Liverpool published by the Cathedral Committee January 1904

28pp, Paper wrappers, stapled pamphlet illustrated with line ills. A.L.S. from John Summerson, on John Soane Museum headed paper, to Gavin Stamp 13 June 1977 praising the pamphlet which was given by Summerson to Gavin Stamp as a useful source on the plans for building of the cathedral. Arguably one of the most ambitious architectural projects of the 20th century the project to build the cathedral, planned earlier, was initiated in 1904, the year when this pamphlet was produced and when Giles Gilbert Scott was just 22 and won the competition for the commission. Also loosely inserted is a single page article on St James Cemetery, Liverpool from the Mirror Dec 14th 1833

Privately printed 1997

80pp illustrated with b/w plates. Long 8vo. Decorated wrappers. Very good copy. Useful small booklet on Voysey's houses and associated community buildings at Whitwood, Normanton, West Yorkshire, constructed by local firm of Joseph Pullan and Son. The client was the Briggs family, owners of the colliery and Voysey's clients for Broadleys, Windermere.

Paris Champ Vallon 1988

No 2 in the Vaisseau de Pierres collection. Preface by Jean Baudrillard. 120pp illustrated with colour and b/w plates and line ills and maps. Decorated wrappers. Slightly worn along spine else good copy. Reviews and considers Bernard Tschumi's major deconstructivism project for the park with fabulous visuals. The park was part of President Mitterand's scheme for regeneration of the partially derelict industrial areas on the north eastern side of Paris. Now a highly popular blend of landscape with the scientific and cultural. Text in French.

London The Architectural Press 1971

156pp illustrated with b/w plates and line illustrations. Foreword by Ian Nairn. Large 4to. Yellow, gold-lettered cloth with good but slightly dusty dust wrapper. The book proposes a utopian idea for a city to be built on disused quarry land in North Nuneaton believing it would put a halt to suburban sprawl in England. De Wolfe, pseudonym for Hubert de Cronin Hastings failed to get the project off the ground but was a tireless campaigner, through Architectural Review and other publications for a humane approach to design. Lovely copy.

Yorkshire EP Publishing Limited, 1978

Facsimile reprint of the original 1736 edition. Limited to 350 copies. xi, [28], 627, cx, [33] pp, 115 plates many of which are folding, including maps. Folio. Cloth. Very good in very good dust wrapper. Edges of book block a little browned. Huge and brilliant reference on the early history of the city of York.

London Geoffrey Bles 1928

188pp. Frontispiece + unpaginated b/w plates at rear. Publishers blue boards with cloth spine and printed label. Paper label a little worn. Epilogue by Patrick Abercrombie. The book is an outcry at the urbanization of the countryside and disintegration of village life and form as a consequence. Loosely inserted printed extracts from Architectural Review folded.

London Hamilton Adams and Co 1846

Frontis, iv+96pp. Small 8vo. Blind stamped red cloth with gilt monogram on upper board. Rebacked. Forde Abbey is a privately-owned former Cistercian monastery and Grade I listed building. Forde Abbey was bought by Edmund Prideaux, MP for Lyme Regis and Oliver Cromwell's Attorney General. Before his death in 1659 Prideaux converted the buildings from a monastic residence to a private home. It has 18th century gardens and a landscape park. This early guidebook describes the early history of the estate from the establishment of it as a monastic foundation to its conversion into a country house. Hard to find.

Architectural History Foundation/Mit Press Series 1984

430pp illustrated. Quarto. Very good with good dust wrapper. Devoted exclusively to Street and his greatest work, the Royal Law Courts in the Strand. Voume 8 in the History Foundation series.

Settle privately published 2QT 2020

275pp, 295 illustrations in colour. Decorated wrappers featuring Lethaby's Herefordshire masterpiece, All Saints, Brockhampton. Square 4to. 210 x 210mm The Arts and Crafts Movement is less well known for its public buildings than domestic projects. Many of the leading personalities were commissioned to design or decorate churches, and these too were highly influential on subsequent architectural developments. Their patrons played a key role in bringing these revolutionary buildings into being. The book examines the churches as a group, the influences of designers on each other, and assess their impact on design in the the 20th century and after.

Hambledon Press:1996,

First edition,. 4to, xvi, 784pp, 232 illus., orig. cloth gilt. A fine copy in near fine bright dust wrapper.

London: Hambledon Press, 2000

xxxii, 672 pp. 180 illustrations (27 in color), list of contributors, bibliographical footnotes, appendices, glossary, index. Fine/Fine dw. First Edition. 18 x 26 cm . The 36 essays in this beautifully-produced book constitute the definitive account of Hereford's history from Anglo-Saxon times to the present, and of its architecture, fittings, musical tradition, archives and library.

Spire Books 2012

342pp illustrated. Very good with dust wrapper

Spire Books in association with the Georgian Group 2002

224pp illustrated with b/w plates. Colour laminated wrappers. Fine

Reading Spire Books 2012

Spire Studies in Architectural History Volume 2. 240pp illustrated with b/w images. With dust wrapper. Like new. 240pp. Useful source material; Essays on a series of individuals including Henry Roberts, William Culshaw and Henry Sumners, William hill, Bassett Keeling, E S Prior, Harold Peto and Hugh Thackery Turner. Each essay is illustrated and written by an architectural expert. Notes on the contributors included at the back of the book.

Spire Books 2010

338pp illustrated with 196 illustations. 4to. Fine in dust wrapper. Chantrell - along with many architects of his generation - has hitherto been confined to the shadows of architectural history, shadows cast so adeptly by Pugin and the Ecclesiologists. This book reconsiders his many achievements and sets them within the context of architectural theory and practice of his time. Beautifully produced book. Renowned around Yorkshire for his work at Leeds Parish Church.

Spire Books and the Ecclesiological Society 2006

336pp illustrated with b/w plates. Small 4to. Very good in dust wrapper. One of 10 copies published for the family. The dust wrapper is illustrating Comper's church interior at St Mary's Wellingborough. Comper (1864-1960 was one of the great Gothic Revival architects. The study includes a complete gazetteer of some 600 entries and a reprint of Comper's influential essay "Atmosphere of a Church".