, London". Internal pages uniformly browned as is often the case. Facsimile of this fascinating early 17th C text and pattern book for glaziers.

Manchester, J.E. Cornish 1897

xv+351pp plus 6 b/w tissue guarded plates. 4to. Original cloth-backed lettered boards. A little scuffed at edges, else good. Very useful biography of this architect and amateur actor from the North West of England. Derbyshire (1839-1908) worked in the Gothic and classical idioms on a number of civic projects and churches, but was chiefly known as a theatre architect, designing theatres in Manchester (including the Comedy Theatre and the Palace Theatre) and redesigning the Lyceum in London. This fascinating book is very hard to find.

London, for the author and sold by J Williams, 1837

(2) + 4pp 17 plates. 4to. Green gilt decorated cloth covered boards. Good copy. This book consists of plates of Singleton House, Swansea, which was constructed for J H Vivian. Robinson followed Uvedale Price's principles of picturesque design. He proposed enlargement of this property by adaptation. The frontis illustrates the house from the south west. Other images illustrate both the interior and exterior of the property. Essentially a record of a single building project. Hard to find.

Book Description: Edinburgh, Mould and Tod nd. printed by 1895

Lithographed title page, (xii) pages, 121 plates with accompanying text, ix pages. Folio. Publisher's green cloth. Walker provides an interesting collection of architectural drawings for the parish churches of Fife. Walker made the drawings to scale from surveys of actual churches. Hard to find in such good order.

London Printed for George Perch 1769

(12) + lix + [4] + 326pp +10pp Dedicated to the Right Honourable Richard, Earl of Burlington, &c.' signed 'Ri. Graham.' Small 8vo. Marbled boards, quarter vellum, red spine label. Bookplate on fep and signature of Rowland Cotton. Prelims are browned and a little foxed else good copy. 1750 edition calls for an engraved frontis, not present in this edition.

London Printed for Sherwood, Gilbert and Piper [1809] 1830

Fifth edition. Frontis, xvi + 223pp, 4 plates, useful tables (in Appendices) + 12pp catalogue of Cooke's Topographical Library, sewn in at end of the book. Fascinating text packed with recipes for treatment of wood surfaces, inlays with varnishes and French polishes etc. Small 8vo. Title page in facsimile. Original boards, cloth spine. New paper spine label. Some finger soiling and grubby marks on pages from use. Plates a little foxed. Initially, the book was little more than a pamphlet but was expanded with more and more information. The final edition seems to have been produced in 1837 and is referred to as the fifth edition augmented. Hard to find.

London, Printed for B. Sprint, D. Browne, J. Osborn, S. Birt, H. Lintot and A. Wilde 1736

3rd edition corrected and improved throughout. First published in 1703. Frontis, xvi + 188pp. Frontis shows the principal front and plan of the apartments of the Earl of Burlington's House at Chiswick. [ first time this image appears as the frontispiece to this book]. On front paste down states "John Wilson His Book". Rear paste down gives name in pencil of a later owner 1767 Richard Dickinson. Verso of title page has contemporary naive drawing on it, some wormholes to page edges in heart of the book. Full calf, repaired at head of spine and with new spine label. Harris 587

London Quaritch 1910

112 chromolithographic plates with explanatory text and b/w text illustrations. Illustrations on ornament of savage tribes, the Egyptians, Assyrian and Persian, Greek, Roman, Arabian, Byzantine, Turkish, Persian, Indian, Hindoo, Chinese, Celtic, Medieval, Renaissance, Elizabethan, Italian, and leaves and flowers of nature. Small folio in publisher's handsome gilt-decorated red cloth. This re-issue of the 1910 edition was created from the remainder sheets from the 1865 edition with a new title page and it was the last edition to be printed in chromolithography. Gutta percha repaired to make a very good copy