Architecture

  • MILWOOD WILSON T. (Editor)
    Garden City Houses and Their Domestic Interior Details. Second Edition.

    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.

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  • George Dance Architect, 1741-1825 by STROUD Dorothy
    STROUD Dorothy
    George Dance Architect, 1741-1825

    Faber adn Faber 1971

    262pp illustrated with 76pp of plates. 4to. Fine in dust wrapper. Superb biography of Dance and hard to find in this condition. Ex libris bookplate of Stanley Field on front end paper. Protected in plastic wrapper over dust wrapper.

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  • (WALTON) MOON Karen
    George Walton: Designer and Architect

    Oxford White Cockade Publishing 1993

    200pp illustrated with colour and b/w plates. 4to. Very good with very good dust wrapper in protective archival plastic 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 selection of research material relating to Walton.

    Stock ID: 23809
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  • Georgi Stoilov, naroden arkhitekt. by Signed copy [Stoilov, Georgi] Ilii︠a︡ I︠U︡rukov, Li︠u︡bomir I︠A︡richkov [ contributors]
    Signed copy [Stoilov, Georgi] Ilii︠a︡ I︠U︡rukov, Li︠u︡bomir I︠A︡richkov [ contributors]
    Georgi Stoilov, naroden arkhitekt.

    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.

    Stock ID: 22030
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  • (PUGIN) HILL. Rosemary,
    God's Architect - Pugin and the Building of Romantic Britain

    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.

    Stock ID: 17625
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  • (PUGIN) HILL. Rosemary,
    God's Architect - Pugin and the Building of Romantic Britain

    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.

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  • Göteborgs konserthus. Berättelse avgiven av Stadsfullmäktiges byggnadskommitté för konserthuset vid invigningen den 4 oktober 1935. by Association copy to Robert Matthews, Architect ERIKSSON, Nils Einar.
    Association copy to Robert Matthews, Architect ERIKSSON, Nils Einar.
    Göteborgs konserthus. Berättelse avgiven av Stadsfullmäktiges byggnadskommitté för konserthuset vid invigningen den 4 oktober 1935.

    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.

    Stock ID: 22044
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  • HALL Michael
    Gothic Architecture and is Meanings 1550-1830

    Spire Books in association with the Georgian Group 2002

    224pp illustrated with b/w plates. Colour laminated wrappers. Fine

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  • 'Gothic For Ever' A.W.N. Pugin, Lord Shrewsbury, and the Rebuilding of Catholic England by FISHER, Michael.
    FISHER, Michael.
    'Gothic For Ever' A.W.N. Pugin, Lord Shrewsbury, and the Rebuilding of Catholic England

    Spire Books 2012

    342pp illustrated. Very good with dust wrapper

    Stock ID: 22778
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  • BRIGGS Martin
    Goths and Vandals: A Study of the Destruction, Neglect and Preservation of Historical Buildings in England

    London Constable 1952

    251pp illus with bw plates. Very good in d/w, this unclipped though slightly worn with a small tear on verso top edge. In protective archival plastic wrapper. Systematic study of the causes of the ruination and destruction of the heritage of buildings from early days including dissolution of the monasteries, through each century with significant sections on the gothic revival, anti-scrape ideas etc. Hard to find.

    Stock ID: 23819
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  • [GREENE AND GREENE] RAND Marvin (Photographs) GREGORY Daniel (introduction)
    Greene & Greene:

    Layton, Utah Gibbs Smith Publisher 2005

    222pp illus with 250 plates and plans mostly in colour. Useful image book for the work of Harry and Charles Greene and their California projects tracing their career. Square 4to. Good copy with good dust wrapper.

    Stock ID: 16284
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  • TIPPING, H. Avary.
    Grinling Gibbons and the Woodwork of his Age

    London Country Life 1914

    i-xii, 260pp incl. 234 b/w illustrations. Folio Publisher's white buckram spine, boards with imitation wood finish. A key study of this master woodcarver as a designer and sculptor, exhaustively illustrated from the archives of Country Life. Rather worn edges.

    Stock ID: 20689
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  • (ASPLUND) HOLMDAHL Gustav et.al.
    Gunnar Asplund Architect 1885-1940: Plans sketches and photographs published by Svenska Arkitekters Riksfôrbund

    Stockholm: Ab Tidskriften Byggmastaren 1950

    241pp illustrated with photogravure plates, plans and elevations. 4to. Decorated paper covered boards, cloth spine with gilt lettered black spine label. Very good indeed. Hard to find. With photographs and plans of Asplund's major works, all in his native Sweden.

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  • H. W. Wills, F.R.I.B.A., W. Kaula, A.R.I.B.A. Architects by [WILLS & KAULA]
    [WILLS & KAULA]
    H. W. Wills, F.R.I.B.A., W. Kaula, A.R.I.B.A. Architects

    Geneva, "The Masters of Modern Architecture Ltd" 1930

    xi + 64pp. Short essay introduction + b/w plates illustrating the projects of the firm. Green cloth. Gilt titles on upper board. Small 4to. Good copy. Wills & Kaula was an architectural firm established by Herbert Winkler Wills (1863-1937) and William Kaula (1885-1972) in 1913. The practice had an office at at 3, Southampton Street, Bloomsbury, London and later at 22, Southampton Street, Bloomsbury, London. The partnership was wound up in 1938 after the death of Wills in the previous year. Featured buildings include Townsend House, London, the Howard de Walden Estate, Central London, Abbey Lodge, Regents Park and several properties in Portland Place amongst others. The team were also architects…

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    Geneva, "The Masters of Modern Architecture Ltd" 1930

    xi + 64pp. Short essay introduction + b/w plates illustrating the projects of the firm. Green cloth. Gilt titles on upper board. Small 4to. Good copy. Wills & Kaula was an architectural firm established by Herbert Winkler Wills (1863-1937) and William Kaula (1885-1972) in 1913. The practice had an office at at 3, Southampton Street, Bloomsbury, London and later at 22, Southampton Street, Bloomsbury, London. The partnership was wound up in 1938 after the death of Wills in the previous year. Featured buildings include Townsend House, London, the Howard de Walden Estate, Central London, Abbey Lodge, Regents Park and several properties in Portland Place amongst others. The team were also architects for the Horticultural College, Swanley Kent, [not illustrated]. Wills edited for a time The Builder then The Architect alongside his practice.

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    Stock ID: 23343
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  • Haddon, the Manor, The Hall, its Lords and Traditions. by IVAN HALL'S COPY LE BLANC-SMITH, G.
    IVAN HALL'S COPY LE BLANC-SMITH, G.
    Haddon, the Manor, The Hall, its Lords and Traditions.

    London Elliot Stock 1906

    66pp illustrated with photographs and including fold out family tree. 8vo. Decorated gilt lettered cloth. A little rubbed and worn. From the library of Ivan Hall with his initials on the front end paper. A few annotations at the rear by Hall

    Stock ID: 23716
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  • Henry Holland by STROUD Dorothy
    STROUD Dorothy
    Henry Holland his life and architecture

    London, Country Life 1960

    158pp illustrated with 133 plates and four figures with decorated end papers from Horwood's Map of London 1803. Holland (1745-1806) . Very good with good dust wrapper protected with plastic covering. Superb monograph which charts his career as a builder and informs his relationships with other architects working around the same time including George Dance, James Wyatt, John Soane and John Nash and contains useful material on Capability Brown the daughter of whom he married in 1773.

    Stock ID: 23852
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  • Aylmer, Gerald, and John Tiller, eds.
    HEREFORD CATHEDRAL: A History

    London: Hambledon Press, 2000

    xxxii, 672 pp. 180 illustrations (27 in color), list of contributors, bibliographical footnotes, appendices, glossary, index. Fine/Fine dw. First Edition. 18 x 26 cm . The 36 essays in this beautifully-produced book constitute the definitive account of Hereford's history from Anglo-Saxon times to the present, and of its architecture, fittings, musical tradition, archives and library.

    Stock ID: 22782
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  • WIGHTWICK George
    Hints to Young Architects Comprising advice to those …yet at school…and to those who, having completed their education, are about to practice, Together with a model specification

    London, Crosby, Lockwood and Co. (1846)1880

    x+330pp with numerous small figures throughout + 34pp publisher's catalogues. Cloth, good with some rubbing and watermarks. Inner hinges cracked else generally a good copy of this much used textbook. A new edition, revised and considerably enlarged by G. Huskisson Guillaume, Architect.

    Stock ID: 22383
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  • History and Description of Woburn and It's Abbey, Etc., Etc.. by [WOBURN ABBEY] PARRY, J. D.
    [WOBURN ABBEY] PARRY, J. D.
    History and Description of Woburn and It's Abbey, Etc., Etc.. in the collection of His Grace the Duke of Bedford

    London Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green, London; S. Dodd, Woburn; and P.Wright, Brighton 1832

    xii pages, 2 leaves, 320 pages frontispiece, 6 double plates. New binding; quarter calf with raised bands and gilt titles on spine and marbled paper boards. New end papers etc. to make this an attractive copy of this comprehensive history of the estate and its family up to the early 19th century. Upper boards a little marked in places else a good copy. Written in two parts: Part 1 includes the history of the town and the ancient abbey; a biography of the Russell family; a sketch of the Gordon family; a description of the town and the vicinity of Woburn Estate. Part 2…

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    London Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green, London; S. Dodd, Woburn; and P.Wright, Brighton 1832

    xii pages, 2 leaves, 320 pages frontispiece, 6 double plates. New binding; quarter calf with raised bands and gilt titles on spine and marbled paper boards. New end papers etc. to make this an attractive copy of this comprehensive history of the estate and its family up to the early 19th century. Upper boards a little marked in places else a good copy. Written in two parts: Part 1 includes the history of the town and the ancient abbey; a biography of the Russell family; a sketch of the Gordon family; a description of the town and the vicinity of Woburn Estate. Part 2 addresses Woburn Abbey, its portraits, paintings, sculptures and the gardens and park. Pasted down onto front paste down is Eric Sextons FSA's book plate, opposite Josceline Groves bookplate on free end paper. Loosely inserted plate depicting the Duke of Bedford's Stables.

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    Stock ID: 22662
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  • [WOBURN ABBEY] PARRY John Docwra
    History and Description of Woburn and its Abbey etc etc Dedicated by permission to the Duke and Duchess of Bedford

    xii + 4 + 320pp, frontis and 5 double page lithographic views. Recent quarter calf, marbled boards. Very good copy.

    Stock ID: 22658
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