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British and Foreign Building Stones: A Descriptive Catalogue of the Specimens in the Sedgwick Museum, Cambridge.
Cambridge: University Press, 1911.
First edition. viii, 483pp. Nice 20thC bookplate tipped in on pastedown, which also has a few numbers in ink, and errata notes in pencil on front free endpaper. Occasional notes and emphases in the text. Contents firm and not soiled. In the original navy cloth with rounded corners, spine lettered in gilt. Binding firm and fairly clean, spine extremities fraying slightly. VG.
Price: £46.00
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Moslem Architecture: Its Origin and Development.
Oxford: Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, 1918.
First English edition. xvii, 383pp, illustrated with many plates and text illustrations. Ex-library copy: pastedown damaged from removed label, front free endpaper removed, half-title stamped 'withdrawn', and margins of some plates have a small circular stamp. Contents otherwise clean and in very good order. Large quarto, in the original navy cloth, with elaborate decoration to the boards - in gilt on the front, in blind on the back. The spine is titled in gilt, even the library number is written in gilt: pale patch towards base of spine. Clean and firm, gilt a little rubbed but bright, slight ridge to spine, ends puckered. Very Good.
Price: £88.00
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3 vol set: English Country Houses: Early Georgian 1715-1760; Mid-Georgian, 1760-1800; Late Georgian, 1800-40.
Woodbridge: Antique Collectors' Club, 1984.
Limited Edition reprint: #209/1200. 256pp, 255pp, 255pp: illustrated in monochrome. Each book bears the bookplate of Michael Wright, former editor of Country Life, which published the original edition. Contents otherwise very fresh, clean and unmarked, appearing unread. Large quarto, in the original bindings of pale moss-green cloth, lettered in gilt, very fresh, clean and bright. The first and last vols have slight compression to the spine ends: all corners sharp. The pictorial dustjackets are bright and fresh, but have small knocks at spine ends: that of the first vol also has a 5mm closed tear at head of lower joint, and a slight knock to the top edge. Beautiful set. Near Fine in VG+ dust-jacket.
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Price: £240.00
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The Lutyens Memorial. The Architecture of Sir Edwin Lutyens (3 vols), together with The Life of Sir Edwin Lutyens.
Woodbridge: The Antique Collectors Club, 1984.
Large Folio: Vol I: 61pp text + 110 plates of Architectural Drawings, followed by 271 photographs (unpaginated); the corresponding figures for Vols II & III are: 52, 121, 277; 59, 107, 173. The Life (large quarto): xxii, 602pp. Massive set, beautifully produced. Limited Edition reprint (1500 copies) of the Country Life edition of 1950, this being No.10 of 20 review copies. Contents in each case very fresh, clean and unmarked. Some pastedowns have creasing next to hinge where board pulled, now re-firmed. Dark green cloth titled in gilt, clean, bright, and sharp. Pictorial dustjackets slightly sunned, with knocks to edges, and the top edge of the lower panel of the Vol I jacket is damaged, with a five-inch chip, some creasing and a closed tear, but the plan illustration is not affected. The Life is bound in a lighter cloth, generally clean and bright, but with a few faint marks, and the base of the spine is blunted. Very Good+ in VG dust-jacket.
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Price: £700.00
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Dilemma of Style : Architectural Ideas from the Picturesque to the Post-Modern.
London: John Murray, 1987.
First edition. 348pp, with many succinctly subtitled illustrations. Contents very fresh, clean and unmarked, may be unread. Quarto, in the original light fawn weave cloth, spine titled in gilt on maroon lettering-piece, all very fresh, bright and sharp, with very slight blunting to base of spine. In protected unclipped dustjacket, very bright and clean, with tiny scuffs at upper corners. Very Near Fine in ditto jacket. Beautiful copy of the first printing of a key work.
Price: £60.00
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London & Continental Stations & Property Ltd, n.d. (1995).
Probable first and only edition. 20pp, richly illustrated in black and white and colour: large quarto (11.7" x 8.3") in thin pictorial card covers. A brief history of the building and highlights of its refurbishment up to 1995, published on the occasion of the completion of the external restoration works. I can find no record of this publication on Copac or elsewhere on the net. Near-Fine.
Price: £50.00
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The Modern House Today.
London: Black Dog Publishing, 2001.
First edition. 219pp, (4): illustrated throughout in colour and with plans. Contents fresh and clean. Large quarto, laminated pictorial thin card covers, firm and bright, with a 4mm brown spot at head of upper joint. Near Fine.
Price: £75.00
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