BATTERSEA POWER STATION
A collection of ten plans for design details of Battersea Power Station, including facade doorways, brickwork, the boiler house, workshop and cranes, all but one printed on thin linen, the 1954 plan on paper (with short tear), all rolled, a few…
Relics of Antiquity; or, Remains of Ancient Structures, with other Vestiges of Early Times, in Great Britain. Accompanied with descriptive sketches
[HAWKSWORTH J. Miss]
UNCOMMON 1811, With 48 large India Proof plates VG, First & only edition, folio. Pp [iv], 52, 48 plates (India proofs laid down). Contemporary maroon long grained morocco, gilt edge tooling. Spine, worn, gilt tooling & titles, edges bumped.…
[Remains of ancient monastic architecture in England] Tintern Abbey Church] represented in a series of views, plans, elevations, sections and details..]
[POTTER Joseph Rev]
With 49 Architectural plates In modern half dark green morocco over contemporary green marbled boards, some blind tooling, spine with decorative gilt tooling & titles. Internally, 2 * frontis, 2 * title pages, [1], 4-6 pp, [1], (vi-x) pl…
Rudiments of Ancient Architecture...
Anon
VG, 3rd ed, 11 pls, 1804. In contemporary half calf, marbled boards, corners and edges a little bumped and worn, gilt tooling. Spine, raised bands, title in gilt on red calf label, decorative gilt tooling, edges a little worn. Internally,…
Plas Mawr, Conway, N. Wales.
BAKER Arthur and BAKER Herbert 1862-1946
With 23 leaves of architecturally interesting illustrations. VG, an edition limited to 200 copies, in the publishers attractive red cloth, bevelled edges, gilt coat of arms. Spine, gilt tooling & titles. Internally, yellow endpapers, [4],…
Plas Mawr, Conway, N. Wales.
BAKER Arthur and BAKER Herbert 1862-1946
A Subscribers copy, with 23 leaves of architectural plates VG, an edition limited to 200 copies, in its contemporary red cloth, bevelled edges, gilt coat of arms. Spine, faded gilt tooling & titles. Internally, yellow endpapers, [4], 5-62 pp, [2],…
Mediaeval Military Architecture in England
CLARK George T 1809-1898
Two Volumes, in original red cloth with lettering in gilt and a gilt design Castle Keep on front boards. Volume 1 has been re-cased with new cloth hinges, hinges professionally strengthened, black endpapers, bookplate of Pt Murray to fpds. Volume 2…
An Architectural Account of the Churches of Shropshire
CRANAGE Rev DHS 1866-1957
Vol 2, Part 10 only, 19 pls, 4 plans, 22 other illustrations. In modern buckram, refurbished by P Delrue, kept the original card cover & relaid, gold title on the spine. Internally, new endpapers, [7], (xliv-lii), [3], 839-1140 pp, 19 pls, 4…
Anglo-Norman Antiquities considered, in a Tour through part of Normandy, Illustrated with twenty-seven copper-plates
DUCAREL Doctor [Andrew Coltee] 1713-1785
First and only English edition, VG, 1767, 27 plates. In contemporary speckled boards, gilt edge tooling. Re-spined keeping the original red calf gilt label, raised bands, gilt tooling. Internally, [2], [1], (ii-x), [1], 2-104. [2], [1], 2-61 pp…
Monasticon Anglicanum
DUGDALE Sir William 1605-1686. STEVENS John --1726
A Magnificent copy in the finest possible state. VG, 3 vols (large paper), including the two supplemental volumes by John Stevens, 1718, 1722 & 1723, 154 pls (some after Wenceslas Hollar) 1 eng tp. Vol 1, 1788, frontis,[2], (xvi), [1], 2-375…
Ancient Chester: a Series of Illustrations on the Streets of this Old City.
HUGHES Thomas 1822-1896
VG, 1880, 300 copies this being one of 100 on India Paper. New spine in quarter black calf, title & tooling in gilt to maroon calf label, with contemporary maroon cloth boards, bumped and worn at edges and corners. Internally, yellow endpapers,…
The Designs of Inigo Jones, Consisting of Plans and Elevations for Public and Private Buildings.
JONES Inigo 1573-1652 (KENT William 1685-1748)
VG, Two volumes bound as 1, 1770, 2nd ed, complete with 138 numbered pls 4 engraved title pages. In modern 'Old' half calf over red marbled boards, some blind tooling. Spine, gilt tooling, raised bands, gilt titles to red morocco label.…
Munimenta Antiqua; or Observations on Antient Castles
KING Edward 1735?-1807
167 plates, (2 coloured, depicting 3 views), 4 Volumes bound as 2. In contemporary full long grain red morocco by Staggemeir & Welcher(with their blue paper label to fpd Vol1), corners and edges bumped and worn, decorative blind tooling, also some…
Munimenta Antiqua; or, Observations on antient castles. Including remarks on the whole progress of architecture, ecclesiastical, as well as military, in Great Britain: and on corresponding changes in manners, laws and customs. Tending both to illustrate modern history: and to elucidate many interesting passages in various antient classic authors.
KING Edward 1735?-1807
Four volumes with One Hundred and Eighty Five Plates 1799-1805, First editions, 185 pls, some coloured, some folding, in 4 Vols in green cloth, corners bumped. Spines faded at base, edges bumped, gilt titles to red labels (some loss). Vol 1, half…
The Lost Houses of Wales
LLOYD Thomas
Oblong, 310*220mm, pictorial soft covers, 112 pp, 263 illustrations, printed by WW Hawes, Elmswell, Suffolk. Fascinating! Title continues: A Survey of Country Houses in Wales demolished since c.1900. Produced to Firstly make a permanent…