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Painted with Light by General Electric
San Francisco Published by the firm 1940
[1pp introduction] 10pp text + 10 full colour illustrations of the site showing impact of flood lighting. Text describes the methods of lighting the site and this is illustrated with b/w plates. Blue folder with gilt lettered label. Text reprinted from 1940 AIEE Transactions for General Electric Company. Uncommon.
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Painting with a policy
Warrington The Mersey White Lead Company Ltd 1949
42pp, illustrated with b/w plates. Decorated wrappers. Printed on white and yellow paper throughout. Long 8vo. Very good. Lovely period piece advocating the longevity of white lead paint [ now banned ] for use on bridges, public buildings and for interiors and exteriors of all kinds. Great title. Full page illustrations of buildings where paint used: The Stewart Fleming County Primary School Anerley, London SE 2, Paddington Station, St Peter's Church, Harrogate and many other buildings. Also includes tables suggesting maintenance programmes.
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Paintings and Drawings by William Roberts R.A.
London Royal Academy 1975
44 b/w plates. 4to. Print wrappers. Loosely inserted paper clippings about Roberts, a post card and photocopy from the National portrait gallery about Roberts c10pp stapled. Very good Wrappers slightly worn at head and base of spine. A previous owner has added some slipped in colour plates of some of the illustrations in the catalogue.
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Paradise Gardens
London Two Roads 2018
222pp + [4] illustrated with superb photographs by Derry Moore. 4to. New. Description of 29 specific gardens including the Albambra, The Maidan in Isfahan, Topkap Palace, Taj Mahal and others. Useful for layout and how differing climates have influenced the garden planting and design but around a common theme.
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Paris Expoisition 1900
Paris Bon Marche 1900
Accordion style photographic views of expostion buildings along the Seine. 12 sepia images with captions in the plate each 200x270mm mounted on stiff card boards with ruled frames. Original gilt decorated cloth. Cloth binding is worn at edges and hinges shaky. Internally the photographs are very bright. .
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Paul Bonatz und seine Schüler
Berlin and Stuttgart, Verlag Deutsche Bauten H. Frank 1933
148pp illustrated with b/w plates. Red paper wrappers with black lettered titles. Slightly worn at spine. On half title Matthew written in neat hand [ Sir Robert Matthew 1906-1975] Reviews the work of Bonatz and his associates. Text in German.
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Period Furniture applied to Modern Requirements for the refined home:
A series of short articles illustrating the different styles of furniture used in England in past ages and the adaptation of these styles to our present-day domestic requirements.
Manchester Warings 1909
39pp 8 colour plates of Tudor Britain interiors including billiard room and text illustrations of furniture. Oblong 8vo. 180x245mm. Decorated boards. Good copy. Schemes are prepared to suit the individual requirements of mansion, villa or hall.
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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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Peter Eisenman and Frank Gehry
Fifth International Exhibition of Architecture of the Biennale, 8 September 1991 to 6 October 1991, Giardini de Castello, Pavillion of the United States, Venice, Italy [and] the Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, October through November 1992
New York Rizzoli Publications 1991
International Architectural Exhibition (5th : 1991 : Venice, Italy) Unpaginated prelims. 80pp. Black and White and colour grainy photographs throughout. Interview between the two printed as prelims. Folio. Striking paper wrappers. Features Eisenman's design for the Cincinnati College of Design and Gehry's design of the Disney Concert Hall. Very good.
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Peter Lanyon. His Painting
Henley-on-Thames Aiden Ellis Publishing Limited 1971
70pp + 72 colour and black and white, single-sided plates interspersed throughout the text pages. Grey cloth covered boards with white titling on spine and upper board. Dust wrapper a little grubby with tear to upper left edge and spine. Internally a very neat copy. A comprehensive overview of the artists life and work, including lists of exhibitions, locations of his work in public collections, bibliography and biography. Introduction by sculptor and Lanyon's contemporary from St Ives, Naum Gabo.
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Philip Webb and his Work
London Oxford University Press 1935
Ist edition. Frontis (6) + 234pp illustrated with 24 b/w plates. 8vo. Original green lettered cloth. Very frayed dus wrapper with 2cms missing from base of spine. Pencil signature of the architect Ronald Sims, a conservation architect working from York. Dated September 1949. Key contemporary assessment of the work of Philip Webb. Posthumously published from its original serial form in the Builder of 1925.
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Philosphy of Design: Essays 1942-1981
Munich ; New York : Prestel, 2012
386pp illustrated with b/w plates and line ills. White lettered cloth with title in black. Open weave cloth. Very good in slightly sun faded slipcase. number of essays published for the first time, this collection of writings by the inspirational structural engineer Ove Arup provides valuable insight into the firm and its philosophy. Bookplate of Michael and José Manser on front end paper.
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Photographs. Annie Leibovitz. 1970 - 1990
New York Harper Collins 1991
222pp with about 200 black and white and colour photographs, mainly of rock stars and celebrities. Folio with printed boards and original glassine dust wrapper. Wrapper slightly torn on top right corner of upper cover and upper board bumped on bottom right, else a very clean and good copy of this handsome publication. From the collection of Jonathan and Maggie SIlver (without attribution).
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Pi in the High
London Faith Press 1959
64pp with b/w line illustrations by Barbara Jones. Decorated paper covered boards with green cloth spine. Board decorations also by Barbara Jones. A little dusty else good copy of this title.
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Piper's Places: John Piper in England and Wales
London: Chatto & Windus . The Hogarth Press. 1983.
184 pp. with 144 Fine plates, almost all in colour and some specially made for this book. 4to. Very good copy in good dust wrapper. Superbly produced anthology of places visited and painted by John Piper.
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Planning Pamphlets:
1. Overture to Planning by F J Osborn, w. Britain's Town and Country Pattern: A summary of the Barlow, Scott and Uthwatt Reports with intro by G D H Cole by Nuffield Reconstruction Survey, 3. The War and the Planning Outlook by W A Robson, 4. Planning for Living by Clough Williams Ellis, 5. Industry and Town Planning by Roland Pumphrey, 6. The Land and Planning by F J Osborn, 7. Planning and the Countryside by the Town and Country PLaning Association, 8. The Social Foundation of Post-War Building by Lewis Mumford and 9. Civic Design and the Home by Arnold Whittock.
Stock ID: 20898More details Price: £65.00
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Plastering Plain & Decorative
A practical treatise on the art and craft, including full descriptions of materials, processes and appliances, and an account of historical plastering
London B T Batsford 1927
Fourth edition revised and enlarged. xiii +350pp Includes 278 illustrations from photographs on 125 plates mostly new to this edition. Cloth a little grubby else good. Some scattered foxing on prelims, small tear to bottom of one page in prelims [ text not affected] else a good copy. Key work on all aspects of historical plastering techniques.
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Play Orbit:
Catalogue of the exhibition at Royal National Eisteddfod of Wales, Flint, 1969 and Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, 1969-1970
London Studio International 1969
186pp illustrated with b/w plates and colour frontis. 4to. Wrappers. Very good copy. Graphics and catalogue cover design: Ken Hughes Catalogue Design: Malcolm Lauder. Jasia Reichardt's 1969 exhibition Play Orbit was a literal articulation of Herbert Read's commitment to play, featuring toys and games as works to be considered as art, however within the concept of 'play' arguably lies an assumption of a more direct act of participation. In 1968 she was curator of the landmark Cybernetic Serendipity exhibition, also at the ICA.
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Popular Dictionary of Architecture and the Allied Arts: A Work of Reference for the Architect, Builder, Sculptor, Decorative Artist, and General Student
London: Henry Sotheran & Co. n.d. (1879).
As issued in parts no 1-19 all published. Last entry is Caeruleum. Most often found published in three volumes ending at Buttery and it is up to this entry that the index has been published for. This project was never completed by Audsley, best known for his writing on polychromatic decorations. Some parts are shaky at hinges, one or two covers detached else a good set of this part work.
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Portfolio One, Two and Three
Specimen sheets of printing type-design and Specimen sheets of printing type-design and letter-cutting carried out by Will [& Sebastian] Carter at the Rampant Lions Press workshop. Cambridge, between 1959 and 1982.
Cambridge Rampant Lions Press 1967-1982
Specimen sheets of printing type-design and letter-cutting carried out by Will Carter at the Rampant Lions Press workshop between 1959 and 1967. Three loose leaf folio: One: Title and colophon leaves, foreword and 24 specimens of work (+ Four photos at end of stone carvings). Two: Title page + 4pp intro + 21 examples (most on single sheet) + 1p colophon, ) Three: 18 Broadsides. Limited edition of around 500 per issue. All very good. Lettered on the spine. Second volume has small tear along one fold of the portfolio. The portfolios were compiled by Will and Sebastian Carter.
Stock ID: 21389More details Price: £175.00