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anthol: Southill, a Regency House — Faber & Faber, 1951; 1st edn, with dust cover in poor condition with one long tear, repaired; green buckram in mint condition; 70pp+4pp index, 90 plates, a study of the house that has been the home of the Whitbreads since it was built; 10x7½". $55 Add to Shopping Cart (bdg001) |
Beattie, William: The Castles and Abbeys of England 1st and 2nd series — George Virtue; 1860; red buckram, gold tooled, spine detatched over ½" else in very fine condition; 1st series, 352pp in near-mint condition; 2nd series, 362pp in mint condition; with more than 200 steel engravings; 11½x7¾". $300 Add to Shopping Cart (bdg002)
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Betjeman, John: A pictorial History of English Architecture — Penguin, 1974, trade paperback in laminated pictorial card covers, in near- mint condition (one corner creased); 103pp+7pp credits, index, several illustrations on every page; 1¼x9¼". $12.50 Add to Shopping Cart (bdg003) |
Bonney, T.G.: Cathedrals Abbeys & Churches of England and Wales in 2 vols — Cassell, 1891; brown buckram with leather spine and quarters, both in near-mint condition; Vol I — pp1-398. Vol II — 399-830+8pp index; gold tops; copiously illustrated; (4½Kg) 11¼x9". $184 Add to Shopping Cart (bdg004)
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Bossaglia, Rossana: Art Nouveau, Revolution in Interior Design — The Crescent Connoisseur's Library, New York, 1973; 1st edn, with dust cover in fine condition (slightly torn); brown boards in near-mint condition; 14pp text, 48pp colour illustrations covering 128 artists and designers; 12x9". $20 Add to Shopping Cart (bdg005) |
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Cubitt, James: A Short Specification — Materials, Labour, and Goods for Works Connected with Building Crosby, Lockwood & Son, 1911; with dust cover in fair condition, torn; blue buckram in mint condition; viii+106pp with trade ads at the foot of each page; landscape format 8½x11¼". $17 Add to Shopping Cart (bdg006) |
Curl, James Stevens: Victorian Architecture, its Practical Aspects — David & Charles, 1973; 1st edn, with dust cover in near-mint condition; black cloth in mint condition; 128pp with index, biblio, 61 plates, 9 line illustrations in text; 9¾x7½". $14 Add to Shopping Cart (bdg008)
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Ditchfield, P.H.: Vanishing England — Methuen, 1911, 2nd edn; blue buckram with some discolour; contents in very fine condition; xvi+398pp+5pp index+30pp ads, with 125 illustrations by Fred Roe; 9x6¼". $28 Add to Shopping Cart (bdg009)
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Dixon, Roger and Stefan Muthesius: Victorian Architecture — Thames & Hudson, 1978; 1st edn, with dust cover, in mint condition; red cloth; 288pp with index, biblio, dictionary of architects, 251 illustrations; 8½x6". $27 Add to Shopping Cart (bdg010) |
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Dobson, Charles : A History of the Concrete Roofing Tile – its origin and development in Germany — Batsford, 1959,1st edn; with dust cover in fine condition (slightly scuffed at top of spine and stuck to cover at foot of front), red cloth in mint condition except where stuck to cover; 102+9pp technical notes, index all on gloss paper in mint condition; 4 maps, 73 halftones; before this book was published architectural historians thought the concrete roofing tile was invented in England c1918. In fact it was invented in the 1840s in southern Germany; this is the most comprehensive history of the subject ever written; 7½x5". $14.00 Add to Shopping Cart (bdg029) |
Dutton, Ralph: The Victorian Home — Some Aspects of Nineteenth Century Taste and Manners — Batsford, 1954; 1st edn, with dust cover torn and part-missing; red cloth in very fine condition, contents in mint condition; x+206pp with index, colour frontis, 102 other illustrations; 1½x7". $45 Add to Shopping Cart (bdg012)
Fletcher, Banister: Valuation for Compensations — a textbook on the practice of valuing property and compensations in relation thereto for the use of architects, surveyors, etc — Batsford, 1905; 3rd edn; red buckram in fair condition, stained with use but physically undamaged; xvi+228pp+14pp ads; 7¼x5". $14 Add to Shopping Cart (bdg014)
Fletcher, Banister: Valuation for Compensations — Valuing Property and Compensations in Relation Thereto — Batsford, 1913; 4th edn; red buckram in near-mint condition; xxvi+446pp; 7¼x5". $17 Add to Shopping Cart (bdg015)
Gilliatt, Mary: A House in the Country — the second home from cottages to castles — with photos by Brian Morris — Hutchinson, 1973; 1st edn, with dust cover in near-mint condition; red cloth in mint condition; 160pp with more than 200 photos, 30 in colour; 12x8½". $24 Add to Shopping Cart (bdg017)
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Heath, Sidney: Old English Houses of Alms — a pictorial record with architectural and historical notes — Francis Griffiths, 1st edn, 1910; brown boards in very fine condition, oatmeal cloth spine discoloured but undamaged; 148pp+4pp ads, with 7 illustrations, descriptions of 43 alms houses from almost every county, 49 superb line drawings, 4 large gatefold plans; 12¾x1½". $86 Add to Shopping Cart (bdg020) |
Jennings, H.J.: Our Homes and How to Beautify Them — Harrison & Sons, 1902; 1st edn, issued w/o cover, buckram spine dirty, pictorial boards spotted, pages in very fine condition; 254pp with 145 fine gravure illustrations; styles vary from 'Tudorbethan', rustic, empire, arts & crafts, medieval, and C.R. Mackintosh; 9¾x7½". $125 Add to Shopping Cart (bdg023)
Sherman, Margaret (ed): Daily Mail Ideal Home Book, 1948-49 — with dust cover in fair condition, tears at top and bade of spine; white boards in very fine condition; 264pp, including a dozen high-quality gravure reproductions of watercolours by Thomas Rowlandson printed on recto pages only, measuring around 10x6½" each, also articles on Creating the Home, Making the Home Beautiful, Managing the Home, Home Life and Leisure, and a special survey of Princess Elizabeth's new country home, Windlesham Moor; 12¼x9½". $65 Add to Shopping Cart (bdg025)
Victoria & Albert Museum (Dept of Woodwork): The Panelled Rooms — all 1st edns, bound in grey boards; in very fine condition except as noted. Vol I, 1914: The Bromley Room — spine scuffed; 22pp text+2pp biblio, 16 plates. Vol II, 1914: The Clifford's Inn Room — 15pp text+1p biblio, 12 plates. Vol III, 1915: The Invalid Room from Sizergh Castle — spine slightly stained; 32pp text+2pp biblio, 15 plates, 9¾x7¼". $127 Add to Shopping Cart (bdg026)
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West, Trudi: The Timber-Frame House in England — Readers Union, undated but c1960, with dust cover, in mint condition; black cloth; 205pp+18pp appendix, in dex, 51 drawings and diagrams by Paul Dong, 39 plates on art paper; 8½x6". $17 Add to Shopping Cart (bdg027) |