Rare Books

The literary remains of Sebastiano Serlio.

(New York), The Art Bulletin, vol.XXIV, nos 1 and 2 (March 1942 and June 1942).

Four churches in the deanery of Buckrose restored or built by the late George Edmund Street, R.A., for Sir Tatton Sykes, Bart.

London, printed by James Akerman nd (1894).

Thomas Worthington. Victorian architecture and social purpose.

Manchester, Manchester Literary and Philosophical Publications Ltd 1988.

Robert Willis.

Northampton, Mass., Smith College 1970.

Lost London 1870-1945. Foreword by HRH the Duke of Gloucester.

Croxley Green, Transatlantic Press 2009.

Towers and colonnades. The architecture of Cuthbert Brodrick.

Leeds, Leeds Philosophical and Literay Society Ltd 1999.

R.D.Chantrell (1793-1872) and the architecture of a lost generation.

Reading, Spire Books Ltd 2010.

A book on building civil and ecclesiastical: including church restoration; with the theory of domes and the Great Pyramid (etc.)… second edition, enlarged.

London, Crosby Lockwood & Co. 1880.

Victorian architecture. Four studies in evaluation.

New York. Columbia University Press 1970.

Building Oxford’s heritage. Symm & Company from 1815. Foreword by Sir Howard colvin. With an introduction by David Sturdy.

Oxford, Prelude Promotion 1998.

The aesthetic movement. Prelude to Art Nouveau.

London, Elek 1969.

Lost Victorian Britain. How the twentieth century destroyed the nineteenth century’s architectural masterpices.

London, Aurum Press Ltd 2010.

A city of palaces. Richard Grainger and the making of Newcastle upon Tyne.

(Newcastle upon Tyne), Newcastle Libraries and Information Service 1997.

Aberdeen’s Union Terrace Gardens. War and peace in the Denburn Valley. With an additional chapter by Mike Shepherd.

Edinburgh, Black & White Publishing 2015.

Art and architecture in Victorian Manchester. Ten illustrations of patronage and practice.

Manchester, Manchester University Press 1985.

The Builder. Illustrations index 1843-1883.

London, The Builder Group & Hutton & Rostron 1994.

Victorian architecture. A visual anthology.

New York & London, Johnson Reprint Corporation 1971.

The modern flat.

London, The Architectural Press 1937.

Grand constructions par Freyssinet (title taken from cover of publisher’s portfolio) (issue of periodical L’Architecture Vivante for Printemps/Eté 1931).

Paris, Editions Morancé (1931).

Moderne architectuur in Noorwegen, Zweden, Finland, Denemarken, Duitschland, Tsjechoslowakije, Oostenrijk, Zwitserland, Frankrijk, Belgie, Engeland en Ver.Staten v.Amerika.

Amsterdam, Kosmos 1927.

The prospects of art in the future parliament house (title printed within thick black ruled border).

Chiswick, printed by Charles Whittingham 1836 (”for private distribution”).

Architektur und Religion. Gedanken über religiose Wirkung der Architektur.

Basel, Kober C.F.Spittlers Nachf(olger) 1911.

Karl Friedrich Schinkel. Eine Characteristik seiner künstlerischen Wirksamkeit.

Berlin, George Gropius 1842.

Familiar architecture ; consisting of original designs for gentlemen and tradesmen, parsonages and summer-retreats ; with back-fronts, sections, &. Together with banqueting-rooms, churches, and chimney-pieces. To which is added, the masonry of the semicircular and elliptical arches, with practical remarks.

(No place of publication but evidently Norwich), “printed for the author” 1768.

Roma descritta ed illustrata … in questa seconda edizione corretta ed accresciuta.

Roma, Stamperia Pagliarini 1805, 1805.

Der Neubau der Königl:Sächsischen Technischen Hochschule Dresden eingeweiht am 11 Oktober 1913. Architekt : Martin Dülfer.

Berlin, Der Zirkel 1914 (Zirkel-Monographien, Band I).

A royal family-piece representing King Henry VII of England and his Queen Elizabeth of York (etc) ; A description of four ancient paintings, being historical portraitures of royal branches of the crown of England ; A large ancient painting representing King Edward VI.

(No publisher’s imprint, first item dated 20 December 1740 on f.12, other items later 1740s - early 1750s ?).

Sir William Gell in Italy. Letters to the Society of Dilettanti, 1831-1835.

London, Hamish Hamilton 1976.

Breve descrittione del regno di Napoli diviso in dodeci provincie, nella quale con brevità si tratta della città di Napoli, e delle cose più notabili di essa : e delle città, e terre più illustri del rego, con le famiglie, e nobili, non solo di quella, ma dell’altre citta di esso regno … et in questa ultima impressione arricchita del memoriale di tuuti quelli , che hanno dominato il regno dopò la declinatione dell’imperio Romano (etc).

Napoli, Ottavio Beltrano 1644.

Architectural sketches from the continent.

London, Day & Son (1858).

Tintoretto. The paintings and drawings.

London, The Phaidon Press Ltd 1948.

Michelangelo. An invitation to Casa Buonarroti.

Milano, Charta 1994.

Victorian church art. Exhibition November 1971 – January 1972.

London, HMSO 1971.

English church woodwork. A study in craftsmanship during the mediæval period A.D. 1250 -1550.

London, Batsford 1927.

An outline of European architecture.

Harmondsworth, Penguin Books 1960.

Catterick church, in the county of York. A correct copy of the contract for its building, dated in 1412, illustrated with remarks and notes.

London, J.Weale 1834.

A series of ancient baptismal fonts, chronologically arranged. Drawn by F. Simpson, jun. Engraved by R.Roberts.

London, Septimus Prowett 1828 (but published in parts 1825-1828).

Notes on the churches of Kent.

London, John Murray 1877.

Outlines of the history of design in mural painting principally during the Christian era. With an introduction on the art of the pre-Christian period.

London, James Parker and Co 1902, 1905.

The Gothic world 1100-1600. A survey of architecture and art.

London, Batsford 1950.

The London building world of the eighteen-sixties.

London, Thames and Hudson 1973.

An architectural account of the churches in the archdeaconry of Lindisfarne in the county of Northumberland.

Newcastle-upon-Tyne, M. & M.W. Lambert 1870.

An historical essay endeavoring a probability that the language of the empire of China is the primitive language.

London,”printed for Nath.Brook, at the Angel in Gresham Colledge” 1669.

Collection Hayashi. Estampes dessins livres illustrés.

Paris, 1902.

An introduction to standards in building.

London, E. & F.N. Spon Ltd 1947.

L’architecture religieuse russe du XIe siècle au XVIIe siècle.

Paris, Librairie Ernest Leroux 1929.

Danmarks bygningskultur. En historisk oversigt.

København, Gyldengalske Boghandel Nordisk Verlag 1955.

Specimens of mediæval architecture chiefly selected from examples of the 12th and 13th centuries in France and Italy.

(London), Day and Son 1862.

London before the conquest.

London & New York, Macmillan and Co. 1902.

The story of Christ Church St. Leonard’s-on-Sea. Edited by A. Clifton Kelway, with introduction by the Rev. Bernard Moultrie, Rector of Christ Church.

St Leonard’s-on-Sea, C. Whittaker, Royal Victoria Library 1909.