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.

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 Geoffrey Bles 1928

188pp. Frontispiece + unpaginated b/w plates at rear. Publishers blue boards with cloth spine and printed label.Paper label a little worn. Epilogue by Patrick Abercrombie. Ownership bookplate on the paste down. The book is an outcry at the urbanization of the countryside and disintegration of village life and form as a consequence. Loosely inserted printed extracts from Architectural Review folded.

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 Ex Hull College with their ancient stamp on front end paper and withdrawn stamp on verso of the half title.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 Vanburgh with large format photographs in black and white and line ills.

London Country Life 1927

xi + 396pp. Marbled end papers, a.e.g. Folio. This copy is very good internally but the spine is slightly sunned and there is a crease near the bottom of the spine. The final volume in the series which is the hardest of all to find. The degree to which the spine is sunned is uniform with the early Georgian volume.

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".

London The Building Centre Trust 1985

116 + (2)pp text + 57 b/w plates. Bound into a cloth case with new end papers. Original wrappers preserved. Very good. Essentially unread. Useful book on this little known and modest Scottish architect contemporary with Lethaby and Schultz.

London RIBA 1957

40pp illustrated with b/w plates. Stapled 4to. Decorated wrappers. Good copy. Contributions by Sir William Holford, J C Masey, Geoffrey Jellicoe, Holger Blom, Peter Shepherd, Lady Allen of Hurtwood, John Stillman and Arthur Ling amongst others.

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, Architectural Association 1984

30 boxed plates, 16-page illustrated catalogue, bibliography. Black decorated boxed set 320x320mm. Very slightly worn. Franco Purini is foremost in a group of Italian architects whose explorations of the connections between memory, myth an architecture were highly influential in the early 1980s. Folio III contains a set of drawings on the theme of the eternal fascination of the city produced by Purini specially for the series. The drawings have the strong precise quality of etchings and are rich in symbolic and literary references.

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.

Yorkshire Architectural & York Archaeological Society, with the North Eastern Railway Association 2011

256pp with 100s colour and b/w illustrations throughout. 4to in laminated boards, fine condition. New copy. Survey of Townsend's career, which spanned the transition from the Georgian world to the Victorian industrial age. Best known for his railway buildings, Townsend also designed churches, banks, hotels, a hospital, schools and a college, including many in York and Yorkshire. This new volume provides a wealth of illustrations, plans and architectural drawings.

Yorkshire Architectural & York Archaeological Society, with the North Eastern Railway Association 2011

256pp with 100s colour and b/w illustrations throughout. 4to in laminated boards, fine condition. New copy. Survey of Townsend's career, which spanned the transition from the Georgian world to the Victorian industrial age. Best known for his railway buildings, Townsend also designed churches, banks, hotels, a hospital, schools and a college, including many in York and Yorkshire. This new volume provides a wealth of illustrations, plans and architectural drawings.

Oxford White Cockade Publishing 1993

200pp illustrated with colour and b/w plates. 4to. Very good with very good dust wrapper. Sets the career of Walton in the context of the Glasgow boys and provides useful material on his career as an architect and designer. Very useful information on his exhibition design work alongside his architecture, the former less well known. Loosely inserted private view card for associated George Walton Exhibition. Ex libris bookplate of GS.

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.

London Aurum Press 2015

208pp illustrated with colour plates and from in b/w from period sources. 4to. Like new in dust wrapper. Sir Gilbert Scott (1811–78) was arguably the outstanding architect of the Victorian Age. After being fired with enthusiasm by the writings of Pugin, he became a leading advocate of the Gothic Revival. Brilliant, concisely written biography by Gavin Stamp which assesses his career theme by theme.

London and New York Cassell Petter and Galpin nd c 1874 [First edition?]

viii+ 96pp+ [4]pp advertising leaves, illustrated with 25 fold out plates. Brown gilt decorated cloth. Repaired at spine to make a good copy in rubbed and sl. worn cloth. Sm 8vo. Useful study for details of period stonework. Aimed at craftsmen and very good on arches and setting out. Small orange flier bound in advertising Cassell title "New Drawing Models" tipped in at title page.

New York Rizzoli 1982.

Essay by Vincent Scully. 303pp illus with colour and b/w plates. 4to. Decorated wrappers. Very good indeed.