Architecture And Design from Duck Cottage Books

London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1876. First edition. Hardback. Good/No Jacket. 887 8vo. Translated by Benjamin Bucknall. Green cloth-covered boards, gilt decoration to front board, gilt titles to spine, coloured frontispiece, many line drawing illustrations- full page plates, head and tail pieces and in run of text; 394 pages. Condition notes: Some bumping and wear… Read more about this item

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1934. First edition. Hardback. Good/No Jacket. 1747 8vo. Volume 1 (168 pages) Before the Conquest, Volume 2 (180 pages) After the Conquest; Ex library, Hull College of Art. Illustrated with plates from photographs and diagrams and with diagrams etc in run of text. Condition notes: Boards soiled and stained, extremities of spines frayed,… Read more about this item

Warsaw: Institute of Polish Architecture, 1956. First edition. Hardback. Good/Fair. 3000 Folio. Large, heavy volume, introductory text (30 pages), then 499 black and white plates (illustrations from photographs). Coloured folding map showing locations of buildings illustrated bound in at back. Dust jacket. Condition notes: Dust jacket grubby and spotted, spotting to text pages, plates in excellent… Read more about this item

London: Batsford, 1901. First edition. Hardback. Very Good/No Jacket. 1738 8vo. Maroon coloured cloth-covered boards, gilt titles to spine and front board, "eighty-seven collotype and other plates and two hundred and thirty illustrations in the text", 281 pages including index, publisher's catalogue to rear. Condition notes: Boards rubbed, especially at joints, bumping to corners, fore-edges rather soiled; overall… Read more about this item

London: Royal College of Art, 1958. First edition. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 74 8vo. Catalogue of an exhibition at The Tea Centre, 22 Regent Street London SW1, 10th-28th October. Lists 64 items, black-and-white photographic illustrations (3 plates), appendix laid in for catalogue numbers 65-106, which are various decorative items (silver, oil paintings etc. Placed around the… Read more about this item

London: Studio Vista, 1968. Hardback. Very Good/Very good. 528 4to. First printing. Well-illustrated with photographs and diagrams. Condition notes: Ex library, usual stamps and a ticket pocket, but clean and sound, with dustwrapper.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1913. Hardback. Very Good/No Jacket. 8082 Folio. Two volumes. "New and Greatly Enlarged Edition. With 867 Illustrations of Representative Pieces". Red cloth covered boards, gilt decoration, gilt titles to spines. Condition notes: Two sound, clean volumes. Boards are rather bumped at corners, and the spine strip frayed at top… Read more about this item

Bridgend, Wales: Seren, 2007. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 474 8vo. A very attractive book, on good quality paper; many coloured illustrations. Condition notes: Almost as new.

London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1972. First Edition. Hardback. Very Good/Good. 900 4to. With many illustrations from domestic, public and ecclesiastical architecture. With notes, suggested further reading and an index. Condition notes: Dust jacket with some edge wear, including a tiny tear, some sunning and a little soiling to the rear of the dust jacket. Book sound… Read more about this item

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1977. 2nd edition. Hardback. Very Good/No Jacket. 1451 . With 291 illustrations in all, including photographs, drawings and plans. There is a list of buildings completed by Shaw in date order, an appendix of pupils and assistants, notes and an index. Condition notes: The dust jacket (not price clipped) is somewhat sunned,… Read more about this item

New York: Phaidon, 1968. Hardback. Very Good/Very good. 1807 4to. With 218 monochrome photographic illustrations. Condition notes: Sound, clean and bright. Dust jacket not price clipped, but there are the remains of an old price sticker inside the dust jacket.

Liverpool, 1884. First Edition. Hardback. Very Good/No Jacket. 934 4to. Printed for private circulation. 'With illustrations from examples in the Bowes collection'. Blue cloth-covered boards, bevelled, gilt titles to front board and spine, top edges gilt. Coloured frontispiece, one other colour plate, others monochrome, and with line drawings. Condition notes: Boards knocked and rubbed, some spotting… Read more about this item

London: George Bell and Sons, 1889. Hardback. Good/No Jacket. 1206 8vo. Co-editor Eleanor Lloyd. New and enlarged edition, with an appendix on the construction of dials by W. Richardson. Each dial described, with the text of mottoes, and some illustrated. The appendix on construction has three fold-out plates of diagrams. Condition notes: Sporadic foxing, boards… Read more about this item

London: Studio, 1960. First Edition. Hardback. Very Good/Fair. 1058 Folio. Introduced with a critical essay by Sir John Summerson. Illustrated with photographs and plans. Condition notes: The book is clean and firm, with just a little fading to the linen spine strip at top and bottom. The dust jacket is ragged and worn.

London: Thames and Hudson, 1959. Hardback. Good/Fair. 2420 Folio. Translated from the French by Eva M. Hooykaas and A.H. Christie. Many monochrome illustrations. Condition notes: Dust jacket ragged, covers age-darkened towards edges. Internally, tendency of age-darkening to pages, but clean and sound. Faint pencil gift inscription to front free end paper.

New York: Macmillan, 1961. Hardback. Good/No Jacket. 3464 4to. Two volumes in one. 'Five thousand illustrations with descriptions on the same page'. Blue cloth-covered boards, gilt titles. Unpaginated (instead, each illustration is numbered, and text refers to an illustration); roughly 2.25 inches thick. Condition notes: Boards sound, binding firm, clean internally, but externally rather shabby,… Read more about this item

London: Cassell, 1931. First Edition. Hardback. Very Good/No Jacket. 672 4to. With a forward by Sir Henry F Dickens, KC. Illustrated by the author. From the preface: "The face of London is changing so rapidly that the time cannot be far distant when much that is recording these pages will have disappeared". As this was written in… Read more about this item

London: Readers Union, 1962. Hardback. Very Good/Fair. 1410 Folio. Photographs (136 as photogravures) by Edwin Smith. With 2 ground plans,11 engravings and 4 tipped-in colour plates. Condition notes: Tipped-in frontispiece (Dunstable Priory) creased, other 3 colour plates very good. Book in very good condition- clean and sound. Dust jacket torn and grubby.

London: Readers Union, 1952. Hardback. Very Good/Fair. 1102 Folio. Text by Peter Meyer, Foreword by Geoffrey Grigson, photographs and Introduction Martin Hurlimann. Condition notes: Dust jacket torn, book clean and sound save a little foxing to external page edges and front end papers.

London: The Trustees of the Museum, 1972. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 156 8vo. With a description of the house and Museum, and many illustrations. There is a chronology of the Museum, an appendix on the Soane Museum act of Parliament 1833, a short paragraph on the Distressed Architects' Fund, an analysis of the contents of the Museum, and… Read more about this item