Yale University Press 2009

356pp with 300 colour illus throughout. Large 4to in cloth with decorated colour dw. New. A timely and groundbreaking study of the history and reception of Walpole's collection at Strawberry Hill which coincides with a planned restoration of this endangered house. With contributions from an international team of distinguished scholars who explore how Strawberry Hill and its collections engaged with the creation of various and interconnected political, national, dynastic, cultural, and imagined histories.

London John Murray 1968

146pp illus with b/w plates and line drawings bu the author. Vg in attractive dust jacket based on Haddington, East Lothian. Decorated end papers. Important analysis of the elments of character which give individuality to a town. Highly regarded civic design study.

London, Michael Joseph 1972

272pp 23 illustrations. 8vo. Very good with dust wrapper.

London Yale University Press 1985

301pp illustrated with b/w plates. Very good with good dust wrapper. Loosely inserted A.L.S. typed from Tm Hilton to John Hutchinson, architectural historian and Ruskin devotee. Hilton was responding to detailed remarks about his book made by John Hutchinson.

Privately Printed 1903

xxi + 136pp, 6 b/w ill. incl. 3 photogravures from portraits, one by Edward Burne Jones. 8vo. Green cloth with gilt lettering to front and spine. Top edge gilt, fore and bottom edges deckled. Head and foot of spine and corners a little rubbed, else very good indeed. Letters to Mary and Helen Gladstone written between 1878 and 1887, and a memoir by Henry Scott Holland. Loosely inserted printed note from the Clarendon Press referring to only 50 copies of the book being available. Annotated by a previous owner to give names of correspondents.

Durham Civic Trust for the North East 1980

64pp, 79 b/w and 20 colour photographs, 12 b/w drawings and illus. 4to. Wrappers. Good. Sponsored by Ferguson Industrial Holdings Limited. Booklet about the history, design and development of shop fronts. Very useful documentation of shop front designs which are disappearing from our high streets at an alarming rate.

London SPCK 1950

With a preface by the Bishop of London. Frontispiece in b/w showing altar piece from St Petroc's Minor, Cornwall. 71pp. Stiff card wrappers. Good copy. Obituary from 30 December 1960 pasted onto front end paper. On half title original autographed letter signed from Comper, [creased]. This is addressed to a person requesting an enlargement of the frontispiece illustration from the essay. On headed paper with address as The Priory, 67 Beulah Hills SE19. Comper came here in 1912 at this time having his Studio at nearby 228 Knights Hill, West Norwood. It was demolished to make way for suburban houses in the 1960s.

London RIBA Heinz Gallery 1988

34pp illus with b/w plates and including a bibliography of Comper's writings. Square small 4to. Wrappers. Good copy of this little book to accompany an exhibition but one essential for understanding his life and work.

Corpus vitrearum Medii Aevi. Great Britain. Vol. V. Oxford University Press for The British Academy 2006

Foreword by Sarah Brown. 203pp illustrated in b/w + 20 colour plates at the end of the book. 4to. Very good with good dust wrapper.

Oxford The University Press 1996

This comprehensive catalogue describes the medieval glass at 142 sites in Lincolnshire (excluding Lincoln Cathedral) and South Humberside.448pp illustrated with b/w plates + 39 colour ones. 4to. Very good with dust wrapper.

London: Max Parrish and LCC 1951

128pp, including 30pp sponsors and suppliers' ads. Illustrated with b/w photographs plus very attractive illustrations, printed in block colour with a strong Festival of Britain aesthetic. Cloth, slightly sunned along top edge. In d/w with a few small marks a bit worn. Protected in mylar sleeve. A souvenir volume to celebrate the opening of the Hall, designed by F.H.K. Henrion, with illustrations by Gordon Cullen, Donald Dewar Mills, Pearl Falconer and others. Contains a full description and photographic record of its construction and original interiors.

Paris Caisse nationale des monuments historiques (1 Jan. 1959) 1959

357pp illustrated. Very good with dust wrapper

New Haven and London Yale University Press 1985

f 362pp. illustrated throughout in b/w photographs and a few colour illustrations. 4to. Good copy. No dust wrapper.

London Country Life 1919

First edition 141pp frontispiece + 28 b/w plates, line illustrations in text. Cloth backed boards. Corners + head and base of spine bumped, otherwise good. Paste down label from Liverpool Architectural Society . Impressive study of vernacular building methods using mud, adobe, etc. Hard to find. A very clear study of these vernacular building methods.

Newton Abbot Reader's Union edition 1978

174pp illus. with b/w plates and line ills. Wraps version. Good. Very attractive and useful study of the vernacular tradition.

HMSO Royal Commission on Historical Monuments ]1975] 2nd ed 1979

xxii, 246pp. Illustrated with more than 200 line drawings and 250 photographs. A descriptive and analytical list of over 500 buildings. Stiff wrappers. An excellent copy of an important reference work. From the collection of Charles Anelay with his signature.

London Gollancz 1985

.239pp illus with b/w plates and line ills etc. 4to. Very good with very good dust wrapper. Useful survey on timber construction throughout the United Kingdom.

Tamworth: D Smith, 1899

50pp, 5 full page illustrations plus illustrations in text. Red boards, gilt titling and decoration to front board, Red binding in very good condition. Front end paper slightly browned. Dedication copy to Edwin Truman Esquire (1818–1905) [?] from Henry Ferrers Ferrers with best of wishes. July 1900. Cloth very slightly lifted from a small area of the lower board.

London, John Lane, The Bodley Head Ltd., 1924

xviii, 271 pp. 4to. Cream cloth with vignette on upper board and black lettered titles. Good copy with slightly worn dust wrapper, this frayed a little at the head of the spine. Key reference text on the woodcut.

London, Chapman & Hall, Lawrence and Jellicoe 1910

450 and 457pp. 24 colour plates which have tissue guards overprinted with titles. 280x190mm. Olive green cloth, boards decorated with gilt image on upper board of each and gilt lettering on spine and black lettering on upper boards. Some slight rubbing to the lettering on the boards and scattered foxing on some text pages else good.