London The Architectural Association 1994

Works Series no VI 55pp illustrated. Square 4to. 230x230 Perfect bound. Fine Text in sepia overprinting pages of grainy illustrations. Smithson recalls in a ollage of fiction and images drawn from memories of hot, dusty travels in India. Written in the style of a travel diary. It restates the concerns of its companion volume, Climate Register, observing patterns and ways of inhabitation, and the relationship between climate and the making of buildings.

nd c1938

Unpaginated. c12pp Introduction briefly outlining the development of the firm followed by c60pp illustrations of projects + c12pp period ads for building products and specialist firms. Long 4to. Green cloth covered boards with art deco style gilt lettering on upper board. At the time of production, the firm was based in Stockwell, London with specialist woodworking department in Margate. Inter – war projects illustrated include various Odeon cinemas, mansion blocks including Nell Gwynn House, Chelsea, the Bexhill Pavilion, Margate Lido, various suburban housing schemes, offices and shops, schools and colleges. Work centred on London and the south east. The Architects noted for most of the projects that are illustrated.

London: Hamilton Adams and Co. Newcastle-upon-Tyne: M & M W Lambert, 1880

[vi], 160pp, xiii[i]pp index and 'corrections and alterations.', 32 steel-engraved plates with tissue-guards, head and tailpieces, decorated capitals. 4to. Original red Morocco binding with gilt decorations and raised bands on the spine. Worn at head and base of spine else a very attractive copy.

London Norfolk and Norwich Archaeological Society 1911

30pp + 12 b/w plates described by the author, with illustrations of the bosses in the northern alley from drawings by C.J.W. Winter. Folio. Red cloth spine and decorated upper board with title of publication.

London, John Murray 1841

iv + 151pp + 4pp list of popular works published by Mr. Murray. c.25 b/w illustrations including 14 engraved plates and folding frontispiece (plan of Windsor Castle). 12mo. Decorative cloth with striking gilt motif on front board. Spine slightly sunned and some small marks on upper and verso boards. Small amount of foxing on a number of the plates, else a good copy.

Oldenburg Gerhard Stalling Verlag 1926

172pp illustrated with c300 b/w plates of the exterior of theatres providing a good photographic record of Germanic theatre design. 4to. Red lettered open weave cloth. Good copy. With bookplate on front paste down of Edwin A Dawes. Locations of each theatre noted. Edwin Alfred Dawes was a British biochemist and magician from Yorkshire. [died 2023].

London Country Life 1919

First edition 141pp frontispiece + 28 b/w plates, line illustrations in text. Cloth backed boards. Corners + head and base of spine bumped. Some slight foxing throughout the text pages. Loosely inserted magazine article about concrete house construction. Impressive study of vernacular building methods using mud, adobe, etc. Hard to find. A very clear study of these vernacular building methods.

London, Technical Journals Ltd 1913

104pp illustrated throughout with plans, elevations and b/w plates. Viii pages of period ads at end. Cloth backed boards, a little worn, with chips and bumps to corners. Spine exhibits a 5cm split. Internally good. Introduction by T Milwood Wilson. Draws widely on examples at Gidea Park, Hampstead Garden Suburb and Esher Park as well as individual locations around the UK. With a list of architects represented.

London Crosby Lockwood & Co. 1890 (1867)

Sixth Edition with a Slide Rule in Tuck of Cover. vi + 104pp +16pp list of Weale's Series Titles + 48pp Crosby Lockwood Titles. Includes original Slide Rule which is in very good condition. Brown blind stamped cloth boards with new cloth spine. Sympathetically rebound. down on cover. An attractive copy of this useful work book.

London Crosby Lockwood & Co. 1882 (1849)

Eighth Edition with numerous additional engravings. viii + 208pp +16pp list of Weale's Series Titles + 32pp Crosby Lockwood Titles. Illustrated with b/w illustrative engravings. Green blind stamped cloth boards with new cloth spine. Sympathetically rebound. down on cover. An attractive copy of this useful work book.

London, Crosby Lockwood and Son 1897 (c1890)

9th edition. xii + 116pp Illustrated with 68 woodcuts + 16pp + 48pp catalogue of publications at back. End papers also are advertisements for the Weale's architectural series and these are printed in blue. Buff coloured cloth. Cloth slightly grubby nd marked on upper board and spine. Internally very good. Previous owner's signature on half title page.

London Crosby Lockwood and Son 1880

2nd edition ix + 252pp illustrated with bw line illustrations in the text + 32pp catalogue of publications by Crosby Lockwood bound in at the end. Decorated end papers with further details on the Weale's series of publications. Blind stamped cloth with gilt title on upper board and paper label which is very worn. Internally a very good copy.

London, Crosby Lockwood and Co "Scott's Farm Engineering Text-Books" 1899 (1865)

New Edition, Revised and Corrected by Edward Nugent, C.E. Weale's Scientific & Technical Series, Number 93. x + 145pp illustrated with numerous diagrams + formula + 16pp catalogue of Weale's publications + 48pp Crosby Lockwood & Son's Catalogue. Cloth Covered Boards with Black embossed lettering and design. Blue endpapers listing Weale's publications on scientific and technical subject. Previous owners signature on title page and page one of text. Booksellers label paste down on inside board. Small tear mark on inside front board. Shows signs of wear and tear but a good copy inside nonetheless.

London, Crosby Lockwood and Co "Scott's Farm Engineering Text-Books" 1897 (1894)

Weale's Scientific & Technical Series, Number 241. vi + 123pp illustrated with b/w illustrations and diagrams + 16pp catalogue at end of Weale's publications + 48pp Crosby Lockwood & Son's Catalogue Cloth Covered Boards with Black embossed lettering and design. Blue endpapers listing Weale's publications on architectural and building subjects Mark on reverse board c. 1cm in diameter, else a very good copy.

London Crosby lockwood and Son (1883) 1900

Third Edition. Vi + 114pp 3 folding plates, 23 fig + tables in the text. 16pp catalogue of the Weale's series of Scientific and Technical Works + 48pp publishers catalogue, printed end papers + pastedown. 8vo cloth, head of the spine a little worn, else very good. Prefiguring twentieth century town planning, this book proposes a holistic approach to the planning of residential estates.

London, John Weale and the author. 1852

xii + 153 + (1) + 9 + (1)pp. Publisher's cloth, rebacked. Rebacked sympathetically. Eckstein was an ironmonger from Lloyd Square, Pentonville, who specialised in stoves and cooking ranges and inevitably with all the associated problems of smoking chimneys and inadequate ventilation he worked to establish solutions to smoking chimneys. This short book is largely devoted to the correct design of flues, so crucial for the effective working of the fire beneath. Hard to find.

Manchester University Press 1967

186pp + 141 plates in b/w grouped at the end of the text. Small 4to. Cloth. Very good in sl. worn dw with tiny chip on front cover . Best known for Vitruvius Britannicus, Campbell had a wide ranging architectural career besides and this book is concerned with his significance as the first Georgian Palladian. Hard to find.