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Sketches in York:
Stock ID: 23764More details Price: £200.00 -
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.
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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.
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St Mary's Paddington Green
1973
Limited edition print 45 of 75 W 570mm x H 630mm. Lino cut. Very good.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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.
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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.
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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 - three related pamphlets
21mm x 300mm folded extending to 420x600mm.
Stock ID: 23433More details Price: £30.00
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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 .
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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.
Stock ID: 23776More details Price: £340.00
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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.
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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
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.
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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.
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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: 22741More details Price: £20.00


