Upper Saddle River, New Jersey Gregg Press 1971

355 pp + 263 illustrations. Quarto. Blue lettered cloth. Good copy. Bookplate of Henry Potts on front paste down.

London George Allen & Unwin 1920

160pp 8 full page plates. 8vo blue boards with paste down title. Account of a summer tour of National Trust 'possessions' (national parks, reserves, houses etc) in the West of Britain. Rawnsley is remembered chiefly for his campaigns to preserve the Lake District landscape and as a founder of the National Trust. Ex Libris Gavin Stamp, with his bookplate on the front pastedown.

New York Architectural Book Publishing Company, inc nd 1929

v, [1], 332 p. incl. front., illus., plans. Blue lettered cloth. 4to. Head of spine a little worn else good copy.

Cambridge University Press 1979

254pp illus with over 200 b/w plates. 4to. Very good with very good dust wrapper. Exhaustive study based on primary sources with much of individual bridge projects. Hard to find. With the bookplate of Gavin Stamp.

Paris J L Scherff 1812

Initially published in 20 parts. This copy bound. Folio, recent quarter calf with gilt rulings, original marbled boards, new end papers. 120 b/w engraved plates including one double page one. Introduction in three languages, German, French and English. Features the work of contemporary architects including Claude Nicolas Ledoux, Julien-David LeRoy, and François-Joseph Belanger. Some foxing to title page and prelims. Plates in very good condition but some pages a little browned. Very good source for country houses and their elements in and around Paris.

London, George, Allen & Unwin 1982

70 pp plus 80 b/w plates. Wraps, vg. A consise, well-illustrated study of James 'Athenian' Stuart (1713-88), the father of Greek Revival. The first volume in the Studies of Architecture Series.

London George Allen and Unwin 1984

73pp + 64 plates. Wraps version. Very good copy. Number 3 in Genius of Architecture Series

London Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., To-Day and To-Morrow series nd

on spine and upper board. . Ex library. with stamp on the front paste down. A bit of wear at head and foot of spine, slight scuffing, else bright copy. From the collection of Gavin Stamp, with his bookplate.

London Lund Humphries 1978

140pp illustrated with colour and b/w plates, line ills etc. Square small 4to. Laminated wrappers. Very good. Hard to find study of Voysey with essays and contributions by Joanne Heseltine, Duncan Simpson etc. Ex libris Gavin Stamp with his bookplate. Loosely inserted private view card to Voysey Exhibition in Brighton

London

From the collection of Henry Potts with his bookplate.

John Baker Publishers Ltd 1969

85pp illustrated with many photographs and line ills. Fine in dw. Written and illustrated by Lindley this book covers chapels and meeting houses largely ignored by architectural historians at the time. From the collection of Gavin Stamp with his bookplate.

Leeds: T.W. Green, 1844 and later. 2 volumes in one.

pp. ii, [1], 32, 20, 16, 18, 16, 16, 16; vi, 111; illustrations including colour decorated title pages for both volumes. 8vo Quarter contemporary green moroco, gilt title and decoration on spine., Very attractive copy. A fine collection of lithographic plates, with accompanying text, title pages printed in colours. Covers the churches at Adel, Bolton Percy, Methley, Thirsk, Birkin, Skelton, Bubwith, Patrington, Skirlaugh, Rotherham, Stainburn, Nun Monkton and the Chapels at Ripon. The churches in the first volume are separately paginated indicating the work was issued as a part work. Useful descriptions of volumes some made before the churches were subsequently restored or altered.

London Architectural Association 1988

175pp b/w plates + line ills with captions. Sm square 4to., illustrated wrappers, perfect binding, a very good copy. Loosely inserted private view card for the exhibition that this volume accompanies and a news cutting of an article written by Gavin Stamp on the same exhibition. There is also a printed email correspondence between Gavin Stamp and Vladimir Slapeta, an a.l.s. from Vladamir (Slapeta?) to Gavin Stamp and a photograph of a Czech Avia B-534 biplane. Ex libris Gavin stamp, with his bookplate and pencil signature on half title.

London, Faber and Faber 1972

129pp. Over 123 bw illustrations and colour map at rear of book. 4to. Green cloth binding with gilt title on spine, paper dust wrapper, very good indeed. Really well illustrated Shell Guide to Derbyshire, wonderful photographs.

London H. Fisher, R. Fisher and P. Jackson 1832

2 volumes in one. 106pp and 48pp text respectively, each with vignette title page, maps of both Devon and Cornwall as frontispiece, plus a further 69 leaves of plates each of which have two steel-engraved views. Full calf, gilt lettered and decorated spine. Very good copy. Bookplate of Henry Potts on front paste down

London, Hodder and Stoughton 1907

130 + viipp illus with c19 colour plates including colour fold out of Heathcote, Yorkshire and many b/w plates. vii pp period ads . 4to. Decorated and lettered open weave flimsy cloth. Text pages internally have scattered foxing particularly affecting the prelims. Repaired at spine which had become detached from book block. Contributors include C R Ashbee, Ballie Scott, Edwin Lutyens, G L Sutcliffe and others. Superb frontis of a London mansion block by Frank T Verity who wrote the text with Edwin T Hall and Gerald C Horsley. Colour ills include mansion blocks in London and superb double page spread of Heathcote Hall, Ilkley.

London Allen Lane 2007

624pp illustrated. Fine in dw. God's Architect is the first full modern biography of this extraordinary figure. It draws on thousands of unpublished letters and drawings to recreate his life and work as architect, propagandist and romantic artist as well as the turbulent story of his three marriages, the bitterness of his last years and his sudden death at 40. It is the debut of a remarkable historian and biographer.ISBN 9780713994995 |This book has received excellent reviews as both an architectural and cultural biography. We recommend it.