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The Castles on the Ground
London Architectural Press 1946 Ist edition
86pp illustrated with a series of original lithographs by John Piper and in a dust wrapper designed by Piper. Good in sl. frayed but generally very good dw. A wonderful book about the suburbs with great Piper images.
Stock ID: 22728More details Price: £65.00 -
Stained Glass Windows
London Willliam Morris & Co. 1953
36 pp. Colour frontis of windows in the Church of the Ascension, Mitcham, Surrey, colour and b/w plates throughout and decorations in the text. 4to. Cloth boards with d/w. Embossed with title and trade mark of the firm on the upper board. D/w sunned and chipped around most edges. Front and rear end papers slightly foxed. Internally though very good. Includes a brief account of the origins, history, uses and types of stained glass with details of the firm's projects. Designed to promote the work of the firm. Nice item with a typed letter to George G. Pace from William Morris & Company slipped in. From the library of George Pace
Stock ID: 22714More details Price: £60.00 -
Purcell & Elmslie Prairie Progressive Architects
Layton, Utah Gibbs Smith 2006
192pp. Copiously illustrated in colour. Octavo in very good dust wrapper. Bronze cloth covered boards with white titling. A comprehensive study of the eminent American architect firm of William Gray Purcell and George Grant Elmslie. Fine
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The Work of Sir Gilbert Scott
London, The Architectural Press 1980
xi + (1) + 244pp illustrated with 138 b/w plates. Previous owner's bookplates on front paste down. Very good with very good dust wrapper. Hard to find monograph on Sir George Gilbert Scott (1811-1878), the Gothic Revival specialist who was the dominant figure in English architecture in the middle years of the nineteenth century. An appendix lists 879 of his architectural commissions. From the library of David Gerald Francis Hinge whose bookplate is on the front paste down.
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Richard Norman Shaw
Yale University Press 1978
487pp illus. with 291 plates. Sm 4to. Very good copy. Good in good dw which is slightly sunned. Hard to find. Definitive biography of Norman Shaw.
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An Architecture of Invitation: Colin St John Wilson
London Lund Humphries 2005
xviii + 341pp. Numerous b/w ills throughout the text. D/w over red cloth boards. D/w a little bumped at the corners. A very good copy of this distinctive study of the life and architectural career of Colin St John Wilson, architect, teacher, theorist.
Stock ID: 22707More details Price: £20.00 -
Third Generation. The Changing Meaning of Architecture
London Pall Mall Press 1972
176pp. b/w ills throughout. Red cloth boards with white titles. Missing dust wrapper, a section of which is slipped into the book. Ex Library copy from the Department of the Environment Library. Covers a little grubby else good.
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Mario Botta
Public Buildings 1990-1998
Motta 2009
119pp. Colour and b/w photographs, diagrams and line ills. Small square 4to. Graphic decorated boards. Fine. Superbly illustrated Monograph on Botta's work, featuring photography of his projects but also of an installation which used architectural models to articulate the austerity of neoclassical space. With a chapter outlining Botta's philosophy.
Stock ID: 22703More details Price: £18.00 -
William Burges and the High Victorian Dream
London John Murray, 1981
454 pages illustrated with b/w plates. Slightly shop soiled but very Good in Fine dust wrapper. First edition of this comprehensive reference book on William Burges.
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A Friendly Alien: Ein Kunsthaus für Graz. Peter Cook and Colin Fournier
Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz Verlag 2004
249pp with colour illustrations throughout. Square 4to in stiff card wrappers, fine. New copy. Radical architectural project in the Austrian city of Graz to produce a gallery space for contemporary art. Traces the building from conception to completion. Text in English and German.
Stock ID: 22701More details Price: £25.00 -
Stephen Dykes Bower
London RIBA Publishing 2011
Twentieth Century Architects Series. Foreword by Alan Powers. Colour and black and white images throughout. Soft cover. Paper wraps. Very good. Ink mark from printer/end of paper roll on upper and verso of inside cover, else looks unread.
Stock ID: 22700More details Price: £35.00 -
Christopher Alexander
The Search for a New Paradigm in Architecture
Stocksfield Oriel Press Ltd. 1983
xviii + 306pp. B/w photographic illustrations. Bibliography. Good. Spine slightly sunned. D/w stuck onto book with sticky-back-plastic
Stock ID: 22699More details Price: £30.00 -
A Day Off
[London Thames and Hudson 1974] Boston, New York Graphic Society 1974
First American edition. 14pp + 120pp b/w photographs. 4to. Wrappers. Slightly yellowed else very good copy. Documentation of the quirky nature of English Society . The images show the influence of Cartier Bresson and Benjamin Stone amongst others. The book documents people living ordinary lives but on high days and holidays. The USA edition was published in parallel with the British first edition.
Stock ID: 22694More details Price: £120.00 -
Shadow of Light
A collection of photographs from 1931 to the present with an introduction by Cyril Connolly and notes by Marjorie Becket
Stock ID: 22693More details Price: £220.00
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The Deserted Village
to which is prefaced some notes concerning a Little journey to "Sweet Auburn" as written by Elbert Hubbard.
Stock ID: 22692More details Price: £480.00
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Some Dorset Manor Houses
With their Literary and Historical Associations
London Bemrose and Sons Ltd 1907
Illustrated with Forty Drawings by Sidney Heath and Rubbings from Sepulchral Brasses by W. De. D. Prideaux. Red cloth covered boards with gilt lettering. Top edge gilt. Large 4to. Upper board faded on one corner. Spine also marginally faded. Corners a little bumped and some general, random foxing particularly through early pages of the book. A couple of the b/w plates are loose. Good. And a comprehensive overview of most of the houses in the county. Bookplate of Josceline Grove on front paste down.
Stock ID: 22691More details Price: £110.00 -
Catalogue of the pictures belonging to His Grace The Duke of Portland, at Welbeck Abbey, and in London 1894
London Printed at The Chiswick Press
xvi + 223pp. Frontispiece of William Blentinck, 1st Early of Portland, plus numerous plates (some with original tissue guards) illustrating the works addressed. Number 86 of 250 copies produced. Top edge gilt. Quarter binding. Original publishers morocco on spine with more recent cloth covered boards. f.e.p. has laid in bookplate of Josceline Grove and neat note in pen "Cat: Bought February 1896. H.J.F." Front paste down has plate from Wigan Free Public Library pasted-down. Blind stamps from the library intermittently throughout. Marginal foxing, to end papers and to book block. Very good internally.
Stock ID: 22690More details Price: £145.00 -
A History of Dunster
And of the Families of Mohun & Luttrell
Stock ID: 22687More details Price: £95.00
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Squires' Homes and Other Buildings of Northamptonshire
Being a companion volume to "The Old Halls & Manor Houses of Northamptonshire"
London B.T. Batsford, Ltd. 1939
xvi + 52pp. Fully illustrated with b/w 133 plates from photographs and drawings. Maroon cloth covered boards with gilt lettering. Spine a little faded and bumped at top. Last two gatherings beginning to come loose and front hinge cracked slightly. Good otherwise. And a scarce item. Previous owners bookplate - Josceline Grove - and his description of the book pasted down on front paste down. "October 1939"also written in neat hand on bottom edge of front paste down.
Stock ID: 22685More details Price: £40.00 -
The Adventure of Building
Being something about Architecture and Planning for Intelligent Young Citizens and their Backward Elders
London The Architectural Press 1946
With drawings by Edward Robson. 90pp illustrated in duotone illustrations, some full page. Small 4to. Cloth. Edge worn dust wrapper which is chipped at head and base of spine. Protected in glassine wrapper.
Stock ID: 22682More details Price: £22.00