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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Two autographed letters signed on postcards
and two photographs with annotations
Stock ID: 22261More details Price: £80.00
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Une maison - un palais: A la Recherche d'une Unité Architecturale
Paris Cres et Cie, 1928
228 pages : illustrations. Red cloth with gilt titles. Very good copy. French text. Part of the Collection de '' l'esprit nouveau.''
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Untitled
Stock ID: 23132More details Price: £280.00
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Ventilation
A Textbook to the Practice of the Art of Ventilating Buildings with a Supplementary Chapter Upon Air Testing
London Crosby Lockwood and Son 1902 (1891)
Second Edition. Weale's Scientific & Technical Series No. 271. viii + 226pp (+ 16pp +48pp lists of available publications from Weales & Crosby Lockwood). 170 b/w illustrations. Buff coloured cloth boards with black embossed titling. Previous owner's name and date of ownership on front endpapers in ink. Some browning on half title page else a very good copy of this text.
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Victorian Buildings of London 1837-1887: An Illustrated Guide.
London, Architectural Press 1980
175pp illustrated throughout with b/w photographs and engravings. Small 4to boards with illustrated dustwrapper, a very good copy. An early collaborative venture between Gavin Stamp and Colin Amery which identified over one hundred of London's most significant Victorian buildings from St Pancreas Station and Hotel to the Infant Orphan's Asylum in Wanstead. This book provides an explanation in part for the huge collection of London related commentaries of the period that were illustrated with photographic plates and which Gavin Stamp had in his collection.
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Village Housing in the Tropics with special reference to West Africa
Stock ID: 22193More details Price: £125.00 -
Village Housing in the Tropics with special reference to West Africa
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W. R. Lethaby 1857-1931, Architecture, Design and Education.
Lund Humphries, 1984.
127pp, 90 b/w illus. 4to. A companion volume to the exhibition at the Central School of Art and Design which Lethaby helped to found and became the first principal. The contributors examine his many roles and his influence in Britain and abroad.
Stock ID: 20120More details Price: £12.00 -
Willem M Dudok
(1954) Published with the aid of the Pincs Bernhard Fund, by G can Saane, "lectura architectonica" Amsterdam 1957
2nd impression. 168pp illustrated with b/w plates and line ills. Quarto. Turquoise cloth with gilt blocked lettering on front board and spine. Slightly dusty dust wrapper. Signed by previous owner on the front end paper in neat hand. Material collected for the book by R M H Magnée. Modern typographic layout. Includes reviews of all the major projects with photo illustrations and line ills. Includes the famous Nassau School at Hilveresum, housing schemes, town hall etc and this garden city project alongside other projects undertaken in the Netherlands. Produced for the 70th birthday of Dudok.
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William Burges and the High Victorian Dream
London John Murray, 1981
454 pages illustrated with b/w plates. Slightly shop soiled but very Good in Fine dust wrapper. First edition of this comprehensive reference book on William Burges.
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William Richard Lethaby
The Architectural Press 1986
320pp illus. with b/w plates and line ills. Major assessment of Lethaby's multi faceted carer as an architect, conservationist and educationalist. Square 4to. Very good in dust wrapper.
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Windows for Coventry
Stock ID: 22722More details Price: £20.00
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Working-Class Residential Flats in Reinforced Concrete:
Report on a competition for designs of blocks of working-c;ass residential flats in reinforced concrete organized by the Cement Marketing Company Ltd.
London The British Portland Cement Manufacturers Ltd nd 1935
63pp illustrated wit b/w plates, line ills etc. 4to. Decorated wrappers. Wrappers worn and scuffed along spine. Previous owner's signature on half title. The winning design is described and illustrated and was designed by Messrs B. Lubetkin & Tecton with Ove Arup. Other project also are described and illustrated including work by A P Lloyd, E W Collins and George Smith, (second place). Fascinating publication. Hard to find.
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Zodiac 5 International Magazine of Contemporary Architecture
Milano C Olivetti and Co 1959
214pp illus with b/w photographs + period adverts. Perfect bound. Laminated yellow wrappers with example of fantastic architecture. 4to. 27x21cms . Key articles by Le Corbusier on Frank Lloyd Wright with fold out concertina illustrations. Denmark (contributions by Bruno Alfieri, Enzo Fratelli, Keld Helmer-Petersen and others ) and Fantastic Architecture by Ulrich Conrads and Hans Sperlich. Spine split Small tear in front wrap hinge else good copy. Texts in English, Italian, French.
Stock ID: 22134More details Price: £35.00