Harmondsworth Penguin Books 1939

Penguin 1st Printing . Printed Wrappers. Penguin original,1939, No S19 with touch of wear at corners. Spine and page edges are a little browned. No dust wrapper. Good copy.

Studio 1934

152pp illus with fine b/w plates. Small 4to. Good copy with worn and chipped dust wrapper. Old sellotape marks on the end papers. Stunning photo images of early skyscrapers including drawings by Hugh Ferris. Written by an advocate of skyscraper architecture by this key architect involved in their construction in New York and elsewhere. Specific chapters on construction technology and case studies of the Empire State Building and Woolworth Building among others. Hard to find in this condition. From the library of Miles Glendinning with his ownership stamp.

London London B T Batsford 1894

2nd edition with additional plates xxpp itext and a description of the plates + 35 plates which are mostly line ills. Blue cloth with gilt titles. Bright copy although some slight foxing to title page and prelims.

Oxford Phaidon 1978

141pp.will illustrated. Cloth. 4to. Very good with good dust wrapper.

Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery 1984

169pp with 111 b/w illustrations. Small square 4to in wraps, vg. A collection of 8 essays, each dealing with a different aspect of Birmingham as an important provincial centre for the Arts and Crafts Movement in Britain. Subjects covered include architecture, decorative painting, book illustration, metalwork and stained glass. With useful gazetteer of works by Birmingham based craftsmen and a catalogue of books illustrated by Birmingham artists.

‎ Northumbria Press; First Edition 2009

192pp illustrated. Long 4to. Very good with slightly worn dust wrapper. A portrait in complexity of life in Ralph Erskine's Byker Wall and its setting following the initial honeymoon period.

London Academy Editions/St Martins Press 1992

Architectural Monograph no 10 144pp, plates in colour and b/w. Large 4to. Stiff card laminated and decorated wrappers. Very good indeed .

Country Life Ltd (1950) 1957

Revised edition. 228pp illustrated with b/w plates and line ills showing Brown's style. 4to. Fair copy. D/w torn on top reverse and some foxing on the cloth boards. assessment of Brown's life and work including a list of properties where Brown was involved with design. Previous ownersl bookplate on front pastedown.

London printed for private circulation. 1900

4 + 98pp including 51 woodcuts. Tall 8vo. Red cloth, gilt titles on upper board within ruled lines. Pasted down onto front paste down is Hugh Pagan's catalogue entry for this item Catalogue 41 October 2001. Front end paper has ownership bookplate of Josceline Grove and notes on his purchase of this copy. Slightly rubbed at head and base of spine. A few spattered spots on upper board else internally very good. Details 254 numbers following a short [3]pp note on the Sculpture Gallery at Woburn built originally as a conservatory by Henry Holland.

Cambridge The Antique Collectors' Club 1987 (1935)

Volume I - Text and Coloured Plates: xlvii + 49 colour plates + 431pp. Volume II - Monochrome Plates: xv + 266pp. Blue cloth covered boards with gilt titles. Dustwrapper. Very good. Limited to 1000 copies. The Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection was originally published in 1935 and limited to just 350 copies of the 2 volume sets. Considered one of the great ceramic collections of the world, the Graisher collection was assembled by Dr J.W.L Glaisher and catalogued by Bernard Rackham, Keeper of Ceramics at the V&A and this printed catalogue remains a firm favourite amongst ceramics collectors and curators alike, worldwide.

London Printed at The Chiswick Press

xvi + 223pp. Frontispiece of William Blentinck, 1st Early of Portland, plus numerous plates (some with original tissue guards) illustrating the works addressed. Number 86 of 250 copies produced. Top edge gilt. Quarter binding. Original publishers morocco on spine with more recent cloth covered boards. f.e.p. has laid in bookplate of Josceline Grove and neat note in pen "Cat: Bought February 1896. H.J.F." Front paste down has plate from Wigan Free Public Library pasted-down. Blind stamps from the library intermittently throughout. Marginal foxing, to end papers and to book block. Very good internally.

William Holmes Printer Ulverston Fifth edition 1919

38pp. Small 8vo. Decorated wrappers. Foreword by W G Collingwood. Ruskin died at Brantwood of influenza on 20 Jan 1900. His colleague W.G. Collingwood organised a memorial exhibition in the newly extended Assembly Room of Coniston Institute. The proceeds from the exhibition not only paid off the outstanding debt on the Assembly Room but raised sufficient funds to build a further extension to house a permanent memorial exhibition there to Ruskin.d. This is now the Ruskin Museum. An important record of Ruskin's letters, books, manuscripts and over 200 drawings and watercolours; arguably, the most comprehensive collection of Ruskiniana ever presented to the public. Artifacts now housed in the Ruskin Museum at Coniston.

London Sotheby's Publications 1987

i 644, ii 604pp 4to. Illustrated in colour and black and white. Fine in dust wrappers.

Stocksfield Oriel Press Ltd. 1983

xviii + 306pp. B/w photographic illustrations. Bibliography. Good. Spine slightly sunned. D/w stuck onto book with sticky-back-plastic

Woodbridge Antique Collector's Club 2005

320 pp with over 400 colour and 250 b/w illustrations. 4to. Cloth in d/w, fine. A readable but comprehensive look at the work of the prolific designer of household objects who blended affordability and style in the industrial age. With chapters covering ceramics, floor coverings, furniture, glass, metalware, textiles and wallpaper, all generously illustrated.

1879

16pp. Paper wrapper. These a little browned else good copy. Last two pages uncut. Upper wrapper notes "This Circular will be given to Visitors to the Old Water-colour Society's Exhibition, Pall Mall East or on application to the Fine Art Society 148 New Bond Street."

London, The Architectural Press 1939

(5) 168, xxxii pp. Black and white diagrams and tables. bound in open weave lettered cloth, slightly discoloured at edges, with imprinted navy titles. Very good indeed. Fascinating book of government recommendations for civil defence shelter etc.