Leeds: T.W. Green, 1844 and later. 2 volumes in one.

pp. ii, [1], 32, 20, 16, 18, 16, 16, 16; vi, 111; illustrations including colour decorated title pages for both volumes. 8vo Quarter contemporary green moroco, gilt title and decoration on spine., Very attractive copy. A fine collection of lithographic plates, with accompanying text, title pages printed in colours. Covers the churches at Adel, Bolton Percy, Methley, Thirsk, Birkin, Skelton, Bubwith, Patrington, Skirlaugh, Rotherham, Stainburn, Nun Monkton and the Chapels at Ripon. The churches in the first volume are separately paginated indicating the work was issued as a part work. Useful descriptions of volumes some made before the churches were subsequently restored or altered.

London John Murray [1950] 1967 revised edition

128pp illustrated with plans and photographs. Very good with dust wrapper. Loosely inserted a.l.s. typed letter from Robin Fedden to R H Wildman declining an offer to lecture. On National Trust headed paper and written when he was Historic Buildings Secretary. This title was first published by Arts and Technics in 1950 and in this revised edition includes additional material.

London Architectural Association 1988

175pp b/w plates + line ills with captions. Sm square 4to., illustrated wrappers, perfect binding, a very good copy. Loosely inserted private view card for the exhibition that this volume accompanies and a news cutting of an article written by Gavin Stamp on the same exhibition. There is also a printed email correspondence between Gavin Stamp and Vladimir Slapeta, an a.l.s. from Vladamir (Slapeta?) to Gavin Stamp and a photograph of a Czech Avia B-534 biplane. Ex libris Gavin stamp, with his bookplate and pencil signature on half title.

London, Country Life Limited 1927

xxxviii + 271pp illustrated with b/w plates and line ills. Introduction by Arthur T Bolton. Small folio. Red cloth, gilt titles. Very good copy with slightly dusty dust wrapper. Superb Country Life photographs showing plasterwork in situ mainly in the UK.

New York Universe Books 1975

First edition. 192pp illustrated with b/w plates throughout. 4to. Silver lettered spine, upper board with silvered square with book title impressed. Very good copy with sl. worn and chipped dust wrapper. The book focuses on design between the Chicago Century of Progress Exhibition of 1933-4 and the New York World's Fair in 1939. It considers the design activity in the years following the Great depression which was in the modern style but without the flash face of art deco luxury. Includes examples of the work of Raymond Lowey, Norman Bel Geddes, Walter Teague and others. Good study on a very narrow period.

London, Faber and Faber 1972

129pp. Over 123 bw illustrations and colour map at rear of book. 4to. Green cloth binding with gilt title on spine, paper dust wrapper, very good indeed. Really well illustrated Shell Guide to Derbyshire, wonderful photographs.

London H. Fisher, R. Fisher and P. Jackson 1832

2 volumes in one. 106pp and 48pp text respectively, each with vignette title page, maps of both Devon and Cornwall as frontispiece, plus a further 69 leaves of plates each of which have two steel-engraved views. Full calf, gilt lettered and decorated spine. Very good copy. Bookplate of Henry Potts on front paste down

London, B.T. Batsford (1926)1933

Revised edition. xiii + 258pp illustrated with 200 b/w plates, engravings and diagrams. Original gilt decorated cloth, lightly worn and faded on spine and at corners, generally bright. Ex Hull College with their ancient stamp on front end paper and withdrawn stamp on verso of the half title. Important and well illustrated survey of plasterwork in England, organised by period and location.

London, Wyman & Sons 1877 2nd edition

143pp. Gilt lettered cloth. Slightly rubbed along spine edges and corners else good copy. Presentation copy from the author's wife to P Cook. The first essay calls for remedies to the ills of overcrowding and poor quality housing for the rural poor. Other essays address diverse subjects including 'City and Hamlet', 'Self Education' and 'Society'. Mid Victorian essays which demonstrate contemporary moral philosophy and broad interests in social issues.

London, Hodder and Stoughton 1907

130 + viipp illus with c19 colour plates including colour fold out of Heathcote, Yorkshire and many b/w plates. vii pp period ads . 4to. Decorated and lettered open weave flimsy cloth. Text pages internally have scattered foxing particularly affecting the prelims. Repaired at spine which had become detached from book block. Contributors include C R Ashbee, Ballie Scott, Edwin Lutyens, G L Sutcliffe and others. Superb frontis of a London mansion block by Frank T Verity who wrote the text with Edwin T Hall and Gerald C Horsley. Colour ills include mansion blocks in London and superb double page spread of Heathcote Hall, Ilkley.

London ICA 1948

Unpaginated. 3pp essay + 29 full page colour and b/w plates. Long 8vo Catalogue iin paper wraps. A little dusty else very good. Typography By Herbert Spencer and printed by Lund Humphries. Lovely period item. Artists include Max Ernst, Graham Sutherland, Mattise, , Fancis Hodgkins, Augustus John, Sickert and many others drawing widely on international artists alongside British ones.

London: Francis Boutle 2011

274pp with colour and duotone illustrations throughout. 4to in wrappers, fine. New copy. Survey of the buildings funded by John Passmore Edwards, a publishing magnate and philanthropist born in 1823. Mostly located in London and Cornwall, these include schools, almshouses, art galleries, libraries and museums. Many remain standing, a testament to Victorian concepts of social responsibility and Passmore's own passionate beliefs in reform.

Tubingen, Verlag Ernst Wasmuth 1954

150pp illustrated with fine photogravure plates throughout. 4to. Very good in slightly worn dust wrapper. Previous owner's stamp on fep else almost as new. Lovely survey of wrought iron in building and ornamental work including gates, church furhishings etc + domestic uses.

London Allen Lane 2007

624pp illustrated. Fine in dw. God's Architect is the first full modern biography of this extraordinary figure. It draws on thousands of unpublished letters and drawings to recreate his life and work as architect, propagandist and romantic artist as well as the turbulent story of his three marriages, the bitterness of his last years and his sudden death at 40. It is the debut of a remarkable historian and biographer.ISBN 9780713994995 |This book has received excellent reviews as both an architectural and cultural biography. We recommend it.

Edinburgh The University Press 1994

First edition. 249pp illustrated with b/w plates. Small 4to. Very good with good dust wrapper. An assemblage of essays and articles put together by Gavin Stamp and Sam McKinstry. It was the first book in which a team of distinguished architectural commentators and historians used the latest research, to illuminate the full range of Thomson's talents.

Liverpool the University Press 1951

118pp, decorated end papers and dust wrapper designed by Susan Williams Ellis. Book Label and Inscription by previous owners Lois and Gerald Dix. Prologue and Epilogue by Richard Hughes, Book modelled upon Thomas Love Peacock's "Headlong Hall" the book takes the form of a dialogue on rural life, design and country house life and visiting etc and the impact of reservoirs and hydro electric power schemes in Wales proposed at the time. It reveals the campaigning fervour of Clough Williams-Ellis for protection of the Welsh countryside and its National Parks.

Office at the Cemetery Dallas and Irwin Avenuews E E Pittsburgh 1905 (third edition)

This cemetery was incorporated in 1878. 71pp illustrated with b/w full page photographic plates providing a superb record of the cemetery at this date. Gilt decorated cloth. Sl. weak at hinges else very good. . Large fold out plan of the cemetery and showing all the plots at the back. Includes notes on the principles of laying out cemetery grounds. Lovely illustrations of major monuments. Small stamp on fep saying With compliments of the Secretary D S Robinson. Useful record of a one of the major US cemeteries of the 1870s and 1880s.

London, The Prince of Wales's Institute of Architecture 1999

40pp illustrated with two b/w plates. Essays on Beatrix Potter's places by Alison Smithson and on books in which the house appears. Includes list of books with annotations which introduce children to houses including taste etc. Fascinating little publication. Very good.