Burford, The Cygnet Press 1985

234pp illus 206 b/w photographs and plans. 4to. Wrappers. Good copy. Comprises a comprehensive selection of Erith's unpublished writings on architectural theory and practice, a biographical introduction and chronological list of his works. A mid twentieth century classicist in the midst of the modern movement whose work includes Jack Straw's cottage on Hampstead Heath and the reconstruction of Nos 10, 11 and 12 Downing Street.

The Drawing Centre, 1989.

336pp, 36 col. illus. b/w photographs, plans and drawings. This is the first single-volume catalogue of all Jones' 93 surviving architectural drawings. Each drawing is accompanied by full technical descriptions and commentary. Wraps.

Newhaven Yale 2009

First edition. 601pp illustrated. Fine in dw. God's Architect is the first full modern biography of this extraordinary figure. It draws on thousands of unpublished letters and drawings to recreate his life and work as architect, propagandist and romantic artist as well as the turbulent story of his three marriages, the bitterness of his last years and his sudden death at 40. It is the debut of a remarkable historian and biographer.This book has received excellent reviews as both an architectural and cultural biography.

New Haven and London, Yale University Press 1999

430pp with 100s of illustrations in b/w and colour. Large 4to. Cloth in d/w, very good indeed. Collection of essays by various scholars on one of the great figures of 19th C architecture and design. Exploring his multifaceted career as an architect, furniture designer, theatrical designer and writer. Published as a catalogue to accompany an exhibition held in 1999.

Batsford, London, 1912.

234 pp. 130 collotype plates by W Galsworthy Davie, and many illustrations in the text. Blue blind embossed buckram boards. Only edition. A little faded on the spine.

Milano No publisher given 1958

Special publication taken from issue 316 of Domus 1956. Text in Italian, English, French, Spanish and German. 68pp illustrated with b/w plates and line ills. 320x240mm. Grey wrappers. Perfect bound. Spine very worn and so a fragile copy of this superb documentary on the building. Coloured pages printed on yellow, blue, red, and green paper respectively, mark out different sections of the discussion of the project. The Pirelli Tower was for a long time the tallest building in Italy. Recently it has been restored.

South Illinois University Press 1960

232pp illustrated with b/w plates and line illustrations. Small 4to. Decorated end papers. With two loosely inserted headed pieces of writing paper from Robert Matthew 31 Regent Terrace Edinburgh which are covered in sketches relating to geodesic dome designs in black pen. Also loosely inserted is a press cutting on Buckminster Fuller from Building Design 2005. From the library of Robert Matthew. Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion structures, are those that yield the greatest possible efficiency in terms of available technology. His inventions included a Dymaxion car, Geodesic Domes, and dwellings. Useful review and critique of his philosophies and works.

London Guild Publishing 1987

224pp illus with b/w plates and line ills. Square 4to. Vg in wrappers. Useful and very well illustrated overview on all the elements of the suurban houses and its details including fittings and fixtures. More than 300 photographs with 100 in colour. List of sockists for elements at the back.

‎ Northumbria Press; First Edition 2009

192pp illustrated. Long 4to. Very good with slightly worn dust wrapper. A portrait in complexity of life in Ralph Erskine's Byker Wall and its setting following the initial honeymoon period.

London Horatio Phillips [1829]

xx, [3]-212pp and 8 plates. 8vo. Edges uncut. Original boards, rebacked & with new spine label. Ex libri Roger Quick with note in pencil about the publication.

1856-1857

2 uniform volumes. Cover design "Banks on Staircasing". Blind stamped cloth. 3rd edition. 1856-1857 Originally produced [ in parts ] by Langley Banks, a specialist in staircase carpentry; Banks' own designs account for the first 27 of these plates and are signed; the remainder of the plates are by five other specialists (Mr Clarke, Mr Foster, Mr Galpin, Mr Weston). Vol1 Frontis showing Crystal Palace Staircase, title page,[4] 12pp + 24 plates with facing explanatory texts. Vo. 2 plates 25-53 with facing texts + [4]pp note at end on Mr Weston's handrailing system + 3 fold out plates of newel posts and hand railing examples, these last plates badly foxed. Hard to find set.

Longmans, Green, Longman, Roberts & Green [1854] 1864

3rd edition greatly enlarged to which is added a short treatise on Wrought Iron Bridges… xiv + 303 pp illustrated with six plates all fold outs including frontis of Saltaire Mills near Bradford and text illustrations and tables. 8vo. Green cloth, gilt titles on spine. Very good although some short splits along outer hinges. Copy of W J Hindle with signature of ownership on half title. He was an architect in Barnsley and the book has his practice stamp on the front paste down.

London Cox Sons, Buckley & Co. 1882

70pp. 25 plates. Plus a 15-page appendix of a few materials which could be obtained from Cox and Sons etc. The Strand which is essentially a trade catalogue section. Royal 8vo. Red decorated cloth. A little shaky on spine and binding a little dusty. End papers are adverts.

HMSO Royal Commission on Historical Monuments in England 1981

xcviii + 282pp with text ills throughout and b/w photographs. Very good copy with very good dust wrapper. Descriptions of more than 300 buildings erected before 1850 illustrated with photographs and line ills. 4to. Cloth, vg, in very good d/w.

London Lund Humphries 1972

96pp. bw illustrations. Square 4to. Cloth spine with board covers, decorated shiny wrappers. Very good indeed. Preserved in simple cloth covered slipcase. Detailed studies of buildings designed by London architect Trevor Dannatt with many photographs and line drawings.

Barcelona Editorial GG [1999] 2004

144pp illustrated with colour and b/w plates. Silvered decorated boards, Very good copy. Craig Ellwood was one of the architects who during the 50s took part (alongside Charles Eames, Pierre Koenig and Rafael Soriano, among others) in the celebrated Case Study Houses programme organized by the "Arts and Architecture" magazine with the aim of promoting modern architecture and experimentation with new industrial materials in domestic architecture. This book is a useful account of some of his projects and is beautifully illustrated.

Milano C Olivetti and Co 1959

214pp illus with b/w photographs + period adverts. Perfect bound. Laminated yellow wrappers with example of fantastic architecture. 4to. 27x21cms . Key articles by Le Corbusier on Frank Lloyd Wright with fold out concertina illustrations. Denmark (contributions by Bruno Alfieri, Enzo Fratelli, Keld Helmer-Petersen and others ) and Fantastic Architecture by Ulrich Conrads and Hans Sperlich. Spine split Small tear in front wrap hinge else good copy. Texts in English, Italian, French.