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Edinburgh : John Bartholomew & Son, 1981. First edition. A handsome and scholarly survey, thoroughly illustrated. With sections on masters, men and materials; the magnificent houses; a dictionary of over 700 craftsmen and their known commissions, with a glossary; bibliography, etc.
Royal 4to (31cm). xxiv,(312)pp. Colour plates and 145 monochrome illustrations. Original cloth; a very good copy in the original photographic slip-case.

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London : B. T. Batsford, 1905. First edition. Bond's monumental account of gothic in England - rich in architectural detail of ridge-ribs, tiercerons, liernes, corbel-tables, gargoyles, dripstones, hood-moulds, and much more. Illustrated with 785 photographs, sketches and measured drawings, as well as 469 plans, sections, diagrams and moldings.
Crown 4to (27cm). xxii,782,[ii] + 24pp. Plates. Illustrations. Diagrams. Original buckram gilt; top edge gilt; faintly rubbed and a little sunned; some browning, spotting and tape-marks to endpapers, but otherwise a very good copy. From the library of the distinguished illustrator and architectural historian Geoffrey Fletcher (1923-2004), with his 1975 ownership inscription.

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London : T. Werner Laurie, [1914]. First edition. A thorough and fully-illustrated guide, with introductory matter on the evolution of church fabric, the Anglo-Norman and Transitional styles, much on Early English and the later Decorated Style, lists of the best English examples, with full comparison of other European work.
Demy 8vo (23cm). xii,(360),[iv]pp. Portrait. Numerous plates. Original decorative cloth; minor wear at head and tail, with neat repair at head; endpapers a little tanned; some spotting, mainly of edges; a good copy. With the 1926 ownership inscription of H. G. Askwith, and his occasional pencilled underlining, and the later (1972) ownership inscription of the distinguished artist and architectural historian, Geoffrey Scowcroft Fletcher (1923-2004).

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London : Penguin Books, (1989). Second edition : combines and much amplifies the original North Devon and South Devon volumes published in 1952. In the celebrated "Buildings of England" series.
Demy 8vo. 976pp. Plates. Map. Original rexine; very good in a just slightly used dust-jacket.

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Liverpool : Walker Art Gallery / London : Building Centre, (1958). First edition. The illustrated catalogue of the exhibition held in Liverpool and London in the winter of 1958-1959. Includes Herbert Read on Le Corbusier as a poet, further essays, a chronology, a bibliography, and numerous illustrations.
Medium 8vo. 120pp. Photographs. Illustrations. Advertisements. With the separately printed lecture list loosely inserted. Original wrappers; spine faintly tanned, but otherwise a very good copy.

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London : Chapman & Hall, 1920. First edition. A handsomely illustrated history of architecture and design, with sections on mouldings, architectural proportions, surface division, conventional ornament, design treatment, mythology and symbolism, ways and means, etc. In the Universal Art Series.
Demy 8vo. xx,376pp. Plates. Numerous illustrations. Original decorative cloth; some minor spotting, mainly of edges; endpapers lightly tanned, but otherwise a very good, bright and sound copy in the dust-jacket.

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London : John Murray, 1855. First edition : a secondary issue, the two volumes bound in one and with the advertisements dated November 1856. Fergusson's great strengths as an architectural historian were firstly that having spent ten years in India he had a much wider range of interest than most Europeans - his initial chapters are on Buddhist and Jaina architecture, Hindu architecture, and the architecture of China and South and Central America. And secondly, he was completely unafraid of defying conventional opinion. Popular his book certainly was, but at over 1,000 pages (and with more than 800 illustrations) only a rather modest Victorian might have regarded it as concise.
Two volumes bound in one. Demy 8vo. (lx),1004 + 32pp. Frontispiece and 837 illustrations. Original blind-stamped cloth; the binding expertly recased and refurbished; endpapers replaced; one preliminary leaf re-margined; a few minor nicks and spots, but a very good and solid copy. From the library of the distinguished illustrator and architectural historian Geoffrey Fletcher (1923-2004), with his ownership inscription and note that the book was repaired in 1976.

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London : Adam & Charles Black, (1962). First edition. A masterly and richly illustrated study, with much in passing on Isambard Kingdom Brunel, cast iron, the gothic revival - both Christian and commercial, John Claudius Loudon, William Morris, A. W. N. Pugin, John Ruskin, George Gilbert Scott, etc.
Crown 4to (26cm). xvi,(176)pp. Plates. Numerous illustrations. Original cloth; a couple of slight marks, but a very good copy in a lightly sunned dust-jacket. From the library of the distinguished artist and architectural historian, Geoffrey Scowcroft Fletcher (1923-2004), with his occasional annotation, nine of his photographs of nineteenth-century Oxford buildings taken in 1968 loosely inserted, as well as several related press-cuttings (two articles by John Betjeman, etc).

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Newcastle upon Tyne : Oriel Press, (1970). First edition. A life and study of the Scottish landscape gardener, writer and architect, John Claudius Loudon (1783-1843), virtual inventor of the English suburban semi.
Royal 8vo (26cm). 224pp. Plates. Portraits. Original cloth; very good in a poor dust-jacket - somewhat tape-stained in an ill-conceived attempt at reinforcement. From the library of the distinguished artist and architectural historian, Geoffrey Scowcroft Fletcher (1923-2004), with his 1986 ownership inscription.

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London : Phoenix House, (1962). First edition thus. A wholly revised edition of Godfrey's classic "A History of Architecture in London" (1911), extending his original text on into the twentieth century and the geographical coverage out to a radius of forty miles from the capital. A richly illustrated history of English architecture as demonstrated in surviving London buildings - "no major building of architectural merit from Norman to our own time is overlooked".
Demy 8vo. (xx),264pp. Plates. Illustrations. Original cloth gilt; a very good copy in a lightly worn dust-jacket.

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Harmondsworth : Penguin Books, (1965). First edition. In the celebrated "Buildings of England" series.
Crown 8vo. 692,[xii]pp. Plates. Maps. Original cloth; very slightly bruised, but a very good copy in the original dust-jacket - just lightly used.

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London : The Studio, 1906. New edition. A fresh version of the plates from Nash's monumental work originally published in four volumes between 1839 and 1849 - the 104 plates carefully reproduced at reduced size, and forming as fine a record as there is of English Tudor and Elizabethan architecture, especially strong on the interiors. With an introduction by Charles Harrison Townsend.
Small folio (30cm). [8],(viii)pp + 104 plates. Original cloth gilt over bevelled boards; top edge gilt; lightly sunned and very slightly bruised, but a very good copy. From the library of the distinguished artist and architectural historian, Geoffrey Scowcroft Fletcher (1923-2004), with his ownership inscription.

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London : Country Life, (1954). First edition. A neatly worked dictionary of architectural terms, attractively illustrated with explanatory drawings.
Crown 4to. (112)pp. Illustrations. Original boards; a few slight spots; mild tanning of endpapers, but a very good copy in a slightly chipped, lightly nicked and price-clipped dust-jacket.

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Oxford & London : James Parker & Co., 1879. Fifth edition. A highly useful illustrated dictionary of architecture - from abacus to zig-zag - which retained its popularity well into the twentieth century and remains in print to the present day. First published in 1846.
Foolscap 8vo (18cm). [iv],(336) + 8pp. Folding frontispiece in two colours. Numerous illustrations, diagrams, etc. Original decorative cloth gilt; lightly rubbed and a little sunned; a few faint spots, but a very good copy. From the library of the distinguished artist and architectural historian, Geoffrey Scowcroft Fletcher (1923-2004), with his ownership inscription.

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London : Penguin Books, (1951). First edition : the wrappers issue. Pevsner incisive on the merits and demerits of the built heritage of the much abused county. In the celebrated "Buildings of England" series.
Crown 8vo. 204,[iv]pp. Plates. Map. Original wrappers; a little rubbed and sunned; one of the blank pages supplied for making notes has been so used; a good copy.

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London : Penguin Books, (1958). First edition : the hardback issue. In the celebrated "Buildings of England" series.
Crown 8vo. 368pp. Plates. Map. Original cloth; very good in a just lightly used dust-jacket.

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London : His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1911. A reprint of the original 1910 edition of the very first of the Royal Commission county surveys, giving a general historical introduction followed by a parish-by-parish inventory of all the known survivals dating from pre-1700. With a glossary, a schedule of the monuments "especially worthy of preservation", etc.
Demy 4to. xvi,(312)pp. Plates. Folding map & plans. Original cloth; mild spotting of edges, but a very good copy.

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London : His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1925. First edition. A general historical introduction followed by an illustrated borough-by-borough inventory of all the known survivals dating from pre-1714. Covers rather more of London than the title might imply - Battersea, Chelsea, Finsbury, Fulham, Hammersmith, Hampstead, Holborn, Islington, Kensington, Lambeth, Paddington, St. Marylebone, St. Pancras, Stoke Newington, Wandsworth and Westminster. With supplementary material on the early heraldry, a glossary, index, etc.
Demy 4to. xxiv,194pp. 235 plates. Folding coloured map in pocket. Original decorative cloth; a very good copy.

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London : Smith, Elder & Co., 1849. First edition. The lamps of Sacrifice, Truth, Power, Beauty, Life, Memory and Obedience - the first of Ruskin's works to bear his name and one of the nineteenth century's greatest and most influential texts, illustrated with his own stone-etched plates.
Crown 4to (27cm). (xii),(206) + 16pp advertisements. Fourteen lithographed plates. Promotional slip for the forthcoming "Stones of Venice". Original cloth in an elaborate design in blind; top edge gilt; skilfully rebacked and repaired, retaining the original cloth spine; endpapers replaced; corners lightly worn; a few minor marks and spots, but overall still a very good copy.

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London : Hugh Evelyn, (1969). First edition. A fine illustrated study of cinema architecture - with chapters on the precursors; kinetoscope parlour to nickelodeon; the itinerant show; pre Great War cinemas in Britain; the American origins; British cinema in the 1920s; the advent of talkies; the super cinema; continental cinemas; design considerations in the 1930s; drive-ins, news-theatres and art-cinemas; post-war innovation and experiment, etc.
Post 4to. 224pp. Illustrations and diagrams throughout, some in colour. Original cloth; very good in a just lightly used dust-jacket. From the library of the distinguished illustrator and architectural historian Geoffrey Fletcher (1923-2004), with his ownership inscription - a review copy, with Fletcher's 1969 Daily Telegraph review tipped in.

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London : John Murray, 1855. First edition. The architect of the Law Courts in the Strand examines the Romanesque and Gothic of Basle and Zurich, as well as Bergamo, Brescia, Verona, Padua, Venice, Mantua, Cremona, Milan, etc., as he expounds the principles of eclecticism that were to make him the leading exponent of "High Victorian" in architecture.
Demy 8vo. xx,(288) + 32pp advertisements dated January 1856. Six chromolitho plates by Ford and West from Street's own drawings; three similar sepia plates by the anastatic process; twenty-five wood-engraved plates by Orlando Jewitt and others. Numerous illustrations in text. Original cloth, decorated in gilt and blind; expertly recased, tightened and refurbished; endpapers replaced; gilt on spine much dulled; some marks and occasional discolouration to margins; a good, complete and serviceable copy. From the library of the distinguished illustrator and architectural historian Geoffrey Fletcher (1923-2004), with his original 1942 ownership inscription and his further ownership inscription on the replacement endpapers, presumably added at the time of the book's repair.

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London : Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, (1924). First edition. An absorbing study in the Historic Monuments of England series, with chapters on the varieties of plan; materials; pre-Conquest Romanesque; Norman Romanesque; the Transition; Early English; Decorated; Perpendicular; Renaissance, etc.
Demy 8vo (23cm). 246,[ii]pp. Plates. Illustrations. Map. Original cloth; contemporary inscription; edges a little spotted; mild tanning of endpapers, but a very good, bright and sound copy. From the library of the distinguished illustrator and architectural historian Geoffrey Fletcher (1923-2004), with his 1987 ownership inscription.

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