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Air raid protection : the facts / by 10 Cambridge scientists
London : Fact, 1938
97 pp illustrated with line ills. Wrappers Subject: Air defences -- Civil defence -- Great Britain --: Fact : a monograph was issued once a month ; no. 13. 97 pages. Written in the pre war period the book opens with the statement that ARP would soon be known widely by its initials.
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Quinlan Terry: The Revival of Architecture.
London, Viking, 1986.
223pp illus. with photographs and the architect's own drawings and linocuts. 4to. Vg in very good dust wrapper. A major illustrated monograph on on of Britain's modern classicist architects.
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Concrete Buildings for Landed Estates in Great Britain and Ireland
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History of Spanish Architecture
London Batsford 1938
Frontispiece, Xvi + 199pp. Half-tone photographic plates throughout text along with various diagrams, tables and line illustrations. Plus 2 fold-out maps. 8vo. Blue cloth covered boards with gilt titles on spine. Dustwrapper. Spine a little sunned and upper edge of dustwrapper slightly bumped. Dust wrapper design by Brian Cook. Spine a little faded. The first general survey of Spanish Architecture since c.1850. Very good.
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The Cathedral Churches of England
London SPCK 1925
Xvi + 235pp. xxxi tipped in sepia plates illustrate the text. 8vo. Green cloth covered boards with gilt lettering on spine. A little dusty and book block slightly foxed, else good.
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A Scots Mediaeval Architect
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The Mediaeval Stone Carver in Scotland
Edinburgh University Press 1964
From the Rhind Lectures, 1948 – 49. [iii] 79pp of text + c.127pp illustrations. 8vo. 130 photographs of examples of the art of the Scottish stone mason. Green cloth covered boards with gilt lettering on spine and gilt Mediaeval figure embossed onto upper board. Decorated end papers. Dust wrapper chipped at base, top and edges of spine. Price clipped. Splattering of faint fox marks on prelims else very good indeed. James S Richardson was the first H.M. Inspector of Ancient Monuments of Scotland.
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Scottish Church Architecture
London The Sheldon Press 1936
Xi + 264pp. b/w photographs and illustrations throughout. 8vo. Blue cloth covered boards with black titles on spine. Dust wrapper slightly bumped along top edge. Very good indeed. Book jacket designed by Richard Bogle (1889 – 1976). Addresses Scottish Church Architecture from the 12th to 19th century.
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The Cathedrals and Churches of Italy
London T. Werner Laurie Ltd 1926
Colour frontispiece with tissue guard. Viii + 398pp. Last four pages uncut. 79 illustrations, 8 of these in colour. Map of Italy embossed onto front paste down. Blue end papers match the dust wrapper. This with past down colour illustration of Bergamo's Santa Maria Maggiore. Beneath this, blue cloth covered boards with gilt titling on spine and upper board along with elaborate ironwork design. Top edge of book block, is blue with other edges uncut. Dustwrapper a little bumped along top edge else a fine copy of this comprehensive text. Originally printed as three separate volumes, reissued in this new complete volume in 1926
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Une maison - un palais: A la Recherche d'une Unité Architecturale
Paris Cres et Cie, 1928
228 pages : illustrations. Red cloth with gilt titles. Very good copy. French text. Part of the Collection de '' l'esprit nouveau.''
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The Complete Works of Robert and James Adam
Oxford Butterworth Heinneman 1991
xii, 447 pp., 598 illustrations, 30 in colour. 4to. Very good in slightly worn dust wrapper. Published in association with the University of Stirling. This book was produced as the first complete catalogue of their executed works. Birthday dedication on the half title in neat hand.
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Village Housing in the Tropics with special reference to West Africa
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Scotland's Lost Houses
London: Aurum Press Ltd and the National Trust for Scotland 2006
192pp with high quality b/w images throughout. 4to. Wraps version. Very good. A selection of twenty of Scotland's most important lost houses, prefaced with a comprehensive introductory survey of the era of destruction.
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GREATER MEDIEVAL HOUSES OF ENGLAND AND WALES, 1300-1500. Three volumes: Volume I. Northern England; Volume II. East Anglia, Central England and Wales; Volume III. Southern England.
Cambridge University Press, 1996;2000;2006.
xiv,435; xv,724; xv,727pp, 4to. Volume 1 and 2 are bound in laminated boards with house illustrations on each, Volume 3 is cloth with dust wrapper. All very good indeed. All illustrated with b/w photographs and some plans and line ills. Very useful gazetteer of major survivals from the period. The books assess the development of houses between the 11th and 16th centuries - from Norman to Tudor times. The archive of Anthony Emery, which comprises material that is the background to these comprehensive books, is held by Historic England at Swindon.
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The Destruction of the Country House 1875-1975
London Thames and Hudson 1974
190pp illus with 383 b/w illus. Book to accompany an exhibition concerned with the future of the heritage. Small 4to. Wraps version. Good copy. Cover design is Halunby Hall, Yorkshire. Important for the gazetteer of lost properties it includes.
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Modern Architectural Art: Sir John J Burnet & Partners
Cheltenham Ed J Burrow & Co. Ltd & Kingsway London 1924
48pp illustrated with bw plates. Some period ads. Stitched booklet Stiff card wrappers with printed titles. Spine split but internally very good. An album of Modern Architectural Art dealing with the work of John J Burnett, Thos. S Tait and David Raeside. The intention was to publish a second volume of Sir John Burnet's work as Volume II. From the office of Thomas S Tait, via a relative. Illustrations include Selfridges, The British Museum, The Insitute of Chemistry amongst other projects. Lovely item. Scarce. 2 copies listed on World Cat.
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Delhi the Imperial City: A guide for tourists and visitors.
Printed by T.N.Tholal at the Federal Trade Press, New Delhi [1935] 1953
90pp + period ads and fold out black and white map of Delhi at the end of the book. Decorated stiff card wrappers. From the collection of Gavin Stamp with his bookplate. Paper a little browned else very good. Text in English. Good images of New Delhi, the Old Fort etc. Loosely inserted colour post card [blank] of New Delhi. Gavin Stamp went to India in the early 1970s following in the footsteps to some extent of Robert Byron. Nice association copy of a great period guide focusing on the architecture and archaeology of the city.
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Elevations, Sections and Details of Saint John Baptist Church at Shottesbroke, Berkshire
Oxford Oxford Architectural Society 1844
vi (including frontispiece and title page) + 7pp + 10 plates (6 double page) bound in on centre fold of each plate. Original book and wrappers re-cased into new binding. Recent binding comprises quarter bound leather with marbled paper boards, gilt ruled lines and titling on spine. Tall Quarto. Internally, foxed throughout and top right corner of pages a little bumped. Butterfield presented these images of the church with which he was involved in reworking. Originally established in 1347 or thereabouts.
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Working-Class Residential Flats in Reinforced Concrete:
Report on a competition for designs of blocks of working-c;ass residential flats in reinforced concrete organized by the Cement Marketing Company Ltd.
London The British Portland Cement Manufacturers Ltd nd 1935
63pp illustrated wit b/w plates, line ills etc. 4to. Decorated wrappers. Wrappers worn and scuffed along spine. Previous owner's signature on half title. The winning design is described and illustrated and was designed by Messrs B. Lubetkin & Tecton with Ove Arup. Other project also are described and illustrated including work by A P Lloyd, E W Collins and George Smith, (second place). Fascinating publication. Hard to find.
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The Northern Art Workers' Guild
and the Arts and Crafts movement in Manchester
Manchester MCR Publications 2024
168pp illustrated with colour and b/w plates. Square 4to. Decorated wrappers. New This beautifully illustrated book examines the impact of the Arts and Crafts movement in Manchester and the overlooked history of the Northern Art Workers' Guild from its formation in 1896 through its demise in 1912.Unlike the London-based Art Workers' Guild, it had active women members from the outset. This book tells the history of a northern craft revival that was neither rural, nor London-focussed, but an essential component of the Arts and Crafts movement located in the heart of industrial England.
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