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Catalogue 188

ARCHITECTURE, LANDSCAPE, CITY

PLANNING, DESIGN:100 Books

1 ADAMS Maurice B Modern Cottage Architecture: illustrated from works of well-known architects.London, B.T. Batsford 1904. [31839] Frontis, iv, 29pp incl text figs plus 50 single-sided plates. Cloth, top edge gilt, 29x19. Respined, small localised marks to front cover, good copy with nice bright plates. £75.00An excellent Edwardian survey, though most of the examples are hardly cottages in the conventional sense. Includes Lorimer, Lutyens, Brierley, Edgar Wood, Newton, Goodhart-Rendel etc. There are also three examples from Port Sunlight.

Three Major Ashbee Titles

2 ASHBEE C R The Trinity Hospital in .. Mile End: an object lesson in National History by.... Being the first monograph of the Committee for the Survey of the Memorials of Greater London.London, Guild & School of Handicraft, Essex House, 1896. [31825] Frontis, 36pp (+ ip advert for Guild's publications)+ 13 plates, several being fold-outs, incl 2 with colour. Original stiff paper wraps with Guild monogram. 31x24. Small tears to overlapping paper edges (as usual), otherwise a bright copy. £95.00A key publication in the history of British architectural conservation. Ashbee organised the successful campaign, with SPAB and the Metropolitan Gardens Association, to preserve this 18th century building from demolition. A listed building process for London began soon after.

3 ASHBEE C.R. Where the Great City Stands: A Study in the New Civics. London, The Essex House Press & B.T. Batsford, 1917. [31824] xii, 165pp, 121 illustrations, many

being hors-texte b&w plates + list of Essex House publications. Erratum slip. Original decorated patterned boards, cream cloth spine. 29cm x 23cm. A very nice copy of a book usually in poor condition, if found at all. £375.00Ashbee's philosophy of architecture and urban form, influenced by Morris and Ruskin’s ideas and his own pioneering work on conservation.

4 ASHBEE C. R. (ed) Jerusalem 1920-1922 Being the Records of the Pro-Jerusalem Council during the First Two Years of the Civil Administration. Edited for the Council of the Pro-Jerusalem Council.London, John Murray, for the Council of the Pro-Jerusalem Society, 1921. [31826] Frontis, xvi, 109pp + 69 b&w plates + 2 colour fold-out plans, also text plans and diagrams throughout, bibliography. Preface by Sir Ronald Storrs, Governor of Jerusalem.. Lovely original pictorial lettered boards, gilt lettered cloth spine. 30x23. End papers have minor old cellotape marks, small old worm holes repaired. An unusually nice bright copy. Inscribed "H.E.S. from C.R.A. Salaam! Nov. 1924" on front end-paper. £300.00Ashbee was Civic Advisor to the City of Jerusalem and makes the major contribution to this Report; including his important plan for the city, with designs for Jewish Garden Cities etc.. His close involvement can also be seen in the beautiful layout and design of this volume. Rare.--------------------------

5 Beckford. WILLIAM BECKFORD EXHIBITION (issued by) William Beckford Exhibition, Venue unstated. Bath? 1976 [31807] 99pp (+ adverts), including illustrations, chronology, bibliography. All exhibits carefully described. Fwd. by Kenneth Clark, biographical introduction by James Lees-Milne. Wraps. 21x15 Fine copy. £15.00A valuable exhibition, packed with information. Scarce.

Bedford Park – a model suburb

6 Bedford Park. BOLSTERLI Margaret Jones The Early Community at Bedford Park: The Pursuit of "Corporate Happiness" in the First Garden Suburb.

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London and Henley, Routledge & KP, 1977. [31162] xii, 136pp, incl 25 illustrations. Cloth. 26x18. Vg indeed, dust wrapper. £30.00Still perhaps the best source on this influential London model suburb (started 1876).

7 Bedford Park. GREEVES T Affleck Bedford Park: the first garden suburb. London, Anne Bingley, 1975. [31581] No pagination, 117 annotated b&w illustrations, map, bibliog. Newspaper obituary of Tom Greeves, conservation architect and draughtsman, loosely inserted. Board. 25x19. Spine sunned and two owner labels inside front cover, good copy.

£30.00A small architectural classic, well illustrated.-------------------------

8 BENOIT-LEVY Georges La Cité-Jardin Paris, Henri Jouve, 1904. [30296] vii, 285pp plus 33 figs mostly on single-sided plates. Preface by Charles Gide. Marbled boards with matching end papers, cloth spine and corners, 23x17. Pages little tanned, owner's stamp on fly, small old water stain top of couple of pages, good tight binding and nice plates. £295.00This volume contains much on Port Sunlight, Bournville and similar model settlements, also a chapter on Garden Cities round the world. Benoit-Levy (1880-1971) was very active in the Association of Garden Cities of France, founded in 1903. He himself designed a number of industrial villages. He was also an advocate of Soria-y-Mata's Spanish Linear City ideas. All original editions of Benoit-Levy's books are now very scarce.

9 BENTON Charlotte, with contributions by ELLIOTT & HARWOOD David & Elain A Different World: Emigré Architects in Britain 1928-1958. London, RIBA, 1995. (Catalogue). [31817] 232pp, several b&w illustrations & drawings, chronology, biographies, gazetter. Laminated wraps. 21x21. Neat name inside cover. vg copy.

£55.00A fine & informative catalogue, which cast much new light on this episode. As well as the well known names: Goldfinger Lubetkin, Gropius, Korn etc, many other interesting figures appear:

Ascher, Kulka, Kretschmer etc. Excellent reference work. Uncommon.

10 BOURNVILLE VILLAGE TRUST The Bournville Village Trust 1900-1955. Bournville, 1956. [31185] Colour frontis, 135pp, a great many b&w photos, maps, plans etc., bibliography. Cloth. 23x16. Inscribed by Ralph Barlow, head of Estates Office, Bournville, vg in dust wrapper. £25.00One of the best sources on Bournville and other building activities of the Trust.

11 Bridges. JERVOISE E The Ancient Bridges of The South of England. The Ancient Bridges of The North of EnglandThe Ancient Bridges of Mid & Eastern EnglandThe Ancient Bridges of Wales and Western England[4 uniform volumes]London, Architectural Press, 1931-6. [31783] Frontis, xvi, 128pp: frontis, xii, 146pp: frontis, xi, 164pp: frontis, xii, 180pp. All plus plates Cloth, 19x13. South of England volume is ex libris C R Ashbee, with his ownership label. A good set. Light foxing on edges. £120.00Useful account written for SPAB. Uncommon as a set.

12 BRISTOW Ian C Architectural Colour in British Interiors 1615-1840 New Haven, Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, 1996. [31838] 320pp, 54 b&w illustrations + 166 colour plates. Detailed bibliography. Gilt lettered cloth, 32x24. Fine copy, as new in dust wrapper and slip case.

£65.00Indispensable source book on this important topic, by a specialist consultant in the redecoration of historic interiors.

Bungalows – ground-breaking house type?

13 Bungalows. HARRISON Percival Bungalow Residences: A handbook for all interested in Building. London, Crosby Lockwood, 1909. [5727] 76pp + ix pp interesting trade adverts, c20 figs, + 22 plates (elevations, ground plans, etc), adverts on end papers. Pictoral cloth, 22x15. Vg. £30.00

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A charming little book 'to assist the layman who may be contemplating the erection of a bungalow....' The illustrations and technical details are very interesting

14 Bungalows. KING Anthony D The Bungalow: The Production of a Global Culture.London, RKP, 1984. [31622] Frontis, xvii, 310pp, a great many photos, plans etc, bibliography. Gilt lettered cloth, 25x20. Vg, dust wrapper. £25.00Pioneering study of this house type and its complex, sometimes arcane, history worldwide.

15 Bungalows. RANDAL PHILLIPS R The Book of Bungalows London, Country Life, (1920), 2nd ed, 1922 [30914] 176pp, 136 illustrations. Boards, cloth spine, 22x15. Bottom edge and corners bumped, inscription on front end paper, vg in ragged dust wrapper, now protected. £35.00Interesting 1920s study, with examples by Williams-Ellis, Unwin, Howitt etc..

Cinema Architecture – three scarce titles

16 Cinemas. PENZ François & THOMAS Maureen (eds) Cinema & Architecture: Méliès, Mallet-Stevens, MultimediaLondon, B.F.I., 1997. [31286] 212pp, 180 illustrations, filmography. Wraps, 23x23. Vg.

£95.00Contributors include Tim Benton, Nicholas Bullock, Odile Vaillant. Extremely scarce.

17 Cinemas. SCHLIEPMANN Hans (text) Lichtspieltheater. Eine Sammlung Ausgeführter Kinohäuser in Gross-Berlin.Berlin, Wasmuth, 1914. [30312] Coloured frontis, 104pp + colour plate, and including 109 illustrations and 71 full-page high-quality photographic plates, cinema plans and technical diagrams. Stiff card. 32x24. Spine professionally repaired, a very nice copy of a book normally in poor condition - if found at all. £250.00This historic work is possibly the first complete book on the architecture of cinemas. By this date the cinema, as a building type, can clearly be seen moving away from its origins in theatre design. Very scarce.

18 Cinemas. ZUCKER Paul Theater und Lichtspielhäuser. Berlin, Ernst Wasmuth, 1926. [30428] 179pp incl 168 plates (high-quality photos, measured drawings etc). Red cloth, 32x24. Very nice copy.

£275.00A classic early book on the modernist cinema and theatre, including work by Poelzig, Gropius, van de Velde, Perret. Paul Zucker (1888-1971) was equally effective as architect, architectural writer and town planner. He played an active part in the cultural life of Weimar Berlin, designing elegant shops and offices, as well as teaching and writing. He was forced to emigrate to the USA in 1937.-------------------

19 COLVIN Howard & HARRIS John (eds) The Country Seat: Studies in the History of the British Country House. Presented to Sir John Summerson.....London, Allen Lane The Penguin Press, 1970. [31378] Frontis portrait, 295pp, 184 illustrations, Summerson bibliography. Cloth, board spine. 28x20. Faint evidence of label removed inside front cover, small stamp on title-page, library stamps on edges, vg thus, in good dustwrapper.

£30.00Pioneering collection of essays on this subject.

William Cooper- an early Catalogue

20 Conservaories, Greenhouses etc. WILLIAM COOPER Illustrated Catalogue of Conservatories, Greenhouses, Vineries, Section 1. Orchid Houses, Plant and Forcing Houses, Melon and Cucumber Frames, Garden Frames, Forcing Pits, Handlights etcSection II. Portable Wooden Building, Photographic Studios & Dark Rooms etcSection III. Incubators, Foster Mothers etc.Section IV. Latest Design in Rustic Work.Section V. Iron Buildings, Churches, Chapels, Mission Rooms, Hospitals etc.Section VI. Dog Kennels.Section VII.Heating Apparatus, Boilers, Pipes etc.Section VIII. Horticultural TimberSection IX. Price List of Horticultural Manures, Fertilizers etc.Section X. Horticultural Sundries.

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London, nd, c1903. [31878] 415pp, hundreds of illustrations. Cloth, 19x13. Small stain top corner of first couple of pages else vg. Page 323 has large closed tear. £80.00Delightful catalogue with beautiful drawings. Prices and Sizes included in descriptions. Seems to be a very early Cooper's catalogue, the most interesting one we have seen. Includes such prefabricated gems as a portable hospital, African merchant's station, mission room and swimming bath.------------------------

21 CORNFORTH John The Search for a Style: Country Life and Architecture 1897-1935.NY, W. W. Norton, (1988) 1st American ed. [30694] 263pp, 270 illustrations (mainly photos). Cloth. 30x23. Fine, dust wrapper. £50.00Innovative study, based on the unique "Country Life" photographic archives. Becoming scarce.

22 Cotton Mills. AMALGAMATED COTTON MILLS TRUST LIMITED Concerning Cotton. A Brief Account of the Aims and Achievements of the...... 1920. [23261] Decorated end papers, unpaginated, coloured frontis, 6pp foreword, c280pp, divided into sections with tabs on the side. Stiff wraps with attractive paste-on label, 29x23. Wraps rubbed round edges else vg.

£120.00Sumptuous art deco trade publicity catalogue, with wonderful coloured images of the mill buildings and work going on inside. Many major UK firms are represented: the Horrockses, Eckersleys, R Hyde Buckley, John Ashworth, Redmayne Isherwood, Haslam Spinning, Haslam Weaving, Cellular Clothing et al. A delightful item, celebrating a now vanished world. Uncommon

23 COUNCIL FOR RESEARCH ON HOUSING CONSTRUCTION (publ) Slum Clearance and Rehousing. The First Report of the Council for Research on Housing Construction.London, P.S. King, 1934. [31837] 139pp, 20 figs (some colour) + 23 photos. Gilt lettered cloth. 29x22. An unusually nice copy. Loosly inserted is an article, 28pp, from the Journal of RIBA, 22 Feb, 1936 by Robert H Matthew, "Slum

Clearance..Winning Design and Report" (two schemes submitted for the Bossom Travelling Studentship, 1935-36). £85.00This was an excellent survey, with revealing illustrations, of model tenement housing in Britain, Germany & Austria. A major study.

Czech Modernism

24 Czechoslovakia. ADLEROVA Alena (text) Cesky Funkcionalismus 1920-1940. Architektura Bytove Zarizena Uzita Grafika. [cover title]Prague & Brno, UP Museum & Moravska Galerie, 1978. [30463] 80pp text inc bibliog and 12 pages illustrations, with further 48pp of illustrations numbered 111-229 plus 14 pages of description. Wraps, 24x23. Bottom corner trifle bumped, else vg in dust wrapper. £45.00Catalogue for an exhibition of modernist decorative arts in this period, including furniture, textiles, lighting, ceramics etc.

25 Czechoslovakia. ANDEL Jaroslav The new vision for the new architecture. Czechoslovakia 1918-1938.Zurich, Scalo, 2006. [25688] 278pp incl very many photos, biographies of architects and photographers, bibliog. Cloth, 29x23. Fine, in fine dust wrapper. £25.00Architectural photography produced in Czechoslovakia in the 20s and 30s from the work of architects of the same period. Architects include, Gocar, Fuchs, Hruby, Kranz, Slapeta et al. Photographers include Plicka, Sudek, the Sandalos et al. There are chapters on industrial architecture, office buildings, arcades and department stores, family houses, cafes etc. Beautiful book with lots of information.------------------

26 DAVIS Charles Thomas A Practical Treatise on the Manufacture of Bricks, Tiles, Terra-Cotta, Etc including stiff-clay, dry-clay, hand-made, pressed or front and roadway paving brick, enameled-brick, with glazes and colours, fire-brick, and blocks, silica-brick, carbon-brick, glass-pots, retorts, terra-cotta, drain-tile, glazed and unglazed roofing tile, art-

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tile, mosaics and imitation on intarsia, or inlaid surfaces; comprising every product of clay employed in architectural, engineering, and the blast furnace....Philadelphia, Henry Carey Baird & Co, 1895, 3rd ed revised. [31721] Frontis, xxxiv, 628pp incl 261 figs. Cloth, 24x17. Fair copy only. Contents in good condition. £150.00A major late Victorian study, with much out-of-the-way information on these materials.

27 DAVISON T Raffles (ed) The Arts Connected with Building: Lectures on craftsmanship and design delivered at Carpenters Hall London Wall for the Worshipful Company of Carpenters.....London, B.T. Batsford, 1909. [31831] Frontis, xi, 224pp, many photos, plans. Pictorial paper-backed spine, decorated lettered cloth, 21x14. End papers foxed, head and tail of spine frayed, contents good, generally a fair copy. £75.00An important Arts & Crafts collection. The lectures were by Schultz, Voysey, Dawber, Turner, Troup, Romney Green, Baillie Scott, Chas Spooner and J. Starkie Gardner. The aim was, “...to stimulate the ambition of craftsmen towards a high ideal of attainment.”

Lewis Day

28 Day. HANSEN Joan Maria Lewis Foreman Day (1845-1910). Unity in Design and Industry. Woodbridge, Antique Collector’s Club, 2007. [25207] Pictoral end papers, 319pp incl numerous illustrations, many in colour, bibliog. Cloth. 31x21. Fine, dust wrapper. £35.00First full-scale monograph on this designer, based on much original research. Beautifully produced book and valuable reference.

29 DAY Lewis F Nature in Ornament. London, B. T. Batsford ("Text Books of Ornamental Design"), 1896. [31688] Pictorial frontispiece, xxiii, 260pp (+ 8pp Batsford adverts at end) + 123 plates and including 192 figs. Patter ned end papers. Top edge gilt. Gilt lettered and patterned green cloth. 19x14. Prize label inside front cover. Rear end paper and last page of adverts a little rubbed on outer edges. A nice copy of a handsome book. £45.00

Beautiful Victorian binding. Original edition of one of the finest of the Day ornament design books.Other Day titles in stock. Please enquire.---------------------------

30 Dover Castle. PUCKLE Rev John The Church and Fortress of Dover Castle Oxford and London, John Henry and James Parker, 1864. [31195] Colour frontis, 132pp plus 10 single-sided plates, two being folding plans. Cloth, 23x16. Folding plans and facing pages spotted, spine trifle sun faded, generally a good copy. £30.00A valuable Victorian account of this great complex.

The Gothic Revival – a guide to good practice

31 ECCLESIOLOGICAL LATE CAMBRIDGE CAMDEN SOCIETY (editors) Instrumenta Ecclesiastica. First and Second SeriesLondon, John van Voorst, 1847 and 1856. [31794] Vol 1: 122 plates with facing descriptions. Vol 2: 72 plates with descriptions. Full leather, 29x23. Leather rubbed on edges and quite a large chunk missing from front of vol 1 and small piece from front of vol 2. Foxing and browning to many pages. Still sturdy and robust copies. £750.00The Society presents acceptable designs suitable for new churches, including furnishings, pulpits, crosses, fonts, pews etc. Many examples are taken directly from medieval originals. Others are designs adapted for modern purposes. One of the most important sources for the Oxford Movement's approach to new designs. There is much stress on historical accuracy and its relationship to liturgical practices.Naturally, William Butterfield, official advisor to the Society, is often featured, also Slater, Street, Woodyer and Carpenter. Scarce, particularly both volumes together, vol 2 being particularly difficult to find.----------------------------

32 FREEMAN Edward A An Essay on the Origin and Development of Window Tracery in

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England; with nearly four hundred illustrations.Oxford and London, John Henry Parker, nd, c1850. [31775] xvi, 305pp plus 74 single-sided plates. Top edge gilt. Embossed cloth, 22x15. Very good cover and contents with a little foxing to first and last couple of pages. Someone has very neatly and faintly in pencil, identified each illustrations underneath. £95.00An improved and extended form of several papers read before the Oxfird Archaeological Society 1846-1848. Important Gothic Revival texts.

German Garden Design – some titles

33 AUGUST SCHERLE (publ) Hausgärten. Skizzen und Entwürfe aus dem Wettbewerb der Woche.Berlin, 1908. [28968] xviipp plus 119pp incl plans, sketches etc, plus six colour plates. Texts by Fritz Encke, Hermann Muthesius. Boards with coloured oval paste-on label, linen spine, 21x30. Bottom rh corner bumped else vg. £120.00Beautiful Arts & Crafts style guide and pattern book for garden architecture. As well as many garden designs, there are examples of furniture, details of suitable plants, garden architecture etc. The lovely colour plates show garden ensembles. Architects featured include Fahrenkamp, Olbricht and Tessenow. An outstanding item.

34 BRINCKMANN A E Schöne Gärten Villen und Schlössen. Aus Fünf Jahrhunderten.Munich, Algemeine Verlag, 1925. [22050] 215pp incl a great many photos, plans and artist’s views. Gilt lettered pictoral cloth, 29x24. Good copy.

£65.00Brinckmann was a significant writer on townscape and urban history, garden design and related topics of this period. In this work he begins with the gothic garden and there is a long section on eighteenth and nineteenth century German gardens (the English naturalistic style is hardly covered).

35 GRISEBACH August Der Garten. Eine geschichte seiner künsterlischen gestaltung.Leipzig, von Klinkhardt & Bierman, 1910. [22002] viii, 126pp incl. text illustrations plus 88 single-sided plates. Cloth, 28x21. Cloth a little

browned and fron end paper slightly foxed else very good. £110.00Fine illustrations. Important study, mainly on Germany, but with examples also from France, Sweden etc. Concentrates on the geometric and formal garden tradition (still very popular in Germany at this time). Very attractive book

36 HAMPEL Carl 150 Kleine Garten. Plan, Beschreibung und Bepflanzung.Berlin, Paul Parey, 1910, 4th enlarged edition. [25057] iv, 202pp incl plans. Boards, linen spine, 25x18. End papers foxed else vg. £75.00Plans for villa gardens, front and back house gardens etc with planting guide. The examples provide an amazing array of ornate designs, with curved walks, geometric beds etc, typical of the period. The author was Leipzig Stadt Garten Direktor.

37 HAMPEL W Die Moderne Teppichgärtnerei. Berlin, Paul Parey, 1896, 5 Auflage. [30541] 147pp, 150 figs (mostly layout plans, some in colour) Colour patterned brown cloth. 28x20. Nice copy. £85.00Very attractive pattern book of elaborate garden knot beds & other layouts, with plant specifications etc. Very typical of this period. This edition was revised and expanded. A lovely item.

38 LUX Joseph Aug Schöne Garetenkunst. Esslingen, Paul Neff, (Führer zur Kunst series) 1907. [21987] Frontis, 64pp, incl photos and drawings. Original gilt lettered stiff card, 20x14. Tiny chip to head of spine, else vg. £50.00Many of the examples are by Franz Leibisch and are in the secessionist style, as is the book and its subject matter. Scarce.

39 RASCH Edgar (bearbeitet) Neue Entwürfe zu Blumen, Teppichbeeten und Staudenanlagen. Begründet von E Levy.Leipzig, Hugo Voigt, 1917, 5 Auflage, [25118] 88pp, incl 91 figs, mostly geometric garden designs, with plant specifications. 2 pieces of interesting ephemera loosely inserted. Wraps. 20x14. Vg copy. £45.00

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Very interesting guide to garden layouts, with many highly elaborate designs for flower beds and other geometric layouts.

40 SIEDLER Ed. Jobst Die Gärten und Gartenarchitekturen Friedrichs des Grossen. Berlin, Wilhelm Ernst, 1911. [23084] viii, 28pp + 6 b&w photo-illustrations on 2 plates. Folio wraps. 46x30. Discreet, illegible stamp. A good copy. £75.00Text was submitted as dissertation to the Darmstadt Technische Hochschule. The author describes the design of Italian, French and Dutch gardens and their influence on Frederick the Great.----------------------

41 Glass Painting. WINSTON Charles An Inquiry into the Difference of Style Observable in Ancient Glass Paintings, Especially in England; with hints on Glass Painting by the late........Two uniform volumes.London, James Parker, (1846), 1867, 2nd ed. [31455] Part 1-text; xvii, 422pp, inc 28 woodcuts. Part 2-plates; 23pp plus 75 plates, some in colour. Gilt decorated and embossed cloth, 23x15. Spines browned, pages a little tanned round edges else nice copies with nice bright plates. £200.00A fine two-volume study, beautifully presented. Very scarce, especially as here complete.

42 GRADIDGE Roderick Dream Houses: The Edwardian Ideal. London, Constable, 1980. [31414] xix, 247pp,+20 b&w photo illustrations, inc many text illustrations, bibliog. Signed by Gradidge and Goulancourt. Cloth, 24x19. Vg, dust wrapper.

£60.00A classic study, including works by Newton, Lutyens, Voysey and Baker. Includes careful studies of many individual houses. Photos by André Goulancourt. Becoming scarce.

43 HAENEL Erich & TSCHARMANN Heinrich (hsgbn) Das Einzelwohnhaus der Neuzeit. Leipzig, J J Weber, 1907. [30042] lii, 179pp inc 218 groundplans, perspectives etc plus 6 tipped-in colour plates. Cloth, with paste-on labels. 25x19. Spine label rubbed, faint bowing of cloth.

Rather obtrusive owner's stamps on title-page. Generally good. £75.00Beautifully produced survey of superior new domestic architecture, including examples by Behrens, Berlage, Harvey at Bournville, Möhring, Muthesius, Newton, Voysey etc. etc..

44 HAWEIS Mrs H R The Art of Decoration. London, Chatto & Windus, (1881) 1889, new edition. [31448] Engraved frontis, xxiv, 407pp, incl.74 figs, many on plates, list of English designers from the 7th-19th centuries. Lovely silver lettered and patterned cloth. 19x15. Silver pattern a little rubbed and end papers tanned, very good for its age and binding tight. £55.00Interesting Victorian study of all aspects of domestic design.

45 HAYWARD GALLERY Thirties: British Art & Design before the War.London, Arts Council: V & A Museum, 1980. [30781] 320pp, incl. 100s of b&w illustrations & several in colour, biographies & bibliog. Wraps, 27x21. Vg copy. £30.00Published to accompany the exhibition. Includes very good architectural and design material. Excellent reference, one of the best sources on the pre-war period.

Hegemann’s American epic

46 HEGEMANN Werner & PEETS Elbert The American Vitruvius: The Architect's Handbook of Civic Art.NY, The Architectural Book Publ Co, 1922. [30367] Frontis, 298pp, with 1203 figs (high-quality photos, line illustrations, plans, maps etc), bibliography. Gilt lettered cloth. 41x31. Folio. Professionally re-spined to make a very nice copy. £400.00The original edition of this magisterial study of urban design and its roots. Collins says that, by the time the work was published, Hegemann had returned to Berlin and Peets had established himself as an independent landscape planner. Despite the book’s title, the scope is international. Camillo Sitte is a major influence and something of a springboard for the work, though his approach is widened here. “Civic Art” is a broader concept and more sympathetic to modern urbanism than the “City Beautiful”

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idea and the authors include material on skyscrapers and garden villages. This great work is also very notable for its fine illustrations. As well as the many original drawings by Peets, Hegemann organised a superb collection of photos and plans, carefully positioned on each page and juxtaposing different places and epochs. This book was also a milestone in city planning book design and was greeted with something like awe at the time. Subsequently, however, it fell into neglect, to be re-discovered only in the last two or three decades.---------------------

47 Hiroshima. BARNETT Erin and MARIANI Philomena Hiroshima Ground Zero 1945. NY, International Center for Photography, 2011. [31761] 247pp in portfolio of reference materials. Wraps, 30x25. Near Fine. £45.00Published for an exhibition. With essays by John W Dower, Adam Harrison Levy and David Monteyne. A remarkable photographic record, with intelligent explanatory notes and essays.

48 Howitt. GRANGER Frank The Council House Nottingham: a review of the Council House & Exchange Buildings.Nottingham, 1929. [30987] Tipped-in frontis, c84pp incl. 26 high-quality tipped in photo plates (mostly by Stewart Bale of Liverpool) Patterned boards, cloth spine. (Professionally recased?) 30x23. One photo creased, discreet punch holes, one or two old owner stamps. But a nice bright copy. £75.00Fine record of this sumptuous building, designed by and erected under the supervision of T Cecil Howitt, then City Architect, It was officially opened in 1929.

49 IMBERT Dorothée The Modernist Garden in France. New Haven, Yale, 1993. [30018] xv, 268pp incl plans, drawings, lengthy notes, detailed bibliog etc plus 17 full page colour plates. Cloth, 29x22. Fine in like dust wrapepr. £35.00Comprehensive study of these 'architectonic' gardens, with chapters on Le Corbusier, Guevrekian, Lurcat et al and on gardens at the 1925 Exposition. Thoroughly researched and well produced.

50 Japonisme. GALLERIES NATIONALES DU GRAND PALAIS Le Japonisme Paris, Editions de la Reunion des musées nationaux, 1988. [29535] 341pp, 452 numbers, hundreds of illustrations, some in colour, list of artists and manufacturers, bibliog. Wraps, 31x23. Vg. £60.00French and Japanese exhibition. Very good source for this influential cross-cultural design episode. A fine reference with all exhibits described in detail and illustrated. Uncommon.

51 Jellicoe. SPENS Michael The Complete Landscape Designs and Gardens of Geoffrey Jellicoe London, Thames & Hudson, 1994. [31349] 212pp inc with 243 illustrations, 108 in colour, incl 2 colour fold-outs, also bibliog, chronology. Cloth, 29x26. Vg in dust wrapper. £36.00Beautifully produced book. An authorative monograph, examining the definitive canon of Jellicoe's designs.

52 JOURDAIN M English Interiors in Smaller Houses. From the Restoration to the Regency, 1660-1830London, Batsford, 1923. [28014] Frontis, 202pp incl 211 figs, mostly measured drawings. Gilt decorated and embossed cloth, 31x26. Ex University of Capetown library, four small stamps only, vg thus. £35.00Very good source for interiors of the period.

53 KNAPP Werner Landbaukunst. Weg zu Bewusstem Gestalten.Stuttgart, Karl Kramer, 1951 [31836] 64pp, 213 illustrations drawn by the author. Wraps. 30x21. Vg copy. £25.00Very interesting analysis showing how buildings visually work in landscapes and townscapes.

54 LAPIDUS Morris Too Much is Never Enough NY, Rizzoli, 1996. [30325] 304pp, a great many b&w and colour illustrations, bibliog, list of works. Boards, 25x21. Fine, dust wrapper. £40.00Interesting autobiography of this emigré architect (born 1902). Lapidus built many resort hotels, stores, apartments etc and did much to change the face of Main Street, USA.

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55 LE SUEUR A. D. C. The Care & Repair of Ornamental Trees. In garden, park and street.London, Country Life, 1934. [31829] Frontis, xiv, 257pp, incl. bibliography + 42 black & white photo illustrations on plates Cloth. 22x15. Edges a little foxed, else a nice bright copy, still in dustwrapper. £16.00Notable study by a landscape architect and forestry expert.

56 Le SUEUR A. D. C. Hedges and Shelterbelts and Screens London, Country Life, 1951. [31600] 128pp, b&w illustrations. Cloth, 23x15. Good copy, some spotting on edges, dust wrapper clipped and with some spots, now protected. £18.00Complete guide to hedging and an interesting little book.

A great modernist estate

57 Leeds - Quarry Hill. RAVETZ Alison Model Estate: Planned housing at Quarry Hill, Leeds.London, Croom Helm: Joseph Rowntree M. Trust, 1974. [31591] xvi, 251pp, incl 17 illustrations, 4 figs, 22 tables, bibliography. Cloth. 22x14. Good copy in dust wrapper. Anthony Sutcliffe's copy with his pencilled signature. £30.00Fascinating history of this vast and utopian 1930s model municipal development, long since demolished, unfortunately----------------------.

58 Leningrad. VARSHAVSKY Sergei and REST Boris (text) The Ordeal of the Hermitage. The Seige of Leningrad 1941-1944Leningrad, Aurora Art Publishers: NY, Harry N Abrams, 1985. [28366] c303pp with 388 illustrations, 261 being colour photos taken by Victor Savik and Leonid Bogdanov. Some are fold-out. Cloth, 32x25. Scuff on one page else vg, in vg dust wrapper. £30.00Story of the treasures of the Hermitage during the 900 days of the siege of Leningrad. Also includes some contemporary drawings by Leningrad artists.

59 Letchworth. FIRST GARDEN CITY LIMITED Letchworth Garden City in Pictures. Letchworth, nd, c1908. [31809] Map, 8pp text, 48 pages of plates, some printed and some tipped-in, each with description on facing page. 12pp on services, railway, builders etc, how to become a resident etc. Boards, linen spine, 13x18. Front cover cracked, covers a little soiled and browned, contents quite good. £70.00A fine early view book, issued as publicity by First Garden City Ltd. Many of the photos describe new houses on the site. As well as some general views, there are streetscapes, which still look quite barren and immature with little landscaping. There are also some town centre views. The adverts include details of how to become a resident in the Garden City and how to become a shareholder. Industry was beginning to move to the settlement, including the Lacre motor car factory. A nice item, printed at the Arden Press, Letchworth. This publication should not be confused with the later 'Letchworth Garden City in 55 Pictures', 1911.NOTE: Other Letchworth items in stock. Please enquire.

Scottish lighthouses – two early works

60 Lighthouses. STEVENSON Alan Account of the Skerryvore Lighthouse with Notes on the Illumination of Lighthouses;London, Adam and Charles Black, 1848. [31098] Frontis, xi, 439pp inc 117 figs. Tables, appendices. Plus 33 single-sided tissue-guarded plates. Decorated gilt lettered publisher's cloth, 33x22. Old water stain on one corner of frontis, occasional foxing, tissue guard browned and with a little offsetting, head and tail of spine professionally repaired, rear cover quite stained, binding tight. Still a good copy of a fine and substantial tome. £950.00Alan Stevenson (1807-1865) was from the famous Stevenson family of Scottish engineers. He succeeded his father as engineer to the Northern Lighthouse Board and built 13 lighthouses around Scotland. Skerryvore, constructed on a remote reef 12 miles south west of Tiree 1838-44, was one of his greatest achievements. There were many construction difficulties. Skerryvore is the tallest lighthouse in the UK. An extremely

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detailed account of the building of this structure with fine plates, maps etc.

61 Lighthouses. STEVENSON Alan An Elementary Treatise on the History, Construction, and Illumination of Lighthouses [Parts I and II in one].London, John Weale, 1850. [31532] vi, 131pp, incl. 38 figs ; iv, 204pp + 13 plates (one a fold-out) and incl. figs 39-98 [+ 6pp publisher's adverts]. Publisher's Notice slip. Publisher's limp linen wraps, with original paste-on labels. Minor smudge marks to pp146-7, a little edge-rubbing to fold-out plate (outside the image). A good tight copy. £195.00A very scarce early technical study of lighthouses. Alan Stevenson succeeded his father as engineer to the Northern Lighthouse Board and constructed 13 lighthouses around the Scottish coast.-----------------------

62 LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL Opening Ceremony at the New County Hall by His Majesty the King Accompanied by Her Majesty the Queen. Monday, 17th July, 1922.London, [31880] Colour frontis of County Hall, 36pp inc 14 plates inc double-page plan of the principal floor. Card covers, 25x21. Curiously, this copy has been SIGNED by Ken Livingstone. Covers a little dusty and sunned on edge and small stain on reverse of frontis, else good copy.

£50.00An excellent, very detailed account. All the illustrations, plans etc are of the new building, with no boring images of royalty and 'worthies', all too often found in such publications. 152 architects entered the competition for the complex. The assessors, who included R. Norman Shaw and Sir Aston Webb, unanimously accepted Ralph Knott's submission as the best.

18 th Century London – an important plan

63 London. GWYNN John London and Westminster Improved, Illustrated by Plans. To which is prefixed, a discourse on publick magnificence. London, the Author, 1766. [31210] xxvi, 132pp + 4 large colour-tinted engraved maps. Boards. 27x21. Re-cased in boards, two discreet ancient

ministry library stamps, good copy thus, with excellent bright maps. £950.00Gwynnn's enlightened and ambitious plans for central London, shown in clear coloured maps. The author proposes a more efficient grid system of streets and squares, street widening, removal of crowded markets and new health precautions. An important work in the history of London planning. It is said to have influenced John Nash in his metropolitan projects.--------------------

64 Lutyens. HOPKINS Andrew & STAMP Gavin (eds) Lutyens Abroad: The Work of Sir Edwin Lutyens Outside the British Isles.London, The British School at Rome, 2002 [30149] 243pp, 100 figs, 2 maps, bibliography, list of works etc. Stiff pictorial wraps. 28x22.

£35.00Scholarly and revealing essays, based on a British School at Rome Conference. Lutyens’ work abroad was substantial.

65 MACAULAY James The Gothic Revival 1745-1845 Glasgow, Blackie, 1975. [25266] xx, 451pp, 194 illustrations, bibliog, chrons. Cloth, 28x22. Fine, dust wrapper. £80.00Pioneering study of the early period, concentrating on the North of England.

66 McCAULEY Elizabeth Anne Industrial Madness. Commercial Photography in Paris.New Haven and London, Yale UP, 1994. [10298] xvi, 448p, 139 b&w illustrations (photos & drawings) and figs, chron of photographers, bibliog. Cloth, 26x18. Fine, dust wrapper. £75.00Fine, scholarly study including catalogue. Excellent design source. Becoming scarce.

67 MEAKIN Budgett Model Factories & Villages: Ideal Conditions of Labour and Housing.London, Fisher Unwin, 1905. [31580] 480pp, incl 209 fascinating photographic plates, many by the author. Signature of JFL Brunner. Publisher's cloth. 21x17. Spine sunned and faded and a little rubbed at top, small indentations on foredge, good tight copy and clean inside. £195.00A highly important study with much out-of-the-way information, particularly on social &

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housing aspects of the 19th century model communities. These include Port Sunlight, Bournville, Aintree, Pullman, Zion City, Le Creusot, the Krupp Colonies etc.. Author was an American writer.

68 Mendelsohn. STEPHAN Regina (ed) Eric Mendelsohn Architect 1887-1953. NY, Monacelli Press, 1999. [23682] 287pp, lavishly illustrated, biography, bibliog. Essays by Charlotte Benton, Ita Heinze-Greenberg et al. Cloth. 28x25. Fine, dust wrapper. £30.00A fine monograph, beautifully illustrated.

Muthesius and the English House

69 MUTHESIUS Hermann Das Englische Haus. Entwicklung, Bedingungen, Anlage, Aufbau, Einrichtung und Innenraum. [3 uniform volumes]Berlin, Ernst Wasmuth (1904-5) 2nd, revised edition, 1908-1911. [28969] xii, 220pp, 208 illustrations; vi, 237pp, 256 illustrations; xxvi, 240pp, 298 illustrations. Gilt blocked lettered cloth. 32x24. A very good set.

£300.00This German work is the best source on British domestic architecture of the late Victorian and Edwardian period, particularly the arts and crafts architects, including Shaw, Voysey, Mackintosh, Baillie Scott and others. Muthesius was cultural attaché at the German embassy in London and went on to be a founder of the Deutsche Werkbund in 1907.----------------------

70 MUTHESIUS Hermann (intro) Sommer-und Ferienhäuser aus dem wettbewerb der Woche. Berlin, Scherl, 1907. [25160] xvi text by Scherl, Lassen and Muthesius + 127 b&w plates (photos, plans & drawings by named architects). Pictoral boards, linen spine. 30x23. Thin crease marks to lower covers front and back, still a fair copy and contents very good. £65.00First edition of this delightful pre-Great War pattern book of arts & crafts-style German summer houses and their gardens, with fine illustrations.

71 NESFIELD W Eden Specimens of Mediaeval Architecture Chiefly Selected From Examples of the 12th and 13th Centuries in France & Italy and Drawn by.......London, Day & Son, 1862. [31841] (ii), beautiful title page, x1, 100 single-sided plates. All edges gilt. Publisher’s gilt embossed and decorated cloth, with lovely patterned design. 44x31. Spine rebacked, small stain lower edge of cover. Plates are nice and bright and this is generally a nice looking copy. Elaborate bookplate (John Moore Padget ) and small ancient bookseller's listing inside front cover. £150.00Nesfield (1835-1888) studied under William Burn and Anthony Salvin. He was an informal partner of Norman Shaw and important in the revival of interest in the English vernacular. “Specimens of Medieval Architecture” is an attractive Victorian architectural book. The meticulous drawings, mostly made on the spot, are from Nesfield's summer tours of France, early in his career.

72 New Earswick. JOSEPH ROWNTREE VILLAGE TRUST (publ) One Man's Vision: the story of the Joseph Rowntree Village Trust.London, George Allen and Unwin, 1954. [31352] Colour frontis xiii, 149pp, 36 plates, some colour, some plans & drawings, 8 tables. Cloth. 23x15. Vg, dust wrapper, designed by John O’Connor, this trifle chipped top and bottom of spine. £30.00Best book on New Earswick, Unwin's famous model village and design precursor of the Garden Cities. Also covers other model estates in York by the Rowntrees. Author was actually L. E. Waddilove (his obituary from The Times, August 2000, loosely inserted).

Victorian Carpentry – an epic study

73 NEWLANDS James The Carpenter and Joiner's Assistant: being a comprehensive treatise on the selection, preparation, and strength of materials, and the mechanical principles of framing, with their application in carpentry, joinery, and handrailing; also, a complete treatise on lines; and an illustrated glossary of terms used in architecture and building.London, Blackie, nd c1890. [15930] Engraved title, xiii, 254pp, incl hundreds of figs, glossary +

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106 single-sided litho plates. Bound in very attractive patterned boards, gilt lettered vellum spine and corners, with raised bands, nice marbled eps. 31x23. Excellent copy of this later edition, with nice bright plates. £175.00A revised edition from the same era, improved by the introduction of new figs and several new plates, showing recent constructions, though some other plates seem to have been omitted.-----------------------

74 OETZMANN & CO Bungalows & Cottages Homes. Designs and plans of cottages estimated to cost to build from £200 to £2,000.London, nd, c1910. [30480] 72pp, including plans, artist impressions, suggested furnishings with illustrations and prices. Attractive stapled card cover, professionally repaired. 21x14. Covers dusty and last few pages a little water-damaged with some tearing, sticking etc. (not too bad). Still a good looking copy. Stamp of Oetzmann on front cover. £45.00Lovely item, with fascinating illustrations, apparently aimed at the weekend cottager. (The examples are 'especially suitable for the Riverside or Golf Links'.) There is a good deal on furnishings by Oetzmann, who offer a complete package, down to the cutlery etc. Many of the designs are by W. Henry White. Uncommon.

Paxton – a letter from Chatsworth

75 PAXTON, Joseph. An interesting handwritten Joseph Paxton letter to Charles Blacker Vignoles, civil engineer. [31742] The letter, hand-written letter, is addressed to Vignoles at Dinting Vale, Manchester and dated October 4th 1839. Paxton says in his letter, still with remains of its seal, that he will be happy to see Vignoles at Chatsworth at the proposed time and gives him detailed directions coming there from Glossop. Vignoles would probably have been working on the Sheffield-Manchester railway at this time. Dinting Vale was the site of two great viaducts on the line. Letter in good condition. £195.00Paxton became head gardner at Chatsworth in 1826, where he designed the famous glasshouses. Although largely forgotten now, Vignoles was an important Victorian engineer. [See Vignoles entry

below for more details]. He became an associate of Paxton, notably through Charles Brassey. Interestingly, Paxton's letter just pre-dates Rowland Hill's Universal Penny Post, begun in early 1840.-------------------

76 PHILPOTT Hugh B Modern Cottages and Villas. A series of designs for small houses costing from £150 to £1000. Selected from the “Illustrated Carpenter and Builder”.London, John Dicks Press, nd, c1906 [31491] 112pp, a great many plans, views, etc (also fascinating period adverts). Pictorial wraps. 24x18. New front cover in facsimilie professionally done to make a good copy. Title page has some loss on bottom corners, rear cover browned, last page has a small closed tear, rest of contents nice and bright. £60.00A fine informative publicity item and pattern book, nicely produced. The influence of the Arts & Crafts movement seems to be be quite strong.

77 PINK Louis H and SMITH Alfred E The New Day In Housing NY, John Day, 1928. [30432] Frontis, xiv, 208pp inc plans plus 51 plates on 23 pages. Cloth, 24x17. Some pencil marks on two pages, else vg in partial dust wrapper. £95.00An enlightened American study. Pink was a member of the New York State Housing Board and active in American social reform. His study covers European Modernist housing (Weissenhofsiedlung etc, the LCC estates, Garden City housing). The second half of his study discusses American housing achievements, model tenements, Radburn and other garden suburbs, housing co-operatives etc.

78 Pompeii. GELL Sir William and GANDY John P Pompeiana. The Topography, Edifices, and Ornaments of Pompeii.London, Henry G Bohn, 1852. [29670] Marbled end papers, frontis, xix, 208pp plus 77 plates, two in colour, 2 double-page maps. Marbled boards, leather spine and corners, 26x17. Leather rubbed on corners and spine, some off-setting, vg. Four contemporary newspaper clippings neatly pasted to front end paper.

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Gell was assisted by Gandy in the Pompeii excavations which began in 1819. This account is valuable, not least because many of the ruins and artefacts have since been lost by exposure to the elements. A pioneering, well researched study. The engraved plates are from Gell's careful drawings: most of the commentaries are by Gandy. A lovely Victorian item.

A. R. Powys: conservation pioneer

79 POWYS A R Repair of Ancient Buildings London, J. M. Dent, 1929. [29819] Frontis, xvi, 208pp, 40 figs, glossary. Cloth, 20x14. Scuff on spine with small split at bottom, generally a nice copy. £45.00The scarce original edition of this well-known work.

80 Powys A. R.. POWYS John Cowper (intro) From The Ground Up. Collected Papers of A. R. Powys. Architect, Writer, and Secretary of the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings.London, J M Dent, 1937. [31483] Portrait frontis, xvi, 179pp. Cloth, 19x13. Prelims and title page foxed, then very ocassional foxing and rest of contents good. Binding tight. £20.00---------------------

81 R.B.A. (Roads Beautifying Assoc) Roadside Planting London, Country Life, 1930. [31601] Frontis, xiii, 170pp plus 45 plates. Foreword by C H Bressey. Cloth, 22x14. Nice copy. £20.00Guidance on the beautifying of roads in all situations. The work was much influenced by American parkways

82 Richardson. HITCHCOCK Henry-Russell The Architecture of H H Richardson and His Times. New York, Museum of Modern Art, 1936. [9999] xxiv, 311pp, including bibliography + 145 black & white photo ills on plates.. Cloth. 26x18. A little soiling to end papers. A good copy. £40.00Still one of the best sources for this great architect's life and work. Issued for an exhibition celebrating the 50th anniversary of Richardson's death.

83 RINGBOM Sixten Stone, Style & Truth. The Vogue for Natural Stone in Nordic Architecture 1880-1910.Helsinki, 1987. [30347] 269pp, inc 302 illustrations, lengthy notes, detailed bibliog. Wraps, 30x21. Vg in dust wrapper. £45.00A thorough study of an unusual subject. Saarinen, and many other architects made much use of the material.

84 SAMPSON Henry A History of Advertising from the Earliest Times. Illustrated by anecdotes, curious specimens, and biographical notes.London, Chatto and Windus, 1874. [30011] Fold-out colour frontis, x, 616pp inc few text illustrations plus 14 plates, some fold-out. Cloth, 19x14. This copy in modern library binding, red with black spine label and gilt lettering, attractive bookplate and reference library plate, couple of other marks on prelims, no further stamps, vg thus. Page 303 has been torn and repaired. £35.00One of the first books to deal with this subject

85 SEGAL Walter Home and Environment. London, Leonard Hill, 1948. [31781] Frontis, xvi, 226pp, 273 figs, incl many hors-texte plates. Cloth. 28x22. Good copy, in chipped and ragged dust wrapper. Peter Shepheard's copy, with his signature, dated 1948. £120.00The original edition of this excellent early post-war survey, covering house types, interiors, estate layouts etc.. Invaluable source, not least for its excellent illustrations. Now a very scarce Segal work.

Richard Norman Shaw

86 SHAW R Norman Sketches for Cottages and Other Buildings: designed to be constructed in the patent cement slab system of W. H.Lascelles. Drawn by Maurice D Adams.London, W. H.Lascelles, 1878. [12633] Title, (1), i, (1) 28 single-sided plates of examples (views, plans), list of designs. Gilt lettered, patterned cloth. 57x28. Top and bottom of spine and corners a little rubbed, else nice copy with bright plates. £250.00

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Includes model workmens' cottages, village school, bungalow residences, boathouse etc. An important Norman Shaw item.--------------------------

87 SINGER Charles, HOLMYARD E J, HALL A R, WILLIAMS Trevor I (eds) A History of Technology: 1. From Early Times to Fall Of Ancient Empires c.500 BC2. The Mediterranean Civilisitaions and the Middle Ages3. From the Renaissance to the Industrial Revolution c.1500-c.17504. The Industrial Revolution c.1750- c.18505. The Late Nineteenth Century c.1850-c.19006. The Twentieth Century c.1900 to c.1950 Part 17. The Twentieth Century c.1900 to 1950 Part 2Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1954, reprinted 1978-1979. [31738] c800pp per volume, including hundreds of illustrations + plates. Cloth, 26x20. Top and fore edges a trifle discoloured else vg, in vg dust wrappers. The style of dust wrapper was changed for the last two volumes. The set [7 volumes complete]: £250.00The last two volumes were edited by Trevor I Williams. Very heavy set and will require extra postage. Please enquire.

The Euston Arch – a great loss to London

88 SMITHSON Alison and Peter The Euston Arch: and the growth of the London, Midland & Scottish Railway.London, T&H, 1968. [31832] c78pp, with 290 illustrations. Publisher's pictorial boards, cloth spine. 25x38. A good copy. £80.00The Smithsons' famous study of this London landmark, scandalously demolished in 1961, "both a memorial and a protest". Also an interesting piece of '60s book production.-----------------

89 ST. SAUVEUR Hector Cottages Anglais recueillis et mis en ordre par.......Paris, Ch Massin, c1910. [21480] Index plus 40 plates. Pictoral board, 33x24. Covers and top and bottom of spine slightly rubbed else vg. £45.00With plates by Voysey (houses at Liverpool and Bushey), Dawber, Rupert Davison, Herbert Welch et al. An excellent survey of the then latest

in quality middle-class housing, including several in the Arts and Crafts style.

90 STABB John Some Old Devon Churches: Their Rood Screens Pulpits, Fonts etc. [Three uniform volumes]London, Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent, 1908 and 1911. [5857] Frontis, xii, 150 + 125 single-sided plates; frontis, viii, 188pp + 161 single-sided plates; frontis, vii, 135pp +111 single-sided plates, Gilt lettered cloth. 21x14. Edges spotted and some occasional foxing to text pages, spine vol 2 faded, cover vol 3 little marked on edges, owners signature, good set.

£60.00Very detailed study, with revealing photographs. John Stabb of Torquay systematically photographed and collected information on the Devon churches over a long period. His work provides an excellent record of these features, at this point in time.

91 Studio. "The Studio" Year-Books of Decorative Art The following years available: 1909, 1910, 1912, 1919, 1921, 1925, 1929, 1934London, The Studio, 1910. [31840] Each volume: colour frontis and c250pp per volume, with hundreds of illustrations, a few in colour. Mostly cloth (1909 and 1912 volumes in wraps). 30x21. . Conditions generally good. Please order by year Price EACH: £50.00These volumes are excellent source books for the contemporary design, interior decoration, modern architecture etc., including international examples:

92 SUTCLIFFE Anthony (ed) Multi-Storey living: The British Working Class Experience. London, Croom Helm, 1974. [31016] x, 249pp,incl 12 plates, also tables and figs. Publisher's gilt lettered cloth. 22x14. Owner stamp and small label at front. A nice copy, in good dust wrapper. £25.00Scholarly articles on this important dwelling type, including case studies of Leeds, Liverpool, Birmingham. Hard to find.

93 Swedish Modernism. ASPLUND, Gunnar, GAHN, Wolter et al acceptera (1931) facsimile edition Arlöv, Berlings, 1980. [30368] 208pp incl many photos, also plans and

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other illustrations. New post-script by Anders Aman. Pictorial wraps, 26x19. Fine. £22.00A very useful facsimile reprint of this milestone theoretical manifesto on Swedish modern architecture and design. It also includes material on machine production, handcrafts etc.. The illustrations are also very interesting. Other authors were Sven Markelius, Gregor Paulsson, Eskil Sundahl and Uno Ahren.

94 TURL (Compiler) A Glossary of Terms used in Grecian, Roman, Italian and Gothic Architecture. 3 vols set. Vol 1; Text.Vol 2: plates. Vol 3: Companion. Exemplified by eleven hundred woodcuts.Oxford, John Henry Parker, (1836) 4th ed, 1845. [31771] Vol 1: ix, 416pp; Vol 2; 164 single-sided plates; Vol 3: frontis, 154pp plus 39 single-sided plates with descriptions. Top edges gilt. Embossed cloth, 23x16. Volumes 1&2 very good. Volume 3 cover marked and first 20 pages foxed. Rest of volume in good condition. £100.00Excellent reference with high quality woodcuts.

95 VIGNOLES Olinthus J Life of Charles Blacker Vignoles FRS, FRAS, MRIA etc Soldier and Civil Engineer.London, Longmans, Green, 1889. [31869] Portrait frontis, xvi, 407pp inc illustrations. Cloth, 23x15. Two small ancient blind stamps and owner's signature, foxing throughout, cover scuffed but binding tight and robust. £100.00Vignoles, 1793-1875, was born in County Wexford, Ireland. He became especially well known for his early railway projects, such as the Liverpool-Manchester Railway and the Edgehill Tunnel. Many foreign ventures followed, one being the great Nicholas Chain Bridge over the Dnieper River in southern Russia. He also worked in Germany, Spain, Brazil etc.. Vignoles became an associate of Paxton, notably through Charles Brassey

96 VIOLLET-LE-DUC Discourses on Architecture. Translated from the French of Eugene Viollet-le-Duc by Benjamin Bucknall.[two uniform volumes]London, George Allen & Unwin, (Boston, 1889), 1959. [31450] viii, 487pp: viii, 468pp with 37

steel engravings and 200 woodcuts. Gilt lettered cloth, 28x23. Vg in dust wrappers, these a little spotted, now protected. £75.00Facsimile reprint of the first English edition. These two great volumes represent the principal didactic legacy of Viollet-le-Duc’s career. The 20 lectures of the ‘Entretiens’ had been published at various dates during the author’s lifetime, some as seperate pamphlets. ‘They did not offer a coherent theory of architecture but rather an array of essays and commentaries outlining his pre-occupations and prejudices.’

97 VIOLLET-LE-DUC M Eugène-Emmanuel Rational Building. Being a translation of the article "Construction" in the Dictionnaire Raisonné de l'Architecture Francaise of....by George Martin HUSSNY, Macmillan, 1895. [31223] xii, 367pp inc 156 figs. Cloth, 22x17. Contemporary bookplate and signature, a good solid copy. £75.00Lovely drawings. Possibly the first American edition of a Viollet-Le-Duc text. The translator was a New York architect. He says that the original French edition of the Dictionnaire was used while preparing drawings for a large cathedral church in New York city.

Warsaw - Rebuilding a Destroyed City

98 Warsaw. BIERUT Boleslaw Der Sechsjahrplan des Wiederaufbaus von Warschau: Graphische Ausstattung, Diagramme, Pläne und Perspektiven Bearbeitet nach Angaben und Entwürfen des Warschauer Amtes für Städtebau. [Referat auf der Warschauer Konferenz der Vereingten Polnischen Arbeitpartei (PZPR) am 3. Juli 1949]Warsaw, Ksiazka i Wiedza, 1951. [29444] 367pp, copious b&w illustrations, colour maps, 25 fold-outs with photos of areas in 1949 and drawing of the hoped for final reult in 1955; end papers maps. Gilt lettered decorated cloth, 33x25. Portrait of Bierut has small part of surface rubbed off and spine lettering also rubbed. A nice bright copy. £125.00German language version of the famous Warsaw Reconstruction Plan. The city had been deliberately razed late in the War. Careful recreation of many old features of the pre-war

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city was a notable feature of the Plan. Bierut, the nominal author, was President of Poland. The 1955 realisations were typical grand communist-era architecture-actually quite impressive and nicely drawn. The Plan was actually prepared by Stanislaw JANKOWSKI.---------------------

99 WATKIN D.J. (ed) Sale Catalogues of Libraries of Eminent Persons. No 4: Architects London, Mansell with Sotheby Parke-Bernet Pubs, 1972. [31808] v,283pp Gilt lettered cloth. 25x18. Good copy. £70.00Facsimiles of the sale catalogues of the libraries of Adam, Chambers, Dance, Hawksmoor, Pugin, Smirke, Wren. Scarce.

100 WEAVER Lawrence (ed) Small Country Houses. Their Repair and Enlargement. Forty Examples chosen from Five Centuries.London, Country Life, 1914. [29651] Tissue-guarded coloured frontis, xxxii (incl 14 photos), 204pp including 291 photos, plans (+ 16pp publisher’s adverts). Gilt lettered embossed cloth, 29x23. Spine trifle faded and pulled top and bottom, new front end paper, faint mark of red staining from cover on prelims (not too bad), generally a nice looking copy and contents in good condition. £65.00Dealing mainly with houses built before the 19th century, this work illustrates how they might be altered to meet the needs of the 20th, while preserving their earlier character and fabric. The frontispiece shows 5 half-timbered cottages made into a single house. Scarce, particularly as here in good condition.

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