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  • Raucous Invention: by Signed copy HEARLD, Mark
    Signed copy HEARLD, Mark
    Raucous Invention: The joy of making

    Loondon Thames and Hudson 2025

    Revised edition. 256pp illustrated throughout in colour. 4to. : ‎ 245 x 300mm New, dust wrapper. Brightly coloured end papers. New. Featuring Mark Hearld's distinctive collages, textile designs, linocut prints, wallpapers and sculptures amongst other subjects. Contributions by Alan Powers and Lydia Wilson on his house and home which is part of his genre. The book brilliantly conveys the wonderfully vibrant and energetic world of Mark Hearld.

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  • Arup Associates by POWELL, Kenneth.
    POWELL, Kenneth.
    Arup Associates

    London RIBA Publishing Twentieth Century Architects Series. 2018

    144pp illustrated in b/w and colour. Stiff card wrappers. Very good.

    Stock ID: 23459
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  • Wells Coates. by DARLING, Elizabeth.
    DARLING, Elizabeth.
    Wells Coates.

    London RIBA Publishing Twentieth Century Architects Series 2012

    163pp illustrated with colour and b/w plates. Very good.

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  • Howell Killick Partidge & Amis. by Signed by the author. FRANKLIN, Geraint.
    Signed by the author. FRANKLIN, Geraint.
    Howell Killick Partidge & Amis.

    Historic England , RIBA Publishing Twentieth Century Architects Series. 2017.

    218pp illustrated with colour and b/w plates. Stiff card wrappers. Very good. Signed on title page by Geraint, dedicated to Peter [ Hirschmann].

    Stock ID: 23455
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  • Robin Hood Gardens: Re-Visions: Volume 10 (Twentieth Century Architecture) by POWERS, Alan. [editor]
    POWERS, Alan. [editor]
    Robin Hood Gardens: Re-Visions: Volume 10 (Twentieth Century Architecture)

    London C20 Society 2010

    180pp illustrated. Wrappers. This publication collates a series of photographs, essays and a conversation between the Smithsons' detailing the full history of the estate. With note from C20 to a member about the publication which is loosely slipped in.

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  • Towers and Colonnades: the Architecture of Cuthbert Brodrick by (BRODRICK) LINSTRUM Derek
    (BRODRICK) LINSTRUM Derek
    Towers and Colonnades: the Architecture of Cuthbert Brodrick

    Leeds, Philocophical and Literary Society 1999

    163 pp with 148 colour and b/w illustrations. Square 4to, wraps, vg indeed. Study of the work of Brodrick (1821-1905) the Victorian architect best known for Leeds Town Hall and a key figure in articulating the identity of industrial towns. Illustrated with a wide selection of his drawings and plans. Signed by the author on half title.

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  • Serge Chermayeff: Designer Architect Teacher by (CHERMAYEFF) POWERS, Alan.
    (CHERMAYEFF) POWERS, Alan.
    Serge Chermayeff: Designer Architect Teacher

    London: RIBA Publications 2001

    297pp with 200 b/w and 30 colour illustrations. Decorated wrappers. Study of the life and works of this influential and pioneering architect (1900-1997). Scarce.

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  • Poverty: A Study of Town Life. by [ROWNTREE] ROWNTREE, Seebohm
    [ROWNTREE] ROWNTREE, Seebohm
    Poverty: A Study of Town Life.

    Nelson Nelson Pocket edition no date c1912-13

    2nd edition. Good with slightly worn dust wrapper. xx + 496pp. Includes tables in the text. 16mo. Decorated end papers. Nelson shilling library series thus making accessible the findings of the original study.

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  • A Study of the Work of Seebohm Rowntree: by [ROWNTREE] BRIGGS, Asa
    [ROWNTREE] BRIGGS, Asa
    A Study of the Work of Seebohm Rowntree: 1871-1954: Social thought and social action.

    London Longmans 1961

    x +371pp illustrated with frontispiece. Very good with slightly chipped dust wrapper.

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  • the Nature of Gothic Architecture: by RUSKIN, John.
    RUSKIN, John.
    the Nature of Gothic Architecture: and herein of the | True Functions of the Workman in Art.

    Being the greater part of the Sixth Chapter of the Second Volume of Mr. Ruskin's "Stones of Venice" (3 vols., royal 8vo, ฃ5, 15s. 6d., | Smith, Elder, & Co.) here reprinted by the kind permission | of the Author and his Publisher. | London: | Smith, Elder, & Co., 65 Cornhill. | 1854. | Pamphlet. Ii + 50pp including 20 line illustrations in the text. In this edition the woodcut of the Ducal Palace, Venice, is inserted as a frontispiece, printed upon a folding page. Original buff wrappers bound into period quarter calf binding with marbled boards and matching end papers. Upper hinge of front board slightly split. Bookplate of Clive Wainwright with lengthy note, by him, in…

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    Being the greater part of the Sixth Chapter of the Second Volume of Mr. Ruskin's "Stones of Venice" (3 vols., royal 8vo, ฃ5, 15s. 6d., | Smith, Elder, & Co.) here reprinted by the kind permission | of the Author and his Publisher. | London: | Smith, Elder, & Co., 65 Cornhill. | 1854. | Pamphlet. Ii + 50pp including 20 line illustrations in the text. In this edition the woodcut of the Ducal Palace, Venice, is inserted as a frontispiece, printed upon a folding page. Original buff wrappers bound into period quarter calf binding with marbled boards and matching end papers. Upper hinge of front board slightly split. Bookplate of Clive Wainwright with lengthy note, by him, in pencil on a free end paper stating the history of the booklet, this he points out was the second edition of the pamphlet, published 18/11/1854 three weeks after the first printing. This squares with Dr Furnivall's comment that "The tract was naturally much liked," in Wise and Smart's Bibliography (ii. 75) Uncommon.

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    Stock ID: 23387
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  • HOSKEN Fran P.
    The Language of Cities: A Visual introduction to the form and function of the city.

    Cambridge Mass Schenkman Publishers Co Inc. [1968] Distributed by The General Learning Press [Morristown, N.J] 1972

    128pp illustrated in b/w but with a short section on colour [ in colour] Red wrappers, white lettering, Decorated photographic end papers. Good but repaired short tear on lower wrapper. Spine sun faded. On the perception of cities and links between the visual elements and function.

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  • Signed copy HALPRIN, Lawrence
    Cities

    New York Reinhold Publishing Corporation, 1963

    224pp. with many black and white photographic illustrations. Long 4to. Open weave cloth. Black spine lettering. An analysis of urban forms and functions by this notable post-modern landscape designer. Signed by Lawrence Halprin on half title in a bold hand.

    Stock ID: 23385
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  • [TOWNSEND] FORGE, William [Editor] TOWNSEND, William
    THE TOWNSEND JOURNALS: AN ARTIST'S RECORD OF HIS TIMES 1928-51

    London Tate Gallery 1976

    98pp, illustrated throughout in black and white. 4to. Red clotth. Very good with dust wrapper.

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  • A Builder's/Architect's Reference Photograph Album in England by Includes Philip Webb and Lutyens & John McIver Anderson Projects [ANON]
    Includes Philip Webb and Lutyens & John McIver Anderson Projects [ANON]
    A Builder's/Architect's Reference Photograph Album in England

    no date c1910

    Mounted images of various sizes recording a combination of building projects and reference photographs. Arts and Crafts Period buildings in evidence. Mostly vernacular photographs, with a few professional architectural photographs included. All locations given. Large green cloth with contrasting darker green spine and corners. Landscape format. All photographs mounted on card. Card very brittle and with some loss at edges. Photographs very good. First two pages comprise 15 small images in sepia of Goldenfield, occupied and owned by Mary Ann Robb [ who also had lived at Chiltley Place. They record construction the Philip Webb group of buildings at Chiltley Lane, Liphook including a Clockhouse. Location is on the edge of Guildford. Each image c3 x…

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    no date c1910

    Mounted images of various sizes recording a combination of building projects and reference photographs. Arts and Crafts Period buildings in evidence. Mostly vernacular photographs, with a few professional architectural photographs included. All locations given. Large green cloth with contrasting darker green spine and corners. Landscape format. All photographs mounted on card. Card very brittle and with some loss at edges. Photographs very good. First two pages comprise 15 small images in sepia of Goldenfield, occupied and owned by Mary Ann Robb [ who also had lived at Chiltley Place. They record construction the Philip Webb group of buildings at Chiltley Lane, Liphook including a Clockhouse. Location is on the edge of Guildford. Each image c3 x 4 inches. The next few pages record cottages at Shere, in the Surrey Hills, Clare in Suffolk and Bray Church Yard. One page includes two photographs of a small wood model of a cottage design. All photographs either 3 x 4 or 4 x 6 inches. The album then records the Lutyens Lychgate at Haslemere followed by a series of photographs of Cliveden numbered 44-68 [ no number 63] showing walls, balustrades and riverside cottages at Cliveden Springs. The next series of photographs show Cheswardine Vicarage under construction. Located at Market Drayton, north east Shropshire constructed 1909. Images of the scaffolded building and completed building in 11 most 4 x 6-inch photographs. The next group are of cottages, and cottage gardens at Ardath [Stoke by Clare?]. There are 17 photographs showing cottages in their setting. Next group documents the exterior of Cheswardine Hall [John MacVicar Anderson architect] showing project for drains. [ 7 images each 4 x 6 inches and one 7 x 9 inch. There is a further group of images [ professionally taken with Birmingham stamp beneath the images] comprising 9 photographs of Estington Hall. Longdon, Upton upon Severn; timber framed building, four images of Shavington Hall and two of Stratford Court. Four blank pages divide this section of the album from a series of black and white photographs, 10 x 12 inch that record the interior of Carlisle House, Soho. London. No date,builder or photographer given but appear to be around 1910 - 1920.

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    Stock ID: 23348
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  • EYLAND, Edward S., LIGHTBODY, Francis. and SCOTT BURN, Robert.
    Working Drawings & Designs Architecture and Building with essays on various subjects richly illustrated with woodcuts

    London A. Fullerton & Co. nd c1880

    (8) + 32 + 8 + 20 + 8 + 26 + 12 + 14 + 8 + 24 + 8, 48 numbered folding plates, 6 other folding plates and 1 further lettered a-g. Text pages illustrated with woodcut illustrations comprising plans and diagrams and drawings of details. Large folio. Quarter calf, green cloth, gilt lettered spine and upper board. Rubbed on all corners and along spine. Marbled end paper, reinforced. Superb period reference for building details.

    Stock ID: 19331
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  • (JOHN LAING & SONS, LTD)
    Building and Engineering Works The History And Activities of John Laing & Son, LTD. 1848-1937

    London published by the firm 1937

    164pp illustrated. Long 4to. Cloth covered boards. A little dusty. Introductory text + illustrations with captions documenting the projects by this key building firm. Architects noted throughout. Published in the Coronation year this is a very useful source for inter-war buildings in particular. John Laing was also a company that profoundly shaped post-war Britain. It constructed the country's first major motorway, built outstanding sites of worship such as Coventry Cathedral. This book provides insights into their formative activity. A record scoping their post war work can be seen at Historic England's photo archive.

    Stock ID: 17972
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  • Early Churches of Palestine by CROWFOOT
    CROWFOOT
    Early Churches of Palestine The Schweich Lectures of the British Academy

    London The British Academy 1941

    xiv +[iv] + 166pp + 30 b/w plates + 22 text figures including fold out. Green cloth, Gilt spine lettering. Very good copy. Includes bibliographical references. Well documented account of the earliest churches of Palestine with an excellent group of plans and images supporting the text.

    Stock ID: 23379
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  • RAWCLIFFE, Carole & WILSON, Richard (Ed.)
    Medieval Norwich

    London Hambledon & London 2004

    440 pp. 29 plates, 30 text illustrations, 15 maps, 4 tables. 8vo. Good, although small tear in dust jacket. For several hundred years Norwich ranked as England's second city. This multi-authored, extended book is the first for many years and includes the richness of the city's history and archaeology.

    Stock ID: 23374
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  • Placemaking by PHIBBS, J.
    PHIBBS, J.
    Placemaking The art of Capability Brown

    Swindon English Heritage 2017

    373 pages. A wealth of colour illustrations and contemporary photographs. 4to. Very good with dust wrapper. A revisionary approach to the achievements of England's greatest landscape gardener that draws on fresh documentary material, integrating it with a close reading of the landscapes themselves and that looks to answer the questions how did he do it and why does it work. The result is a major reappraisal of a figure with global influence

    Stock ID: 23369
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  • Classical Architecture in Britain, The Heroic Age by Signed copy WORSLEY, Giles.
    Signed copy WORSLEY, Giles.
    Classical Architecture in Britain, The Heroic Age

    London and New Haven Yale University Press 1995

    349 pages, colour plates and photographs throughout the text. 4to. Very good in slightly worn dust wrapper. Closed tear on lower wrapper. There has been minor water damage to the book. Text unaffected. One of Worrley's major works - it is a comprehensive survey of British architecture in the 17th and 18th centuries and offers a radical reassessment of the styles of major designers from Inigo Jones to Sir John Soane. The influence of English Palladianism over the architecture of Scotland, Ireland and North America is also examined. Signed by Giles Worsley on the title page

    Stock ID: 23368
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