Rail Romances 1999

250pp illustrated. Purple boards, very good dust wrapper.. Biography of the author's uncle, founder of the well-known Bassett-Lowke model-making business in Northampton. Drawing on material from within the family in addition to wide range of documentary resources, Wenman Joseph Bassett-Lowke commissioned Charles Rennie Mackintosh in 1916 to remodel his house at 78 and Peter Behrens, to design his second home, New Ways in 1926 both of which are discussed in this book. The firm is significant in many ways not least of which are the models it produced for Abercrombie's London plans.

Privately published by John Lampitt.using photobox 2015 28pp. 5pp Introductory text + colour plates of the designs. Long 4to. Black boards, window on upper board with title behind. Very good. Bryans seems to have initially trained with Clayton & Bell before joining to Charles Eamer Kempe's Studio in 1889 where he subsequently became the assistant to John Carter, the chief designer. He subsequently set up on his own account. He died in 1925.

University of Lancaster Centre for North-West Regional Studies 2003

87 pp. Colour and b/w ills throughout. 4to. Decorated boards. Very good copy. Detailed account of the history of Shrigley & Hunt, one of the finest stained glass manufacturers of the late 19th century. 50th volume in series published by Centre for North-West Regional Studies.

Privately Printed in the UK 2001

x + 232pp, colour and b/w illustrations throughout. 4to in wrappers, slightly scuffed wrappers else vg. Collection of essays produced in memory of this polymath of late 20th-C ecclesiastical design. The main focus is on his stained glass, but there are also chapters on his calligraphy, paintings and other works. Includes a chronological list of his commissions. Armourial bookplate on inside front wrapper.

Yorkshire Architectural and York Archaeological Trust 1984

vi + 62pp illus w 16 b/w an colour plates, wraps. Vol 4 of the York Historian Series. A discussion of the life, work and contribution of Henry Gyles towards the survival of glasspainting in York.

London Scala Arts & Heritage Publishers Ltd 2017

104pp illustrated with over 100 high quality colour plates. 4to. Laminated wrappers. Photographs by Nick Teed. Lovely publication which documents the glass of the Minster and brings up to date the descriptions of the glass.

New York: Syracuse University Press 1992

180pp with 16 colour plates and 33 b/w illustrations. Cloth in vg dust wrapper. Bolton (1816-84), created some of the finest and earliest Gothic revival glass in 19th C America. This comprehensive study of his life and works includes a catalogue raisonné which covers drawings, paintings and stained glass. Photography by Leland A. Crook.

Yale University Press 1974

Volume 1: 119pp + 665 colour and black and white plates. Volume 2; Catalogue of window and glass designs. Large 4to. Good set with slightly worn and chipped dust wrappers. Internally very good. Previous owners name on front end papers. A. Charles Sewter thoroughly describes the firm's work from its founding in 1861 to its closing in 1940. Drawing on his first-hand knowledge of almost every Morris window in the United Kingdom and throughout the world, and on account-books and other unpublished sources, he treats in detail the firm's major commissions. He describes the preparation of cartoons and windows and comes to new conclusions about the creative role of Morris and the other artists. Hard to find.

Privately published 1986

132pp illustrated with colour plates throughout. Gazetteer of projects of the firm at the end of the book. Large 4to. Very good in dust wrapper.

Leeds City Art Galleries 1983

48pp w b/w and colour plates and illustrations, long 4to, wraps. Vg. An interesting study published to accompany an exhibition of the same name. Provides an overview of paper hangings and describing how they were used. No 1 of the Temple Newsam Country House Studies.

Japan, Haga Bookstore 1977

211pp illustrated. Colour images throughout of Ukiyo-e prints. CLoth bound with tilt characters on upper board. Very good in original slip case, this rather rubbed on corners. Text in Japanese. The book focuses on Japanese Tattoo themes such as traditional hero characters. Works include, Kuniyoshi Kunisada, Kuichika and Toyokuni etc. Includes fold out images. Hard to find.

Reading: Spire Books 2009

420pp with 150 colour illustrations. New copy. This eagerly awaited study provides a complete record of Pugin's extraordinary achievements in stained glass design and manufacture. Beautifully illustrated with photography by Alastair Carew-Cox, it shows how Pugin rose to the challenges of creating stained glass in the early Victorian period according to medieval principles, his working relationships, his customers and what he sought to express in his windows. A detailed gazetter gives all the known information about each window.

Cambridge The Lutterworth Press 2019

130pp illustrated with colour plates ad bw plates. 4to. Fine in dust wrapper. Assesses the achievements of Kempe and his fellow artists working 1907-1934. A useful companion to the biographical study of Kempe written in the previous year by the same author.

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.

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.