HMSO for RCHME

1975, Royal Commission on Historical Monuments, HMSO. Comprehensive and very detailed survey by the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments of the area outside the City Walls, which includes the ruins of St. Mary's Abbey, the King's Manor, and the Yorkshire Museum. Contains maps within a pocket on rear end papers. pp.111.+ 100s of illustrations including fold outs. Attractively illustrated in colour & b&w. Very good resource for those interested in the city. Very good copy with dust wrapper, this a little worn.

London: The Scientific Press Ltd 1896

3rd edition re-written and much new matter added. Frontis of Albert Napper, The Founder of Cottage Hospitals, xxiii +379 + 16pp publication list at the end. Illustrated with b/w line ills in the text. Red gilt lettered cloth. A little faded on spine an dinner hinge cracked else a very good copy. Stamp of Medical Officer for West Yorkshire on title page contemporary with publication. From the preface it would seem that each edition of this book is substantially different from each other in scope and content.

London Transport 1936, 1937

3 vols. Vol 1, Xii +124pp frontispiece + 10 b/w plates. 8vo brown wrapper with yellow dw. Dw a little worn else vg. Vol 2. Xii + 124pp, frontispiece +10 b/w plates. 8vo dark green wrappers with lighter green dw. Minor creases to the wrapper else vg indeed. Vol 3. Xii + 124pp frontispiece + 10 b/w plates. 8vo wrapper with dw. Dw a little worn at the edges, scattered foxing, split to the hinge else good. Ex libris Gavin Stamp, with his bookplate in vol 1 and 2.

London Offices of Country Life 1919

[xiv] 144 pp. colour frontispiece, 53 b/w plates which are mostly photographic plates but which includes some double page plates, maps and plans. Gilt lettered vellum spine, blue paper covered boards. Folio. An exceptional copy. Limited edition. no 196 of 400 copies. Fine. The 1st Viscount Cowdray commissioned a restoration project between 1909-1914 when St John Hope was asked to report on the remains of the Tudor House at Cowdray, Easebourne Priory and St Anne's Hill. This book is partially a result of his work at that time when he was asked to investigate the future of Cowrday which had been partially destroyed in a fire of 1793.

Copenhagen Danish Design Council, Andersens Boulevard 18 DK-1553 1981

61pp, colour + b/w ills + single page of colour plates which are designs in vinyll proposed as instructions for use. Sq 8vo illustrated wrappers. Danish Design Council competition for new open telephone boxes. Shows the four prize winning proposals, designers named with background information on historical designs.

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 Oxford University Press 1978

263pp+numerous b/w and colour photographic plates and ills. Decorated end papers. 4to. Orange boards, dust wrapper. Wrapper has small closed tears on back else very good. Koolhaas documents the extraordinary history of New York, charting the history of Manhattan Island from the first settlers and through periods of heavy development up until the modern period as the scene of much of Western invention and expression. A celebration of the city's rich contribution to architectural, intellectual and artistic discussions, this is a fascinating and comprehensive account of urban and social history and is beautifully illustrated with photographic plates, maps, and architectural and street plans.

Königstein im Taunus & Leipzig Karl Robert Langewiesche 1928

110pp, b/w plates with captions, text in German. Small 4to perfect bound decorated card wraps with illustrated dw. Very good indeed. From the Die Blauen Bücher Series, study of early c20 (mainly 1920s) public buildings in Germany such as schools, churches, theatres etc. Brilliant photographic plates, architects named. Ex libris Gavin Stamp, with his bookplate. Small pencil inscription on the bookplate, 'Hannover, 1972'

HMSO Royal Commission on Historical Monuments in England 1970

282pp illus with colour frontis, b/w plates and line ills. Fold out map in rear pocket. The sites of the Legionary Fortress and the Civilian settlements found in the city are included. 4to. Very good copy with dw.

London Jonathan Cape 1973

First English edition. 85pp. Very good with dust wrapper. Small chip from dust wrapper on upper front edge. From the collection of Gerald Dix with his signature. Reviewed by Architectural Design at the time of publication, the reviewer said "a book that no architect, planner, economist or geographer can afford not to read."

Torino Umberto Allemandi & Co 2008

70pp illustrated with b/w photographs. Like new. There are two loosely inserted printed letters signed by Michela Rosso on the publishing history of the book and apologising for set backs and delays. Ex libris bookplate of GS on inner wrapper. Text in Italian. The first in the series of monographs of architects.

London Laurence King 2002

225pp illustrated with 128 b/w plates. 4to. Fine in dust wrapper. Many full page plates support this comprehensive study of all aspects of Saarinen's practice. Sections on 'Creating', 'Dwelling', 'Building' amongst others. Attractive study.

Oxford Museum of Modern Art 1977

42pp illus with b/w and monotone illustrations. Wraps. Very good indeed. Includes statements on art and design by Lissitzky. Nice item. Edition limited to 1000.

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 Country Life Limited 1928

Folio. Quarter blue cloth. . Unusual to find this item in a dust wrapper. Dust wrapper a bit chipped at head and base of the spine. Superb record of the work of Vanbrugh with large format photographs in black and white and line ills.

London The Architectural Association 1983

128pp illus with b/w plates. Square 4to. Laminated wraps overprinted with red title. Very good copy. Very useful assessment of his career and contribution within the MARS group. Scarce.

London, Routledge 1931

viii, 175pp Open weave cloth. Worn at spine. First edition, scarce. First published in 1931, Robert Byron's Essay on India evaluates the state of colonial rule in India and analyses the contemporary problems facing the country. Based upon Byron's travelling experiences within India in 1929 as a correspondent for the Daily Express. Bookplate on fep of Sir George R Clerk. With the bookplate of Gavin Stamp on which is written "From A Cluff 1977".