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Uncle John Carr: The diaries of his Great-nieces, Harriet and Amelia Clark
York Georgian Society Millenium Project 2000
73pp illustrated with b/w photographs. Wraps. very good. Records the tours of John Carr's nieces which he took them on. Important for the descriptions of life and country houses of the period.
Stock ID: 21950More details Price: £10.00 -
Underground Design:
London The Architectural Association Folio X 1986
32pp. 19 separate cards as issued, 18 b/w and one colour which is signed by the artist. Original white wire-stitched card wrappers, titles to front cover black. Introductory essay by Peter Cook, conversations between Eduardo Paolozzi and Alvin Boyarsky, and script by Eduardo Paolozzi. 320x320mm Black box with white overprinted illustration. Box a little faded. Internally very good. This item was produced to coincide with an exhibition of Paolozzi's Tottenham Court Road underground station mural project held at the Royal Academy of Arts, London.
Stock ID: 21524More details Price: £550.00 -
Village Clubs and Halls
Country Life 1920
xii + 112 + (2)pp illustrated with b/w plates. Cloth backed boards. A little rubbed on spine else good copy. Previous owner's bookplate on paste down. Includes a list of architects whose designs were included in the book such as Brierley, Morley Horder, Ernest Newton and many others. Fascinating design ideas and the philosophy of the village community in the inter-war period is demonstrated in this text.
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Villages of Vision
London The Architectural Press Ltd 1975
152pp illustrated with b/w plates. Large 4to. Very good with good dust wrapper. Hard to find and comprehensive study of model settlements in the UK, particularly Estate Villages. It throws light upon the ideas of philanthropy which surrounded their construction and many important aspects of rural social history. Useful gazetteer at the end. Ownership signature of the late "Stewart Evans" on front end paper.
Stock ID: 21258More details Price: £65.00 -
Vladivostok A Trilogy
New York Rizzoli International Publications, 1989
272pp illustrated. Decorated wrappers. Small stain on upper wrapper else a very good copy Text in English and Russian. Loosely inserted is an invitation to a memorial to him to be held at The Cooper Union Foundation Building and an associated printed letter sent out to Alumni.
Stock ID: 21688More details Price: £300.00 -
W.D. Caröe: his architectural archievement
Manchester Unniversity Press 1990
258pp, illus with b/w frontis of the architect + b/w plates and line ills. Very good in dust wrapper that has been splattered with black ink. Assesses the career of this Edwardian architect, who worked for the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, private clients and was a key figure in the development of the building conservation movement at the time.
Stock ID: 21948More details Price: £25.00 -
W Hablik Designer, Utopian Architect, Expressionist Architect 1881 -1934
London The Architectural Association 1980
48pp illus with b/w line ills. Small square 4to. Decorated wrappers. Essay + list of exhibits.
Stock ID: 15940More details Price: £10.00 -
William Burges and the High Victorian Dream
London John Murray, 1981
454pages illustrated with b/w plates. Fine in Fine dust wrapper. First edition of this comprehensive reference book on William Burges. Scarce.
Stock ID: 21732More details Price: £85.00 -
William Stukeley: An Eighteenth Century Antiquary
London Thames and Hudson [1950] 1985
Revised and enlarged. With 44 illustrations. Armourial bookplate on front paste down.
Stock ID: 21666More details Price: £22.00 -
Working-class Housing in the 19th century Britain
London Lund Humphries for the Architectural Association 1971
AA paper Number 7. 105pp illustrated with b/w plates. 4to. Boards. Very good indeed with dust wrapper. This slightly worn. Ex library Prince of Wales Architecture School with paper bookplate and class mark on spine. From the collection of Colin Amery. Very useful study of perceptions of working class housing in the 19th century as a social problem and the steps by which it became a matter of social concern. The paper looks how a range of solutions grew out of the perception of the problems - model housing schemes, model settlements, public housing etc.
Stock ID: 21285More details Price: £50.00 -
Works II
London, Architectural Association 1984
116pp with b/w sketches, diagrams and photographs throughout. Square 4to in wraps, Very small chip at head of spine else a very good copy. A scarce collection of writings by Price and others, outlining his philosophy and considering some of his major projects. The architect's frenetic sketches and tabbed pages make this an interesting piece of design as well as a valuable first hand account of this prominent member of Archigram. Published to accompany an exhibition held at the Architectural Association in 1984.
Stock ID: 21503More details Price: £125.00 -
Wych Cross Place
Stock ID: 21241More details Price: £225.00