London Crafts Advisory Committee 1976

80pp illustrated with portrait frontis and illustrations in black and white of the ceramics. Small square 4to. Decorated wrappers. Very good. Contributions by Ray Finch, John Hewston and others.

Edwin Story, Bookseller, Micklegate York. c1909

32pp illustrated with 7 b/w plates. Ribbon tied pamphlet 186 x 124mm Titles on upper wrapper. Wrappers dusty. Signed dedication copy to R J Green Esq from T P Cooper, inscribed on the upper wrapper. Loosely inserted A.L.S from the author to Ms Green, from the author who lived at 16 Wentworth Road, York which accompanied the pamphlet sent, December 7 1909, to Mr Green alerting him to a talk on Old Clockmakers and requesting if he had photographs taken close up from the scaffolding on York Minster of the Striking Figures on the clock. [Green was Clerk of Works at York Minster at the time.]

London, Sheldon Press 1947

32pp illustrated with 8pp centre fold of b/w plates and one plan. Wrappers. Good copy Wrappers a little dusty. A reprint of this essay appeared as an addenda to the Spire book publication by Anthony Symmonds and Stephen Bucker in 2006. . Ninian Comper, 1864-1960, was one of the last of the great gothic revival architects and worked almost exclusively on churches. Dedication copy from G W O Addleshaw to William Jesse Green [ Clerk of Works at York Minster] Bookplate of Catherine and David Green on inside of front wrapper. [ David Green was son of William Jesse Green.]

London, Yale University Press 2012

ix + 334pp, illustrated with pictorial endpapers and throughout with coloured and b&w photos. Large 4to. Fine in dust wrapper. Huge study of London Square designs. Traces the history of this key element in the urban form of London, documenting the design trends and designers including Repton and Loudon and other more often associated with the Country estate.

Lund Humphries 2014

2014 304pp illustrated in colour and black and white. 4to. Very good with very good dust wrapper. Organised around the various types of work in which Paolozzi became involved; sculpture, painting, film, music, print and the Independent Group.

Wormerveer, Netherlands: In Usum Bibliophili, 1964

Unpaginated. 30pp. With a two-page introduction by Ruari McLean. Contains reproductions of various pages of 13 Doves Press books; with some of the printing in red. Grey cloth, dust jacket. First edition, No 302 of 325 numbered copies. Number in pen on colophon. The Minor wear along the edges of the wrapper which is slightly browned. Internally a good copy.

London, Longmans, Green & Co 1901

vi+ 133pp plus 68 b/w plates. Gilt decorated green cloth, slightly worn along spine and fore edge, but generally vg. Some discolouration to end papers but internally bright and clean. A collection of eight lectures on building and aesthetics, the role of art in constructing a home, on furniture and on designing small houses and cottages. Lovely Arts and Crafts style book production. First edition.

London Merrell Publishers Ltd, 2002

144pp illustrated with colour and b/w plates. 4to. Very good with a very good dust wrapper. The works of Berthold Lubetkin (1901-1990) including the iconic Penguin Pool at London Zoo, Highpoint One in North London and less well known survivors are documented and photographed by by Morley von Sternberg.

Cambridge University Press [1996]

1997 reprint xviii, 350pp + 19pp colour plates. Illustrated throughout with 300 b/w images. 4to. Fine in dust wrapper. Study of this architect and landscape designer whose work has been largely overlooked until this study. He was a nomadic figure having left France at the time of the French Revolution living in many parts of Europe and America. Fabulous record of his wonderful drawings showing his proposed layouts for many parks and gardens as well as his domestic and public building projects.

New York Collier Books, 1971

233pp illustrated with b/w plates throughout. Wrappers. 280x200mm. Good copy although spine very slightly creased. The first edition in paperback of this now classic Vietnam era photo essay. Cited in Parr and Badger's "The Photobook: A History Volume II pp. 250-51: "in the finest book to come out of the Vietnam War. Influential in shifting public opinion about the war when first issued.

Oxford English Heritage and Oxford Archaeological Unit 2001

374pp illustrated. Laminated boards. Fine. 4to. This volume draws together all the available evidence on the Fort at Camber Castle to provide comprehensive account of its history. It includes a revised and expanded version of Martin Biddle's authoritative study, originally published in "The History of the King's Works". Full reports are also included on the artefact and animal bone assemblages, which are of considerable importance for the early post-medieval period. Hard to find.

London Walker's Galleries 1930

80pp + [8], + 24 b/w and colour illustrative plates. Wrappers. 8vo. Vg. Published by Walker's Galleries, London, in association with an exhibition of the work of Henry Holiday held there from June 30th- Autumn of 1930. Frontispiece showing a photograph of Henry Holiday, with his signature reproduced below. Account of the life and works of Holiday, complete with a chronological timeline of his stained glass works, his pencil sketches and portraits, and illustrated with plates showing reproductions of his art throughout. Advertising leafs at the back relate to the publication of Walker's Quarterly.

Oxford Clarendon Press 1977

xv + 586pp, vi plans, 182 plates. 4to. Vg brown cloth in similar d/w with protective cover. With contributions by Claire Cross, Barrie Dobson and David E. O'Connor, amongst others. Chronological account of York Minster with additional chapters on the stained and painted glass, music since the Reformation, funeral monuments, and the Minster Library.

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.

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.