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THE EDWARDIAN GARDEN
Written by David Ottewill.
Stock no. 1830417
Published by Yale University Press. 1st 1989. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

A comprehensive study of the Edwardian garden, a beautifully illustrated tour of some of the finest gardens of this period and a survey of the peoople, attitudes, and theories that influenced their design. Large format. Black cloth boards, gilt title to spine. Colour pictorial endpapers. Colour & b/w photos and illustrations. x and 230 pages including index. ISBN: 0300043384. Top of spine bashed with a 0.5" tear to rear edge. Corners lightly rubbed. Text block a little grubby. A few minor foxspots present. Else contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is faded at spine edge, has a corresponding tear to top rear edge of spine and is crinkled to rear panel.

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TRADITIONAL HOUSES OF SOMERSET
Written by Jane Penoyre; et al.
Stock no. 1830251
Published by Somerset Books. 2014. Slightly better than very good condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

This book, illustratd by photographs and drawings of local stones, building styles, house plans, roof structure and the more decorative features of the houses, explores the local traditional buildings thate extend in date here, from the late thirteenth century to the beginning of the eighteenth. Large format. Orange cloth boards, gilt title to spine. Colour & b/w photos, line drawings and plans. 176 pages including index. ISBN: 9780861834075. Reprint. Tiny pinhole to lower front spine edge and light rubbing to base of spine. Else a lovely copy. Pictorial dustwrapper has some minor foxing to verso, not visible to front.

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HEX: A PRINCELY ESTATE REVEALED
Written by Chris De Maegd.
Stock no. 1830250
Published by Mercatorfonds. 1st 2007. Nearly fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

The manor house at Hex, known locally in Belgium as Castle Hex, was built around the end of the 18th century by the then Prince-Bishop of Liege, Francois-Charles de Velbruck, as a summer residence and hunting lodge. The house is built in a style transitional between rococo and classical, with the gardens combining French formality with an English-style landscaped park beyond, to make a truly Arcadian setting. Here, the development of the house and grounds is revealed from its inception, through the wars and upheaval s of the 19th and 20th centuries, up to the present day. Large format. Green cloth boards, gilt titles. Colour photos. 223 pages including index. ISBN: 9789061537465. A lovely copy.

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BEACONS IN THE LANDSCAPE: THE HILLFORTS OF ENGLAND AND WALES
Written by Ian Brown.
Stock no. 1830218
Published by Windgather Press Ltd.. 1st 2009. Very good condition.

Were the hillforts of Britain's landscape something special by those who created them or is the 'hillfort' purely an archaeologists' 'construct'? How were they built, who lived in them and to what uses were they put? A valuable synthesis of the rich vein of research carried out in England and Wales on hillforts. Pictorial cardwraps. Colour photos, b/w illustrations. xi and 267 pages including index. ISBN: 9781905119226. A lovely copy, marred only by creasing to tip of lower corners from page 181 to the rear cover.

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WILLIAM MORRIS ART AND KELMSCOTT
Written by Linda Parry.
Stock no. 1329952
Published by The Boydell Press. 1st 1996. Very good condition.

The importance of Kelmscott in the private and public lives of the Morris family from 1871 to 1938, also detailed assessments of William and May Morris's work by leading Morris scholars. Black cardwraps. 144 pages. B/w photos. ISBN: 0851156703. Slight rubbing to corners. Publisher's price sticker to rear cover has been neatly scribbled out with pencil.

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HOW BUILDINGS LEARN WHAT HAPPENS AFTER THEY'RE BUILT
Written by Stewart Brand.
Stock no. 1329827
Published by Phoenix Illustrated; Orion Books Ltd.. 1st PB 1997. Almost very good condition.

The author puts forward the radical proposal that buildings adapt best when constantly refined and reshaped by their occupants and that architects can mature from being artists of space to become artists of time. Oblong format. Cardwraps. 243 pages. B/w photos. ISBN: 0753800500. Spine and corners bumped and slightly creased. Fading to spine. Name in ink to half title-page. Light damp stain to lower edges of prelims.

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THE OBSERVER'S BOOK OF ARCHITECTURE
Written by John Penoyre; Michael Ryan. Illustrated by John Penoyre; Michael Ryan.
Stock no. 1329805
Published by Frederick Warne & Co Ltd.. 1958. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Observer book no. 13. Over 250 coloured & b/w illustrations. Revised edition. Small format. Brown boards with black titles. Old tape marks to endpapers. Dustwrapper is bright, just a little edge rubbed.

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COTSWOLD STONE HOMES: HISTORY - CONSERVATION - CARE
Written by Michael Hill; Sally Birch.
Stock no. 1329722
Published by Alan Sutton. 1st 1994. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

The architecture of the Cotswolds in terms of its characteristic building material, Cotswold stone, and a practical and informative guide to its use and care. Blue boards, gilt title to spine. B/w and colour photos. 188 pages. ISBN: 0750903228. SIGNED by Birch to title-page (by means of dedication). Spine and corners bumped. Pale page edge browning else contents clean. Dustwrapper is faded to spine and to front edge, small tear to base of spine.

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UNBUILT MASTERWORKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY
Written by Will Jones.
Stock no. 1329683
Published by Thames and Hudson. 1st 2009. Nearly fine condition.

Inspirational Architecture for the Digital Age - 100 of the best projects to have been proposed since the turn of the millennium by the world's greatest architects. Large, heavy format. Glazed pictorial boards. 900 illustrations, 747 in colour. ISBN: 9780500342541. A super copy.

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WELLS COATES: TWENTIETH CENTURY ARCHITECTS SERIES
Written by Elizabeth Darling.
Stock no. 1329371
Published by RIBA Publishing; English Heritage; The Twentieth Century Society. 1st 2012. Very good condition.

A book to delight architects, students, architectural historians and anyone who is interested in the Modern Movement in Britain. Cardwraps. Full of b/w and colour photos, the colour photography specially commissioned by James O. Davies. ISBN: 9781859464373. Covers rubbed at spine and corners. Small mark to lower edge of textblock else contents fine.

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THE DIARIES OF SANDERSON MILLER OF RADWAY
Written by Sanderson Miller; William Hawkes.
Stock no. 1829568
Published by The Dugdale Society. 1st 2005. Nearly fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Dugdale Society Vol. 41. Edited by William Hawkes. Saunderson Miller (1716-80) was a gentleman architect, an amateur pioneer of significance in the development of the Gothic Revival during its delightful and inventive Georgian period. This volume contains the fully annotated text of Miller's diaries of 1750-1756, a self-revelatory Memoir he wrote fo his friend, James Menteath, and a catalogue of his architectural and landscape work. Blue cloth boards, gilt title to spine. xiv and 449 pages including index. ISBN: 0852200846. A lovely copy. Blue pictorial dustwrapper has a vertical score to front panel.

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ART AND POWER: EUROPE UNDER THE DICTATORS 1930-45
Written by Dawn Ades.
Stock no. 1829477
Published by Hayward Gallery. 1st 1995. Slightly better than very good condition.

This book is about the relationship between art and politics in the 1930s, in the Europe of the dictators. It provides a history of the plight of individual artists and architects under totalitarian rule, structured around the four capital cities of Paris, Rome, Moscow and Berlin. Published on the occasion of the exhibition of the same name organized by the Hayward Gallery, London, running from 1996 - 1996. Large format. Pictorial cardwraps. Colour & b/w illustrations. 360 pages. ISBN: 1853321486. A lovely copy with some minor staining to lower edge of text block else contents clean.

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