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London: Henry G. Bohn, 1837. Hardcover. Three quarter dark green cloth and brown morocco rebacked. Near fine. 74 pages & Alphabetical Index & Chronological Index, Folio, 50 x 33 cm. Etched frontispiece by and after Carter, and 106 etched plates. Originally issued in 27 parts, 'this is Carter's most important book... It was probably the first [work] to… Read more about this item

New York: Cooperative Building Plan Association, Architects, 1883. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. decorated taupe cloth lettered in red, beveled edges. Very good. 3 pages in text. Folio, 35 x 28 cm. 700 illustrations, each plan is priced and accompanied with letterpress details. Our copy is No. 9640, attesting that the purchaser can request a loan from the publisher… Read more about this item

London: John Murray, 1841. New Edition. Hardcover. Orig. brown cloth front cover lavishly illustrated in gilt borders and arabesques. Teg. Near fine. Jones, Owen. Unpaginated, approx. 200 pages in text. Four full-page chromolithograph illustrations with borders, colored titles, and ornamental vignettes [all are color lithographs] designed by Owen Jones. Numerous text illustrations from drawings by William Allan, David… Read more about this item

London: Ackermann and Co, 1838. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. brown cloth front cover gilt lettered. Very good. 17 text pages. 14.5 x 11 inches. Twenty lithograph plates with multiple images printed recto only. Most plates toned at margins. ABBEY LIFE. 176. Wear to corners, binding tight and firm.

New York: Bicknell & Comstock, 1877. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. publisher's burnt sienna cloth, front cover gilt lettered. Unpaginated. Small folio, 23.5 x 10 3/4 inches. May sound dramatic, but an almost as new copy, entire contents clean and fresh as are the covers. Plates printed recto only. Corner arabesques.

New York: Dingwall-Rock Ltd, 1925. Hardcover. Vellum backed gray boards backsrip lettered in gilt. Teg. Near fine. Clarke, Harry. 254 pages. 27 x 21 cm. Translated from the German by John Anster. With twenty-one full-page plates, one a double-page, eight of which are in color. Spine lettered in gilt, pictorial endpapers. Limited edition for the USA, copy 909… Read more about this item

London: James Hagger, 1850. First edition. Hardcover. Three quarter black calf and black cloth. Very good. (vi), viii, 266 pages. 11.2 x 9 inches. 146 wood engraved plates with 35 printed in colors. Essentially a practical guide to the trade of the period with suggestions for improving the work of masonry, foundations, domes, bridges, windows. Also provides designs… Read more about this item

Boston: Geo. H. Polley, 1887. First edition. Hardcover. Quarter brown cloth and lettered blue boards. Very good. Unpaginated. Folio, 13.5 x 11 inches. 60 plates printed recto only. Series of measured drawings and sketches of American colonial styles and designs. HITCHCOCK 1417. Interior clean, wear to corners and rubbing to backstrip extremities.

Venetia: Appresso Marc Antonio Brogiollo, 1642. leather_bound. Orig. limp vellum, spine lettered in brown. Very good in fine custom slipcase. quarter vellum spine and marbled boards. Folio, 33 x 22 cm. a2, B-G4, H-I4, AA-KK4, AAA6, BBB-EEE4, 4A-4R4, including title and final blank. Illustrated title page, some margin stains and browning. Initial decorated letters throughout. Not in FOWLER.… Read more about this item

Boston: American Type Founders Co, 1898. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. publisher's green cloth front cover decorated. All edges red. Near fine. 946 (2) pages. 20 x 12.5 cm. Laid-in the publisher's original four page "A Brief Synopsis of its Contents Arranged by folios, from page 1 to page 946, Inclusive." printed in red and black. Bookplate of J.D.… Read more about this item

London: Published by the author, 1831. First edition. Hardcover. Modern quarter black cloth and beige boards, backstrip lettered in gilt. Near fine. Unpaginated. 31 x 23 cm. With thirty plates drawn on stone and an Index for latter. Designs adapted to environs of the metropolis and large towns consistent with economy of constructioin. Interior contents very clean and… Read more about this item

Hartford: Case, Tiffany And Burnham, 1847. leather_bound. Contemporary calf over boards. Two Vols. in one. Very good. Folio, 40.5 x 30 cm, 96 pages in text. Thirty-eight wood engravings and fifty lithographed plates, some are double-paged. This edition contains the only published architecture designs of Henry Austin [five plates]. The frontispiece shows a view of the Wadsworth Athenaeum… Read more about this item

London: J.Taylor, 1811. Second edition. Hardcover. Modern half brown morocco, marbled boards. Fine. xxiv, (2) 238 pages. 24.5 x 15 cm. Appendix, two publisher adverts at rear. The first try in English to review the progress of French and European studies of Medieval Architecture. Contents include some of the notable structures -- Notre Dame and other cathedrals. Brilliant… Read more about this item

London: Longman's Green, 1904. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. navy cloth, spine and front cover lettered in gilt. Teg. Very good. 131 pages. 34 x 24 cm, fifty full-page colored plates. Scarce and very collectable work by the doyen of English landscape architecture. Gertrude Jekyll concentrated her design work on applying plants in a variety of settings, woodland gardens,… Read more about this item

Philadelphia: Franklin Printing Company, 1930. First edition. Hardcover. Quarter taupe cloth and beige boards Very good. Unpaginated. Folio, 41 x 31 cm. Foreword by George Gibbs. Copy 542 presented to Mr. & Mrs. J. Howard Rew. 16 pages of adverts connected to the building trades follow the designs of Wallace & Warner. Their work for the gentry along… Read more about this item

New York: C.M. Saxton And Company, 1857. Fifth Edition enlarged. Hardcover. Orig. brown cloth decorated in blind. Very good   . 532 pages (2). 24 x 15.5 cm. Enlarged and newly illustrated,eighteen sixteen plates including frontispiece with copious illustrations in the text. Originally published 1841. HITCHCOCK 364. KARPEL B528. "This is the first book devoted entirely to landscape gardening and… Read more about this item

Boston: Published by The Proprietors, 1832. Third edition. Hardcover. Contemporary three quarter brown calf and boards, marbled endpapers. Very good. 119 pages. 27.5 x 22.5. Sixty-four copper engraved plates. Glossary of Architecture Terms. This was unquestionably his most popular work. It went through at least seventeen issues before 1860. HITCHCOCK 119. "The word 'containing' is omitted from the… Read more about this item

New York: A.J. Bicknell & Co, 1873. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. pebble grained brown cloth, backstrip gilt designs bright and fresh. Front cover lettered in black. Near fine. Unpaginated. Folio, 35 x 27 cm. Seventy five lithographs plates (most with multiple images) plus lithographic frontispiece -- many plates are tinted, Included are forty-five perspectives, elevations and plans of… Read more about this item

New York: Published By The Authors (A.J. Bicknell, General Agent), 1868. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. black cloth decorated in blind, front cover gilt lettered. Very good. 19 text pages. Folio, 36 x 27.5 cm. Fifty-four lithograph plates. Presents a wide variety of dwellings as well as designs for row houses, tenements, fire and school houses and commercial buildings,… Read more about this item

Chicago: Herbert S. Stone & Company, 1902. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. illustrated tan cloth. Very good. 403 pages. 22 x 18 cm. Hundreds of halftone illustrations. Presents fifty-four essays by various authors: Joy Wheeler, Claude Bragdon, Harriet Monroe, Edgar Metcalf, Ralph Adams Cram, et al. Printed by the Lakeside Press. Covers a host of American homes from Colonial… Read more about this item