THE GEORGIAN GROUP BOOK OF THE GEORGIAN HOUSE
Written by Steven Parissien.
Stock no. 1829468
Published by Aurum Press. 2011. Slightly better than very good condition.

The development of the Georgian style in Britain and its colonies. Chapters on roofs, brickwork and stonework, doors and windows, staircases and plasterwork. Pictorial cardwraps. Large format. Colour photos. 240 pages including index. ISBN: 9781845133474. 5th printing. Inscribed: 'with my best wishes from... 15 June 2012' where the author's name is printed after 'from' (written by author but has not signed his name). Rear cover scuffed. Contents clean.

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BLOOMSBURY ROOMS: MODERNISM, SUBCULTURE, AND DOMESTICITY
Written by Christopher Reed.
Stock no. 1829168
Published by Yale University Press. 1st 2004. Very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

New light on the notorious Bloomsbury Group and how the issues of their day influenced their interpretation and decoration of the home. The author analyzes the rooms designed by Bloomsbury artists as spaces in which to be modern. This book traces the development of Bloomsbury's domestic aesthetic from the group's influential promulgation of Post-Impressionism in Britain around 1910 through the 1930s. Large format. Green cloth boards, black title to spine. Colour & b/w illustrations. viii and 314 pages including index. ISBN: 0300102488. Tip of board corners lightly bumped else boards clean and bright. Light browning to text block. Title page has light marks from colour imprinting from facing colour frontispiece. Otherwise, contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly browned, old price label to rear panel. The book has a lingering cigarette odour.

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RURAL HOUSES OF NORTH OF IRELAND
Written by Alan Gailey.
Stock no. 1828444
Published by John Donald Publishers Ltd.. 1st 1984. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

A study of Irish traditional houses to set the field evidence in the context of historical documentation over a major part of Ireland. Discusses constructional and typological aspects as well as exploration of the social-historical background and semiotic interpretations. Large format. Green cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos and illustrations. ISBN: 0859760987. From the library of Ron Brunskill, authority on the history of architecture. Includes letter for permission to review from the Ancient Monuments Society and handwritten two sided review sheet. Top & tail of spine and corners lightly shelf-worn. Small patch of slight discolouration to front board. A little foxing to text block. Contents clean. Green pictorial dustwrapper is a little creased and lightly scuffed.

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RURAL HOUSES OF THE LANCASHIRE PENNINES 1560 TO 1760
Written by Sarah Pearson.
Stock no. 1828417
Published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office. 1st 1985. Very good condition.

Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England. Supplementary Series: 10. Pictorial cardwraps. Social and architectural history. B/w photos and drawings. ISBN: 0117011924. SIGNED by the author (with personal gift dedication) to front endpaper. Also includes a loosely inserted excerpt from County Life August 1985 written and signed by same author. From the library of Ron Brunskill, authority on acrchitectural history. Spine lightly faded. Text block lightly browned. Contents clean.

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BRYCHEINIOG VOLUME XI: THE HOUSES OF BRECONSHIRE PART III. THE BRECON DISTRICT
Written by S.R. Jones; J.T. Smith.
Stock no. 1828415
Published by The Brecknock Society. 1st 1965. Very good condition.

Blue cardwraps. 148 pages. B/w photos & drawings. 'With the author's compliments' written in biro to top of front cover. Covers lightly browned and a few spots to front. Contents clean.

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WORKERS' HOUSING IN WEST YORKSHIRE 1750-1920
Written by Lucy Caffyn.
Stock no. 1828414
Published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office. 1st 1986. Very good condition.

Large format. Card wraps. B/w photos. B/w illustrations. Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England. West Yorkshire Metropolitan County Council. ISBN: 0113000022. Spine lightly faded, rear cover a little grubby. Text block a little grubby. Contents clean.

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ILLUSTRATED HANDBOOK OF VERNACULAR ARCHITECTURE
Written by R.W. Brunskill.
Stock no. 1828239
Published by Faber & Faber. 1st 1971. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

This book is concerned with the architecture of the lesser houses - manor houses, farm-houses, cottages - and of barns, stables and mills, inns and shops, and early industrial buildings close to the domestic scale built according to local traditions. Beige cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos and architectural drawings. ISBN: 0571086365. Light browning to endpapers and text block else contents clean. Price-cut pictorial dustwrapper is a little grubby, lightly faded to spine, light creasing to top horizontal edge.

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THE SURVIVORS: A DOCUMENTARY RECORD OF FIFTY OF NEWPORT'S FINEST HOUSES
Written by Rex Moreton.
Stock no. 1825548
Published by Vine Press. 1st 2012. Nearly fine condition.

Newport, Monmouthshire. Oblong format. Brown cloth spine, green cloth boards with photographic colour onlay to front. Colour photos. ISBN: 9781904192435. A nice clean copy, couple of imperfections to cloth binding, rear pastedown creased (binding error).

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STRAWBALE HOME PLANS
Written by Wayne J. Bingham; Colleen F. Smith.
Stock no. 1824882
Published by Gibbs Smith, Publisher. 1st 2007. Very good condition.

An inspiring and diverse collection of strawbale buildings. Featuring everything from single-level country homes to cottages and studios, to community buildings. Pictorial cardwraps. Colour photos & b/w plans. ISBN: 9781586858612. Corners of covers lightly rubbed, spine lightly faded. Text block slightly grubby. Contents clean.

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1888 THE STORY OF PORT SUNLIGHT: A SOUVENIR FOR VISITORS IN GOLDEN JUBILEE YEAR 1938
No author listed.
Stock no. 2136841
Published by Lever Brothers Limited. 1938. Very good condition.

Oblong format. Card wraps. Model town that was built by the Lever Brothers. Tells the story of the village, factory and products it produced during half a century. B/w photos. Some corner creasing. Marks to covers; a bit of foxing and page browning.

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SADDLEWORTH BUILDINGS
Written by W. John Smith.
Stock no. 1823437
Published by Saddleworth Historical Society. 1st 1987. Slightly better than very good condition.

A guide to the vernacular architecture of the parish of Saddleworth in the Pennines. Large format. White cardwraps. B/w photos and diagrams. ISBN: 0904982068. Spine and rear cover browned. Rear cover creased from lower open edge corner. Old bookseller's price label to rear cover. Contents are clean.

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SCOTTISH COUNTRY HOUSES 1600-1914
Written by Ian Gow; Alistair Rowan.
Stock no. 1823405
Published by Edinburgh University Press. 1st thus 1998. Slightly better than very good condition.

An insight into the Scottish country house in all its many guises, including much new research on significant but less familiar houses such as Kinneil, Relugas and Dunrobin. Pictorial card wraps. B/w illustrations. ISBN: 0748610774. Spine is faded to the degree that the title cannot be read on spine. Contents fine.

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