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  • [BADRAN] STEELE James.
    The Architecture of Rasem Badran

    London Thames and Hudson 2005

    256pp, 360 illustrations, 348 in colour. Very good with dust wrapper. Huge illustrated tome on the work of Badran which includes some of his Award winning projects.

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  • Sketches in York: by BEDFORD, Francis. Jnr. 1816-1894]
    BEDFORD, Francis. Jnr. 1816-1894]
    Sketches in York:

    York: H. Smith., n.d c1840 -1845.

    First edition. Original cloth binding with gilt lettered spine and gilt lettering to front board. 14 tinted lithographic plates, including title page. Large 4to. Spine in poor and friable condition. Gilt lettering still readable but most of the rest of the spine is chipped or missing. Boards good. Internally good except last three plates are badly foxed. Tissue guards to some plates. The plates include: York Cathedral from the South East, North West/West Front/The Nave/The Choir (4 separate plates); St Mary's Abbey; Monk Bar; Walmgate Bar; Micklegate Bar; Bootham Bar; Castle Yard; Water Lane. Francis Bedford, son of an architect, began his career as an architectural draughtsman and lithographer, before taking up photography.…

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    York: H. Smith., n.d c1840 -1845.

    First edition. Original cloth binding with gilt lettered spine and gilt lettering to front board. 14 tinted lithographic plates, including title page. Large 4to. Spine in poor and friable condition. Gilt lettering still readable but most of the rest of the spine is chipped or missing. Boards good. Internally good except last three plates are badly foxed. Tissue guards to some plates. The plates include: York Cathedral from the South East, North West/West Front/The Nave/The Choir (4 separate plates); St Mary's Abbey; Monk Bar; Walmgate Bar; Micklegate Bar; Bootham Bar; Castle Yard; Water Lane. Francis Bedford, son of an architect, began his career as an architectural draughtsman and lithographer, before taking up photography. JISC Library hub lists 4 locations where the title is held. Hard to find.

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    Stock ID: 23764
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  • [BONN] Schroers G. [editor]
    Theaterneubau Bonn 1965

    Bonn, Stadt Bonn 1965.

    96pp. Illustrated with b/w plates, plans and diagrams. Long 4to.245 x 300 mm Grey cloth overprinted with striking lettering. Good copy. Designed by architects, Klaus Gessler und Wilfried Beck-Erlang. It serves as both a theatre and opera house. Text in German. Futurist design clad in aluminium and wood. Still an important focus of cultural life in the city.

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  • [GENT, Thomas]
    The Ancient and Modern History of the Famous City of York and in a particular manner of its Magnificent Cathedral commonly call'd York Minster. The whole diligently collected by T. G.

    York Sold by Thomas Hammond Jun. Bookseller in Hight Ousegate; at the Printing Office in Coffee-Yard York and by A Bettesworth in Pater Noster Row, London 1730

    viii, 256 + [8]pp addenda which includes a list of subscribers. Illustrated with two-fold out frontispieces, one map and View of York + woodcut text illustrations and one tipped in plate." The Monument of Richard Grimston, Priest in St Nicholas's Church" as a separate woodcut. Note in pencil on fep saying this is the true first edition which is variant from other versions of a similar date. Bookplate of John Rhodes [John N. Rhodes, a Yorkshire Painter 1809-1842,?] on paste down and David and Catherine Green 1964 on front end paper. Full…

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    York Sold by Thomas Hammond Jun. Bookseller in Hight Ousegate; at the Printing Office in Coffee-Yard York and by A Bettesworth in Pater Noster Row, London 1730

    viii, 256 + [8]pp addenda which includes a list of subscribers. Illustrated with two-fold out frontispieces, one map and View of York + woodcut text illustrations and one tipped in plate." The Monument of Richard Grimston, Priest in St Nicholas's Church" as a separate woodcut. Note in pencil on fep saying this is the true first edition which is variant from other versions of a similar date. Bookplate of John Rhodes [John N. Rhodes, a Yorkshire Painter 1809-1842,?] on paste down and David and Catherine Green 1964 on front end paper. Full calf, gilt titles, raised bands. Later, possibly early 19th century, binding. No. LX In Boyne's The Yorkshire Library.

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    Stock ID: 23776
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  • On the Atmosphere of a Church by COMPER, J. N[inian]
    COMPER, J. N[inian]
    On the Atmosphere of a Church

    London, Sheldon Press 1947

    32pp illustrated with 8pp centre fold of b/w plates and one plan. Wrappers. Good copy Wrappers a little dusty. A reprint of this essay appeared as an addenda to the Spire book publication by Anthony Symmonds and Stephen Bucker in 2006. . Ninian Comper, 1864-1960, was one of the last of the great gothic revival architects and worked almost exclusively on churches. Dedication copy from G W O Addleshaw to William Jesse Green [ Clerk of Works at York Minster] Bookplate of Catherine and David Green on inside of front wrapper. [ David Green was son of William Jesse Green.]

    Stock ID: 23772
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  • [LUBETKIN] ALLEN
    Bertold Lubetkin

    London Merrell Publishers Ltd, 2002

    144pp illustrated with colour and b/w plates. 4to. Very good with a very good dust wrapper. The works of Berthold Lubetkin (1901-1990) including the iconic Penguin Pool at London Zoo, Highpoint One in North London and less well known survivors are documented and photographed by by Morley von Sternberg.

    Stock ID: 23746
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  • TURNER Paul, V
    Joseph Ramee: International Architect of the Revolutionary Era

    Cambridge University Press [1996]

    1997 reprint xviii, 350pp + 19pp colour plates. Illustrated throughout with 300 b/w images. 4to. Fine in dust wrapper. Study of this architect and landscape designer whose work has been largely overlooked until this study. He was a nomadic figure having left France at the time of the French Revolution living in many parts of Europe and America. Fabulous record of his wonderful drawings showing his proposed layouts for many parks and gardens as well as his domestic and public building projects.

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  • The Works of Oscar Niemeyer by George Pace's copy with his signature PAPADAKI Stamo
    George Pace's copy with his signature PAPADAKI Stamo
    The Works of Oscar Niemeyer with forward

    New York Reinhold 1950

    220pp illustrated with b/w plates. Square 4to. Good in slightly chipped but striking dust wrapper. Excellent source for the early works.

    Stock ID: 23727
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  • One of 100 copies [NOSTELL PRIORY] BROCKWELL. Maurice W.
    Catalogue of the pictures and other works of art in the collection of Lord St. Oswald at Nostell Priory

    London : Constable, 1915

    One of a hundred copies printed. xii, 397 p. : plates. ; Large 4to. 34 cm. Ex Doncaster Library reserve stock with ancient library stamp on half title and stamp of library on front paste down. Class mark on base of spine. Red rexine. Good copy. Scarce. Important for documenting the house and its contents including the Chippendale furniture.

    Stock ID: 23720
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  • [RUFFORD ABBEY]
    Rufford Abbey Collection.

    London Christie Manson and Wood, Frank and Rutley 1938

    202pp with b/w illustrations and original card covers with glassine wrap around. 4to. Very good condition and includes loosely inserted two letters from Christie Mansion Woods to James W Hawthorne, Mayfair, Arthur Square Belfast relating to and enquiry to purchase on 7 October and then the purchase of two lots in a letter dated 24 October 1938. There is a frontispiece and fourteen plates

    Stock ID: 23717
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  • Haddon, the Manor, The Hall, its Lords and Traditions. by IVAN HALL'S COPY LE BLANC-SMITH, G.
    IVAN HALL'S COPY LE BLANC-SMITH, G.
    Haddon, the Manor, The Hall, its Lords and Traditions.

    London Elliot Stock 1906

    66pp illustrated with photographs and including fold out family tree. 8vo. Decorated gilt lettered cloth. A little rubbed and worn. From the library of Ivan Hall with his initials on the front end paper. A few annotations at the rear by Hall

    Stock ID: 23716
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  • The Priory Estate Dudley. Report on Proposals for its Development Prepared Under the Direction of the Council by MAWSON E. Prentice
    MAWSON E. Prentice
    The Priory Estate Dudley. Report on Proposals for its Development Prepared Under the Direction of the Council

    London, Batsford. 1929

    48 pp. including 7 b&w ill. and 1 colour frontis of estate plan. 4to in green blind stamped boards with gilt lettering and crest on front board. First gathering bound upside down. Binding slightly rubbed at head and base of spine, else vg. Preliminary report on the design of the Priory Estate, of considerable interest in light of its subsequent history and the proposed demolition and redevelopment of the northern part of the estate. It is especially interesting in retrospect to read the sections on road planning at a time when a future of mass car ownership was still debatable. Fascinating report, containing notable line drawings.

    Stock ID: 23712
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  • The Yorkshire Church Notes of Sir Stephen Glynne (1825-1874) by BUTLER Lawrence (ed.)
    BUTLER Lawrence (ed.)
    The Yorkshire Church Notes of Sir Stephen Glynne (1825-1874) Yorkshire Archaeological Society: Record Series Volume CLIX

    Suffolk The Boydell Press 2007

    xxiv pp + 520pp + 32 full-page colour plates + 221 black & white in-text illustrations. Quarto. Brown binding with dust jacket featuring several colour illustrations front, back, and spine. New publication, new copy. Lovely resource for Yorkshire church architecture illustrating many churches subsequently "restored" or altered.

    Stock ID: 23705
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  • BONY Jean
    The English Decorated Style. Gothic Architecture Transformed 1250 - 1350. The Wrightsman Lectures delivered under the auspices of the New York University Institute of Fine Arts.

    Oxford. Phaidon.1979.

    315pp with 398 b/w plates, 11 line drawings and 2 maps. Orig. red cloth, gilt. 4to. Vg in very good dust wrapper. Lectures given in 1969 and trace the development of the decorated style. Very significant study by Bony who life long study has been the Romanesque and Gothic Architecture in England and France.

    Stock ID: 23704
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  • STOCKER, David & EVERSON, Paul.
    Summoning St Michael, Early Romanesque Towers in Lincolnshire

    Oxford Oxbow Books 2006

    309 pp, extensive black and white illustrations, maps, photographs, and drawings. 4to. Cloth with paste down label on upper board. Very good but bottom corner bumped. A scholarly although accessible study in excellent condition of the group of 60 churches in Lincolnshire built in the 11th century nearly all of which have distinctive west towers that are the subject of this book.

    Stock ID: 23703
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  • McCARTHY, Sarah [editor]
    Making History, Antiquaries in Britain 1707-2007

    London Royal Academy of Arts 2007

    267 pp 179 numbered illustrations, quarto, boards and dw in very good condition. Published to accompany an exhibition at the RA of the collection of the Society of Antiquaries. The introductory essay is by David Starkey; this is followed up by several other essays by scholars including Graham Parry.

    Stock ID: 23697
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  • (BALLIE SCOTT) HAIGH Diane
    Ballie Scott: The Artistic House

    London Academy Editions 1995

    128pp illustated with 150 plates, 50 in colour. Large 4to. Stiff card laminated colour wrappers. Fine. A key appraisal of the work of Ballie Scott setting him in the context of the arts and crafts movement.

    Stock ID: 23676
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  • GRAY, A. Stuart
    Edwardian Architecture: a Biographical Dictionary

    London, Duckworth 1985

    421pp illus with b/w plates and line ills throughout. Wrappers version. Very good 4to. Photographs by Jean & Nicholas Breach, Drawings by Charlotte Halliday, Foreword by Nicholas Taylor. Loosely inserted review. The essential reference text for those interested in the turn of the century. Covers the architects working in garden cities, theatres, churches etc and reviews in its pates the work of those who were in the limelight as well as others largely forgotten.

    Stock ID: 23675
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  • YORKE F.R.S.
    The Modern House in England

    Architectural Press (1937) 1948

    Third edition with a few new houses built between 1940 and 1948 140pp illus with b/w plates and line ills. Enlarged from the first edition and second editions. Large 4to. Open weave red lettered cloth. God copy with chipped and worn dust wrapper designed by Eckersley Lombers. Architects incl. Lubetkin, Tecton, Yorke, Chermayeff, Goldfinger and many others. An essential reference for the modern movement house in England.

    Stock ID: 23654
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  • Interiors and the Legacy of Postmodernism by Signed copy FARRELL, Terry.
    Signed copy FARRELL, Terry.
    Interiors and the Legacy of Postmodernism with essays by Professor Colin Fournier and Professor Tim Makower

    London Laurence King 2011

    192pp illustrated with colour plates throughout. 4to. Laminated boards. Very good copy. Signed copy, "To Colin best wishes Terry Farrell" [ To Colin Amery ]

    Stock ID: 23651
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