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9 Milbank
Headquarters of ICI
1988
24pp booklet on the refurbishment of 9 Milbank with colour photographs throughout. Decorated wrap around wrappers. Loosely inserted fact sheet on the main doors included which describes the 12 panels on the metal doors, designed by Mr W Fagan and which show the evolution of civilisation as a result of scientific discoveries The six door panels on the left showing scenes of primitive man, and the six panels on the right showing scenes of modern man. . Includes colour reproduction of print commissioned from David Gentleman.
Stock ID: 20928More details Price: £20.00 -
A Civic Survey and Plan for the City and Royal Burgh of Edinburgh
Edinburgh, Oliver and Boyd, 1949.
115 pgs.54 plates. and many tables and diagrams. Also 25 folding colour maps (3 in pocket at end). Decorative Cloth. Vg with slightly worn dw but which has protected the cloth. Beautifully produced survey and plan for Edinburgh. Previous owner's name on front end paper.
Stock ID: 22270More details Price: £55.00 -
A Collection of Coloured Plates from Academy Architecture
London Alex Koch & Sons nd c1916
Unpaginated. c60pp single sided illustrations which first appeared in Academy Architecture. In each case, the architect, location and details of the building illustrated is given. A wide variety of architects both in the UK and Europe are noted. Red cloth. Gilt titles on upper board. No title page. In most cases the year in which the illustration appeared is given. Generally between 1902 and 1915 although some illustrations appear without dates. Curious compilation. With bookplate of Colin Amery on front paste down and pencil signature of a former owner as H E Hills dated May 30th 1916.
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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.
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A Concrete Atlantis: U.S. Industrial Building and European Modern Architecture 1900-1925
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.
Stock ID: 22024More details Price: £48.00 -
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 History of Architecture
London B.T.Batsford 1896
xv + 313pp +8pp ads, 115 collotype plates + 100s of text ills. . Sm 8vo. Original gilt lettered cloth. Very slightly rubbed at top of spine. Gutta percha repaired to make a good copy with reinforcements on inner hinges. Some slight foxing to prelims, index and advert pages at the back. Very good of the first edition of this enduring study of architecture on the comparative method. Loosely inserted bill from book binder who repaired the book.
Stock ID: 21699More details Price: £165.00 -
A Practical Treatise on the Prevention and Cure of Smoky Chimneys with an Appendix, Containing Various Extracts Connected with the Subject, and Testimonials of the Author's Experience.
Glasgow, Blackie & Son 1836
vi, 114pp. Green cloth. small 8vo. No title labels. Yellow end papers. Good copy. Dedication leaf to The Noblemen and Gentlemen of the Counties of Aberdeen, Banff and Moray. Proposes remedies developed over a long career. The appendix starts at page 50 and thereafter there is a fascinating list of places where George Silver has worked as "smoke curer" and some case studies of how he proceeded with his cures. A quirky little book. Unusual.
Stock ID: 20839More details Price: £145.00 -
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 -
A Visit to Brantwood
Bembridge The Ruskin Association 1980
Unpaginated booklet,comprising introduction by J S Deardon and printed account from a manuscript of a visit to Brantwood by Fany Talbot. Unpainated 16pp. Bound with marbled boards and end papers and paste down label. Inside is a typed note "Just a trifle from the Malvern Link Bindery. Simple and plain like the binder!" You might send another copy with respects. The manuscript was found by architectural historian and devotee of Ruskin, the late John Hutchinson of York. The introduction by James Deardon explains the origin of the manuscript. Fine. Pamphlet printed by the Yellowsands Press, Bembridge. Isle of Wight.
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A Visit to Sherwood Forest including the Abbeys of Newstead, Rufford & Welbec; Annesley, Thoresby, Hardwick Halls, Bolsover Castle and other interesting places in the locality.
London, Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans 1850
96pp illustrated + 20pp period ads for businesses in the area. Green blind stamped cloth with gilt decoration and title on upper board. and spine. Spine a little rubbed and gilt dull else good copy. Includes a critical essay on the life and times of Robin Hood. Organised as a series of letters to provide a description of Mansfield and the neighbourhood with 4 full page lithographed illustrations of country houses and text illustrations of other places of interest. First edition of a scarce guide book.
Stock ID: 22587More details Price: £165.00 -
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
London Royal Institute of British Architects 1937
99pp lxi advertisements. B/W plates. 4to, with nicely illustrated wrapper, some shelf-wear and worn on the spine, otherwise good. An in-depth and technical account of the subject. Consists of three main sections: Progress in the air, Airports and Aerial Photography. To accompany an exhibition at the RIBA under chairmanship of H. S. Goodhart-Rendall.
Stock ID: 22120More details Price: £80.00 -
An Exhibition of Garden Ornaments: Lead & Stone Figures, Vases, Old Wrought Iron Gates, Garden Temples etc. Collected and for sale by Messrs. Thomas Crowther and Sons.
London published by the firm 1914
32pp illustrated with b/w plates. 230x310mm Frayed paper wrappers, ribbon tie. The exhibition was held at the RHS Spring Sow at Chelsea Hospital Gardens 1914. Thomas Crowther & Son were established as stone masons in the late 19th century but also dealt in antique garden ornaments and associated materials acquired from Architectural Salvage sales. This catalogue, for instance shows a design by Oliver Hill, architect reusing garden ornaments as part of one of his projects. Several images in the publication show items removed from Cheyne House Chelsea.
Stock ID: 21550More details Price: £125.00 -
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 -
An Historical Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the City of York Volume V The Central Area
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.
Stock ID: 22254More details Price: £55.00 -
Anthony Salvin, Pioneer of Gothic Revival Architecture.
Cambridge, Lutterworth Press, 1987
207pp, 181 b/w photographs and drawings. Sm. 4to, Very good copy with dw. Foreword by Mark Girouard. Including a comprehensive catalogue listing of all the known data for 356 of Salvin's works. The book incorporates previously unpublished material, including letters, diaries, building accounts and reproductions of Salvin's architectural drawings.
Stock ID: 21004More details Price: £40.00 -
Archigram 8 Milanogram Incluso Popular Pak
London Archigram 1968
Milanogram/Milan Triennale/population growth). Yellow envelope folder with pocket; cover image on inside. Contents: eight pages 420mm x 150mm, folded; seventeen sheets, double sided, 210mm x 150mm, and one 300mm x 210mm. Not numbered or ordered, but punch card codification down the edge of sheets. Sheets inserted in folder. Wallet designed to be posted to readers. Priced at 5 shillings. Collated from the Archigram Archival Project. Envelope a little browned and dusty.
Stock ID: 21674More details Price: £650.00 -
Architectural Design in Concrete
Stock ID: 21286More details Price: £85.00