Architecture, Landscape, City Planning, Design
Catalogue 188
ARCHITECTURE, LANDSCAPE, CITY PLANNING, DESIGN:
100 Books
1.ADAMS Maurice BModern Cottage Architecture:illustrated from works of well-known architects.
London, B.T. Batsford1904.[31839] Frontis, iv, 29pp incl text figs plus 50 single-sided plates. Cloth, top edge gilt, 29x19. Respined, small localised marks to front cover, good copy with nice bright plates. £75.00
An excellent Edwardian survey, though most of the examples are hardly cottages in the conventional sense. Includes Lorimer, Lutyens, Brierley, Edgar Wood, Newton, Goodhart-Rendel etc. There are also three examples from Port Sunlight.
Three Major Ashbee Titles
2.ASHBEE C RThe Trinity Hospital in .. Mile End: an object lesson in National History by.... Being the first monograph of the Committee for the Survey of the Memorials of Greater London.
London, Guild & School of Handicraft, Essex House,1896.[31825] Frontis, 36pp (+ ip advert for Guild's publications)+ 13 plates, several being fold-outs, incl 2 with colour. Original stiff paper wraps with Guild monogram. 31x24. Small tears to overlapping paper edges (as usual), otherwise a bright copy. £95.00
A key publication in the history of British architectural conservation. Ashbee organised the successful campaign, with SPAB and the Metropolitan Gardens Association, to preserve this 18th century building from demolition. A listed building process for London began soon after.
3.ASHBEE C.R.Where the Great City Stands: A Study in the New Civics.
London, The Essex House Press & B.T. Batsford,1917.[31824] xii, 165pp, 121 illustrations, many being hors-texte b&w plates + list of Essex House publications. Erratum slip. Original decorated patterned boards, cream cloth spine. 29cm x 23cm. A very nice copy of a book usually in poor condition, if found at all. £375.00
Ashbee's philosophy of architecture and urban form, influenced by Morris and Ruskin’s ideas and his own pioneering work on conservation.
4.ASHBEE C. R. (ed)Jerusalem 1920-1922Being the Records of the Pro-Jerusalem Council during the First Two Years of the Civil Administration. Edited for the Council of the Pro-Jerusalem Council.
London, John Murray, for the Council of the Pro-Jerusalem Society,1921.[31826] Frontis, xvi, 109pp + 69 b&w plates + 2 colour fold-out plans, also text plans and diagrams throughout, bibliography. Preface by Sir Ronald Storrs, Governor of Jerusalem.. Lovely original pictorial lettered boards, gilt lettered cloth spine. 30x23. End papers have minor old cellotape marks, small old worm holes repaired. An unusually nice bright copy. Inscribed "H.E.S. from C.R.A. Salaam! Nov. 1924" on front end-paper. £300.00
Ashbee was Civic Advisor to the City of Jerusalem and makes the major contribution to this Report; including his important plan for the city, with designs for Jewish Garden Cities etc.. His close involvement can also be seen in the beautiful layout and design of this volume. Rare.
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5.Beckford. WILLIAM BECKFORD EXHIBITION (issued by)William Beckford Exhibition,
Venue unstated. Bath? 1976[31807] 99pp (+ adverts), including illustrations, chronology, bibliography. All exhibits carefully described. Fwd. by Kenneth Clark, biographical introduction by James Lees-Milne. Wraps. 21x15 Fine copy. £15.00
A valuable exhibition, packed with information. Scarce.
Bedford Park – a model suburb
6.Bedford Park. BOLSTERLI Margaret JonesThe Early Community at Bedford Park:The Pursuit of "Corporate Happiness" in the First Garden Suburb.
London and Henley, Routledge & KP,1977.[31162] xii, 136pp, incl 25 illustrations. Cloth. 26x18. Vg indeed, dust wrapper. £30.00
Still perhaps the best source on this influential London model suburb (started 1876).
7.Bedford Park. GREEVES T AffleckBedford Park: the first garden suburb.
London, Anne Bingley,1975.[31581] No pagination, 117 annotated b&w illustrations, map, bibliog. Newspaper obituary of Tom Greeves, conservation architect and draughtsman, loosely inserted. Board. 25x19. Spine sunned and two owner labels inside front cover, good copy. £30.00
A small architectural classic, well illustrated.
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8.BENOIT-LEVY GeorgesLa Cité-Jardin
Paris, Henri Jouve,1904.[30296] vii, 285pp plus 33 figs mostly on single-sided plates. Preface by Charles Gide. Marbled boards with matching end papers, cloth spine and corners, 23x17. Pages little tanned, owner's stamp on fly, small old water stain top of couple of pages, good tight binding and nice plates. £295.00
This volume contains much on Port Sunlight, Bournville and similar model settlements, also a chapter on Garden Cities round the world. Benoit-Levy (1880-1971) was very active in the Association of Garden Cities of France, founded in 1903. He himself designed a number of industrial villages. He was also an advocate of Soria-y-Mata's Spanish Linear City ideas. All original editions of Benoit-Levy's books are now very scarce.
9.BENTON Charlotte, with contributions by ELLIOTT & HARWOOD David & ElainA Different World: Emigré Architects in Britain 1928-1958.
London, RIBA,1995. (Catalogue).[31817] 232pp, several b&w illustrations & drawings, chronology, biographies, gazetter. Laminated wraps. 21x21. Neat name inside cover. vg copy. £55.00
A fine & informative catalogue, which cast much new light on this episode. As well as the well known names: Goldfinger Lubetkin, Gropius, Korn etc, many other interesting figures appear: Ascher, Kulka, Kretschmer etc. Excellent reference work. Uncommon.
10.BOURNVILLE VILLAGE TRUSTThe Bournville Village Trust 1900-1955.
Bournville,1956.[31185] Colour frontis, 135pp, a great many b&w photos, maps, plans etc., bibliography. Cloth. 23x16. Inscribed by Ralph Barlow, head of Estates Office, Bournville, vg in dust wrapper. £25.00
One of the best sources on Bournville and other building activities of the Trust.
11.Bridges. JERVOISE EThe Ancient Bridges of The South of England.
The Ancient Bridges of The North of England
The Ancient Bridges of Mid & Eastern England
The Ancient Bridges of Wales and Western England
[4 uniform volumes]
London, Architectural Press,1931-6.[31783] Frontis, xvi, 128pp: frontis, xii, 146pp: frontis, xi, 164pp: frontis, xii, 180pp. All plus plates Cloth, 19x13. South of England volume is ex libris C R Ashbee, with his ownership label. A good set. Light foxing on edges. £120.00
Useful account written for SPAB. Uncommon as a set.
12.BRISTOW Ian CArchitectural Colour in British Interiors 1615-1840
New Haven, Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art,1996.[31838] 320pp, 54 b&w illustrations + 166 colour plates. Detailed bibliography. Gilt lettered cloth, 32x24. Fine copy, as new in dust wrapper and slip case. £65.00
Indispensable source book on this important topic, by a specialist consultant in the redecoration of historic interiors.
Bungalows – ground-breaking house type?
13.Bungalows. HARRISON PercivalBungalow Residences: A handbook for all interested in Building.
London, Crosby Lockwood,1909.[5727] 76pp + ix pp interesting trade adverts, c20 figs, + 22 plates (elevations, ground plans, etc), adverts on end papers. Pictoral cloth, 22x15. Vg. £30.00
A charming little book 'to assist the layman who may be contemplating the erection of a bungalow....' The illustrations and technical details are very interesting
14.Bungalows. KING Anthony DThe Bungalow:The Production of a Global Culture.
London, RKP,1984.[31622] Frontis, xvii, 310pp, a great many photos, plans etc, bibliography. Gilt lettered cloth, 25x20. Vg, dust wrapper. £25.00
Pioneering study of this house type and its complex, sometimes arcane, history worldwide.
15.Bungalows. RANDAL PHILLIPS RThe 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. £35.00
Interesting 1920s study, with examples by Williams-Ellis, Unwin, Howitt etc..
Cinema Architecture – three scarce titles
16.Cinemas. PENZ François & THOMAS Maureen (eds)Cinema & Architecture: Méliès, Mallet-Stevens, Multimedia
London, B.F.I.,1997.[31286] 212pp, 180 illustrations, filmography. Wraps, 23x23. Vg.£95.00
Contributors include Tim Benton, Nicholas Bullock, Odile Vaillant. Extremely scarce.
17.Cinemas. SCHLIEPMANN Hans (text)Lichtspieltheater.Eine Sammlung Ausgeführter Kinohäuser in Gross-Berlin.
Berlin, Wasmuth,1914.[30312] Coloured frontis, 104pp + colour plate, and including 109 illustrations and 71 full-page high-quality photographic plates, cinema plans and technical diagrams. Stiff card. 32x24. Spine professionally repaired, a very nice copy of a book normally in poor condition - if found at all. £250.00
This historic work is possibly the first complete book on the architecture of cinemas. By this date the cinema, as a building type, can clearly be seen moving away from its origins in theatre design. Very scarce.
18.Cinemas. ZUCKER PaulTheater und Lichtspielhäuser.
Berlin, Ernst Wasmuth,1926.[30428] 179pp incl 168 plates (high-quality photos, measured drawings etc). Red cloth, 32x24. Very nice copy.
£275.00
A classic early book on the modernist cinema and theatre, including work by Poelzig, Gropius, van de Velde, Perret. Paul Zucker (1888-1971) was equally effective as architect, architectural writer and town planner. He played an active part in the cultural life of Weimar Berlin, designing elegant shops and offices, as well as teaching and writing. He was forced to emigrate to the USA in 1937.
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19.COLVIN Howard & HARRIS John (eds)The Country Seat: Studies in the History of the British Country House. Presented to Sir John Summerson.....
London, Allen Lane The Penguin Press,1970.[31378] Frontis portrait, 295pp, 184 illustrations, Summerson bibliography. Cloth, board spine. 28x20. Faint evidence of label removed inside front cover, small stamp on title-page, library stamps on edges, vg thus, in good dustwrapper. £30.00
Pioneering collection of essays on this subject.
William Cooper- an early Catalogue
20.Conservaories, Greenhouses etc. WILLIAM COOPERIllustrated Catalogue of Conservatories, Greenhouses, Vineries,Section 1. Orchid Houses, Plant and Forcing Houses, Melon and Cucumber Frames, Garden Frames, Forcing Pits, Handlights etc
Section II. Portable Wooden Building, Photographic Studios & Dark Rooms etc
Section III. Incubators, Foster Mothers etc.
Section IV. Latest Design in Rustic Work.
Section V. Iron Buildings, Churches, Chapels, Mission Rooms, Hospitals etc.
Section VI. Dog Kennels.
Section VII.Heating Apparatus, Boilers, Pipes etc.
Section VIII. Horticultural Timber
Section IX. Price List of Horticultural Manures, Fertilizers etc.
Section X. Horticultural Sundries.
London,nd, c1903.[31878] 415pp, hundreds of illustrations. Cloth, 19x13. Small stain top corner of first couple of pages else vg. Page 323 has large closed tear. £80.00
Delightful catalogue with beautiful drawings. Prices and Sizes included in descriptions. Seems to be a very early Cooper's catalogue, the most interesting one we have seen. Includes such prefabricated gems as a portable hospital, African merchant's station, mission room and swimming bath.
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21.CORNFORTH JohnThe Search for a Style:Country Life and Architecture 1897-1935.
NY, W. W. Norton,(1988) 1st American ed.[30694] 263pp, 270 illustrations (mainly photos). Cloth. 30x23. Fine, dust wrapper. £50.00
Innovative study, based on the unique "Country Life" photographic archives. Becoming scarce.
22.Cotton Mills. AMALGAMATED COTTON MILLS TRUST LIMITEDConcerning Cotton.A Brief Account of the Aims and Achievements of the......
1920.[23261] Decorated end papers, unpaginated, coloured frontis, 6pp foreword, c280pp, divided into sections with tabs on the side. Stiff wraps with attractive paste-on label, 29x23. Wraps rubbed round edges else vg. £120.00
Sumptuous art deco trade publicity catalogue, with wonderful coloured images of the mill buildings and work going on inside. Many major UK firms are represented: the Horrockses, Eckersleys, R Hyde Buckley, John Ashworth, Redmayne Isherwood, Haslam Spinning, Haslam Weaving, Cellular Clothing et al. A delightful item, celebrating a now vanished world. Uncommon
23.COUNCIL FOR RESEARCH ON HOUSING CONSTRUCTION (publ)Slum Clearance and Rehousing.The First Report of the Council for Research on Housing Construction.
London, P.S. King,1934.[31837] 139pp, 20 figs (some colour) + 23 photos. Gilt lettered cloth. 29x22. An unusually nice copy. Loosly inserted is an article, 28pp, from the Journal of RIBA, 22 Feb, 1936 by Robert H Matthew, "Slum Clearance..Winning Design and Report" (two schemes submitted for the Bossom Travelling Studentship, 1935-36). £85.00
This was an excellent survey, with revealing illustrations, of model tenement housing in Britain, Germany & Austria. A major study.
Czech Modernism
24.Czechoslovakia. ADLEROVA Alena (text)Cesky Funkcionalismus 1920-1940.Architektura Bytove Zarizena Uzita Grafika. [cover title]
Prague & Brno, UP Museum & Moravska Galerie,1978.[30463] 80pp text inc bibliog and 12 pages illustrations, with further 48pp of illustrations numbered 111-229 plus 14 pages of description. Wraps, 24x23. Bottom corner trifle bumped, else vg in dust wrapper. £45.00
Catalogue for an exhibition of modernist decorative arts in this period, including furniture, textiles, lighting, ceramics etc.
25.Czechoslovakia. ANDEL JaroslavThe new vision for the new architecture.Czechoslovakia 1918-1938.
Zurich, Scalo,2006.[25688] 278pp incl very many photos, biographies of architects and photographers, bibliog. Cloth, 29x23. Fine, in fine dust wrapper. £25.00
Architectural photography produced in Czechoslovakia in the 20s and 30s from the work of architects of the same period. Architects include, Gocar, Fuchs, Hruby, Kranz, Slapeta et al. Photographers include Plicka, Sudek, the Sandalos et al. There are chapters on industrial architecture, office buildings, arcades and department stores, family houses, cafes etc. Beautiful book with lots of information.
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26.DAVIS Charles ThomasA Practical Treatise on the Manufacture ofBricks, Tiles, Terra-Cotta, Etc including stiff-clay, dry-clay, hand-made, pressed or front and roadway paving brick, enameled-brick, with glazes and colours, fire-brick, and blocks, silica-brick, carbon-brick, glass-pots, retorts, terra-cotta, drain-tile, glazed and unglazed roofing tile, art-tile, mosaics and imitation on intarsia, or inlaid surfaces; comprising every product of clay employed in architectural, engineering, and the blast furnace....
Philadelphia, Henry Carey Baird & Co,1895, 3rd ed revised.[31721] Frontis, xxxiv, 628pp incl 261 figs. Cloth, 24x17. Fair copy only. Contents in good condition. £150.00
A major late Victorian study, with much out-of-the-way information on these materials.
27.DAVISON T Raffles (ed)The Arts Connected with Building:Lectures on craftsmanship and design delivered at Carpenters Hall London Wall for the Worshipful Company of Carpenters.....
London, B.T. Batsford,1909.[31831] Frontis, xi, 224pp, many photos, plans. Pictorial paper-backed spine, decorated lettered cloth, 21x14. End papers foxed, head and tail of spine frayed, contents good, generally a fair copy. £75.00
An important Arts & Crafts collection. The lectures were by Schultz, Voysey, Dawber, Turner, Troup, Romney Green, Baillie Scott, Chas Spooner and J. Starkie Gardner. The aim was, “...to stimulate the ambition of craftsmen towards a high ideal of attainment.”
Lewis Day
28.Day. HANSEN Joan MariaLewis Foreman Day (1845-1910). Unity in Design and Industry.
Woodbridge, Antique Collector’s Club,2007.[25207] Pictoral end papers, 319pp incl numerous illustrations, many in colour, bibliog. Cloth. 31x21. Fine, dust wrapper. £35.00
First full-scale monograph on this designer, based on much original research. Beautifully produced book and valuable reference.
29.DAY Lewis FNature in Ornament.
London, B. T. Batsford ("Text Books of Ornamental Design"),1896.[31688] Pictorial frontispiece, xxiii, 260pp (+ 8pp Batsford adverts at end) + 123 plates and including 192 figs. Patter ned end papers. Top edge gilt. Gilt lettered and patterned green cloth. 19x14. Prize label inside front cover. Rear end paper and last page of adverts a little rubbed on outer edges. A nice copy of a handsome book. £45.00
Beautiful Victorian binding. Original edition of one of the finest of the Day ornament design books.
Other Day titles in stock. Please enquire.
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30.Dover Castle. PUCKLE Rev JohnThe Church and Fortress of Dover Castle
Oxford and London, John Henry and James Parker,1864.[31195] Colour frontis, 132pp plus 10 single-sided plates, two being folding plans. Cloth, 23x16. Folding plans and facing pages spotted, spine trifle sun faded, generally a good copy. £30.00
A valuable Victorian account of this great complex.
The Gothic Revival – a guide to good practice
31.ECCLESIOLOGICAL LATE CAMBRIDGE CAMDEN SOCIETY (editors)Instrumenta Ecclesiastica.First and Second Series
London, John van Voorst,1847 and 1856.[31794] Vol 1: 122 plates with facing descriptions. Vol 2: 72 plates with descriptions. Full leather, 29x23. Leather rubbed on edges and quite a large chunk missing from front of vol 1 and small piece from front of vol 2. Foxing and browning to many pages. Still sturdy and robust copies. £750.00
The Society presents acceptable designs suitable for new churches, including furnishings, pulpits, crosses, fonts, pews etc. Many examples are taken directly from medieval originals. Others are designs adapted for modern purposes. One of the most important sources for the Oxford Movement's approach to new designs. There is much stress on historical accuracy and its relationship to liturgical practices.Naturally, William Butterfield, official advisor to the Society, is often featured, also Slater, Street, Woodyer and Carpenter. Scarce, particularly both volumes together, vol 2 being particularly difficult to find.
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32.FREEMAN Edward AAn Essay on the Origin and Development of Window Tracery in England;with nearly four hundred illustrations.
Oxford and London, John Henry Parker,nd, c1850.[31775] xvi, 305pp plus 74 single-sided plates. Top edge gilt. Embossed cloth, 22x15. Very good cover and contents with a little foxing to first and last couple of pages. Someone has very neatly and faintly in pencil, identified each illustrations underneath. £95.00
An improved and extended form of several papers read before the Oxfird Archaeological Society 1846-1848. Important Gothic Revival texts.
German Garden Design – some titles
33.AUGUST SCHERLE (publ)Hausgärten.Skizzen und Entwürfe aus dem Wettbewerb der Woche.
Berlin,1908.[28968] xviipp plus 119pp incl plans, sketches etc, plus six colour plates. Texts by Fritz Encke, Hermann Muthesius. Boards with coloured oval paste-on label, linen spine, 21x30. Bottom rh corner bumped else vg. £120.00
Beautiful Arts & Crafts style guide and pattern book for garden architecture. As well as many garden designs, there are examples of furniture, details of suitable plants, garden architecture etc. The lovely colour plates show garden ensembles. Architects featured include Fahrenkamp, Olbricht and Tessenow. An outstanding item.
34.BRINCKMANN A ESchöne Gärten Villen und Schlössen.Aus Fünf Jahrhunderten.
Munich, Algemeine Verlag,1925.[22050] 215pp incl a great many photos, plans and artist’s views. Gilt lettered pictoral cloth, 29x24. Good copy. £65.00
Brinckmann was a significant writer on townscape and urban history, garden design and related topics of this period. In this work he begins with the gothic garden and there is a long section on eighteenth and nineteenth century German gardens (the English naturalistic style is hardly covered).