CITIES & PEOPLE: A SOCIAL AND ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY
Written by Mark Girouard.
Stock no. 1831225
Published by Yale University Press. 1st 1985. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

In an inimitable feat of social history, Girouard analyzes how the development of fashionable society, the increase in trade, the growth of population, and the widening of power of the nation state influenced seventeenth- and eighteenth-century cities, and how the Industrial Revolution affected cities of the nineteenth century. Large format. Red cloth boards, gilt title to spine. Colour double-spread title page and colour & b/w illustrations throughout. vii and 397 pages including index. ISBN: 0300035020. Lower edge of boards lightly knocked (very minor). Corner bumped. Boards a little stained (faint). Top edge of text block a little grubby. A few minor foxspots to prelims else contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper has a 2" split to lower front corners and a few marks. Musty odour present.

LINOLEUM: HISTORY, DESIGN, ARCHITECTURE 1882-2000
Written by Gerhard Kaldewei; Ingrid Nina Bell.
Stock no. 1831151
Published by Hatje Cantz Publishers. 1st 2000. Slightly better than very good condition.

This text presents linoleum in its various guises. It looks at the historical and ecological importance of this material. The essays are contributed by experts and cover the history of linoleum, its "discovery" by modernist designers and architects and its renaissance in contemporary design. Edited by Gerhard Kaldewei, translated by Ingrid Nina Bell. Black spine with white title, brown paper boards with black title to front. B/w and colour illustrations/photos. 251 pages including index. ISBN: 3775709908. A very nice copy.

LINEN HOUSES OF BANBRIDGE
Written by Catherine Cahill; Jack Diamond. Illustrated by Clare Boyce; Elizabeth McCalla.
Stock no. 1831077
1st thus 1995. Nearly fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

A Historical and Architectural Study of the Houses of The Linen Merchants of Banbridge, Ireland. Limited Edition of 200. Oblong format. Brown cloth boards with gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations. 72 pages including index. This is copy 88 of 200. A few scuff marks to dustwrapper else a lovely copy.

HOW TO RENDER: THE FUNDAMENTALS OF LIGHT, SHADOW AND REFLECTIVITY
Written by Scott Robertson; Thomas Bertling. Illustrated by Scott Robertson; Thomas Bertling.
Stock no. 1831041
Published by Design Studio Press. Circa 2014. Nearly fine condition.

This book has its focus firmly on helping artists, architects and designers to improve visual understanding of the world around and on techniques for representing that world. Rendering is the next step after drawing to communicate ideas more clearly. Matt pictorial boards. B/w illustrations, colour photos. 272 pags. ISBN: 9781933492834. 4th printing. Very minor, faint spots to vertical edge of text block (not affecting contents). A lovely copy.

30 HERITAGE BUILDINGS OF YANGON: INSIDE THE CITY THAT CAPTURED TIME
No author listed.
Stock no. 1831020
Published by Association Of Myanmar Architects. 2013. Slightly better than very good condition.

This book focuses on a selection of 30 key buildings and examines their past, present, and future. Piecing together the often forgotten social history of each building has involved delving into out-of-print books, company records, old city directories, newspaper archives, and people's memories. Pictorial cardwraps. Colour & b/w photos. 166 pages including index. ISBN: 9789997185211. Reprint. A very nice copy.

SOME COTSWOLD COUNTRY HOUSES
Written by James Lees-Milne.
Stock no. 1831018
Published by Dovecote Press. 1st 1987. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

A Personal Selection of 28 houses known by the author in his lifetime. Contains extracts of the diary of Lees-Milne who in the 1930s and 40s travelled around country houses all over the country to try to persuade them to hand over their houses to the National Trust.Green cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos and illustrations. 158 pages. ISBN: 0946159459. Boards clean. Text block lightly browned. A few faint foxspots an grubby marks to prelims. Price-cut green pictorial dustwrapper is lightly scuffed, lightly edge-rubbed/creased and has a few minor marks.

THE WORKS IN ARCHITECTURE OF ROBERT AND JAMES ADAM
Written by Robert Oresko.
Stock no. 1830889
Published by Academy Editions. 1st 1975. Slightly better than very good condition.

The Works in Architecture of Robert and James Adam was published in three volumes over a period of 50 years from 1778. This new edition brings the complete text and all the engravings together in a single volume and is based on the reprint of E. Thezard Fils. Large format. Green cardwraps. B/w illustrations. 184 pages. ISBN: 0856700347. Very slight fading to spine. Old price-label to rear cover. A few minor marks to covers. Minor foxing to text block. Contents clean.

MEDIEVAL ARCHITECTURE AND ITS INTELLECTUAL CONTEXT: STUDIES IN HONOUR OF PETER KIDSON
Written by Peter Kidson; Eric Fernie; Paul Crossley.
Stock no. 1830884
Published by The Hambledon Press. 1st 1990. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Presented by ex-pupils and friends to Peter Kidson, Professor of Medieval Architecture at the Courtauld Institute, as a mark of respect and affection for arguably the most influential historian of medieval architecture of his generation in the English-speaking world. The essays in this volume reflect the range of Peter Kidson's own interests and are united in following his approach to medieval architecture and art: a determination to see buildings and objects in the intellectual terms of the time in which they were created. Edited by Eric Fernie and Paul Crossley. Navy blue cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos and illustrations. xxvii and 304 pages including list of subscribers to rear. ISBN: 1852850345. Neat name in ink to front endpaper. Else contents clean. Blue dustwrapper is very lightly scuffed. Includes letter from and signed by Peter Kidson.

THE MEDIAEVAL ARCHITECT
Written by John Harvey.
Stock no. 1830883
Published by Wayland (Publishers) Ltd.. 1st 1972. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

The story of the mediaeval architect is here told to a great extent in the words of contemporaries, translated into modern English in the case of documents in Latin or foreign languages. Blue cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos and diagrams. 296 pages including index. ISBN: 0853400229. Light shelf wear to top & tail of spine. Boards clean. Text block browned with some minor foxing. Minor surface papper loss/damage to frontis and facing title page. Contents clean. Blue pictorial dustwrapper is lightly edge-rubbed and scuffed, small closed tear (no loss) to lower edge of rear panel.

LORDSHIP AND ARCHITECTURE IN MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE SCOTLAND
Written by Richard D. Oram; Geofrrey P. Stell.
Stock no. 1830881
Published by John Donald. 1st 2005. Slightly better than very good condition.

A series of essays on the role of acrchitecure as an expression of lordship and status among Scottish secular and ecclesiastical elites in the period c.1124-c.1650. These studies of the acrchitectural patronage of particular families or groups explore how the nobility operated socially and economically as well as politically, in the organisation and structure of lordship throughout the medieval and renaissance periods. Edited by Richard Oram and Geoffrey Snell. Pictorial cardwraps. B/w photos. xxii and 346 pages including index. ISBN: 9780859766289. Light scuffing to covers and rubbing to edges. Contents clean.

THE CATHEDRAL BUILDERS
Written by Jean Gimpel.
Stock no. 1830878
Published by Michael Russell. 1st thus 1983. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Medieval Europe was distinguished by the spectacular development of religious architecture from the eleventh to the thirteenth centuries - eighty cathedrals, five hundred great churches, and more than ten thousand parish churches. In France alone, more stone was quarried in this span of three centuries than during the entire history of ancient Egypt. Translated from the French by Teresa Waugh. Large format. Dark blue boards with gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations and photos and a few colour. 127 pages including index. ISBN: 0859550931. Boards clean, lower edge of boars lightly rubbed. Some minor foxing to text block. Endpapers lightly browned else contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is scuffed to rear panel and is lightly edge-creased.

THE RUDIMENTS OF ARCHITECTURE: OR, THE YOUNG WORKMAN'S INSTRUCTOR
No author listed.
Stock no. 1830876
Published by Black & Harris Publishers. 1st thus 1992. Very good condition.

This edition published in 1992, being a reprint with new introduction from the 1778 printing (reprint of 1773 edition). Limited to 300 copies. Black cloth spine with 4 raised bands and gilt title. Marbled cloth boards with cream title onlay to front. B/w drawings. ISBN: 0951958100. Gilt to spine a little rubbed and obliterated. Rubbing to rear edge of spine. Text block browned and a little grubby. Browning to page edges.