Letchworth, The Garden City Press 1908

200 + (4)pp + xxviiipp period ads. Illustrated throughout with b/w photographs, line ills and coloured plans, some which fold out. Important review of contemporary housing conditions by the Chairman of the Birmingham Corporation Housing Committee. Includes much on possible solutions with examples from the Garden City Movement and the related suburb projects at New Earswick, Hampstead etc. This copy a little worn at edges and some pages a little thumbed else good.

Revolution Editions 2011

308pp illustrated colour illustrations. Decorated wrappers, Paperback with French flaps. Strident inscription in thick black pen from David Mach. Edinburgh 2011. Very good copy.

1951

1pp gate-folded printed paper catalogue illustrating the products stocked. Includes letter from firm to Haigh Architects in Kendal with sample of straw and cotton wall coverings stapled to catalogue. The catalogue is printed in red ink with images of items for sale including pottery is mainly by Lucie Rie, a Primavera lamp, rush baskets and furniture. . Good. Letter is typed and signed on behalf of Primavera. Dated 28th May 1951

The British Library, Old Knoll Press and Reading University Press [1970] 1998 reprint

Second Revised Edition. 285pp, 880 b/w and 42 colour illustrations. 4to. Fine in dust wrapper. Massive reference book on type design and its uses. A new forward by Ruari McLean and an additional bibliography.

London. T Fisher Unwin Ltd 1918

315pp. Cloth. Slightly faded on the spine. Arranged in four sections. I First Principles of Reconstruction 2 Reconstruction and Education 3 Social and Industrial Reconstruction 4 Arts and Crafts in relation to Reconstruction. Contributors included many luminaries of the day including J H B Masterman, Henrietta Barnett, Sidney Webb, Henry Clausen, C A Voysey, May Morris and many others. Fascinating assembly of liberal minds of the day. Faint stamp of Guildford Labour Party Bookshop probably contemporary with issue of the book.

Stamford Reinhold Publishing March 1972

no 3. 162pp illustrated with line ills and colour and b/w photographs and including period ads. Colour wrappers: Diptych by Michael Graves representing his work on right and that of Eisenman's on left. Features a key article by Eisenman and Graves entitled "On Reading Architecture." Other articles consider the water front at Rochester USA by Frank Schlesinger, an addition to a school in St PAul by Benjamin Thompson + book reviews and editorial.

London 1984

Unpaginated. c40pp pamphlet, coloured wrappers, stapled. Illustrated in b/w and colour and with plans of church layouts. Looks at the adaptation of old and design of new church spaces for the Methodists. Very good. Images accompanied by captions listing architects and builders. English projects in the main.

Chester School of Art 1914

15pp, Decorated wrappers. Chester School of Art was housed in the Grosvenor Museum from 1886, when the museum was built. It originated in a School of Art, established circa 1850, and in the School of Science, fostered by the Chester Society of Natural Science, Literature and Art, founded by Canon Charles Kingsley in 1871.

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

New York and London, Macmillan 1895

Translated by George Martin Huss. xii + 367pp illustrated with b/w line illustrations. Introduction summarises the life and works of Viollet le Duc. THe remainder is a very useful translation of the section of his Dictionnaire into English concerning construction methods. Topical given the current restoration of Notre Dame which he restored in the period c1846-1856.

Burford, The Cygnet Press 1985

234pp illus 206 b/w photographs and plans. 4to. Wrappers. Good copy. Comprises a comprehensive selection of Erith's unpublished writings on architectural theory and practice, a biographical introduction and chronological list of his works. A mid twentieth century classicist in the midst of the modern movement whose work includes Jack Straw's cottage on Hampstead Heath and the reconstruction of Nos 10, 11 and 12 Downing Street.

London The Architectural Association 1984

48pp illustrated with b/w photographs and line ills. Square small 4to. Decorated wrappers. Useful overview on the life and work of Myserscough Walker.

London, Academy Editions 1993

208pp with 140 illustrations, mostly in colour. Cloth, near fine in similar d/w. Collects together writings by and about Eisenman, including work by key authors such as Jacques Derrida and A. Benjamin. A fascinating record of the intersections between philosophy and practice in Eisenman's groundbreaking work.

London, Unicorn Press 2003

xvi + 334pp illustrated with b/w plates and has decorated end papers. Very good with dust wrapper. Includes an Introduction and Gazetteer of the Buildings by James Bettley. Fine in dust wrapper. The manuscripts of Thomas Graham Jackson are in the possession of the family and it is his grandson who has been the force behind this title.

London, L. Upcott Gill no date c1880

vi + 109 + [3]pp period ads + 14pp catalogue of publications by L Upcott Gill at the end. Illustrated with 2 fold out patterns for designs + 45 text figures. Decorated cloth. New end papers, Signature of the late Stuart Evans who previously owned the book.

London, B T Batsford 1905

xiv +267pp illus. with b/w plates and plans including some fold outs. Royal 8vo. Sympathetically rebacked preserving original spine. New end papers. Examples of important examples by leading architects in England, the Continent and America. Many special photographs. Scarce and important study of mansion house block etc.

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.

London Yale University Press; Revised edition Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art) (The Association of Human Rights Institutes series) 2009

448pp illustrated with colour and b/w plates. Quarto. Very good with very good dust wrapper. Andrew Saint is the General Editor of 'The Survey of London' and the author of 'The Image of the Architect' (1983), 'Towards A Social Architecture: The Role of School-Building in Post-War England' (1987) and 'Architect and Engineer: A Study in Sibling Rivalry' (2007). A completely revised text and new introduction and is now illustrated generously in colour, with many specially commissioned photographs.