Architecture

  • BLOMFIELD Sir Reginald (introduction)
    The Work of Ernest Newton RA

    London The Architectural press 1925

    xvi + 212pp extensively illustrated with b/w photographic plates and line ills.. 4to. Red gilt lettered cloth with dust wrapper, this a little chipped and foxed. Bright copy with protective plastic archival wrapper. Upper right corner slightly bumped else a vg. of this useful review of his career indicating much about his attitude. Includes a list of executed projects. Very good illustrations of major commissions. Newton was a pupil of Norman Shaw and worked initially in his style but gradually developed his own signature in design with a more classical tradition at its heart. Armourial bookplate of architect John Homery Folkes on front pastdown. Very hard to find with the dust wrapper.

    Stock ID: 23821
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  • (OTTO) GLAESER Ludwig
    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: 15900
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  • [SCOTT] COLE, David.
    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: 22709
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  • The Workhouse: A Study of Poor-Law Buildings in England by MORRISON Kathryn
    MORRISON Kathryn
    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: 23362
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  • The Works of Oscar Niemeyer by George Pace's copy with his signature PAPADAKI Stamo
    George Pace's copy with his signature PAPADAKI Stamo
    The Works of Oscar Niemeyer with forward

    New York Reinhold 1950

    220pp illustrated with b/w plates. Square 4to. Good in slightly chipped but striking dust wrapper. Excellent source for the early works.

    Stock ID: 23727
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  • [LORIMER] HUSSEY, Christopher.
    The Works of Sir Robert Lorimer

    London Country Life Ltd. 1931

    111pp text + 267pp plates in b/w. 4to. Blue cloth which is sl. worn/ Subtle fading and slight bump to edge and top right corner of upper board. Vg in protective archival plastic wrap. Exhaustive on this "Scottish" Lutyens. Important monograph covering his architectural work, furniture and designs for metalwork etc. Name of previous architect owner on front endpaper.

    Stock ID: 23822
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  • The Yorkshire Church Notes of Sir Stephen Glynne (1825-1874) by BUTLER Lawrence (ed.)
    BUTLER Lawrence (ed.)
    The Yorkshire Church Notes of Sir Stephen Glynne (1825-1874) Yorkshire Archaeological Society: Record Series Volume CLIX

    Suffolk The Boydell Press 2007

    xxiv pp + 520pp + 32 full-page colour plates + 221 black & white in-text illustrations. Quarto. Brown binding with dust jacket featuring several colour illustrations front, back, and spine. New publication, new copy. Lovely resource for Yorkshire church architecture illustrating many churches subsequently "restored" or altered.

    Stock ID: 23705
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  • Theater und Lichtspielhauser by ZUCKER Paul
    ZUCKER Paul
    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: 23059
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  • [BONN] Schroers G. [editor]
    Theaterneubau Bonn 1965

    Bonn, Stadt Bonn 1965.

    96pp. Illustrated with b/w plates, plans and diagrams. Long 4to.245 x 300 mm Grey cloth overprinted with striking lettering. Good copy. Designed by architects, Klaus Gessler und Wilfried Beck-Erlang. It serves as both a theatre and opera house. Text in German. Futurist design clad in aluminium and wood. Still an important focus of cultural life in the city.

    Stock ID: 23732
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  • Theatrum Mundi by LIBERSKIND, Daniel.
    LIBERSKIND, Daniel.
    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: 22747
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  • Third Generation. The Changing Meaning of Architecture by DREW Philip
    DREW Philip
    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: 22704
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  • Thomas Cubitt Master Builder by [CUBITT] HOBHOUSE Hermione
    [CUBITT] HOBHOUSE Hermione
    Thomas Cubitt Master Builder

    London [1971] Management Books Didcot 1995

    568pp illustrated. Fine in dust wrapper - this torn approx 1.5cm at head of spine. Only exhaustive study of Thomas Cubitt, highly influential builder in London who was the creator of Bloomsbury, Clapham, Islington and other Victorian Suburbs. He further worked beyond London in Brighton and also for Country house architects. This edition was reissued long after the first with corrections, additional comments and revised illustrations.

    Stock ID: 23829
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  • WATKIN David
    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: 20790
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  • BOULTON E H B
    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: 16863
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  • Tradition & Modernity in Plasterwork by WEAVER, Lawrence
    WEAVER, Lawrence
    Tradition & Modernity in Plasterwork

    London G. Jackson & Sons Ltd. 1928

    b/w frontis, 63pp, 48 b/w photographic illustrations, Contrasting 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 plaster work for Robert Adam and was to continue evolving new techniques and skills into the late 20th Century. Very good copy.

    Stock ID: 23643
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  • Transformation by [URBAN SPLASH] BLOXHAM Tim, FALKINGHAM,Jonathan and JOHNSON, Nick
    [URBAN SPLASH] BLOXHAM Tim, FALKINGHAM,Jonathan and JOHNSON, Nick
    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: 23646
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  • TILDEN, Philip.
    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: 21947
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  • [SCARFE, Norman]
    Two autographed letters signed on postcards and two photographs with annotations

    2004

    ALS to Gavin Stamp dated 29 May 2004 and 22 June 2004 1. Written on the back of a postcard featuring Leeds, St Johns the Evangelist with PS note mentioning it was to be totally refurbished from 17th July. Text concerns recollections, the architect J H Parker in the initial lines but moves on to Normandy churches recalled from when Scarfe was there in the war. Recounts the murder of 20 Canadian POWS at the HW of Kurt Meyer in WWII and his subsequent death in prison after the Nuremberg Trials. 2. Second Card, written from 3 Burkitt Road, Woodbridge when he sent Gavin Stamp the two photographs which are of Calvados. These were sent to thank him…

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    2004

    ALS to Gavin Stamp dated 29 May 2004 and 22 June 2004 1. Written on the back of a postcard featuring Leeds, St Johns the Evangelist with PS note mentioning it was to be totally refurbished from 17th July. Text concerns recollections, the architect J H Parker in the initial lines but moves on to Normandy churches recalled from when Scarfe was there in the war. Recounts the murder of 20 Canadian POWS at the HW of Kurt Meyer in WWII and his subsequent death in prison after the Nuremberg Trials. 2. Second Card, written from 3 Burkitt Road, Woodbridge when he sent Gavin Stamp the two photographs which are of Calvados. These were sent to thank him for sending a copy of the JSAH article on High Victorian Gothic.

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    Stock ID: 22261
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  • Une maison - un palais: by LE CORBUSIER
    LE CORBUSIER
    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.''

    Stock ID: 23223
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  • Victor Bourgeois by (BOURGEOIS) LINZE Georges
    (BOURGEOIS) LINZE Georges
    Victor Bourgeois

    Bruxelles: Eles éditions det ateliers d'art graphique Elsevier SA

    Monographies de l'Art Belge.16pp text + 28pp superb b/w photographic images and frontis of the Tour Eternit for the Exposition de Bruxelles 1958. This image repeated as paste down on front board. Small 4to. Protected in glassine wrapper. Fine.

    Stock ID: 87
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