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ART NOUVEAU: AN ARCHITECTURAL INDULGENCE (NEW ARCHITECTURE 6)
Written by Andrea Papadakis; et al.
Stock no. 1829057
Published by Andreas Papadakis Publisher. 2000. Slightly better than very good condition.

Edited by Andreas Papadakis. The series of movements that formed Art Nouveau are introduced by Victor Awas, a leading international expert on the period and described in a series of essays by specialists from the Victoria & Albert Museum in London. Large format. Pictorial cardwraps. Colour & b/w illustrations throughout. 136 pages. ISBN: 1901092348. Front and rear joint pulled from front & rear endpaper due to glue of spine drying out. Contents still tight. Name and date in ink to top of front endpaper (also half-title page). Otherwise a lovely, clean copy.

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THE MOST BEAUTIFUL LIBRARIES OF THE WORLD
Written by Jacques Bosser. Illustrated by Guillaume De Laubier.
Stock no. 1829006
Published by Thames and Hudson. 2004. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Internationally renowned photographer, Guillaume de Laubier, takes the reader on a journey to more than twenty of the most historical of these magical places called libraries. Large format. Brown cloth boards, gilt title to spine. Colour photos throughout. 248 pages. ISBN: 0500511551. Reprint. Top of spine bumped. Lower edges of boards have a slight knock. Contents are clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly faded to spine, lightly creased to lower edge, lightly scuffed to rear panel.

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ROUND TOWER CHURCHES OF SOUTH EAST ENGLAND
Written by W.J. Goode. Illustrated by Diana Bowie.
Stock no. 1829001
Published by Round Tower Churches Society. 1st 1994. Very good condition.

Large format. Pink cardwraps with white titles and illustration to front & rear. B/w photos and illustrations. 206 pages. ISBN: 0952305801. Edges of covers lightly rubbed. Name & date in ink to top of title page. Includes some relevant newspaper cuttings, leaflets and colour photos loosely inserted.

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FIFTY ENGLISH STEEPLES
Written by Julian Flannery.
Stock no. 1828999
Published by Thames and Hudson. 1st 2016. Slightly better than very good condition.

The Finest Medieval Parish Church Towers and Spires in England. Large format. Purple cloth spine with silver titles, white pictorial boards. Purple endpapers. B/w photos and diagrams. Purple ribbon page marker. 495 pages including index. ISBN: 9780500343142. White boards a little grubby. Contents clean. Some church steeples accompanied with a card drawing inserted.

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THE LOST CITY OF STOKE-ON-TRENT
Written by Matthew Rice. Illustrated by Matthew Rice.
Stock no. 1828996
Published by Frances Lincoln Limited. Circa 2010. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

A song for Stoke: a fanfare for one of the great cities of the world's first Industrial Revolution. Matthew Rice's detailed - and often funny - architectural watercolours are the basis of this book. Red cloth boards, black title to spine. Colour pictorial endpapers. Colour illustrations. 152 pages including index. ISBN: 9780711231399. Second printing. Top & tail of spine and lower corners lightly rubbed. Top corners of boards lightly bumped. Contents fine. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly scuffed at edges.

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FLINT FLUSHWORK: A MEDIEVAL MASONRY ART
Written by Stephen Hart.
Stock no. 1828910
Published by The Boydell Press. 1st 2008. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Flint Flushwork is a wholly external decorative medium, where the skills of a medieval craftsman blended with the iconography of the medieval church to create a new art form. It is an artistic achievement that is built into the very fabric of many hundreds of medieval churches. Brown cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos and a few colour photos. v and 175 pages. ISBN: 9781843833697. Neat name & date in ink to front endpaper else contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly scuffed.

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MONMOUTHSHIRE HOUSES PART I MEDIEVAL HOUSES
Written by Cyril Fox; Lord Raglan.
Stock no. 1828856
Published by National Museum of Wales. 1st 1951. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

A Study of Building Techniques and Smaller House-plans in the Fifteenth to Seventeenth Centuries. Red cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos and illustrations. B/w architectural drawings. 114 pages including index plus photos to rear. Light rubbing to board edges. Browning and foxing to endpapers and text block. A few scattered foxspots. Else contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is grubby and edge-worn with a few small closed tears and a tiny chip.

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SURREY (BUILDINGS OF ENGLAND)
Written by Nikolaus Pevsner; Bridget Cherry.
Stock no. 1328590
Published by Yale University Press. 1st thus 2002. Nearly fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

Second edition revised by Bridget Cherry, originally published in 1971. Black vinyl boards, gilt title. B/w photos. ISBN: 0300096755. Tiny dent to top of spine of both book and wrapper.

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SUSSEX (BUILDINGS OF ENGLAND)
Written by Nikolaus Pevsner; Ian Nairn.
Stock no. 1328588
Published by Yale University Press. 1st thus 2003. Nearly fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

Black vinyl boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos. First published by Penguin in 1965. ISBN: 0300096771. Spine of book and wrapper bumped else a fine copy.

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HEREFORDSHIRE (BUILDINGS OF ENGLAND)
Written by Nikolaus Pevsner.
Stock no. 1328587
Published by Yale University Press. 1st thus 2003. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Black vinyl boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos. First published by Penguin in 1963. ISBN: 0300096097. Top corner tips are bumped. A few tiny, light marks to edge of rear cover. Dustwrapper is lightly creased at spine and corners.

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HAMPSHIRE AND THE ISLE OF WIGHT (BUILDINGS OF ENGLAND)
Written by Nikolaus Pevsner; David Lloyd.
Stock no. 1328586
Published by Yale University Press. 1st thus 2002. Nearly fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

Black vinyl covers, gilt title to spine. B/w photos. First published by Penguin 1967. ISBN: 0300096062.

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NORFOLK 2: NORTH-WEST AND SOUTH (BUILDINGS OF ENGLAND)
Written by Nikolaus Pevsner; Bill Wilson.
Stock no. 1328585
Published by Yale University Press. 1st thus 2002. Nearly fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

Black vinyl boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos. ISBN: 0300096577.

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