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A GRAPHICAL ILLUSTRATION OF THE METROPOLITAN CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF CANTERBURY;
Accompanied by a History and Description
London: T. Cadell and W. Davies; J. Murray. Folio, pp.viii,174, attractive, twentieth-century quarter calf with five raised bands, gilt, marbled boards, new endpapers, 20 engraved plates, including additional pictorial title and one in the text; light foxing to pictorial title, lower corner of rear board a little bumped, otherwise a very good copy indeed.
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A SHORT ACCOUNT OF MIDDLEHAM CASTLE AND CHURCH.
From ‘A Paper on ‘The Works of the Nevilles Round Darlington’.
London: Whiting & Co, 1887. 8vo., pp.4, comprises title, 3pp. of text, plus 2 b/w plates, bound into green cloth boards, gilt; from the library of Janet and C.R. Ashbee, with their nameplate to head of front paste-down endpaper, and inscribed to C.M. Ashbee on title page, a further heraldic bookplate to front paste-down endpaper, paste-action to free endpapers, foxing throughout, tobacco odour, overall a very good copy, with small spots of rubbing to extremities.
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ADOLF LOOS.
Works and Projects.
Milan: Skira, 2007. 4to., pp.302, black hardcover, colour and b/w plates; a slight bruise along upper joint, a fresh and very good+ copy, in a very good+ unclipped dust-jacket.
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ARCHITECTURAL POTTERY.
Bricks, Tiles, Pipes, Enamelled Terra-Cottas, Ordinary and Incrusted Quarries, Stoneware Mosaics, Faiences, and Architectural Stoneware.
London: Scott, Greenwood & Son. Large 8vo., pp.xiv,496, five plates, 950 wood-engraved illustrations in the text, green cloth, gilt; light partial sunning to cloth but gilt still bright, offsetting to endpapers, contents clean and bright, one small marginal tear but o/w a very good, bright copy.
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ARCHITETTURA DOMESTICA IN GRAN BRETAGNA, 1890-1939.
Milano, Electa Editrice, 1890. Large 8vo,.pp.231, attractively rebound in decorative hardcovers with original wrappers bound in, gilt, b/w and colour illustrations; a fine copy.
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ART OF BUILDING IN YEMEN.
Cambridge, Mass./London: MIT Press, 1981. 4to., pp.292, beige cloth lettered in brown, colour frontispiece, b/w illustrations and plans, pictorial endpapers; a very good, clean copy, in price-clipped dust jacket, whoch has two large closed tears (5.5 and 8.5 cms) to front upper margin, with creasing between and scotch-tape repair to reverse, small closed tears to head of spine, else very good.
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ARTS AND CRAFTS MASTER: THE HOUSES AND GARDENS OF M.H. BAILLIE SCOTT.
Rizzoli, 2010. 4to., pp.238, brown hardcover lettered in silver, colour plates; front upper corner lightly bruised, an otherwise near-fine copy, in very good+ unclipped dust-jacket.
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BRICK AND MARBLE ARCHITECTURE IN THE MIDDLE AGES:
Notes of a Tour in the North of Italy.
London: John Murray, 1855. First edition, 8vo., pp.xix,287, 32 (publishers adverts), half bound in publishers leather and marbled paper, contrasting leather title inlay to spine, gilt, many b/w illustrations; slight yellowing of pages, ex libris book plate to front paste down, light rubbing to edges and boards, overall a very good copy indeed.
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CERAMIC TILES IN ISLAMIC ARCHITECTURE.
Istanbul: Ada Press, 1987. 4to., pp.174, turquoise cloth, gilt, colour plates; very good indeed, in vg unclipped dust-jacket.
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CISTERCIAN ART AND ARCHITECTURE IN THE BRITISH ISLES.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986. Large 8vo.,pp. xix,453, blue cloth, black title band with gilt lettering to spine, b/w plates, b/w figures and maps; a near-fine copy, in a very good unclipped pictorial dust-jacket.
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CORPUS VITREARUM MEDII AEVI. GREAT BRITAIN - VOLUME I: THE COUNTY OF OXFORD A Catalogue of Medieval Stained Glass.
London: Oxford University Press, 1979. 4to., pp. xxiii,231, navy hardcover, gilt, colour frontispiece, 12 colour plates, 38 b/w plates; a near fine copy in a near fine price-clipped dust-jacket very lightly rubbed with small bump to rear left upper corner.
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DESCRIPTION OF THE REPRESENTATIONS AND ARMS ON THE GLASS IN YORK MINSTER. Also the Arms on Stone, by John Browne
Leeds: Richard Jackson, 1917. 4to., pp.xxiv,266, light blue cloth, gilt, decorative gilt to front board, blind detailing to front board and spine, colour frontispiece, b/w and colour illustrations throughout; ownership bookplate to front paste-down, light foxing to endpapers, particularly affecting frontispiece and title page, occasional spots throughout, toning to half-title, spine slightly rolled, light rubbing to boards, particularly affecting extremities, a few light marks and surface soil, overall a very good copy.
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DOBSON ON DOBSON: A Photographic Record of Works associated with John Dobson (1787-1865).
Edinburgh: The Pentland Press, 2000. 8vo.,pp. xii,283, hardcover, gilt, b/w illustrations, b/w frontispiece; a very good copy, in a very good unclipped pictorial dust-jacket.
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EAST END, WEST END: THE FACE OF LEEDS DURING URBANISATION, 1684-1842.
Publications of the Thoresby Society, Volumes LX and LXI, for 1985 and 1986.
Leeds: The Thoresby Society, 1988. 8vo., pp.562, paperback, b/w plates and figures, folding plan; very good indeed.
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ENGLISH GOTHIC CHOIR-STALLS 1400 - 1540.
Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 1990. 4to., pp.xx, 75, 214 plates, brown cloth, gilt, b/w photographic onlay to front board; small ink ownership signature to front free endpaper, very light rubbing and sunning to boards, overall a very good to near fine copy. No dust-jacket.
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ENGLISH MEDIAEVAL ARCHITECTS. A Biographical Dictionary Down To 1550. Including Master Masons, Carpenters, Carvers, Building Contractors and Other Responsible for Design. With Supplement to the Revised Edition of 1984.
Gloucester: Alan Sutton/Pinhorns, 1984. Revised edition, large 8vo., pp.lxii,479;(iii),16, red cloth, gilt, Supplement in paper wrappers; bump to inner lower corner of front board, causing light crease to lower corner of the early part of the text, else fresh and near-fine. No dust-jacket.
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ESSAYS IN SCOTS AND ENGLISH ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY: A Festschrift in Honour of John Frew.
Donington, Shaun Tyas. 8vo.,pp.xii,227, grey cloth, gilt, b/w illustrations and figures, b/w frontispiece; a fine copy, in a fine unclipped pictorial dust-jacket.
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FRENCH ARCHITECTS AND ENGINEERS IN THE AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENT.
Cambridge University Press. Large 8vo.,pp. xiv,437, hardcover, gilt, b/w illustrations and figures; a near-fine copy, in a very good unclipped pictorial dust-jacket, which is lightly rubbed to extremities, with two small closed tears to rear upper margin.
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GAZETTEER OF STAINED GLASS BY C.E. KEMPE, LONDON AND C.E. KEMPE AND COMPANY LIMITED.
Dorset, Gloucestershire, Norfolk and Suffolk. Included is photocopy of the Yorkshire list.
The Kempe Society. 4to., unpaginated, photocopied leaves with plastic spine; very good.
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GREATER MEDIEVAL HOUSES OF ENGLAND AND WALES, 1300-1500. [Set of Three Volumes:]
Volume I. Northern England; Volume II. East Anglia, Central England and Wales; Volume III. Southern England.
Cambridge University Press, 1996. Three volumes, 4to., pp.xiv,435;xv,724;xv,727, orange hardcover with stamped title band, gilt, b/w illustrations; from the library of D.E. Luscombe, with ownership autograph to front free endpaper of all volumes, and blindstamp to rear free endpaper of Volume III, bump to front lower corner of Volume III, a fresh and near-fine set, in very good+ unclipped dust-jackets.
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