Bristol Cashmore & Co Ltd 1933

Trade catalogue for the firm who were merchants of plate and sheet glass, bevellers, silverers, brilliant cutters, wallpaper and decorators' merchants and paint manufacturers. [ established 1829].48pp illustrated with photo litho plates and 4 single sided coloured pages of designs for domestic leaded lights - for 1930s houses. Other images show etched glass for pubs, figured and rolled glass etc. Stapled catalogue with ribbon hanger punched through the upper corner. Title page a bit dusty else good. Decorated wrappers.

New Haven and London Yale University Press 1981

406pp illus with b/w and colour plates. Small 4to (270mm). Good copy with dust wrapper. An account of the building of New Delhi including work not just by Lutyens and Baker but generally less well known architects too. Fascinating account of the colonial architecture generated by Lutyens and his contemporaries and the influences of the Indian subcontinent on its style too.

London Royal Society of Arts 1906

Upper wrapper has hand written note "To James Perry and Co. with Mr H Powell's compliments". Article spread across pages 776-780 with red crayone markings highlighting certain sections and one or two black ink corrections of dates. Perry and Co were Pen manufacturers in Manchester. Harry James Powell was the grandson of James Powell, founder of James Powell and Sons Glass Company (originally known as Whitefriars Glassworks) and an innovator in glass design.

Oxford, The University Press 1931

144pp Green cloth. deckled edges. 8vo. 225 mm x 150mm, This is the only study of posy rings making it a rare publication that will interest jewellery collectors, metal detectorists, archeologists, historians and all those with an interest in goldwork and antiques. Evans compiled over 3000 examples of such rings as a reference for this book.

London Country Life 1967

174 pp; 246 b/w illustrations, 11 diagrams. Quarto. Very good copy with bright but slightly worn dust wrapper. This book is a key text for landscape gardens designed in the first half of the 18th century and it records the major landscapes including Bramham Park, Castle Howard, Duncombe Park, Studley Royal, Rousham, Stourhead and many others besides. Superb b/w photographs throughout by A Hensson and others including the cover illustration by Edwin Smith. Originally planned as a sequel to the series of books written in the main by Hussey on English Country Houses. From the library of A.G.L. Hellyer pasted in and also name of Kristina Taylor on front end paper.

Oxford Museum of Modern Art/Design Museum London 1990

116pp Illustrated with b/w plates. 210 x 300mm Wrappers. Exhibition catalogue for show which originated at the University of Michigan. Useful essays and biographies of architects and designers + bibliography. English text.

Darwen Shaws Glazed Brick Company 1962

12pp catalogue on faience for swimming pools which was designed to assist architects with their design. Includes image of Wythenshawe, Manchester public baths and some images of tile types as well as practical specification material. Hole punch marks through who brochure. Loosely inserted additional specification sheets + letter from the company Lake District architects E Donald Haigh, Kendal with details of prices.

London Architectural Press 9H Gallery 1987

48pp illustrated with b/w and colour images. Square 4to. Wrappers with overprinted dust wrapper. Exhibition catalogue featuriing four architectural practices.

London Strangeways & Sons c1877

8pp. Paper wrapper. These a little browned else good copy. L. Upper wrapper notes "This Circular will be given to Visitors to the Old Water-colour Society's Exhibition, Pall Mall East or on application to the Fine Art Society 148 New Bond Street." Name of Fanny Talbot on upper wrapper. Fanny Talbot (née) Browne (1824–1917) was a landowner and philanthropist, and a friend and correspondent of John Ruskin.

London Andre Deutsch Ltd. 1971

283pp including wide range of illustrations (some colour) ;4to. . Blue boards which are slightly bumped at corners. Unclipped dust jacket, this worn at edges. Interesting end paper with front end paper partially printed on tracing paper and part forming red end paper. Covers contemporary poster, graphics, wallpaper, jewellery, textile, TV and film graphics etc. All designers featured were members of the SIAD.

London Grosvenor, Chater & Co. Ltd., 1958

Unpaginated. 4to. Decorated end papers depicting North Wales, The Wirrel and Merseyside , Cloth binding. Cloth slightly faded. Spine and upper board has decorated title panel for Abbey Mills. Specimens of printing, cover and writing papers in various colors and tones, with many examples printed to great effect by different processes. The sample pages include works of Eric Fraser, Cecil Keeling, A Romney and Charles Mozley amongst others. Lovely item.

London Faber & Gwyer 1927

First Edition. [viii], 196pp, 227 text illustrations. 4to. A very good copy in the original dark blue cloth with gilt title and decorative device on upper board. Cloth slightly rubbed at edges else good copy.

London Bromhead Cutts & Co Ltd Fine Art Publishers. 1920

20pp. Cloth spine, boards. Paste down title label on upper board. Loosely inserted advert on a card for another book. Worn a edges else good. A short guide to turning an original design into a finished print in colour, focusing on woodblock but with some discussion of other techniques such as lithograph and intaglio. Printed by O. Anacker.

Paris, Action Artistique de Paris, Phillipe Sers/Vilo Éditeur

135pp incl. 140 b/w plates and 15 in colour. 4to. Orange cloth binding with rust debossed lettering Very good with slightly dusty white pictorial dust wrapper. Producted on the occasion of the centenary of the birth of Mallet-Stevens. French text. The text covers Mallet Stevens's career, spanning architecture (shops and factories, private homes and apartment buildings, public buildings and offices), film sets, theory, urban design, furniture, and interior design.

London The Architectural Association 1990

108pp illustrated with b/w plates. Essays written during a period of anxiety whilst the certainties of the modern movement were challenged and architects split into two camps - pro modernism and pro restoration. This book reproduces the most important of his written work over the past 15 years, focused around the concept of space as the common denominator. Hard to find.

London The Architectural Association 1987

64pp illustrated with colour and black and white plates, many full page. Paper-covered Boards. Long 4to. Boards a little dusty else a very good indeed. Photographs form part of a project to document the scene between Manchester and Oldham undertaken 1984-1986. Lovely immediate colour photographs + many black and white ones of mills, terraces and buildings revealing a crumbling but evocative urban fabric and the spaces between.

London The Architectural Association 1989

128pp with b/w photographs. Rexine soft wrapper designed to look like a notebook.. Published to make available the writings and photographs of these two hugely important figures in the culture of architecture at the time which indicates their interest in the international scene and their reaction to what was being produced in much more traditional forms in the UK at the time. With contextual introduction by Higgot.

London Artemis Limited 1994

156pp, illus with b/w plates. Small 4to. Stiff card wrappers. Very good. Edited essays and notes published under three titles Mies'pieces, Eames'dreams, The Smithsons . It comprises edited essays, notes and letters spanning thirty years -- many previously unpublished -- richly illustrated with documentary drawings and photographs. The theme of the collection, developed through the Smithsons' reactions to the work of Mies van der Rohe and Charles and Ray Eames, is the influence across generations of architects, Hard to find.

London Architectural Association 1987

64pp, b/w illustrations. Square small 4to. Decorated wrappers. Contribution and edited by Alan Powers. To accompany an exhibition mounted by the Architectural Association.

London Architectural Association Works III, London 1986

176pp illus with b/w plates. Square 4to. Laminated wrappers. Very good copy. Hard to find assessment and review of Owen William's work.