«Heading» - City Planning Books | Architecture Books - … · Web viewBRITISH REINFORCED CONCRETE ENGINEERING COMPANY, LTD, THE B.R.C. Reinforcements London, 1918. [30913] 172 indexed

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CONSTRUCTION ARCHITECTURE

Key

Concrete, Concrete Products 1 – 29Bricks, Mortars, Tiles, Masonry etc 30 – 52Wood and Metal 53 - 59Building: General Works 60 – 108Building Types and Connections 109 -184Houses: design, equipment, services 185 – 246Building Conservation 247 – 264Architects & Architecture 265 – 318Trade Literature 319 - 350

CONCRETE, CONCRETE PRODUCTS

1 AUGROS Paul Béton Armé. Possibilités Techniques et Architecturales. (Immeubles, villas, usines, théatres, eglises, tribunes, resevoirs, piscines, statues, murs de souténment, ponts, etc)Parris, Ch, Massin et Cie, 1926. [30951] 311pp inc illustrations. Inscribed by the author. Publisher's printed wraps, 27x19. Vg. £250.00Augros worked for many years with Hennebique as an engineer. He gives many examples to show the uses of the material in modern building types eg Freyssinet's Orly hangars, cinemas by Oudin, the Ossuaire de Duamont at Verdun, the Poti cathedral in Russia (now part of Georgia) etc. Each example has a photo, sectional drawings and explanations. A very nice copy of a remarkable book.------------------------

2 BAUMGARTEN R H and CHILDE H L Manufacture of Concrete Roofing Tiles London, Concrete Publications, 1936. [31001] viii, 116pp inc 61 figs, adverts, bibliog of concrete. Cloth, 22x15. Cover faintly marked on bottom and trifle pulled else nice tight copy. £25.00Concrete roofing tiles date back to the 1880s but large scale manufacture did not start 1920s. Hundreds of millions of tiles were being produced by the mid 1930s and were common throughout the country.

3 BENNETT T P (text) and YERBURY F R (photographs) Architectural Design in Concrete London, Ernest Benn Ltd, 1927. [30843] 24pp text, 100 single-sided photographic plates. Cloth, 28x23. Ex library, library binding, contemporary bookplate inside front cover and stamp and number verso title page only. Leather spine with shelf number in gilt. Cover marked but good solid book with contnets in vg condition. £25.00With fine plates of British and foreign examples, including work by Perret, Mendelsohn, Schumacher, Lurcat, de Soissons. Also a good example of Yerbury’s skill as a photographer

4 BRITISH REINFORCED CONCRETE ENGINEERING COMPANY, LTD, THE B.R.C. Reinforcements London, 1918. [30913] 172 indexed pages inc 42 figs. Plastic covers, 23x16. Good for its age. £18.00Mainly technical specifications for concrete. There were rapid developments in the use of concrete at this time.

5 BURNELL George R Rudimentary Treatise on Limes, Cements, Mortars, Concretes, Mastics, Plastering, etc. London, Crosby, Lockwood, 1900, 15th ed. [30970] xviii, 136pp plus 64pp publisher's adverts. Cloth, 17x12. Spine faded, cover mottled, good solid copy with nice bright contents. £20.00The author was an engineer and this work is a good source for the latest developments in technology in England and France. It was much utilised by practioners. This was a relatively late edition, with new material.

An early account in English

6 Cement. VICAT L J A Practical and Scientific Treatise on Calcareous Mortars and Cements, Artificial and Natural...... Translated, with the addition of explanatory notes, embracing remarks upon the results of various new experiments, by Capain J. T. SMITH........London, John Weale, 1837. [30931] Marbled end papers and edges, xii translator's preface, xiv, 302pp+ 3 plates & 17 tables. Signed by the translator, 1839. Gilt tooled red leather, 22x14. Bookplate and old library labels inside front cover, leather rubbed on spine edge, very nice copy. Some foxing on plates and facing page. £150.00A very scarce book, one of the very earliest works in English on cement and mortar. Smith's English version considerably expanded and supplemented Vicat's French original of 1828, adding new notes

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and explanations, some based on his own experiments.-----------------

7 CHILDE H L Manufacture and Uses of Concrete Products and Cast Stone London, Concrete Publications Ltd, 1927. [30928] x, 248pp, many b&w illustrations, 4 colour plates. Interesting adverts, c50pp. Boards with paste-down photo (“All-Concrete House” by Reginald Blomfield). Cloth spine, 22x15. Boards and end papers a little browned, top edge marked, generally vg. £40.00Extremely interesting and detailed account of what was then a relatively new product, especially in the mass market. Excellent technical details and very good illustrations of examples, including concrete houses and many other products.

The author trained with Hennebique

8 CHRISTOPHE Paul Béton Armé et ses Applications Paris, Librairie Polytechnique, 1902, 2nd revised and enlarged ed. [30925] xix, 755pp inc figs, major bibliog. Gilt lettered cloth, 25x18. Faint marks to cloth, front end paper clipped, pages tanned but generally vg condition. £95.00Christophe had trained with Hennebique and the present work is one of the first major studies of reinforced concrete. This edition was much expanded and rearranged.---------------

9 COLLINS Peter Concrete: The Vision of a New Architecture: A Study of Auguste Perret and his precursors.London, Faber, 1959. [30958] 307p + 104 b&w plates, bibliography. Cloth. 26x16. Top edge a little marked, a nice looking copy, in pictorial dust wrapper (faintly rubbed at edges, now glassine protected).

£60.00A very nice copy of the much superior first edition of this important study.

Considere’s Researches

10 CONSIDERE Armand Experimental Researches on Reinforced Concrete. Translated and Arranged by Leon S Moisseiff with an introduction by the TranslatorNY, McGraw, 1906, 2nd ed greatly enlarged. [30941] xii, 242pp inc figs. Cloth, 23x16. Book has been water damaged leaving the rear cover badly marked

and the pages stiff. However, the text is still bright and servicable and the binding tight. £30.00Considere's researches, published as papers between 1898 and 1902, made a valuable contribution to the development of this material. The present work did much to disseminate this information in America.

Portland Cement

11 DAVIS A C A Hundred Years of Portland Cement 1824-1924 London, Concrete Publications, 1924. [31054] xxii inc portrait of John Smeaton, 282pp inc illustrations. Gilt lettered cloth, 25x17. Owner's signature inside front cover, faint spotting on prelims, very nice copy.

£120.00The author was involved with the manufacture of this product throughout his career. Its invention had enormous importance for 19th century building and civil engineering and made reinforced concrete, which was patented in 1824 by Joseph Aspdin, possible. Very scarce.-----------------

12 EXPANDED METAL CO LTD, THE 'Expanded Metal' Its production and uses in Fire-Resisting and Other Building Constructions, Embracing Extracts From the Reports, Tests, Opinions and Tables etc relating to the Employment of the Metal for Structural PurposesLondon, 1899, 2nd ed. [30961] 95pp inc photos, sections, drawings etc. Red wraps, 18x12. Covers a little dusty and faded. Red dye has bled on first 26 pages, not too bad. Binding is tight and rest of contents vg with lovely illustrations. £35.00UK edition, with UK examples. The original American edition was issued in 1896. The product, much utilized for reinforce concrete, was applicable to many types of construction, from tea-houses to workers' lodgings. It was popular for its fire-resistent properties.

13 GRAY W S Reinforced Concrete Reservoirs and Tanks London, Concrete Publications Ltd, (1931), 1954 3rd revised ed. [31053] vi, 169pp inc photos, drawings, sections etc. Cloth, 23x16. Spine faded else vg.£20.00W S Gray had died in 1945. The publishers added new material to this edition. Well illustrated.

14 GRAY W S Reinforced Concrete Water Towers, Bunkers, Silos, and Gantries London, Concrete Publications Ltd, (1933), 1953 3rd ed, revised by G P Manning. [31052] viii, 223pp inc photos, drawings, sections, etc. Cloth, 23x16. Spine faded else vg. £20.00

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Well illustrated. New material was added to this edition.

15 HERING Oswald C Concrete and Stucco Houses. The use of plastic materials in the building of country and suburban houses in a manner to insure the qualities of fitness, durability and beautyNY, McBride, Nast & Co, 1912. [23359] Coloured frontis, xviii, 108pp incl illustrations plus 80 plates. Cloth, 26x19. Spine a trifle pulled top and bottom and back cover has some marks and occasional paper blemishes, not affecting plates, still a good copy.

£45.00The author was obviously an enthusiast and himself designed several houses of this type.

16 JONES Bernard E (ed) Cassell's Reinforced Concrete. A Complete Treatise....... With a Section on House Construction in Concrete Blocks and by Reinforced Pre-cast MethodsLondon, Waverley, (1913) new and enlarged ed 1920. [30950] xii, 432pp (double-column), incl 190 photographs and nearly 600 diagrams and working drawings. Cloth. 27x20. Attractive owner's bookplate, vg. £45.00A most useful early 20th century reference, with much on the various processes and fascinating photos. Includes good historical section and survey of the various concrete systems. Uncommon.

Hennebique’s methods described

17 L G MOUCHEL & PARTNERS Mouchel-Hennebique Ferro-Concrete London, 1921, 4th ed. [30977] vi, portrait frontis, 524 inc many photos, 58 figs. Silver cloth, 25x19. Front cover and edges faintly foxed, owner's name and label inside front cover, good looking tight copy, contents very nice. £150.00A revised and much expanded edition of this work first published in 1909. This edition is in two parts. Part one is a description of the Hennebique methods with properties of the material, part two, the majority of the book, is a wonderful photographic record with many fascinating examples eg Michelin Building, London, Regents Street Polytechnic, water towers, cinemas, viaducts, reservoirs etc.

Concrete Cottages

18 LAKEMAN Albert Concrete Cottages Small Garages and Farm Buildings London, Concrete Publications Limited, 1918. [31045] Frontis, xii, 170pp plus adverts, incl 169 illustrations, (photos, diagrams, plans, elevations, drawings by Raffles Davison), two folding. Gilt

lettered cloth, 24x17. Bottom of spine rubbed and some pages browned, vg thus. £30.00The first edition of this fascinating survey of what was then a relatively new, material. With excellent illustrations and some rather eccentric examples. Includes detailed design entries for the Concrete Cottages Competition.

19 LAKEMAN Albert Concrete Cottages Bungalows and Garages London, Concrete Publications Limited (1918, as "Concrete Cottages Small Garages and Farm Buildings") 2nd ed 1924. [31048] Frontis, xv, 227pp plus adverts, incl 198 illustrations, (photos, diagrams, drawings by Raffles Davison). 2 in colour. Wraps, 25x17. Covers grubby and split top of spine on rear, contents vg. £30.00Wraps 2nd edition.

20 LAKEMAN Albert Concrete Cottages Bungalows and Garages London, Concrete Publications Limited (1918, as "Concrete Cottages Small Garages and Farm Buildings") 3rd rev ed 1932. [30949] vii, 120pp plus adverts, incl 86 illustrations, (photos, diagrams, drawings by Raffles Davison). Gilt lettered cloth, 24x17. Vg. £30.00Excellent illustrations. More material was added to this edition.----------

21 Portland Cement. THE ASSOCIATED PORTLAND CEMENT MAUNUFACTURERS (1900) LTD Everyday Uses of Portland Cement. London, by the Company, (1909), 1912, 2nd ed. [30975] x, 352pp incl 330 figs. Boards, cloth spine, 22x15. Vg. £40.00Apart from the intrinsic interest of the material itself, this work is a remarkable survey of contemporary building types of every kind that were built with it. The photographs are particularly valuable.

Thomas Potter – concrete innovator

22 POTTER Thomas Concrete: Its Use in Building and the Construction of Concrete Walls, Floors etcLondon, Spon, 1877. [30918] Fold-out design for concrete villa (plans & elevations), xvi, 193pp incl a few text figs, one further fold-out on 'concrete for farm buildings' plus one other plate. Interesting adverts. Cloth, 20x15. Very nice copy. £85.00Early work on concrete ‘....a material that has yet undoubtedly to come into more general use.’ Potter was Clerk of Works to Lord Ashburton and his book has a nice illustration of concrete farm buildings on

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the Ashburton Estate. There is much interesting material on building types, manufacturing techniques etc. A scarce and fascinating work.

23 POTTER Thomas Concrete: Its Use in Building and the Construction of Concrete Walls, Floors etc. 2 uniform volumes.London, Spon, (1877), 1891, new ed, entirely rewritten, [31042] Vol 1; xxiii, 184pp inc 18 figs and adverts. Vol 2; xxiii, 290pp inc 96 figs plus 12 pp publisher's adverts. Cloth, 19x13. Inner hinge vol 1 cracked else very nice copies. £120.00The first volume deals with the manufacturing process and the materials required: the second deals with its application to buildings, eg walls, floors, concrete roofs etc. The author quotes examples with named architects. The second and said to be the best edition, now in two volumes. Many developments had takes place since the first edition.

Artificial concretes – an early work

24 REID Henry A Practical Treatise on Natural and Artificial Concrete: its varieties and constructive adaptionsLondon, Spon, 1879, new edition. [31036] Tissue-guarded colour frontis, xii, 384pp inc 57 figs, mostly wood engravings plus 3 plates, two being coloured. 16pp publisher's adverts. Gilt lettered cloth, 22x16. Corners and top and bottom spine trifle rubbed, prelims, frontis, tissue and title page heavily foxed, rest of text clean. £95.00Frontis shows colour examples of artificial concretes. Lovely colour plates of marble mosaic tiles by J&H Patteson. Methods and materials for construction of concrete, both natural and artificial, in the USA, Europe and the UK. Thus there is a material on the German Portland Cement industry, construction of the Thames Embankment and the Houses of Parliament, Liverpool Docks, the Philadelphia expo etc. Domestic housing also features, including a design by Norman Shaw and extracts from Chadwick's reports on concrete cottages.--------------------

25 SINGLETON-GREEN J Limestone Concrete London, Chapman & Hall, 1945. [30936] viii, 80pp plus 11 plates, bibliog. Inscribed by the author. Cloth, 22x15. Good copy in rather browned dust wrapper, this with small scuff on front. £15.00Good limestone is an excellent ingredient for concrete, especially when a high degree of fire resistance is required.

The “Steelcrete” System

26 STEEL AND RADIATION LTD "Steelcrete" Expanded Metal and "Klutch" Bar Concrete Reinforcement. No. S-5Toronto, nd,c1912? [31044] 151pp, including photos, tables etc. 2 pieces of related ephemera loosely inserted. Card covers, cloth spine, 23x15. Owner's stamps on title page and inside front cover, reference table pinned to page 42, vg thus. £40.00Original edition of this work: a detailed handbook on how to use the system. Many major buildings in Canada were constructed in Steelcrete eg the Royal Mint at Ottawa, Toronto General Hospital, various banks, Winnipeg Post Office, University of Toronto library etc. The system was said to be especially valuable for its fire-proof qualities. ---------------

27 THE AMERICAN STEEL & WIRE COMPANY Triangle Mesh Concrete Reinforcement Engineers' Handbook [cover title] Handbook and Catalogue of Concrete ReinforcementNY, 1908. [31046] Patterned end papers, 147pp inc photos, tables etc. Two slide rules issued by the company with accompanying instruction sheet loosely inserted. Gilt lettered soft cloth, 23x16. Two tears to page 59 otherwise an almost fine copy. £30.00Nice looking informative survey. The company produced reinforced concrete using triangular mesh. Examples include the McKim, Meade and White's municipal building in New York and the Alcazar Theater in San Francisco.

28 TRUSSED CONCRETE STEEL CO LTD, THE To the Foreman on the Job. Some useful information for the better execution of reinforced concrete [cover title]London, c1935. [30962] 48pp. Stiff card wraps, 19x13. Scuff on front cover, owner's name and date on page one else vg. £15.00Essentiually an advert for the company's Kahn system

29 VALTON P A Limestone Roads London, Chapman & Hall, 1946. [28168] viii, large fold-out map of limestone formations in England and Wales, 112pp plus 22 photos. Cloth, 22x14. Fly price-clipped, occasional foxing, not on images else vg, dust wrapper. £20.00One of the first studies on the use of limestone in road-making. Interesting illustrations

BRICKS, MORTARS, TILES, MASONRY Etc

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30 BEATON Alfred Charles Quantities and Measurements. How to calculate and take them in bricklayers', masons', plasterers' [etc]....work...London, Crosby Lockwood, 1878, 5th ed revised and enlarged. [31135] 107pp (+ c50pp publisher's adverts). Cloth. 17x12. Nice copy. Owner's signature on end paper. £20.00In Weales series.

31 Bricks. GILBRETH Frank B Bricklaying System NY, Myron C Clark Publishing, 1909. [30960] xi, 321pp inc 167 figs, 73 bond charts, useful glossary. Cloth, 23x16. Top of spine faintly rubbed and small bump to top corners else very nice copy. £40.00Complete thesis on the art of bricklaying from training an apprentice to types of bricks, tools, mortars etc. Bond charts are particularly useful.

32 Bricks & Tiles. DOBSON Edward A Rudimentary Treatise on the Manufacture of Bricks and Tiles. London, Crosby, Lockwood, 1921, 13th ed, revised and amplified. [31051] Frontis, viii, 273pp inc 118 figs plus 15pp publisher's adverts. Cloth, 18x13. Spine lettering little scuffed and tanned else very nice copy. £30.00Useful account with very good information on the various systems and uses of the materials. Nice illustrations.

33 Brickwork. HAMMOND Adam Practical Brickcutting and Setting showing the most advanced methods of setting out, taking off, and applying bevels for arched work, groins, columns, pediments, mouldings, curvilinear work etc to which are added remarks on some building materials and rules for mensuration of gauges work etc.London, Crosby Lockwood, 1896, 2nd ed. [31028] viii, 104pp incl 90 figs (+ 64pp publisher's catalogues). Embossed cloth, 19x13. Owner's name and address on front end paper, end papers browned else vg condition for its age. Spine lettering rubbed.

£25.00Interesting technical study, with good illustrations.

Scott Burn’s Comprehensive Account

34 BURN R Scott The New Guide to Masonry, Bricklaying and Plastering Thoeretical and Practical.London, Thomas C Jack, nd, c1870. [31039] Marbled end papers, xi, 440pp inc 264 text figs plus 159 single-sided plates. Leather spine and corners, cloth boards, all edges gilt, 28x23. Edges to covers quite rubbed, top and bottom of spine leather rubbed, inner

hinges slightly opened, binding tight and contents vg. £150.00

Examples from the Universal Exposition, 1967. The work claims to be 'the most comprehensive and exhaustive treatise hitherto issued' [on] 'the buildings arts' so far published. It was much utilised by Victorian architects and builders and is still a valuable source. Plates are all nice and fresh.---------------

35 CLIFTON-TAYLOR Alec & IRESON A. S. English Stone Building London, Victor Gollancz with Peter Crawley, 1983, [29184] 285pp, 188 illustrations, mostly photos, glossary. Cloth. 25x20. Vg, dust wrapper £35.00Absorbing account by two master craftsmen. Hard to find.

36 COWPER A. D. Sands for Plasters Mortars and Renderings. London, HMSO (National Building Studies no 7) 1950 [30579] 20pp, incl. 4 figs, brief bibliography. Pamphlet, pictorial card cover. 24x15. VG. £10.00Useful pamphlet.

37 DAVEY Norman Building Stones of England and Wales London, Standing Conference for Local History, 1976. [28106] 47pp incl illustrations, maps, bibliog. Wraps, 21x15. Vg. £12.00Short, systematic study.

38 HOPTON-WOOD STONE FIRMS LTD (publ) Hopton-Wood Stone: A Book for the Architect and Craftsman. London, 1947. [30779] 32pp, many b&w illustrations. Cloth. 26x21. Owner’s stamp and label on front end paper. Vg thus. £25.00Nicely produced publicity book. Includes work by Eric Gill, Herbert Baker, Vincent Harris.

39 LLOYD Nathaniel Building Craftsmanship in Brick and Tile and in Stone Slates. Cambridge, CUP, 1929. [30981] ix, 99pp, 162 b&w photos & drawings. Gilt lettered cloth. 29x23. Very nice copy. £60.00The author uses detailed photos and measured drawings to analyse the traditional and modern use of these materials in roofs, chimneys, fireplaces etc. Very attractive work and still a valuable reference.

40 MAUDE Thomas Guided by a Stone-Mason. The Cathedrals, Abbeys and Churches of Britiain Unveiled

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London, I B Tauris, 2009 reprint. [29182] 176pp incl illustrations. Wraps, 21x15. Vg. Interesting annotations and drawing in ink. £12.00Author is a stone mason who has worked on some of Europe's most prestigious restoration projects.

41 Mud. STEEN Athena Swentzell, STEEN Bill, BAINBRIDGE David The Straw Bale House. Vermont, Chelsea Green, 1994. [27109] xxii, 297pp incl illustrations, annotated bibliog. Wraps, 25x20. Vg. £20.00Athena and Bill Steen are founder members of the Canelo Project

42 O'NEILL Hugh Stone for Building London, Heinemann for the British Stone Federation, 1965. [30755] xii, 198pp inc bibliog plus 22 plates. Cloth, 23x14. Vg in grubby dust wrapper. £16.00Comprehensive guide to the virtues and qualities of the various types of natural stone.

43 PARRY John P Graining and Marbling London, Crosby Lockwood, 1949. [31109] Colour frontis, xii, 91pp+18 full page illustrations. Cloth, 25x20. Reasonable copy still in dust wrapper (a bit ragged, but now glassine protected). £20.00Practical book on these techniques.

Plastering: two great works

44 Plastering. BANKART George P The Art of the Plasterer: an account of the decorative development of the craft, chiefly in England from the XVIth to the XVIIIth century, with chapters on the stucco of the classic period and of the Italian Renaissance, also on sgraffito, pargetting, Scottish, Irish and modern plasterwork, by..London, Batsford, 1908. [27552] Frontis, viii, 350pp, 472 illustrations and figs. Gilt lettered cloth. 30x22. Unusually nice bright copy. £225.00Standard work, still much referred to. Bankart’s great work is an indispensible source for the history of this important subject and complements Millar’s technical work of the same period (next item).

45 Plastering. MILLAR William Plastering Plain and Decorative. A Practical Treatise on the Art & Craft of Plastering and Modelling. Including full descriptions of the various tools, materials, processes and appliances employed; also of moulded or “fine” concrete....together with and an account of historical plastering......London, B.T. Batsford, 1897. [31041] Frontis, xvi, 604pp plus 52 plates & incl 231 text illustrations, 32pp interesting adverts. Patterned open-weave cloth. 29x23. Exceptionally nice copy. £300.00

The original version of this huge work. This edition contained information on advanced Victorian plastering techniques, left out of the later editions, and is generally the most sought after.

Purchase’s Masonry

46 PURCHASE William R Practical Masonry. A Guide to the Art of Stone Cutting comprising the construction, setting-out, and working of stairs, circular work, arches, niches, domes, pendentives, vaults, tracery windows etc, etc..to which are added supplements relating to masonry estimating and quantity surveying and to building stones and a glossary of terms for the use of students, masons, and other workmenLondon, Crosby Lockwood, 1896. [31037] viii, 210pp inc 52 lithographic plates plus 64pp publisher's catalogue. Gilt lettered and patterned cloth, 24x16. Contemporary bookplate, occasional ancient stamps of Great Yarmouth School of Art, old water staining to some pages in publisher's catalogue otherwise good copy with tight binding. £35.00A valuable Victorian study with a vast amount of information, probably a lot of it now lost.---------------------------

47 SCHAFFER R J The Weathering of Natural Building Stones London, HMSO, (1932), 1933 with slight amendments. [28889] Frontis, x, 149pp incl figs plus 55 illustrations on plates, very good bibliog. Boards, cloth spine, 24x16. Foxing to prelims else good copy.

£20.00Classic study.

48 Slates. BENNETT Frank & PINION Alfred Roof Slating and Tiling London, Caxton, (1935), 2nd ed revised, 1948. [30946] Colour frontis, viii, 331pp + 34 plates (one in colour) and incl. 211 figs. Gilt lettered cloth, 24x19. Vg. £50.00Generally regarded as the best book on this subject. Very useful for craftsmen and containing much out-of-the-way information

49 SZERELMEY LIMITED The Cause and Cure of Damp and Decay in Masonry. Centenary Edition 9th edition, 1955. [29169] Frontis, 47pp inc illustrations, 12pp plates. Wraps, 21x13. Vg. £15.00Still a useful account. Charles Szerelmey was a Hungarian in the Austrian army who came to England in 1848 when he set up his famous firm.

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50 TARBUCK Edward Lance (ed) The Encyclopaedia of Practical Carpentry and Joinery comprising...... a complete system of lines for the Carpenter, Joiner & Staircasebuilder....illustration of the most remarkable executed works. WITH plates volume.Leipzig & Dresden, A.H.Payne, nd c1860? [31008] Frontis, 236, xivpp incl many text illustrations +77 plates (some with colour) Glossary. Pates volume c120 single-sided plates. Leather spine and corners, marbled boards, 28x22. Leather and boards little scuffed, not too bad, intermittent foxing in both volumes, some quite bad but quite a lot with no foxing. some off-setting in plates volume, binding tight. £120.00Well illustrated, informative guide with excellent sections on roofs, domes, staircases etc with examples of named buildings in England and the Continent. Scarce edition published in Germany (English text).

51 Tiles. PICKETT Douglas Early Persian Tilework. The Medieval Flowering of Kashi.Cranbury, NJ etc, Associated University Presses, 1997. [29360] 211pp + 145 colour and b&w illustrations on plates and incl. lists of buildings, detailed bibliography. Gilt lettered cloth. 32x23. Very good copy, in good dust wrapper. £55.00Beautifully made book. The first thorough and scholarly account of the spectacular architectural tilework, which flourished in Iran between about 1060 A.D. and the invasion of Tamerlane in 1390.

52 WILLIAMS-ELLIS Clough Cottage Building in Cob, Pisé, Chalk & Clay: A RenaissanceLondon, Country Life, 1919. [30920] Frontis, 125pp (+ 2pp adverts) + 27 b&w illustrations on plates and incl. some text drawings. Introduction by J. St. Loe Strachey. Boards, cloth spine. 22x14. Foxing to text pages, spine lettering little faded, binding tight.

£45.00First edition of this well known, semi-polemical work, still a useful reference. Includes examples by Lutyens, Gimson and the author.

WOOD AND METAL

French Cast Iron – structures of every kind

53 BARBEROT E Traité Pratique de Serrurerie. Constructions en Fer Serrurerie d'ArtParis, Baudry Et Cie, 1888. [31038] Marbled end papers, v, 393pp inc 848 figs. Marbled boards, leather spine and corners, top edge gilt, 29x21. Beautiful binding in lovely condition. £100.00

The author was an architect. Lovely illustrations of market halls, railway stations, public kiosks, pedestrian bridges, bandstands, balustrades etc. Lovely detailing right down to nuts and bolts.----------------

54 Cast Iron. SHEPPARD Richard with an introduction by PEARCE J G Cast Iron in Building. London, George Allen & Unwin, 1945. [28181] 99pp + 48 b&w plates, 19 text illustrations. Cloth. 19x13. Vg, in slightly rubbed dust wrapper. £25.00Interesting little book, with excellent illustrations.. Scarce.

55 Cast Iron. TREDGOLD Thomas Practical Essay on the Strength of Cast Iron, and other metals; intended for the assistance of engineers, iron masters, architects, millwrights, founders, and others engaged in the construction of machines, buildings &c containing practical rules, tables, and examples; founded on a series of new experiments, with an Extensive Table of the properties of materials. Illustrated by four engravings and several wood cuts.London, J. Taylor, 1831, 3rd ed, improved and enlarged. [28039] xviv, 307pp incl four plates, bibliog. BOUND WITH Turnbull 'An Essay, theoretical and practical, on the construction of the five architectural sections of cast iron beams......', London, Priestley and Weale, 1833. 56pp incl tables. Cloth, leather spine, corners, 21x14. Corners, top and bottom of spine rubbed and little worn, evidence of splitting top of spine, now reglued, spine label a little flaky on corners, some general wear, else vg with nice fresh contents. £135.00A highly influential work for contemporary civil engineers, dedicated to Thomas Telford. The work was used by designers of churches, warehouses, bridges, roofs as well as the moving parts of steam engines

56 DAVIDSON Ellis A Drawings for Carpenters and Joiners. Containing a Description of the Construction of the Subject of each Study and the Method of Drawing it: with Elementary Lessons in Freehand and Drawing. With two hundred and fifty illustrations and drawing copies.London, Cassell, Eighteenth thousand, c 1890. [31132] viii, 104pp inc 248 figs, some on folding plates. Decorated green cloth, 17x11. Owner's signature, edges of some fold-outs little rubbed where they protrude, generally a nice bright copy. £25.00Has much technical information and excellent diagrams. Nice item.

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57 MAKOWSKI Z S Räumliche Tragwerke aus Stahl. Düsseldorf, Stahleisen, 1963. [30169] 207pp inc photos, drawings, diagrams etc. Boards, 25x21. Vg. Owner's signature on front end paper. £25.00Excellent detailed study. The 1960s seem to have been something of a golden age for steel construction: geodesic domes, high tech bridges, hangars etc with many fine photos.

58 NICHOLSON Peter Nicholson's New Carpenter's Guide: being a complete book of lines, for carpenters, joiners, and workmen in general, on methods entirely new, founded on geometrical principles: explained, in theory and practice, by numerous engravings, wherein the utility of every line is fully exemplified.London, Jones (1792), improved and enlarged ed, 1825. [31015] Frontis portrait, xii, mostly memoir of Peter Nicholson, ii preface, 121pp+ 10 plates. Rebound in lovely blue cloth and matching leather spine with five raised bands, new end papers, 28x23. Beautiful modern binding but contents foxed, including some plates. £120.00Chance to acquire a beautifully bound copy at a reasonable price.

59 SHEILDS F W The Strains on Structures of Ironwork with Practical Remarks on Iron ConstructionLondon, John Weale, (1861), 1867, 2nd ed. [30948] 51pp plus 5 folding plates. Gilt embossed cloth, 26x16. Cloth a little marked, inner hinge tender, occasional foxing, good thus. Owner's name on title.

£65.00Sheilds describes structural forms of ironwork including iron roofs, lattice and plate girders etc. He was resident engineer during the re-erection of the Crystal Palace.

BUILDING: GENERAL WORKS

60 ATCHLEY Atchley's Builders' Price Book For 1871: A Complete List of the Present Prices of Builders' Materials and Labour, of all trades in connection with building: useful and important tables, and memoranda for preparing estimates.......................to which are added, Builders' Prices for the West Riding of Yorkshire.........London, W Kent, 1871. [31122] xii, 364pp (+ c44pp fascinating adverts). Green cloth with red leather spine, 19x13. Top and bottom of spine a little rubbed, edges a bit marked, but generally a good copy.£50.00

A very interesting mid-Victorian Price Book, with fascinating details about the contemporary building trade, including prices for everything.

61 BARNARD Julian The Decorative Tradition London, The Architectural Press, 1973. [25337] 144pp, 150 illustrations, brief bibliog. Illustrations by Eric de Mare, John Piper and J M Richards Cloth, 25x19. Vg, dust wrapper. £25.00Decorative details on Victorian buildings

62 BLESSER Barry and SALTER Linda-Ruth Spaces Speak, Are You Listening? Experiencing Aural ArchitectureCamb, Mass, MIT, 2007. [29191] xi, 347pp. Cloth, 23x18. Vg in dust wrapper. £15.00Interdisciplinary guide in gaining an understanding of how space enhances our well-being.

63 BOOKER Peter Jeffrey A History of Engineering Drawing. London, Chatto & Windus, 1963. [30341] xvi, 239pp inc 94 figs, bibliog plus 8 plates. Cloth, 23x15. Signs of labels removed inside rear cover and shelf number on spine, vg in dust wrapper. £50.00History of engineering drawing from its earliest days. Very scholarly account. Author was secretary of Instution of Engineering Designers. Scarce

64 BRADLEY Betsy Hunter The Works. The Industrial Architecture of the United States. NY OUP, 1999, [13356] xiii, 347pp, incl many b&w plates, glossary of Industrial Architecture terms and extensive bibliog. Cloth, 26x19. Fine, dust wrapper.

£18.00Ground-breaking study tracing important developments in industrial architecture over a hundred year period. Valuable resource.

65 BRUNSKILL R W Illustrated Handbook of Vernacular Architecture London, Faber & Faber 1970 1970. [28067] 230pp, many illustrations (photos, plans, diagrams etc), bibliography, glossary. Cloth. 22x15. Vg, dust wrapper. £15.00First edition of this celebrated work, the superior hard-back version.

66 Burnet, Tait and Lorne. BARMAN Christian (foreword) The Information Book of Sir John Burnet, Tait and Lorne. London, Architectural Press, (1933) 1934 impression. [30701] vpp, 55pp + 147pp blueprints + ivpp. Plasticised cover with spiral wraps, 30x25. Lettering on front cover faded, title-page a little grubby else good copy. £30.00

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Meticulous work, originally prepared for use in the Burnet, Tait and Lorne Office.

67 CHARLTON T M A history of theory of structures in the nineteenth century. Cambridge, University Press, 1982. [30929] viii, 194pp inc figs, bibliog. Cloth, 23x16. Vg, dust wrapper. £25.00Detailed and critical account.

68 CLAPHAM Alfred W & GODFREY Walter H Some Famous Buildings and their Story: Being the results of recent research in London and elsewhere.London, Technical Journals, 1914. [28319] xi, 275pp, vii, 16pp adverts, 108 illustrations (photos, drawings, plans). Attractively rebound in green cloth with contrasting green leather spine with 5 raised bands, gilt tooling & lettering. 25x17. Attractive copy, occasional edge foxing not affecting images. £20.00A book that belies its main title, containing as it does valuable technical material on the evolution of particular historic buildings. Authors were both notable architectural writers. Unusual to find in such a nice binding.

69 CLIFTON-TAYLOR Alec The Pattern of English Building. London, B.T. Batsford, 1962. [30736] 384pp, including many b&w plates, text illustrations, glossary, bibliography etc. End paper maps. Cloth. 25x19. Vg, in pictorial dust wrapper. £50.00Original edition of Clifton-Taylor’s magnum opus.

H.B. Creswell: chaos on the building site?

70 CRESWELL H. B. Jago v Swillereton & Toomer. London, Faber & Faber 1931. [28782] 130pp, 4 diagrams. Foreword by William E Watson. Cloth. 19x13. Nice copy with attractive bookplate. £20.00Scarce first edition of this amusing work

71 CRESWELL HB The Honeywood Settlement; a continuation of the Honeywood File.London, The Architectural Press, 1930 [31133] 214pp. Gilt lettered cloth, 19x13. A very good copy.

£20.00First edition of this very funny work.

NOTE: More Creswell titles available. Please enquire.------------------------------

72 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. [29825] 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.”

73 DOBSON Edward Rudimentary Treatise on the Art of Building In Five Sections- General Principles of Construction; Materials used in Building; Strength of Materials; Use of Materials; Working Drawings; Specification, and EstimatesLondon, John Weale, 1869. [31140] xvi, 174pp, inc 111 woodcuts. Linen wraps with paste-on label. 18x11. Cover dusty and paste-on label browned, front end paper has top two inches torn away, rest of contents in good condition. £30.00An important Victorian building treatise.

74 DOBSON Edward Rudimentary Treatise on the Art of Building In Five Sections- General Principles of Construction; Materials used in Building; Strength of Materials; Use of Materials; Working Drawings; Specification, and EstimatesLondon, Crosby Lockwood, 1877 (10th edition) [29890] xvi, 168pp inc illustrations. Linen wraps with paste-on spine label. 18x11. Spine label browned else an unusually good copy. £30.00New material was added to this edition.

A French vernacular classic

75 DOYON Georges, HUBRECHT Robert L'Architecture Rurale & Bourgeoise en France. Etude sur les techniques d'autrefois et leurs application a notre tempsParis, Vincent, Freal (1942), 1957, 2nd edition revised & augmented. [31125] xi, 514pp incl. 223 text figs + 50 b&w plates. Wraps, 25x16. Good. Some pages carelessly cut and glassine protector stapled to wrapper around edges. £75.00Revised edition of a famous work on the French vernacular, utilising detailed drawings and excellent photos. The authors systematically organise French building materials and principles. Lovely work, superior to the recent reprint.------------------

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76 FAIRBAIRN William Useful Information for Engineers. Containing experimental research on the collapse of boiler flues and the strength of materials, and lectures on popular education and various subjects connected with mechanical engineering, iron ship-building, the properties of steam etc. Second series.London, Longman, Green. Longman, and Roberts, 1860. [31004] xvi, 329pp inc figs and tables plus 4 beautiful folding plates. Cloth, 20x14. Top of spine pulled and split, covers faded, contents nice and bright with lovely plates £85.00Fairbairn had pioneered experimental work on engineering construction, particularly metal. Some of his findings are reproduced here eg in agricultural machinery, steam engines, ship building etc.

77 Florence. GOLDTHWAITE Richard A The Building of Renaissance Florence. An Economic and Social History.Baltimore, John Hopkin UP, 1980. [31115] Frontis, xii, 459pp, illustrations, tables, charts, graphs and maps, scholarly notes. Cloth, 23x16. Top edge a little spotted. Nice looking copy, in good dust wrapper.

£45.00Despite the sub-title, most of the book is on construction, building materials and architectural patronage. Scarce

For the Arts & Crafts Architect

78 FREEMAN Albert C (ed) The Architects & Surveyors Directory & Referendum. London, Jas Truscott, 1910. [30814] 495pp, inclding a great many illustrations (photos, drawings, tipped in colour sample etc).. Art & Crafts style decorated boards with paste-on label for Bayliss, Jones and Bayliss, 25x20. Evidence of label removed from front cover, stain on spine but generally very nice copy. Contents in excellent condition. £150.00A magnificent and beautifully produced year book, very 'period'. It is packed with information about the superior building world of this time. Not the least of its attractions are the fascinating adverts including several by William Morris & Co, Bayliss, Tonks, Waygood Lifts etc. Fine copy of an outstanding item.-----------------------

79 HERRON Ron and MEADOWS Tony (catalogue and exhibition) The Engineers London, Architectural Assoc, 1982. [29505] 48pp incl photos, drawings etc, 71 numbers. Stiff card covers, 18x18. Vg. £10.00Published to coincide with an exhibition

80 Huddersfield. WALTON James Early Timbered Buildings of the Huddersfield District Huddersfield, Tolson Memorial Museum, 1955. [29063] 71pp incl 29 figs (plans, drawings) plus 19 plates, bibliog. Pictoral boards, 22x14. Very good, dust wrapper. £15.00Beautiful drawings. Scholarly local study by an authority on the subject. Cruck building was a notable feature of the local vernacular.

81 INNOCENT C F The Development of English Building Construction. London, CUP, 1916. [23111] xiv, 294pp incl 73 figs. Lettered cloth, 24x17. Spine faded and rubbed else good copy. £60.00The original edition of this classic work and scarce (only 700 copies were printed). Innocent was an Associate of RIBA and an academic. He discusses various building features, including walls, floors, roofs, thatch etc. The emphasis is on ordinary houses and cottages rather than stately homes and manors.

82 INSTITUTION OF CIVIL ENGINEERING The Aesthetic Aspect of Civil Engineering Design. A Record of Six Lectures delivered at The Institution.London, 1941, reprinted 1955. [30756] 120pp inc 57 figs. Wraps, 25x19. Label on spine, owner's stamp on first page, top of spine rubbed, contents vg. £15.00A valuable collection. Contributors include Holden, Abercrombie, Jellicoe, Oscar Faber.

83 Kent. ARCHIBALD John Kentish Architecture: as influenced by geology. Ramsgate, The Monastery Press, 1934. [29849] Frontis fold-out map, 54pp, 75 b&w photo illustrations by F. A. Archibald. Intro. by The Dowager Lady Northbourne. Boards, cloth spine. 23x15. Light browning to boards. A good copy.

£22.00Scarce and interesting local study. There was much use of chalk and flint etc.

84 Lake District. BRUNSKILL R W Vernacular Architecture of the Lake Counties. A Field Handbook London, Faber & Faber, 1974. [29100] Frontis, 164pp inc 74 b&w illustrations. Cloth, 22x16. Review stamp on end paper, else vg in dust wrapper.

£20.00Detailed guide to systematic observation and recording. Attractive book, well illustrated.

85 London. SUMMERSON John The London Building World of the Eighteen-SixtiesLondon, T&H, 1973. [28236] 60pp, well illustrated Cloth in slip-case, 22x16. Fine £15.00

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Text of Summerson’s Walter Neurath lecture. Presentation copy from the directors.

An influential treatise

86 MAHAN D H An Elementary Course of Civil Engineering Glasgow, A Fullerton & Co, 1838. [30934] xiii, 211pp plus 15 single-sided plates. Embossed cloth, 29x23. Spine faded and spine label unreadable, bottom corners of cover rubbed, plates crockled from old damp stain, now cleaned, generally good copy.

£100.00Mahan was professor of military and civil engineering at Westpoint. He had been educated in France. His was one the most comprehensive early American texts on the subject and this slightly amended edition was for the British market.--------------------

87 MICHAELS Leonard Contemporary Structure in Architecture NY, Reinhold, 1950. [29065] xix, 229pp, 247 text photos & plans, bibliog. Cloth, 30x22. Faint tanning to end papers else good copy, dust wrapper with much of spine missing. £40.00Very good early post-war survey of structural considerations. Includes Lubetkin, Arup, Albert Khan, Gibb, Mies, Aalto etc.

88 MITCHELL George A Building Construction. A text book on the principles and details of modern construction for the use of students and practical men. Part 2 Advanced course.London Batsford, (1893), 1944 14th ed. [29821] xvi, 1134 with about 1,000 illustrations. Cloth, 19x13. Vg, pictorial dust wrapper (this a little rubbed).£12.00Good copy of this valuable work. The Advance Course version.

89 Prefabrication. WHITE R B Prefabrication: A history of its development in Great Britain.London, HMSO, 1965. [31084] xii, 354pp, + 78 b&w photo illustrations, bibliog. Cloth. 25x16. Ex reference library, label inside front cover, stamp reverse of title, stamp on foredge, vg thus. Dust wrapper little tanned on spine and top. £55.00Invaluable reference work, covering the whole history of this topic. Pre-fabrication was crucial in post-war house reconstruction and all the main systems are described.

90 RICHARDSON A E & GILL C Lovett Regional Architecture of the West of England

London, Ernest Benn, 1924. [29860] xx, 188pp, many b&w photos & drawings. Cloth. 29x22. Spine a little faded else vg. £45.00One of the best British regional architectural studies and beautifully printed. The excellent photos and illustrations show the influence of Georgian, Regency and other styles onthe architecure of the region.

91 RICHARDSON T A The Art of Architectural Modelling in Paper. London, John Weale, 1859. [29889] Engraved frontis, lovely ornamental title page by Orlando Jewitt, 109pp, inc many illustrations, some full-page (+ circa 52pp publisher's ads). Linen wraps with paste-on spine label, 18x11. Spine label a little browned, else good. £50.00Attractive study in this series. The author was a notable Victorian architect. He claims that his work is the first published on this subject.

92 SAINT Andrew Architect and Engineer. A Study in Sibling Rivalry. New Haven, Yale, 2007. [29233] Frontis, ix, 541pp, including 421 illustrations, extensive notes. Cloth, 29x21. Fine in dust wrapper. £50.00Wide ranging historical investigation of the working relationship between architects and engineers, packed with information. Concentrates mainly on Britian, France and the United States. A very thorough account and beautifully illustrated.

93 SALZMAN L F Building in England down to 1540: a documentary history. Oxford, Clarendon, (1952), 1967. [9848] Frontis, xvi, 637pp + 18 plates. Cloth. 24x16. Tiny name stamp on front end paper, a vg copy, in nice dust wrapper.

£30.00Still a standard work.

94 SANDAKER Bjorn Normann and EGGEN Arne Petter The Structural Basis of Architecture London, Phaidon, 1993. [29190] 224pp incl illustrations, bibliog. Cloth, 27x20. Fine in dust wrapper. £20.00Analyses the structural principles behind many of the best-known works of architecture through history to the present time. Something of a classic work.

95 SCOTT BURN Robert The Illustrated Architectural, Engineering, & Mechanical Drawing-Book. For the use of Schools, Students, and Artisans.London, Ward, Lock, and Tyler, 2nd ed, 1886? [31106] Frontis, 144pp inc over 300 illustrations. Gilt lettered and embossed cloth, 21x14. Owners'

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An interesting Scott Burn instructional work, with many interesting examples illustrated. A very attractive work.

96 SEARS John Edward (ed) The Engineers' and Surveyors' Compendium and Diary London, The Compendium Publishing Co, 1897. [28105] Compendium is pages 13-148, Diary pages 149-254. Valuable address registers of surveyors, naval architects, civil, electrical and consulting engineers. Embossed cloth, 38x23. Few marks on cover and top and bottom of spine trifle pulled, edge of advertisement and title pages little ragged with small amount of loss. Pagination starts at 13 but there appears to be nothing missing. Title pages and index are complete. £75.008 sections comprising; Bricks, Tiles & Terra Cotta: Masonry, Cements, Limes, Asphalte etc: Iron & Steel Construction, Metal Work & Hardware: Fireproof, Soundproof, and Damproof Goods & Materials: Engines, Elevators, Machinery, Tools and Appliances: Sanitary, Engineering and Water Service: Electrical, Heating, Lighting & Ventilating Engineering: Wall and Ceiling Coverings, Glazing, Paints etc. Wonderful illustrations, especially in the metalwork section, some in colour.

97 SIEGEL Curt Structure and Form in Modern Architecture. London, Crosby Lockwood (first publ in German, Munich, 1961), 1962. [29621] 308pp, hundreds of illustrations (photos, plans, diagrams etc), bibliog. Cloth. 27x26. White mark on front cover, vg in chipped dust wrapper. £35.00Detailed work on structural innovation - including work by Maillart, Candela, Niemeyer etc.

98 SMITH Percy J Delf Civic and Memorial Lettering London, Adam & Charles Black, 1946. [29832] Frontis, 48pp+ 8 plates and incl 18 text figs. Cloth. 24x18. Vg, dust wrapper. £20.00Attractive short work on this topic, with excellent illustrations.

99 SPEER Albert (Hgbn), WOLTERS Rudolf (Dargestellt) Neue Deutsche Baukunst Prag, Volk und Reich Verlag, 1943 Czech edition. [30684] 96pp, incl 80 b&w plates. Boards, cloth spine. 31x23. Vg. Interesting inscription, dated 1944, on half-title. £60.00Visually informative Nazi architectural survey: including Nürnberg Zeppelinfeldes, Berlin Soldatenhalle, Munich Haus der deutschen Kunst etc.

Much by Kreis and Speer. Unusually bright copy. [German text].

100 SPON Ernest Workshop Receipts, for the use of manufacturers, mechanics, and scientific amateurs.E & F.N. Spon, 1890 [spine says First Series] [31138] iv, 450pp (+32pp publisher's adverts), including 66 figs. Embossed burgundy cloth, gilt tooled. 18x13, A very nice bright copy. Neat name and address on front end paper. £20.00Packed with information on various processes from Gold Powder for Bronzing to Photography on Silk.

Instruments for every need

101 STANLEY William Ford Mathematical Drawing and Measuring Instruments their construction, uses, qualities, selection, preservation .....with hints upon drawing, colouring, calculating, sun printing, lettering, etc..London, Spon , 1900, 7th edition. [31134] viii, 370pp, a great many illustrations. Embossed burgundy cloth, with gilt tooling. 20x13. A nice copy of an attractive book. Prize label. £45.00A very interesting period-piece, describing many well-crafted products, now displaced by history. A hundred pages of new material were added to this edition.-------------------

102 STEINMETZ Georg Grundlagen für das Bauen in Stadt und Land von.. Dritte BandMünchen, Callwey, 1922. [29851] vipp text, 260pp of plans, drawings, elevations etc. Wraps, 27x19. Pages browned, binding tight. £30.00

103 STOCK Cecil Haden A Treatise on Shoring and Underpinnng and generally dealing with ruinous and dangerous structures.London, Batsford, (1882), 1893, 2nd ed. [29644] x, 54pp plus publisher’s adverts, plus 10 lithograph plates. Gilt lettered cloth, 22x14. Corners and edges of spine rubbed, lacks front end paper, half-title and one plate loose, some pencil notes in margin, still a good copy. £50.00Victorian manual. The author was an architect and surveyor. His work is dedicated to the late George Edmund Street.

104 Stockholm. HESSELMAN Georg Fran Skrahantverk Till Byggnadsindustri. Om husbyggen i Stockholm 1840-1940Stockholm, Tindskriften Byggmästaren, 1945. [30346] 252pp inc photos, plans. Boards, cloth spine,

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28x22. Corners little rubbed and bottom spine trifle pulled else vg. £45.00Discusses in detail the role of the building industry in the development of Stockholm in this period. Includes a great deal of information on the various major buildings of the city: banks, hotels, public buildings etc. Good plans and photos.

105 TARN E Wyndham An Elementary Treatise on the Construction of Roofs of Wood and Iron. Deduced chiefly from the works of Robinson, Tredgold, and Humber.London, Crosby, Lockwood (1882) 1906 edition [31119] viii. 128pp, incl 67 figs (+38pp publisher's adverts). Publisher's boards. 18x12. Ex Franklin Library copy (label and blind stamp only) Good thus.

£20.00Nice volume in the series.

106 WARD James Colour Decoration of Architecture. Treating on colour and decoration of the interiors and exteriors of buildings. With historical notices of the art and practice of colour decoration in Italy, France, Germany and England. For the use of decorators and studentsLondon, Chapman and Hall, 1913. [31081] Frontis, xi, 135pp plus 33 single-sided plates. Pictoral cloth, 25x16. Foxing but plates are clean. Cover is vg.

£25.00Some lovely colour plates. The author had written extensively on ornament, colour in building, fresco painting and similar topics. This work advocates more use of colour in contemporary building, both domestic and public, rather against the trend of the time.

Paris 1889 – an American report

107 WATSON William Paris Universal Exposition, 1889. Civil Engineering, Public Works, and ArchitectureWashington, Government Printing Office, 1892. [30942] xviii, pp543-888 inc figs plus plates. Errata slip. Cloth, 27x18. Edges rough-cut, bottom of spine bumped, generally a nice bright copy. £75.00Dr Watson's report is in sections; rivers and canals; tidal, coast and harbor works; bridges and viaducts; civil construction and architecture; light-houses. There is good information on the latest developments eg on the great Paris Exposition halls, the Eiffel Tower, Paris department stores etc. A fascinating, informative work.---------------------

108 WOOD Margaret The English Mediaeval House

London, Phoenix House, 1965. [30761] Frontis, xxxi, 448pp, + 60 b&w plates and incl 150 line illustrations, glossary, bibliog. Cloth, 25x20. Owner's stamp on front end paper, else vg. £25.00Definitive work on the subject.

BUILDING TYPES AND SYSTEMS

109 Bridges. BILLINGTON David P The Art of Structural Design. A Swiss Legacy. With a contribution by Jameson W Doig.New Haven, Princeton University Art Museum, 2003. [31128] Colour frontis, 210pp with 93 colour and 152 black and white illustrations. Cloth, 26x26. Fine in dust wrapper. £85.00Work of Wilhelm Ritter, Robert Maillart, Othmar Ammann, Pierre Lardy, Heinz Isler and Christian Menn. Includes specially commissioned photos. An outstanding study, beautifully illustrated. Becoming scarce.

Sydney Harbour Bridge: the contractor’s report

110 Bridges. DORMAN LONG & COMPANY LTD (Publ) Sydney Harbour Bridge. Middlesborough, 1932. [31111] 90pp, a great many photos, measured drawings, line illustrations. Boards, with gilt inset lettering, leather spine. 31x24. Corners a trifle scuffed and spine quite rubbed, covers little rubbed, contents in very good condition, binding tight. A high-quality photo, apparently original, of Sir Ralph Freeman, famous structural engineer, is mounted and pasted opposite title-page (nice). Freeman (1880-1950) designed the Sydney Harbour Bridge and several other famous examples, including the Victoria Falls Bridge over the Zambezi. £90.00Detailed account of the building of this famous bridge, including striking construction photos, detailed technical drawings etc.. The firm had just completed its construction.

A New Bridge for the Elbe

111 Bridges. DUFOURNY M.M.A. and HERMAN G Note sur le Nouveau Pont Destiné a Franchir la Branche Septentrionale de l'Elbe a Hambourg.Bruxelles, Veuve Monnom, extract from Traveax Publics, Tome XLV, 1887. [31080] 46pp plus 5 large folding plans in rear pocket. Cloth, 23x16. Recased, maps quite fragile and one rebacked but still in good condition. £85.00The authors were engineers and worked on the projects. Lovely maps.

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Golden Gate Bridge: the classic book

112 Bridges. GOLDEN GATE BRIDGE AND HIGHWAY DISTRICT (publ) The Golden Gate Bridge: Report of the Chief Engineer to the Board of Directors of the Golden Gate Bridge and Highway District California.San Francisco, 1938. [30912] Folding colour frontis (artist's view), 246pp, incl fascimile of letter from Joseph B Strauss, many fascinating photos, diagrams etc + 12 fold-out technical drawings. Pictorial end papers. Pictorial cloth 29x22. Inscription on half-title from the general manager of the bridge, very nice bright copy. Some lettering on cover just a trifle rubbed. £150.00The splendid official account of this epic bridge, a milestone in the history of civil engineering. This fine work describes the history of the new bridge and its construction in great detail. Numbered edition (this 4288).-----------------

113 Bridges. HENRY Dorothy & JEROME J. A. Modern British Bridges. London, C.R. Books, 1965. [30577] 189pp, a great many illustrations (photos, eleavations, diagrams etc). Cloth. 21x26. Small Royal Fine Art Commission stamp, shelf number on dust wrapper, no other markings. Vg copy, in attractive pictorial dust wrapper. £22.00An interesting, well illustrated survey, including circa 90 case studies.

114 Bridges. HM RAILWAY INSPECTORATE An assessment by HSE of the structural integrity of the Forth Rail Bridge. London, HMSO, 1996. [30735] 35pp, 3 full-page diagrams. Pictorial thin card covers. 29x21. Vg copy.

£10.00The Bridge was over 100 years old and some deterioration was to be expected. The Bridge was found to be basically safe, but maintenance levels should be up-graded.

115 Bridges. KRANAKIS Eda Constructing a Bridge. An Exploration of Engineering Culture, Design, and Research in Nineteenth-Century France and America.Camb, Mass, MIT, 1997. [29172] xi, 453pp incl illustrations, very lengthy notes and bibliog. Cloth, 23x16. Fine in dust wrapper. £20.00

A major study by a great bridge builder

116 Bridges. LEONHARDT Fritz Brücken: Ästhetik und Gestaltung: Bridges: Aesthetics and Design. London, Architectural Press, 1982. [30775] 308pp, hundreds of illustrations and figs, many in colour, bibliography. Cloth. 30x23. Vg in dust wrapper.

£125.00Major study, based on 45 years experience, by a leading expert in the subject, beautifully illustrated. A classic work, now scarce. [English and German texts].

Bridging the Menai Straits

117 Bridges. PROVIS William Alexander An Historical and Descriptive Account of the Suspension Bridge constructed over the Menai Strait in North Wales; with a brief notice of Conway Bridge. From designs by, and under the direction of Thomas Telford..........(London, 1828), an undated (c1955?) and unattributed facsimile copy. [31099] Marbled end papers, iii, 105pp plus 17 single-sided plates, 5 being fold-out. Well executed modern binding with red leather spine and corners and gilt red leather paste-on label, blue cloth. Top and bottom of spine a trifle rubbed, else a very nice copy. Facsimilie reproduction is of good quality. £65.00Nice looking item produced on high-quality paper. Apparently made as a one-off.------------

118 Bridges. SCHAPER Gottwalt Einiges über Mauerwerk, Widerlager, Pfeiler und die Gestaltung von steinernen und stählernen Brücken.Berlin, Wilhelm Ernst & Sohn, (1938), 1943, 2nd ed. [30939] 215pp inc many illustrations. Wraps, 24x16. Cover little marked and browned else vg. £25.00Describes in great detail materials required in bridge building: masonry, concrete, metal etc. Fascinating work with fine illustrations. Includes photos of autobahn bridges.

119 Bridges. SCOTT Quinta (Photographic Essay) & MILLER Howard S (Historical Appraisal) The Eads Bridge Columbia U of Missouri, 1979. [30982] Frontis, 142pp, many b&w photos (historical as well as Scott's). Pictorial cloth. 26x22. Vg, dust wrapper.

£25.00Informative study of this great bridge (opened 1874), with excellent illustrations.

Great Scottish bridge builders

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120 Bridges. SIR WILLIAM ARROL & CO LTD Bridges. Sir William Arrol and Company Ltd. Dalmarnock Iron Works, Glasgow. With Description of their Manufacturing Works and Formulae and Diagrams for the Calculation of Beams, General Specifications and other Data Influencing the Design of Structural WorkLondon, “Engineering” Ltd, (for Private Circulation), 1909. [30966] xi, 472pp incl photos, drawings, plans etc. Gilt lettered decorated publisher's cloth, all edges gilt, 29x23. Ex library, embossed stamp on front cover, attractive old City of Westminster library bookplate, two small stamps on title-page, c6 small stamps in text only, very nice looking copy. £300.00Arrol constructed many now famous bridges throughout the world, including the Forth and Tay, Tower and Blackfriars Bridges in London, Caledonian in Glasgow, road and rail bridges in Cairo and the Sudan. The first half of this book gives examples of their work, the second consists of technical information

American bridges: from an epic period

121 Bridges. SKINNER Frank W Types and Details of Bridge Construction. Part 1. Arch Spans. Examples of Constructed Wooden, Combination, Wrought Iron and Steel Arches for Highway and Railroad Bridges. A collection of essential features of special and important work, illustrating variety of design, development of standard practice and methods of erection.Part 2. Plate Girders. Examples of Constructed Railroad and Highway Spans.NY, McGraw, 1904 & 1906. [30926] Vol 1. vi, 294pp inc illustrations. Vol 2. xii, 412pp. Cloth, 24x17. Owner's name and address and faint foxing on front end paper, generally vg copies. £200.00Nice looking set. Packed with interesting photos, diagrams of examples. There are detailed descriptions of some famous buildings including bridges over the Rio Grande, Niagara, the St Louis Eads Bridge (the first steel arch bridge) etc.-----------------------

122 Bridges. THE ROYAL FINE ARTS COMMISSION Bridge Design. The Royal Fine Arts Commission SeminarLondon, HMSO, 1991. [30765] iv, 41pp inc illustrations. Wraps, 21x21. Vg. £10.00Contributors include Fritz Leonhardt, Santiago Calatrava, Nicholas Grimshaw.

123 Bridges. THORPE William Henry The Anatomy of Bridgework

London, Spon, 1906. [31077] xi, 190pp inc 103 illustrations. Gilt lettered cloth, 19x13. Ex library, label inside front cover, blind stamp on title and date stamp on reverse, label and pocket inside rear cover, number on spine, no stamps inside, contents vg.

£35.00Various construction methods and their application to types of bridge eg iron, masonry.

124 Bridges. TUIT J E The Tower Bridge, its history and construction from the date of the earliest project to the present time.London, Office of the 'Engineer', 1894. [30911] Frontis, 106pp including 62 figs + 6 fold-out plates. Rebound at some early date, leather spine and corners. 30x24. Leather rubbed in places and front covers signs of removed bookplate or label, foxing to title page and plates and occasional faint foxing throughout. Generally a good tight copy. £95.00Major survey of the new bridge, expanded from material originally published in the Engineer. There were a number of other interesting designs for the proposed bridge (illustrated here).

125 Bridges. WHITNEY Charles S Bridges. A study in their art, science and evolution. Illustrated with photographs and drawings of old and new bridges of many lands.NY, William Edwin Rudge, 1929. [31093] Frontis, 363pp inc 400 plates. Gilt decorated cloth, 31x24. Very nice copy. Light offsetting inside rear cover from loosely inserted magazine article ('Prize Steel Bridges of 1937'). £45.00Section 1 on art and science in bridge design. Section two on the influence of material on bridge forms. Chapter each on wood, stone, concrete and steel. An interesting and much underrated book.

126 BURTON W K The Water Supply of Towns and the Construction of Waterworks. A Practical Treatise for the use of Engineers and Students of EngineeringLondon, Crosby Lockwood and Son, 1898, 2nd ed revised and extended. [30522] Frontis of Lake Vyrnwy Reservoir, xvi, 318pp inc 259 figs plus 45 plates, many folding, plus 64pp publisher's adverts. Cloth, 27x19. Spine rebacked retaining original strip, ocassional foxing, very good thus. £100.00An outstanding Victorian study which covers all aspects of the subject. As well as problems of local distribution in the cities, by this date now mainly solved, great new elaborate reservoirs were being built in Wales, the Lake District etc with masonry dams, aqueducts etc to supply the great industrial cities. A very well illustrated account of these developments.

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127 Canals. HARRIS Robert Canals and Their Architecture London, Godfrey Cave (“Excursions into Architecture”), (1969), 1980. [29195] 223pp, many illustrations, bibliog, list of routes etc. Cloth, 25x23. Vg, dust wrapper. £25.00Describes in detail the building of canals, the canal craft and canalside buildings.

Anticipating the Channel Tunnel

128 Channel Tunnel. ANON The Channel Tunnel. Preliminary Report on the Volume of Passenger and Goods Traffic likely to pass through the Tunnel, and on the Estimated Revenue, Expenditure and Profits of the undertaking. Private and Confidential.Publisher unstated Prepared by an Independent Official Expert, 1907. [30121] iii, 52pp. Stiff card covers, linen spine, 32x20. Spine professionally repaired with new end papers to make a good tight copy. Blind stamps on most pages, first and last pages little grubby, £65.00Report prepared in connection with the Channel Tunnel Bill, 1907 [referred to in variant title given on cover]. Detailed analysis of likely impact of the Tunnel in various parts of Kent, with interesting contemporary statistics and other data.

129 CHANNEL TUNNEL JOINT CONSULTATIVE COMMITTEE Kent Impact Study. Channel Tunnel: A Strategy for Kent. Consultation DocumentLondon, 1987. [30176] 69pp inc figs. Wraps, 30x21. Edges of cover little rubbed, vg thus. £20.00Study to investigate advantages and disadvantages to the regions of Kent prior to the openeing of the Channel Tunnel. Expensive crystal ball gazing exercise.-----------------

130 Chapels. DEPARTMENT OF CHAPEL AFFAIRS (publ) Methodist Buildings. Some practical considerations. Report of the Department for Chapel Affairs 1958Manchester, [28900] 56pp plus 16 pages plates. Related ephemera loosely inserted. Pamphlet, 21x14. Vg. £12.00Good technical material with nice photos of good post-war practice.

131 Chapels. POWELL Ken The Fall of Zion. Northern chapel architecture and its failure.London, SAVE, 1980. [21030] 48pp, lavishly illustrated. Wraps, 30x22. Vg. £15.00

132 Churches. CAROE Alban D R Old Churches and Modern Craftsmanship. London, OUP, 1949. [31105] Frontis, xxi, 223pp plus 24 plates, fold-out plan of St Hilda’s, Hartlepool, incl 29 figs. Cloth, 22x14. Good copy in dust wrapper (this ragged, but complete and now protected). £25.00Important Caröe technical work.

133 Churches. MILNE F. A, (ed) Ecclesiology The Gentleman's Magazine Library: being a classified collection of the chief contents of the Gentleman's Magazine from 1731-1868. Edited by George Laurence Gomme.London, Elliot Stock, 1894. [31113] x, 327pp. Cloth, 23x16. End papers spotted, else vg. £18.00Material extracted from the "Gentleman's Magazine" on church architecture, under three headings: Early Church Building, Church Interiors and Church History. Contains much out-of-the-way information.

134 Churches. RODWELL Warwick & Kirsty Historic Churches - a wasting asset London Council for British Archaeology, 1977. [29959] viii, 130pp, 31 figs (plans, maps, drawings etc), bibliog. Wraps. 30x21. Ex research lib, vg thus.

£15.00An important Report, including detailed gazetteer.

135 Cinemas and Theatres. MORETTI Bruno Teatri. 39 estempi illustrati in 140 tavole con 130 piante e disegni con notizie sulle vicende dell'architettura del teatro e appunti utili all impostazione de massima del progetto di un edificio o di una sala per spettacoli.Milano, Ulrico Hoepli, 1936. [29366] xxxviii (incl. numerous plans, photos), 142pp, mostly high-quality plates with photos, plans, texts. Pictorial cloth. 28x23. Nice copy. £125.00Lovely work, describing new 'theatres of spectacle'. Over half the book is on cinemas. Case studies include the Pigalle in Paris, Radio-City Music-Hall New York, Lichtburg Cinema Berlin and Shakespeare Theatre at Stratford-on-Avon.

136 CLARKE A Dudley Modern Farm Buildings: Their Construction & Arrangement. London, Batsford, 1899, 3rd ed revised and enlarged. [31139] xvii, 194pp, inc 52 illustrations, many fold-out and to scale. Gilt lettered embossed cloth, 20x15. Very minor cover scuffs, corner of a couple of one pages creased where turned down. But a very nice bright copy, with lovely plates. £35.00The author, a land agent, goes into the subject in considerable detail.

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137 Cotton Mills. WILLIAMS Mike and FARNIE DA Cotton Mills in Greater Manchester. Preston, Carnegie Publishing, Greater Manchester Archaeological Unit with RCHME, 1992. [27637] Frontis, xii, 212pp incl 231 illustrations, gazetteer, bibliog. Cloth, 28x22. Vg, dust wrapper. £35.00Comprehensive new study of these great structures from their early days to the demise of the cotton industry in the early 20th century. Probably the best book on the subject, packed with information. The superior hardback version.

138 Cranes etc. HERBERT MORRIS. Herbert Morris, Ltd., Empress Works, Loughborough. Trade Catalogue. Loughborough, published by the firm, 1912. [29559] 472pp, hundreds of illustrations (photos, diagrams etc). Cloth, paste down colour image on front 17x15. Scribbling on free end papers else vg. £65.00Wonderful catalogue of cranes, hoists, conveyor belts etc with detailed descriptions. Includes much architectural information. The photographs, mostly from their factory, are especially fascinating.

139 Cranes. MARKS Edward C R Notes on Construction of Cranes and Lifting Machinery Manchester, Technical Publishing Co, 1899, new and enlarged ed. [31002] xi, 183pp inc 155 figs. Cloth, 19x13. Owner's signature front end paper and contents page, faint marks rear cover, good tight copy. £25.00The author was a civil engineer; he describes the types of cranes then in use in detail. Nice illustrations.

140 CUNNUNGHAM Brysson A Treatise on the Priciples and Practice of Harbour Engineering. London, Charles Griffin, 1908. [31083] xii, 283pp inc 220 illustrations plus 18 plates. Gilt lettered cloth with gilt image, 23x17. Top of spine pulled, inner hinges cracked, edges and prelims foxed but still a very nice copy with lovely bright contents and plates. Owner's label inside front cover and signature on title page. £45.00Covers design and construction of piling, breakwaters, pier heads, quays, landing stages, entrance channels etc, with useful illustrations. First publication of this standard work, which underwent several further editions.

141 DEMPSEY G. Drysdale Rudimentary Treatise on the Drainage of Districts and Lands. London, John Weale (1849) 3rd ed, revised and greatly extended, 1859. [29885] vi, 160pp, 66 text figs, some tables. Linen wraps with paste-on label.

18x11. Cover dusty and marked, contents good . Ancient calculations by hand on prelims. £20.00Nice Victorian study. Ambitious schemes were taking place at this time.

142 Dredging. PRELINI Charles Dredges and Dredging London, Crosby Lockwood & Sons, 1912. [31076] xiii, 279pp inc 82 illustrations plus 32pp publisher's adverts. Gilt lettered embossed cloth, 24x16. Nice copy of the original edition. £50.00The author was a specalist in dredging and this book gives up to date information on current techniques. Includes canal and river dredging. Rapid advances had been made in the last 25 years. Eg, the first hydraulic or suction dredge was designed in France in 1867 and the first hopper dredge in1861.

143 EDA RURAL AND AGRICULTURAL ELECTRIFICATION COMMITTEE Water Supplies and Sewage Disposal in Rural and Small Urban Districts. A report by..........London, 1934. [30183] 28pp inc photos etc. Pamphlet, 28x21. Back cover split at bottom spine, ex Housing Centre Library, good copy. £10.00

144 Embassies. BERTRAM Mark Room for Diplomacy. Britain's Diplomatic Buildings Overseas 1800-2000.Reading, Spire Books, 2011 [30354] 480pp, 177 b&w illustrations. Hardback, 24x16. NEW Order from Inch's Books. £45.00This is thought to be the first book to tell the story of this building type. It covers over a hundred examples from around the world. The author was an architect, quasi-diplomat and building manager and was intensively involved in the design and management of these buildings.

Early Factories: stopping fires, improving health

145 Factories. THWAITE B H Our Factories, Workshops, and Warehouses, their Sanitary and Fire-Resisting ArrangementsLondon Spon, 1882. [30921] xii, 270pp inc illustrations plus 18pp publisher's adverts. Cloth, 19x14. Scuff to spine affecting some lettering, occasional foxing and small ink marks to a couple of pages, generally a very good, tight copy. £45.00Although much attention had been paid to the improvement of sanitation in housing, little had been paid to work places. Health and safety was not much in evidence at the time. An early investigation.-----------------

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146 Glass Houses. WOODS May & WARREN Arete Swartz Glass Houses. A History of Greenhouses, Orangeries and Conservatories.London, Aurum Press, 1988. [28247] vi, 216pp, many colour and b&w illustrations, bibliog. Pictorial end papers. Cloth, 27x24. Fine, dust wrapper. £30.00Covers architectural, botanical and social history aspects.

147 Law Courts. BINNEY Marcus (intro) Silence in Court. The Future of the UK's Historic Law CourtsLondon, SAVE, 2004. [30772] 170pp inc illustrations. Wraps, 26x20. Vg. £16.00Typically thorough SAVE report. Great deal of information on this building type.

Constructing the Wolf Rock

148 Lighthouses. DOUGLASS James Nicholas Wolf Rock Lighthouse. With an abstract of the discussion upon the paper.London, Institute of Civil Engineers (excerpt from "Proceedings of The Inst. of Civil Engineers", vol XXX, 1869-70. Part 2) 1870. [31121] 30pp + 4 large folding plates, one in colour. Contemporary embossed cloth, gilt lettered. 22x14. End papers browned, occasional foxing on fold-out, not too bad for their age, one fold-out has small tear, without loss, at join with book. £50.00Describes the construction of this famous lighthouse off the Scilly Isles. It was built by James Walker in the 1840s. James Douglass and his son later carried out extensive renovations.-----------------

149 Lighthouses. HARDY W J Lighthouses. Their History and Romance. London, The Religious Tract Society, 1895. [31079] Frontis, 224pp inc 25 illustrations. Cloth with gilt lettering and image of lighthouse, 20x14. Spine faded, inscription on end paper, occasional fingermarks, not too bad. £15.00Popular account.

Skerryvore: a lighthouse epic

150 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. Frontis damp-marked on corner, title-page little grubby, tissue guards are foxed and some plates with offsetting to

guards, images mostly not affected. Cloth is rubbed head and tail of spine, soiled on back, still a fair copy of a splendid book. Binding is tight. £900.00Alan Stevenson (1807-1865) was one of the famous Stevenson family of Scottish engineers. He succeeded his father as engineer to the Northern Lighthouse Board and built 13 lighthouses in and 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 detailed account of the building of the lighthouse with fine plates, maps etc.-----------------

151 MÜLLER-WULCKOW Walter Bauten der Arbeit und des Verkehrs aus Deutscher Gegenwart. Taunus & Leipzig, Langewiesche (Blauenbucher series), (1925), 1929 new enlarged ed. [26580] 120pp, 10pp being text and the rest illustrations. Stiff card wraps, 26x19. Lovely copy, dust wrapper.

£40.00Modernist hospitals, schools and other public buildings. A fine photographic survey.

152 Office Buildings. BIRKMIRE William H The Planning and Construction of High Office-Buildings. NY, John Wiley, (1898), 4th ed 1916. [31107] Frontis, xv, 345pp inc1. 36 illustrations (photos & drawings, many full-page). Gilt lettered cloth. 23x15. Good copy £75.00An important American work for the development of early sky scrapers and other high buildings. With many interesting photos and other illustrations.

153 Polish Synagogues. PIECHOTKA Maria & Kazimierz Wooden Synagogues. Warsaw, Arkady, 1959. [30568] 220pp, including 293 illustrations (photos, plans, measured drawings etc), gazetteer, detailed bibliography + fold-out map at end. Introduction by Dr Stephen S Kayser. Cloth. 34x24. Very good copy, in attractive pictorial dust wrapper (this a little edge-rubbed, now protected). 27x21. £120.00An historic work, the first detailed account of this fascinating and complex vernacular, now mostly lost. An attractive work, with excellent illustrations. English text (there was also an edition in Polish).

154 Public Baths. HAMILTON Gaston, MORRIS Moreau, TOLMAN Wm Howe Report on Public Baths and Public Comfort Stations by The Mayor's Committee of New York City.NY, 1897. [27870] ix, 195pp, including very useful bibliog + 35 fascinating photo-illustrations and

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drawings. Tipped-in signed compliments slip from Wm. Howe Tolman, Member of the Mayor's Committee. Top edge gilt. Cloth, 25x17. Lovely bright copy. Bottom of spine trifle pulled. £120.00A detailed and fascinating early study. Packed with architectural information on these institutions, including plans, views, detailed statistics etc. Much new work was being done at this time. British and European achievements are described with approval. Also includes material on washing places, public lavatories and similar features. These structures can be seen as responses to urban poverty. Scarce.

155 Railways. BIDDLE Gordon & NOCK O S The Railway Heritage of Britain 150 years of railway architecture and engineering.London, Michael Joseph, 1983. [29686] 270pp, more than 750 illustrations from the 1830’s to the 1980’s, including previously unpublished working drawings by Brunel, illustrated glossary, list of British Rail’s listed buildings. Cloth, 30x23. Vg £10.00Outstanding conservation-orientated study. Entries on more than 500 historic structures. Biographical portraits of Brunel, Stephenson, Tite, Cubitt et al.

New lines across Anatolia

156 Railways. GROUPE SUEDO-DANOIS Construction des Lignes de Chemins de Fer. Traveax Exécutes en Turquie par le Groupo Suéde-Danois 1927-1935. Irmak-Filyos & Fevipasa-Diyarbekir. Göteborg et Copenhague, Nydquist & Holm, J Saabye & O Lerche, Kampmann, Kierulff & Saxild, 1937. [30932] 209pp inc 182 illustrations plus 46 fold-out plates. Open weave decorated pictoral cloth, 31x23. Bookplate and company stamp, vg thus.

£75.00Full report on this Turkish enterprise. The lines cross the Anatolian heartland and had great geo-political significance.

Manchester’s water: a great Victorian enterprise

157 Reservoirs. BATEMAN John Frederic la Trobe History and Description of the Manchester Waterworks. Manchester & London, T.J. Day & E & F.N. Spon, 1884. [31040] viii + 2 tissue-guarded engraved portrait plates (of J. F. Bateman in 1884 and 1854), 291pp, iv, 57 engraved plates (a few coloured) of maps, plans, measured drawings of details etc (mostly on fold-outs or double page). Cloth, gilt lettered leather spine and corners. Marbled edges. 32x26. Cloth scuffed, first gathering (prelims, title etc) and a

few of the plates loose. Condition generally good with the plates clean and fresh. £250.00Magisterial account of these great Victorian projects, mainly reservoirs and associated structures, culminating with material on the projected Thirlemere Reservoir and map of the route of this to Manchester.-------------------

158 ROYAL INSTITUTE OF BRITISH ARCHITECTURE Road Architecture 1939. Handbook to the Exhibition Arranged by....London, 1939. [30864] 80pp, lxi adverts. Pictorial wraps. 25x18. Spine rubbed with small split along one edge (without loss), owner's name on front cover, contents good. £25.00As well as advocating good design, the exhibition suggests a cosy relationship between the RIBA, the British Road Federation and building firms.

159 Schools. RIBA etc (issued by) Planning our New Schools. A Conference convened by the Royal Institute of British Architects, The National Union of Teachers and The Association of Building Technicians.London, published by the convenors, 1945. [30564] 55pp. Pamphlet 21x14. Bottom of cover clipped, else a nice copy. £15.00An important conference report, which set design guide lines. Contributors included W. G. Newton, Gordon Stephenson, C.G. Stillman.

160 Schools. RIBA (publ) Modern Schools London, nd c1947. [30838] 22pp (278 nos) inc several b&w illustrations, + 9pp ads. Paper wraps, pamphlet. 25x19. Ex Min Lib. Good. £16.00Exhibition catalogue from a key school building period.

Victorian Schools: two classic works

161 Schools. ROBINS Edward Cookworthy Technical School and College Buildings: being a treatise on the design and construction of applied science and art buildings, and their suitable fittings and sanitation, with a chapter on technical educationLondon, Whittaker, 1887. [31104] Splendid frontis, xii, 244pp, incl 63 plates (several woodcut illustrations) and many text illustrations. Gilt lettered cloth publisher's cloth. 29x23. Bottom edges of cover little rubbed, prelims and last three sheets quite foxed, occasional light foxing elsewhere, but mostly clean text with nice plates. £135.00Detailed Victorian study, with excellent illustrations, including fixtures and fittings, foreign examples etc..

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162 Schools. ROBSON Edward Robert School Architecture: being Practical Remarks on the planning, designing, building, and furnishing of school-houses.London, John Murray, 1874. [31116] Frontis, xxiv, 440pp inc 306 engraved illustrations (plans,elevations, views). Cloth, leather spine, top edge gilt, 23x16. Spine a trifle rubbed at bottom and along edges, Victorian library label inside front cover and stamp reverse of frontis, vg copy. £295.00The original edition of this key school architecture book. The enlightened author was Architect to the School Board for London and designed many new educational buildings in the metropolis. After giving many examples of good practice from abroad. Robson goes into requirements of new schools in details. An historic work, with lovely bright illustrations.------------------

163 Schools. SAINT Andrew Towards a Social Architecture: The Role of School Building in Post-War EnglandNew Haven and London, Yale University, 1987. [10297] x, tp, 267pp, numerous illustrations, several in colour. Cloth, 28x23. Vg, dust wrapper. £20.00Excellent detailed study: school design was a major feature of post-war British architecture.

164 Schools. SEABORNE Malcolm The English School. Vol I its architecture and organization 1370-1870.Vol II Its architecture and organization 1870-1970. [Two uniform volumes].London, R & KP, 1971/1977. [26159] Vol I: xxii, 317p, 235 illustrations on plates and incl 41 figs, bibliographical note, county list. Vol II: xvii, 240pp incl 56 text figs plus 60 plates. Cloth 25x19. Vg, dust wrappers. £60.00Major two volume study of the early development of this building type. Still probably the best account. A nice set.

Metropolitan Sanitation: a Victorian report

165 SIMON Sir John English Sanitary Institutions, reviewed in their course of development, and in some of their political and social relations:London, Cassell & Company, 1890. [31071] xv, 496pp. 16pp publisher's adverts. Cloth, 22x15. Owner's name on end papers, image of John Simon pasted reverse of end paper, two other images carefully pasted in book. Occasional foxing and edge foxing, good thus. £135.00

Simon (1816-1904) was the first Medical Officer of Health for the City of London and active in tackling the metropolis’ sanitary problems. Very informative and considered to have had a big influence on public health developments and legislation.

New York Skyscrapers – some early publicity

166 Skyscrapers. CHRYSLER TOWER BUILDING The Chrysler Building NY, 1930. [30851] 32pp inc illustrations. Suede effect wraps with very nice silver embossed image of the building, 26x19. Vg. £35.00Lovely piece of book design, sympathetic to the building. 'Into the empyrean, the builder has flung his handiwork, seeking to pierce the ever-unfathomable blue above.' The building opened in 1930 and was for a short time the tallest in the world.

167 Skyscrapers. ROCKEFELLER CENTER INC The Story of the Rockefeller Center. Souvenir of Rockefeller Guided TourNY, by the Center, 1939. [30850] 24pp inc illustrations. Card cover, 29x22. Covers rubbed round edges else vg. £30.00Nicely designed early guide. The whole complex was nearing completion and 25,000 people already worked there.

168 Skyscrapers. SMITH Alfred E A History of Empire State NY, 1938. [30849] 24pp inc illustrations. Contemporary brochure on Empire State Observatories loosely inserted. Card covers, 29x22. Tiny scuff between pages 2&3 else vg. £35.00Lovely piece of book design, Art Deco in style, with fine photos and other illustrations.

169 Skyscrapers. SMITH Alfred (intro) Empire State. A History May, 1931 NY, 1931. [30852] 48pp inc illustrations, chron. Boards, cloth spine, 31x22. Once attactive pictoral boards now quite rubbed and spine pulled at top. Contents vg and binding tight. £30.00Empire State Inc took a great and successful gamble, constructing this great skyscraper in the midst of a depression. President of the company was Al Smith, famous NY politician. May 1st 1931 was the formal opening of the building. Lovely piece of book production, Art Deco in style.--------------

170 Stations. BRADLEY Simon St Pancras Station

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London, Profile, 2007. [29536] Pictoral end papers, 193pp incl illustrations, further reading list. Cloth, 21x14. Vg. £12.00Now the main Channel Tunnel terminus. The associated Grand Midland Hotel is also being refurbished.

171 Stations. KRINGS Ulrich Bahnhofsarchitektur. Deutsche Grossstadtbahnhöfe des Historismus.München, Prestel, 1985 [31124] 478pp, 302 illustrations (photos, plans, architect's drawings etc), detailed bibliography. Cloth. 25x20. Vg copy, in nice dust wrapper. £65.00A detailed account, very well illustrated.

172 Stations. LANSLEY Alastair, DURANT Stuart The Transformation of St Pancras Station London, Laurence King, 2008. [29688] End papers maps, 240pp inc 459 illustrations, 369 in colour. Boards, 26x26. Vg in vg dust wrapper. £20.00Renovation of one of London's finest Victorian stations and the area surrounding it

173 Stations. LEIGH Chris GWR Country Stations. Vols 1&2London, Ian Allen, 1981-4. [28252] Vol 1: 128pp; vol 2: 112pp, both including drawings, photos. Cloth, 24x18. Fine, dust wrappers. £20.00Good references, well illustrated.

174 SWINDELL John Geo Rudimentary Treatise on the Well-Digging, Boring and Pump-Work. London, John Weale, 1851 2nd ed revised by G R Burnell, [29891] xi, 107pppp inc many figs. Linen wraps with paste-on label. 18x11. Covers a little dusty else good copy. Interesting offprint from "The Engineer", 1886, describing the Le Grant & Sutcliffe tube well system, loosely inserted. £25.00Interesting Victorian study.

Sports Architecture: the first book?

175 TATTERSALL George Sporting Architecture London, R. Ackermann, 1841. [30495] vi, 97pp incl 43 illustrations, plans etc, 18 on single-sided tissue-guarded pages. Gilt embossed cloth, 29x23. Spine rebacked, covers trifle marked, top corners slightly bumped, good tight copy. On the whole plates are nice and fresh. £325.00Four main sections: The Stud Farm; The Stall; The Kennel; Race Stands. Illustrations include the Grand Stands of Goodwood, Epsom, Chester and Doncaster. Plans in very good condition. This is thought to be the first work on the subject. The author was a

surveyor and artist and a scion of the Tattersall sporting family. A good copy of a desirable work.---------------------

176 TAYLOR Samuel Modern Homesteads. A practical and illustrated treatise on the designing of farm buildings, farm houses and cottages for farm labourers, for all classes and sizes of holidays from 300 to 3 acresLondon, The Land Agents' Record, 1905. [31102] Frontis, 74pp plus 30 single-sided plates. Publisher's gilt lettered cloth, 24x20. Ex Univerity library label inside front cover and stamp on title only, has been damp at some point resulting in some cockling inside along spine and damp mark on back cover. Prelims browned but contents vg with extremely bright plates.

£65.00

177 Town Halls. COTTON A. Calveley Town Halls. London, AP, 1936. [30210] 78pp, a great many plans. Cloth. 32x23. Good copy, in the scarce dust wrapper (this poor with some loss, now protected). £25.00A good 30’s source for the contemporary architecture of these buildings (Percy Thomas' Swansea Town Hall etc.).

178 Tunnels. LAUCHLI Eugene Tunneling. Short and Long Tunnels of Small and Large Section Driven Through Hard and Soft MaterialsNY, McGraw, 1915. [30937] vi, 238pp inc 197 figs. some being fold-out. Cloth, 23x16. Inner hinge cracked, comments in pencil on end paper and title page, interesting comment in ink on page 192, old damp staining top of pages in about half the book, not too bad, generally good tight copy. £20.00Author was a well known mining enginee and gives a comprehensive survey of the then latest techniques.

179 Tunnels. PRELINI Charles and HILL Charles S Tunneling; a Practical Treatise NY, Van Nostrand, London, Crosby Lockwood, (1901), 1905 3rd ed revised. [30971] xv, 307pp inc 149 figs, 32pp publisher's adverts. Gilt lettered cloth, 24x17. Spine a little faded, cover faded and rubbed bottom rh corner, lovely presentation inscription and signatures on front end paper, water engineer's department stamp on end paper. Good solid copy with vg contents. £50.00One of the earliest technical studies on the subject and a classic. Still a valuable reference. Includes various case studies.

Beneath the Severn

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180 Tunnels. WARD Thomas A The Severn Tunnel. Its Construction and Difficulties 1872-1887London, Richard Bentley & Son, 1888. [31082] Portrait frontis, xv187pp plus 9 tinted single sided plates, several large folding plans, plus maps. Pictorial cloth, 24x16. Bookplate, top of spine pulled with small splits, spine tanned, cover marked but a very sturdy copy with vg contents and lovely plates.

£120.00This great project for GWR took 16 years to complete. It was built under the leadership of Sir John Hawkshaw. There was a serious flood in 1879 and others subsequently. A special pumping station designed by Thomas Walker, author of this work, helped solve the problem. The tunnel was finally opened in 1886. Still one of the best accounts of the project.---------------------

181 TYRRELL Henry Grattan Engineering of Shops and Factories NY, McGraw-Hill, 1912. [31003] xvii, 399pp inc 174 figs, photos, sections, plans etc, bibliog. Cloth, 23x16. Owner's signature, vg. £35.00Mainly a study of large scale plants, for instance the construction details of Ford and Dodge motor works, Detroit, including lighting, flooring, heating, fire protection etc.

Draining the Fens

182 WHEELER W H The Drainage of Fens and Low Lands by Gravitation and Steam Power.London, Spon, 1888. [31006] v, 175pp + 18 illustrationss on 8 folding plates. Gilt lettered cloth, 22x15. Cover a little marked and rubbed and with inner hinge tender, binding tight and contents in very good condition. £125.00The author was a Lincolnshire engineer. He discusses the various pumping methods available, including by steam power. Prior to his book there had been very little written on this subject. Scarce.----------------------------

183 Windmills. HEMMING Rev. Peter Windmills in Sussex. A Description of the Construction and Operation of Windmills exemplified by Up-to-Date Notes on the still existing Windmills in Sussex with photographic illustrations,London, C. W. Daniel, 1936. [31110] Frontis, xviii, 138pp, inc bibliog + 70 photos. Gilt lettered cloth, 25x19. Edges and title foxed, otherwise good copy in marked and slightly rubbed dust wrapper. £40.00

184 Windmills. REYNOLDS John Windmills & Watermills London, Hugh Evelyn (“Excursions into Architecture” series), 1970. [28090] 196pp + 4 colour plates and incl a great many b&w photos, line illustrations etc, glossary, brief bibliog. Cloth. 25x23. Vg, dust wrapper. £45.00A thorough account, including working methods.

HOUSES: their design, equipment, services etc

185 ALLEN C. Bruce Cottage Building. Or Hints for Improving the Dwelling of Working Men and Labourers. With a chapter on economic cottages for allotments by Edward Ellis Allen.London, Crosby Lockwood, 1906, 13th edition. [30915] 160pp, incl many plates and text figs. Cloth.17x12. Brown mark inside front cover and on front end paper, pencil on front end paper but a good copy. £30.00This late edition of Allen’s influential work contains additional information. Model standards were by now well established.

186 ALLEN C. Bruce Rudimentary Treatise on Cottage Building: Or, Hints for Improving the Dwelling of The Working Classes.London, John Weale, 1857, 3rd edition, with an appendix,containing designs also for a higher class. [29884] Frontis, vi, 123pp, incl 39 engraved plates and 46 text figs. Linen wraps, paste-on label, 18x11. Spine faded and cloth dusty, inner hinge loosening, contents good. £30.00Allen was a practising architect. His well-known study went through many editions and is especially useful for its technical details. This early edition was one of the first attempts to confront the terrible problems of working class housing, especially in the cities.

187 ALLEN Gordon The Smaller House of Today. London, Batsford, 1926. [31144] Coloured frontis, xiii, 179pp incl 220 plans, drawings, photos etc. Lettered cloth, 23x15. Very nice bright copy. Neat inscription on front end paper. £30.00‘Modern domestic architecture in its more economical form’ Everything from choosing the site to the finished article, including the tennis court! An uncommon Allen title (scarcer than his ‘The Cheap Cottage and Small House’)

188 ALLSOP F. C. Practical Electric Light-Fitting, A treatise on the wiring and fitting-up of buildings deriving from the current from central

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station mains, and the laying down of private installations.London, Whittaker, 1905, 6th ed revised and enlarged. [30927] Frontis, ix, 289pp inc 242 illustrations, some fold-out. Cloth, 19x14. Spine rather rubbed and faded but complete, end pages a little browned, good thus. £20.00Good practical source for state-of-the-art Edwardian lighting for home and work place.

189 BOWMAKER Edward The Housing of the Working Classes London, Methuen (“Social Questions of To-Day” series), 1895. [30158] xii, 14 plates (plans and elevations of model schemes), 186pp, 40pp publisher's adverts. Cloth. 18x13. Spine faded, 1cm missing top of spine and corners bumped. Internally end papers trifle browned, but still a good tight copy in original binding. £50.00Author was a doctor. He first gives a detailed account of slum conditions, then describes various remedies, including model cottages, properly designed lodging houses and block dwellings. A scarce and important work.

190 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. £30.00A charming little book 'to assist the layman who may be contemplating the erection of a bungalow....' The illustrations and technical details are very interesting

191 Bungalows. HARRISON Percival Bungalow Residences: A handbook for all interested in Building London, Crosby Lockwood, (1909), 2nd ed. rev. 1920. [8836] viii, 87pp + xvi pp interesting trade advert inc 19 figs, + 24 plates (elevations, ground plans, etc). Cloth. 22x14. Cover bumped, binding tight and contents vg. £30.00Another charming period work. New material was added to this edition.

192 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..

193 Bungalows. RANDAL PHILLIPS R The Book of Bungalows London, Country Life, (1920), 3rd ed,1926. [31114] 192pp, 155 illustrations (photos, plans etc). Boards, cloth spine, 22x14. Vg. £35.00This revised edition includes a converted army hut bungalow from New Zealand and other new examples.

194 CASSELL & COMPANY, LIMITED Cassell's Household Guide to Every Department of Practical Life: being A Complete Encyclopaedia of Domestic and Social Economy.London, c1885? new and revised edition. [30974] VOl 1; xxviii, 380pp. Vol 2: 380pp. Vol 3: 364pp. Vol 4:380pp. All with numerous illustrations plus 6 colour plates. Highly decorated red cloth, 26x20. Spines faded, rear covers to vols 1-3 heavily marked, all volumes with foxing to prelims and title pages, contents in good order and all front covers nice and bright. Bindings tight. £95.00This edition was specially prepared for subscription only. These volumes provide a wonderful references for every facet of Victorian domestic life.

195 CENTRAL HOUSING ADVISORY COMMITTEE The Appearance of Housing Estates. Report of the sub-committee on the means of improving the appearance of local authority housing estates.London, HMSO, 1948. [29897] 27pp. Pamphlet, 24x15. Cover a little dusty else good copy. £15.00Members included Colin Campbell and Louis de Soissons and the Rev Jenkinson. Uncommon.

Gas Lighting: a valuable account

196 CHANDLER Dean Outline of History of Lighting by Gas. London, Chandler, nd [1936] [31032] Colour frontis, viii, 277pp + 2 colour pates and including a great many photos, drawings, diagrams etc. Foreword by Sir Charles Carpenter. Gilt lettered cloth. 25x20. A very nice copy. Inscribed by the author on the front end paper. £145.00A thorough account, covering every aspect and with many interesting illustrations. Very scarce.-----------------

197 CHATTERTON Frederick (ed) Small Houses and Bungalows London, AP, 1932. [22150] viii, 104pp, 300+ illustrations (photos & plans). Cloth. 31x25. Ex reference library, small label inside front cover, stamp

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reverse of title, occasional stamps, number om spine, dent on front cover, not too bad. £20.00Contains 104 examples of house design all costing less than £2,000 and the lowest £292/10/- Examples by De Soissons, Cecil Howitt, Lidbetter, Alwyn Lloyd et al.

198 CORNES James Modern Housing in Town & Country. Illustrated by examples of municipal and other schemes of block dwellings, tenement houses, model cottages and villages. Also plans and descriptions of the Cheap Cottage Exhibition.London, B. T. Batsford, 1905. [30528] xviii, 196pp, many high-quality photos, plans, architects views etc, also list of architects and municipal bodies. Publisher's gilt lettered cloth, 31x25. Professionally respined preserving spine strip, discolouration along inner edges back and front covers, new end papers, a few discreet ex-library stamps, contents good £80.00A superb survey of contemporary and recent model housing projects, including model villages such as Port Sunlight and Bournville, block dwellings, garden village schemes. Architects include Ashbee, Parker & Unwin, Troup etc. The Cheap Cottages Exhibition referred to is the one at Letchworth, 1905. Outstanding book.

Essential to every dwelling

199 Crapper. REYBURN Wallace Flushed With Pride. The story of Thomas Crapper.London, Macdonald Unit 75, 1969. [30919] 95pp inc illustrations plus 4 plates. Pictoral boards, 18x12. Vg. £12.00Crapper (1837-1910), is a real unsung hero. Where would we be (or should one say go?) without him? A good and informative read. Charming little book.---------------------

200 Curtains. GIBBS Jenny Curtains & Drapes: History, Design, InspirationLondon, Cassell, (1994), wraps ed 1996. [18490] 224pp, numerous colour photos & text drawings, good glossary. Wraps. 28x23. Fine. £15.00Fascinating study, mainly historical, of these neglected features.

201 Dachas. LOVELL Stephen Summerfolk. A History of the Dacha, 1710-2000.Ithaca, Cornell, 2003. [30046] xvii, 260pp inc photos, plans, bibliog. Cloth, 24x18. Fine, dust wrapper.

£15.00Fascinating work, rich in detail.

202 Daily Mail. ASSOCIATED NEWSPAPERS LTD (publ) The Daily Mail Bungalow Book:

Reproductions of the best designs entered for the Daily Mail Architects Competition for Labour-Saving Bungalows 1922.London, nd 1922? [30922] lxii (mostly fascinating ads), 67pp, being Intro, Assessors Report, the competition entries, all with plans, elevations, views. Pictorial boards, cloth spine. 24x31. Scuff mark front cover else good copy of a book often found in poor condition. £55.00An influential 1920s competition book for popular bungalows. These were seen as one solution to the housing problem. The assessors were Guy Dawber and A E Richardson. The winning entry came from Jas M Henderson of Ayr.

203 DAVID W Galsworthy and TANNER Henry Junr Old English Doorways. A series of Historical Examples from the Tudor Times to the end of the XVIII CenturyLondon, Batsford, 1903. [29662] xii, 44pp incl 34 text figs plus 70 single-sided plates, 24pp publisher's adverts. Publisher's gilt lettered cloth, 25x18. Ex British Architectural library, withdrawn duplicate, sun-fading to covers and spine, contents in vg condition. £30.00Attractive study.

204 FIELD Horace and BUNNEY Michael English Domestic Architecture of the XVII and XVIII Centuries. A selection of examples of smaller buildings measured drawn and photographed with introductions and notes by..London, G Bell, (1905), 1928, new and revised ed. [29859] viii, 20pp text with illustrations, pp22-183 plates and descriptions. Cloth, 28x23. Very nice copy.

£30.00Lovely bright plates.

205 GRADIDGE Roderick Dream Houses: The Edwardian Ideal. London, Constable, 1980. [30712] xix, 247pp,+20 b&w photo illustrations, inc many text illustrations, bibliog. Cloth, 24x19. Vg, dust wrapper. £55.00A classic study, including works by Newton, Lutyens, Voysey and Baker. Includes careful studies of many individual houses. Photos by André Goulancourt. Becoming scarce.

Edwardian domestic from Germany and England

206 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

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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.. ------------------

207 HASLUCK Paul N (ed) House Decoration Comprising Whitewashing, Paperhanging, Painting, etc. With numerous engravings and diagrams.London, Cassell, 1901. [31131] 160pp inc 79 figs. Decorated boards, 17x11. Very nice copy. £20.00Late Victor ain practices.

Heating the House: a major Victorian reference

208 Heating. HOOD Charles A Practical Treatise on Warming Buildings by Hot Water and upon Heat and Heating Appliances in General with an enquiry respecting ventilation, the cause and action of draughts in chimneys or flues, and the laws relating to combustion by... re-written by Frederick DYELondon, E & F. N. Spon, 1897, 3rd new edition, fully revised. [31005] xvi, 593pp, 25pp adverts, 369 figs, some tables. Cloth. 22x14. Cover corners little rubbed and pages little tanned round the edged, generally vg copy for its age. £75.00Major late Victorian work on this important subject. Many innovations were being introduced at this time.--------------------

209 HOME COUNTIES How to Build or Buy a Country Cottage and fit it up: With a large number of photographs, plans, and estimates of cottages and bungalows, from £130 to £1300. Intro by Henry Norman MP.London, Heinemann, 1905. [30916] xv, 213pp, plus xxxii pages on how to furnish your cottage, related adverts, copious beautiful b&w photos, plans, drawings etc. Erratum slip Cloth, 19x13. Frontis loose, occasional foxing not affecting plates, spine faded and cover marked, generally good copy. £45.00Very readable. Essentially a highly detailed guide for city-dwellers wishing to take up the rural life. Includes examples by Morley Horder, R A Briggs, Maurice Adams etc. We understand that the author was actually J W Robertson Scott, proprietor and editer of ‘The Countryman’.

210 House of Commons. MEMBERS OF THE SELECT COMMITTEE ON VENTILATION Report of the Select Committee on Ventilation

Appointed by the House of Commons. Blue book, 1903)London, Hickson, Ward & CO, 1903. [31069] 31pp. Wraps, 22x14. Vg. £20.00

211 INMAN W S Report of the Committee of the House of Commons, on Ventilation, Warming, and Transmission of Sound. Abbreviated, with notes, by...London, John Weale, Architectural Library, 1836. [31068] xiv, 3 plates with description, one folding, 76pp. Cloth, 24x15. Spine trifle faded, plates foxed with offsetting, good thus. £75.00Fold-out is Dr Reid's sketch for a House of Commons to scale. W S Inman was an architect and prepared this tract as a response to the Parliamentary report on the subject. His approach is from first principles and some of his observations appertain to the House of Commons itself and some to more mundane buildings.

Describes all the methods

212 KING Alfred G Practical Steam and Hot Water Heating and Ventilation. A modern practical work on steam and hot water heating and ventilation, with descriptions and data of all materials and appliances used in the construction of such apparatus; rules, tables etcLondon, Crosby Lockwood & Son, 1908. [30945] 401pp, over 300 specially made illustrations. Silver decorated cloth, 24x16. Silver a little rubbed, bottom rh corner bumped else nice looking copy. £45.00The author starts from first principles and describes all the different methods and systems found at the time. Interestingly, includes a chapter on district heating. Very good reference for anyone interested in the subject.--------------------

213 KITTREDGE A O (arranged by) The Metal Worker. Essays on House Heating by Steam, Hot Water and Hot Air. With introduction and tabular comparisonsNY, Davis Williams, 1891. [31063] 289pp inc many scale plans and drawings. Cloth, 25x17. Cover little rubbed, spine dull, prelims faintly foxed, vg thus.

£50.00Various prize essays from 'The Metal Worker'. Interesting plans and drawings. Scarce.

214 LLOYD Nathaniel A History of the English House: from Primitive Times to the Victorian Period.

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London, (The Architectural Press, 1931) 1975 reprint. [29186] xi, 487pp, 888 figs. Cloth, 30x23. Pages tanned else vg in dust wrapper. £35.00

215 LLOYD Nathaniel A History of the English House: from Primitive Times to the Victorian Period. London, The Architectural Press, (1931) 1st ed, 3rd imp 1951. [29187] xi, 487pp, 888 figs. Cloth. 32x24. Owner's bookplate, spine little faded, faint tanning to edges of pages else good copy in browned and chipped dust wrapper, £60.00Still a standard work on this subject, with excellent high quality illustrations.

216 LYALL Sutherland Dream Cottages: From Cottage Ornée to Stockbroker Tudor: 200 Years of the Cult of the Vernacular.London, Robert Hale, 1988. [30147] 174pp, 88 b&w illustrations (photos & plans), bibliog. Cloth. 24x20. Fine in dust wrapper. £25.00The picturesque vernacular cottage style, described here, was a type that featured often in model villages eg at Blaise Hamlet, Edensor and Furze Hill.

217 MACINTOSH Duncan The Modern Courtyard House. A History. London, Lund Humphries for AA (AA Paper 9), 1973. [30863] 55pp, 62 illustrations (photos, plans etc), bibliography. Publisher's pictorial wraps. 30x21. Ex ministry library. Cover scuff, else good copy. £15.00Very useful account. This arrangement was much utilized in modern movement houses. Hard to find.

Full of practical advice and information

218 MAGUIRE William R Domestic Sanitary Drainage and Plumbing. Lectures on Practical Sanitation delivered to Plumbers, Engineers, and Others in the Central Technical Institution, London, under the auspices of the City and Guilds of London Institute for the Advancement of Technical EducationNY, Van Nostrand, 1896, 2nd ed. [31065] 475pp inc 332 figs. Cloth, 22x13. Cloth rubbed on corners and spine edge, prelims tanned, vg thus. £60.00An important Victorian survey. The illustrations are particularly fascinating and include some elaborate baths, sinks, urinals, showers etc. Scarce.----------------------

219 MAITLAND Fowler Building Estates. A rudimentary treatise on the development, sale, purchase, and general management of building

land including the formation of streets and sewers, and the requirements of sanitary authoritiesLondon, Crosby, Lockwood (Weale's Series), 1905, 4th edition. [27739] vi, 114pp incl 23 figs plus 3 folding plates plus 16pp publisher's catalogue. Boards. 17x12. Edges a little foxed, else a very nice copy. £30.00An interesting handbook. The estates, which are designed for purchase, are terraced; detached layouts are yet to come. Nice item

220 MAITLAND Fowler Building Estates. A rudimentary treatise on the development, sale, purchase, and general management of building land including the formation of streets and sewers, and the requirements of sanitary authoritiesLondon, Crosby, Lockwood (Weale's series), 1887 2nd ed revised. [27837] vi, 114pp incl 23 figs plus 3 folding plates plus 40pp publisher's catalogue. Cloth, 17x12. Occasional foxing, vg. £30.00An interesting handbook. The estates, which are designed for purchase, are terraced; detached layouts are yet to come. Nice item

221 MERCER Eric English Vernacular Houses: A study of traditional farmhouses and cottages.London, HMSO (RCHME) (1975) 2nd imp., 1979. [30726] Frontis, xxii, 246pp + 112 plates and incl. 521 figs. Stiff wraps. 27x22. VG. Ownwer's stamp on end paper. £30.00A study of small rural houses throughout England. Includes analytical list of over 500 buildings.

222 MEYNELL Esther Building a Cottage. Being a True and Practical Account of How it Was Done. With pencil drawings by the Architect.London, Chapman & Hall 1937. [13492] 238pp incl some beautiful b&w drawings. Cloth, 20x14. Owner's bookplate, good in dust wrapper. £16.00Lovely, old-fashioned way of getting the job done. Popular techinical account.

223 MOORE Colonel E C S Sanitary Engineering. A practical treatise on the collection, removal and final disposal of sewage and the design and construction of works of drainage and sewerage with a special chapter on the disposal of house refuse and sewage sludge and numerous hydraulica tables, formulae & memoranda ................London, Batsford, 1898. [31061] xxvii, 621pp inc over 520 figs plus 61 plates, mostly folding. Cloth, 24x17. Cloth a little scratched, vg thus. £60.00Late Victorian magnum opus on this subject with a huge amount of information.

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224 MRS HUMPHRY Housekeeping. A Guide to Domestic Management London, F V White & Co, 1893. [31112] 308pp plus index and adverts. Cloth, 18x13. Crease on back cover, else vg. £40.00Nice Victorian period piece. Discusses servants and their duties, tradesmen, the nursery, the toilet, kitchen furniture etc.

The healthy home: a vast Victorian work

225 MURPHY Shirley Forster (ed) Our Homes, and How to Make them Healthy.London, Cassell, 1883. [31064] Tissue-guarded coloured frontis, xii, 947pp, inc. 410 figs (diagrams, plans). Contributions by R. Brudnell Carter, F.S.B.F. De Chaumont and 14 others. Gilt-lettered publisher's red cloth. 23x16. Cover a trifle marked, inner front hinge cracked, spine dull and repaired at some point, good tight binding and contents bright. £120.00A quite outstanding Victorian work on houses and their requirements. There are sections on house architecture & building materials, internal decoration, lighting, heating & ventilation, drainage, refuse disposal and similar. The work is aimed at more modest dwellings, rather than the grand houses. The editor was Medical Officer of Health to St Pancras in London.----------------------------

226 NEWBOLD H Bryant The Ideal House London, Practical Building Publ. Co, 1928. [31030] viii, 146pp+ 3 plates + 14pp interesting adverts and incl 89 figs. Cloth. 19x13. Owner's signature on front end papers, unusually still in dust wrapper. £20.00Interesting 1920s survey.

227 PERCIER C et FONTAINE P F L Recueil de Dècoration tout ce qui Rapport a l'Ameublement, comme vases, trèpieds, candeélabres,cassolettes, lustres, girandoles, lampes, chandeliers, cheminées, feux, poeles, pendules, tables, secrétaires, lits, canapés, fauteuils, tabourets, miroirs, écrans etc(Paris, P Didot l'Ainé), Greg facsimilie reprint, 1971. [28780] 43pp plus 72 single-sided plates. Cloth, 27x24. Ex Philippa Fawcett College library, name stamp on title and rear end paper, edges, only, vg thus. Looks unused. £50.00The superior Gregg reprint.

228 RAMSEY Stanley C & HARVEY J D M Small Georgian Houses and their Details 1750-1820. Two parts in one: I Exteriors II Interiors and Details by...... With a foreword by Sir James Richards

London, AP, 1972. [29177] Vol I xiv, 16pp, Vol II iv, 19pp, 100 plates each vol. [Bound in one] Cloth, 29x21. Vg, dust wrapper. Owner's stamp inside front cover. £60.00The better hardback version.

229 REID George and MANLEY Practical Sanitation: A Handbook for Sanitary Inspectors and others interested in SanitationLondon, Charles Griffin, (1892), 1912, 16th ed revised. [31060] xii, 354pp inc over 100 figs. Cloth, 20x16. Vg. £30.00Standard handbook of the time for those involved in sanitation. The first edition had appeared in 1892.

230 ROTHERY Guy Cadogan Ceilings and their Decoration: Art and Archaeology. London, Werner Laurie, nd c1912. [28389] Frontis, xiv, 281pp + vi adverts & 27 b&w illustrations, bibliog. Decorated boards. 19x13. Edgewear to covers. Contents good.Vg. £20.00This volume deals mainly with historical aspects of ceilings, including plaster work, pictorial ceilings etc..

231 SCHMITT Karl Wilhelm Multi-Storey Housing London, Architectural Press, 1966. (German ed, same year) [30891] 212pp, many b&w plates and text figs. Cloth, 26x23. Owner's name on front end paper, vg in dust wrapper. £30.00International survey from this key "high-rise" period. Includes ver good British examples: 1960s LCC flats, Hook project, Blackheath (Eric Lyons) etc. There are some interesting step designs.

232 SIMON James D The House-Owner's Estimator; or "What will it cost to build, alter, or repair?" A price book adapted to the use of unprofessional people, as well as for the architectural surveyor and builderLondon, Crosby, Lockwood, 1881, 3rd ed carefully revised. [31137] xvi, 172pp inc 71 drawings, some to scale. Burgundy cloth, gilt lettered and decorated. 19x13. Spine a little dull, new end papers, vg thus.

£45.00Lovely little book covering plumbing, paving, bricks and mortar, carpentry, blinds, shop fronts, ironwork, concrete etc . Long chapters on terraced housing, small shops and the Metropolitan Building Act. Lovely drawings.

For the Arts & Crafts House

233 SPARROW Walter Shaw Our Homes and how to make the best of them.

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London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1909. [30829] Coloured frontis by Ernest Newton, xiv incl drawing by Dawber, 280pp incl very many b&w plates, plans, drawings + 23 colour plates + 6 double-page colour plates. Gilt lettered cloth, 25x20 Spine little pulled and split at top, foxing to text pages, binding tight and plates nice and bright. £85.00A beautiful Arts & Crafts work, wider in approach and different in format from the author’s 1902 book with a somewhat similar title (“Our Homes and How to Beautify Them”). With fine images by Dawber, Curtis Green, Brangwyn, R Norman Shaw, Brierley, Lorimer et al and colour plates by Raymond Unwin, Robert Schultz, Lutyens, Gimson et al. An outstanding work, very ‘period’.

234 SPARROW Walter Shaw (ed), BIDLAKE W.H. et al (text) The Modern Home: A Book of British Domestic Architecture for Moderate Incomes. London, Hodder & Stoughton, nd, c1909 [30884] Coloured frontis (Ernest Newton), 176pp (+ 14pp adverts) + many colour plates, and incl a great many b&w illustrations. Superior hardback version, 30x22. Small marks on front cover, foxing to text pages, inner hinge slightly cracked but generally a very nice copy of a book often found on poor condition.

£125.00An outstanding source on the Arts & Crafts house of the period, with fine examples by Luytens, Brierley, Newton, Voysey etc. Lovely illustrations. Scarce.-----------------------------

235 SPINKS Wm House Drainage Manual: A guide to the design and construction of systems of drainage and sewage disposal from housesLondon, Biggs and Co, 1903, 2nd ed revised and extended by E H Blake. [31067] 397pp inc 242 figs plus xpp index. Cloth, 22x15. Owner's name on half title, vg. Occasional faint pencil marks. £40.00With tables, illustrations, extracts from the Public Health Acts, Metropolis Management Acts and Model Bye-Laws relating to house drainage. Much new material was added to the second edition.

236 STURTEVANT CO, B F (publ) Ventilation and Heating: Principles and Application. A Treatise NY, (c1886) 1903, 5th ed. [31072] 169pp incl a great many illustrations (plans, measured drawings, equipment illustrations etc). Gilt lettered, patterned two colour cloth. 23x17. Spine a little faded and evidence of label on spine, vg thus. £35.00Fascinating (and beautifully produced) study of this subject, including theatres, steam ships, offices, factories etc. With excellent illustrations. Naturally concentrates on the products of this company, but

also a good contemporary source for heating and ventilation problems generally. The Sturtevant system was very concerned with ventilation for health and well being. Includes some very interesting case studies in prisons, offices, mills etc.

237 TEALE T Pridgin Dangers to Health: A Practical Guide to Domestic Sanitary DefectsLondon, J & A Churchill, 1879, 2nd ed. [31066] 10pp, 55 plates, some coloured, with narrative on opposite page. vi pp appendix and 24pp publisher's adverts. Gilt decorated and lettered cloth, 22x15. Owner's signature inside front cover, faint wear to spine edge, very nice copy. £65.00Beautiful plates with colour used to indicate air and water flow. Some of the illustrations are quite strange, almost surreal. The author was Surgeon to Leeds General Infirmary. Nice copy of an attractive book.

238 TOMLINSON Charles A Rudimentary Treatise on Warming and Ventilation being a concise exposition of the general principles of the art of warming and ventilatiing domestic and public buildings, mines, lighthouses, ships, etcLondon, Crosby Lockwood, 1878, 8th ed. [31078] xi, 339pp inc 130 illustrations, one fold-out fig, 30pp publisher's adverts. Embossed cloth, 18x11. Spine faded, good copy thus. £35.00This substantial Victorian work went through several editions. It was used extensively by builders at the time as it contained descriptions of all manner of heating and ventilating systems.

239 TOWNSEND C F Heating and Ventilation London, Dawbarn & Ward, Rural Handbooks No 3, nd, c1908. [31075] 36pp inc 31 figs, xiipp adverts. Wraps, 18x17. Spine rubbed with some loss, cover fragile, two punch holes, contents crockled from damp round the edges. Fair copy. £20.00Short treatise.

240 VIOLLET-LE-DUC E. How to Build a House. An architectural novelette. Translated by Benjamin Bucknall.London, Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, (1874), 1876, 2nd series. [31100] Frontis, xv, 261pp with 62 illustrations, some hors texte, including 3 nice coloured ones. Cloth, 24x14. Spine pulled top and bottom and rubbed on edge, corners faintly rubbed, inner hinge covering split but binding tight and contents vg. Generally a nice bright copy. Chas. Canning Winmill's copy with his signature and owner stamp. £95.00

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The famous architect gives wise advice to Paul, a young student. Viollet-le-Duc became quite popular in Victorian Britain with such books.

241 Wallpaper. GREYSMITH Brenda Wallpaper London, Studio Vista, 1976. [29109] 208pp, 188 illustration, 32 pages in colour, decorated end papers, bibliog. Cloth, 28x22 Vg, dust wrapper. £35.00Thorough historical survey

242 WEAVER Lawrence The 'Country Life' Book of Cottages. Costing from £150 to £600.London, Country Life, 1913. [28003] Frontis, xii, 231pp, 291 illustrations (photos, plans etc). Cloth, top edge gilt, 23x14. Faint cloth rubbing, still and good copy. £30.00Very good source book, with much on model labourers' cottages, model housing schemes at Hampstead, Gidea Park etc.

243 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. £75.00Dealing 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.

244 WEAVER Sir Lawrence Cottages: Their Planning, Design and Materials. London, Country Life, (1913 'Country Life' Book of Cottages), revd 3rd ed 1926 (new title). [28198] Frontis, xii, 402pp inc 483 b&w photos, plans, etc. list of architects. Cloth. 23x15. Nice copy. £35.00This edition of Weaver's well-known work concentrates on cottages designed after the Great War. Revisions to the text were so extensive that the book was given a new title. Architects include Lutyens, Lorimer, Unwin, Williams-Ellis et al.

245 WEAVER Sir Lawrence Tradition and Modernity in Plasterwork London, G Jackson, 1928. [31148] Frontis, 63pp, incl 47 b&w plates. Boards, vellum spine. 26x22. Good copy. £45.00

Attractive study, based on material originally published in the Architectural Review, including examples by Lutyens, Baker, Vincent Harris, T Worthington etc. Weaver is aware of the modern design potential of plasterwork and he gives some examples of this eg the Spa Royal Hotel, Bridlington, The Automobile Association boardroom, and interestingly, the interior of Cunard liners. Uncommon, especially in dust wrapper.

246 YERBURY F R (selected & photographed by) Georgian Details of Domestic Architecture London, Ernest Benn, 1926. [29802] vii, 150 single-sided plates Cloth, 28x23. Vg in dust wrapper. £50.00

BUILDING CONSERVATION

247 Bath. FERGUSSON Adam The Sack of Bath: a record and an indictment.Salisbury, Compton Russell, 1973. [30793] 77pp, 84 high quality b&w photo illustrations, 21 by Lord Snowdon. Introduction by Lord Goodman. End-paper maps. Introductory rhymes by Sir John Betjeman. Pictorial boards. 23x18. Nice copy.

£18.00Polemical work on threats to the urban fabric of this Georgian city, with excellent illustrations.

248 Bedford. HAWKINS L.M. Building for Beauty and How Not to Do it. From a Note on Contemporary Development read to the Bedford Natural History and Archaeology SocietyBedford, The Sidney Press, nd c1940. [30658] 34pp incl 23 plates. Pamphlet. 23x15. Label front cover and reverse of frontis, owner's stamp, vg thus. £20.00Interesting, though rather emotional, early conservation critique of Bedford's design "blunders". Somewhat in the style of a Clough Williams Ellis polemic. Well illustrated. Scarce.

249 Beverley. HALL Ivan & Elisabeth Historic Beverley York, Wm Sessions, 1973. [29204] iv, 108pp c300 high quality photos, also plans, elevations. End papers maps. Cloth. 26x19. Edges of pages little tanned else vg copy in dust wrapper. £15.00Study of the architectural development of this historic East Yorkshire town.

250 CANTACUZINO Sherban New Uses for Old Buildings London, AP, 1975. [30718] xi, 264pp, hundreds of plans, photos etc. Cloth, 30x22. Faint yellowing to

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edges of pages, bottom of spine scuffed, edges of front cover marked, contents vg. £20.00Influential work. The author goes into the “nuts and bolts” of re-use in considerable detail. Includes many case studies

251 CANTACUZINO Sherban & BRANDT Susan Saving Old Buildings London, AP, 1980. [30719] x, 230pp, very many illustrations and figs. Cloth. 30x22. Good copy in a dust wrapper. £18.00Important study of new uses for redundant structures. Something of a standard work when it apperared and still valuable. Mostly based on case studies.

252 Chester. INSALL Donald W Conservation in Action. Chester’s Bridgegate.London, HMSO, 1982. [30660] 96pp, a great many photos, plans, diagrams etc. Stiff pictorial wraps. 30x21. Label on spine, owner's stamp, vg thus. £20.00Excellent local conservation study, following on from the 1968 Chester study. The area was a decayed, but very significant, part of the city’s historic core.

253 Chester. INSALL Donald W and Associates Chester: A Study in Conservation. Report to the Minister of Housing and Local Government and the City and County of the City of Chester.London, HMSO, 1968. [29714] 257pp, 240 illustrations (maps, plans, photos etc) + 5 fold-outs at end. Stiff pictorial wraps. 30x21. Vg copy. £40.00One of the 4 classic HMSO historic town studies. Scarce.

254 Chester. INSALL Donald W & MORRIS Cyril M Conservation in Chester: Chester City Council Conservation Review Study 1986Chester, Chester City Council, 1988. [27997] 156pp, many colour and b&w photos, plans, drawings etc. Laminated wraps. 30x21. Fine copy. £18.00Excellent conservation study, twenty years after Insall's "Chester: A Study in Conservation" (1968).

255 COUNCIL OF EUROPE The preservation and development of ancient buildings and historical or artistic sites 1963. [30764] 84pp inc illustrations. Wraps, 26x22. Owner's stamp on title-page, spine a little rubbed else good copy. £20.00A milestone document in the preservation of historic sites including a programme of action etc, with nice illustrations. Includes statements by various national bodies, National Trust etc.

256 Hampstead G.S. LESTER Alfred W Hampstead Garden Suburb: The Care and

Appreciation of its Architectural Heritage. A Treatise by Hampstead GS Design Study Group.London, Hampstead GSDSG, (1977), 1981 reprint. [18465] Frontis 58pp, inc many line illustrations and plans, bibliog. Wraps. 30x21. Fine. £18.00Foreward by Sir Nikolaus Pevsner. Excellent conservation details.

257 Hull. KINGSTON UPON HULL CIVIC SOCIETY Report and Study of "The Old Town" Kingston, nd, c1966. [30666] c16pp inc illustrations plus fold-out map of the Old Town, fold-out of proposals and fold-out of roadside bridge. Card covers, 30x20. Owner's stamp, vg thus. £20.00A pioneering conservation study. The area at this time was mainly languishing in dereliction but had potential for conservation with many fine buildings. These should be sensitively treated and more housing encouraged in the area. Much of this has now been achieved. Scarce.

258 Leeds. LINSTRUM Derek Historic Architecture of Leeds Newcastle upon Tyne, Oriel, 1969. [29205] 96pp many b&w photo illustrations. End papers maps. Preface by John Betjeman. Cloth. 25x18. Vg copy in nice dust wrapper. £16.00Informative, conservation-minded study.

Ian Nairn: two famous polemics

259 NAIRN Ian Outrage and Counter-Attack Against Subtopia. [2 uniform volumes]London, The Architectural Press (originally published as “Architectural Review” specials, June 1955 & Dec. 1956) (1955) reprint 1956 & nd (1957?) [30434] "Outrage": iv, pp365-456, hundreds of illustrations (photos, line illustrations, maps etc). "Counter-Attack": ii, pp353-436, similarly illustrated. Uniform pictorial boards. 31x25. Owner's signature on end paper, nice copies. Counter Attack has lightly foxed dust wrapper with few small chips, Outrage has poor dust wrapper with large piece missing on rear and pieces missing from front. £120.00'Outrage' was Nairn's famous and highly-influential polemic against Britain’s creeping "Subtopia". 'Counter-Attack' was its sequel and is more positive, with case studies of good practice. Attractive works, with interesting graphics and layout, very 'period'. Now very scarce, especially as here in good condition.

260 PEERS Anthony Defending Our Heritage. Historic Military Buildings on the Defence Estate

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1994. [30769] 60pp inc photos. Wraps, 30x21. Evidence of label on spine, faint crease on cover else vg. £10.00

261 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.

262 SAVE. POWELL Ken and DUNCAN Paul Scandal - Georgian London in Decay London, Save, 1985. [30175] 94 single-sided sheets inc numerous photos. Spiral-bound card wraps, 30x22. Ex English Heritage library, vg thus. £30.00Cry from the heart on the state of Georgian buildings in London. There are some successes but many failures which have resulted in demolition. Typically thorough Save report on the state of play across London at the time. Uncommon.

263 STRONG Roy, BINNEY Marcus & HARRIS John The Destruction of the Country House 1875-1975. London, Thames & Hudson, 1974. [31118] 192pp, with 383 illustrations, list of destroyed houses. Stiff wraps. 25x20. A little foxing inside front and back covers. Neat name written inside cover. Else good.

£40.00This milestone 1970s report on country houses did much to focus attention on their serious architectural and conservation problems. These great buildings were disappearing at an alarming rate. Now very scarce.

264 Wirksworth. THE WIRKSWORTH PROJECT The Wirksworth Story. New Life For An Old TownWirksworth, 1984. [30663] 92pp inc photos, plans. Card covers, 30x21. Label on front cover and title-page, owner's stamp, vg thus. £15.00Sensitive conservation and development plan for this south Pennine town which has many interesting and historic buildings. Nice townscape.

ARCHITECTS & ARCHITECTURE: some selected works

265 Alberti. GADOL Joan Leon Battista Alberti: Universal Man of the Early Renaissance.Chicago, U of Chicago, 1969. [30329] xvi, 266pp, 64 illustrations, bibliography. Patterned, gilt lettered cloth. 21x23. Vg, in slightly torn dust wrapper. £16.00

First comprehensive study of this pivotal figure. The superior hardback version.

266 Archer. WHIFFEN Marcus Thomas Archer London, Art and Technics, 1950. [28774] Frontis, 96pp, of which 49-96 are plates, plus illustrations in text. Cloth, 19x14. Good copy in rubbed dust wrapper with two large chips on top edge. £20.00Scarce study of Archer, perhaps England’s greatest baroque architect.

267 Arup and Partners. SOMMER Degenhard, STOCHER Herbert and WEISSER Lutz Ove Arup & Partners. Ingeniere als Wegbereiter der Architektur. Engineering the Built EnvirnomentBasel, Birkhauser, 1994. [29227] 118pp, many illustrations, some in colour, chron, bibliog. Pictoral wraps, 29x23. Vg. £20.00Foreword by Renzo Piano. English and German texts.

268 Arup. JONES Peter Ove Arup. Masterbuilder of the Twentieth Century New Haven, Yale, 2006. [29237] x, 364pp plus 120 illustrations, lenghthy notes, bibliog. Cloth, 24x16. Fine in dust wrapper. £18.00One of the greatest structural engineers of the twentieth century. Peter Jones was the first researcher to have access to the private Arup archives.

269 BLOMFIELD Reginald Architectural Drawing and Draughtsmen. London, Cassell, 1912. [26179] Frontis, xii, 96pp + 103 plates. Publisher’s cloth. 28x20. Owner's name and address on fly leaf, good copy. £50.00Mainly historical study, with excellent plates. An uncommon Blomfield title.

270 Bradford. AYERS John Architecture in Bradford Bradford, Watmoughs (for Bradford Civic Society), nd, c1970s. [29193] xii, 108pp inc over 200 b&w illustrations, pictoral end papers, glossary. Inscribed by the author. Cloth. 21x21. Vg in dust wrapper.

£20.00Well-illustrated and detailed study. Many great industrial and commercial buildings were built in the city.

271 BROCKHAUS Heinrich Deutsche Städtische Kunst und ihr Sinn. Leipzig, Brockhaus, 1916. [30246] 222pp inc 108 illustrations. Boards, linen spine, 23x15. Boards rubbed on edges else good copy of attractive book.

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Interesting study of historic public art in German cities including sculptures, heraldic symbols, town hall interiors etc. An unusual work.

272 Bruce. FENWICK Hubert Architect Royal: The Life and Works of Sir William Bruce 1630-1710Kineton, The Roundwood Press, 1970. [28921] Decorated end papers, frontis portrait, xviii, 129pp+ 95 plates + 2 fold-outs and incl text illustrations, bibliog. Cloth. 25x16. Vg, dust wrapper. £20.00Pioneering study of this neglected architect (Holyrood House etc). Bruce has been called the Inigo Jones of Scotland.

273 BURY T Talbot Rudimentary Architecture for the Use of Beginners. The history and descriptionof the styles of architecture of various countries from the earliest to the present period. With illustrative engravings.London, John Weale, 1849. [31143] Lovely frontis of the Palace of Westminster, vii, 167pp inc illustrations. Linen cover,with paste-on label, 18x11. Owner's signature (The Earl of Caernarvon), good copy. Letters 'A II' inked onto spine. £30.00First edition of this interesting work. The author was a notable Victorian architect. With beautiful engravings.

274 Calatrava. SHARP Dennis (ed) Santiago Calatrava London, Book Art, 1992. [29222] 71pp, inc great many b&w illustrations. Wraps, 22x21. Fine, dust wrapper. £15.00First fully illustrated monograph of this influential Spanish architect and engineer - to coincide with his RIBA exhibition.

275 Candela. GARLOCK Maria E Moreyra and BILLINGTON David P. Félix Candela. Engineer, Builder, Structural Artist. Princeton, University Art Museum & New Haven, Yale, 2008. [29226] 207pp incl 130 colour and 83 b&w illustrations, lists of works and writings. Stiff wraps, 26x26. Vg. £18.00Published for an exhibition. Candela (1910-1997), is most famous for his shell structures. Beautifully produced.

276 Chambers. HARRIS John Sir William Chambers. Knight of the Polar Star. London, A. Zwemmer, 1970. [28778] 297pp, incl. 199 half-tone illustrations, 16 figs, catalogue raisonné. Cloth. 30x23. Vg, dust wrapper. £75.00The standard work on Chambers.

277 CONRADS Ulrich & SPERLICH Hans G. Fantastic Architecture London, Architectural Press, 1963. (First publ. in German, Stuttgart, 1960). [30900] 187pp, ills with 169 b&w plates. Cloth, 28x24. Title-page grubby and looks like new end papers, library stamps reverse of title, vg thus in dust wrapper with small loss top and bottom of spine. £25.00Translated, edited, expanded by Christiane & George R. Collins. Utopian and fantastic architecture, particularly of the modern period. Included are a number of fantastic urban projects eg by Taut, Bel Geddes & Fuller with excellent illustrations.

278 Cresy. BURFIELD Diana Edward Cresy 1792-1858. Architect and Civil EngineerDonington, Shaun Tyas, 2003. [20405] xvii, 222pp plus 55 b&w plates, biographical notes, references. Gilt lettered cloth. 24x16. Fine copy, dust wrapper.

£24.00Cresy was author of the monumental ‘Encylopaedia of Civil Engineering’ and an architect in the classical and gothic styles. He was a founding member of the Institute of British Architects. Typically diligent Tyas title.

279 CURL James Stevens The Egyptian Revival. An introductory study of a recurring theme in the history of tasteLondon, George Allen & Unwin, 1982. [28789] Frontis, xvii, 249pp, 203 plates, 12 figs, substantial bibliog. Cloth. 25x20. Fine, dust wrapper. £45.00Wide in scope and outstanding illustrations.

280 CURL James Stevens Victorian Architecture: Diversity & Invention.Reading, Spire, 2007. [25735] 635pp, a great many photos (some in colour), plans etc, detailed bibliography. Cloth. 31x22. Dust wrapper. NEW. Order from Inch’s Books. £69.95A great work of scholarship, and an invaluable reference.

281 CURL James Stevens Victorian Architecture: Its Practical Aspects Newton Abbot, David & Charles, 1973 [30214] 128pp+ 61 high-quality illustrations (photos, plans etc) & incl 8 figs, bibliog. Cloth. 24x19. Owner's signature, vg in dust wrapper. Some interesting pencil annotations. £16.00

282 Davison. WEBB Sir Aston (foreword), BLOMFIELD Sir Reginald (fwd) Raffles Davison ....: A Record of his Life and Work from 1870 to 1926.

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London, B.T. Batsford, 1927. [30841] Frontis photo portrait, xxiv, 143pp, incl 64 plates. Pictorial boards, cloth spine, 29x23. Good copy. £35.00Attractively produced monograph on this fine architectural draughtsman.

283 FABER John Oscar Faber: his work, his firm, & afterwards London, Quiller, 1989. [31156] vi, 103pp + 24 b/w plates. Cloth. 23x16. Fine, dw. £25.00Useful book on the life of this eminent structural engineer (1886-1956) and the firm he founded. Written by his son.

284 GARBETT Edward Lacy Rudimentary Treatise on the Principles of Design in Architecture: as Deducible from Nature and Exemplified in the Works of the Greek and Gothic Architects.London, John Weale, 1867, 3rd ed. [29886] viii, 247pp inc many illustrations (+ 45pp of publisher's ads). Linen wraps with paste-on label. 18x11. Wraps rubbed and spine label chipped, inner hinge loosening, contents good. £25.00An interesting work: the two styles depend in essence on the forms found in nature. The author was an architect.

285 George. GRAINGER Hilary J The Architecture of Sir Ernest George. Reading, Spire, 2011. [30143] 480pp, 267 colour, 65 b&w illustrations. Cloth. 29x24. NEW order from Inch's Books. £65.00Ernest George (1839-1922) was one of the greatest late Victorian domestic architects, though less well known than Lutyens, Lorimer and certain others of his contemporaries.. This is first book on his life and work and a major study, with fine illustrations.

286 GIBBS James The Rules For Drawing the Several Parts of Architecture.... (London, the Author, 1732), London, English UP, (1937), 1947. [28919] xxiv (incl. new preface and introduction by Christian Barman, vii, 111pp, incl. 64 plates, new index. Cloth, 22x14. Vg, dust wrapper, this with few small chips. £50.00Though reduced in size, a very good facsimile and influential in the pre-war period. An unusually nice copy. Uncommon.

287 Goldfinger. ELWALL Robert Ernö Goldfinger London, Academy, RIBA Drawings series, 1996. [30886] 112pp inc illustrations, bibliog. Wraps, 24x24. Fine. £30.00

Drawings range from sketches to more formal finished drawings. Usual high standard of Riba Drawings monographs.

288 Grimthorpe. FERRIDAY Peter Lord Grimthorpe 1816-1905 London, John Murray, 1957. [30991] xiv, 230pp + 9 b&w plates and incl 2 figs, bibliog. Cloth. 22x15. Very nice copy, dust wrapper. £20.00Interesting biography of this controversial figure in the history of conservation. His work on cathedrals and churches was unflagging. He spent over £100,000 at St Alban’s, for example, ruthlessly overseeing its 'improvements'.

289 Happold. WALKER Derek and ADDIS Bill Happold. The Confidence To Build London, by the authors, 1997. [30289] 176pp inc photos, plans etc, selected writings by Happold, list of projects with Ove Arup and Buro Happold. Cloth, 30x24. Fine, dust wrapper. £50.00Monograph on the life and work of Sir Edmund Happold (1930-1996). He was head of the School of Architecture and Building Engineering at Bath. His firm, Buro Happold, Consulting Engineers, were involved in the design of the Pompidou Centre and buildings in the Middle East, Hong Kong, Munich etc. He worked extensively with Ove Arup, Trevor Dannat, Otto Frei. The scarcer original Happold Trust edition in hardback.

290 HARBESON John F The Study of Architectural Design. With special reference to the program of the Beaux-Arts Institute of DesignNY, Pencil Points, 1926. [18051] Frontis, xii, 309pp, illustrations throughout. Cloth, 30x22. Corners a little

£30.00Major work in the high Beaux-Art tradition with hundreds of fine illustrations. The author was founder of the Beaux-Art Institute. The work mainly gives detailed advice on architectural illustration, with many fine examples.

291 HARVEY John English Mediaeval Architects: A Biographical Dictionary Down to 1550 Including Master Masons, Carpenters, Carvers, Building Contractors and others responsible for DesignGloucester, Alan Sutton, (1954), completely rev ed (1984) 1987 reprint. [30751] Frontis, lxiii, 479pp, chron. With contributions by Arthur Oswald. Cloth. 25x19. Good copy, label on spine and on spine of dust wrapper. Owner's stamp on end paper.

£35.00Standard reference work on this subject.

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292 Jones. HARRIS John & HIGGOTT Gordon Inigo Jones: Complete Architectural Drawings. London, Royal Academy, 1989 (catalogue of Exhibition Drawing Center, NY, R.A., London etc). [28765] iv, 340pp, a great many illustrations, 36 in colour, bibliography, glossary etc. Stiff wraps. 26x21. Vg. £30.00A detailed, informative catalogue.

Detroit car factories etc

293 Kahn. NELSON George Industrial Architecture of Albert Kahn, Inc NY, Architectural Publishing Co, 1939. [30832] 176pp, mostly photos. Cloth, 31x24. Cover a little grubby and marked, contents vg, binding tight. Owner's stamp on title-page. £95.00A superb monograph. Albert Kahn (1869-1942) specialised in industrial buildings in the USA and Russia. He was particularly well known for his car plants in Detroit and elsewhere. Fine photos.------------------------

294 KORN Arthur History Builds the Town .London, Lund Humphries, 1953. [30146] xi, 110pp, 112 plates, bibliog. Cloth, 25x20. Vg, dust wrapper, this rubbed on edges and with two small scuffs on front. £50.00Account of urban history by this modernist architect (Korn practised in Germany in the 1920s and was chairman of the Town Planning Committee of the MARS Group in 1938.) Unlike most urban histories, many radical modern schemes are illustrated.

295 Kuöhl. SCHMIDT Rudolf Architeckturplastik. Bildhauer Richard Kuöhl Berlin, Friedrich Ernst Hübsch, 1929. [29856] xviii inc tipped-in image, 32 single-sided plates. Cloth, 25x20. Cover little foxed and number on cover, vg thus. £40.00Richard Kuöhl's work exhibited a high level of craftsmanship with many medieval references combined with expressionism. Some of his war memorials are very powerful.

296 LETHABY W. R. Architecture, Nature & Magic London, Duckworth, 1956. [30782] 155pp, 15 b&w plates, 62 text figs, bibliog, biographical note by Alfred Powell. Cloth. 22x14. Vg, in nice pictorial dust wrapper. £20.00Based on a series of papers for "The Builder", 1928.

297 Maclaren. CALDER Alan James MacLaren. Arts and Crafts Pioneer.

Donington, Shaun Tyas, 2003. [20533] Frontis, vii, 177pp incl 109 b&w, 20 colour illustrations, bibliog. Cloth, 25x20. NEW. Dust wrapper. £30.00MacLaren (1853-1890), along with Mackintosh, Voysey, Lethaby and one or two others, was on the progressive wing of the Arts and Crafts movement. Valuable monograph on a neglected Scottish architect.

Robert Maillart and his bridges

298 Maillart. BILL Max Robert Maillart. Bridges and Constructions.(Zurich, 1949,), London, Pall Mall, 1969. [30895] 184pp, 260 illustrations, list of works. Open-weave cloth. 22x22. Top of pages little yellowed, not affecting text else vg copy in vg dust wrapper £75.00Fine monograph on this great engineer and architect. (All texts in English, French and German).

299 Maillart. BILLINGTON David P Robert Maillart's Bridges. The Art of Engineering Guildford, Princeton University Press, 1979. [30840] xv, 146pp incl photos, sectional drawings, map etc. Cloth, 21x26. Edges foxed and evidence of old water stain bottom corner of some pages, not too bad, else good in dust wrapper. £22.00Uses previously unstudied primary source material. The superior hardback version.----------------

300 Merlini. TATARKIEWICZ Wladyslaw Dominik Merlini Budownictwo i Architektura, 1955. [29454] 197pp, mostly illustrations, incl two in colour showing stylised drawings of Warsaw palaces, bibliog. Gilt embossed cloth, 24x17. Cover suntanned, half title missing, contents vg. £18.00Merlini (1730-97), was an Italian-Polish architect who mostly worked in the neo-classical style. Probably his most famous designs were for the Lazinski Park and Palace in Warsaw. He became Polish Royal Architect in 1773 and was also known for his rich interior designs. Good illustrations, including measured drawings etc.. [Polish text]

301 MOURDANT CROOK J The Architect's Secret. Victorian Critics and the Image of GravityLondon, Murray, 2003. [28347] ix, 228pp incl 25 illustrations, bibliog, selected writings by George Aitchison, Benjamin Webb, Beresford Hope and Coventry Patmore. Cloth, 22x14. Fine. £15.00Book focuses on these four Victorian critics

302 Neumann. HANSMANN Wilfried (text) and MONHEIM Florian (photos) Balthasar Neumann.

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Köln, Dumont, 2003. [30672] 232pp inc illustrations, bibliog, chron, list of works. Boards, 31x26. Vg in dust wrapper. £40.00Fine modern monograph on this great Baroque architect (1687-1753).

303 Niemeyer. SPADE Rupert (Introduction & Notes) Oscar Niemeyer London, Thames & Hudson, 1971. [29120] 136pp, with 77 photo plates (9 in colour) by Yukio Futagawa, 25 plans and drawings. Cloth. 26x20. Fine copy, dust wrapper. £20.00Includes very good material on Niemeyer's outstanding work at Brasilia.

304 Palladio. PUPPI Lionello Andrea Palladio. Opera completa. Milano, Electa, 1973. [28792] 310pp, incl a great many illustrations, bibliography. Wraps. 24x22. Vg copy, in dust wrapper. £30.00Detailed chronological catalogue raisonné with excellent illustrations.

305 REILLY C.H. Scaffolding in the Sky. A semi-architectural autobiography.London, George Routledge, 1938. [30865] xiii, 352pp + 5 b&w plates (incl. Peter Jones Store, London, partly designed by Reilly). Inscribed by Reilly to Mrs Byng and Miss Byng Lucas. Cloth. 22x14 Good copy. £30.00Architecture and planning in Liverpool and London.

306 SCOTT Sir George Gilbert Personal and Professional Recollections. A Facsimile of the Original Edition with New Material and a Critical Introduction by Gavin STAMPStamford, Paul Watkins facsimile ed, 1995 (originally pub London, 1879). [30235] Frontis portrait, 17pp new material, xx, 565pp+ 23 new plates. Cloth, 24x16. Vg, dust wrapper. £35.00Excellent new edition of this notable work, including material removed from the original edition as libelous, a new index, biographical notes etc.

307 SCRUTON Roger The Aesthetics of Architecture London, Methuen, 1979. [29151] x, 302pp, incl 90 illustrations, bibliography. Cloth, 24x16. Vg, dust wrapper. £20.00

308 Sinan. STRATTON Arthur Sinan London, Macmillan, 1972. [28197] iv, map frontis, 299pp plus 46 illustrations, glossary, bibliog. Cloth. 23x16. Vg in dust wrapper. £20.00The biography of one of the world’s greatest architects and early structural engineer.

309 Soane. STROUD Dorothy The Architecture of Sir John Soane. London, Studio, 1961. [30575] Frontis, 168pp, 225 b&w illustrations, decorated end papers, chron of works. Introduction by Henry-Russell Hitchcock. Cloth, 31x24. One discreet institutional stamp and shelf number on spine, else a very good copy, in dust wrapper (minor edge-wear to this). £20.00First edition of this notable study. Includes a good deal on Soane's involvement with decorative art and interiors.

310 Stockholm. ÖSTBERG Ragnar The Stockholm Town Hall. Stockholm, P A Norstedt, 1929. [30872] Marbled end papers, frontis portrait, 55pp + 48 single-sided plates (sepia photos, plans etc). Marbled boards, leather spine with gilt decoration and leather corners, 25x20. Leather faintly rubbed top of spine and corners else very nice copy. £75.00Östberg's own detailed account of the design and construction features of his most famous building. There were major design changes between the award of the commission in 1908 and completion in 1923, but Östberg's masterpiece retains a striking architectural unity. A de-luxe version.

311 STRATTON Arthur Elements of Form & Design in Classic Architecture: shown in exterior & interior motives collated from fine buildings of all time on one hundred platesLondon, Batsford, 1925. [29650] x, 239pp, 100 plates, 18 text figs. Gilt lettered cloth. 30x23. Spine slightly faded else nice copy. £20.00

312 Thomson. McFADZEAN Ronald The Life and Work of Alexander Thomson London, R & K P, 1979. [21280] xv1, 304pp, 169 b&w illustrations, chron, bibliog. Gilt lettered cloth. 25x19. Vg, dust wrapper. £50.00Major, though somewhat flawed, study of "Greek" Thomson, leading mid-nineteenth century Glasgow architect.

313 TILDEN Philip True Remembrances: The Memoirs of an Architect.London, Country Life, 1954. [30989] 175pp + 46 illustrations. Cloth. 22x15. Good copy, in dust wrapper (this a little frayed, now glassine protected).

£35.00Interesting architectural memoirs. Tilden designed Gordon Selfridge's London store and his fantasy castle at Hengistbury Head (not built), as well as other country houses etc. Becoming scarce.

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Eduardo Torroja

314 TORROJA Eduardo Philosophy of Structures Berkeley & LA, University of California, 1958. [30893] ix, 366pp, hundreds of b&w photos & drawings. Cloth. 26x20. Faint foxing to end papers and inner hinge little cracked at back else vg in chipped dust wrapper with a little loss, now protected.

£35.00Reflexions on structural design by one of the world's great engineers and architects

315 TORROJA Eduardo The Structures of Eduardo Torroja. An autobiography of Engineering AccomplishmentNY, Dodge, 1958. [30892] ix, 198pp inc over 275 photos, plans, drawings etc Cloth, 25x18. Vg in slightly rubbed dust wrapper. £40.0030 structures analysed. Gives many fascinating insights into the work of this great Spanish architect and structural engineer (1899-1961). He was particularly notable for his concrete shell designs.--------------------------------

316 Utzon. YEOMANS John The Other Taj Mahal: What Happened to the Sydney Opera House.London, Longmans, 1968. [30959] ix, 222pp, 29 b&w illustrations (photos & plans). Gilt lettered cloth. 22x14. Good copy, in pictorial dust wrapper.

£20.00Full and frank story of the Sydney Opera House. "This wonderful white monster...".

317 Vanbrugh. DOWNES Kerry Sir John Vanbrugh: a biography London, Sidgwick & Jackson, 1987. [28842] xxxi, 560pp, 40 plates, 22 text figs, chrons, bibliog, list of works, glossary. Cloth. 24x16. Vg in dust wrapepr

£30.00Detailed study of Vanbrugh's life, architecture and plays.

318 WIGHTWICK George Hints to Young Architects comprising Advice to Those who, while yet at school, are destined to the profession..... together with a model specification.London, Lockwood & Co, 1875, new ed, revised and considerably enlarged by G Huskisson GUILLAUME. [31142] x, 326pp, including a great many figs (+ c48pp publisher's adverts). Embossed linen covers, 18x11. Spine browned, covers dusty, contents good. £25.00Both authors were architects.

TRADE LITERATURE

319 BRITISH CONGOLEUM LTD Brunofelt Floorcovering [cover title] London, 1953. [31108] Title page and 61 single-sided colour plates, actual flooring sample bound in at end. Cloth, spiral binding, 21x15. Spiral binding has rubbed through some of the cloth on the spine, title page has faint spotting and faint offsetting on plates (not too bad). £35.00Lovely full colour examples of Brunofelt, a kind of linoleum. The product was introduced in 1932 and "is now in world demand". Attractive item.

320 Building Stone. FEVRE L A Quelques Aperçus sur les Pierres de Taille françaises par L.A. Fevre Ingénieur Civil de la Société Févre & Cie. Paris, nd, c1910 [30484] 55pp inc many photos (mainly of buildings and quarries). Embossed card covers with satin twist tie, 27x22. Covers faintly marked, with small letter and number stamped on front. Generally very good indeed, with lovely bright illustrations. £50.00Trade publicity item and technical guide, with fascinating illustrations. The firm's products were used in many notable public buildings in France, Germany, the USA etc.

321 CARRON COMPANY Rain-Water Soil Goods and General Castings Carron, by the Company, 1932. [30947] 172pp plus 47pp price list. Cloth, 25x19. Small hole in spine edge else vg. £50.00Carrons, Lion and McFarlanes were the three great manufacturers of cast iron goods in Scotland (see below for the other two). The present publicity book has all manner of items from baker's ovens to theatre seats, by way of rainwater heads, manhole covers, cicsterns, radiators, doorscrapers etc. Also interesting views of the works.

322 CHAIN BELT ENGINEERING CO The Latest Improvements in Elevating, Conveying, Storage and Labour Saving Appliances. Abbreviated Catalogue 14Derby, c1900. [30972] 116pp inc photos, drawings etc. Boards, cloth spine, 22x14. Boards faintly rubbed round edges, vg for its age. £75.00Wonderful drawings and interesting photos. The firm produced many complex lifting systems. Lovely catalogue. Very scarce.

323 CLARK, HUNT & CO LTD Wholesale and Builders' Ironmongers, Iron and Hardware Merchants, and Manufactureres. Contractors to

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HM War Office, Admiralty, Royal Air Force and London County Council.Catalogue of Builders' Ironmongery, Brass foundry, Castings, &c Catalogue 731.London, nd, late 20s? [30969] xxii, 358pp inc illustrations with descriptions and prices. Loosely inserted 4 Revised Discount Price Lists for 1932-6, catalogue 731. Cloth, 29x23. Nice copy. End papers browned. £30.00Catalogue of every kind of ironmongery. Very good reference with lovely clear illustrations

324 DAVEY & CO LONDON LTD Davey & Co Catalogue No 7. Ships' Navigation & Other Lamps. Ships' Cargo Blocks. Pulley Blocks. Ship, Yacht & Boat Iron & Brass Fittings. Naval Hardware & Furnishments. Wire Rope Fittings & Hoisting Appliances. Ships' Tackle.London, 1928. [30935] 176pp, illustrated with descriptions and prices plus 2 copies of Discount Sheet for the trade dd 1934. Boards, cloth spine, 29x23. Covers trifle rubbed, inner hinge cracked, two owners' stamps inside front cover, one of Thomas Cook Cairo, staples rusty on trade price lists which have stained inside front cover, still a good copy.

£75.00Everything for the ship. An early Davey catalogue.

325 Fireplaces. A. OLBY & SON LTD Olson Fireplaces London, c1950. [31013] 20pp inc illustrations with sizes and descriptions. Card covers, 24x19. Vg.

£15.00Olby's first post-war catalogue. 40 fireplaces illustrated.

326 FOURNISSEUR 'L'Industrie Hoteliére' Fournitures Générales pour Hotels & Restaurants. Ancienne Maison Journel, à Dompaire (Vosges) [cover paste-over label title]Nancy, nd, c1900? [31097] 75pp inc illustrations, some in colour and with descriptions. Wraps, 27x19. Staples rusty and cover trying to detach, but generally a very nice bright copy, with contents vg. £40.00Everything from cutlery and crockery to pudding moulds, games, towels, napkins, sorbet-maker, cooking equipment, hotel furniture etc. Colour illustrations are of copper pans. Fascinating.

327 G A HARVEY & CO LTD Harco Products 1874-1934. Diamond Jubilee Catalogue No 650London, 1934. [30979] xv, 640pp inc illustrations, some in colour, with descriptions and prices, tables of weights, dimensions etc. Related ephemera inserted in front pocket, some dd 1939. Gilt lettered cloth, 30x24. Spine faded else vg. £40.00

Comprehensive catalogue of Harco metal products, from an egg preserving bin onwards.

328 HEAFIELD & TAYLOR LTD Catalogue of General & Cabinet Brassfoundry Suitable for Builders, Upholsterers and the Furnishing Trade. Architects' drawings carefully executed.Birmingham, nd, 1920s? [31101] xivpp index, 186pp of products, with engraved illustrations, descriptions and prices. Cloth, 22x14. End papers browned and hinge shaky. Contents vg. £25.00The firm produced quality building products such as handles, locks, stair treads, bells, brackets, hooks etc. Very nice illustrations.

329 HILL & SMITH LTD Hill & Smith Brierley Hill, nd, c1920? [31055] xvii, pp201-220, 251-282, 301-416, 501-525 inc illustrations with descriptions, technical information. Pictoral boards, cloth spine, 29x23. Owner's stamp, mark on front cover, little sunfading on one edge, vg thus. £65.00A fine trade publicity book. The firm specialised in architectural metalwork- gates, lift doors, glazed shop doors, caste-iron canonopies, bandstands etc. They also produced many quality items for farms and estates. Fascinating catalogue and good reference.

330 HOBBIES LTD Catalogue for 1923. Fretwork Tools and Materials.London, [30709] 184pp inc illustrations inc prices. 2pp Hobbies' Works in Dereham Wraps, 25x18. Cover a little scruffy, staples rusty, contents good.

£20.00Machinery, tools, fretwork designs for bookshelves, letterboxes, bird cages, clocks, mirror and picture frames, pipe racks, cabinets, egg stands, doll's houses and furniture and so on.

Henry Hope & Sons

331 Hope's Windows. HENRY HOPE & SONS LTD Hope's Gearing. A catalogue of modern methods of control for windows and ventilators of all types. List No 267 July 1953Smethwick, printed at the Curwen Press, 1953. [31012] 72pp inc illustrations. Lovley patterned boards with paste-on label, cloth spine, 27x19. Vg.

£50.00Nice photos including Bank of England by Herbert Baker, Ford Dagenham, Austin car factory and Cliff Quay power station, Ipswich by Alexander Gibb. A typically fine Hope's trade catalogue.

332 Hope's Windows. HENRY HOPE & SONS LTD Hope's Makers of Fine Windows 1818-1951. A catalogue of metal windows for drawing-office use,

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giving specifications, sections and useful information on design, fixing & glazingSmethwick, printed at the Curwen Press, 1951, publication No 260. [31010] 152pp inc photos etc. Decorated boards with paste-on label, cloth spine, 37x25. Cover a little scuffed else very nice copy. Ex LCC copy. Page 129-130 removed. £20.00Wonderful photos with named architects. Includes full page photos of Queen's Hotel, Leeds by W Curtis Green, buildings by Herbert Baker, Lutyens, Lescaze, T Cecil Howitt, Sir Alexander Gibb. Fabulous photos of power stations, banks etc. Sensibly priced in view of missing page.------------------

333 JOSIAH PARKES & SONS LTD Locks and Builders' Hardware. Glossary, design, manufacture and historyWillenhall, 1948. [31043] Frontis, v, 125pp inc illustrations plus 10 lectures on c 115pp with illustrations. Boards, cloth spine, 19x13. Vg. 'Locks' written on bottom edge. £30.00Not just about this firm, this is a valuable reference work packed with arcane information. The glossary is particularly interesting.

334 Keizer & Co. L KEIZER AND CO LTD Concerning Plywood Glass and a Few Allied Products. Liverpool, by the Company, nd, c1934. [21056] Frontis, 76pp incl b&w plates, tables etc. Lettered decorated cloth, 25x19. Top and bottom of spine slightly pulled else very nice bright copy. £50.00Keizer traded under the name ‘Elco’. The Firm had been founded in 1817 and was active in the luxury liner market. This publicity item describes construction processes and has very nice illustrations of fittings in ocean liners, hotels, London shopfronts etc. Scarce and fascinating work.

335 LION FOUNDRY CO LTD (publ) Illustrated Catalogue of Cast Iron Manufactures, Vol I, Seventh Edition Kirkintilloch, nd. c1960. [6802] 336pp, many hundreds of illustrations with specifications, section drawings. Gilt lettered cloth, 38x29. Vg. £40.00Fine catalogue of architectural castings, rain water heads, grates, lamp brackets, fountains, seats, bollards etc. Some nice cast iron building front panels. Lovely copy.

Walter Macfarlane: all manner of products

336 Macfarlane. WALTER MACFARLANE & CO (issued by) Illustrated Catalogue of MacFarlane's Castings. Sixth Edition. Volume 1.

Glasgow, nd 1882. [31058] 396pp inc many hundreds of illustrations with scale drawings, map of Glasgow and beautiful illustrations of the showroom. Gilt lettered boards. 28x19. Cover little rubbed and bottom corners worn, end papers scratched, half centimeter closed tear to map, bottom corners last 51 pages bit chewed, not affecting images. Good tight binding, nice bright images. £75.00This volume has drainage pipes and associated fittings, guttering etc; roofing; railings; gates; panels and ventilators; balconies; all with beautiful, ornate drawings to scale. Lovely drawings showing the application of various bits of ironwork, including valuable details.

337 Macfarlane. WALTER MACFARLANE & CO. (issued by) Macfarlane's Castings [2 volume set]Glasgow, 6th ed, c1891. [4920] 696pp in total, many hundreds of engraved illustrations. Gilt lettered and decorated green cloth, 28x21. Both volumes tightly bound with slightly tanned pages, covers in good condition. Vol 1 ex LCC library with stamp on title page, frontis professionally reattached and with some pencil marks. Vol 2 with owner's signature on title page. £350.00Excellent copies of one of the most comprehensive and sought-after of the MacFarlane catalogues, entirely devoted to architectural decorative detail, including finials, railings, gates, guard posts, staircases, balconies, fountains, baths, columns, lamps and brackets, in all some 22 sections.An incredible range of metal products.--------------------

338 METAL AGENCIES CO LTD BRISTOL Catalogue No 56 Bristol, 1932. [31049] xxviii, 1338pp, profusely illustrated, some in colour and with some colour charts, with descriptions and prices. Decorated cloth, 23x15. Front cover image a little rubbed, index pages browned, still a very nice copy. £40.00A vast M.A.C catalogue, ranging from grates and ranges, sanitary ware, tools, locks, tiles, light fittings, lawnmowers, woodworking machines to cables, forges and fans. Includes many colour illustrations. Outstanding item. '95% of the goods shewn in this catalogue are of British make'. Those were the days!

339 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

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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, naturally provided by Oetzmann, who offer a complete package, down to the cutlery etc. Many of the designs are by W Henry White. Uncommon.

340 Pergolas. HARTMANN-SANDERS COMPANY The Pergola. Catalogue No. 39.Chicago, 1928. [31155] 64pp inc numerous illustrations. Wraps, 26x19. Vg. £65.00Trade catalogue of high-class garden furniture: lattice fences, pergolas, bath and garden houses, arbors etc. Most are priced. Includes fine illustrations of products, many of which are by named architects. Very scarce and useful reference.

341 RD. MELHUISH, Limited Melhuish's Catalogue of Wood Workers' Tools Machines and General Contractor's Appliances, Etc. No 21.London, 1912. [31095] 338pp, inc illustrations with description and price. Decorated cloth, 28x22. A little shaky, cover marked and trifle grubby, contents in very good condition. £110.00A fine trade catalogue, with hundreds of items from tools large and small to technical books and household goods including knives, cutlery, shaving equipment, silver plated ware, office furniture, stoves.

Electrical fittings for casinos, hotels etc

342 S. BERGMANN & C., ACTIEN-GESELLSCHAFT Den Deutschen Architekten gewidmet von................. Fabrik für Isolir-Leitungsrohre und Special-Installations für elektrische Anlagen.Berlin, 1900. [30303] Patterned end papers, 160pp including numerous photos and other illustrations. Striking monogrammed and decorated red cloth covers, 29x23. Faint mark front cover and rubbing top and bottom of spine, generally vg. £165.00The Bergman insulating electrical system was applied in many important buildings, including casinos, hotels, railway stations, spas, synagogues, skyscrapers etc. This fine trade publicity item shows a great many of the buildings this firm had fitted out by 1900, together with some technical data. Numereous examples from Germany illustrated, as well as Scandinavia, Holland, Belgium, USA etc are illustrated. The American ones have named architects; these include Sullivan, Post, McKim,

Mead & White, Kimball & Thompson etc. A beautiful item and very informative.----------------------

343 SEARS John Ed and SEARS J E (eds) The Builders' Compendium and Annual Catalogue of the Building TradesThe Compendium Publishing Co, 1934. [30933] 379pp. Gilt lettered cloth, 28x22. Foxing to prelims else vg. £35.00Very period.

344 Skyscrapers. CADMAN S Parkes (foreword) Cathedral of Commerce. NY, 1916. [30853] 28pp inc illustrations, some in colour. Gilt decorated card covers, 28x20. Vg, still in its original envelope, this somewhat dusty and torn but complete. £50.00Early brochure for the Woolworth Building. Designed by Cass Gilbert, it was opened in 1913 by President Wilson. A fine contemporary guide and celebration of this great skyscraper, then the tallest in the world. Unlike most later skyscrapers it had a great many decorative details, some in the gothic style. The interiors were also very ornate. A beautifully produced guide, still in its original envelope.

345 THE IRONMONGER The Modern Ironmonger. A guide to the management of the business of a twentieth century "Complete Ironmonger".London, 1905. [31029] viii, 341pp inc tables, 82 figs. Cloth, 18x13. Spine edges trifle rubbed and little foxing to end papers, top corners a little rubbed but generally vg for its age. £50.00Everything the ironmonger needs to know to set up in business from fitting out the shop to stocking it, grinding cutlery, rates of pay etc. A fascinating document. Scarce.

346 THE STANDARD CATALOGUE CO LTD (publ) Buildings Trades' Standard Catalogue (Fifth Edition). Part 1-Builders & Contractors, Etc 1935-37London, 1935. [31057] xxviii, c450pp in 13 sections inc illustrations, some in colour and descriptions. 6 revised and discounted price lists 1935-37 loosely inserted Cloth, 30x25. Cloth a little grubby and dusty, tabs on edge dusty and rubbed, binding tight and contents vg. £40.00Lovely illustrations, especially the colour ones of bricks, marble, roof tiles. A fine 1930s builder's catalogue. Includes Art Deco examples, suburban villas, metropolitan flats etc. Many of the examples are by named architects.

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‘The largest cornice pole house in the world’

347 W A HUDSON, LTD Cabinet Ironmongery and Cornice Poles. Issue No 27 [cover title] London, nd, c1910? [31094] 150pp, all examples illustrated in colour with sizes and prices. Cloth, 28x22. Vg. £110.00Hundreds of illustrations, all in various shades of gold, silver and bronze. Curtain poles and accessories, castors, stair rods, fireplace furniture, letterboxes, knobs and screws for all occasions. 'The largest cornice pole house in the world'. Nice item, beautifully produced.----------------------

348 WARING AND GILLOW Souvenir du nouvel de Waring and Gillow, Oxford Street, Londres 1906. [29997] Frontis, 23pp inc 8 photos. Stapled covers, 18x13. Covers split top and bottom as far as staples, small piece missing bottom corner, contents vg. £25.00The new building was at 162-180 Oxford Street. The firm were very popular at the time and the displays were sumptuous.

349 WILLIAM DIBBEN & SONS, LTD Builders' Merchants and Ironmongers Southampton. Catalogue No. 36Southampton, nd, c1936. [30967] xx, 614pp inc illustrations, some in colour, with descriptions and prices. Folding colour chart of Stonite One Piece Fireplaces. Cloth, 28x22. Good solid copy. Cover lettering little rubbed, back cover marked and scuffed, minor bumping to foredge of pages, contents nice and bright, especially colour illustrations. Fold-out repaired. £85.00Complete builder's compendium. Thousands of illustrations including, for example, nice sections on leaded lights and fireplaces with colour images.

350 WILLIAM MIDDLETON Hinges, Locks, Ironfoundry Kendal, 1935. [31047] 90pp inc illustrations with sizes and prices. Wraps, 25x18. Covers grubby, staples rusty, some old watermarks to first and last few pages, binding tight. £20.00Trade publication with good selections of locks, pulleys etc.

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