Darmstadt, Verlag, Alexander Koch, 1913

Large 4to. White cloth, gilt lettering. Original dust wrapper has been preserved in a modern plastic sleeve which in turn has preserved the binding in exceptional condition. Margarethenhöhe is one of the loveliest examples of the German garden city idea. This area was donated in 1906 by Margarethe Krupp on the occasion of her daughter Bertha's wedding. The estate featured art nouveau and arts and crafts style houses. It was heavily damaged in WWII but has been conserved and is now listed as an historical monument following reconstruction.

Berlin, Volk und Reich Verlag 1941

103 pp. Richly illustrated with b/w photos. 4to. Publisher's cloth with a scarlet swastika decoration on front board. Very good copy with very good dust wrapper. Parallel texts in German and Danish. Foreword by Speer. The illustrations show buildings that were the roots of Speer's remarkable career: The Reichs Chancellery in Berlin and the Zeppelinfeld Stadium outside Nuremberg etc.

Berlin Duetscher Kunstverlag 1936

117pp illus with 17 b/w plans and 70 b/w photographs, 4to, cloth. Light foxing of end papers else good copy. Text in German. Well illustrated with plans and elevations documenting the sports stadium.Striking photographs by Charlotte Rohrbach.

The Roxburghe Club 2010

241 pp. + full colour facsimile of the 1784 Description. 4to. [303 x 200 mm]. Quarter burgundy morocco, gilt title on spine, cloth covered boards, Walpole's arms stamped in gilt on the covers; t.e.g. Presented to members of the Roxburghe Club by The Rt. Hon Lord Waldegrave of North Hill, PC. A limited number of copies were for sale. Lovely copy.

Leipzig: Verlagsbuchhandlung Von J. J. Weber, 1910

254 pp, 213 illustrations as black-and-white photographs, scale plans, drawings. Tipped in colour plates at the beginning of each chapter, some folded. 4to Decorated cloth with colour pasted down image on upper wrapper. Paper spine label which is slightly worn. Good copy of this important planning text which was widely published in Germany

Paris not given 1900

Le Panorama: Exposition Universelle 1900 c300pp b/w photographs, 18 double page. Colour plan extending to 700x515mm tipped into the first page of the book. One long folding panorama measuring 2400mm when extended showing the exhibition buildings sited along the the Siene. Oblong 4to. Contemporary half brown crushed morocco over marbled boards. Bould together from an original part series but without the wrappers and text. A comprehensive souvenir album covering the key components of this vast and sprawling exposition

York and London R Sunter and H Sotheran; Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans 842

xi,168pp. numerous illustrations on 17 lithographed plates, 2 maps, subscribers' list. 8vo. Blind stamped cloth. From the library of Dr Peter Burman. Charles Wellbeloved was one of the founders of the Yorkshire Philosophical Society and a curator of the antiquities in the Yorkshire Museum.

1700

Produced for the historical antiquities of Hertfordshire. By Chauncy, Sir Henry. 1700. Good, later hand colour. Paper size (420 x 380mm) Old Sellotape marks on margins but print unaffected. Centre fold mark as issued. Modern mount. Shows the entrance façade of the house and surrounding formal gardens with a river in the foreground. Landscape reworked after the date of the image by Humphry Repton.

Herts. Produced for the historical antiquities of Hertfordshire. By Chauncy, Sir Henry. 1700. Good, later hand colouring. Paper size (420 x 380mm) Centre fold mark as issued. Reinforced with Japanese paper on verso of image Modern mount Cartouche in upper right corner noting the image was created for Robert Elwes of Throcking Shows the main elevation of the house with surrounding formal gardens. House demolished.

1700

Produced for the historical antiquities of Hertfordshire. By Chauncy, Sir Henry. 1700. Good, later hand colouring. Paper size (420 x 380mm) Centre fold mark as issued. Reinforced with Japanese paper on verso of image Modern mount Shows main elevation of the house, walled gardens surrounding the house, organised in formal enclosures. Current house on site by Jeffrey Wyattville.

Dalesman Publishing Co Ltd 1990

132pp illustrated with superb b/w photographs. Square 4to. Wraps version. Hard to find. Wraps a little worn. Records the history of this important inter-war housing scheme.

Cardiff Wm. Lewis, 1929

47 pages illustrated. Large 4to. Very good in good dust wrapper. End papers are period adverts for building related professions. Double page line illustrations serve as frontis to the book. This is a good copy of a good survey. An earlier survey was produced in 1898 but this book provides extremely good illustrations of this Welsh Cathedral.

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.