Architecture

  • 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.

    Stock ID: 22691
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  • [INDUSTRIAL CONSTRUCTION METHODS] SHEPHERD BUILDING GROUP
    Spacemaker Housing with Spacemaker System of Building

    York Published by the firm 1967

    2 volumes. Spacemaker Housing comprises 19 single sided pages, including c8 with colour and black and white illustration. Spiral bound with abstract designed wrappers. Photographic illustrations show schemes in Chester, York and Richmond, Darlington and Middlesborough and the black and white layout drawings show internal floor plans of flats and hosues. Spacemaker System of Building comprises a series of three coloured folders each containing architect's plans for a variety of different types of homes; "point block", "standard high rise block" and "two storey housing". Good copies but with some minor wear on the corners. This system of building was developed by Donald Shepherd [ best known as associated with the invention of Portakabin]…

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    York Published by the firm 1967

    2 volumes. Spacemaker Housing comprises 19 single sided pages, including c8 with colour and black and white illustration. Spiral bound with abstract designed wrappers. Photographic illustrations show schemes in Chester, York and Richmond, Darlington and Middlesborough and the black and white layout drawings show internal floor plans of flats and hosues. Spacemaker System of Building comprises a series of three coloured folders each containing architect's plans for a variety of different types of homes; "point block", "standard high rise block" and "two storey housing". Good copies but with some minor wear on the corners. This system of building was developed by Donald Shepherd [ best known as associated with the invention of Portakabin] and became the basis of widespread contract developments for post war housing, particularly in the north of England including Leeds, Sheffield and Middlesborough. Shepherd Spacemaker concrete construction homes fall within the classifications relating to large panel system (LPS) dwellings where precast concrete walls were used to provide stability in frame structures.

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  • Squires' Homes and Other Buildings of Northamptonshire by GOTCH J Alfred
    GOTCH J Alfred
    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.

    Stock ID: 22685
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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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    Stock ID: 22648
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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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  • BEARD, Geoffrey
    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

    Stock ID: 21343
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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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  • Tatlin by ZHADOVA ALEKSEEVNA Larissa (Edited by)
    ZHADOVA ALEKSEEVNA Larissa (Edited by)
    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.

    Stock ID: 21676
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  • WEBB, Michael. SORKIN, Michael; WOODS, Lebbeus
    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 by BRANDWOOD, Geoffrey K.
    BRANDWOOD, Geoffrey K.
    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 by [THAMES HOUSE] BAINES, Sir Frank (Architect) WORMALD, Charles photographs by
    [THAMES HOUSE] BAINES, Sir Frank (Architect) WORMALD, Charles photographs by
    Thames House by the New Lambeth Bridge

    London Undated c1929

    Metal spiral bound. Stiff card wrappers which when opened out show a panorama of the New Lambeth Bridge and its relationship to Thames House. 240 x340mm Promotional booklet produced at the time of initial construction a description of the buildings which could be used to promote it office accommodation. 40 sepia photographs with captions. Shows parts of the building furnished and unfurnished. Effectively the whole building was two blocks linked by a bridge structure. At the time of publication, the offices of Pearson and Dorman Long Limited and the International Nickel Company of Canada Limited were in occupation. Their suites are illustrated. In a slightly worn custom made envelope. Thames House served as the ICI…

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    London Undated c1929

    Metal spiral bound. Stiff card wrappers which when opened out show a panorama of the New Lambeth Bridge and its relationship to Thames House. 240 x340mm Promotional booklet produced at the time of initial construction a description of the buildings which could be used to promote it office accommodation. 40 sepia photographs with captions. Shows parts of the building furnished and unfurnished. Effectively the whole building was two blocks linked by a bridge structure. At the time of publication, the offices of Pearson and Dorman Long Limited and the International Nickel Company of Canada Limited were in occupation. Their suites are illustrated. In a slightly worn custom made envelope. Thames House served as the ICI Headquarters till 1994. Part has been occupied by MI5.

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    Stock ID: 21287
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  • WILLIAMS-ELLIS, Clough.
    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 by SMITH, Carole
    SMITH, Carole
    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.

    Stock ID: 22426
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  • EDGELL G H
    The American Architecture of Today

    New York and London Charles Scribner's Sons 1928

    xxxi + 401pp illustrated with 374 b/w plates of the major modern buildings in the USA. The focus is on public buildings including banks, town halls and capitols, churches, expositions, court houses, clubs, office buildings and related commercial structures and hotels although also includes a large selection of houses. Contemporary with the construction of many of the buildings features this is a useful look at the new city buildings of the USA in the inter war period and features all the major firms as well as others who have sunk into oblivion. Green cloth. Square 4to. Gilt lettered. Slightly rubbed on spine. This copy has stamps of the City of…

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    New York and London Charles Scribner's Sons 1928

    xxxi + 401pp illustrated with 374 b/w plates of the major modern buildings in the USA. The focus is on public buildings including banks, town halls and capitols, churches, expositions, court houses, clubs, office buildings and related commercial structures and hotels although also includes a large selection of houses. Contemporary with the construction of many of the buildings features this is a useful look at the new city buildings of the USA in the inter war period and features all the major firms as well as others who have sunk into oblivion. Green cloth. Square 4to. Gilt lettered. Slightly rubbed on spine. This copy has stamps of the City of Portsmouth surveyors office on fep and prelims else a very good copy.

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    Stock ID: 1729
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  • BYRON Robert (1905-1941)
    The Appreciation of Architecture

    London Wishart & Co 1932

    63pp illus with 16 b/w plates, quarter cloth with decorated boards. Good copy. Overprinted but incomplete and rather glassine wrapper present on this copy with list of upcoming publications by Wishart and Co. on inner fold of glassine wrapper. Title of book also printed on the overprinted wrapper. An appreciation of architecture is a strong element in Byron's writings and he was an articulate advocate for the preservation of historic buildings and founding member of the Georgian Group. Best known for the book "Road to Oxiana" but this relatively early polemic is informative about his views on architectural history and art history in his short life. Book plate of Colin Amery on front end…

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    London Wishart & Co 1932

    63pp illus with 16 b/w plates, quarter cloth with decorated boards. Good copy. Overprinted but incomplete and rather glassine wrapper present on this copy with list of upcoming publications by Wishart and Co. on inner fold of glassine wrapper. Title of book also printed on the overprinted wrapper. An appreciation of architecture is a strong element in Byron's writings and he was an articulate advocate for the preservation of historic buildings and founding member of the Georgian Group. Best known for the book "Road to Oxiana" but this relatively early polemic is informative about his views on architectural history and art history in his short life. Book plate of Colin Amery on front end paper. [ Designed by Gavin Stamp.] Name in pen of Margaret Jack also on end paper.

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    Stock ID: 21171
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  • WATKIN, David.
    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 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.

    Stock ID: 22448
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  • The Architecture of George G. Pace by PACE, Peter.
    PACE, Peter.
    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

    Stock ID: 19185
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  • BRANDWOOD, Geoff.
    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.

    Stock ID: 21672
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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.

    Stock ID: 22298
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