(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, John Murray 1855

[vii], xx, [1], 2-287pp +32pp catalogue at rear. 74 plates including black & white engraved frontispiece, some full-page and some in colour. Additional text ills. Original blind-stamped cloth gilt. With bookplate of the Yorkshire Architectural Society. Very nice copy of this well crafted study of brick and marble in Italy which the author says in the preface was only made possible with the advent of railway travel.

London G. F. Cruchley Map Seller 1836

Linen backed, folded and with original slip case with paper spine label entitled "Environs of London." Paste down label from upper board of slipcase is missing. A little worn on the folds else very good. 675 x 670mm when opened. Beautiful engraved and hand coloured map of London and the surroundings. Circular map with attractive decorations on corners. Hard to find. Howgego, James L., and Ida Darlington. Printed Maps of London circa 1553-1850. 1978

London Longmans, Green and Co. 1900

xv + 301pp with 53 illustrations from photographs by the author. 8vo. Decorative gilt spine and front board. Head of the spine worn, corners and edges rubbed. hinge a little flimsy else good. Pencil ownership inscription to the fep. Written after the favourable reception of Jekyll's first book, Wood and Garden. Hard to find in this edition. Ex libris Gavin Stamp with his bookplate.

Privately Printed 1903

xxi + 136pp, 6 b/w ill. incl. 3 photogravures from portraits, one by Edward Burne Jones. 8vo. Green cloth with gilt lettering to front and spine. Top edge gilt, fore and bottom edges deckled. Head and foot of spine and corners a little rubbed, else very good indeed. Letters to Mary and Helen Gladstone written between 1878 and 1887, and a memoir by Henry Scott Holland. Loosely inserted printed note from the Clarendon Press referring to only 50 copies of the book being available. Annotated by a previous owner to give names of correspondents.

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 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

London: J. B. Nichols and Sons 1855

Only 250 copies printed. 235pp, 15 plates & 41 woodcuts. Small folio. From the library of Cusworth Hall (noted on inserted hand written slip). Cloth backed paper wrappers. Spine repaired to make an excellent copy of this scarce title. Small tear in frontis, which is a lithograph of the church and some foxing and edge wear to remaining lithographic plates. Images unaffected. Key study drawing on contemporary sources for information about the design of the church before destroyed. From the library of George Gaze Pace.