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  • A Visit to Sherwood Forest by [DUKERIES COUNTRY HOUSES] ANON [ CARTER James of Mansfield ]
    [DUKERIES COUNTRY HOUSES] ANON [ CARTER James of Mansfield ]
    A Visit to Sherwood Forest including the Abbeys of Newstead, Rufford & Welbec; Annesley, Thoresby, Hardwick Halls, Bolsover Castle and other interesting places in the locality.

    London, Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans 1850

    96pp illustrated + 20pp period ads for businesses in the area. Green blind stamped cloth with gilt decoration and title on upper board. and spine. Spine a little rubbed and gilt dull else good copy. Includes a critical essay on the life and times of Robin Hood. Organised as a series of letters to provide a description of Mansfield and the neighbourhood with 4 full page lithographed illustrations of country houses and text illustrations of other places of interest. First edition of a scarce guide book.

    Stock ID: 22587
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  • Peter Blake by (BLAKE) COMPTON Michael
    (BLAKE) COMPTON Michael
    Peter Blake

    London The Tate Gallery 1983

    136pp illustrated with colour and b/w plates. Square 4to 200x200mm. Black laminated wrappers. Very good copy. Foreword by Alan Bowness.L oosley inserted is a 9 page booklet containing Explanations and thoughts toward my Exhibition, a selection of work in progress, letters from friends, bad reviews, good reviews. Also in envelope is a print of the Owl and the Pussycat signed in facsimile by the artist. This exhibition was the first retrospective of Peter Blake's work and also included in this book are extensive articles on Peter Blake, the Ruralist movement and 'Durable Expendables'.

    Stock ID: 22586
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  • Houses and Gardens by BALLIE SCOTT M. H.
    BALLIE SCOTT M. H.
    Houses and Gardens

    London George Newnes Limited 1906

    xvi + 247pp + (3)pp illustrated with 17 colour and many b/w plates. Some spotting on end papers and prelims. Decorated end papers. Gilt lettered green cloth. A very good copy of this the first edition of Ballie Scott's study of house design. Large pictorial bookplate of Rosa Kraft on paste down.

    Stock ID: 22584
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  • Les Jardins by DELILLE, Jacques (1738-1813)
    DELILLE, Jacques (1738-1813)
    Les Jardins Poëme

    Paris Chez Levrault, Freres, Libraires 1801

    New expanded edition. xxxi + 166pp. Illustrated frontispiece. Tree calf binding with black gilt lettered spine label. A little rubbed at corner else a good copy. Culturally important poem by this protégé of Marie-Antoinette in which the author extols the virtue of nature as the inspiration for the garden and landscape. First published in 1782. Lovely copy of a much translated poem.

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  • (Deutsche Gartennstadt-Gesellschaft, [German Garden City Soceity])
    Aus englischen Gartenstädten. Beobachtungen und Ergebnisse einer sozialen Studienreise.

    Berlin Berlin, Deustsche Gartenstadt-Gesellschaft and Renaissance Publishing, Robert Ferdern 1910

    188pp illustrated with b/w plates. 4to. Cloth backed and illustrated boards. Front end paper detached and frayed, last four pages have scattered foxing else very good. Documents a study trip by the German Garden City Society. Their tour took in New Earswick (the Joseph Rowntree garden village on the outskirts of York), Port Sunlight, Bournville, Letchworth Garden City and Hampstead Garden Suburb. It included visits to study public housing schemes in Manchester, Liverpool, Birmingham, and London. Efforts were made to make the German delegation welcome. The little touches included a floral reception gate at New Earswick with a German inscription "A Warm welcome our German cousins" and a lunch…

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    Berlin Berlin, Deustsche Gartenstadt-Gesellschaft and Renaissance Publishing, Robert Ferdern 1910

    188pp illustrated with b/w plates. 4to. Cloth backed and illustrated boards. Front end paper detached and frayed, last four pages have scattered foxing else very good. Documents a study trip by the German Garden City Society. Their tour took in New Earswick (the Joseph Rowntree garden village on the outskirts of York), Port Sunlight, Bournville, Letchworth Garden City and Hampstead Garden Suburb. It included visits to study public housing schemes in Manchester, Liverpool, Birmingham, and London. Efforts were made to make the German delegation welcome. The little touches included a floral reception gate at New Earswick with a German inscription "A Warm welcome our German cousins" and a lunch at Port Sunlight. The publication includes a list of members and guests in the auditorium at Port Sunlight who attended the lunch. This was a large delegation of visitors including a number of well known architects of the day active in Germany. (Includes Luwig Mies - aka Mies van der Rohe) as a young man.

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    Stock ID: 22580
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  • O.M.A. KOOLHASS Rem
    The Gulf

    ‎ Lars Müller Publishers 2006

    25pp An accordian-style foldout booklet accompanying OMA AMO's exhibition on the Gulf at the 2006 Venice Architecture Biennale, investigating the feverish production of urban substance on sites where nomads roamed unmolested only half a century ago. Explores the potential to plan the coastline development.

    Stock ID: 22579
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  • RICE & SON LTD BUILDING CONTRACTORS
    Book of the firm's history and its construction projects. Undated

    nd c1938

    Unpaginated. c12pp Introduction briefly outlining the development of the firm followed by c60pp illustrations of projects + c12pp period ads for building products and specialist firms. Long 4to. Green cloth covered boards with art deco style gilt lettering on upper board. At the time of production, the firm was based in Stockwell, London with specialist woodworking department in Margate. Inter – war projects illustrated include various Odeon cinemas, mansion blocks including Nell Gwynn House, Chelsea, the Bexhill Pavilion, Margate Lido, various suburban housing schemes, offices and shops, schools and colleges. Work centred on London and the south east. The Architects noted for most of the projects that are illustrated.

    Stock ID: 22578
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  • Corpus vitrearum Medii Aevi. Great Britain. Vol. 1. The County of Oxford : a catalogue of medieval stained Glass by NEWTON Peter A.,
    NEWTON Peter A.,
    Corpus vitrearum Medii Aevi. Great Britain. Vol. 1. The County of Oxford : a catalogue of medieval stained Glass

    London Oxford University Press for the British Academy 1979

    246 + plates in colour and b/w. 4to. Original black cloth with gold lettering to spine. Very good with very good dust wrapper, slightly chipped at head of spine. Signature of H G Wayment [ who published on the glass of Fairford Church] on front end paper and inscription from him on title page concerning Peter Newton and providing anecdotal information on how it came to be volume I in the Corpus Vitrearum series. A catalogue of important medieval stained glass housed within buildings in the county of Oxford.

    Stock ID: 22577
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  • The Stall Plates of the Knights of the Order of the Garter 1348 – 1485 by HOPE ST JOHN, W H.
    HOPE ST JOHN, W H.
    The Stall Plates of the Knights of the Order of the Garter 1348 – 1485

    London Archibald Constable and Company Ltd, Westminster 1901

    Illustrates the stall plates of the Knights of the Most Noble Order of the Garter. The Order of the Garter was an order of chivalry, founded in King Edward III in 1348 89 colour chromolithographed plates, 2 of which are folding, and one of which is double paged. Compiled by William St John Hope, and English antiquary. This copy, green cloth covered boards and leather spine. Loosely inserted alphabetical hand written list of the illustrations and a letter from Sydney Cockerell who repaired this particular volume on headed paper of Douglas Cockerell and Son Also included are two prospectus's for the book issued in May 1901 and noting that there are…

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    London Archibald Constable and Company Ltd, Westminster 1901

    Illustrates the stall plates of the Knights of the Most Noble Order of the Garter. The Order of the Garter was an order of chivalry, founded in King Edward III in 1348 89 colour chromolithographed plates, 2 of which are folding, and one of which is double paged. Compiled by William St John Hope, and English antiquary. This copy, green cloth covered boards and leather spine. Loosely inserted alphabetical hand written list of the illustrations and a letter from Sydney Cockerell who repaired this particular volume on headed paper of Douglas Cockerell and Son Also included are two prospectus's for the book issued in May 1901 and noting that there are strictly 500 copies of the book being printed. Finally the original heraldic shield from the upper green cloth covered board is pasted down on the front paste down along with the book plate of John Linley Peel of Halifax. Garter stall plates are small enamelled brass plates located in St George's Chapel displaying the names and arms of the Knights of the Garter. Hard to find.

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    Stock ID: 22576
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  • The Monumental Effigies of Great Britain by Two variant volumes, one with 16 hand drawn plates. HOLLIS, Thomas & HOLLIS George,
    Two variant volumes, one with 16 hand drawn plates. HOLLIS, Thomas & HOLLIS George,
    The Monumental Effigies of Great Britain

    London John Bowyer Nichols and Son, 25, Parliament-Street, Westminster; and by George Hollis, 4, Gloucester-Buildings, Walworth, 1840-1842

    Two variant but linked volumes rebound in matching leather, black gilt lettered spine labels. Both have 61 unnumbered, etched plates, many of which are tinted or hand-coloured. Hand drafted title pages in each volume. Book 1. Hand drafted alphabetical index at the end. Original blue printed covers bound in at the end numbered 1-6 lacking no 5. There is additionally 2pp reprinted notes on the authors from the Gentleman's Magazine. Book 2. As with the first volume, all the printed plates are present. Book 2. With hand made frontis matching the design of the first book. In this version, there are 16…

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    London John Bowyer Nichols and Son, 25, Parliament-Street, Westminster; and by George Hollis, 4, Gloucester-Buildings, Walworth, 1840-1842

    Two variant but linked volumes rebound in matching leather, black gilt lettered spine labels. Both have 61 unnumbered, etched plates, many of which are tinted or hand-coloured. Hand drafted title pages in each volume. Book 1. Hand drafted alphabetical index at the end. Original blue printed covers bound in at the end numbered 1-6 lacking no 5. There is additionally 2pp reprinted notes on the authors from the Gentleman's Magazine. Book 2. As with the first volume, all the printed plates are present. Book 2. With hand made frontis matching the design of the first book. In this version, there are 16 additional hand drawn plates by the Hollis' together with a hand written list of plates. It was intended that the work would appear every three months, and be completed in fifteen Parts, containing ten plates each, except for the last; which was to have five Plates and the Descriptive letter-press. Publication ceased with six parts because of the death of George Hollis early in 1842 followed by that of his son, Thomas, in 1843.

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    Stock ID: 22575
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  • WELFORD Richard (Compiler.)
    A Descriptive and Historical Account of the Monuments & Tombstones in the Church of St. Nicholas, Newcastle-upon-Tyne.

    London: Hamilton Adams and Co. Newcastle-upon-Tyne: M & M W Lambert, 1880

    [vi], 160pp, xiii[i]pp index and 'corrections and alterations.', 32 steel-engraved plates with tissue-guards, head and tailpieces, decorated capitals. 4to. Original red Morocco binding with gilt decorations and raised bands on the spine. Worn at head and base of spine else a very attractive copy.

    Stock ID: 22573
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  • NICHOLS, John Gough. 1806-1873]
    Description of the Church of St Mary Warwick and of the Beauchamp Chapel and the monuments of the Beauchamp's and Dudley's Chapel and the Chantry Chapel of Isabella Countess of Warwick in Tewkesbury Abbey

    London J B Nichols and Son. Nd. C1860

    Illustrated with 7 folio plates extracted from the Sepulchral Monuments of Great Britain. Later maroon leather binding with monogram on upper board. Spine chipped and worn. Internally very good with the plates backed with linen to make a very good copy.

    Stock ID: 22571
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  • AYERS, Tim
    The Medieval Stained Glass of Merton College, Oxford

    Corpus Vitraearum Medii Aevi: Great Britain published by OUP 213

    762pp illustrated in colour. 4to. 2 volumes in slip case. Significant study of glass both in terms of detail and approach, which includes a comprehensive context for the stained glass at Merton.

    Stock ID: 22570
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  • The Sculptured Bosses in the Cloisters of Norwich Cathedral by JAMES, Montague Rhodes
    JAMES, Montague Rhodes
    The Sculptured Bosses in the Cloisters of Norwich Cathedral

    London Norfolk and Norwich Archaeological Society 1911

    30pp + 12 b/w plates described by the author, with illustrations of the bosses in the northern alley from drawings by C.J.W. Winter. Folio. Red cloth spine and decorated upper board with title of publication.

    Stock ID: 22568
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  • A Summer's Day at Windsor and Visit to Eton by JESSE Edward
    JESSE Edward
    A Summer's Day at Windsor and Visit to Eton

    London, John Murray 1841

    iv + 151pp + 4pp list of popular works published by Mr. Murray. c.25 b/w illustrations including 14 engraved plates and folding frontispiece (plan of Windsor Castle). 12mo. Decorative cloth with striking gilt motif on front board. Spine slightly sunned and some small marks on upper and verso boards. Small amount of foxing on a number of the plates, else a good copy.

    Stock ID: 22565
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  • A Catalogue of Netherlandish and North European Roundels in Britain by COLE William
    COLE William
    A Catalogue of Netherlandish and North European Roundels in Britain

    Oxford Oxford University Press 1993

    342 pp. B/w ills throughout. 4to. Cloth cover. Decorated dust wrapper in protective sleeve. The first catalogue of Britain's collection of 16th and 17th century stained glass roundels, mostly from Holland and Belgium. An important source book for researchers of drawings and engravings, and students of stained glass.

    Stock ID: 22562
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  • The Medieval Stained Glass of the County of Lincolnshire by HEBGIN-BARNES Penny
    HEBGIN-BARNES Penny
    The Medieval Stained Glass of the County of Lincolnshire

    Oxford Oxford University Press 1996

    lvii, 390pp (24), with 24 colour plates at the rear of the book. 316 b/w illustrations throughout text. 8vo. Dust wrapper. Very good. An extremely comprehensive illustrated catalogue of the medieval stained glass of the county, excluding Lincoln Cathedral. Interesting text on Lincolnshire's historical and cultural heritage.

    Stock ID: 22561
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  • FRENCH Thomas, O'CONNOR David
    York Minster: Fascicule 1: The West Windows of the Nave wI, wII, sXXXVI (Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi: Great Britain) (Vol 3)

    Oxford: Oxford University Press for the British Academy 1987

    96, 16 col. pls., 15 b and w pls., 2 microfiches with 220 b and wills. 4to. Very good with good dust wrapper. Out of Print.

    Stock ID: 22560
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  • FRENCH, Thomas
    York Minster, The Great East Window (Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi: Great Britain) (Vol 2)

    Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1995

    161pp + 20pp of colour plates at back. c120 b/w photographic plates in text. 4to, original decorated dustjacket, fine. A detailed catalogue of the stained and painted glass in the Great East Window of York Minster. All photography is beautifully clear and both the black and white and colour images are stunning in their clarity and quality.

    Stock ID: 22559
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  • TOWNSEND W. G. Paulson,
    Special issues of the Art Workers Quarterly Papers, Extracts of Papers, Notes and illustrations in connection with the Third International Art Congress held in London

    London Art Worker's Quarterly August and December 1908

    [1] + 1-76 + [1] + 1-88pp illustrated with examples of work in the arts and crafts style giving the names of individual makers. 4to. Green cloth, titles on upper board. Bookplates of Ian Monins. These special issues are additional to the The Art Workers' Quarterly published 1902-1906 and were published in August and December 1908. These contained the papers and extracts of papers read at the Third International Art Congress for the development of Drawing and Art Teaching and the Application to Industries held in London, August, 1908, as well as a record of the Retrospective Exhibition of Students' Works, held at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, in connection with the Congress. Hard to find.

    Stock ID: 22556
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