London The British Academy 1941

xiv +[iv] + 166pp + 30 b/w plates + 22 text figures including fold out. Green cloth, Gilt spine lettering. Very good copy. Includes bibliographical references. Well documented account of the earliest churches of Palestine with an excellent group of plans and images supporting the text.

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.

London and New Haven Yale University Press 1995

349 pages, colour plates and photographs throughout the text. 4to. Very good in slightly worn dust wrapper. Closed tear on lower wrapper. There has been minor water damage to the book. Text unaffected. One of Worrley's major works - it is a comprehensive survey of British architecture in the 17th and 18th centuries and offers a radical reassessment of the styles of major designers from Inigo Jones to Sir John Soane. The influence of English Palladianism over the architecture of Scotland, Ireland and North America is also examined. Signed by Giles Worsley on the title page

London English Heritage 2002

viii, 297pp illus with colour plates. Useful overview together with details of individual buildings. Includes over 130 establishments that make up the present prison system and over 100 former sites where buildings survive 4to. Very good with dust wrapper. The first systematic survey of prisons since the early 20th century. Over 130 establishments that make up the current prison estate plus over 100 former sites have been investigated and are included in this authoritative book. Very good documentary photographs throughout.

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. 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.

Oxford, The University Press 200

xviii, 352 pp, 196 black and white photographs and 4 colour photographs. Large quarto. Very good. Comprehensive on the architecture of Norman England.

Swindon English Heritage/Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England 1999

xi + 255pp, b/w photographs, line illus., maps, plans. 4to. Very good in very good dw. A record of workhouses in Britain with descriptions of the buildings themselves set against their historical background. An authoritative study of a poorly understood category of building suitable for both architectural and social historians

London and New York The Garden Office and 1882

Second edition. 152pp illustrated with 6 b/w plates [ six with tissue guards]. With embossed paper covered boards. TItles and spine lettering emboseed with decorative urn motif also on upper board. Very good copy. Boards possibly have been cleaned? Robinson advocates cremation over burial, at a time when cremation was essentially illegal. Robinson was latter to put into practice what he advocated and was instrumental in the founding of Golder's Green Crematorium and designed the gardens there, which replaced the traditional Victorian mourning graveyard with open lawn, flower beds, and woodland gardens.

Geneva The Masters of Architecture Limited 1930

XVI pp. introduction, and 115 photo plates. Square small 4to. Green cloth with gilt lettering. Good copy. Major study of the work of the firm in the Masters of Architecture Series. English edition. Signed by Tait and by Francis Lorne [ 1889-1963] who joined the Tait in partnership in 1930. Amongst the projects were Selfridges Department Store London 1919, Glasgow Zoology Building 1922, Glasgow Cenotaph, 1924, Adelaide House, 1925, Daily Telegraph Building, Fleet Street 1925, Sydney Harbour Bridge 1929.

London C J Farncombe Ltd 1913

247pp. Good illustrations which document the cemetery. Foxing scattered throughout and the end papers are browned else good copy. Documents individuals buried and in many cases illustrates their gravestones and inscriptions.

Thames and Hudson 1979

200pp with 154 illustrations including 14 in colour. Small 4to.Vg in good dust wrapper. Useful in bringing together sources for Chinese and other oriental designs imported into Europe including the UK. Much on the way in which the Orient influenced Walpole, Repton and Nash. Draws on contemporary sources of its illustrations. From the collection of Colin Amery.

Hawkhurst, Kent Geering & Colyer

8 pp with 3 black and white photographs. Cream wrappers, paste down b/w photographs of the exterior of this lovely arts and crafts style house. Sale Prospectus for Darwell Hill designed by Leslie Macdonald [Max] Gill for Harold Heal (1876-1949), 1926. Built as a country house retreat in 120 acre site with gardens and woodland. Describes the small country house and its estate and illustrates three internal rooms predictably beautifully furnished. He was the second son of Ambrose Heal.

London Faber and Faber c1967

344 + [3]pp, b/w photographs, line ills., maps, plans. Long 8vo. Cloth with white lettering to front and spine in dw, this is a little worn and scuffed. Corners scuffed. Internally good. Bookplate of the Town Planning Institute on front paste down. No other institutional stamps. Translated from the French by Pamela Knight, Eleanor Levieux and Derek Coltman, this edition makes use of the 1933 French original, La Ville Radieuse. A classic work on architecture and city planning: a blueprint for the present and for the future. From the Conder and Casson Architectural practice.

Zurich Les Éditions Girsberger 1935

205pp, b/w illustrations, including plans and line illustrations. Flimsy paper wrappers overprinted with green title lettering. . Text in French.

Zurich Les Éditions Girsberger 1939

175pp, b/w illustrations, including plans and line illustrations. Very good but open weave cloth a little dusty and some fingering marks on prelims. Text in French.

Zurich Les Éditions Girsberger 1955

2nd edition enlarged. 252 pages, b/w illustrations, plans, some colour. Very good copy but in rather worn dust wrapper.

Zurich Les Éditions D'Architecture, Erlenbach 1946

199 pages, b/w illustrations, plans, some colour. Main texts in French with translations into English. Long 4to. Open weave cloth. Very good copy. Contents fine. 4pp folded loosely inserted English translation of text on blue paper for some translations which are noted as faulty in the body of the book. Bookshop label from Tiranti on front paste down.