London, Sheldon Press 1947

32pp illustrated with 8pp centre fold of b/w plates and one plan. Wrappers. Good copy Wrappers a little dusty. A reprint of this essay appeared as an addenda to the Spire book publication by Anthony Symmonds and Stephen Bucker in 2006. . Ninian Comper, 1864-1960, was one of the last of the great gothic revival architects and worked almost exclusively on churches. Dedication copy from G W O Addleshaw to William Jesse Green [ Clerk of Works at York Minster] Bookplate of Catherine and David Green on inside of front wrapper. [ David Green was son of William Jesse Green.]

London, Longmans, Green & Co 1901

vi+ 133pp plus 68 b/w plates. Gilt decorated green cloth, slightly worn along spine and fore edge, but generally vg. Some discolouration to end papers but internally bright and clean. A collection of eight lectures on building and aesthetics, the role of art in constructing a home, on furniture and on designing small houses and cottages. Lovely Arts and Crafts style book production. First edition.

London Merrell Publishers Ltd, 2002

144pp illustrated with colour and b/w plates. 4to. Very good with a very good dust wrapper. The works of Berthold Lubetkin (1901-1990) including the iconic Penguin Pool at London Zoo, Highpoint One in North London and less well known survivors are documented and photographed by by Morley von Sternberg.

Cambridge University Press [1996]

1997 reprint xviii, 350pp + 19pp colour plates. Illustrated throughout with 300 b/w images. 4to. Fine in dust wrapper. Study of this architect and landscape designer whose work has been largely overlooked until this study. He was a nomadic figure having left France at the time of the French Revolution living in many parts of Europe and America. Fabulous record of his wonderful drawings showing his proposed layouts for many parks and gardens as well as his domestic and public building projects.

Oxford English Heritage and Oxford Archaeological Unit 2001

374pp illustrated. Laminated boards. Fine. 4to. This volume draws together all the available evidence on the Fort at Camber Castle to provide comprehensive account of its history. It includes a revised and expanded version of Martin Biddle's authoritative study, originally published in "The History of the King's Works". Full reports are also included on the artefact and animal bone assemblages, which are of considerable importance for the early post-medieval period. Hard to find.

New York Reinhold 1950

220pp illustrated with b/w plates. Square 4to. Good in slightly chipped but striking dust wrapper. Excellent source for the early works.

London : Constable, 1915

One of a hundred copies printed. xii, 397 p. : plates. ; Large 4to. 34 cm. Ex Doncaster Library reserve stock with ancient library stamp on half title and stamp of library on front paste down. Class mark on base of spine. Red rexine. Good copy. Scarce. Important for documenting the house and its contents including the Chippendale furniture.

London Christie Manson and Wood, Frank and Rutley 1938

202pp with b/w illustrations and original card covers with glassine wrap around. 4to. Very good condition and includes loosely inserted two letters from Christie Mansion Woods to James W Hawthorne, Mayfair, Arthur Square Belfast relating to and enquiry to purchase on 7 October and then the purchase of two lots in a letter dated 24 October 1938. There is a frontispiece and fourteen plates

London Elliot Stock 1906

66pp illustrated with photographs and including fold out family tree. 8vo. Decorated gilt lettered cloth. A little rubbed and worn. From the library of Ivan Hall with his initials on the front end paper. A few annotations at the rear by Hall

London, Batsford. 1929

48 pp. including 7 b&w ill. and 1 colour frontis of estate plan. 4to in green blind stamped boards with gilt lettering and crest on front board. First gathering bound upside down. Binding slightly rubbed at head and base of spine, else vg. Preliminary report on the design of the Priory Estate, of considerable interest in light of its subsequent history and the proposed demolition and redevelopment of the northern part of the estate. It is especially interesting in retrospect to read the sections on road planning at a time when a future of mass car ownership was still debatable. Fascinating report, containing notable line drawings.

Suffolk The Boydell Press 2007

xxiv pp + 520pp + 32 full-page colour plates + 221 black & white in-text illustrations. Quarto. Brown binding with dust jacket featuring several colour illustrations front, back, and spine. New publication, new copy. Lovely resource for Yorkshire church architecture illustrating many churches subsequently "restored" or altered.

Oxford. Phaidon.1979.

315pp with 398 b/w plates, 11 line drawings and 2 maps. Orig. red cloth, gilt. 4to. Vg in very good dust wrapper. Lectures given in 1969 and trace the development of the decorated style. Very significant study by Bony who life long study has been the Romanesque and Gothic Architecture in England and France.

Oxford Oxbow Books 2006

309 pp, extensive black and white illustrations, maps, photographs, and drawings. 4to. Cloth with paste down label on upper board. Very good but bottom corner bumped. A scholarly although accessible study in excellent condition of the group of 60 churches in Lincolnshire built in the 11th century nearly all of which have distinctive west towers that are the subject of this book.

London Royal Academy of Arts 2007

267 pp 179 numbered illustrations, quarto, boards and dw in very good condition. Published to accompany an exhibition at the RA of the collection of the Society of Antiquaries. The introductory essay is by David Starkey; this is followed up by several other essays by scholars including Graham Parry.

London Academy Editions 1995

128pp illustated with 150 plates, 50 in colour. Large 4to. Stiff card laminated colour wrappers. Fine. A key appraisal of the work of Ballie Scott setting him in the context of the arts and crafts movement.

London, Duckworth 1985

421pp illus with b/w plates and line ills throughout. Wrappers version. Very good 4to. Photographs by Jean & Nicholas Breach, Drawings by Charlotte Halliday, Foreword by Nicholas Taylor. Loosely inserted review. The essential reference text for those interested in the turn of the century. Covers the architects working in garden cities, theatres, churches etc and reviews in its pates the work of those who were in the limelight as well as others largely forgotten.

Architectural Press (1937) 1948

Third edition with a few new houses built between 1940 and 1948 140pp illus with b/w plates and line ills. Enlarged from the first edition and second editions. Large 4to. Open weave red lettered cloth. God copy with chipped and worn dust wrapper designed by Eckersley Lombers. Architects incl. Lubetkin, Tecton, Yorke, Chermayeff, Goldfinger and many others. An essential reference for the modern movement house in England.

London Laurence King 2011

192pp illustrated with colour plates throughout. 4to. Laminated boards. Very good copy. Signed copy, "To Colin best wishes Terry Farrell" [ To Colin Amery ]

Paris L'Amicale Librairie Theatrale nd c1930

36pp illustrated with b/w line illustrations. 4to. Decorated wrappers. Very good. Text in French. Designs for theatre sets and lighting themed around variant generic subjects such as room interiors, gardens, restaurants, antique scenes etc. Lovely item and very useful of theatrical set design. One hundred architectural designs and decorative elements, showcasing the artistic styles and trends prevalent around 1930