Architecture

232 pages inc index, profusely illustarted with many examples of the Modernist house in the first decades of the twentieth century. A grand survey. Includes the work of Ashbee, Annesley Voysey, Mackintosh, Baillie Scott, McGrath himself, lLoyd Wright, Fuller, Neutra, Loos, Welzenbacher, Bourgeois, Eisler, Oud, Gropius, Le Corbusier, Van Der Rohe, Mendelsohn, Yamada, Lund and many others. A VG solid copy, no jacket (as issued?) covers slightly grubby. Scarce and especially so at this price.

Text in German, French and English. Pall Mall Press. 1969 3rd edition. Revised. An excellent survey of the work of Maillart, a pioneer in using reinforced concrete. A Vg copy, cloth boards, dustjacket has small nicks to edges but generally VG.

Usually turns up as an ex library book, which this is not. This is a nice clean copy of a now scarce survey of Danish architecture. Text in German and English.

Tobias Faber's excellent monograph on the great Danish architect, Arne Jacobsen. Profusely illustrated with plans and photographs. Text in German and English. A VG copy. Dustjacket has crease to inner flap and repaired closed tear to bottom edge front. 175 pages.

Spiral bound collection of papers given at a conference on the Early Eighteenth Century Great House held in Oxford in 1996, edited by Malcolm Airs. 182 pages in excellent condition covering; Great Men's Houses; craftsmen-architects or reptile artizans? paintwork; the Woodperry House Chimney piece; the setting of the Baroque and Palladian Great House; Great appartments in the English Baroque Country House; William Kent and the Court; The Purpose of the Private Chapel at Chatsworth; Architectural models; Baroque elements in Irish Palladianism; The Palace of the Princely Chandos; The problem of William Talman; Adderbury House; The third Duke of Beaufort's Marble Gabinetto for Badminton. Illustrated with copies of photos,maps,plans etc. Large quarto

Spiral bound collection of papers given at a conference on the Seventeenth Century Great House held in Oxford in 1995, edited by Malcolm Airs. 138 pages in excellent condition covering; Pratt's Red Herring - exploding the double pile myth; The Joy of Building as shown by the 'disposition within' through the seventeenth century; The South front at Wilton house; Upwards or Outwards; native or european classicims; The State Apartment in the 17th century; the archaeology of two 17th century Gloucestershire houses; The country house chapel in the 17th century; the 17th century Country House stable; interior paintwork; the 17th century rebuilding of Warwick Castle; the setting of the 17th century Great House. Illustrated with plans and reproduced photos.

Large quarto.

Spiral bound collection of papers given at a conference on the Later Eighteenth Century Great House held in Oxford in 1997, edited by Malcolm Airs. 240 pages in excellent condition covering; Variations on the Country house; Aristocratic manners and Georgian country life; servicing the country house; Castletown Cox and a moment in the slow demise of the Great House; Trewithen and Weston Park; Wanstead House and Gardens in the 18th century; lease or demolish? the redundant country house in Georgian England; The Gothic Revival country house in 18th century Warwickshire; A reading of Culzean Castle; the use of colour by Adam and his contemporaries; Mr. Pritchard of Shrewsbury; Nightmares and Apotheosis; the 'finishing' of Stoneliegh; The architecture of Nuthall temple. Solid scholarship and excellent reference.

Illustrated with reproduced photos. Large quarto.

An excellent monograph on the eighteenth century architect, James Paine. The first part is a biographical survey of his life from obscurity to establishment to epitome and controversy (when he published his book Plans, Elevations, and Sections of Noblemen and Gentlemen's Houses he made some sniping attacks on fellow architects of the day including Robert Adam) before moving onto his works Villas, Great Houses, then works in the City including Salisbury Street then miscellanea - designs forgarden and estate buildings, Bridges and Gothic work. A full catalogue of his work and the craftsmen that he worked with is included. Really, an excellent survey of the man's work and career.

David Watkin's excellent study of the Picturesque. 'The title of the present book derives from the assumption that the theory and practice of the Picturesque constitute the major English contribution to European Aesthetics', writes Watkin in the introduction. This is an excellent copy of his book, published by John Murray in 1982, clean, no inscriptions, with a VG unclipped dustjacket. Large quarto, 227 pages, well-illustrated. Extensive bibliography and notes to the text. An excellent work of scholarship at a very good price.

Chapters cover; Early landscape gardens; the Rococo and Chinoiserie phase; the Cult of the Ruin; Theory and Practice in Garden Design; capability brown to JC Loudon; The Picturesque House, Vanburgh to Soane; The Picturesque House, Salvin to Lutyens; English influence abroad; the picturesque in village and town.


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The Historical and technical development of the Sash and Case Window in Scotland 152 pages including, glossary, bibliography and notes. Chapters include; Historical overview; the introduction of the sash window; the plae of the sash window in prevailing classical styles from Baroque and Palladian to Adamesque and neo-Greek; nineteenth century sash and case styles; gradual eclipse of the sash and case window. The Cased Frame; counterbalancing; the hidden frame- an early national characteristic. The Sash - aesthetics and practicalities; the use of shapes; shutter and architrave styles and details;; surface finishes and decoration; materials and construction; accessories and ironmongery etc. Excellent reference. Small folio.

The Architect & The Pavilion Hospital, Dialogue & Design Creativity in England 1850-1914, Jeremy Taylor, published by Leicester University Press 1997. laminated boards, Vg condition. 240 pages, including index of names and themese, index of places and buildings, references and bibliography. Chapters covered include The Hospital Architect: competence and creativity; Learning about Hospital design: acquiring Expertise; The Architectural Competition: testing out ideas; Upgrading the older hospital: ingenuity and transformation; Circular Wards: a concept explored; A new hospital plan: Innovation and controversy. Appendices on Comparative English pavilion hospital plans and pavilion hospital exemplars abroad. Illustrated with plans and reproductions of engravings. Excellent reference for architects and medical historians, looking at the development of the 'pavilion plan' upon which so many hospitals were built. Presentation inscription to front free endaper from the author. Very, very slight 'bow' to boards. Quarto.

This is the translation of Sebastiano Serlio's books on architecture VI & VII published originally in the 16th century. This translation by Vaughan Hart & Peter Hicks published by Yale University Press. His writing is famous for making architectural theories simple and easy to understand. The books were also important in their use of illustrations, drawing on the art of woodcuts, in which he had been trained. 640 pages, including extensive notes and references, glossary and bibliography. One of the most important Renaissance theorists on architecture. The book includes 'Castrametation of the Romans' (a work on fortification) and 'the Extraordinary Book of Doors' a study of 50 doorways. A handsome production of great scholarship.

A fine copy in unclipped wrapper, thick quarto.

Not much has been written about the architect James Wyatt. This title written by Antony Dale and published by Blackwells in 1956 is one of the few sources of information and it's a nice copy, too, in the dustjacket. Octavo. The jacket is VG; some small closed tears to edges, unclipped. The book is VG, very clean, no inscriptions. Binding solid. 228 pages, including folding family chart of the Wyatt family. Photographic illustrations. The first version of the book was published in 1936, but this second edition of 1956 is much enlarged because a lot of new information came to light. There is also a more detailed consideration of Wyatt's principal works. This is not, according to the jacket information, 'a republication of his first book, but - with the exception of certain chapters - has been entirely rewritten on a greatly extended scale.'

Chapters include; Early Life; The Pantheon; the Advent of Fame; General Classical Work; Wyatt at Oxford and Cambridge; The relations of Wyatt and the Brothers Adam; The Restoration of Cathedrals; The Incident of the Society of Antiquaries; Work at Westminster; Original Gothic Construction; (including Fonthill Abbey); Wyatt and the Royal Academy; The relations of Wyatt and the Royal family; Death; Character; Reputation; Appendix; list of Wyatt's works.

Cottage Building in Cob, Pise, Chalk & Clay - A Renaissance, A rare title from the architect of Portmeirion in Wales. The first edition was published in September 1919, the second (this copy is the 2nd) revised and enlarged edition was published in July 1920. Both by Country Life. Paper covered boards, cloth spine; the boards with some small abrasions, small stains & creases, the corners furred but not too bad at all, the binding solid, the hinges good. Internally, the pages bear some splashy foxing - the paper quality is not the highest - & there is some age-toning. Frontispiece illustration and 38 other photographic illustrations. 141 pages plus two pages of ads at rear. The book was written at a time of great shortage of building materials and in its advocacy of natural materials surely has much relevance to the ecological building movements of today. Cob is a mixture of Shale and clay, straw and water. Pise is rammed earth.

A rare little book then which retains its usefulness for our own times and demonstrates the 'eco- thinking of one of the great British architects of the 20th century

Rare study of the 18th century architect George Dance designer of Newgate Gaol and mentor to John Soane. 262 pages, many photographic plates at the back. Chapters cover his early years as his father's assistant, newgate and other prisons, Guildhall and its precincts, the development of the Finsbury estate, St Luke's Hospital, and other City works 1780-1800, St Bartholomew's Hospital. Part II covers the Royal academy and other interests, later City works, private houses after 1800, late works and retirement. Appen dices cover sources, list of works by the elder and younger Dance, , notes on associates in the City Surveyor's office, drawings exhibited by dance at the Royal Academy. A family tree is also included.

Large, thick octavo. Vg condition. Little bit dusty to top edge but really an excellent copy of this scholarly work.

Rare study of the architect C. R. Cockerell, 1788-1863, by David Watkin, published by Zwemmer. 272 pages, lavishly illustrated with 170 photographic plates. Dustwrapper sunned to spine, little bit of edgewear to wrapper, small unobtrusive dink to rear board, else VG.

Cockerell was not only an architect but a brilliant architectural historian, deeply immersed in the architecture of the classical world. Drawing on Cockerell's own extensive diaries covering his early years as an architect in the 1820's as well as unpublished family correspondence the monograph remains the best source on a man who worked on the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford and the branch banks of England in Bristol, Manchester and Liverpool. A hugely important nineteenth century architect who stands beside Pugin on the podium of the Albert Memorial.

Large, thick octavo. Excellent reference.

Modern Opera Houses and Theatres, Sachs & Woodrow 1896-1898 1st ed. 3 elephant folio volumes. 208 plates and plans some folding. Subscribers' copy. The first two volumes are an exhaustive survey of the architecture of theatres and opera houses of Europe at the end of the 19th century. The third is a treatise on theatre planning & construction with supplements on stage machinery and fires and protective legislation. A massive undertaking and a wonderful reference work for any historian of theatre architecture.

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