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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Paris L'Amicale Librairie Theatrale nd c1930

36pp illustrated with b/w line illustrations. 4to. Decorated wrappers. Very good. Text in French. Designs for theatre sets and lighting themed around variant generic subjects such as room interiors, gardens, restaurants, antique scenes etc. Lovely item and very useful of theatrical set design. One hundred architectural designs and decorative elements, showcasing the artistic styles and trends prevalent around 1930

London RIBA Publications 2011

166pp illustrated with colour plates. Large square 4to. Grey boards, white lettered spine, embossed titles on boards. Very good indeed. Review of the projects of the firm since it got going in 1993. Useful for the first projects of this firm which focuses on reuse and reinvention of buildings.

London G. Jackson & Sons Ltd. 1928

b/w frontis, 63pp, 48 b/w photographic illustrations, Contrasting white and blue boards with lettered titles and gilt roundel of George Jackson (1766-1840) on front board. 4to. Weaver's concise account of the work of George Jackson & Sons which began with plaster work for Robert Adam and was to continue evolving new techniques and skills into the late 20th Century. Very good copy.

New York, Tokyo & Kyoto Weatherhill/Tankosha 1978

Second printing. 279 pp illustrated. Large quarto, Contrasting cloth binding with overprinted clear plastic wrapper in very good condition. Text by Teiji Itoh with photographs by Yukio Futagawa and translated from the Japanese by Richard L. Gage. Together with 206 pages of illustrations 161 in black-and-white gravure, 8 in colour and 37 of detailed architectural drawings – this is an authoritative study of modern Japanese architecture and the style in which it found it's culminating expression.

1951 -1957?

Pen and ink and watercolour. Image size 580mm wide x 340mm high. Mounted in modern mount. Mount 740mm x 510mm. Very good. Mid Century Modern colours and subject. Similar to Lansbury Estate [ Frederick Gibberd ] and other similar period social housing maisonette projects of the 1950s and 60s. Unidentified.

Rotterdam Uitgeverij 010 1989

59pp illustrated. Square 4to. Wrappers. Good copy. Wiel Arets is a Dutch architect, architectural theorist, urbanist, industrial designer. This is an early assessment of his highly regarded, often minimalist work. Series of projects are illustrated and described, following the introductory section which includes a short essay by Arets. Text in Dutch and English.

(Rotterdam): NAi Uitgevers, 1993.

First edition. Oblong 8vo. 15pp introductory essay by Wim van den Bergh. (Dutch text). Introduction in English with Architect's statement pp18-19, remainder of book unpaginated. Illustrated with colour plates and overprinted captions on glassine paper. [ In English ]. The volume is illustrated with 30 paintings, 28 in colour. A very good copy in spiral bound, blind stamped boards. Hard to find. Published to coincide with the opening of the new building of the Netherlands Architecture Institute.

1973

Limited edition print 45 of 75 W 570mm x H 630mm. Lino cut. Very good.

London J M Dent and Sons Limited 1962

125pp + illus with head and tale pieces and full page monotone line illustrations by David Gentleman. Candy stripped boards with overprinted glassine dust wrapper. Very good copy. Kendall worked for Vogue and here provides a comprehensive guide to home making with style colour and atmosphere. Includes detailed chapters on curtains and covers.