London The Architectural Association, printed by Lund Humphries. 1948-1950

Short run of this sporadic and fascinating periodical comprising. 1,2, 3,4,5,6.7 and 8. Each issue, decorated wrappers and spiral bound. No two issues produced by the same group of people. No 1 includes material on Function and Arabesque, the CIAM Congress of 1947, Pimlico Housing Scheme [Powell and Moya] and other commentary on post war reconstruction and the possible contribution of students. Cover design by Ian Baker. No 2 includes contribution by Walter Gropius. No 3 has lead article by Felix Samuely. No 4 includes material on St Pancras Way housing scheme amongst other features. No 5 includes contributions by Ian Colquhoun, James Dartford, Ronald H. Sims and Gordon Mitchell. Includes major article on the London bus types and developments, national planning and schools. Contributors included Jeffrey Jellicoe amongst others. No 6 was produced by a group of 13 students including Andrew Derbyshire, John Killick and Hugh Morris amongst others, and is themed around Architecture, Building an Education. No 7 is a study of the position of Architecture in our time "in the broadest possible terms." 14 students in the group producing this edition. No 8 includes a leading article by Bruce Martin on "How to Build" photographically illustrated, with additional articles on Stevenage and the history of flight. The last two issues listed here were published as additions to this series in 1951, with a Birmingham Editorial group from the School of Architecture, Birmingham and which, according to Hugh Pagan "have a more radical edge." No 9, 1951 includes piece by Charles Madge of Mass Observation. No 10 1951, green wrappers. The new editorial group, acknowledged the work of the previous editors and pledged to continue the publication. However after no 10 it changed format and arguably content.

London The Architectural Press September and October 1905

Issue 106:xliv +101-144pp illustrated Issue 107 xxx +vxv period ads and some texts, [2] 147-192 xxvii-xliv. Both include detailed articles and photos on: Cheap Cottages Exhibition. Other articles in no 106 inlcude pieces on on leadwork, Irish ecclesiastical architecture and the Hague Peace Palace. Issue 107 includes articles on architectural education [pp154-169]; the London traffic commission report; Iona Cathedral; church of St Mary-the-Virgin, Summerstown; St John's Institute; Irish ecclesiastical architecture; book reviews: Stiff printed paper covers, paginated with monochrome illustration, black and red text and titles. 360x285mm. Spines worn head and tail, small loss to the tail of the 1907 binding and the cover has some light marks and is slightly foxed. Useful review of the exhibition at Letchworth which is the lead article in the magazine. Both issues have substantial sections on section on the Cheap Cottages Exhibition. Within the preliminary pages of issue 107 includes pp x-xvi amongst the advertisements, the Report of the Judges. These issues of the journal were made contemporaneously with the exhibition so are period reviews of the buildings.