London Yale University Press 2015

336pp illustrated with sumptuous colour plates throughout. 4to. Like new, dust wrapper. Based on more than three decades of research, Arts & Crafts Stained Glass is the first study of how the late-19th-century Arts and Crafts Movement transformed the aesthetics and production of stained glass in Britain and America. Much on key individual designers and the role of Christopher Whall in the period in drawing attention to glass and teaching techniques. This is a democratic art in so far as both men and women were active in the craft at the time.

London Phaidon 2001 (1995)

240pp, illus. throughout: b/w & col. photographs, line illus., plans. Square 4to. Wrapper.s Very good. Comprehensive introduction to Voysey's work and life, heavily illustrated, with detailed accounts of his major houses: Walnut Tree Farm, Perrycroft, Moorcrag, Littleholme, etc. Includes both exterior and interior views, furniture, and prints for wallpapers and textiles.

Cambridge, Massachusetts The MIT Press 2012

157 pp. Extensively illustrated with colour and black and white illustrations. Boards with d/w. Very good copy. Both a visual history of an often ignored although significant urban space and a study of how it can be transformed.

Reading Spire Books

Reprint of the original with an introduction. 245 pp Boards with d/w in good condition. Includes reproductions in colour of the 73 chromolithographs that were included in the original book. A reissue of Pugin's magisterial work originally published in 1846.

New York John Wiley and Sons 1999

257 pp. Illustrated with bw line drawings throughout. 8vo, boards in verygood condition. Arguably, the ultimate book on fencing as a resource in conservation.

London: Country Life 1930

208pp, including 193pp b/w photographs. Blue cloth. Spine a little bumped at the base. Internally there is some light foxing to endpapers and text pages, but images are unaffected. D/w present but not visible beneath a scanned and 'cleaned-up' reproduction of the d/w and protective, archival plastic wrapper. Wonderful collection of early 20th C furniture, both moderninst and traditional, by designers including Robert Lorimer, Edwin Lutyens, Gordon Russell etc. Illustrations show individual items and interior scenes.

London The Architectural press 1925

xvi + 212pp extensively illustrated with b/w photographic plates and line ills.. 4to. Red gilt lettered cloth with dust wrapper, this a little chipped and foxed. Bright copy with protective plastic archival wrapper. Upper right corner slightly bumped else a vg. of this useful review of his career indicating much about his attitude. Includes a list of executed projects. Very good illustrations of major commissions. Newton was a pupil of Norman Shaw and worked initially in his style but gradually developed his own signature in design with a more classical tradition at its heart. Armourial bookplate of architect John Homery Folkes on front pastdown. Very hard to find with the dust wrapper.

London, Philip Wilson.

272pp illustrated. 4to. Fine in dust wrapper. Comprehensive new study of Red House, Bexleyheath; the only house commissioned by William Morris and the first independent architectural work of his close friend, Philip Webb. Beautifully illustrated edition. The house was created 1860-1865 and records the interiors and designs of that period following recent research on the collaborative ventures of Morris, Philip Webb Burne Jones, Rossetti and their immediate circle

London Frederick Warne 1873

487 illustrations in b/w. Quarter moroco, marbled boards and end papers. Gilt decorated spine with raised bands. Good copy. Signed on the half title by Eliza Gutch. Also has her bookplate on front paste down. Founding member of the Folklore Society but with particular York associations, she was the last private owner of Holgate Windmill, and her children sold the Mill on her death to the City of York Council for preservation. It operates today as an historic site. She died at Holgate Lodge on 17 March 1931. Also has the bookplate dated 1964 of Catherine and David Green. Attractive association copy.

London Crafts Advisory Committee 1976

80pp illustrated with portrait frontis and illustrations in black and white of the ceramics. Small square 4to. Decorated wrappers. Very good. Contributions by Ray Finch, John Hewston and others.

Edwin Story, Bookseller, Micklegate York. c1909

32pp illustrated with 7 b/w plates. Ribbon tied pamphlet 186 x 124mm Titles on upper wrapper. Wrappers dusty. Signed dedication copy to R J Green Esq from T P Cooper, inscribed on the upper wrapper. Loosely inserted A.L.S from the author to Ms Green, from the author who lived at 16 Wentworth Road, York which accompanied the pamphlet sent, December 7 1909, to Mr Green alerting him to a talk on Old Clockmakers and requesting if he had photographs taken close up from the scaffolding on York Minster of the Striking Figures on the clock. [Green was Clerk of Works at York Minster at the time.]

Wormerveer, Netherlands: In Usum Bibliophili, 1964

Unpaginated. 30pp. With a two-page introduction by Ruari McLean. Contains reproductions of various pages of 13 Doves Press books; with some of the printing in red. Grey cloth, dust jacket. First edition, No 302 of 325 numbered copies. Number in pen on colophon. The Minor wear along the edges of the wrapper which is slightly browned. Internally a good copy.

London Walker's Galleries 1930

80pp + [8], + 24 b/w and colour illustrative plates. Wrappers. 8vo. Vg. Published by Walker's Galleries, London, in association with an exhibition of the work of Henry Holiday held there from June 30th- Autumn of 1930. Frontispiece showing a photograph of Henry Holiday, with his signature reproduced below. Account of the life and works of Holiday, complete with a chronological timeline of his stained glass works, his pencil sketches and portraits, and illustrated with plates showing reproductions of his art throughout. Advertising leafs at the back relate to the publication of Walker's Quarterly.

Oxford Clarendon Press 1977

xv + 586pp, vi plans, 182 plates. 4to. Vg brown cloth in similar d/w with protective cover. With contributions by Claire Cross, Barrie Dobson and David E. O'Connor, amongst others. Chronological account of York Minster with additional chapters on the stained and painted glass, music since the Reformation, funeral monuments, and the Minster Library.

London Lund Humphries 1971

159 pp illustrated with 81 black and white drawings. Large 8vo boards with very good dw. The influential work of a key Bauhaus figure. Compiled from reproductions of Schlemmer's notebooks and notes for his Bauhaus course "Man". Heimo Kuchling selected the contents from a wealth of unsorted notes and over 200 drawings, at the heart of which is his section on figure drawing.

London Academy Editions 1995

143 pages consisting of an introduction by Stephen Martin, nine essays by Knox scholars including illustrations, 63 pages of plates, the majority in colour and a bibliography and index. Wrappers. The book establishes Knox's central role in the evolution of British and Modern design, sheds light on the influences that shaped his career and succeeds in clearing away the mystery and uncertainty that surrounds this major British designer and his personal affairs. Very good copy. This copy has a note in the front from Peter Hirschman indicating it was purchased on an Isle of Man trip.

London B. T. Batsford Ltd. 1948

326 pp Illustrated with double page plates, photographs, drawings and diagrams Small 4to. Blue cloth. Chipped and worn dust wrapper. Preserved in glassine. First edition of a classic text of the best British craftsmanship of the immediate pre- and post-war years.

Sheffield, Sheffield Galleries & Museums Trust 1998

114 pp illustrated with colour and b/w plates. Small square 4to. Decorated wrappers with photograph of Mellor. The illustrated catalogue for three retrospective exhibitions of the work and career of this major designer. Signed by David Mellor.

London, B T Batsford 1909,

3rd edotopn. 420pp +300 plates and text illustrations. (32pp catalogue of Batsford publications). Tall 8vo. Gilt decorated blue cloth with arts and crafts style decorative gilt lettering on upper board. Decorated end papers. Fine in dust wrapper. Authoritative study of stained glass. Uncommon to find in the dust wrapper.

London & Oxford, Printing Historical Society & Vanbrugh Press 2014

432 pp, quarto with dustwrapper, in fine condition. The ultimate account of the type composition that led the field in typesetting and an indispensable reference for typographers and designers.