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VENICE AND THE VENETO
Written by Peter Humfrey.
Stock no. 2138868
Published by Cambridge University Press. 1st 2007. Nearly fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Large format. Blue cloth with silver title to spine. Artistic Centers of the Italian Renaissance. B/w and colour photos and illustrations. ISBN: 9780521808439. Light page edge browning.

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TIEPOLO AND THE PICTORIAL INTELLIGENCE
Written by Svetlana Alpers; Michael Baxandall. Illustrated by Giambattista Tiepolo.
Stock no. 2138858
Published by Yale University Press. Circa 1994. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Large format. Colour and b/w photos of art and architecture. A study of Tiepolo's art. ISBN: 0300059787. Spine is browned. Browning to page edges/margins. Wrapper is a bit faded/browned to spine with some edge-creasing/small nicks.

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AN INVENTORY OF THE ANCIENT MONUMENTS IN GLAMORGAN VOLUME IV PART II
No author listed.
Stock no. 1322853
Published by HMSO. 1st 1988. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Domestic Architecture from the Reformation to the Industrial Revolution: Farmhouses and Cottages. An illustrated inventory plus exploration of the social background as well as the agricultural and economic basis for these buildings. B/w photos, diagrams plus over 100 maps. Scarlet cloth, gilt titles and vignette. 661pp includes index. 11.25 x 8.75". ISBN: 0113000200. Spine slightly bumped. Light creasing to wrapper edges.

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STRUCTURES: OR WHY THINGS DON'T FALL DOWN
Written by J.E. Gordon; Jonathan Glancey.
Stock no. 1823624
Published by Folio Society. Circa 2013. Nearly fine condition.

For everyone who having accepted his basic premise that 'everything is structure', finds the Parthenon beautiful and wishes to know why a bat can fly into a rose bush without tearing its wings. Blue cloth, white title to spine and green design to front cover. 384 pages (including index). Colour and b/w photos. Introduced by Jonathan Glancey. Still in publisher's shrinkwrap which is lightly scuffed. This copy would make a wonderful gift.

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NORTH SOMERSET AND BRISTOL (BUILDINGS OF ENGLAND)
Written by Nikolaus Pevsner.
Stock no. 2137632
Published by Penguin. 1st 1958. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Paperback edition. B/w photos. No. BE13 Some grubby marks to outer page edges. Wrapper is a little edge-chipped with a few marks.

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COTSWOLD ARTS AND CRAFTS ARCHITECTURE
Written by Catherine Gordon.
Stock no. 2137567
Published by Phillimore & Co. Ltd.. 1st 2009. Slightly better than very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Black cloth with gilt title to spine. B/w photos, illustrations and diagrams. ISBN: 9781860775482. Wrapper has 1" close tear to bottom edge of front panel; also faded to spine.

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WORLD ARCHITECTURE THE MASTERWORKS
Written by Will Pryce.
Stock no. 2136844
Published by Thames and Hudson. Circa 2008. Fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Large format. Grey boards, silver title to spine. Stunning colour photography throughout. ISBN: 9780500342480. Still in original shrink wrap - UNREAD! Wrapper is faded to spine and two edges.

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SKYSCRAPER: THE SEARCH FOR AN AMERICAN STYLE 1891-1941
Written by Roger Shepherd.
Stock no. 2136791
Published by McGraw-Hill. 1st USA 2003. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Black boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos and illustrations. Annotated extracts from the first 50 years of 'Architectural Record'. ISBN: 0071369708.

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LONDON SURVEY'D: THE WORK OF THE SURVEY OF LONDON 1894-1994
Written by Hermione Hobhouse.
Stock no. 1823499
Published by Royal Commission On The Historical Monuments Of England. 1st 1994. Slightly better than very good condition.

The survey of London traces its origins to the campaigning zeal of the 1890s when C R Ashbee and a group of like-minded conservationists set up the Watch Committee to campaign against the demolition of historic buildings. Out of this grew 'the great enterprise' of creating an inventory of all London's historic buildings as an aid to their protection and is still ongoing. Red pictorial cardwraps. B/w illustrations. ISBN: 1873592191. Base of spine bumped. Contents clean.

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SADDLEWORTH BUILDINGS
Written by W. John Smith.
Stock no. 1823437
Published by Saddleworth Historical Society. 1st 1987. Slightly better than very good condition.

A guide to the vernacular architecture of the parish of Saddleworth in the Pennines. Large format. White cardwraps. B/w photos and diagrams. ISBN: 0904982068. Spine and rear cover browned. Rear cover creased from lower open edge corner. Old bookseller's price label to rear cover. Contents are clean.

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THE BIRMINGHAM JEWELLERY QUARTER: AN ARCHITECTURAL SURVEY OF THE MANUFACTORIES
Written by John Cattell; Sheila Ely; Barry Jones.
Stock no. 1823431
Published by English Heritage. 1st 2002. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

The Birmingham Jewellery Quarter is remarkable for its dense concentration of converted houses, factories and specialist buildings: a particular combination of structures associated with jewellery and metalworking which does not seem to exist anywhere else in the world. This book describes the development of the Quarter and the various building types in contains. Large format. Blue cloth boards, gilt titles. Colour & b/w photos. ISBN: 1873592485. Small dint to rear spine edge of boards and dustwrapper (as if something heavy was dropped on it). Else a fine copy.

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SCOTTISH COUNTRY HOUSES 1600-1914
Written by Ian Gow; Alistair Rowan.
Stock no. 1823405
Published by Edinburgh University Press. 1st thus 1998. Slightly better than very good condition.

An insight into the Scottish country house in all its many guises, including much new research on significant but less familiar houses such as Kinneil, Relugas and Dunrobin. Pictorial card wraps. B/w illustrations. ISBN: 0748610774. Spine is faded to the degree that the title cannot be read on spine. Contents fine.

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