London Country Llife Limited 1923

vi +65pp illustrated with b/w plates + [8]pp period ads. Small 8vo. Paper covered boards with pasted down on upper wrapper. A good copy. Sequel to "he house you want" this book is a a first aid manual for repairs to house and objects and ranges between upholstery to mending Staffordshire pottery at home as well as more down to earth kinds of things like removing stains. Fascinating period piece.

London Country Llife Limited 1922

viii + 56pp illustrated with b/w plates + [2]pp period ads. Small 8vo. Paper covered boards with pasted down on upper wrapper. A little worn at edges else good copy. Unusual structure for a book on house design where the dialogues look at every aspect of construction and fitting out and the garden too through notional discussions with the buildier, engineer, painter and decorator, furnishing expert, house wife, gardener etc.

London RIBA Heinz Gallery 1988

34pp illus with b/w plates and including a bibliography of Comper's writings. Square small 4to. Wrappers. Good copy of this little book to accompany an exhibition but one essential for understanding his life and work.

London Printed for Richard Adams at Dryde's Head, Holborn Barrs and John Wren, at the Brible and Crown 1750

2nd edition.(ii), xvii, [i], 389 +[1]pp, 32 plates. 8vo. New spine, gilt rulings and red spine label. Original boards. Very good copy. The book was written "for the use of gentlemen, stewards and workmen in general, and particularly for such landlords and tenants who are subject to the repairs of buildings" Harris, 460. In part produced to reduce fraud in building trade.

London, Country Life Limited and New York,Charles Schribner 1950

Three volumes folio + the quarto volume on the Life of Edwin Lutyens. 4 volumes in total. Green bevelled edged buckram with red titles and all with dust wrappers. Very good set from the collection of Henry Potts. The dust wrapper are dusty and with some foxing but all present. Some fraying on the dust wrappers at the heads of the spines. Volume 1 Domestic Architecture, Volume 2 Gardens, New Delhi etc. Volume 3 Town & Public Buildings; Memorials including the Metropolitan Cathedral, Liverpool. All illustrated with b/w plates, line ills, plans and diagrams. The Life is quarto, pp. xxii. 602pp illus with portrait frontispiece.

Chester Hugh Roberts, Catherall and Prichard 1858

vi, [3]-16, 40 p., [10] leaves of plates (1 folded) : ill., plans Original blind stamped cloth, gilt lettering. Illustrated by engravings by J H Le Keux, O Jewitt. From the library of Gerald Cobb, with his signature in pencil dated 11/09/53. Cloth a little rubbed else good copy. The sections in the book cover the city itself including the walls and castle, St John's Church, The Cathedral, the Abbey Wall. Very attractive item.

Oxford The University of Oxford 1998

132pp, b/w ills with captions. 4to illustrated wrappers, perfect binding. Small chip to the head of the spine else vg. Loosely inserted a.l.s on behalf of Malcom Airs to Gavin Stamp. Ex libris Gavin Stamp, with his bookplate.

Faber and Faber 1947

182pp illustrated with b/w photographs and line ills. Cloth sl. sunned along top of board else good copy. Frayed dust wrapper present Important study on inter war and immediately post war design for public houses.

London W Watts 1779

Obong 4to. 84 engraved numbered plates with descriptions. 4pp of subscribers at the end. Plate 1 has marginal worming . Contemporary black morocco, gilt decorated spine with title and rulings, Rebacked to make a very good copy. One additional unnumbered plate after title page illustrating Pierremont del. by J Wright.

London Twentieth Century Architecture 2002

144pp b/w ills with captions. 4to pictorial wrappers. vg. Issued by the 20th Century Society.

London Geoffrey Bles 1935

xii, 41p., 17 leaves of plates : ill. (one col.), portraits. Quarto, Cream vellum spine, gilt lettering, red cloth covered boards. Recalls the house in its heyday and provides some details of its architecture which involved Smirke, Benjamin Wyatt and Charles Barry. It was hailed as one of the finest palaces of London. The Crown lease of Stafford House was sold back to the Crown in 1912 by the 4th Duke of Sutherland when it still had about 28 years of the lease still to run. It subsequently became Lancaster House and the London Museum. It is now a government building used for grand receptions. From the library of Gavin Stamp with his bookplate.

London Office Of 'The Engineer', 1894

Frontispiece +106pp with 6 folding plates at rear, 62 figures. Quarto. Green gilt lettered cloth. Decorated end papers. Slightly rubbed at head and base of spine else very good copy. Tower Bridge was the creation of architect Sir Horace Jones and civil engineer Sir John Wolfe Barry. It took eight years to complete and was officially opened on 30 June 1894 by the Prince and Princess of Wales This is a very useful technical account of the bridge construction by Tuit who was 'Engineer to Sir William Arrol and Co., one of the firms of Contractors for the bridge construction.

Oxford University Department for Continuing Education 2002

200pp, colour + b/w ills with captions. 4to perfect bound illustrated wrappers.

London Country Life Ltd. 1931

111pp text + 267pp plates in b/w. 4to. Open weave cloth which is sl. worn at edge. Repaired at head and base of the spine to make a good copy. Exhaustive on this "Scottish" Lutyens. Important monograph covering his architectural work, furniture and designs for metalwork etc.

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.

London: Country Life 1938

96pp with b/w plates and line ills. 8vo. Cloth boards. Decorated dust wrapper, worn at edges, else vg. Contains photographs and plans of cottages, sports pavilions, village halls, garages and garden structures which can be best built in timber. Includes examples from England, the USA Scandinavia Denmark Germany and Austria. Scarce. Uniform with this volume the following titles were published: Timber Houses, Seaside Houses and Bungalows and most frequently seen "Houses for Moderate Means".

Bethersden, Kent W.H. Colt and Sons, 1957-8

48pp illustrated with b/w plates showing interiors and exteriors of houses and others timber structures this firm supplied + plans and diagrams. Details of contracts and costs also given. Long 8vo. Very good copy. Supplier of permanent timber houses established in the inter-war period. Loosely inserted price list included. In some cases architects are noted. Important company for the development of housing using standard components constructed off site. With current debate on the U values of present day housing it is interesting to observe that on the 2nd page the insulation of the houses they designed is discussed.

Bethersden, Kent W.H. Colt and Sons, 1955

36 illustrated with b/w plates showing interiors and exteriors of houses and others timber structures this firm supplied + plans and diagrams. Details of contracts and costs also given. Long 8vo. Very good copy but one image clipped from the last page. Supplier of permanent timber houses established in the inter-war period. Loosely inserted price list included. In some cases architects are noted. Important company for the development of housing using standard components constructed off site. With current debate on the U values of present day housing it is interesting to observe that on the 2nd page the insulation of the houses they designed is discussed.