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A Visit to Sherwood Forest including the Abbeys of Newstead, Rufford & Welbec; Annesley, Thoresby, Hardwick Halls, Bolsover Castle and other interesting places in the locality.
London, Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans 1850
96pp illustrated + 20pp period ads for businesses in the area. Green blind stamped cloth with gilt decoration and title on upper board. and spine. Spine a little rubbed and gilt dull else good copy. Includes a critical essay on the life and times of Robin Hood. Organised as a series of letters to provide a description of Mansfield and the neighbourhood with 4 full page lithographed illustrations of country houses and text illustrations of other places of interest. First edition of a scarce guide book.
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Peter Blake
London The Tate Gallery 1983
136pp illustrated with colour and b/w plates. Square 4to 200x200mm. Black laminated wrappers. Very good copy. Foreword by Alan Bowness.L oosley inserted is a 9 page booklet containing Explanations and thoughts toward my Exhibition, a selection of work in progress, letters from friends, bad reviews, good reviews. Also in envelope is a print of the Owl and the Pussycat signed in facsimile by the artist. This exhibition was the first retrospective of Peter Blake's work and also included in this book are extensive articles on Peter Blake, the Ruralist movement and 'Durable Expendables'.
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Houses and Gardens
London George Newnes Limited 1906
xvi + 247pp + (3)pp illustrated with 17 colour and many b/w plates. Some spotting on end papers and prelims. Decorated end papers. Gilt lettered green cloth. A very good copy of this the first edition of Ballie Scott's study of house design. Large pictorial bookplate of Rosa Kraft on paste down.
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Les Jardins Poëme
Paris Chez Levrault, Freres, Libraires 1801
New expanded edition. xxxi + 166pp. Illustrated frontispiece. Tree calf binding with black gilt lettered spine label. A little rubbed at corner else a good copy. Culturally important poem by this protégé of Marie-Antoinette in which the author extols the virtue of nature as the inspiration for the garden and landscape. First published in 1782. Lovely copy of a much translated poem.
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Aus englischen Gartenstädten. Beobachtungen und Ergebnisse einer sozialen Studienreise.
Stock ID: 22580More details Price: £320.00
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The Gulf
Lars Müller Publishers 2006
25pp An accordian-style foldout booklet accompanying OMA AMO's exhibition on the Gulf at the 2006 Venice Architecture Biennale, investigating the feverish production of urban substance on sites where nomads roamed unmolested only half a century ago. Explores the potential to plan the coastline development.
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Book of the firm's history and its construction projects. Undated
nd c1938
Unpaginated. c12pp Introduction briefly outlining the development of the firm followed by c60pp illustrations of projects + c12pp period ads for building products and specialist firms. Long 4to. Green cloth covered boards with art deco style gilt lettering on upper board. At the time of production, the firm was based in Stockwell, London with specialist woodworking department in Margate. Inter – war projects illustrated include various Odeon cinemas, mansion blocks including Nell Gwynn House, Chelsea, the Bexhill Pavilion, Margate Lido, various suburban housing schemes, offices and shops, schools and colleges. Work centred on London and the south east. The Architects noted for most of the projects that are illustrated.
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Corpus vitrearum Medii Aevi. Great Britain. Vol. 1. The County of Oxford : a catalogue of medieval stained Glass
London Oxford University Press for the British Academy 1979
246 + plates in colour and b/w. 4to. Original black cloth with gold lettering to spine. Very good with very good dust wrapper, slightly chipped at head of spine. Signature of H G Wayment [ who published on the glass of Fairford Church] on front end paper and inscription from him on title page concerning Peter Newton and providing anecdotal information on how it came to be volume I in the Corpus Vitrearum series. A catalogue of important medieval stained glass housed within buildings in the county of Oxford.
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The Stall Plates of the Knights of the Order of the Garter 1348 – 1485
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The Monumental Effigies of Great Britain
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A Descriptive and Historical Account of the Monuments & Tombstones in the Church of St. Nicholas, Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
London: Hamilton Adams and Co. Newcastle-upon-Tyne: M & M W Lambert, 1880
[vi], 160pp, xiii[i]pp index and 'corrections and alterations.', 32 steel-engraved plates with tissue-guards, head and tailpieces, decorated capitals. 4to. Original red Morocco binding with gilt decorations and raised bands on the spine. Worn at head and base of spine else a very attractive copy.
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Description of the Church of St Mary Warwick and of the Beauchamp Chapel and the monuments of the Beauchamp's and Dudley's Chapel and the Chantry Chapel of Isabella Countess of Warwick in Tewkesbury Abbey
London J B Nichols and Son. Nd. C1860
Illustrated with 7 folio plates extracted from the Sepulchral Monuments of Great Britain. Later maroon leather binding with monogram on upper board. Spine chipped and worn. Internally very good with the plates backed with linen to make a very good copy.
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The Medieval Stained Glass of Merton College, Oxford
Corpus Vitraearum Medii Aevi: Great Britain published by OUP 213
762pp illustrated in colour. 4to. 2 volumes in slip case. Significant study of glass both in terms of detail and approach, which includes a comprehensive context for the stained glass at Merton.
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The Sculptured Bosses in the Cloisters of Norwich Cathedral
London Norfolk and Norwich Archaeological Society 1911
30pp + 12 b/w plates described by the author, with illustrations of the bosses in the northern alley from drawings by C.J.W. Winter. Folio. Red cloth spine and decorated upper board with title of publication.
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A Summer's Day at Windsor and Visit to Eton
London, John Murray 1841
iv + 151pp + 4pp list of popular works published by Mr. Murray. c.25 b/w illustrations including 14 engraved plates and folding frontispiece (plan of Windsor Castle). 12mo. Decorative cloth with striking gilt motif on front board. Spine slightly sunned and some small marks on upper and verso boards. Small amount of foxing on a number of the plates, else a good copy.
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A Catalogue of Netherlandish and North European Roundels in Britain
Oxford Oxford University Press 1993
342 pp. B/w ills throughout. 4to. Cloth cover. Decorated dust wrapper in protective sleeve. The first catalogue of Britain's collection of 16th and 17th century stained glass roundels, mostly from Holland and Belgium. An important source book for researchers of drawings and engravings, and students of stained glass.
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The Medieval Stained Glass of the County of Lincolnshire
Oxford Oxford University Press 1996
lvii, 390pp (24), with 24 colour plates at the rear of the book. 316 b/w illustrations throughout text. 8vo. Dust wrapper. Very good. An extremely comprehensive illustrated catalogue of the medieval stained glass of the county, excluding Lincoln Cathedral. Interesting text on Lincolnshire's historical and cultural heritage.
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York Minster: Fascicule 1: The West Windows of the Nave wI, wII, sXXXVI
(Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi: Great Britain) (Vol 3)
Oxford: Oxford University Press for the British Academy 1987
96, 16 col. pls., 15 b and w pls., 2 microfiches with 220 b and wills. 4to. Very good with good dust wrapper. Out of Print.
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York Minster, The Great East Window
(Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi: Great Britain) (Vol 2)
Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1995
161pp + 20pp of colour plates at back. c120 b/w photographic plates in text. 4to, original decorated dustjacket, fine. A detailed catalogue of the stained and painted glass in the Great East Window of York Minster. All photography is beautifully clear and both the black and white and colour images are stunning in their clarity and quality.
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Special issues of the Art Workers Quarterly
Papers, Extracts of Papers, Notes and illustrations in connection with the Third International Art Congress held in London
London Art Worker's Quarterly August and December 1908
[1] + 1-76 + [1] + 1-88pp illustrated with examples of work in the arts and crafts style giving the names of individual makers. 4to. Green cloth, titles on upper board. Bookplates of Ian Monins. These special issues are additional to the The Art Workers' Quarterly published 1902-1906 and were published in August and December 1908. These contained the papers and extracts of papers read at the Third International Art Congress for the development of Drawing and Art Teaching and the Application to Industries held in London, August, 1908, as well as a record of the Retrospective Exhibition of Students' Works, held at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, in connection with the Congress. Hard to find.
Stock ID: 22556More details Price: £180.00