London The Architectural Association 1980

46pp illustrated with b/w line ills. Square 4to. Very good copy. Useful summary of the work of the practice which was produced to accompany an exhibition. Biographical notes by Dean Hawkes. Hard to find.

Hastings Borough Council 1930

51pp illustrated. 11 illustrations including photographs and diagrams + fFold out colour plan in rear pocket which opens to 305x250mm. 4to. Cloth spine, boards with title on upper board. Very good copy. This was a grandiose plan for the town, which if it had been implemented would have made Hastings a very different town. The plan included a scheme for a new civic centre straddling Bohemia Road, incorporating a Museum and a Museum and Art Gallery, an ambitious sea front scheme with bathing pool and marina.

Harmondsworth Penguin Books 1939

Penguin 1st Printing . Printed Wrappers. Penguin original,1939, No S19 with touch of wear at corners. Spine and page edges are a little browned. No dust wrapper. Good copy.

Norwich and London Jarrold & Sons for the City Council. 1945

xii + 272pp, 83 b&w and colour plates, 31 diagrams and 14 graphs. 4to. Red lettered blue cloth Very good copy with good dust wrapper. Superbly produced and illustrated plan to guide post war development for Manchester City with significant sections on how to approach the housing and slum clearance issues. Written by the city surveyor and engineer, the plan presents the ideas for the future of Manchester. More details about this plan are presented were presented in 2017 by Jonathan Schofield, https://confidentials.com/manchester/manchester-plan-1945-the-biggest-manchester-redevelopment-plan-of-all-time

London HMO for the mInistry of Housing and local Government 1953

120pp illustrated with b/w line ills and plates. Perfect bound. Small 4to. Wrappers, a little rubbed at spine else good copy. Three major planning figures write on Village, Residential areas and City Centres respectively. Useful insights in the philosophy of planning in the immediate post World War II period alongside pragmatic solutions to post war planning issues of reconstruction and design.

London, Town and Country Planning Association 1987

xii + 164pp illustrated with 31 plates. Good in dust wrapper. His efforts led to the New Towns Act of 1946. He was a devotee of Ebenezer Howard. If Howard was the driving force behind the Garden Cities and Suburbs, it was Osborn who was the driving force behind the New Towns. A very informative book.

London Academy Editions 1996

256pp illus with colour and b/w plates. Foreword by Norman Foster. Large 4to. Fine in dust wrapper. Comprehensive review of the work of Gordon Cullen's 50 year career which pioneered design of urban space. Superbly illustrated and drawing widely on his original series of articles for Architectural Review. Hard to find. Armourial bookplate on front pastedown.

Hampstead Garden Suburb Issued by the General Organising Committee of the Hampstead Garden Suburb Jubillee. 1957

52pp, Stapled booklet including illustrations and period adverts. Yellow decorated wrappers, these a little worn and dusty else a good item. Introduction by Sir John Braithwaite [ President of the Jubilee events ] + articles by Leonard Hyman and Dr Nikolaus Pevsner. Includes map and list of suburb societies as well as the programme of events for the Jubilee.

Hampstead Garden Suburb Issued by the Residents Associations 1954

23pp illustrated with b/w plates. Centre fold is a pictorial map showing the suburb features and roads. Green wrappers, these stained. Stapled. The centre fold map has become detached at the staples nonetheless a really useful pamphlet illuminating who did what in terms of building and in which streets. Uncommon.

Borough Of Accrington 1950

186pp illustrated with maps, plans and diagrams and b/w photographs. Small 4to. Green cloth cover with gilt lettering on front cover and spine. Plan for post war reconstruction. Very good and interesting text by Allen and Mattocks.

London William Clowes & Sons 1884

160 + xIpp illustrated with fold out plan of the exhibition site and a second one showing the position of electric lighting. Many period ads. Wrapps worn and dusty and colour plan damaged on fold. Wrappers in poor condition. Useful content. Intended as a celebration – to show-off to the rest of the world – the great technological strides made by the Victorians in improving disease control, especially through better sanitation and water purification, for the improvement of the health of the nation, the Exhibition was held in South Kensington, on a site between the Royal Albert Hall and the newly-opened Natural History Museum. Four million people visited the Exhibition between 8 May and 30 October 1884.

County Borough of Birkenhead 1947

181pp, with superb colour plans including the plan itself in rear pocket. Black and white photographs and useful analytical texts. Large 4to. Yellow cloth. Very good copy. Post war reconstruction plan for Birkenhead. This was the culmination of Reilly's long career in civic design and planing which focused on Liverpool where he was chair of Architecture up until 1933.

Port Sunlight Lever Brothers Limited nd c. 1914

40pp, b/w plates with captions and includes a layout plan of Port Sunlight in 1914. The introductory text is a reprint of an address by W. H. Lever to the Architectural Association March 21st 1202. Long 4to. Decorated wrappers with ribbon tie. Wrappers a little rubbed and creased at the edges else vg. Illustrated souvenir to Port Sunlight stressing the value of co-operation. The images show the model settlement houses, the main community buildings and unlike a number of other of their publications shows full page images of the factory in operation including workers at work.

Zwemmer Ltd 1985. Series editor Peter Willis 1985

192pp illustrated with b/w line ills and photos. Wraps. Fine. Account of Unwin's life and career setting his life and work in the context of the radical thinkers and social philosphers of the end of the 19th century. Armorial bookplate on inside front cover.

Montague Mass. The Dyke Mill Press Carl Purington Rollins nd c1910

8pp pamphlet. 16mo. Green wrappers. Fragile at hinges. Text of a lecture given in Massachusetts advocating garden city ideas from Britain and referring extensively to Ebernezer Howard's books, Letchworth and the principles of cooperation.

London, B T Batsford 1906

xi + 68pp + 57 plates of plans, views and details with 6 further plans. Cloth a bit rubbed on spine and edges, but internally very good. Based on a paper related to Cottage Homes, read at the Architectural Association in 1904. Harvey was one of the main designers of the cottages at Bournville. In his foreword he suggests that the book did not do justice to the range of buildings at Bournville, but today it is considered one of the best period surveys of the village. It is particularly useful for its illustrations, including plans showing the layout of the cottages and the village itself.