Hull Reckitt and Sons Ltd, 1924

96pp, b/w illus with captions. Small 4to wrappers, deckle edges, edges a little rubbed and dusty else very good indeed. Includes material on Hull Garden Village and the housing scheme for Employees. Illustrates house types, the shopping centre etc. and provides details on the objectives of the village. It also provides detail on their wider social , welfare and educational policies. Reckitt and Sons was a leading British manufacturer of household products, focusing on starch, black lead, laundry blue, and household polish, and based in Kingston upon Hull. Isaac Reckitt, who was a Quaker, began business in Hull in 1840, and his business became a private company "Isaac Reckitt and Sons" in 1879, and a public company in 1888. The company expanded through the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It merged with a major competitor in the starch market J. & J. Colman in 1938 to form Reckitt & Colman.

The Royal Institute of British Architects 1911

xx + 812pp +xipp period ads. Includes alphabetical list of authors who gave addresses and speeches etc. 8vo. Deckle edges.Gilt lettered cloth with ruled decoration on upper board. Good. Massive publication with detailed texts on London, Edinburgh Khartoum and Omdurman in a special studies section, Section on cities in the past. Large section on urban parks, traffic etc. civic ornamentation, city improvement and legal matters. Contributors include Pepler, Adshead, Geddes, W H McLean and other key figures in planning. Third section is the catalogue of an exhibition held at the Royal Academy of maps, plans drawings and models relating to town planning with a large section on the British garden city and housing provision.