London Constable 1952

251pp illus with bw plates. Very good in d/w, this unclipped though slightly worn with a small tear on verso top edge. In protective archival plastic wrapper. Systematic study of the causes of the ruination and destruction of the heritage of buildings from early days including dissolution of the monasteries, through each century with significant sections on the gothic revival, anti-scrape ideas etc. Hard to find.

London: Country Life Limited 1942

95pp illustrated with b/w plates and line ills taken from Lutyen's whimsical sketches. Green cloth. Very good copy. Personal insights into the life of the architect and man.

London Warehouse Publishing Limited 1976

109pp with b/w images and maps + [4] b/w map. Tall 8vo. Useful guide to the period featuring lots of Brutalist designs. Wrappers very slightly faded at upper left edge. Paste-down label printed with previous owners name. Very good.

London: Aurum Press 1999

192 with 200 high quality duotone photographs dating from 1897-1939. 4to. Cloth vg indeed in similar d/w and plastic wrapper. Authoritative text, illustrated with images from Country Life's unparalleled collection of glass plate negatives. Ex libris Gavin Stamp with his bookplate.

London: Aurum Press 1997

x + 192pp with 100s of lovely b/w photographs throughout. Very good indeed. Large 4to, cloth. In vg. d/w, and protective archival plastic cover. A selection of twenty Scottish houses, shown in their 'last golden age'. Gow's informative text is illustrated with photographs from Country Life's unparalleled collection of glass plate negatives. Many of the houses shown have since been destroyed or radically altered.

New Haven and London Yale University Press 1985

362pp. illustrated throughout in b/w photographs and a few colour illustrations. 4to. Cloth boards with gilt title lettering on spine. Very good copy in original dust wrapper and archival, plastic cover.

London, Wiley Academy 2005

336pp illustrated with colour and b/w plates. 4to. In d/w with protective, archival, plastic cover. The so-called definitive book on Philip Webb and his contribution to the Arts & Crafts movement.

New Haven and London, Yale University Press 1999

430pp with 100s of illustrations in b/w and colour. Large 4to. Cloth in d/w and protective archival plastic wrapper, 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.

Oxford White Cockade Publishing 1993

200pp illustrated with colour and b/w plates. 4to. Very good with very good dust wrapper in protective archival plastic wrapper. Sets the career of Walton in the context of the Glasgow boys and provides useful material on his career as an architect and designer. Very useful information on his exhibition design work alongside his architecture, the former less well known. Loosely inserted selection of research material relating to Walton.

London, Hodder and Stoughton 1907

130 + viipp illus with c19 colour plates including colour fold out of Heathcote, Yorkshire and many b/w plates. vii pp period ads . 4to. Decorated and lettered cloth. Exceptionally good copy. Text pages internally have scattered foxing particularly affecting the prelims. Repaired at spine which had become detached from book block. Contributors include C R Ashbee, Ballie Scott, Edwin Lutyens, G L Sutcliffe and others. Superb frontis of a London mansion block by Frank T. Verity who wrote the text with Edwin T. Hall and Gerald C. Horsley. Colour ills include mansion blocks in London and superb double page spread of Heathcote Hall, Ilkley.

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. Very good copy. Cover design is Halunby Hall, Yorkshire. Important for the gazetteer of lost properties it includes.

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.

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.

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.]

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.

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.

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.

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.