London John Murray [1939] 1950 Revised edition

181pp illustrated with b/w plates and line ills. Introduction by Osbert Lancaster. Decorate end papers. Decorated boards with dust wrapper the latter a bit chipped with about 2.5cm torn away against lower board.

nd c1900

viii + 187 pages +some tissue guards. 4to.240 x 290mm. Cloth spine, decorated boards. Browned end papers and binding a bit shaky. Boards worn else internally good. Two colour images of products. Prices given. Noted as the 80th edition. Early introductory pages indicate the firm exhibited at a number of World Fairs. One image from page 127 showing a pulpit design has been clipped out.

Sunderland Northern Centre for Contemporary Arts, sponsored by the Henry Moore Foundation et al. 1988

234 pages of bw and colour photographs and illustrations of art work by the artists. Stiff card covers with illustrated wrappers over. Loosely inserted private view card for the Leeds showing of this exhibition and an associated press release. Signed on the half title by Claes Oldenburg. Great catalogue made for a major touring show of works made by Oldenburg and his wife Coosje van Bruggen.

Oxford Oxford University Press 1993

342 pp. B/w ills throughout. 4to. Cloth cover. 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. Bookplate of Richard Marks on front paste down.

London Alex Koch & Sons nd c1916

Unpaginated. c60pp single sided illustrations which first appeared in Academy Architecture. In each case, the architect, location and details of the building illustrated is given. A wide variety of architects both in the UK and Europe are noted. Red cloth. Gilt titles on upper board. No title page. In most cases the year in which the illustration appeared is given. Generally between 1902 and 1915 although some illustrations appear without dates. Curious compilation. With bookplate of Colin Amery on front paste down and pencil signature of a former owner as H E Hills dated May 30th 1916.

London Falcon Press 1952

88pp including16 b/w and 4 colour plates of room designs. Period dust wrapper design by R G Jullian. Small 4to. Good copy although two of the illustration pages have been stuck together in past with small nick from each b/w images resulting. Post world war II view on the house interiors for the middle class home.

London, Longman, Orme, Brown, Green and Longmans 1839

1334pp, illustrated with twelve hundred and forty engravings on wood. 8vo. Rebound with brown cloth and gilt lettering to make a sturdy copy. Huge early Victorian compendium of information about almost everything technical from printing to glass making etc. by this renowned dictionary maker. This is the first edition but the dictionary was subsequently reprinted in many editions even after the death of Ure in 1857.

Orkney Piers Art Centre & The Barns Graham Charitable Trust 2009

49pp including 11pp introduction by Mel Gooding. 31 colour illustrations and 2 black & white photographs. Boards, 250x230mm VG indeed. Beautiful production.

New York & London Harper & Brothers 1899

46pp. French fold pages. Small 4to. Cloth which is decorated on the upper and lower boards and spine. Decorated end papers. Printed by Edmund Evans and Bound by Leighton, Son & Hodge. Colour litho illustrations throughout depicting floral imagery with figures linked to period folklore evoking an idealised society.

London B.T.Batsford 1896

xv + 313pp +8pp ads, 115 collotype plates + 100s of text ills. . Sm 8vo. Original gilt lettered cloth. Very slightly rubbed at top of spine. Gutta percha repaired to make a good copy with reinforcements on inner hinges. Some slight foxing to prelims, index and advert pages at the back. Very good of the first edition of this enduring study of architecture on the comparative method. Loosely inserted bill from book binder who repaired the book.

Windsor Dean and Canons of Windsor 2005

263 pp. 97 bw ills, 12 colour plates. Decorated, laminated wrappers. Small bump at top spine edge else fine copy, as new. Pioneering study exploring the history of the chapel's stained glass, by a team of distinguished stained glass historians and heraldic scholars, revealing a microcosm of English stained glass design across the centuries. With essays by Martin Harrison, Michael Archer, Peter J. Begent, Sarah Baylis, William Cole and Hilary Wayment.

London, Melbourne and Paris Cassell and Company 1901

Unpaginated. [4]pp prelims + 40pp, French fold pages. 285 x 210mm. Cloth spine, Paper covered boards. Decorated end papers. Slightly rubbed at edges else good copy. Essays of Elia is a collection of essays written by Charles Lamb; it was first published in book form in 1823, with a second volume, Last Essays of Elia, issued in 1833 by the publisher Edward Moxon. Illustrated in colour throughout; each page has an image with text inset.

London by The British Fire Prevention Committee 1903

304pp + lxxi + [4]pp appendix +270 plates + fold out plan of the exhibition forming last page. Red gilt decorated loth. Head and base of spine chipped. Decorated end papers, these a little age toned. The exhibition included examples of the latest fire fighting equipment and there was also a substantial loan of items on the history of fire including paintings, models, historical equipment etc. Sachs is best known for his writing on Theatre Architecture. Sach wrote the introduction to this huge catalogue.

London, Weale's Rudimentary Series no 23 1882

7th edition revised with additions by Robert Mallet. 276pp + c30pp catalogue of the Weale's publications. Good copy. Paper label on spine a little worn and faded. Covers manufacture of bricks, the variety of types of bricks and tiles from pantiles to encaustic tiles. Engraved plates throughout.

London . J Virtue and Co. Weale's Series no 12 no date 1859

101pp illustrated with 34 illustrative wood engraved diagrams including some fold outs + c30pp Weale's catalogues at the end. . Flimsy boards with original blind stamped cloth. Gilt lettered. Paper spine label a little worn and faded. Very good.

London Scott Greenwood & Son 1902

139 pp. colour frontis + 36 b/w ills. Dark green boards Spine sl. faded. 8vo. Vg. Explains the art and mysteries of producing a stained glass window. Written by the author for both artist and general reader 'with an antiquarian turn of mind'. Chapters include Designing Scale Drawings, Cartoons and the Outline, The Various Kinds of Glass-Cutting for Windows, The Colours and Brushes used in Glass Paining, and Fret Lead Glazing. With 24-page 'Abridged Catalogue of Special Technical Books'. Two colour plates, called for on title page, not present, as usual.

Bembridge The Ruskin Association 1980

Unpaginated booklet,comprising introduction by J S Deardon and printed account from a manuscript of a visit to Brantwood by Fany Talbot. Unpainated 16pp. Bound with marbled boards and end papers and paste down label. Inside is a typed note "Just a trifle from the Malvern Link Bindery. Simple and plain like the binder!" You might send another copy with respects. The manuscript was found by architectural historian and devotee of Ruskin, the late John Hutchinson of York. The introduction by James Deardon explains the origin of the manuscript. Fine. Pamphlet printed by the Yellowsands Press, Bembridge. Isle of Wight.