Architecture

  • FERRISS Hugh (1889 – 1962)
    The Metropolis of Tomorrow

    [1929] The Architectural Press 1986

    UK reprint in parallel with Princeton University Reprint. 199pp illustrated with b/w line ills. 4to. Black dust wrapper with red titles. Very good copy this reprint edition of Ferris's first book on the contemporary city illustrated with his famous moody images of the city focusing on skyscrapers and cityscapes often made against night skies or in the fog. Black wrapper slightly faded. Previous owner's name in neat hand on half title.

    Stock ID: 21295
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  • The Sculptured Bosses in the Cloisters of Norwich Cathedral by JAMES, Montague Rhodes
    JAMES, Montague Rhodes
    The Sculptured Bosses in the Cloisters of Norwich Cathedral

    London Norfolk and Norwich Archaeological Society 1911

    30pp + 12 b/w plates described by the author, with illustrations of the bosses in the northern alley from drawings by C.J.W. Winter. Folio. Red cloth spine and decorated upper board with title of publication.

    Stock ID: 22568
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  • The Stall Plates of the Knights of the Order of the Garter 1348 – 1485 by HOPE ST JOHN, W H.
    HOPE ST JOHN, W H.
    The Stall Plates of the Knights of the Order of the Garter 1348 – 1485

    London Archibald Constable and Company Ltd, Westminster 1901

    Illustrates the stall plates of the Knights of the Most Noble Order of the Garter. The Order of the Garter was an order of chivalry, founded in King Edward III in 1348 89 colour chromolithographed plates, 2 of which are folding, and one of which is double paged. Compiled by William St John Hope, and English antiquary. This copy, green cloth covered boards and leather spine. Loosely inserted alphabetical hand written list of the illustrations and a letter from Sydney Cockerell who repaired this particular volume on headed paper of Douglas Cockerell and Son Also included are two prospectus's for the book issued in May 1901 and noting that there are…

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    London Archibald Constable and Company Ltd, Westminster 1901

    Illustrates the stall plates of the Knights of the Most Noble Order of the Garter. The Order of the Garter was an order of chivalry, founded in King Edward III in 1348 89 colour chromolithographed plates, 2 of which are folding, and one of which is double paged. Compiled by William St John Hope, and English antiquary. This copy, green cloth covered boards and leather spine. Loosely inserted alphabetical hand written list of the illustrations and a letter from Sydney Cockerell who repaired this particular volume on headed paper of Douglas Cockerell and Son Also included are two prospectus's for the book issued in May 1901 and noting that there are strictly 500 copies of the book being printed. Finally the original heraldic shield from the upper green cloth covered board is pasted down on the front paste down along with the book plate of John Linley Peel of Halifax. Garter stall plates are small enamelled brass plates located in St George's Chapel displaying the names and arms of the Knights of the Garter. Hard to find.

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    Stock ID: 22576
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  • The Strange Genius of William Burgess Art-Architect 1827-1881 by BURGES: CROOK J Mordaunt (Editor)
    BURGES: CROOK J Mordaunt (Editor)
    The Strange Genius of William Burgess Art-Architect 1827-1881

    National Museum of Wales 1981

    154pp illustrated with b/w plates and line ills. Small 4to. Decorated stiff card coloured laminated wrappers. To accompany a centenary exhibition. Hard to find.

    Stock ID: 22212
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  • The Superior Sea-Side: by [GRADIDGE AND THE VICTORIAN SOCIETY]
    [GRADIDGE AND THE VICTORIAN SOCIETY]
    The Superior Sea-Side: A tour of Frinton on Sea Frinton Park and Walton on Naze 21 June 1980

    London The Victorian Society 1980

    15pp typescript, mimeographed. Spiral Bound. Preserved in a hand made folder with ribbon ties. Upper board of folder has paste down showing Oliver Hill's unbuilt hotel, which is repeated on the title page of the booklet. A.L.S. Letter to Douglan Marian from Roderick Gradidge on headed note paper from his Chiswick address. undated. "With very belated - past Easter - ! Christmas Greetings and much love from Roddy." Very grand folder for a small publication.

    Stock ID: 22605
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  • [SCOTT] COLE, David.
    The Work of Sir Gilbert Scott

    London, The Architectural Press 1980

    xi + (1) + 244pp illustrated with 138 b/w plates. Previous owner's bookplates on front paste down. Very good with very good dust wrapper. Hard to find monograph on Sir George Gilbert Scott (1811-1878), the Gothic Revival specialist who was the dominant figure in English architecture in the middle years of the nineteenth century. An appendix lists 879 of his architectural commissions.

    Stock ID: 21701
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  • [SCOTT] COLE, David.
    The Work of Sir Gilbert Scott

    London, The Architectural Press 1980

    xi + (1) + 244pp illustrated with 138 b/w plates. Previous owner's bookplates on front paste down. Very good with very good dust wrapper. Hard to find monograph on Sir George Gilbert Scott (1811-1878), the Gothic Revival specialist who was the dominant figure in English architecture in the middle years of the nineteenth century. An appendix lists 879 of his architectural commissions. From the library of David Gerald Francis Hinge whose bookplate is on the front paste down.

    Stock ID: 22709
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  • DOIG, Allan
    Theo van Doesburg Painting into architecture, theory into practice [Cambridge Urban and Architectural Studies]

    Cambridge Cambridge University Press 1986

    xvi + 260pp. 125 b/w illustrations. Very good copy in very good dust jacket. Spine slightly sunned and bottom corner of upper and back boards slightly bumped, else a nice copy in tight binding; brown cloth with bright gilt titles on spine. This is a comprehensive study of a major figure of the modern movement, in whose work philosophy, architecture and painting are inextricably entwined. Number 10 in the Cambridge Urban and Architectural Studies Series. Hard to find in this condition.

    Stock ID: 21751
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  • Third Generation. The Changing Meaning of Architecture by DREW Philip
    DREW Philip
    Third Generation. The Changing Meaning of Architecture

    London Pall Mall Press 1972

    176pp. b/w ills throughout. Red cloth boards with white titles. Missing dust wrapper, a section of which is slipped into the book. Ex Library copy from the Department of the Environment Library. Covers a little grubby else good.

    Stock ID: 22704
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  • WATKIN David
    Thomas Hope and the Neoclassical Revival

    John Murray 1968

    316pp illus. with b/w plates. Vg in dust wrapper. Important study of the life and work of Thomas Hope who prescribed classicism in design but who Watkins reveals as a romantic at heart.

    Stock ID: 20790
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  • [STONE MASONRY] CUNNINGHAM. W., KNOOP, Douglas and JONES, G.P.
    Three pamphlets bound together: Notes on the Organization of the Mason's Craft in England by W Cunningham; The London Mason's Company and The Rise of the Mason Contractor, both by Knoop and Jones

    London, Humphry Milford, Oxford University Press for the British Academy 1913, A Reprint from Economic History 1939 and another reprint from the RIBA Journal 1936

    Three items bound in modern green cloth with original wrappers bound in. The first pamphlet 11pp, the second paginated pp157-166 and the third 24pp, all with detailed footnotes. Fascinating group of pamphlets relating to stone masonry the last of which is particularly useful for the rise of the building trades.

    Stock ID: 21727
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  • TILDEN, Philip.
    True Remembrances: the memoirs of an architect

    London Country Life 1954

    175pp illus. with c50 plates incl. major schemes by Tilden such as his scheme at Port Lympe begun by Herbert Baker, un-built work for Selfridge, Chartwell, Saltwell Castle and other projects. Only major account of his work. Good copy with slightly worn dust wrapper.

    Stock ID: 21947
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  • [SCARFE, Norman]
    Two autographed letters signed on postcards and two photographs with annotations

    2004

    ALS to Gavin Stamp dated 29 May 2004 and 22 June 2004 1. Written on the back of a postcard featuring Leeds, St Johns the Evangelist with PS note mentioning it was to be totally refurbished from 17th July. Text concerns recollections, the architect J H Parker in the initial lines but moves on to Normandy churches recalled from when Scarfe was there in the war. Recounts the murder of 20 Canadian POWS at the HW of Kurt Meyer in WWII and his subsequent death in prison after the Nuremberg Trials. 2. Second Card, written from 3 Burkitt Road, Woodbridge when he sent Gavin Stamp the two photographs which are of Calvados. These were sent to thank him…

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    2004

    ALS to Gavin Stamp dated 29 May 2004 and 22 June 2004 1. Written on the back of a postcard featuring Leeds, St Johns the Evangelist with PS note mentioning it was to be totally refurbished from 17th July. Text concerns recollections, the architect J H Parker in the initial lines but moves on to Normandy churches recalled from when Scarfe was there in the war. Recounts the murder of 20 Canadian POWS at the HW of Kurt Meyer in WWII and his subsequent death in prison after the Nuremberg Trials. 2. Second Card, written from 3 Burkitt Road, Woodbridge when he sent Gavin Stamp the two photographs which are of Calvados. These were sent to thank him for sending a copy of the JSAH article on High Victorian Gothic.

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    Stock ID: 22261
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  • Village Housing in the Tropics by DREW Jane and FRY Maxwell in collaboration with FORD Harry L.
    DREW Jane and FRY Maxwell in collaboration with FORD Harry L.
    Village Housing in the Tropics with special reference to West Africa

    London Lund Humphries [1947] 1953

    134pp illustrated with b/w plates and line ills. long 8vo. Decorated wrappers. Defines the issues surrounding new build houses for tropical areas covering house design, layout of village, services and landscape conservation and tree planting. Hard to find. Written with colonial overtones and with the end papers showing the Colonies as they then were, the book itself, written whilst Fry had a posting in West Africa, was a key publication in considering the role of architects and planners in Africa. It adopts a blanket approach to housing in tropical environments but was the start of the duos interest in the subject and by 1956 they had revised their view to be more locally relevant…

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    London Lund Humphries [1947] 1953

    134pp illustrated with b/w plates and line ills. long 8vo. Decorated wrappers. Defines the issues surrounding new build houses for tropical areas covering house design, layout of village, services and landscape conservation and tree planting. Hard to find. Written with colonial overtones and with the end papers showing the Colonies as they then were, the book itself, written whilst Fry had a posting in West Africa, was a key publication in considering the role of architects and planners in Africa. It adopts a blanket approach to housing in tropical environments but was the start of the duos interest in the subject and by 1956 they had revised their view to be more locally relevant across the tropical world and they promoted distinctiveness by culture and country. Their shift in views was reflected in a second book on housing in the tropics and humid zones.

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    Stock ID: 22193
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  • DARLEY GIllian
    Villages of Vision

    London The Architectural Press Ltd 1975

    152pp illustrated with b/w plates. Large 4to. Very good with good dust wrapper. Hard to find and comprehensive study of model settlements in the UK, particularly Estate Villages. It throws light upon the ideas of philanthropy which surrounded their construction and many important aspects of rural social history. Useful gazetteer at the end. Ownership signature of the late "Stewart Evans" on front end paper.

    Stock ID: 21258
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  • Vladivostok by HEJDUK, John. SHKAPICH, Kim [editor]
    HEJDUK, John. SHKAPICH, Kim [editor]
    Vladivostok A Trilogy

    New York Rizzoli International Publications, 1989

    272pp illustrated. Decorated wrappers. Small stain on upper wrapper else a very good copy Text in English and Russian. Loosely inserted is an invitation to a memorial to him to be held at The Cooper Union Foundation Building and an associated printed letter sent out to Alumni.

    Stock ID: 21688
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  • William Burges and the High Victorian Dream by (BURGES William) CROOK J Mordaunt
    (BURGES William) CROOK J Mordaunt
    William Burges and the High Victorian Dream

    London John Murray, 1981

    454 pages illustrated with b/w plates. Fine in Fine dust wrapper. First edition of this comprehensive reference book on William Burges. Scarce.

    Stock ID: 22450
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  • (BURGES William) CROOK J Mordaunt
    William Burges and the High Victorian Dream

    London John Murray, 1981

    454 pages illustrated with b/w plates. Slightly shop soiled but very Good in Fine dust wrapper. First edition of this comprehensive reference book on William Burges.

    Stock ID: 22702
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  • William Richard Lethaby by (LETHABY) RUBENS Geoffrey
    (LETHABY) RUBENS Geoffrey
    William Richard Lethaby

    The Architectural Press 1986

    320pp illus. with b/w plates and line ills. Major assessment of Lethaby's multi faceted carer as an architect, conservationist and educationalist. Square 4to. Very good in dust wrapper.

    Stock ID: 22039
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  • PRICE Cedric
    Works II

    London, Architectural Association 1984

    116pp with b/w sketches, diagrams and photographs throughout. Square 4to in wraps, Very small chip at head of spine else a very good copy. A scarce collection of writings by Price and others, outlining his philosophy and considering some of his major projects. The architect's frenetic sketches and tabbed pages make this an interesting piece of design as well as a valuable first hand account of this prominent member of Archigram. Published to accompany an exhibition held at the Architectural Association in 1984.

    Stock ID: 21503
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