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Ackerman's Regency Furniture & Interiors
Crowood 1984
200pp illustrated with50 colour, 200 b&w plates. A comprehensive survey of the Regency furniture and interior views which appeared in the 'Repository of Arts' between 1809-1828 with a descriptive text and background information. The illustrations provide a valuable source book for furniture design, interior decoration and window curtain treatments.
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Addresses of the Superintendents of the Department of Practical Art,
delivered in the theatre at Marlborough House: I. On the facilities afforded to all classes of the community for obtaining education in art, by Henry Cole ...
Stock ID: 22074More details Price: £350.00
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Agnes Miller Parker
wood-engraver and illustrator 1895-1980 with recollections of the artist by John Dreyfus
Wakefield The Fleece Press 1990
One of 241 of 300 copies. 92pp 32 wood engravings by Agnes Miller Parker, 3 half-tones of the young artist at her easel, with her fellow students at the Glasgow School of Art and, later in life, holding one of her Siamese cats + further sketches in black and white + one in colour "The horsefair". 230x280mm Half blue cloth with paper label on spine, Claire Mazairezyk paste paper covered boards. Good in slip case with paper label. Paper label on slip case a little foxed.
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Air-Raid Protection
London Cement and Concrete Association c1935
2nd edition. 28pp pamphlet. Stapled. A little worn on edges else good. The Association's mission was to improve and extend the uses of concrete. Illustrations and text exploring detailed designs to reduce impact of direct and indirect attacks. Information drawn widely from European publications on the subject.
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Airports and Airways
London Royal Institute of British Architects 1937
99pp lxi advertisements. B/W plates. 4to, with nicely illustrated wrapper, some shelf-wear and worn on the spine, otherwise good. An in-depth and technical account of the subject. Consists of three main sections: Progress in the air, Airports and Aerial Photography. To accompany an exhibition at the RIBA under chairmanship of H. S. Goodhart-Rendall.
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Alfred Waterhouse
1830-1905 Biography of a Practice
Oxford OUP at the Clarenden Press 1992
xx + 319pp illustrated with b/w and colour plates, plans and elevations. 4to. Very good with dust wrapper. Comprehensive monograph on Waterhouse and his Architectural practice.
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All Manner of Murals:
The History, Techniques and Conservation of Secular Wall Paintings
London Archetype Publications and English Heritage 2007
218pp illustrated. 4to. Boards as issued with no dust wrapper. Proceedings of a symposium on secular wall painting, conservation methods through case studies etc.
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Allegheny Cemetery: Historical Account of Incidents and Events Connected with its establishment.....
Stock ID: 111More details Price: £450.00
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Aluminium in Building
Northern Aluminium Company [NORAL] nd c1970
111pp illustrated with b/w plates, + 16 figures which are line ills and diagrams showing specifications for Aluminium. Makers of Noral Sheet, Strip. Plate, Bars, Sections, Tubing etc. 4to. Silver decorated cloth. Good copy. Boards a liitle dusty. Includes examples of installed systems in many cases locations and architects given. Frontis is the Laruentien Hotel, Montreal. Many world wide examples of projects. Produced by the firm to promote products.
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An Aesthetic Conversion: being independent notes
London Heal and Son and printed at the Arden Press nd [1902]
12mo Original gray paper covered boards, cloth backstrip title label in read and black pasted onto front board. 22pp + 2pp including advertisement for Heal's catalogue. Boards a little dusty and cloth a little more so else good copy. End papers slightly browned. Book by the typographer and journalist Joseph Thorp (1873-1962) offering independent polemical notes on taste, the traditions of Heals as a source of good taste in design and "directing inspiration" Lovely wood block full page illustrations throughout. Thorp moved form working at the Arden Press. He was involved in the Curwen Press and wrote later in life a biography of Eric Gill.
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An Architecture of Invitation: Colin St John Wilson
London Lund Humphries 2005
xviii + 341pp. Numerous b/w ills throughout the text. D/w over red cloth boards. D/w a little bumped at the corners. A very good copy of this distinctive study of the life and architectural career of Colin St John Wilson, architect, teacher, theorist.
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An Edinburgh Address on Design and Industry
Edinburgh Design and Industries Association (Edinburgh Branch) 1917
23pp. Pamphlet containing a D.I.A Address by Frank Pick. Paper wrappers with paste down label. Very good ephemeral item. First pamphlet to be published by the DIA Edinburgh Branch. Pick was working for London Transport at the time towards unifying its brand. The key principles to make good design are explored in this pamphlet. Scarce.
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An Encyclopaedia of Plants:
Comprising the Description, Specific Character, Culture, History, Application in the Arts, and Every Other Desirable Particular Respecting All the Plants Indigeous, Cultivated In, Or Introduced to Britain
Stock ID: 22324More details Price: £140.00
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An Essex Dozen
a twelve point progress from London to the coast
Colchester Benham 1953
8vo. Grey paper covered boards overprinted with the title. Original glassine wrapper partially present. Very good copy. For private distribution. no 242 of 500 copies. Image of Liverpool Street Station and eleven further images all in Essex itself mainly in colour or duotone with one in black and white. Fascinating introduction on how the prints were made from O'Connor's original drawings adding to the interest of this title.
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An Exhibition of Garden Ornaments:
Lead & Stone Figures, Vases, Old Wrought Iron Gates, Garden Temples etc. Collected and for sale by Messrs. Thomas Crowther and Sons.
London published by the firm 1914
32pp illustrated with b/w plates. 230x310mm Frayed paper wrappers, ribbon tie. The exhibition was held at the RHS Spring Sow at Chelsea Hospital Gardens 1914. Thomas Crowther & Son were established as stone masons in the late 19th century but also dealt in antique garden ornaments and associated materials acquired from Architectural Salvage sales. This catalogue, for instance shows a design by Oliver Hill, architect reusing garden ornaments as part of one of his projects. Several images in the publication show items removed from Cheyne House Chelsea.
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An Historical and Topographical Account of the town of Woburn, its Abbey and vicinity containing also a concise genealogy of the House of Russell and memoirs of the late Francis, Duke of Bedford.
Sold by the booksellers in the neighbouring towns; and Baldwin Chadock and Joy, London 1818
[xvi including subscribers list] + 17 + 140pp; [2] ads. Frontis of Woburn CHurch + 1 plate of the house. 195 x175mm. Half calf, marbled boards, recent red spine label. Original boards. Raised bands Very good. Bookplate of previous owner on second end paper. Small stain on half title and title page where coat of arms has been hand painted in blue with a neat hand. Useful on the history of the area and family. Includes a useful description of the modern abbey, its contents, [ in brief ] and grounds.
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An Historical Essay on Architecture An historical essay on architecture by the late Thomas Hope. Illustrated from drawings by him made in Italy and Germany
Stock ID: 22215More details Price: £250.00
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An Historical Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the City of York
Volume V The Central Area
HMSO Royal Commission on Historical Monuments in England 1981
xcviii + 282pp with text ills throughout and b/w photographs. Very good copy with very good dust wrapper. Descriptions of more than 300 buildings erected before 1850 illustrated with photographs and line ills. 4to. Cloth, vg, in very good d/w.
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Ancient Ecclesiastical Stained Glass
London 1897
24pp illustrated with 4 chromolithographed plates. 4to. Original wraps preserved within recent gilt lettered cloth binding to make a very good copy. Print edition of a paper read before the British Archaeological Association 1st March 1882. Pages a little worn at edges else very good.
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André Kertész The Manchester Collection
Manchester The Manchester Collection 1984
185pp with 297 black and white photographs. Quarto. Paper wrappers - slightly sunned. Upper cover, top right corner marginally creased. A very good copy. Exhibition catalogue for shows in Manchester and Salford, organised by Harold Riley who worked with Kertesz and the owner of company Norwest Holst - Mr Raymond Slater - to bring the collection featured in this book to Europe as part of a trust available for study by students. Printed in the form of a Festschrift on the occasion of the 90th birthday of Kertész. Includes contributions by Henri Cartier-Bresson, Harold Riley, Mark Haworth-Booth, Lady Marina Vaisey, Weston J. Naef, Colin Ford and Charles Harbutt.
Stock ID: 22509More details Price: £45.00