Burford Church is one of the most visited in the Oxfordshire area. This small group of souvenir cards c1949 are from original rubbings by Benjiman Consitt Boulter and similarly the drawings are by him. He was a British schoolmaster and illustrator (1876-1960) who as well as these cards illustrated the guide book to the church issued to visitors at the time.

Wakefield The Fleece Press 1982

[112]pp. b/w wood engravings. 4to. Quarter buckram with gilt decoration and title, marbled paper covers and green slipcase. Limited edition, standard copy, no. 209 of 350. Exquisite collection of illustrations made from original wood engragvings, created as a second volume following 'S.T.E. Lawrence: Boxwood Blockmaker', printing work of artists missed out from the first book. With an introduction by John Lawrence. Fine.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1924

Limited Edition. 1086/2050. 64pp Illustrated with engravings. Uncut. 4to. Quarter black cloth, printed paper boards. Edges a little rubbed, corners worn else good copy. From the collection of Bob Brooks with his signature on front end paper. Brooks was a designer and artist based most of his life in Stoke on Trent.

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.

Robinson and Fisher 1900

Catalogue of the 12th June 1900 of the topographical library of Sir Robert Peel. 76pp 953 lots listed. 4to. Rebound. Bookplate on front paste down. End papers renewed, prelims a little foxed. Earlier sales in May had seen the disposal of furnishings etc including fine engravings, clocks, candelabra, decorative furniture, China, curios, sculpture.

London Horatio Phillips [1829]

xx, [3]-212pp and 8 plates. 8vo. Edges uncut. Original boards, rebacked & with new spine label. Ex libri Roger Quick with note in pencil about the publication.

Cambridge, Mass MIT Press 1986

266pp illustrated. 4to. First edition of this book by author of Theory and Design in the First Machine Age. On the relationship between U S industrial buildings and European design. Very good in good dust wrapper.

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.

London [Westminister, Printed by A.T. Stevens for Flying Fame, 1913] 1913

Broadsheet. Eight pages, 12mo. Unbound and unstitched. Unfolds into a single leaf. Illustrated with black and white illustrations. Some hand coloured. Eight pages, 12mo. Unbound and unstitched. Unfolds into a single leaf. Stamp of Eric H Dukes on one page. A little foxed. H. Printed on paper and unnumbered.

London, T. Werner Laurie Ltd. 1912

x+226pp plus 36 plates from drawings by Wilfrid Drake. 4to in cloth-backed boards, slightly scuffed and bumped at corners and spine, but generally vg. Internally there is some spotting, confined to endpapers and the first 20pp. Important early survey of stained glass, extending from the seventh century to the Gothic revival. Later chapters deal with Heraldry, Swiss glass (as a point of comparison), decay and advice for the collector. With useful appendices and bibliographies of early material. Many of the lovely full page plates are in colour.

London Hamilton Adams and Co 1846

Frontis, iv+96pp. Small 8vo. Blind stamped red cloth with gilt monogram on upper board. Rebacked. Forde Abbey is a privately-owned former Cistercian monastery and Grade I listed building. Forde Abbey was bought by Edmund Prideaux, MP for Lyme Regis and Oliver Cromwell's Attorney General. Before his death in 1659 Prideaux converted the buildings from a monastic residence to a private home. It has 18th century gardens and a landscape park. This early guidebook describes the early history of the estate from the establishment of it as a monastic foundation to its conversion into a country house. Hard to find.

Winchester & London., Jacob & Johnson & Simpkin, Marshall & Co. , 1888

x, 173pp. 13 black & white plates including frontispiece, plus numerous black & white illustrations within the text. Half vellum over grey boards. Quarto. First edition. t.e.g. Vellum sl. grubby and titling on spine a little worn, but a very good copy of this late 19th century history of the house. Upper board bumped along top edge. Internally, some discolouration on f.e.p else very clean and bright. Bookplate of Josceline Grove along with descriptions of the books from previous owners pasted down on front end papers. Name of C. L. Chute (Sir Charles Lennard Chute MC 1879 - 1956) inscribed in pen on front paste down.

London Lund Humphries 1951

28pp. 60 plates including five in colour. Folio. Open weave cloth. Small stain on upper board else good copy. One of Leach's key texts.

London Crosby Lockwood and Co 1890 (1882)

Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged. With additional Treatise on Stairbuilding. With b/w diagrams throughout and 9 single-sided plates. Weale's Scientific & Educational Series, Number 230. x + 120pp + 16pp list of new Weale's publications + 40pp Crosby Lockwood & Co's Catalogue. Green blind stamped cloth with paper label. Book text preceded with list of Weale's publications on architectural subjects. Label slightly creased. Gilt titling on upper board somewhat discoloured. Half title page torn out at top edge. Otherwise a smart copy of this guide which was published a further 52 times.

London: RIBA 1978

First Edition. 74pp. illustrations and line drawings. White card cover. 200mm x 200mm (8" x 8"). Includes contributions from Edward Cullinan, Philip Dowson, Ron Herron, Leon Krier, Sir Denys Lasdun, Robert Maxwell, Rijk Rietveld, Richard Rogers, Quinlan Terry and Piers Gough. Texts from a Colloquium on the intractable nature of style. Soul searching by key practitioners and theorists of the day. Bolton was one of the sub-editors of this publication. Uncommon.

London John Weale 1860

4th Edition, revised and enlarged xi + [i] +434pp+ 24pp. Fold our frontis o the Great Westminster Clock mechanism. 8vo. Cloth. A little rubbed else good. 1860 was the year Big Ben became fully operational. Dedication copy from the author to Rev. Joseph Eddleston, At North Runcton July 21 1860