Architecture

  • SYMONDSON Anthony and BUCKNALL Stephen
    Sir Ninian Comper

    Spire Books and the Ecclesiological Society 2006

    336pp illustrated with b/w plates. Small 4to. Very good in dust wrapper. One of 10 copies published for the family. The dust wrapper is illustrating Comper's church interior at St Mary's Wellingborough. Comper (1864-1960 was one of the great Gothic Revival architects. The study includes a complete gazetteer of some 600 entries and a reprint of Comper's influential essay "Atmosphere of a Church".

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  • [MANCHESTER]
    Sketch book no.1 Old Town Hall Manchester.

    Manchester London; New York; Bombay: University Press; Longmans, Green & Co 1915

    [8] p., 19 plates: ill. ; 51 cm. loose leaf unbound as issued. Folio. In 1912 the Joint Architecture Committee, consisting of representatives of the Education Committee, the University, the Schools of Technology and Art, and the Society of Architects of Manchester, issued a portfolio of measured drawings. The Committee proposed to continue the publication of students' work by issuing a sketch book in an enlarged and considerably altered form. The present is the first number ... Achd. C. Dickie, Director of the School. With this group of plates and their introduction is the first plates of the intended new publication on Manchester Town Hall. It was…

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    Manchester London; New York; Bombay: University Press; Longmans, Green & Co 1915

    [8] p., 19 plates: ill. ; 51 cm. loose leaf unbound as issued. Folio. In 1912 the Joint Architecture Committee, consisting of representatives of the Education Committee, the University, the Schools of Technology and Art, and the Society of Architects of Manchester, issued a portfolio of measured drawings. The Committee proposed to continue the publication of students' work by issuing a sketch book in an enlarged and considerably altered form. The present is the first number ... Achd. C. Dickie, Director of the School. With this group of plates and their introduction is the first plates of the intended new publication on Manchester Town Hall. It was designed by Francis Goodwin in a Grecian Style in King Street 1822-24 with a colonnaded façade and demolished in 1912. The colonnade was removed to Heaton Park, Manchester where it still stands as a folly beside the boating lake.

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  • Small Country Houses of Today Volume 1 by WEAVER Lawrence
    WEAVER Lawrence
    Small Country Houses of Today Volume 1

    London: Country Life., 1910

    (xi1), 214 pp. 10pp period ads. Illsutrated with 100s of black and white photographic illustrations, 4to. Good copy a little faded on spine else very good. Hard to find in this condition. Useful study of contemporary country houses designs. The first of a series of volumes on small houses.

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  • Some Dorset Manor Houses by HEATH, Sidney and PRIDEAUX, W.de. C.
    HEATH, Sidney and PRIDEAUX, W.de. C.
    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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  • (WENTWORTH CASTLE) ANON
    Stainborough & Rockley: their historical associations and rural attractions.

    London: John Gray Bell 1853

    91pp including list of subscribers +12pp catalogue of books published or sold by John Gray Bell. Small 8vo. Frontis shows the front of Wentworth Castle. Tissue guarded plates of the house and grounds throughout text. Green embossed cloth with gilt decorated spine. A little rubbed at head of spine. Hard to find country house guide book to Wentworth Castle and the surrounding landscape, the centre of a recent restoration scheme, and now managed by the National Trust. Also useful for Rockley, which is a detached landscape, overshadowed by huge 18th century pile that is Wentworth Castle [ reworked around an earlier house ], its garden buildings and landscape layout. Dedicated to F W R…

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    London: John Gray Bell 1853

    91pp including list of subscribers +12pp catalogue of books published or sold by John Gray Bell. Small 8vo. Frontis shows the front of Wentworth Castle. Tissue guarded plates of the house and grounds throughout text. Green embossed cloth with gilt decorated spine. A little rubbed at head of spine. Hard to find country house guide book to Wentworth Castle and the surrounding landscape, the centre of a recent restoration scheme, and now managed by the National Trust. Also useful for Rockley, which is a detached landscape, overshadowed by huge 18th century pile that is Wentworth Castle [ reworked around an earlier house ], its garden buildings and landscape layout. Dedicated to F W R V Wentworth. This copy has an inscription on the front end paper and paste down Alfred Broadbent, Thurgoland near Barnsley Yorkshire 3rd Septemebr 1853. He was one of the subscibers listed at the end.

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  • Stephen Dykes Bower by SYMONDSON, Anthony
    SYMONDSON, Anthony
    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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  • BARRETT Helena and PHILLIPS John
    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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  • [SULGRAVE MANOR] SMITH, H Clifford
    Sulgrave Manor and the Washingtons: a history and guide to the tudor home of George Washington's Ancestors

    London Jonathan Cape 1933

    260pp illus with cxvpp b/w plates and further text ills. 4to. Gilt lettered and green cloth. Some pages uncut. Foreword by Viscount Lee of Fareham. Corners sl. rubbed else very good copy. Bookpate of Josceline Grove on front paste down and a description of the book pasted-down onto f.e.p. Detailed account of the house and garden and its purchase and in 1914.

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  • Sydney Opera House Glass Walls by (UTZON) SOWDEN, Harry.
    (UTZON) SOWDEN, Harry.
    Sydney Opera House Glass Walls

    London Cassell & Co. Ltd (1972, New York) 1974

    192 pp. b/w photographs, architectural drawings, maps and plans throughout. Long 4to. White cloth boards with black lettering, in decorated glassine dust wrapper. Good copy although slight discolouration at cloth edges and glassine wrapper has tears at spine and partly missing against back board. Photographic record of the design and manufacture of the Sydney Opera House glass walls, carried out by the author during their construction. The design won the Engineering Excellence Award of 1972 by the Association of Consulting Engineers of Australia. With detailed captions and brief descriptive chapters. From the library of Winston Barnett Architects, with ownership ticket inside front cover.

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  • The Architecture of Colin Campbell by (CAMPBELL) STUTCHBURY Howard E
    (CAMPBELL) STUTCHBURY Howard E
    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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  • [NEUTRA] DREXLER Arthur & HINES Thomas S
    The Architecture of Richard Neutra from International Style to California Modern

    New York MOMA 1982

    114pp illustrated with b/w plates throughout. Square 4to. Wrappers. A little worn on the wrappers else very good.

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  • The Art of Garnishing Churches at Christmas and Other Times by GELDART, Ernest
    GELDART, Ernest
    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.

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  • The Castles on the Ground by RICHARDS J.M.
    RICHARDS J.M.
    The Castles on the Ground

    London Architectural Press 1946 Ist edition

    86pp illustrated with a series of original lithographs by John Piper and in a dust wrapper designed by Piper. Good in sl. frayed but generally very good dw. A wonderful book about the suburbs with great Piper images.

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  • MYLES WRIGHT H. and GARDNER-MEDWIN R
    The Design of Nursery and Elementary Schools

    London The Architectural Press 1938

    First edition120pp illus with b/w plates including plans and elevations of the modern school. Large 4to. Open weave cloth. Slightly dusty at edges else a bright copy of this survey of contemporary school design thoughout the UK. Despite thte title the text also covers junior and senior schools. Useful case studies.

    Stock ID: 9393
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  • [DUKERIES] WHITE, Robert.
    The Dukery Records being notes and memoranda illustrative of Nottinghamshire's Ancient History,

    Worksop Pirvately printed 1904

    452pp illustrated. 4to. Brown cloth, gilt titles on upper board. Spine slightly faded and with some water marks. Bookplate of Josceline Grove, along with his description of the book on front paste down. Internally very good. With crisp illustrations. Notes on the Barony of Grove, Nottinghamshire and a letter about the cost of the book loosely slipped into the pages. Robert White ( born 1820 ) of Worksop was a renowned author and biographer famous for his directories and histories of Nottinghamshire. This publication is a valuable compendium of ancient topographical information on Nottinghamshire which was much altered by the spread of industrialisation and the impact of the motorcar.

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  • From the collection of Robert Matthew [BUCKMINSTER FULLER] MARKS, Robert W
    The Dymaxion World of Bukminster Fuller

    South Illinois University Press 1960

    232pp illustrated with b/w plates and line illustrations. Small 4to. Decorated end papers. With two loosely inserted headed pieces of writing paper from Robert Matthew 31 Regent Terrace Edinburgh which are covered in sketches relating to geodesic dome designs in black pen. Also loosely inserted is a press cutting on Buckminster Fuller from Building Design 2005. From the library of Robert Matthew. Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion structures, are those that yield the greatest possible efficiency in terms of available technology. His inventions included a Dymaxion car, Geodesic Domes, and dwellings. Useful review and critique of his philosophies and works.

    Stock ID: 22221
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  • SHUFFREY L A
    The English Fireplace

    Batsford, London, 1912.

    234 pp. 130 collotype plates by W Galsworthy Davie, and many illustrations in the text. Blue blind embossed buckram boards. Only edition. A little faded on the spine.

    Stock ID: 22363
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  • MUIR Richard
    The English Village

    London Thames and Hudson c.1980

    208pp, b/w & col. photographs. 4to. Cloth with photographic dw. dust wrapper sl. creased to top edge, else very good. From the library of Alec Clifton-Taylor, although without his signature or inscription. Markings in ink throughout the text. The village throughout history.

    Stock ID: 15062
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  • BRIGGS R. A
    The Essentials of a Country House

    London B T Batsford 1911

    xii + 88pp + 58 b/w plates, [4} + catalogue of selected Batsford titles on art, architecture and design at the end. 8vo. Cloth with gilt decorated titles. Individual houses illustrated which were actually built with a plan, and images, often including garden plans for each. Useful for case studies as well as general principles of design in the immediate pre World War I period.

    Stock ID: 22109
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  • COLVIN Howard M (General Editor)
    The History of the Kings Works

    London HMSO 1963-1973

    6 volumes plus plans. Vols.I and II: The Middle Ages; Vol.III: 1485-1660 (Part I); Vol.IV: 1485-1660 (Part II); Vol.V: 1660-1782; 4 large scale plans 1-IV in plan box, Dust wrappers rather worn else a good set. From the collection of Beric Morley.

    Stock ID: 22615
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