London Ernest Benn Ltd 1927<br/><br/> 248 pp., beautifullly illustrated with b/w photographs and plans. Large 4to. Open weave cloth spine with paste down label, blue sugar paper covered boards. Very good copy. Massive study on the principles of garden design with useful material on Versailles and André le Nôtre, Italian gardens and the English style. Hard to find in this edition.

London RIBA 1988<br/><br/> 35pp illustrated with b/w photographs and line ills. 4to. Wrappers with dust wrapper wrapped around and illustrating a water colour of Senate House, University of London. Lovely catalogue. Karol went on to write the major monograph on Holden.

London, Longmans Green and Co 1872<br/><br/> xvi + 427 + (1)pp, 36 woodcut plates, 12 text ills, one leaf publishers' adverts. Many buildings illustrated erected between 1860 and 1870. This was the first published study on the gothic revival, and although it is widely available in a reprint this is a lovely copy of the original decorated and stamped cloth possibly designed by Eastlake to reflect the gothic subject matter of the book. Sl. rubbed at head and base of spine, scratch on spine and related small tear else a very good copy. Bookplate of William J Newton R S A and his stamp on half title.

Viking, 1986. <br/><br/> 223pp illus. with photographs and the architect's own drawings and linocuts. 4to. Vg in sl. worn dust wrapper. A major illustrated monograph on Britains's classicist architect.

London [George Bell] (1848) B T Batsford 1856<br/><br/> 2 volume. Volume 1: Chromolitho title, viii + (1) 103 plates Volume 2: 27 + (1) + 102 plates. Decorated cloth, gilt rulings, decorations and lettering. Slightly rubbed at base and head of spine and corner else a good copy. Includes an essay on foliage as a motif in design for church decoration. Superb collection of plates recording the foliage and other ornamental details used in differing periods of gothic architecture. Produced, the author says, as inspiration to "the artist in his job of ornamenting a church".

Glasgow Blackie & Son, 1892<br/><br/> Folio. Issues 1-15 in original printed portfolios all issued with original paper lettered wrappers. Very good set. With 100 chromolithographed plates. Beautiful chromolithographs of design details in various styles, including Greek and Japanese. One of the last great works of nineteenth century of its kind. George Ashdown Audsley (1838-1925) was a Scottish architect, and illustrator. His son Maurice, although an architect by profession too, became better known as a photographer in later life. The original wrappers are a little worn and in some cases repaired with paper tape but internally very good. The parks edition is particularly hard to locate .

Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery 1984<br/><br/> 169pp with 111 b/w illustrations. Small square 4to in wraps, vg. A collection of 8 essays, each dealing with a different aspect of Birmingham as an important provincial centre for the Arts and Crafts Movement in Britain. Subjects covered include architecture, decorative painting, book illustration, metalwork and stained glass. With useful gazetteer of works by Birmingham based craftsmen and a catalogue of books illustrated by Birmingham artists.

Birmingham, S Birbeck 1869<br/><br/> 20pp introductory text + 30 sepia coloured line illustrations on single sided pages. Small 4to. Bookplate on front paste down of John Homery Folkes. Cloth, gilt titles to spine and upper board with gilt ruled decorations. Cloth worn at edges and generally a little dull externally. Internally a very good copy. Locations given for each of the drawings including Yapton, Steyning and Rustington Churches Sussex, Carisbrooke Church and Castle, the Isle of Wight, Shaklin buildings also on I of W, Shoreham Sussex etc. Balance of the drawings favours churches over cottages. Ticket of B. T. Batsford Booksellers on front paste down.

Salisbury Printed by Brodie and Dowding for the author <br/><br/> Engraved half title with image of cathedral by F Nash, lettered title following, xx + 240pp. Illustrated with 19 plates and 2 vignettes, tissue guards on plates. Quarter calf, cloth boards. Gilt decorated spine with raised bands and title. Binding rubbed, cloth speckled from age. Scattered foxing throughout. Ascribed to Dodsworth on the title, and presumably commissioned and paid for by him, the text was in fact written by Henry Hatcher (1777-1846).

London, Longmans. Green & Co 1870<br/><br/> frontis + x+ 168 + [2] + 149 figures. Original blind stamped cloth, gilt lettered title on upper board. Rear end paper torn out and cloth a little faded especially on the spine else good copy. Useful description of the plates identifying various makers and developers in this area. Frontis is Benjamin [Thompson] Count of Rumford, a physicist and inventor admired by Fredrick Evans for his work on heat and ventilation.

New Haven and London Yale University Press 2005<br/><br/> 832pp, 8vo with illustrated dust wrapper.

London Hand and Eye Editions 2007<br/><br/> An edition of 275 copies. (1) 14pp. Long 8vo decorated wrappers. B/w Linocuts by Chris Brown. Hand set in Plantin and Gill Sans Shadow Titling

London Hand and Eye Editions 2009<br/><br/> An edition of 125 copies. (1) 14pp. Long 8vo decorated wrappers. B/w Linocuts by Chris Brown. Hand set in Plantin and Gill Sans Shadow Titling

London Hand and Eye Editions 2012<br/><br/> An edition of 250 copies. (1) 14pp. Long 8vo decorated wrappers. B/w Linocuts by Chris Brown. Hand set in Plantin and Gill Sans Shadow Titling

London d'Offay Couper Gallery 1969<br/><br/> 4pp, b/w illustrations. Large 8vo stiff orange wrappers. Cover design by Roberts. Exhibition catalogue with full list of 43 works and 12 illustrations.

London Arts Council 1965<br/><br/> Colour frontispiece (Trafalgar Square, 1952) 30pp, 23 b/w plates. Large 8vo yellow card wrappers, minor creases at the edges, else very good indeed. Cover design by Roberts. Profusely illustrated catalogue for the exhibition held at Tate Gallery - Nov 20th - Dec 19th, 1965, Laing Art Gallery - Jan 1st - 22nd, 1966, Whitworth Art Gallery - Jan 29th - Feb 19, 1966.

Steuben Glass Inc 1939<br/><br/> 40pp (unpaginated). B/w plates with captions. 4to ring bound green wrappers with title and b/w illus on the upper. Steuben Glass Works was an American art glass manufacturer, founded in 1903 by Frederick Carder and Thomas G. Hawkes in Corning, New York. Hawkes purchased the glass blanks for his cutting shop from many sources and eventually wanted to start a factory to make the blanks himself. Hawkes convinced Carder to come to Corning and manage such a factory. In 1918, Steuben was acquired by Corning Glass Works. The firm continued in production but closed in 2011.

Boston 1922<br/><br/> 80pp, period ads, exhibition floor plans. 4to decorated wrappers. Tape repair to the lower part of the spine + split at the head. Wrappers a little bumped at the edges else a good copy. Catalogue for The Second Annual Home Beautiful Exposition held at the Mechanics Building, Boston April 15 - 29th 1922. Includes list of exhibitors with floor plans. As well as articles written on subjects relating to the domestic environment, such as 'The Foundation of Beauty in the Home', 'Making and Hanging of Draperies', 'A Well Baby is a Saved Baby' etc. Lots of great period ads. An excellent resource for period interiors.

Phaidon 2007<br/><br/> (1) colour frontispiece + 13pp + 55 colour/ b/w plates with captions. Small 4to boards with illustrated dust wrapper. Very good copy. Chronological overview of Parr's work, spanning from 1972- 2006. Text by Sandra S. Phillips, Senior Curator of Photography at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.