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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.
Stock ID: 22467More details Price: £45.00 -
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.
Stock ID: 23851More details Price: £85.00 -
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.
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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.
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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 It draws on thousands of unpublished letters and drawings to recreate his life and work as architect, propagandist and romantic artist as well as the turbulent story of his three marriages, the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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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.
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.
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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
Spire Books 2012
342pp illustrated. Very good with dust wrapper
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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: 23716More details Price: £45.00 -
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.
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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.
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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.
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History and Description of Woburn and It's Abbey, Etc., Etc..
in the collection of His Grace the Duke of Bedford
Stock ID: 22662More details Price: £185.00 -
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: 22658More details Price: £145.00
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