1. Beale, S. Sophia.

The Amateur’s Guide to Architecture. With Numerous Illustrations.

Edinburgh, John Grant, 1905. 12.5 cm x 18.5 cm. Frontispiece with guard, X, 180 pages. Numerous engraved illustrations throughout text. Prize-Binding in beautifully bound Hardcover (full navy morocco) with gilt lettering on red title-label on spine with raised bands and gilt-tooled decoration to compartments. Gilt amorial stamp of Wimborne Grammar School (now Queen Elizabeth’s School) embossed on front board. Ornate gillt ruling board edges. Marvelously marbled pastedowns, endpapers and edges. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. With protective mylar. Few very small abrasions to leather at spine only. Crack to gutter between front endapers. Binding still good and firm. Some very minor foxing to otherwise clean and bright interior. Dated (July 1909) inscription from A.D.H Allan, Headmaster, and discreet stamps on front endpapers

2. Benoit-Lévy, Georges.

Cités-Jardins D’Amérique. [Signed / Inscribed] [History of American Garden Cities]. Préface par Émile Cheysson Membre de L’Institut.

Paris, Henri Jouve, 1905. 16.5 cm x 25 cm. III, 462 pages. Several black and white photographic plates throughout. Original Hardcover. Good+ condition with only minor signs of external wear. Slight tanning to pages and more markedly so on pages 145 to 160. Ex-library and museum copy with four stamps, all from Frankfurt institutions, to endpapers and title page. Also a small stamp from Wilhelm Denn bookbinder, Frankfurt on bottom corner of pastedown. Library labels and codes on spine and in pencil on pastedown. Scribble in ink pen on free endpaper. Signed and inscribed by author Georges Benoit-Lévy dated 1/9/‘05.

3. Blunt, Anthony.

Art and Architecture in France, 1500-1700 (The Pelican History of Art).

Middlesex, Penguin Books Ltd., 1953. 18.4 cm x 26.4 cm. XVII, 312 pages. With 192 black and white plates. Original Hardcover. Very good+ condition with only minor signs of external wear. Only very minor foxing to edges, endpapers, half-title and title pages. Pages lightly tanned. Binding tight. Gilt title on spine and emblem on front cover. Interior clean. The price for this heavy book includes international shipping per Courier !

4. Dean, David.

English Shop Fronts from Contemporary Source Books 1792-1840.

London, Alec Tiranti Ltd., 1970. 21.8 cm x 27.8 cm. Black and white fronispiece. Unpaginated. With 77 full page illustrations. Original Softcover. Very good+ condition with only minor signs of external wear. Only very minor discolouration to page edges. Pages very lightly tanned. Otherwise interior pages clean and unmarked.

5. Lang, James.

Rebuilding St. Paul’s after the Great Fire of London.

London, New York, Toronto, Geoffrey Cumberlege, Oxford University Press, 1956. 19.5 cm x 25.6 cm. XI, 269 pages. 22 illustrations. Hardcover [publisher’s original red cloth] with gilt lettering on spine. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Spine faded. Top corner of front board bumped. Minor foxing to endpapers and hint of tanning to edges but interior otherwise bright and clean.

6. Lewis, Peter R.

Beautiful Railway Bridge of the Silvery Tay. Reinvestigating the Tay Bridge Disaster of 1879.

Reprinted. Stroud, The History Press, 2008. 17 cm x 25 cm. 192 pages. Original Softcover. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear.

7. Paine, Robert Treat / Soper, Alexander.

The Art and Architecture of Japan (Pelican History of Art Series). Edited by Nikolaus Pevsner.

Middlesex, Penguin Books, 1955. 18.4 cm x 26.4 cm. Illustrated colour frontispiece. XVIII, 316 pages. With many black and white plates. Includes maps of China, Korea and Japan. Original Hardcover. With many black and white plates. Very good+ condition with only minor signs of external wear. With only very minor foxing to pastedowns, endpapers and title page. Discolouration to edges. Text contains some minor red ink and pencil markings. Gilt lettering to spine and emblem on front cover. Binding tight. Rear pastedown contains bookstore sticker. The price for this heavy book includes international shipping per Courier !

8. Planat, P.

La Construction Moderne [44e Annee: 7 Octobre 1928 – 29 Septembre 1929]. Journal Hebdomadaire Illustré.

Paris, Librairie de la Construction Moderne, 1928-1929. 23.6 cm x 31 cm. 668 pages. With black and white illustrations. Original Hardcover. With quarter leather and marbled boards, pastedowns and endpapers. Raised bands and gilt title on spine. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Minor foxing to edges. Moderate rubbing to cover corners and edges. Title-page loosely inserted / A few loose pages at beginning. Minor tear to rear endpaper. Otherwise binding strong.

9. Summerson, John.

Architecture in Britain 1530-1830 (Pelican History of Art).

London, Penguin Books, 1953. 18.4 cm x 26.4 cm. XVIII, 373 pages. Illustrated with black and white plates. Original Hardcover. Very good+ condition with only minor signs of external wear. With only minor foxing to edges, front pages and endpaper. Pages slightly tanned. Rear endpaper separated from book block. Gilt lettering to spine and emblem on front cover. Binding strong.

10. Yarwood, Doreen.

The Architecture of Europe.

London, Chancellor Press, 1974. 18.8 cm x 25.3 cm. 598 pages. With 993 line drawings and over 100 black and white plates. Original Hardcover. Very good+ condition with only minor signs of external wear. Only very minor foxing to first and last few pages and edges. Corners and spine rubbed very slightly. Otherwise, interior very bright and clean.