London Yale University Press 2015

336pp illustrated with sumptuous colour plates throughout. 4to. Like new, dust wrapper. Based on more than three decades of research, Arts & Crafts Stained Glass is the first study of how the late-19th-century Arts and Crafts Movement transformed the aesthetics and production of stained glass in Britain and America. Much on key individual designers and the role of Christopher Whall in the period in drawing attention to glass and teaching techniques. This is a democratic art in so far as both men and women were active in the craft at the time.

London Merrell Holberton in association with English Heritage 1999

240pp illus with b/w plates and line ills. Square 4to. Fine in dw. Extensively illustrated with up to date maps, plans and photographs,with an illustrated gazetteer, Borough by Borough, detailing the architecturally significant developments.

London Phaidon 2001 (1995)

240pp, illus. throughout: b/w & col. photographs, line illus., plans. Square 4to. Wrapper.s Very good. Comprehensive introduction to Voysey's work and life, heavily illustrated, with detailed accounts of his major houses: Walnut Tree Farm, Perrycroft, Moorcrag, Littleholme, etc. Includes both exterior and interior views, furniture, and prints for wallpapers and textiles.

New York Rizolli (2010) 2012

240pp illustrated with colour plates. Square 4to. Very good in dust wrapper. Dust wrapper protected by plastic covering. Beautifully illustrated documentary study of the houses and gardens by Ballie Scott.

Stamford Shaun Tyas 2007

xii 510pp with 335 b/w plates, + 48pp colour section 4to. Coloured dw with portrait of Holden on the front. Very good. Charles Holden (1875-1960) is best known for the London Underground stations he designed for the London Passenger Board in the 1920s and 30s. Born in Bolton 1875, Holden was later a partner in the Adams, Holden and Pearson Partnership, one of the most prolific and successful firms in Britain. Throughout his long career his designs embraced modernism and classical traditions. This study provides an overview of his long and varied career introducing the reader to the complete range of his work. Like new.

Edinburgh National Galleries of Scotland Press 2008

128pp, frontis + coloured illustrations and b/w photographic plates. 4to. Original paper wrapper with image of Coventry Cathedral + decorated end papers. Vg. Edited volume published in association with the 2008 exhibition 'Back to the Future: Sir Basil Spence 1907-1976' at the Dean Gallery, Edinburgh. Assorted essays exploring the life and works of Basil Spence. Overarching concern with his development as an architect, his unique style and approaches as well as his work with public buildings, most notably his design of Coventry Cathedral.

Mount Stuart 1981

80pp text with text illustrations + 20pp b/w plates. Wraps. Small 4to. . Very good copy of this scarce essay. Best known for his contributions to Mount Stuart but deserves wider acknowledgement. Works included many conservation projects and repair including, topically, Dumfries House.

London: Chatto & Windus . The Hogarth Press. 1983.

184 pp. with 144 Fine plates, almost all in colour and some specially made for this book. 4to. Very good copy in good dust wrapper. Superbly produced anthology of places visited and painted by John Piper.

London Yale University Press; Revised edition Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art) (The Association of Human Rights Institutes series) 2009

448pp illustrated with colour and b/w plates. Quarto. Very good with very good dust wrapper. Andrew Saint is the General Editor of 'The Survey of London' and the author of 'The Image of the Architect' (1983), 'Towards A Social Architecture: The Role of School-Building in Post-War England' (1987) and 'Architect and Engineer: A Study in Sibling Rivalry' (2007). A completely revised text and new introduction and is now illustrated generously in colour, with many specially commissioned photographs.

London, Country Life 1960

158pp illustrated with 133 plates and four figures with decorated end papers from Horwood's Map of London 1803. Holland (1745-1806) . Very good with good dust wrapper protected with plastic covering. Superb monograph which charts his career as a builder and informs his relationships with other architects working around the same time including George Dance, James Wyatt, John Soane and John Nash and contains useful material on Capability Brown the daughter of whom he married in 1773.

Faber adn Faber 1971

262pp illustrated with 76pp of plates. 4to. Fine in dust wrapper. Superb biography of Dance and hard to find in this condition. Ex libris bookplate of Stanley Field on front end paper. Protected in plastic wrapper over dust wrapper.

London Hodder and Stoughton 1904

Unpaginated. c176 + viipp illus with colour plates and many b/w plates. Period ads to last7 pages. 4to. Decorated open weave cloth. Restored and bound in 2020 by Paul Berry, Abbey Book Bindery orverlaying the original floppy bindings onto boards. Makes a very good copy. Essays contributed by W H Bidlake, Halsey Ricardo and John Cash. Discuss exterior and interior of the home, furniture, decorative essentials and sanitation. A companion volume to The Modern Home: A book of British Domestic Architecture for Moderate Incomes.

Cambridge, Massachusetts The MIT Press 2012

157 pp. Extensively illustrated with colour and black and white illustrations. Boards with d/w. Very good copy. Both a visual history of an often ignored although significant urban space and a study of how it can be transformed.

London Enitharmon Editions 2006

63 pp. Reproduces watercolours and etchings by Norman Ackroyd to illustrate the poems of Crossley-Holland Signed by both writer and illustrator. Very good condition with dust wrapper.

Reading Spire Books

Reprint of the original with an introduction. 245 pp Boards with d/w in good condition. Includes reproductions in colour of the 73 chromolithographs that were included in the original book. A reissue of Pugin's magisterial work originally published in 1846.

Hanover, Germany Kunstverein Hannover 1993

200 pp. Extensively illustrated with black and white photos and colour prints boards Oblong quarto. The catalogue of two exhibitions held in Germany in 1993 of the work of the sculptor Richard Deacon. Text in English and German includes a biography of the artist. Very good.

London John Murray 1983

336 pp Fully illustrated (350) in black and white. 8vo boards with dw. Very good copy. The first reference work on 20th century book illustration covering over 800 illustrators in alphabetical order.

New York John Wiley and Sons 1999

257 pp. Illustrated with bw line drawings throughout. 8vo, boards in verygood condition. Arguably, the ultimate book on fencing as a resource in conservation.

Tate Publishing

A survey of the life and work of Heron published by Tate Publishing in 2002 in their St Ives Artists series

London and New York, Academy Editions/ St Martin's Press (1979) 1986

112pp with over 200 illustrations, 41 in colour, plus 7 gatefolds. Cloth, very good in similar d/w. Some subtle foxing on the endpapers, else very good. This volume is devoted to the country houses, both built and projected, which were designed by Lutyens throughout his career. An introductory essay by Peter Inskip is followed by sections on 21 individual houses, illustrated with contemporary b/w photographs from Country Life, and more recent colour photography by A. Goulancourt, as well as plans and elevations. Also includes a complete list of buildings and projects.