London Lund Humphries 2005

xviii + 341pp. Numerous b/w ills throughout the text. D/w over red cloth boards. D/w a little bumped at the corners. A very good copy of this distinctive study of the life and architectural career of Colin St John Wilson, architect, teacher, theorist.

Sold by the booksellers in the neighbouring towns; and Baldwin Chadock and Joy, London 1818

[xvi including subscribers list] + 17 + 140pp; [2] ads. Frontis of Woburn Church + 1 plate of the house. 195 x175mm. Half calf, marbled boards, recent red spine label. Original boards. Raised bands Very good. Bookplate of previous owner on second end paper. Small stain on half title and title page where coat of arms has been hand painted in blue with a neat hand. Useful on the history of the area and family. Includes a useful description of the modern abbey, its contents, [ in brief ] and grounds.

HMSO Royal Commission on Historical Monuments in England 1981

xcviii + 282pp with text ills throughout and b/w photographs. Very good copy with very good dust wrapper. Descriptions of more than 300 buildings erected before 1850 illustrated with photographs and line ills. 4to. Cloth, vg, in very good d/w.

Cambridge, Lutterworth Press, 1987

207pp, 181 b/w photographs and drawings. Sm. 4to, Very good copy with dw. Foreword by Mark Girouard. Including a comprehensive catalogue listing of all the known data for 356 of Salvin's works. The book incorporates previously unpublished material, including letters, diaries, building accounts and reproductions of Salvin's architectural drawings.

New York & Tokyo The Architectural Forum & Antonin Raymond , printed in Japan 1938

116pp illustrated with line illustrations and b/w plates. Second printing. Hardcover burlap covered boards are spiral bound. Japanese paper end papers and title. Bright copy. Slightly bumped on Both authors' autographs are printed in facsimile on the title page, above rows of Japanese characters. The self-published Architectural details provides advice for the designer using Raymond's work and philosophy as a model. In interior plans and elevations, sectional drawings, and examples of dramatic self-supporting staircases, concrete proves an optimal material in both aesthetics and durability. Raymond's talent for incorporating traditional Japanese elements.

1951 -1957?

Pen and ink and watercolour. Image size 580mm wide x 340mm high. Mounted in modern mount. Mount 740mm x 510mm. Very good. Mid Century Modern colours and subject. Similar to Lansbury Estate [ Frederick Gibberd ] and other similar period social housing maisonette projects of the 1950s and 60s. Unidentified.

London BBC/Cambridge University Press 1938

27pp. Octavo, Decorated wrappers. Small split to base of spine c1cm. else very good. An intriguing address, outlining the parallels between architecture and society. Goodhart-Rendell was president of the RIBA when he made this address.

London Academy Editions 1995

128pp illustated with 150 plates, 50 in colour. Large 4to. Stiff card laminated colour wrappers. Fine. A key appraisal of the work of Ballie Scott setting him in the context of the arts and crafts movement.

London Faber and Faber 1958

289pp with 66 b/w photographs. 4to. Dust wrapper rather worn and with annotations in ink. Cloth to head and foot of spine and corners rubbed. From the library of Alec Clifton-Taylor, with his signature in ink, dated 1958 to fep. Loosely inserted copious handwritten notes and a hand drawn map of Germany by A. C.-T. and several postcards to A C.-T. featuring church interiors from Germany and Switzerland. Newspaper review clippings pasted onto rear endpapers. Brown paper wrapper between cloth and dw. The historical background and social forces behind the dvelopment of Baroque architecture, and a country by country description of Baroque churches.

(Rotterdam): NAi Uitgevers, 1993.

First edition. Oblong 8vo. 15pp introductory essay by Wim van den Bergh. (Dutch text). Introduction in English with Architect's statement pp18-19, remainder of book unpaginated. Illustrated with colour plates and overprinted captions on glassine paper. [ In English ]. The volume is illustrated with 30 paintings, 28 in colour. A very good copy in spiral bound, blind stamped boards. Hard to find. Published to coincide with the opening of the new building of the Netherlands Architecture Institute.

London Architectural Association Box 4 2004

[14] pamphlet with introductory text and large colour images + 18 large colour plates. Large square 4to in presentation box with decorated colour title on front. Box is a little dusty with small nick on lower edge else very good copy. The 18 plates are each composed of nine Polaroid images that can be assembled in any arrangement to form a composite work, called Nine Times. The images on these plates were the most controversial of Holmes' work at the time of publication, in both form and content: unlikely combinations of fragments of contemporary living -- urban waste, trucks, flowers, animals and images culled from the TV screen.

nd c1938

Unpaginated. c12pp Introduction briefly outlining the development of the firm followed by c60pp illustrations of projects + c12pp period ads for building products and specialist firms. Long 4to. Green cloth covered boards with art deco style gilt lettering on upper board. At the time of production, the firm was based in Stockwell, London with specialist woodworking department in Margate. Inter – war projects illustrated include various Odeon cinemas, mansion blocks including Nell Gwynn House, Chelsea, the Bexhill Pavilion, Margate Lido, various suburban housing schemes, offices and shops, schools and colleges. Work centred on London and the south east. The Architects noted for most of the projects that are illustrated.

Brentham Heritage Society 2000

264pp illustrated with b/w and colour plates from contemporary and modern photographs. Decorated end papers show original architectural drawings of the houses. Long 4to. Very good with dust wrapper. Study of this Ealing suburb. Built on co-partnership principles it was an inspiration to Hampstead. Scholarly study of a lesser known garden suburb much of which survives today.

Slough, Bucks Orlit Limied, Colnbrook By Pass, Colnbrook no date c 1955

12pp pamphlet on methods of precast reinforced concrete construction for schools. Illustrated with b/w plates with supporting texts on selected projects. Cover show Hanslope Crescent Road School Nottingham designed by R. M. Finch, City Engineer and Surveyor, Nottingham. Back page of brochure lists schools built using the system. comprising local authorities and individual architects. This method along with the Presweld system were particularly popular as methods of school construction in the post war period.

London published by the firm 1937

164pp illustrated. Long 4to. Cloth covered boards. A little dusty. Introductory text + illustrations with captions documenting the projects by this key building firm. Architects noted throughout. Published in the Coronation year this is a very useful source for inter-war buildings in particular. John Laing was also a company that profoundly shaped post-war Britain. It constructed the country's first major motorway, built outstanding sites of worship such as Coventry Cathedral. This book provides insights into their formative activity. A record scoping their post war work can be seen at Historic England's photo archive.

London Crosby lockwood and Son (1883) 1900

Third Edition. Vi + 114pp 3 folding plates, 23 fig + tables in the text. 16pp catalogue of the Weale's series of Scientific and Technical Works + 48pp publishers catalogue, printed end papers + pastedown. 8vo cloth, head of the spine a little worn, else very good. Prefiguring twentieth century town planning, this book proposes a holistic approach to the planning of residential estates.

Oxford at the Clarendon Press 1952

xvi+630pp,21 b/w plates and one text illustration. Sl. rubbing to cloth, esp at head and foot of spine and corners, and front hinge cracked, else good. First edition. From the library of Alec Clifton-Taylor, with his signature in pencil to fep. A few underlinings and annotations in pencil. Loosely inserted newspaper clippings and a receipt for the book from B.T. Batsford for £1 10s. Salzman's classic study of medieval architecture, focusing on building practices, architects and masons. Includes extensive appendices on contemporary documentation and building and employment contracts.

London Ernest Benn Limited 1926

269pp + 8p A concise study, covers geology of building stones, decay, preservation etc. "With the author's compliments" penned at top of title page in neat handwriting.