London, B.T.Batsford Ltd 1917 1917

xiipp subscribers lists + xxxiii+370pp with extensive b/w photographs throughout. Small 4to. Decorated cloth. Very good. Cloth slightly rubbed and some scattered foxing on end papers. First Edition. Includes chapters on structural woodwork, Sanctuary, Quire, Screens, Roods and Lofts, Nave, and Tombs and Movable Fittings.

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 Ex Hull College with their ancient stamp on front end paper and withdrawn stamp on verso of the half title.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 A. Zwemmer Ltd. 1988

2 Vols. 648pp (continuous pagination) . Over 400 b/w + colour photographs. Publishers blue cloth, gilt title on the spine with illustrated dust wrappers and slipcase. Spine of the wrappers a little faded else very good indeed. Comprehensive study, explores the origins of the neo-classical movement in British architecture during the second half of the 18th century and analyses the interiors and exteriors of a wide range of neo-classical building types. Covers the work of Robert Adam, James Wyatt, George Dance, John Soane + many more. Profusely illustrated.

London RIBA Publishing; 1st edition 2006

240pp illustrated with colour and b/w plates, some from the original brochures for the Span housing schemes. Suare 4to. Laminated boards. Well researched, this book celebrates the work of the architect Eric Lyons OBE (1912-1980), whose famous post-war housing projects. . Built almost entirely for Span Developments, its mission was to provide an affordable environment "that gave people a lift".

London Architectural Association Mega VI 1987

43pp illustrated with colour and b/w plates and line illustrations. Small folio. Black wrappers. Czech-born architect Eva Jiricna provides the architectural setting for some of the most stylist fashion outlets in London, Paris, Germany and the USA, it features 12 of her London schemes. A fully illustrated interview tells the story of her background in Czechoslovakia and the impact on her work of the architectural scene she discovered on moving to London after the Soviet invasion of Prague in 1968. The book includes contribution by John Thackara and a conversation with Alvin Boyarsky. Slightly rubbed at base of front wrapper and edges a little dusty. Internally very good. Hard to find.

London Macmillan and Co 1933

First edition. illustrated with drawings and photographs, mostly by the author including coloured frontispiece. Colour frontis. Blue cloth. Good. No dust wrapper. Bright copy. A little bumped at corners. With bookplate of Colin Amery. Byron travelled to India in 1929 as special correspondent for the Daily Express, and also took in Tibet. An appreciation of architecture is a strong element in Byron's writings. He was a forceful advocate for the preservation of historic buildings and a founder member of the Georgian Group. His interest in architecture shines through in this book.

London, Technical Journals Ltd 1913

104pp illustrated throughout with plans, elevations and b/w plates. Viii pages of period ads at end. Cloth backed boards, a little worn, with chips and bumps to corners. Spine exhibits a 5cm split. Internally good. Introduction by T Milwood Wilson. Draws widely on examples at Gidea Park, Hampstead Garden Suburb and Esher Park as well as individual locations around the UK. With a list of architects represented.

Sofia, Bulgaria Sofia Press 1981

72pp illustrated with stunning b/w and colour photographs and line ills. Large square 4to. 360x360mm. Good with silvered dust wrapper. Signed dedication copy to Michael Manser from Stoilov. With bookplate on front end paper of Michael and Jose Manser. Dust wrapper dusty else good copy. Text in English. Stoilov famously designed the brutalist Buzludzha Memorial House which is now abandoned, perched on a Balkan mountain, following the end of the political regime that built it. This and other memorials alongside commercial and domestic buildings are featured in this book.

Newhaven Yale 2009

First edition. 601pp 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.This book has received excellent reviews as both an architectural and cultural biography.

Dornach Philosophisch-Anthroposophischer Verlag 1935

52pp illustrated with b/w plates + [3]pp catalogue of Rudolph Steiner's publications. Silver decorated wrappers. With bookplate of Gavin Stamp on front paste down. Good copy. The focus on this short publication is a description and explanation of the Department of the Performing Arts at the Goetheanum.

Medéns Förlags AB, Stockholm 1935

70 + (1) pp+ 46 photographic b/w plates documenting the building. Paper wrappers 290x215mm. Wrappers a bit worn and browned. Internally very good. Signed dedication copy for Nils Eriksson to Robert Matthews, who was chief architect of the Festival Hall. Dated 1947.

London Griffith and Farron nd c1882

96pp illustrated with 5 plates. 16mo. End papers advertisements including for Jones and Willis, Church Furniture Manufacturers, and John Taylor of Loughborough Bells. Inner hinges a little cracked else good

London Thames & Hudson 1992

431pp illustrated. The first UK edition (first printing), issued the same year as the US edition. 4to. Black cloth lettered in blind and the spine and upper board.Very good dust wrapper. Black slipcase. Lavishly illustrated throughout with photographs, drawings and plans, many of the in colour. A fine copy of this catalogue raisonné of the noted Australian architect.

London RIBA 1989

20pp illustrated with colour and b/w plates. Square 4to. Laminated wrappers which are decorated with colour images. Review of Ron Herron's career, practice and projects.

London George Newnes Limited 1906

xvi + 247pp + (3)pp illustrated with 17 colour and many b/w plates. Some spotting on end papers and prelims. Decorated end papers. Gilt lettered green cloth. A very good copy of this the first edition of Ballie Scott's study of house design. Large pictorial bookplate of Rosa Kraft on paste down.