Building Conservation

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  • SCOTT MORTON, Robert.
    Traditional Farm Architecture in Scotland

    Edinburgh The Ramsey Head Press 1976

    96pp, 130 b/w photographs also taken by the author. Small 4to. Very good with good dust wrapper. Concentrates on the eastern seaboard and South West Scotland. Very attractive and useful source for vernacular stone building in Scotland. From the collection of Althony Curtis Wolffe [architect] with his signature on the front end paper. Wolffe practised mainly in South West Scotland.

    Stock ID: 23228
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  • POWYS. A.R,
    Repair of Ancient Buildings (1929)

    London SPAB, 1981

    Reprinted from the original with new material. 227pp, illustrated with 40 b/w line drawings and plates. Maroon cloth boards in decorated dust wrapper. Fine. This is a key text for traditional building methods to be applied to the conservation of old buildings. Covers brickwork, mortars, glass, woodwork, roofing etc. A R Powys was a key figure and founding member of the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings which has always been in the forefront of British building conservation.

    Stock ID: 23178
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  • HEMS Harry and Sons
    Advertising Card

    Exeter Published by the firm nd c1900

    Single sided photographic print on larger card with caption below 280x240mm The text reads "Harry Hems and Sons Ecclesiastical & Architectural Sculptors and general workers in Stone Marble and Wood Exeter" Established 1866. Image shows the premises of the firm and associated building materials yard. Small arrow and printed text on one side says "To figure studio." Some light foxing and paper a little browned else very good. Harry Hems 12 June 1842 – 5 January 1916 was a sculptor who came from London to Exeter to work on the Museum building in 1868. His firm expanded to employ some 100 craftsmen working mostly in wood and stone. Throughout his career he…

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    Exeter Published by the firm nd c1900

    Single sided photographic print on larger card with caption below 280x240mm The text reads "Harry Hems and Sons Ecclesiastical & Architectural Sculptors and general workers in Stone Marble and Wood Exeter" Established 1866. Image shows the premises of the firm and associated building materials yard. Small arrow and printed text on one side says "To figure studio." Some light foxing and paper a little browned else very good. Harry Hems 12 June 1842 – 5 January 1916 was a sculptor who came from London to Exeter to work on the Museum building in 1868. His firm expanded to employ some 100 craftsmen working mostly in wood and stone. Throughout his career he collected salvaged medieval woodwork which now forms a collection at the Royal Albert Memorial Museum & Art. Gallery. He built new premises in the 1880s which survive as Hems's "Ye Luckie Horseshoe Studio", Longbrook Street, Exeter, now a restaurant and conference facility. He worked throughout the UK and his work was awarded prizes at a number of World Fairs, including at Philadelphia in 1876 and Chicago in 1893.

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    Stock ID: 23166
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  • Medieval Floor Tiles of Northern England: Pattern and Purpose: Production Between the 13th and 16th Centuries by STOPFORD Jenny
    STOPFORD Jenny
    Medieval Floor Tiles of Northern England: Pattern and Purpose: Production Between the 13th and 16th Centuries

    Oxford Oxbow Books 2005

    xvii, 393 pages. Illustrated. Some fold outs. 4to. Pictorial laminated boards. Slightly bumped at the head of the spine else good copy. This study of the design, manufacture and use of medieval floor tiles shows the long-lasting influence achieved in the north of England, especially by the Cistercian monasteries. It serves to demonstrate how these monastic houses made use of the resources and contacts available to them. The study focuses on one of the richest medieval floor tile assemblages in the world, with material from 118 sites.

    Stock ID: 23172
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  • JACKSON, G & SONS LTD
    Cornices Mouldings and Ornaments from the workshops of G Jackson & Sons

    London Published by the firm no date

    Trade catalogue. 30pp illustrated with photo litho images of designs produced for decorative plasterwork. 250x320mm. Paper wrappers with lettered titles on upper wrapper. The upper wrapper stained by an old water mark. Internally very good copy. Jackson's were a leading maker of decorative mouldings, their history stretching back to the days of the Adam Brothers. This undated catalogue probably produced c 1910.

    Stock ID: 22595
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  • LISTER SUTCLIFFE G.
    The modern Carpenter Joiner and Cabinet Maker A Complete Guide to Current Practice with contributions form many specialists.

    London Gresham Publishing Company Limited no date c1904

    8 Volumes. folio. 108 plates (15 in colour, 2 double-page incl. double-page coloured map). some tissue guards with legends. numerous text illus. & diagrams. A nice set in original cloth. Talwin Morris binding. Slightly rubbed else very good set.

    Stock ID: 22488
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  • CARTLAND, James and Son Ltd
    General Brassfoundry

    Birmingham The Great Western Brassfoundry 1923

    Trade catalogue. xv + 292pp illustrated with line ills. Attractive title page with chromolithographic design, lists of prices and products alphabetically indexed then the catalogue proper illustrating all kinds of fixtures and fittings. Front end paper has sketch of bath taps in pencil and on paste down there is the ancient stamp of W G Heath, St Helens.

    Stock ID: 22485
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  • McKAY W.B. & McKAY, J. K.,
    McKay's Building Construction

    London Longmans 1971

    Sixth impression 1980 2 volumes containing four volumes. Metric edition Volume 1;1-2 151pp illustrated with line illustrations. Volume 2; 3-4 274pp illustated with line ills + xiiipp index to both volumes. Long 4to. Very good with dust wrappers. Useful compendium on building techniques very clearly illustrated throughout.

    Stock ID: 22393
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  • FRENCH, Thomas
    York Minster, The Great East Window (Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi: Great Britain) (Vol 2)

    Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1995

    161pp + 20pp of colour plates at back. c120 b/w photographic plates in text. 4to, original decorated dustjacket, fine. A detailed catalogue of the stained and painted glass in the Great East Window of York Minster. All photography is beautifully clear and both the black and white and colour images are stunning in their clarity and quality.

    Stock ID: 22559
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  • New Title WEAVER Lawrence (introduction by NAYLOR Andrew)
    English Leadwork: Its Art and History

    London, Donhead 2002

    288 pages with over 400 b/w photographs and drawings. 4to. Cloth, no d/w. New copy. Lawrence Weaver's design reference work appeared in 1909, and is now available from Donhead in this reprinted facsimile edition. It describes and documents many examples of decorative leadwork. Whilst examining in detail the history and workmanship to be found on fonts, statues, urns and vases, the book also includes more modest structures such as pipes, pipeheads and rainwater cisterns. The author also explores the use of lead in roofing, particularly for spires, steeples and domes, and points out that it is one of the most efficient of roofing materials, giving many excellent examples of its use on Sir Christopher Wren's churches…

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    London, Donhead 2002

    288 pages with over 400 b/w photographs and drawings. 4to. Cloth, no d/w. New copy. Lawrence Weaver's design reference work appeared in 1909, and is now available from Donhead in this reprinted facsimile edition. It describes and documents many examples of decorative leadwork. Whilst examining in detail the history and workmanship to be found on fonts, statues, urns and vases, the book also includes more modest structures such as pipes, pipeheads and rainwater cisterns. The author also explores the use of lead in roofing, particularly for spires, steeples and domes, and points out that it is one of the most efficient of roofing materials, giving many excellent examples of its use on Sir Christopher Wren's churches in London. This volume will be of value to craftsmen engaged in leadwork, conservation professionals and all architects and architectural historians with an interest in this field.

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    Stock ID: 22372
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  • WIGGINS, John
    The Practice of Embanking Lands from the Sea Treated as a means of profitable employment for capital with examples and particulars of actual embankments; and also practical remarks on the repair of the old sea-walls

    London Crosby Lockwood and Son nd (1867)

    A new edition with notes by Robert Maller. xii + 241pp, + 16pp, +32pp with small number of diagrams and tables. Green blind stamped cloth with gilt titling and paper label on spine. Book text preceded and ending with end papers listing Weale's publications on civil engineering. Slight foxing to early pages. Purple ink stamp 'T:J. Hurley sporadically stamped on a number of pages and front end paper. Inner hinges slightly cracked else a good copy.

    Stock ID: 22398
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  • MILLAR, William. (Edited by G P BANKART)
    Plastering Plain & Decorative A practical treatise on the art and craft, including full descriptions of materials, processes and appliances, and an account of historical plastering

    London B T Batsford 1927

    Fourth edition revised and enlarged. xiii +350pp Includes 278 illustrations from photographs on 125 plates mostly new to this edition. Cloth a little grubby else good. Some scattered foxing on prelims, small tear to bottom of one page in prelims [ text not affected] else a good copy. Key work on all aspects of historical plastering techniques.

    Stock ID: 22289
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  • HULL, Edward.
    On Building and Ornamenal Stones of Great Britain and Foreign Countries: arranged according to their geological distribution and mineral character, with illustrations of their application in ancient and modern structures

    London Macmillan & Co 1872

    pp. [xxiv], 333, [1], 2 original photographs pasted in and 2 drawings in the text. Original cloth, gilt titles. Good copy. Book based around a series of lectures which Hull delivered at The Royal College of Science in Dublin. Dedicated to Charles Lyell. The major part of the book is on the characteristics of building stones but the introduction is a great piece of advocacy writing aimed at improving construction of commercial and every kind of building in which he laments the effort put into churches as opposed to the wider townscape of cities.

    Stock ID: 20571
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  • An Old Cottage Saved: by POWYS, A. R. [ Introduction by Alfred H Powell]
    POWYS, A. R. [ Introduction by Alfred H Powell]
    An Old Cottage Saved: How derelict cottages at Brinkstone in Suffolk, were brought into use again and what the work cost

    London SPAB August 1921

    36pp illustrated with b/w photographic plates and line ills. The illustrations show the interiors and exteriors of the buildings before and after rennovation. There is a table at the end of the book providing detailed costings for the various elements. Photographs by C C Winmill, Architect ad C S Cousins, Photographer Bury St Edmunds. Pamphlet. Original wrappers bound into relatively modern binding with cloth spine, black lettered and boards to make a very good copy.

    Stock ID: 20500
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  • WARD James
    Fresco Painting: its art and technique with special reference to the Buono and Sprit Fresco Methods

    London Chapman and Hall Limited 1909

    viii + 72pp illus. with 4 plates in colour and 31 half tone illustrations of Italian and other Fresco paintings. Cloth rubbed and worn along spine. Internally sound. Dedication copy form Margaret Ballardie to Peter Burman with loosely inserted letter about Spirit Fresco paintings at St Peter's Vauxhall.

    Stock ID: 17044
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  • STEWART Cecil
    The Stones of Manchester

    Edward Arnold 1956

    144pp with b/w plates. Vg in vg dw. Traces the complex development of Manchester's 19th c architecture, illustrating the work of Barry, Waterhouse, Edward Walters and Thomas Worthington, and others.

    Stock ID: 13557
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  • New Title MACDONALD, Susan
    Modern Matters: Principles & Practice in Conserving Recent Architecture English Heritage.

    Donhead 1996

    184pp with b/w illustrations throughout. Boards. New Copy. The book considers recent developments in the protection and care of twentieth-century buildings and examines the philosophical, methodological and practical problems associated with conserving our recent past.

    Stock ID: 6446
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