1933

95pp illustrated with sepia photographs. Many period ads for commercial outlets. Decorated wrappers. A little fragile else very good with striking cover.

London George Bell 1899

xv +108pp, Frontis, decorated title page, +74 further b/w collotype photographic plates, 4 text ills. Small folio. Vellum spine, green cloth and covered boards. Gilt title to upper board. Limited edition. no 108 of 360 copies.[100 to be sold in America]. Very slightly rubbed at head and base of spine else a bright copy of this sumptuous book. Bookplate on front paste down of John William Clay FSA, noted for his editing of works on St Pauls and other antiquarian architectural subjects.

Swindon, Historic England &RIBA Publishing, 2017.

159pp illustrated, some in colour + maps and line illustrations. Wrappers. Fine. A comprehensive account of the works of architect, town planner and landscape architect, Sir Frederick Gibberd.

London Thames and Hudson 2002

256pp illustrated. Very good with dust wrapper. Themed around western attempts to invent the perfect city, cradle of the ideal society. Coves architecture and town planning but also art, literature, philosophy and politics, this book takes us through the imaginary environments of a wide variety of fascinating and often controversial movements and figures, including Plato, Filtrete, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas More, Thomas Jefferson, Claude-Nicolas Ledoux, Robert Owen, William Morris, Ebenezer Howard, Bruno Taut, Le Corbusier, Frank Lloyd Wright et. al. Useful and well illustrated introductory text.

London Merrell Holberton in association with English Heritage 1999

240pp illus with b/w plates and line ills. Square 4to. Fine in dw. Extensively illustrated with up to date maps, plans and photographs,with an illustrated gazetteer, Borough by Borough, detailing the architecturally significant developments.

London Phaidon 2001 (1995)

240pp, illus. throughout: b/w & col. photographs, line illus., plans. Square 4to. Wrapper.s Very good. Comprehensive introduction to Voysey's work and life, heavily illustrated, with detailed accounts of his major houses: Walnut Tree Farm, Perrycroft, Moorcrag, Littleholme, etc. Includes both exterior and interior views, furniture, and prints for wallpapers and textiles.

New York Rizolli (2010) 2012

240pp illustrated with colour plates. Square 4to. Very good in dust wrapper. Dust wrapper protected by plastic covering. Beautifully illustrated documentary study of the houses and gardens by Ballie Scott.

Stamford Shaun Tyas 2007

xii 510pp with 335 b/w plates, + 48pp colour section 4to. Coloured dw with portrait of Holden on the front. Very good. Charles Holden (1875-1960) is best known for the London Underground stations he designed for the London Passenger Board in the 1920s and 30s. Born in Bolton 1875, Holden was later a partner in the Adams, Holden and Pearson Partnership, one of the most prolific and successful firms in Britain. Throughout his long career his designs embraced modernism and classical traditions. This study provides an overview of his long and varied career introducing the reader to the complete range of his work. Like new.

Edinburgh National Galleries of Scotland Press 2008

128pp, frontis + coloured illustrations and b/w photographic plates. 4to. Original paper wrapper with image of Coventry Cathedral + decorated end papers. Vg. Edited volume published in association with the 2008 exhibition 'Back to the Future: Sir Basil Spence 1907-1976' at the Dean Gallery, Edinburgh. Assorted essays exploring the life and works of Basil Spence. Overarching concern with his development as an architect, his unique style and approaches as well as his work with public buildings, most notably his design of Coventry Cathedral.

Mount Stuart 1981

80pp text with text illustrations + 20pp b/w plates. Wraps. Small 4to. . Very good copy of this scarce essay. Best known for his contributions to Mount Stuart but deserves wider acknowledgement. Works included many conservation projects and repair including, topically, Dumfries House.

London Yale University Press; Revised edition Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art) (The Association of Human Rights Institutes series) 2009

448pp illustrated with colour and b/w plates. Quarto. Very good with very good dust wrapper. Andrew Saint is the General Editor of 'The Survey of London' and the author of 'The Image of the Architect' (1983), 'Towards A Social Architecture: The Role of School-Building in Post-War England' (1987) and 'Architect and Engineer: A Study in Sibling Rivalry' (2007). A completely revised text and new introduction and is now illustrated generously in colour, with many specially commissioned photographs.

London, Country Life 1960

158pp illustrated with 133 plates and four figures with decorated end papers from Horwood's Map of London 1803. Holland (1745-1806) . Very good with good dust wrapper protected with plastic covering. Superb monograph which charts his career as a builder and informs his relationships with other architects working around the same time including George Dance, James Wyatt, John Soane and John Nash and contains useful material on Capability Brown the daughter of whom he married in 1773.

Faber adn Faber 1971

262pp illustrated with 76pp of plates. 4to. Fine in dust wrapper. Superb biography of Dance and hard to find in this condition. Ex libris bookplate of Stanley Field on front end paper. Protected in plastic wrapper over dust wrapper.

London Hodder and Stoughton 1904

Unpaginated. c176 + viipp illus with colour plates and many b/w plates. Period ads to last7 pages. 4to. Decorated open weave cloth. Restored and bound in 2020 by Paul Berry, Abbey Book Bindery orverlaying the original floppy bindings onto boards. Makes a very good copy. Essays contributed by W H Bidlake, Halsey Ricardo and John Cash. Discuss exterior and interior of the home, furniture, decorative essentials and sanitation. A companion volume to The Modern Home: A book of British Domestic Architecture for Moderate Incomes.

London and New York, Academy Editions/ St Martin's Press (1979) 1986

112pp with over 200 illustrations, 41 in colour, plus 7 gatefolds. Cloth, very good in similar d/w. Some subtle foxing on the endpapers, else very good. This volume is devoted to the country houses, both built and projected, which were designed by Lutyens throughout his career. An introductory essay by Peter Inskip is followed by sections on 21 individual houses, illustrated with contemporary b/w photographs from Country Life, and more recent colour photography by A. Goulancourt, as well as plans and elevations. Also includes a complete list of buildings and projects.

London [1971] Management Books Didcot 1995

568pp illustrated. Fine in dust wrapper - this torn approx 1.5cm at head of spine. Only exhaustive study of Thomas Cubitt, highly influential builder in London who was the creator of Bloomsbury, Clapham, Islington and other Victorian Suburbs. He further worked beyond London in Brighton and also for Country house architects. This edition was reissued long after the first with corrections, additional comments and revised illustrations.

Oxford, Department of Architecture Oxford Polytechnic 1982

16pp illustrated with b/w plates and line ills. 4to. Decorated wrapper. Wrappers a little worn else good. Useful catalogue of this provincial architect and his works and patented ideas of the compressed green wood construction.

London Country Life Ltd 1944

224pp illus with b/w plates throughout. Sm 4to. Blue cloth. VG in d/w - this repaired around edges with tape. Internally very good. Important review of the work of Sir Herbert Baker, tracking his career and friendship with Cecil Rhodes, his move to New Delhi, Kenya and back to the UK where he became active with the War Graves Commission work and Country House architecture alike.

Country Life nd 1925

xxiii pp text + 192pp b/w plates with plans and elevations. 4to. Decorated cloth. Very good copy in a dust wrapper, this a little chipped and torn in places, notably around the spine. Internally some minor foxing, although not to the detriment of the plentiful images. The focus is on large inter-war, detached houses, Architects incl. Newton, Edgar Wood, Lutyens etc. Gives a balanced view of the kinds of large private houses being produced at the time and although many were modern they were not modern movement in style.

London: Routledge Kegan Paul 1981

Signed by the Author. 378pp illus with drawings and photographs; most of them contemporary. The book includes a collection of plans for 70 houses. 4to. Vg in dw protected with plastic archival wrap. Describes how Victorian and Edwardian Country houses were planned.