London Rupert Hart-Davis, 1956.

(x) 248pp illustrated with 8 b/w photo lithographic plates. Very good with very good dust wrapper. Lady Emily wrote these letters whilst being brought up in Lisbon. She went on to become became the wife of the architect Edwin Lutyens. In her own right she was a English theosophist and writer and an advocate for vegetarianism and socialism.

London Hodder and Stoughton 1904

Unpaginated. c176 + viipp illus with colour plates and many b/w plates. Period ads to last7 pages. 4to. Decorated open weave cloth. Restored and bound in 2020 by Paul Berry, Abbey Book Bindery orverlaying the original floppy bindings onto boards. Makes a very good copy. Essays contributed by W H Bidlake, Halsey Ricardo and John Cash. Discuss exterior and interior of the home, furniture, decorative essentials and sanitation. A companion volume to The Modern Home: A book of British Domestic Architecture for Moderate Incomes.

London SPCK 1925

Xvi + 235pp. xxxi tipped in sepia plates illustrate the text. 8vo. Green cloth covered boards with gilt lettering on spine. A little dusty and book block slightly foxed, else good.

London T. Werner Laurie Ltd 1926

Colour frontispiece with tissue guard. Viii + 398pp. Last four pages uncut. 79 illustrations, 8 of these in colour. Map of Italy embossed onto front paste down. Blue end papers match the dust wrapper. This with past down colour illustration of Bergamo's Santa Maria Maggiore. Beneath this, blue cloth covered boards with gilt titling on spine and upper board along with elaborate ironwork design. Top edge of book block, is blue with other edges uncut. Dustwrapper a little bumped along top edge else a fine copy of this comprehensive text. Originally printed as three separate volumes, reissued in this new complete volume in 1926

New York, Tokyo & Kyoto Weatherhill/Tankosha 1978

Second printing. 279 pp illustrated. Large quarto, Contrasting cloth binding with overprinted clear plastic wrapper in very good condition. Text by Teiji Itoh with photographs by Yukio Futagawa and translated from the Japanese by Richard L. Gage. Together with 206 pages of illustrations 161 in black-and-white gravure, 8 in colour and 37 of detailed architectural drawings – this is an authoritative study of modern Japanese architecture and the style in which it found it's culminating expression.

Oxford Butterworth Heinneman 1991

xii, 447 pp., 598 illustrations, 30 in colour. 4to. Very good in slightly worn dust wrapper. Published in association with the University of Stirling. This book was produced as the first complete catalogue of their executed works. Birthday dedication on the half title in neat hand.

London The Architectural Press 1938

First edition120pp illus with b/w plates including plans and elevations of the modern school. Large 4to. Open weave cloth. Slightly dusty at edges else a bright copy of this survey of contemporary school design thoughout the UK. Despite thte title the text also covers junior and senior schools. Useful case studies.

London Thames and Hudson 1974

190pp illus with 383 b/w illus. Book to accompany an exhibition concerned with the future of the heritage. Small 4to. Wraps version. Very good copy. Cover design is Halunby Hall, Yorkshire. Important for the gazetteer of lost properties it includes.

Worksop Pirvately printed 1904

452pp illustrated. 4to. Brown cloth, gilt titles on upper board. Spine slightly faded and with some water marks. Bookplate of Josceline Grove, along with his description of the book on front paste down. Internally very good. With crisp illustrations. Notes on the Barony of Grove, Nottinghamshire and a letter about the cost of the book loosely slipped into the pages. Robert White ( born 1820 ) of Worksop was a renowned author and biographer famous for his directories and histories of Nottinghamshire. This publication is a valuable compendium of ancient topographical information on Nottinghamshire which was much altered by the spread of industrialisation and the impact of the motorcar.

South Illinois University Press 1960

232pp illustrated with b/w plates and line illustrations. Small 4to. Decorated end papers. With two loosely inserted headed pieces of writing paper from Robert Matthew 31 Regent Terrace Edinburgh which are covered in sketches relating to geodesic dome designs in black pen. Also loosely inserted is a press cutting on Buckminster Fuller from Building Design 2005. From the library of Robert Matthew. Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion structures, are those that yield the greatest possible efficiency in terms of available technology. His inventions included a Dymaxion car, Geodesic Domes, and dwellings. Useful review and critique of his philosophies and works.

Oxford. Phaidon.1979.

315pp with 398 b/w plates, 11 line drawings and 2 maps. Orig. red cloth, gilt. 4to. Vg in very good dust wrapper. Lectures given in 1969 and trace the development of the decorated style. Very significant study by Bony who life long study has been the Romanesque and Gothic Architecture in England and France.

Batsford, London, 1912.

234 pp. 130 collotype plates by W Galsworthy Davie, and many illustrations in the text. Blue blind embossed buckram boards. Only edition. A little faded on the spine.

London: Aurum Press 1999

192 with 200 high quality duotone photographs dating from 1897-1939. 4to. Cloth vg indeed in similar d/w and plastic wrapper. Authoritative text, illustrated with images from Country Life's unparalleled collection of glass plate negatives. Ex libris Gavin Stamp with his bookplate.

London Thames and Hudson c.1980

208pp, b/w & col. photographs. 4to. Cloth with photographic dw. dust wrapper sl. creased to top edge, else very good. From the library of Alec Clifton-Taylor, although without his signature or inscription. Markings in ink throughout the text. The village throughout history.

London, Pitman (1946)1948

vii +166pp with 150 figures, including 2 large fold-outs. 4to in original cloth, good copy. 'A practical book for architects, builders and students, who are seeking detailed information upon the employment of modern materials and methods in building construction.'

London: Routledge Kegan Paul 1981

Signed by the Author. 378pp illus with drawings and photographs; most of them contemporary. The book includes a collection of plans for 70 houses. 4to. Vg in dw protected with plastic archival wrap. Describes how Victorian and Edwardian Country houses were planned.

London HMSO 1963-1973

6 volumes plus plans. Vols.I and II: The Middle Ages; Vol.III: 1485-1660 (Part I); Vol.IV: 1485-1660 (Part II); Vol.V: 1660-1782; 4 large scale plans 1-IV in plan box, Dust wrappers rather worn else a good set. From the collection of Beric Morley.

Park Forest: The Prairie School Press (1963)

55 pp.; illustrated from drawings and photographs by Wright. Small folio. A fine copy in original gilt-stamped green and brown cloth. Booklet of 14 pages sewn to the front endpaper contains illustrations from Wright's photographs of dried weeds, the forms from nature inspiring Wright's "Sullivanesque" decoration. A faithful facsimile with cloth substituted for the leather binding of the original. laid in is a copy of a letter from W. R Hasbrouck, the publisher. Originally published in a signed limited edition of 90 copies. Sweeney 1530.

New York Rizolli (2010) 2012

240pp illustrated with colour plates. Square 4to. Very good in dust wrapper. Dust wrapper protected by plastic covering. Beautifully illustrated documentary study of the houses and gardens by Ballie Scott.