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A booke of sundry draughtes: Principaly serving for glasiers: and not impertinent for plasterers, and gardiners: besides sundry other professions. Whereunto is annexed the Manner how to anniel in Glas: and also the true Forme of the Fornace
(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.
Stock ID: 20964More details Price: £68.00 -
An Architect's Experiences: Professional, Artistic and Theatrical
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.
Stock ID: 10682More details Price: £300.00 -
Brick and Marble Architecture in the Middle Ages: Notes of a Tour in the North of Italy
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.
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Environs of London 24 Miles round London
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
Stock ID: 19928More details Price: £250.00 -
Home and Garden
Notes and thoughts, practical and critical of a worker in both
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.
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Letters to M.G. & H.G. [i.e. Mary Gladstone & Helen Gladstone]
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.
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Pre-Reformation Churches in Fifeshire
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.
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The Church Builder: A Journal of Church Extension in England and Wales no 1-72.
Stock ID: 15012More details Price: £540.00
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The Grammar of Ornament
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
Stock ID: 20282More details Price: £400.00 -
The History and Description of St. George's Church at Doncaster. Destroyed By Fire February 28, 1853.
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.
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The Technical Educator:
An Encyclopaedia of Technical Education
Stock ID: 20661More details Price: £420.00
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