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Piper's Places: John Piper in England and Wales
London: Chatto & Windus . The Hogarth Press. 1983.
184 pp. with 144 Fine plates, almost all in colour and some specially made for this book. 4to. Very good copy in good dust wrapper. Superbly produced anthology of places visited and painted by John Piper.
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Presweld Construction for Schools 3'4 grid Mark III
Trade Catalogue
Stock ID: 21137More details Price: £30.00
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Progressive Architecture: Eisenman and Graves
Stamford Reinhold Publishing March 1972
no 3. 162pp illustrated with line ills and colour and b/w photographs and including period ads. Colour wrappers: Diptych by Michael Graves representing his work on right and that of Eisenman's on left. Features a key article by Eisenman and Graves entitled "On Reading Architecture." Other articles consider the water front at Rochester USA by Frank Schlesinger, an addition to a school in St PAul by Benjamin Thompson + book reviews and editorial.
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Property Division Occasional Report
London 1984
Unpaginated. c40pp pamphlet, coloured wrappers, stapled. Illustrated in b/w and colour and with plans of church layouts. Looks at the adaptation of old and design of new church spaces for the Methodists. Very good. Images accompanied by captions listing architects and builders. English projects in the main.
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Proposed Hotel for J. J. Hunt [ The Imperial Hotel, York]
Stock ID: 22350More details Price: £280.00
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Purcell & Elmslie Prairie Progressive Architects
Layton, Utah Gibbs Smith 2006
192pp. Copiously illustrated in colour. Octavo in very good dust wrapper. Bronze cloth covered boards with white titling. A comprehensive study of the eminent American architect firm of William Gray Purcell and George Grant Elmslie. Fine
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Rational Building, Being a Translation of the Article "Construction" in the Dictionnaire Raisonne de l'Architecture Francaise
New York and London, Macmillan 1895
Translated by George Martin Huss. xii + 367pp illustrated with b/w line illustrations. Introduction summarises the life and works of Viollet le Duc. THe remainder is a very useful translation of the section of his Dictionnaire into English concerning construction methods. Topical given the current restoration of Notre Dame which he restored in the period c1846-1856.
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Raymond Erith Architect.
Burford, The Cygnet Press 1985
234pp illus 206 b/w photographs and plans. 4to. Wrappers. Good copy. Comprises a comprehensive selection of Erith's unpublished writings on architectural theory and practice, a biographical introduction and chronological list of his works. A mid twentieth century classicist in the midst of the modern movement whose work includes Jack Straw's cottage on Hampstead Heath and the reconstruction of Nos 10, 11 and 12 Downing Street.
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Raymond Myerscough-Walker Architect and Perspectivist
London The Architectural Association 1984
48pp illustrated with b/w photographs and line ills. Square small 4to. Decorated wrappers. Useful overview on the life and work of Myserscough Walker.
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Re:Working Eisenman
London, Academy Editions 1993
208pp with 140 illustrations, mostly in colour. Cloth, near fine in similar d/w. Collects together writings by and about Eisenman, including work by key authors such as Jacques Derrida and A. Benjamin. A fascinating record of the intersections between philosophy and practice in Eisenman's groundbreaking work.
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Recollections: The Life and Travels of a Victorian Architect
Sir Thomas Graham Jackson.
London, Unicorn Press 2003
xvi + 334pp illustrated with b/w plates and has decorated end papers. Very good with dust wrapper. Includes an Introduction and Gazetteer of the Buildings by James Bettley. Fine in dust wrapper. The manuscripts of Thomas Graham Jackson are in the possession of the family and it is his grandson who has been the force behind this title.
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Residential Flats of All Classes including Artisans' Dwellings
London, B T Batsford 1905
xiv +267pp illus. with b/w plates and plans including some fold outs. Royal 8vo. Sympathetically rebacked preserving original spine. New end papers. Examples of important examples by leading architects in England, the Continent and America. Many special photographs. Scarce and important study of mansion house block etc.
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Richard Norman Shaw
Yale University Press 1978
487pp illus. with 291 plates. Sm 4to. Very good copy. Good in good dw which is slightly sunned. Hard to find. Definitive biography of Norman Shaw.
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Road Architecture: The need for a plan
London, RIBA 1939
79 pp with b/w photo illustrations & diagrams, plus lxiipp period adverts. 4to. Original wrappers. Slightly rubbed at head and base of spine. Bottom front corner of wrapper c 2cm ripped away else a very good copy of this scarce item. RIBA Catalogue this focused exhibition designed by James Gardner. Hard to find. Introduced by Goodhart-Rendel, the catalogue addressed the problems of deteriorating roads in the UK in cities and towns as well as addressing the issues relating to the design of motorways.
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Rococo Architecture in Southern Germany
Phaedon 1968
428pp+218 b/w photographs. Large 4to with d/w. Includes detailed studies of the ASAM AND schmuzer families, and the archiects Johann Georg Fischer Peter II Thumb, Johann Michael Fischer and J.B.Neumann.
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Rufford Abbey, Nottingham, Catalogue of The Rufford Collection
Including treasures acquired by the ancestors of the Savile family during three centuries : to be sold on the premises by Messrs Knight, Frank & Rutley in conjunction with Messrs. Christie, Manson & Woods, on Tuesday the 11th day of October 1938, and 9 subsequent days ...
London Knight, Frank & Rutley with Christie, Manson & Woods 1938
202pp. Frontispiece and 14 photographic plates. Octavo. Paper Wraps. New end papers. Cover discoloured and a little chipped around edges. Top of spine bumped. Some marks (chocolate?) on upper and verso wraps. Internally very crisp. With ink-written sale prices of some of the items. Numerous magazine cuttings and correspondence to and from Josceline Grove loosely inserted into book. Book plate and book and its purchase description on front paste down. "A Melancholy record of one the most important dispersal's between the wars." [Grove]
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Rules for Drawing the Several Parts of Architecture
London Hodder and Stoughton Limited ((1932) 1947
xxivpp intro +111pp illustrated. Very good Useful cut down facsimile version of the 1732 version of this book.
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Ruskin at Venice:
A Lecture given during the Ruskin Commemoration at Venice September 21 1905
London George Allen 1906
70+[2]pp adverts. Wrappers. Very good copy. Text translated by Mrs Frederic Harrison
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Samuel Buck's Yorkshire Sketchbook
Wakefield Historical Publications 1979
xii + 420pp illustrated with b/w plates. 4to. Vg in dw. Important facsimile illustrating Yorkshire's middling and larger houses and their gardens before so many were remodelled or enlarged. The sketches were commissioned between 1719-1723 by John Warburton, historian and antiquarian.
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Sanctuaries: The last works of John Hejduk
Selections from the John Hedjuk Archive at the Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal and the Menil Collection, Houston
New York Abrams for Whitney Museum of Art 2003
104pp illustrated with colour illustrations. Very good with very good dust wrapper which is very slightly sunned on spine. Hejduk's last works explored themes of falls from grace, itinerancy, passage & transformation, & - above all - architecture as sanctuary.
Stock ID: 22025More details Price: £165.00