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Some Dorset Manor Houses
With their Literary and Historical Associations
London Bemrose and Sons Ltd 1907
Illustrated with Forty Drawings by Sidney Heath and Rubbings from Sepulchral Brasses by W. De. D. Prideaux. Red cloth covered boards with gilt lettering. Top edge gilt. Large 4to. Upper board faded on one corner. Spine also marginally faded. Corners a little bumped and some general, random foxing particularly through early pages of the book. A couple of the b/w plates are loose. Good. And a comprehensive overview of most of the houses in the county. Bookplate of Josceline Grove on front paste down.
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Spacemaker Housing
with Spacemaker System of Building
Stock ID: 21283More details Price: £65.00
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Squires' Homes and Other Buildings of Northamptonshire
Being a companion volume to "The Old Halls & Manor Houses of Northamptonshire"
London B.T. Batsford, Ltd. 1939
xvi + 52pp. Fully illustrated with b/w 133 plates from photographs and drawings. Maroon cloth covered boards with gilt lettering. Spine a little faded and bumped at top. Last two gatherings beginning to come loose and front hinge cracked slightly. Good otherwise. And a scarce item. Previous owners bookplate - Josceline Grove - and his description of the book pasted down on front paste down. "October 1939"also written in neat hand on bottom edge of front paste down.
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Stainborough & Rockley: their historical associations and rural attractions.
Stock ID: 22648More details Price: £170.00
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Stephen Dykes Bower
London RIBA Publishing 2011
Twentieth Century Architects Series. Foreword by Alan Powers. Colour and black and white images throughout. Soft cover. Paper wraps. Very good. Ink mark from printer/end of paper roll on upper and verso of inside cover, else looks unread.
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Stucco and Decorative Plasterwork in Europe
London Thames and Hudson 1983
224 pp illustrated with photographic illustrations including some in colour. Small 4to. Very good with dust wrapper. Draws widely on Classical, Baroque and Rococo examples throughout Europe
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Suburban Style: The British Home 1840-1960
London Guild Publishing 1987
224pp illus with b/w plates and line ills. Square 4to. Vg in wrappers. Useful and very well illustrated overview on all the elements of the suurban houses and its details including fittings and fixtures. More than 300 photographs with 100 in colour. List of sockists for elements at the back.
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Tatlin
London Thames and Hudson 1988
533pp b/w + colour illustrations. 4to. Black cloth boards with red embossed title on the spine + embossed publisher's logo on the upper board. Illustrated dust wrapper, slightly rubbed in places else a very good copy. An extensive analysis of Tatlin's work with over 500 colour and b/w illustrations. Foreword by K. M. Simonov, a speech that opened Tatlin's exhibition in Moscow 1977.
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Temple Island
London The Architectural Association 1987
56pp illustrated. White decorated wrappers. Produced to accompany an exhibition of original drawings by Michael Webb held at the Architectural Association in London from 30 April to 23 May 1987. Hard to find. A founding member of the London Archigram group, Mike Webb subsequently moved to New York. His Temple Island study uses the form and proportions of the classical folly that sits on Temple Island near Henley and the grid structure of the Regatta course markers to create a world of objects that move close to the speed of light.
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Temple Moore, an Architect of the Late Gothic Revival
Stamford Paul Watkins 1997
ix, 310pp. 214 bw illustrations of photographic plates on non-numbered pages at the rear of the book. 8vo. Black cloth with gilt title on spine, very good dust wrapper. Essay on Gothic Revival architect Temple Moore, small section of biography, influences and responses with the focus of the book being on church architecture and fittings work with bw architectural plans in the text and lots of photographic reference.
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Thames House by the New Lambeth Bridge
Stock ID: 21287More details Price: £45.00
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The Adventure of Building
Being something about Architecture and Planning for Intelligent Young Citizens and their Backward Elders
London The Architectural Press 1946
With drawings by Edward Robson. 90pp illustrated in duotone illustrations, some full page. Small 4to. Cloth. Edge worn dust wrapper which is chipped at head and base of spine. Protected in glassine wrapper.
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The Almshouses of York
York: Quacks Books 2011
168pp with colour photographs throughout. New. Wraps copy. A new study tracing the thousand year history of almshouses in York. The second half of the volume is a useful gazetteer containing descriptions of fifty foundations in the city and its environs, many no longer extant.
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The American Architecture of Today
Stock ID: 1729More details Price: £48.00
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The Appreciation of Architecture
Stock ID: 21171More details Price: £65.00
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The Architect King
George III and the Culture of the Enlightenment
London Royal Collections Publications 2004
224pp, b/w & colour illustrations including colour portrait of the King as frontispiece. Small 4to. VG in dust wrapper. Private owner's book-plate. A close analysis of the King's contribution to the area that interested him most deeply - architectural design. George III's lifelong involvement in building and landscaping is placed in the context of his keen support for manufacturing, the scientific revolution and agricultural development.
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The Architecture of Colin Campbell
Manchester University Press 1967
186pp + 141 plates in b/w grouped at the end of the text. Small 4to. Cloth. Very good in sl. worn dw with tiny chip on front cover . Best known for Vitruvius Britannicus, Campbell had a wide ranging architectural career besides and this book is concerned with his significance as the first Georgian Palladian. Hard to find.
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The Architecture of George G. Pace
London: B T Batsford, 1990
288 pages, 300 b&w and 14 colour photographs, 100 line drawings and plans plus bibliography and references. Boards in dust jacket, vg. A detailed account of the built and written works of the 20th-century architect, George G Pace. Many of Pace's ideas raise issues at the heart of today's debates about modern architecture and design, and this volume throws light on the fundamentals of church architecture and furnishings from new churches to conserving ancient cathedrals. Includes a useful gazetteer of projects. The author, Peter Pace, is George Pace's son, and is himself an architect specialising in the conservation of churches and other ancient buildings
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The Architecture of Sharpe, Paley and Austin
London English Heritage 2012
282pp illustrated with colour and b/w photographs by Mark Watson. Contributions to the text by Tim Austin, John Hughes, James Price. Important study of this Lancaster based practice with details on how the firm developed in the second half of the 19th century and onwards into the early 20th century. Bookplate of David Hinge.
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The Art of Garnishing Churches at Christmas and Other Times
A Manual of Directions
London Cox Sons, Buckley & Co. 1882
70pp. 25 plates. Plus a 15-page appendix of a few materials which could be obtained from Cox and Sons etc. The Strand which is essentially a trade catalogue section. Royal 8vo. Red decorated cloth. A little shaky on spine and binding a little dusty. End papers are adverts.
Stock ID: 22298More details Price: £55.00