(Adam). Thom, Colin. (Editor). ROBERT ADAM AND HIS BROTHERS. New light on Britain’s leading architectural family. Foreword by Keith Adam of Blair Adam. Historic England, Swindon 2019.
1st Ed. 4to. [x] + 269pp. + [i]. Colour frontis., profusely illus. in colour and b/w. throughout. Very good in d/w.
£50.00 [ref: 287947]

(Burton). Rabbitts, Paul A. DECIMUS BURTON. Gentleman Architect. Lund Humphries 2021.
1st Ed. Royal 8vo. 208pp. 137 figures with many in colour and from photos. Very good in original coloured pictorial boards.
£30.00 [ref: 287915]

(Douglas). Hubbard, Edward. THE WORK OF JOHN DOUGLAS. Victorian Society 1991.
1st Ed. Royal 8vo. [xxii] + 289pp. + [iii]. Colour frontis., profusely illus., mainly from photos., with 3 pages in colour. Illus. e.ps., good in d/w. very lightly faded to spine.
£40.00 [ref: 287919]

(Gandy). Lukacher, Brian. JOSEPH GANDY. An Architectural Visionary in Georgian England. Thames & Hudson 2006.
1st UK Ed. 4to. 222pp. + [ii]. 205 ills., 49 in colour. Good in d/w. with sm. closed tear at head of spine.
£25.00 [ref: 287987]

(Lutyens). Butler, A.S.G. THE DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE OF SIR EDWIN LUTYENS. With the Collaboration of George Stewart & Christopher Hussey. A reprint of the Country-Houses volume from the three volume Lutyens memorial set ‘The Architecture of Sir Edwin Lutyens.’ Antique Collectors’ Club 2003.
Reprint. Folio. 62pp. Port. frontis., 110 architectural drawing plates, 271 photos. Lower leading corner of upper board sl. bumped, otherwise very good in d/w.
£140.00 [ref: 278915]

(Vanbrugh). Whistler, Laurence. THE IMAGINATION OF VANBRUGH And his Fellow Artists. Art & Technics Limited/B.T. Batsford Limited 1954.
1st Ed. Tall 4to. [xvi] + 270pp. Frontis., vignette t.p., 140 plates mainly from photos., several text ills. E.ps. and fore-edge of leaves lightly spotted, good in lightly rubbed d/w. lightly faded to spine and with loss at tail, repaired in parts to verso with selotape.
Presenting unpublished and newly discovered material, studying not only the art of Vanburgh, but also contemporary artists that came into contact with him, chiefly Hawksmoor, with Talmun, Wren, Gibbs and Roger Morris among architects and London, Wise, Switzer, Bridgeman and Kent among garden designers.
£125.00 [ref: 278963]

(Wren). THE ELEVENTH VOLUME OF THE WREN SOCIETY 1934. Being Designs by Sir Chr. Wren for Westminster Abbey, the New Dormitory Westminster School, Works at Westminster Palace for the Houses of Parliament, and the House, Library and Garden of Sir John Cotton; also for Sir John Moore’s School at Christ’s Hospital, Newgate Street, and for his School at Appleby in Leicestershire. Oxford for the Wren Society at the University Press 1934.
1st Ed. 4to. 124pp. + [iv] list of members. Port. frontis., 64 plates. Ex.-libris Edgar G. Harcourt, e.ps. and edges of leaves sl. spotted, original black lettered light grey cloth backed boards, soiled and rubbed, extremities rubbed with paper loss to corners, surface wear and browning.
Issued only to Subscribers.
£30.00 [ref: 292970]

Baker, Arthur and Herbert. PLAS MAWR Conway, N. Wales. Illustrated and Described by ... Printed and Published (for the authors) by Farmer & Sons ... 1888.
1st Ed. Large 4to. 62pp. 23 plates. With 3pp. Subscribers. Light browning, original gilt lettered red cloth, gilt armorial device to upper board, some darkening and fraying, some soiling, recased.
Limited to 200 Copies. Plas Mawr (English: Great Hall), architecturally, Plas Mawr is almost unchanged from the 16th century, and the historian Rick Turner considers the house to be ‘the finest surviving town house of the Elizabethan era’.
£200.00 [ref: 281560]

Barnwell, P.S. and Palmer, Marilyn. (Editors). COUNTRY HOUSE TECHNOLOGY. Shaun Tyas, Donington 2012.
1st Ed. Royal 8vo. [viii] + 232pp. Ground floor plan, numerous b/w. figures, many from photos. Good in d/w.
Rewley House Studies in the Historical Environment, 2. Inscribed by the Editor - ‘Best wishes Marilyn Palmer.’
£25.00 [ref: 287990]

Barrington, Archibald. POCKET CHART OF BRITISH ARCHITECTURE. Chronologically arranged by ... Published by George Bell 1844.
12.5 x 18 inches. Rubric lettered chart depicting churches and architectural features. Dissected into 9 panels, linen backed, light browning, lacking upper gutter corner, pen marking to pastedown, folding into gilt lettered blind embossed cloth, minor marking and wear, spine sl. chipped.
From Norman to C17th.
£50.00 [ref: 285936]