London Horatio Phillips [1829]

xx, [3]-212pp and 8 plates. 8vo. Edges uncut. Original boards, rebacked & with new spine label. Ex libri Roger Quick with note in pencil about the publication.

Cambridge, Mass MIT Press 1986

266pp illustrated. 4to. First edition of this book by author of Theory and Design in the First Machine Age. On the relationship between U S industrial buildings and European design. Very good in good dust wrapper.

London: Hamilton Adams and Co. Newcastle-upon-Tyne: M & M W Lambert, 1880

[vi], 160pp, xiii[i]pp index and 'corrections and alterations.', 32 steel-engraved plates with tissue-guards, head and tailpieces, decorated capitals. 4to. Original red Morocco binding with gilt decorations and raised bands on the spine. Worn at head and base of spine else a very attractive copy.

London Hamilton Adams and Co 1846

Frontis, iv+96pp. Small 8vo. Blind stamped red cloth with gilt monogram on upper board. Rebacked. Forde Abbey is a privately-owned former Cistercian monastery and Grade I listed building. Forde Abbey was bought by Edmund Prideaux, MP for Lyme Regis and Oliver Cromwell's Attorney General. Before his death in 1659 Prideaux converted the buildings from a monastic residence to a private home. It has 18th century gardens and a landscape park. This early guidebook describes the early history of the estate from the establishment of it as a monastic foundation to its conversion into a country house. Hard to find.

Winchester & London., Jacob & Johnson & Simpkin, Marshall & Co. , 1888

x, 173pp. 13 black & white plates including frontispiece, plus numerous black & white illustrations within the text. Half vellum over grey boards. Quarto. First edition. t.e.g. Vellum sl. grubby and titling on spine a little worn, but a very good copy of this late 19th century history of the house. Upper board bumped along top edge. Internally, some discolouration on f.e.p else very clean and bright. Bookplate of Josceline Grove along with descriptions of the books from previous owners pasted down on front end papers. Name of C. L. Chute (Sir Charles Lennard Chute MC 1879 - 1956) inscribed in pen on front paste down.

London Crosby Lockwood and Co 1890 (1882)

Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged. With additional Treatise on Stairbuilding. With b/w diagrams throughout and 9 single-sided plates. Weale's Scientific & Educational Series, Number 230. x + 120pp + 16pp list of new Weale's publications + 40pp Crosby Lockwood & Co's Catalogue. Green blind stamped cloth with paper label. Book text preceded with list of Weale's publications on architectural subjects. Label slightly creased. Gilt titling on upper board somewhat discoloured. Half title page torn out at top edge. Otherwise a smart copy of this guide which was published a further 52 times.

Reprinted 1975 with corrections and additions by J A Goodall F.S.A. London. Phillips & Page 1975

Limited edition

London, John Murray 1841

iv + 151pp + 4pp list of popular works published by Mr. Murray. c.25 b/w illustrations including 14 engraved plates and folding frontispiece (plan of Windsor Castle). 12mo. Decorative cloth with striking gilt motif on front board. Spine slightly sunned and some small marks on upper and verso boards. Small amount of foxing on a number of the plates, else a good copy.

London Priestley and Weale 1825

Fourth edition in two volumes. Volume 1 [2] iv [1] viii - li 254pp . Volume 2 [4] + 255-514pp. Engraved frontis, 65 plates. The third edition of this book had been published and reached a significant value in terms of reputation just before Chambers died and by the 1820s there was a pressure to reprint. This fourth edition is useful in that Gwilt included for the first time notes on the earlier editions and a biographical memoir of Chambers by the author Thomas Hardwick. A very nice set rebacked preserving the original spine labels. BAL 601

New York Museum of Modern Art 1938

48pp. 8vo. 25 photos and plans of buildings and interiors and 10 photos (6 full page) of furniture Blue textured paper boards with title block screened in white on front cover and spine. Spine and upper edges of boards are age toned else very good. Limited to 3000 copies. The exhibition was the first American survey of the work of the Finnish architect, who was recognised as one of the most important andoriginal modern architects and furniture designers of the preceding decade. Front paste down has bookplate from the RIBA's Ashpitel Prize, 1938 which was awarded to George Gaze Pace.

London Cement and Concrete Association c1935

2nd edition. 28pp pamphlet. Stapled. A little worn on edges else good. The Association's mission was to improve and extend the uses of concrete. Illustrations and text exploring detailed designs to reduce impact of direct and indirect attacks. Information drawn widely from European publications on the subject.

London Royal Institute of British Architects 1937

99pp + lxi advertisements. B/W plates. 4to. illustrated wrapper which is faded on the spine and the first 5cm of the left side of the upper cover. Very good otherwise. An in-depth and technical account of the subject. Consists of three main sections: Progress in the air, Airports and Aerial Photography. From the library of George G. Pace.

London: RIBA Heinz Gallery 1983

64pp with b/w and colour illustrations throughout. Small square 4to. Decorated wrappers, very good indeed. Useful and well-illustrated catalogue on Waterhouse's architecture.

London Lund Humphries 2005

xviii + 341pp. Numerous b/w ills throughout the text. D/w over red cloth boards. D/w a little bumped at the corners. A very good copy of this distinctive study of the life and architectural career of Colin St John Wilson, architect, teacher, theorist.

Sold by the booksellers in the neighbouring towns; and Baldwin Chadock and Joy, London 1818

[xvi including subscribers list] + 17 + 140pp; [2] ads. Frontis of Woburn CHurch + 1 plate of the house. 195 x175mm. Half calf, marbled boards, recent red spine label. Original boards. Raised bands Very good. Bookplate of previous owner on second end paper. Small stain on half title and title page where coat of arms has been hand painted in blue with a neat hand. Useful on the history of the area and family. Includes a useful description of the modern abbey, its contents, [ in brief ] and grounds.

HMSO Royal Commission on Historical Monuments in England 1981

xcviii + 282pp with text ills throughout and b/w photographs. Very good copy with very good dust wrapper. Descriptions of more than 300 buildings erected before 1850 illustrated with photographs and line ills. 4to. Cloth, vg, in very good d/w.