Architecture

  • Sketches in York: by BEDFORD, Francis. Jnr. 1816-1894]
    BEDFORD, Francis. Jnr. 1816-1894]
    Sketches in York:

    York: H. Smith., n.d c1840 -1845.

    First edition. Original cloth binding with gilt lettered spine and gilt lettering to front board. 14 tinted lithographic plates, including title page. Large 4to. Spine in poor and friable condition. Gilt lettering still readable but most of the rest of the spine is chipped or missing. Boards good. Internally good except last three plates are badly foxed. Tissue guards to some plates. The plates include: York Cathedral from the South East, North West/West Front/The Nave/The Choir (4 separate plates); St Mary's Abbey; Monk Bar; Walmgate Bar; Micklegate Bar; Bootham Bar; Castle Yard; Water Lane. Francis Bedford, son of an architect, began his career as an architectural draughtsman and lithographer, before taking up photography.…

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    York: H. Smith., n.d c1840 -1845.

    First edition. Original cloth binding with gilt lettered spine and gilt lettering to front board. 14 tinted lithographic plates, including title page. Large 4to. Spine in poor and friable condition. Gilt lettering still readable but most of the rest of the spine is chipped or missing. Boards good. Internally good except last three plates are badly foxed. Tissue guards to some plates. The plates include: York Cathedral from the South East, North West/West Front/The Nave/The Choir (4 separate plates); St Mary's Abbey; Monk Bar; Walmgate Bar; Micklegate Bar; Bootham Bar; Castle Yard; Water Lane. Francis Bedford, son of an architect, began his career as an architectural draughtsman and lithographer, before taking up photography. JISC Library hub lists 4 locations where the title is held. Hard to find.

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  • Small Country Houses of Today Volume 1 by WEAVER Lawrence
    WEAVER Lawrence
    Small Country Houses of Today Volume 1

    London: Country Life., 1910

    (xi1), 214 pp. 10pp period ads. Illsutrated with 100s of black and white photographic illustrations, 4to. Good copy a little faded on spine else very good. Hard to find in this condition. Useful study of contemporary country houses designs. The first of a series of volumes on small houses.

    Stock ID: 22129
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  • Some Dorset Manor Houses by HEATH, Sidney and PRIDEAUX, W.de. C.
    HEATH, Sidney and PRIDEAUX, W.de. C.
    Some Dorset Manor Houses With their Literary and Historical Associations

    London Bemrose and Sons Ltd 1907

    Illustrated with Forty Drawings by Sidney Heath and Rubbings from Sepulchral Brasses by W. De. D. Prideaux. Red cloth covered boards with gilt lettering. Top edge gilt. Large 4to. Upper board faded on one corner. Spine also marginally faded. Corners a little bumped and some general, random foxing particularly through early pages of the book. A couple of the b/w plates are loose. Good. And a comprehensive overview of most of the houses in the county. Bookplate of Josceline Grove on front paste down.

    Stock ID: 22691
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  • TERRY, Quinlan.
    St Mary's Paddington Green

    1973

    Limited edition print 45 of 75 W 570mm x H 630mm. Lino cut. Very good.

    Stock ID: 23566
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  • Stephen Dykes Bower by SYMONDSON, Anthony
    SYMONDSON, Anthony
    Stephen Dykes Bower

    London RIBA Publishing 2011

    Twentieth Century Architects Series. Foreword by Alan Powers. Colour and black and white images throughout. Soft cover. Paper wraps. Very good. Ink mark from printer/end of paper roll on upper and verso of inside cover, else looks unread.

    Stock ID: 22700
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  • BARRETT Helena and PHILLIPS John
    Suburban Style: The British Home 1840-1960

    London Guild Publishing 1987

    224pp illus with b/w plates and line ills. Square 4to. Vg in wrappers. Useful and very well illustrated overview on all the elements of the suurban houses and its details including fittings and fixtures. More than 300 photographs with 100 in colour. List of sockists for elements at the back.

    Stock ID: 22213
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  • [SULGRAVE MANOR] SMITH, H Clifford
    Sulgrave Manor and the Washingtons: a history and guide to the tudor home of George Washington's Ancestors

    London Jonathan Cape 1933

    260pp illus with cxvpp b/w plates and further text ills. 4to. Gilt lettered and green cloth. Some pages uncut. Foreword by Viscount Lee of Fareham. Corners sl. rubbed else very good copy. Bookpate of Josceline Grove on front paste down and a description of the book pasted-down onto f.e.p. Detailed account of the house and garden and its purchase and in 1914.

    Stock ID: 22655
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  • STOCKER, David & EVERSON, Paul.
    Summoning St Michael, Early Romanesque Towers in Lincolnshire

    Oxford Oxbow Books 2006

    309 pp, extensive black and white illustrations, maps, photographs, and drawings. 4to. Cloth with paste down label on upper board. Very good but bottom corner bumped. A scholarly although accessible study in excellent condition of the group of 60 churches in Lincolnshire built in the 11th century nearly all of which have distinctive west towers that are the subject of this book.

    Stock ID: 23703
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  • Sydney Opera House Glass Walls by (UTZON) SOWDEN, Harry.
    (UTZON) SOWDEN, Harry.
    Sydney Opera House Glass Walls

    London Cassell & Co. Ltd (1972, New York) 1974

    192 pp. b/w photographs, architectural drawings, maps and plans throughout. Long 4to. White cloth boards with black lettering, in decorated glassine dust wrapper. Good copy although slight discolouration at cloth edges and glassine wrapper has tears at spine and partly missing against back board. Photographic record of the design and manufacture of the Sydney Opera House glass walls, carried out by the author during their construction. The design won the Engineering Excellence Award of 1972 by the Association of Consulting Engineers of Australia. With detailed captions and brief descriptive chapters. From the library of Winston Barnett Architects, with ownership ticket inside front cover.

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  • Tatlin by ZHADOVA ALEKSEEVNA Larissa (Edited by)
    ZHADOVA ALEKSEEVNA Larissa (Edited by)
    Tatlin

    London Thames and Hudson 1988

    533pp b/w + colour illustrations. 4to. Black cloth boards with red embossed title on the spine + embossed publisher's logo on the upper board. Illustrated dust wrapper, slightly rubbed in places else a very good copy. An extensive analysis of Tatlin's work with over 500 colour and b/w illustrations. Foreword by K. M. Simonov, a speech that opened Tatlin's exhibition in Moscow 1977.

    Stock ID: 21676
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  • (FARRELL) TOBIN Jane
    Ten Years Ten Cities: The Work of Terry Farrell and Partners 1991-2001

    Laurence King Publishing, 2002

    320pp illustrated. Large 4to. Fine in dw. As new. A review of worldwide city projects with 1000 colour illustrations. Each of the ten chapters is devoted to a city where TFP have worked on a large scale project -from Beijing, Edinburgh and Hong Kong to Lisbon, London, Sydney and Seoul.

    Stock ID: 7662
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  • Thames House by the New Lambeth Bridge by [THAMES HOUSE] BAINES, Sir Frank (Architect) WORMALD, Charles photographs by
    [THAMES HOUSE] BAINES, Sir Frank (Architect) WORMALD, Charles photographs by
    Thames House by the New Lambeth Bridge

    London Undated c1929

    Metal spiral bound. Stiff card wrappers which when opened out show a panorama of the New Lambeth Bridge and its relationship to Thames House. 240 x340mm Promotional booklet produced at the time of initial construction a description of the buildings which could be used to promote it office accommodation. 40 sepia photographs with captions. Shows parts of the building furnished and unfurnished. Effectively the whole building was two blocks linked by a bridge structure. At the time of publication, the offices of Pearson and Dorman Long Limited and the International Nickel Company of Canada Limited were in occupation. Their suites are illustrated. Thames House served as the ICI Headquarters till 1994. Part has been occupied by MI5.

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  • [THAMESMEAD PLAN]
    Thamesmead - three related pamphlets 21mm x 300mm folded extending to 420x600mm.

    London Printed for Greater London Council at the Curwen Press no date c 1960

    THAMESMEAD: Three fold out pamphlets on the project: 1. Thames Mead Structure: Master Plan. Folds out to reveal the plan of the site. Verso summarises proposals. 2. Thamesmead: Aerial view of a model of the proposed development. Verso is a location map in relation to central London 3. Thames Mead Movement: Folds out to reveal plan of proposed routeways around the site. Summary of proposals on verso. Each of the three pamphlets are in contrasting colours, Blue, Brown and Green. Have been folded. A good summary overview of this important London expansion proposal. Thamesmead is a social housing estate built in the mid 1960s in…

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    London Printed for Greater London Council at the Curwen Press no date c 1960

    THAMESMEAD: Three fold out pamphlets on the project: 1. Thames Mead Structure: Master Plan. Folds out to reveal the plan of the site. Verso summarises proposals. 2. Thamesmead: Aerial view of a model of the proposed development. Verso is a location map in relation to central London 3. Thames Mead Movement: Folds out to reveal plan of proposed routeways around the site. Summary of proposals on verso. Each of the three pamphlets are in contrasting colours, Blue, Brown and Green. Have been folded. A good summary overview of this important London expansion proposal. Thamesmead is a social housing estate built in the mid 1960s in outer Lnondon. It is situated on former marshland on the south of the Thames that was once part of the Woolwich Arsenal. When it was developed, the Thamesmead design offered a revolutionary city within a city, providing much needed affordable homes with parks and amenities, all designed in keeping with the Brutalist aesthetic.

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    Stock ID: 23433
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  • The American Vitruvius: The Architect's Handbook of Civic Art. by HEGEMANN Werner, & PEETS Elbert,
    HEGEMANN Werner, & PEETS Elbert,
    The American Vitruvius: The Architect's Handbook of Civic Art.

    New York The Architectural Book Publishing Company, 1922

    298pp, with 1203 figs (high-quality photos, line illustrations, plans, maps etc.,), bibliography. Gilt lettered cloth. 410x310mm. Folio. Fine in very good dust wrapper. First edition. The American Vitruvius refers extensively to European design, taking many examples from Hegemann's earlier book on the Berlin 1910 exhibition. Hegemann spent his career between Germany and the USA. Initially working in the USA immediately after World War I, he advised on the planning of Boston. He returned to Germany but ultimately fled on the rise to power of Hitler. Beautifully illustrated book .

    Stock ID: 19538
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  • [GENT, Thomas]
    The Ancient and Modern History of the Famous City of York and in a particular manner of its Magnificent Cathedral commonly call'd York Minster. The whole diligently collected by T. G.

    York Sold by Thomas Hammond Jun. Bookseller in Hight Ousegate; at the Printing Office in Coffee-Yard York and by A Bettesworth in Pater Noster Row, London 1730

    viii, 256 + [8]pp addenda which includes a list of subscribers. Illustrated with two-fold out frontispieces, one map and View of York + woodcut text illustrations and one tipped in plate." The Monument of Richard Grimston, Priest in St Nicholas's Church" as a separate woodcut. Note in pencil on fep saying this is the true first edition which is variant from other versions of a similar date. Bookplate of John Rhodes [John N. Rhodes, a Yorkshire Painter 1809-1842,?] on paste down and David and Catherine Green 1964 on front end paper. Full…

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    York Sold by Thomas Hammond Jun. Bookseller in Hight Ousegate; at the Printing Office in Coffee-Yard York and by A Bettesworth in Pater Noster Row, London 1730

    viii, 256 + [8]pp addenda which includes a list of subscribers. Illustrated with two-fold out frontispieces, one map and View of York + woodcut text illustrations and one tipped in plate." The Monument of Richard Grimston, Priest in St Nicholas's Church" as a separate woodcut. Note in pencil on fep saying this is the true first edition which is variant from other versions of a similar date. Bookplate of John Rhodes [John N. Rhodes, a Yorkshire Painter 1809-1842,?] on paste down and David and Catherine Green 1964 on front end paper. Full calf, gilt titles, raised bands. Later, possibly early 19th century, binding. No. LX In Boyne's The Yorkshire Library.

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    Stock ID: 23776
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  • The Architecture of Colin Campbell by (CAMPBELL) STUTCHBURY Howard E
    (CAMPBELL) STUTCHBURY Howard E
    The Architecture of Colin Campbell

    Manchester University Press 1967

    186pp + 141 plates in b/w grouped at the end of the text. Small 4to. Cloth. Very good in sl. worn dw with tiny chip on front cover . Best known for Vitruvius Britannicus, Campbell had a wide ranging architectural career besides and this book is concerned with his significance as the first Georgian Palladian. Hard to find.

    Stock ID: 22448
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  • The Architecture of George G Pace by PACE Peter
    PACE Peter
    The Architecture of George G Pace

    London: B T Batsford, 1990

    288 pages, 300 b&w and 14 colour photographs, 100 line drawings and plans plus bibliography and references. Boards in dust jacket, vg. A detailed account of the built and written works of the 20th-century architect, George G Pace. Many of Pace's ideas raise issues at the heart of today's debates about modern architecture and design, and this volume throws light on the fundamentals of church architecture and furnishings from new churches to conserving ancient cathedrals. Includes a useful gazetteer of projects. The author, Peter Pace, is George Pace's son, and is himself an architect specialising in the conservation of churches and other ancient buildings.

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  • The Architecture of Norman England by FERNIE, Eric.
    FERNIE, Eric.
    The Architecture of Norman England

    Oxford, The University Press 200

    xviii, 352 pp, 196 black and white photographs and 4 colour photographs. Large quarto. Very good. Comprehensive on the architecture of Norman England.

    Stock ID: 23363
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  • [BADRAN] STEELE James.
    The Architecture of Rasem Badran

    London Thames and Hudson 2005

    256pp, 360 illustrations, 348 in colour. Very good with dust wrapper. Huge illustrated tome on the work of Badran which includes some of his Award winning projects.

    Stock ID: 23783
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  • [NEUTRA] DREXLER Arthur & HINES Thomas S
    The Architecture of Richard Neutra from International Style to California Modern

    New York MOMA 1982

    114pp illustrated with b/w plates throughout. Square 4to. Wrappers. A little worn on the wrappers else very good.

    Stock ID: 22741
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