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The Gentleman's House, or How to Plan English Residences from the Parsonage to the Palace
London: John Murray (1864) 1865 2nd edition
xlv, 464 pp: title-page vignette, 45 plates of plans (most folding). Quarter blue cloth. Repaired at head and base of spine to make good copy. One or two plates badly folded into the book and one with short tear else vg indeed. This was the first book to systematically deal with the planning of country houses. The book draws on actual examples of houses constructed or under construction. Alongside the house there is considerations of related offices such as stables. Robert Kerr was at the time, Professor of the Arts of Construction at Kings College London. Ex libris, Michael Manser with his and José's bookplate on front paste down.
Stock ID: 22317More details Price: £195.00 -
The City and Country Purchaser's and Builder's Dictionary or the Complete Builder's Guide
London, Printed for B. Sprint, D. Browne, J. Osborn, S. Birt, H. Lintot and A. Wilde 1736
3rd edition corrected and improved throughout. First published in 1703. Frontis, xvi + 188pp. Frontis shows the principal front and plan of the apartments of the Earl of Burlington's House at Chiswick. [ first time this image appears as the frontispiece to this book]. On front paste down states "John Wilson His Book". Rear paste down gives name in pencil of a later owner 1767 Richard Dickinson. Verso of title page has contemporary naive drawing on it, some wormholes to page edges in heart of the book. Full calf, repaired at head of spine and with new spine label. Harris 587
Stock ID: 19218More details Price: £600.00 -
Temples, Ancient and Modern; or notes on church architecture
Published for the author 1837
Engraved frontispiece, xiii + (3) + 234 + (2)pp, (12) engraved plates, 1 chromolitho plate, also woodcut text ills. Modern morocco backed cloth, 4to. Very good copy. The book commences with an overview of temples and churches from the earliest times. Bardwell advocates the Italianate as his preferred style for Protestant church architecture. Bardwell 's career as an architect was much taken up with improvement of buildings and planning in London.
Stock ID: 8161More details Price: £140.00 -
Photograph Album of Tresco, Isles of Scilly
Stock ID: 8127More details Price: £680.00