Standard Catalogue Limited 1963

pp401-448 + 100s of period ads. 4 to. Decorated wrappers. Very good copy. Special issue of Architectural Design dedicated to Mexico. Information supplied by Jorge Gleason. Illustrated with many b/w plates and line ills. Includes lead article by Carlos Mijares on Mexican contemporary architecture + case studies relating to urban renewal, office and welfare buildings.

1976

Coloured screenprint. Signed and dated "76" and number 6/75. 483x 488. Printed by the artist and Audrey Dalby as the Design School, Department of Fine Art, University of Newcastle upon Tyne and published by the artist in an edition of 75. Framed. Fabulous image. The print was made after specially prepared photographs of the similarly entitled construction made in 1974 ('West Front, Durham' 1974, Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne). Copy in the Tate collection [P02836] and the Tate catalogue provides a long explanation of the print making process which Rowntree said was "quite unlilke" other prints he had made exploring the relationship between lettering and piantwork. Framed See: www.tate.org.uk/servlet/ViewWork?cgroupid=999999961&workid=13002&searchid=12256&tabview=text.

London Lund Humphries 1969

168pp with 73 b/w + 11 colour plates. Small 4to red cloth boards with illustrated slightly worn, price clipped dust wrapper. The five portfolios originally issued under the series title Neue Europäische Graphik are reproduced here together with notes. The book also provides useful profiles of the artists. Among those represented are Chagall, Chirico, Feininger, Kandinksy Schwitters and many more.

Edinburgh 1963

Pen and Ink Drawing. In black frame, mounted behind glass. With stamp of Foulis Gallery on verso and hand written picture title. Paper a little aged. New mount and frame preserving original label. Richard Demarco is an artist, writer, producer and director of programmes and projects of theatre and visual art. Born in Scotland in 1930 with ancestors from Ireland, France and Italy, he initiated and activated new, forward-looking collaborations across Europe in the legacy of WWII, and since the 1950s has practised as a leading European advocate for contemporary art. He was a co-founder of the Edinburgh based Traverse Theatre in 1963 and in 1966 founded his own gallery in the city. [Closed 1992]

Settle privately published 2QT 2020

275pp, 295 illustrations in colour. Decorated wrappers featuring Lethaby's Herefordshire masterpiece, All Saints, Brockhampton. Square 4to. 210 x 210mm The Arts and Crafts Movement is less well known for its public buildings than domestic projects. Many of the leading personalities were commissioned to design or decorate churches, and these too were highly influential on subsequent architectural developments. Their patrons played a key role in bringing these revolutionary buildings into being. The book examines the churches as a group, the influences of designers on each other, and assess their impact on design in the the 20th century and after.

Settle privately published 2QT 2020

275pp, 295 illustrations in colour. Decorated wrappers featuring Lethaby's Herefordshire masterpiece, All Saints, Brockhampton. Square 4to. 210 x 210mm The Arts and Crafts Movement is less well known for its public buildings than domestic projects. Many of the leading personalities were commissioned to design or decorate churches, and these too were highly influential on subsequent architectural developments. Their patrons played a key role in bringing these revolutionary buildings into being. The book examines the churches as a group, the influences of designers on each other, and assess their impact on design in the the 20th century and after.

London The Building Centre Trust 1985

116 + (2)pp text + 57 b/w plates. Bound into a cloth case with new end papers. Original wrappers preserved. Very good. Essentially unread. Useful book on this little known and modest Scottish architect contemporary with Lethaby and Schultz.

Milano January 1973

Text in Italian and English 55pp including period ads, colour illustrations and b/w photographs. Cover design by Peter Cook "The Secret Garden." Article by him on Archigram Crater City entitled "Peter Cook in Wonderland Fancies and Drawings" [10pp illustrated] - Other contributors include Mario Scheichenbauer on new designs for a Town Car, Dressing Design notes by Archizoom Association, Industrial Design by Daniel Puppa. Good issue for Archigram and Archizoom Association devotees. Tear out subscription card removed from this issue and spine a little worn else very good copy.

Oxford Museum of Modern Art 1977

42pp illus with b/w and monotone illustrations. Wraps. Very good indeed. Includes statements on art and design by Lissitzky. Nice item. Edition limited to 1000.

Yorkshire Architectural & York Archaeological Society, with the North Eastern Railway Association 2011

256pp with 100s colour and b/w illustrations throughout. 4to in laminated boards, fine condition. New copy. Survey of Townsend's career, which spanned the transition from the Georgian world to the Victorian industrial age. Best known for his railway buildings, Townsend also designed churches, banks, hotels, a hospital, schools and a college, including many in York and Yorkshire. This new volume provides a wealth of illustrations, plans and architectural drawings.

Zagreb Meander 2001

139 + [4]]pp 4to. Fine copy in dust wrapper. Dedication copy from Neidhart to Nigel Whiteley. Text in English and Croatian. Neidhardt established his own architectural design firm, NEIDHARDT arhitekti d.o.o. Zagreb, and since 1996 has both practised and taught architecture .. Key projects are all in Croatia including major University buildings at Zagreb as well as commercial projects.

New York MOMA 1943

67pp illustrated with 61 b/w plates. Decorated boards. Split along part of spine, slightly chipped and with shelf wear on lower edge else good copy with striking design on covers. Large exhibition of 43 painters and artists as the second exhibition by the museum to provide a survey of Contemporary American Art trends. 265 items listed. Hard to find.

London Crosby Lockwood and Son. 1922

11th impression xxi+(1)+394pp, 44pp adverts. 9 colour plates, numerous text ills. The colour plates show wood and marble effects created by graining and marbling. 8vo. Green decorated cloth. Very good copy. A very useful text on paint techniques which deals exhaustively with every aspect including graining, marbling and decorative panels together with setting out lettering for sign writing..

London Constable and Company - Westminster Series - 1914

224pp illustrated with 47 plates mostly in the text + c8pp catalogue at end of book of other publications in the Westminster series. New end papers. Green cloth, gilt lettered on spine and upper board.

London The Bedford Park Society and Eleanor Greeves 1999

Limited to 500 copies. No 6. 16pp illustrated with b/w plates and drawings all by T A Greeves. Wrappers. Very good. From the collection of Gavin Stamp. Loosely inserted A.L.S. from Eleanor Greeves requesting that he unveil a plaque to Tom Affllick Greeves in September 1998. Also a second card addressed to Gavin, hand-written, thanking Gavin Stamp for his part in the book's production. T A Greeves, lived and then wrote a definitive history of Bedford Park's architecture and design as a pioneering garden suburb.

London Thames and Hudson

335pp. 320pp. & 388pp. each with 2 sections of b/w photos, printed on glossy art paper Vol 1. Pisanello, The Quattro Cento, Stones of Rimini, Reviews of Modern Art. Vol 2. Colour and Form, Venice, Inside Out, Art & Science, Smooth & Rough, Cezanne, Raphael, Monet. Vol.3. Michaelangelo, Greek Culture and the ego, Three Essays on the Painting of our time, Coldstream and the sitter, The impact of Architecture, Painting in the inner world, The invitation in art, Reflections on the nude. With good dust wrappers, these a little worn at edges.

Manchester Printed for the Housing Committee, Richard Bates Limited Printers 1947

10pp illustrated with b/w plates, plans, elevations etc. Paper wrappers. A little worn else good copy.

Baden Verlag Lars Müller 1993

Texts in English and German. Boxed set comprising 132pp with commentaries. A Swiss avant-garde magazine - the reproduced parts in the box comprise: First series no 1 and 2 [1924] 3/4. 5 and 6 [1925] Second Series no 1-3 [1926] no 4 [1927-28] Commentary volume is 56pp texts in German and English. Box a little worn else fine.