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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: 22568More details Price: £45.00 -
The Search for Environment: The Garden City before and after
New Haven & London: Yale University Press 1966
360pp illus. with b/w plates and line ills. Sm 4to. Vg in slightly worn dw. Detailed study of Garden City principles and the suburbs and developments these spawned. Comprehensive assessment of a subject about which there are few detailed modern studies.
Stock ID: 13477More details Price: £70.00 -
The Slide Rule and How to Use it
Containing Full, and Simple Instructions to Perform All Business Calculations with Unexampled Rapidity and Accuracy
London Crosby Lockwood & Co. 1890 (1867)
Sixth Edition with a Slide Rule in Tuck of Cover. vi + 104pp +16pp list of Weale's Series Titles + 48pp Crosby Lockwood Titles. Includes original Slide Rule which is in very good condition. Brown blind stamped cloth boards with new cloth spine. Sympathetically rebound. down on cover. An attractive copy of this useful work book.
Stock ID: 22453More details Price: £20.00 -
The Smaller English House of the Later Renaissance 1660-1830: an account of its design, plan and details.
London B T Batsford 1925
ix, 286pp. 250 b/w photographic plates, illustrations and text diagrams. Original green embossed cloth, gilt lettering. Very good indeed with sl.torn dust wrapper. Beautifully produced account of the smaller house, its construction and details. Lovely photographs and line ills.
Stock ID: 10807More details Price: £50.00 -
The Story of Montacute and its House
London: Country Life limited 1933
36pp, illus with 25 b/w plates + (3)pp plans of the house. With notes on the heraldry at Montacute by Oswald Barron. Cloth backed boards. 8vo. Very good copy. Ellaborate slip case with red morocco and gold tooling has protected this copy.
Stock ID: 3932More details Price: £40.00 -
The Timeless Way of Building
Oxford University Press 1979
552pp illus with b/w plates thoughout. Vg in slightly worn dw. Introductory volume in the Center for Environmental Studies series presenting his theory of architecture, planning and building. Hard to find.
Stock ID: 16247More details Price: £35.00 -
The Villages of England
London B.T. Batsford 1932
xii + 51pp + 106 b/w photo plates + 29pp Batsford Catalogue. From the library of Alec Clifton-Taylor, with his signature in ink to fep. Loosley inserted hand written notes by A. C.-T. referring to points in the text. Annotations and underlinings in pencil throughout. Also loosely inserted although this is listed in the Contents, a Geological Map, annotated in pencil. A regional survey of the villages of England with a section on place-names. Green cloth. This slightly faded
Stock ID: 15024More details Price: £35.00 -
The Waldorf Astoria, New York
New York Letter Press American Lithographic Co. 1903
Unpaginated. [ 62pp] Paper wraps. Gold embossed title on upper cover. Landscape octavo. H19.8cm x W23.3cm First 8 pages, text, highlighting points of special interest for visitors, alongside available facilities at the hotel. Remainder of book, black and white photographs taken by George C. Boldt documenting the bedrooms, public and service areas of the hotel. A fascinating and illuminating item. Wraps a bit age worn and foxed, and all edges chipped. Internally, some foxing throughout and the latter pages are torn at the bottom right corner, approx, 2-4cm. Images and text not affected by these age appropriate flaws however. Very scarce.
Stock ID: 22759More details Price: £125.00 -
The work of Frei Otto and his teams 1955-1976
IL special issue devoted to the exhibition organized in 1971 by the Museum of Modern Art, New York
Stuttgart : Institut für Leichte Flächentragwerke 1978
64 p. ill. Long 4to. 210 x 280mm. Decorated wrappers. Text in English. Useful study of his tensile structures around the world. Nicely produced.
Stock ID: 15900More details Price: £48.00 -
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: 22709More details Price: £45.00 -
The Workhouse: A Study of Poor-Law Buildings in England
Swindon English Heritage/Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England 1999
xi + 255pp, b/w photographs, line illus., maps, plans. 4to. Very good in very good dw. A record of workhouses in Britain with descriptions of the buildings themselves set against their historical background. An authoritative study of a poorly understood category of building suitable for both architectural and social historians
Stock ID: 23362More details Price: £85.00 -
Theater und Lichtspielhauser
Berlin Verlag Ernst Wasmuth 1926
177pp illustrated with 100s of b/w plates and some plans. Text in German. Key book for early theatre and cinema designs. Designers represented include Hans Poelzig, Oskar Kaufmann, Henry van de Velder, Max Littmann, Walter Gropius, A and H Perret. Large 4to. Gilt decorated red open weave cloth with gilt titles. Good copy but with some tiny paint spatters on cloth. Ownership name of Keith Murray faintly written on front end paper.
Stock ID: 23059More details Price: £220.00 -
Theatrum Mundi
London Architectural Association 1985
Mega I.16pp, , 12 colour plates, 270x340mm Theatrum Mundi is a series of 12 abstract colour plates that give visual form to a premonition of the future as a city besieged by an unknown infection. . Minor shop wear on dust jacket.
Stock ID: 22747More details Price: £185.00 -
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: 22704More details Price: £26.00 -
Thomas Hope and the Neoclassical Revival
John Murray 1968
316pp illus. with b/w plates. Vg in slightly worn dust wrapper. Important study of the life and work of Thomas Hope who prescribed classicism in design but who Watkin reveals as a romantic at heart.
Stock ID: 20790More details Price: £40.00 -
Timber Buildings for the Country
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".
Stock ID: 16863More details Price: £40.00 -
Towers and Colonnades: the Architecture of Cuthbert Brodrick
Leeds, Philocophical and Literary Society 1999
163 pp with 148 colour and b/w illustrations. Square 4to, wraps, vg indeed. Study of the work of Brodrick (1821-1905) the Victorian architect best known for Leeds Town Hall and a key figure in articulating the identity of industrial towns. Illustrated with a wide selection of his drawings and plans. Signed by the author on half title.
Stock ID: 23448More details Price: £35.00 -
Tradition & Modernity in Plasterwork
London G. Jackson & Sons Ltd. 1928
B/W frontis, 63pp, 48 b/w photographic illustrations, Cntrasting white and blue boards with lettered titles and gilt roundel of George Jackson (1766-1840) on front board. 4to Weaver's concise account of the work of George Jackson & Sons which began with plasterwork for Robert Adam and was to continue evolving new techniques and skills into the late 20th Century. Very good copy.
Stock ID: 23643More details Price: £80.00 -
Transformation
London RIBA Publications 2011
166pp illustrated with colour plates. Large square 4to. Grey boards, white lettered spine, embossed titles on boards. Very good indeed. Review of the projects of the firm since it got going in 1993. Useful for the first projects of this firm which focuses on reuse and reinvention of buildings.
Stock ID: 23646More details Price: £48.00 -
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: 21947More details Price: £40.00
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