Printed for the author by J Harberkorn in London.1759

To be had at the author's house in Poland Street; likewise of A. Millar, J. Nourse, Wilson and Durham, T. Osborne in Gray's-Inn, J. and R. Dodesley in Pall-Mall, R. Sayer in Fleet-Street, Piers and Webley near Chancery-Lane, Holborn, and J. Gretton, in Old-Bond-Street, MDCCLIX First edition. [6],iv,85,[1]pp. 50 engraved plates Includes subscribers list. Folio. Full calf, raised bands, gilt tooled decorations, red gilt lettered spine label. Outer upper joint repaired to make very good copy of this influential text. ESTC T51636. Chambers was born in Sweden and died in London. He widely travelled including to China and studied in Paris. Important book which is truly an architectural highspot.

K.J. Gummerus Osakeyhtiö Jyväskylä 1964

52 + (2)pp illustrated with b/w plates. Striking dust wrapper over flimsy card wrappers. A little rubbed at the head and base of spine and edge of wrappers else a good copy.

Berkeley University of California 2004

First printing. 188pp illustrated with colour and b/w plates. Ant Farm pushed the boundaries of architecture through collective projects embracing radical ideas of the 1960s which used video, built works, museum exhibitions etc. This study documents the personalities and projects of the collective. 4to. Preserved in well applied sticky backed plastic.

London Cassell & Company 1912

xii, 96 pp. + 103 b&w ill. plates (small no. of which are loose). Some light foxing in places else vg indeed. In publisher's red cloth with minor bumping to corners and spine, else vg. A very nice copy with superb illustrations published just prior to the author's election to the Royal Academy and his award of a RIBA Gold Medal. Highly recommended.

Berlin Berlin, Deustsche Gartenstadt-Gesellschaft and Renaissance Publishing, Robert Ferdern 1910

188pp illustrated with b/w plates. 4to. Cloth backed and illustrated boards. Front end paper detached and frayed, last four pages have scattered foxing else very good. Documents a study trip by the German Garden City Society. Their tour took in New Earswick (the Joseph Rowntree garden village on the outskirts of York, Port Sunlight, Bournville, Letchworth Garden City and Hampstead Garden Suburb. It included visits to study public housing schemes in Manchester, Liverpool, Birmingham, and London. Efforts were made to make the German delegation welcome. The little touches included a floral reception gate at New Earswick with a German inscription "A Warm welcome our German cousins" and a lunch at Port Sunlight. The publication includes a list of members and guests in the auditorium at Port Sunlight who attended the lunch. This was a large delegation of visitors including a number of well known architects of the day active in Germany. (Includes Luwig Mies - aka Mies van der Rohe) as a young man.

Cambridge, University Press 1985

371pp with many b/w illustrations, plus 16pp coloured plates. Cloth vg in d/w, this slightly worn at head of spine. Fascinating survey of the relationship between sound and space as expressed through architecture, written by an architect of performance spaces. Wonderful illustrations clearly show the parallel development of musical styles and venues.

London John Murray 1929

xii + 299pp illus with frontis +13 b/w plates and one fold out map. Studies of old town mostly in Franch, many off the beaten track, recorded by Blomfield in his travels. With signature on front end paper of F W Troup dated 1932. Troup 1859-1941 was an Arts and Crafts man throughout his life with a particular interest in leadwork and was an excellent craftsman himself. He was Master of the Art Workers Guild in 1923 and Hon Sec of the SPAB in 1940.

Robert Hale Ltd 1987

240pp+18 colour plates+89 b/w illus. Small 4to with d/w. The origins and history of churchyards, legends, traditions and rituals, and notable burials and memorials. Contains an appendix of famous graves.

London, Thames and Hudson 2000

128pp with 258 illustrations, 104 in colour. Stiff card wrappers, vg indeed. Thoroughly illustrated study of the relationship between regional environment and the form of concrete architecture, focusing on projects by four major architectural practices.

London, Daily Mail 1919

42pp period ads+4pp text and 50pp plans, elevations and sketches. Decorated cloth-backed boards, very good. The results of a competition held in the aftermath of the second World-War to design council houses or 'ideal homes for workers'. The organisers of the competition stressed the need for quality design which integrated into its local environment.The winning design for this division, by A.C. Martin, London, is reproduced here and followed by a selection of entries commended by the judging committee. Each design shows plans, elevations and prospects.

Berlin Bei Ernst Wasmuth 1908

Zweite durchgesehene Auflage 3 volumes. Entwicklung des englischen Hauses iv, (6), 219, (3)pp. 208 illus. II: Anlage und Aufbau. (4), 237pp. 256 illus. III: Der Innenraum. (4), 240, xxvi pp. 298 illus. Contrasting cloth covered boards with gilt titles Uniform. Spine worn on all three and old small rust mark on volume one spine. Internally very good indeed. Key text on the English Country house including contemporary work by Ballie Scott, Mackintosh, Edgar Wood et al as well as earlier designs. Includes good quality interior and exterior views throughout. Text in German.

London John Murray 1949

First edition ix + 70pp + printed end papers. B/w characteristic line illustrations by Osbert Lancaster. 8vo cloth boards with colour illustrated dust wrapper. some wear to the wrapper otherwise a VG copy.

Paris Editions Hazan

Distributed by Yale, Text in Engish. 268pp illustrated with colour and b/w plates. 4to. Laminated colour wrappers. Taccompany an exhibition at the Henie Onstad Foundation, Hovikodden-Oslo, Norway, between 10 March-29 May 2011 which then toured to Sweden and Belgium. Like new. Focuses on his three dimensional sculptures, monumental in size, and frequently sited in association with contemporary buildings as well as in stand alone situations.

HMSO Royal Commission on Historical Monuments in England 1970

282pp illus with colour frontis, b/w plates and line ills. Fold out map in rear pocket. The sites of the Legionary Fortress and the Civilian settlements found in the city are included. 4to. Very good copy with dw.

London, Wiley-Academy 2006

499ppwith b/w illustrations throughout. Oblong 4to in laminated boards, vg indeed. A comprehensive guide to the new design strategies that must be adopted if modern life is to be integrated into a functioning eco system. Gives easy to follow instructions on how to design, build, manufacture and use sustainable architecture and products, reusable materials etc. Useful for both practitioners and students.

Amsterdam Van Munser's Uitgevers-Maatschappij no date c 1924-1928

Text in Dutch. Vol 1: W Kromout, 38pp, 35b/w plates. Vol 2: P Kramer 40pp, 26 b/w plates. Vol 3: Dr H P Berlage 36pp 24 b/w plates. Vol 4: A J Kropholler 35pp 42 plates + colour frontis. Vol 5: W M Dudok 28pp + 45 b/w plates. All in coloured but contrasting decorated wrappers with similar typography. All the publications include period ads. All published? A further volume on M de Klerk proposed but not published. Great period design items. Edges of wrappers al little rubbed especially no 1 and 5. Design echoes that of Wendingen.

London & Berkley Scolar Press 1983

49pp + [92] of 125 numbered b/w plates. 8vo in wraps. Front wrap and feps creased at lower right corner; internally vg. The first full study of this distinctive modern movement architect associated with the Empire Exhibition, Olympia etc..

London Archigram 1970

Unpaginated. 11pages printed on both sides to make 22pp illustrated. [400 X 253 mm.] Green wrappers designed by Tony Rickaby. Various types, weights, colours of paper and range of one, two and three colour printing. Two loose flyers: Architectural Design and Nottingham School of Architecture. Unpriced. Originally issued with seed packet of night scented stocks which was stapled to page 11. The seed packet has not survived and is not present with this copy. Very good copy. Contributions by the authors, including illustrations throughout.

London 1965

Pagination runs from p 403-492 + 240 pp. period ads. Excellent illustrations and photographs throughout. 4to. Wraps with sl. wear to top of spine, else vg clean copy. Compiled by members of the firm of Llewelyn-Davies, Weeks and Partners, contributors to this issue include P.J. Stone (with an overview of the history of hospital design up to 1900), Peter Cowan (contributing a piece on the location of hospitals in towns), T.E. Chester (offering a speculative article on the use of health services in the UK in the year 2000) and J.R.B. Green and E.D. Hazell (who present a bibliography of the general area). Individual case studies and plans are primarily UK-based and classified by type, i.e. general, psychiatric or research and teaching hospitals, with a comparative section on the design of four American hospitals.

Delft University Press in assocation with Stedelijk Museum 1983

175pp with b/w photos, drawings, plans and elevations throughout. 4to in decorated wraps. Vg with sl rubbed edges of wraps. Parallel Dutch/English text. A detailed examination of the "New Building" style and its effect on Amsterdam; published to coincide with an exhibition in the Stedelijk Museum.