New York Reinhold 1950

220pp illustrated with b/w plates. Square 4to. Good in slightly chipped but striking dust wrapper. Excellent source for the early works.

London B T Batsford 1900

xviii, 224pp, 198 illustrations, including a double-page frontis, 2 indexes, Original green cloth, gilt decorations on spine in the arts and crafts style. Very sl. rubbed on the corners and edges and green cloth a little dull and inner front hing a little cracked else a very good copy of this beautiful book - the first edition of which reveals Mawson's principles in the early part of his career. The book developed through a further four editions and can be used to reveal the development of Mawson's ideas over time. Includes perspectives of gardens by C E Mallows.

8vo. Bound in 18th century tree calf bindings. All edges gilt. Marbled end papers. Rebacked. Bookplates of Dorothy Fortescue illustrating garden scenes, in each volume. Useful for the contents on Country Houses. The articles are monographs on individual properties and include Clumber Park, Castle Howard, Blenheim Palace, Compton Wynyates, Battle Abbey, Belvoir Castle to name but a few. A super curiosity. The Pall Mall Magazine was a monthly British literary magazine published between 1893 and 1914.Dorothy Fortescue [Dorothy Augusta Hoste Fortescue 1862-1941] created a garden at Bocconoc, Cornwall. It remains in the Fortescue family

London : Constable, 1915

One of a hundred copies printed. xii, 397 p. : plates. ; Large 4to. 34 cm. Ex Doncaster Library reserve stock with ancient library stamp on half title and stamp of library on front paste down. Class mark on base of spine. Red rexine. Good copy. Scarce. Important for documenting the house and its contents including the Chippendale furniture.

London Christie Manson and Wood, Frank and Rutley 1938

202pp with b/w illustrations and original card covers with glassine wrap around. 4to. Very good condition and includes loosely inserted two letters from Christie Mansion Woods to James W Hawthorne, Mayfair, Arthur Square Belfast relating to and enquiry to purchase on 7 October and then the purchase of two lots in a letter dated 24 October 1938. There is a frontispiece and fourteen plates

London Elliot Stock 1906

66pp illustrated with photographs and including fold out family tree. 8vo. Decorated gilt lettered cloth. A little rubbed and worn. From the library of Ivan Hall with his initials on the front end paper. A few annotations at the rear by Hall

London, Robinson & Fishe 1904.

99pp illustrated, 4to. Gilt lettered cloth with original wrappers bound in. Ownership signature of William H Brook 1904 on front paste down. Cloth binding worn at head and base of spine and corners. Internally very good. A key sale of the collection of William Massey-Mainwaring comprising French and English furniture, valuable porcelain, jewellery, enamels, stained glass, and paintings etc with 1037 lots in total. Additional items were sold at high-profile auctions by Christie's in 1907 following his death.

London, Batsford. 1929

48 pp. including 7 b&w ill. and 1 colour frontis of estate plan. 4to in green blind stamped boards with gilt lettering and crest on front board. First gathering bound upside down. Binding slightly rubbed at head and base of spine, else vg. Preliminary report on the design of the Priory Estate, of considerable interest in light of its subsequent history and the proposed demolition and redevelopment of the northern part of the estate. It is especially interesting in retrospect to read the sections on road planning at a time when a future of mass car ownership was still debatable. Fascinating report, containing notable line drawings.

London The Richards Press Limited 1927

xvi + 368pp. Illustrated with 28 pages of b/w plates and line illustrations. Decorated end papers. Blue gilt decorated cloth. Small quarto. Inner hinges cracked. Slightly rubbed on spine else a very good copy. Excellent account of the life and work of Mawson particularly focusing on his private landscape projects. Scarce. From the office of Prentice Mawson without signatures.

Harmondsworth, Penguin 1950

35pp with 17 b/w illustrations, plus 16 colour plates. Boards printed with a marbled design, very good in similar d/w. The results of Piper's travels in Romney and the surrounding area.

Manchester University Press 2000

Small 4to. 366pp illustrated. Fine in dust wrapper. Details the city's built environment from Roman times to the early 2000s. Exceptionally useful on the establishment of Manchester as a major industrial city in the 19th century as reflected in its architecture but also providing details on its early form and subsequent development

Suffolk The Boydell Press 2007

xxiv pp + 520pp + 32 full-page colour plates + 221 black & white in-text illustrations. Quarto. Brown binding with dust jacket featuring several colour illustrations front, back, and spine. New publication, new copy. Lovely resource for Yorkshire church architecture illustrating many churches subsequently "restored" or altered.

Oxford. Phaidon.1979.

315pp with 398 b/w plates, 11 line drawings and 2 maps. Orig. red cloth, gilt. 4to. Vg in very good dust wrapper. Lectures given in 1969 and trace the development of the decorated style. Very significant study by Bony who life long study has been the Romanesque and Gothic Architecture in England and France.

Oxford Oxbow Books 2006 309 pp, extensive black and white illustrations, maps, photographs, and drawings. 4to. Cloth with paste down label on upper board. Very good but bottom corner bumped. A scholarly although accessible study in excellent condition of the group of 60 churches in Lincolnshire built in the 11th century nearly all of which have distinctive west towers that are the subject of this book.

Newton Abbot David and Charles

222pp 31 plates, illustrations and drawings by Paul Dong. Vg in dw. Useful history of timber framed houses in England

Wakefield Historical Publications 1979

xii + 420pp illustrated with b/w plates. 4to. Vg in chipped and slightly worn dw. Important facsimile illustrating Yorkshire's middling and larger houses and their gardens before so many were remodelled or enlarged. The sketches were commissioned between 1719-1723 by John Warburton, historian and antiquarian.

London Yale University Press, Paul Mellon Centre for British Art 2015

412 Pages, 180 colour + 120 b-w illus. 4to 241 × 279 mm, Very good in dust wrapper. Beautifully illustrated with Palmer's visionary and enchanted landscapes. William Vaughan, scolar and expert on Palmer, has drwn ons on unpublished diaries and letters, offering a fresh interpretation of one of the most attractive and sympathetic, yet idiosyncratic, artists of the 19th century.

B T Batsford 1909

viii + 224pp illustrated with b/w plates. Cloth decorated boards. Spine is a little browned and front end paper similarly browned else a good copy of this collection of lectures by key figures in the Arts and Crafts Movement. Lectures are by R. Weir Schulz, F F A Voysey, E Guy Dawber, Laurence A Turner, F W Troup, A Romney Green, M.H. Ballie Scott, Chas Spooner and J Stakie Gardner. The first three lectures by Weir Schultz are entitled Reason in Building. Lectures given at the Carpenter's Hall "to stimulate the ambition of craftsmen towards a high ideal of attainment."

Bradford The Corporation of Bradford 1913

1913 15 pp in wrappers with 14 black and white illustrations of the exhibits. Very good copy. The American artist Pennell's exhibition was called 'The Wonder of Work' and was held at the Corporation Art Gallery in Bradford. Catalogue includes an introduction and notes by the artist.