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A concise history and analysis of all the principal styles of architecture :
namely, Egyptian, Grecian, Roman, that of the dark ages, of the Arabians and of the Normans; including a detailed description of the origin, progress and decline of the Gothic. To which is added, a sketch of the architecture of England, down to the present time. / By an amateur.
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.
Stock ID: 22315More details Price: £110.00 -
A Description of Fonthill Abbey Wiltshire illustrated by views drawn and engraved by J. Storer
Stock ID: 22299More details Price: £750.00 -
A Descriptive and Historical Account of the Monuments & Tombstones in the Church of St. Nicholas, Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
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.
Stock ID: 22573More details Price: £120.00 -
A Guide to Farleigh Hungerford, Co. Somerset
Illustrated with ground plans and plates of arms, and an appendix of ancient manorial and ecclesiastical deeds by the Rev. J.E. Jackson
Stock ID: 22664More details Price: £220.00 -
A History of Ford Abbey Dorsetshire
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.
Stock ID: 22791More details Price: £360.00 -
A HISTORY OF THE VYNE in Hampshire. being a short account of the building & antiquities of that house situate in the parish parish of Sherborne St. John Co Hants & of persons who have at some time lived there.
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.
Stock ID: 22661More details Price: £175.00 -
A Plea for Holy Trinity Church Sloane Street
by Sir John Betjeman Poet Laureate with four drawings by Gavin Stamp
London Printed at the Church Literature Association 1974
Title page, notes by John Betjeman, signed in facsimile, 4 drawings by Gavin Stamp. Loose leaf folio. Royal 8vo. Paper decorated wrappers. On the fly leaf of the folio it is revealed that the purpose of the drawings were to be sold in aid of its restoration..... "The offer was rejected owing to the planned demolition of the Church & this 'Plea' with the drawings are being sold to bring public attention to this danger." Designed by Sedding and furnished by the arts and crafts craftsman of its day, this conservation of this wonderful church was successful following the campaign, headed up by Betjeman.
Stock ID: 23631More details Price: £45.00 -
A Practical Treatise on Chimneys with a few remarks
on stoves, the consumption of smoke and coal ventilation etc.,
London, John Weale and the author. 1852
xii + 153 + (1) + 9 + (1)pp. Publisher's cloth, rebacked. Rebacked sympathetically. Eckstein was an ironmonger from Lloyd Square, Pentonville, who specialised in stoves and cooking ranges and inevitably with all the associated problems of smoking chimneys and inadequate ventilation he worked to establish solutions to smoking chimneys. This short book is largely devoted to the correct design of flues, so crucial for the effective working of the fire beneath. Hard to find.
Stock ID: 19295More details Price: £95.00 -
A Series of Monumental Brasses from the 13th to the 16th Century drawn and engraved by 1864
Reprinted 1975 with corrections and additions by J A Goodall F.S.A. London. Phillips & Page 1975
Limited edition
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A Summer's Day at Windsor and Visit to Eton
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.
Stock ID: 22565More details Price: £75.00 -
Academy Architecture and Annual Architectural Review
[from 1896, Academy Architecture and Architectural Review].
Stock ID: 22608More details Price: £1,350.00
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Addition [Folio IX]
London Architectural Association 1986
28pp booklet + 20 silkscreen prints which assembled form a print 1525x1120mm. Large square 4to in presentation black box with white title on front. Vg. Published to coincide with an exhibition of paintings and drawings by Andrew Holmes. Published as as edition of one thousand numbered 1/1000 this being number 146. Holmes has used this Folio to continue his explorations by creating twenty silkscreen fragments which when put together create dramatic 4 x 5 foot detail of Richard Rogers' hi-tech Inmos building.
Stock ID: 9923More details Price: £245.00 -
Air raid protection : the facts / by 10 Cambridge scientists
London : Fact, 1938
97 pp illustrated with line ills. Wrappers Subject: Air defences -- Civil defence -- Great Britain --: Fact : a monograph was issued once a month ; no. 13. 97 pages. Written in the pre war period the book opens with the statement that ARP would soon be known widely by its initials.
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Air-Raid Protection
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.
Stock ID: 22124More details Price: £35.00 -
Airports and Airways 1937
Catalogue to the Exhibition Arranged by the Royal Institute of British Architects
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.
Stock ID: 22721More details Price: £60.00 -
American apartment houses, hotels and apartment hotels of today:
illustrating plans, details, exteriors and interiors of modern city aand suburban apartment houses throughout the United States
New York Architectural Book Publishing Company, inc nd 1929
v, [1], 332 p. incl. front., illus., plans. Blue lettered cloth. 4to. Head of spine and conners a little worn else good copy. Includes list of contributing architects. Introductory section on the evolution of the American apartment house and then many detailed examples with plans of individual projects.
Stock ID: 20612More details Price: £320.00 -
An Anglo-French Pleasaunce : Its Attractions and Aims.
Stock ID: 22754More details Price: £680.00 -
An Architecture of Invitation: Colin St John Wilson
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.
Stock ID: 22707More details Price: £20.00 -
An Historical and Topographical Account of the town of Woburn, its Abbey and vicinity containing also a concise genealogy of the House of Russell and memoirs of the late Francis, Duke of Bedford.
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.
Stock ID: 22657More details Price: £215.00 -
An Historical Essay on Architecture An historical essay on architecture by the late Thomas Hope. Illustrated from drawings by him made in Italy and Germany
Stock ID: 22215More details Price: £250.00
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