Edinburgh The Scottish Centre for Building Conservation Studies 2017

274pp illustrated. Wrappers. New. An account of the vision and sense of mission in building tower blocks as a way of providing mass housing.

Paul Watkins Publishing 2005

168pp illustrated with colour and b/w plates. Small 4to. Very good with very goood dust wrapper. From the libary of Gavin Stamp with his book ticket pasted in.

George G Harrap and Co Limited 1956

with over 500 plans and illustrations.4to. Good in sl. worn and chipped dust wrapper. Beautifully illustrated and a major study on city building.

London Thames and Hudson 2006

400pp illustrated with colour and b/w plates and line ills. 4to. Fine in dust wrapper. Comprehensive on Eisenman's buildings and projects from House I (New Jersey) to the large sclae later works including the Memorial to Murdered Jews in Berlin 2015. The book includes contributed essays and critques by contemporary architects and writers.

London Country Life 1954

175pp illus. with c50 plates incl. major schemes by Tilden such as his scheme at Port Lympe begun by Herbert Baker, un-built work for Selfridge, Chartwell, Saltwell Castle and other projects. Only major account of his work. Good copy with slightly worn dust wrapper.

Edinburgh London The Tynecastle Company n.d. [1923]

152 + [48]pp, b/w photographs throughout. Folio. Original red cloth with black lettering. Slightly frayed at the head and foot of spine. Binding a little shaky with short split along outer hinge. Trade catalogue from the 1920s for the Tynecastle Company, who specialised in wall coverings, mouldings, friezes and ornaments. Illustrated throughout with samples of individual products and examples of them in situ. The company was set up in 1885 by John and James Templeton to meet the demand for their leather-like canvas product, and ran in tandem with the original Scott Morton & Co. until they were incorporated in 1920. Ownership of George Wilson Studio Leeds 1926

London Lund Humphries. 1949-1967

1-16 all published. This complete set of the New Series is a remarkable survival of the 60s and a testament to Herbert Spencer's innovative approach to design. Contributors included Dieter Rot, Alexander Rodchenko, Herbert Bayer, John Heartfield, Kurt Schwitters. They are a wide-ranging in their coverage of all things graphic including; Road Signs in Holland, forty-nine photographs by Margaret Wissing; Penguins on the March which examines Penguin paperback designs, by Herbert Spencer; Reading by touch, by Donald Bell; Typography in Britain; Chance, by Barbara Jones Sex and Typography, Tombstone Lettering on Slate, etc. The journal also assessed Modernist pioneers and environmental photography. From the collection of typographer Michael Harvey.

London London College of Printing 1980

"Launched to provide a focal point for all those interested in typography and its role in international communication and the quality of life." [ Fred Lambert] Contributors included, Huib van Krimpen Alan Bartrum, Colin Banks, Maldwyn Williams and many others. Short lived ambitious journal, beautifully produced, each issue with variant cover design, range of papers, typography, print styles. Uniform sizes. The international range of advisors is impressive.

London, Cassell 1934

124pp, 67 plates b/w photographs. 4to. Yellow cloth with brown lettering in dw which is preserved in good order in a glassine wrapper. Signature of former owner on front end paper. Iconic book which covers work by: Sculptors: Henry Moore, Barbara Hepworth; Painters: John Armstrong, John Bigge, Edward Burra, T ristram Hillier, Paul Nash, Ben Nicholson, Edward Wadsworth; Architects: Wells Coates, Colin Lucas. Unit One was a British grouping of Modernist artists founded by Paul Nash. Despite its brief period of activity, the group is regarded as influential in establishing the pre-eminence of London as a centre of modernist and abstract art and architecture in the mid-1930s.

Liverpool Walker Art Gallery 2007

48pp Unnatural Selection: Jewellery, Objects and Sculpture by Peter Chang was produced to accompany an exhibition. Illustrates selected items from the exhibition, and provides a background of his life and work, includes his own views about his work.

New York George Schlegel 1893

Two advertising items promoting Cigars which are chromolithographic images . Sizes are 260x155mm and 120x120mm. Set against the background of the Worlds Fair Buildings these two items illustrate a romanticised scene depicting the discovery of the New World by Columbus. George Schlegel Lithographing Co. (1849-1957)[1] was a New York printing company best known for its label designs for cigars and cigar boxes, and was owned and operated during its lifetime by four generations of the family. Very good

Late 19th century c1890?

Undated and hand decorated with dried flowers and ferns and with hand written captions in italics and painted borders. Dark green leather with ruled edges. 230x280mm. Split on spine and edges scuffed but lovely item. 40 pages of sepia photographs of various sizes ranging from 60x110mm to 150x240mm. Photographers stamps in some of the images internally. Isle of Man photographer's impression of the firm Patterson and James on some of the early images. Large image of Douglas Harbour and Laxey Wheel in this section. Later sections include a combination of tourist purchased photographs and vernacular ones by the maker.

Taplow, Bucks Published by the firm nd 1951

2pp introduction including long quote from George Sitwell's On Making Gardens + unpaginated section illustrating 74 projects from garden layouts to individual greenhouses. Each project located. 4to. Stapled wrappers with sepia full page landscape illustration on upper wrapper with Humphry Repton quotation.

London The Architectural Press 1973

327pp illustrated with b/w plates. Good with good dust wrapper. Stamp of Furze & Hawden Architects Norwich on front paste down. "Vandalism, a collection of trenchant essays edited by Colin Ward, covers the subject in depth, outlining the problem, analyzing its social causes, and offering concrete solutions."

Basel Editions du Griffon Neuchatel 1965

Plastic arts of the 20th Century: 194pp illustrated with full page optical images. Complete with five plastic illustrated transparencies/overlays that are not bound in. Chronology of work at the end of the book. 4to. Lettered grey cloth boards. Very good. Head of dust wrapper very slightly bumped on upper side and dustwrapper slightly browned else good.

Edinburgh John Donald Publishers Limited 1984

254pp illustrated with b/w plates, line ills and plans. 4to. Vg in good dw. Based on a study of 770 buildings in North Yorkshire and Cleveland. Original research. and a fascinating history of the changing regional environment and distinctive architecture of the area. Hard to find.