no date c1910

Mounted images of various sizes recording a combination of building projects and reference photographs. Arts and Crafts Period buildings in evidence. Mostly vernacular photographs, with a few professional architectural photographs included. All locations given. Large green cloth with contrasting darker green spine and corners. Landscape format. All photographs mounted on card. Card very brittle and with some loss at edges. Photographs very good. First two pages comprise 15 small images in sepia of Goldenfield, occupied and owned by Mary Ann Robb [ who also had lived at Chiltley Place. They record construction the Philip Webb group of buildings at Chiltley Lane, Liphook including a Clockhouse. Location is on the edge of Guildford. Each image c3 x 4 inches. The next few pages record cottages at Shere, in the Surrey Hills, Clare in Suffolk and Bray Church Yard. One page includes two photographs of a small wood model of a cottage design. All photographs either 3 x 4 or 4 x 6 inches. The album then records the Lutyens Lychgate at Haslemere followed by a series of photographs of Cliveden numbered 44-68 [ no number 63] showing walls, balustrades and riverside cottages at Cliveden Springs. The next series of photographs show Cheswardine Vicarage under construction. Located at Market Drayton, north east Shropshire constructed 1909. Images of the scaffolded building and completed building in 11 most 4 x 6-inch photographs. The next group are of cottages, and cottage gardens at Ardath [Stoke by Clare?]. There are 17 photographs showing cottages in their setting. Next group documents the exterior of Cheswardine Hall [John MacVicar Anderson architect] showing project for drains. [ 7 images each 4 x 6 inches and one 7 x 9 inch. There is a further group of images [ professionally taken with Birmingham stamp beneath the images] comprising 9 photographs of Estington Hall. Longdon, Upton upon Severn; timber framed building, four images of Shavington Hall and two of Stratford Court. Four blank pages divide this section of the album from a series of black and white photographs, 10 x 12 inch that record the interior of Carlisle House, Soho. London. No date,builder or photographer given but appear to be around 1910 - 1920.

London Published by W Clarke, J. Carpenter, W. Miller, C. Chappel, White and Cochrane, Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, Brodie and Co., and J. Storer: Coe, printer 1812

24pp frontis + 6 plates and one vignette in the text. 258x132mm. Original boards with paste down title label [ cropped at corners]. "Views of the Abbey at Fonthill Wiltshire: accompanied with a particular description of that superb edifice". Corners and spine rebound with green morocco. Gilt decorated spine. Edges of all images foxed but actual images unaffected. First edition, the first monograph on Fonthill Abbey, it records the building and its interior as it was about to be completed for William Beckford; work finished in 1813. It effectively marks the completion of the north range of the building.

London Houlston & Sons 1879

Third Edition. Frontispiece, Title Page, iv + 141pp (including 2 sepia photogravure images and 3 b/w plates + 22 hand-coloured plates. Long Quarto. Original Paper Wraps, Green cloth spine with gilt titles. Top of spine bumped and a little chipped. Edges of wraps bumped and chipped at corners. Upper and verso covers slightly marked. Internally, good with some scattered foxing. Book plates of John E Pritchard and Josceline Grove on front past down and front free end paper. Farleigh House is a large country house, previously the centre of the Farleigh Hungerford estate, and has sometimes been called Farleigh New Castle. The castle was sold for salvage in 1705 to the Houlton family. It is now a 'romantic ruin' since the 1730s, it retains two of its corner towers and in the ownership of English Heritage. The two sepia photographs usefully show the state of the property and its setting at the time of publication. Uncommon.

Glasgow William Hodge and Co 1895

Limited to a print run of 200 copies. Xii + 76pp. Mustard yellow cloth covers boards with gilt title and coat of arms of St John the Evangelist on upper cover and title on spine. Top edge of book block gilt, other edges untrimmed. 8vo. Corners a little bumped and cloth marked with ink (?) on upper edge of front board. General signs of age apparent but a very good copy otherwise. Tipped in half tone plates alongside b/w illustrations. This is the first monograph devoted to the master mason of the early 15th century, John Morow. A useful compilation of material on this key figure in the evolution of Scottish gothic architectural style, though recent work of Richard Fawcett has shown aspects of the dating and associations are incorrect in detail. First published in the short-lived Scots Lore Magazine, 1895. Bookplate of the Hon. Hew Dalrymple [General Sir Hew Whitefoord Dalrymple, 1st Baronet] on front paste-down.

London Alex Koch & Sons, 1889-1931

62 volumes. . Small 4to. Mixed set but generally good. Mostly in blue lettered cloth as issued. Numbers 40, 50, 56 and 59 in good paper wrappers. A few ex-library copies with class marks on spine and ancient library stamp on prelims. A few others a little shaky at hinges. Some have hand marked notations showing number on spine. Founded by the Swiss-born architect Alexander (Alex) Koch (1848-1911) it was an international review of contemporary architecture, and, from volume 3, 1891, contemporary sculpture. It includes a few articles, but mainly photographs and drawings. Each issue contains approximately 250 illustrations. The value in the journal is in the review it provides on international styles including the arts and crafts movement and beaux art styles. In terms of building types, it includes housing schemes, cottages, public buildings, commercial buildings, memorials etc. As an overview of the design styles of the first 30 years of the 20th century they are excellent.