British Builder, First Edition (17 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Dust marking to closed edges. Contents clean.

Hardback. 1st Edition. Large octavo size [16x24cm approx]. Very Good in Good Dustjacket. DJ has some minor loss & closed tears - now protected in our purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. Black & white illustrations. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 378 pages.

xii+378pp. 8vo. B/w plates. Original boards in chipped dustwrapper. A very good copy. First edition.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. xi (1p genealogical table) 378p D-J (tape stains inside, chips, price-clipped, in protective plastic) Signature FEP Light foxing top FE, slight foxing FE A biography of a man important to the organised immigration to Australia and especially New Zealand, with illustrations.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good +++. First Edition. STATED FIRSTPUBLICATION. SOLID BINDING. RATES MUCH BETTER THAN V.G. ONLY MARKS ARE A FEW CRAYON SCRIBBLES ON ffep. Uniquely illustrated. 378 pp. D/J HAS 1 TINY TEAR AND A COUPLE OF TINY CHIPS AND IS PROTECTED. ' WITHOUT WAKEFIELD THERE WOULD PROBABLY HAVE BEEN NO BRITISH COMMONWEALTH".

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edition. Hardcover. 378 pages. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Longmans, 1961. First Edition. *** CONDITION: The book itself is in good condition and comes in fair dust jacket. More specifically: Ex-library with usual marks, stamps, stickers. Boards have no wear, rubbing or soiling. Spine has minor lean and slight fading. Edges of dust jacket have significant bumping, moderate wear and major chips and/or tears. Dust jacket is unclipped. Edges of pages are mildly foxed. Pages are reasonably tanned. Small mark on front board (most likelt sticky tape residue. Large surface tear between front board and title page which shows the binding tape attached to board and book. Dust Jacket has a large tear along flaps that extends just over half the flap. Sticky tape residue on inside of dust jacket. *** Quantity Available: 1. Category: Biography & Autobiography; Inventory No: 20060043.

First Edition. Poor copy in the original stiff-card wrappers; wear and tear as with age. Text remains in fine condition and without blemish. Physical description; 104 pages : all illustrations ; 28 cm. Notes; "This companion volume to 'The British working man' is a second collection of sketches from the pencil of J.F. Sullivan, culled from the pages of 'Fun'." Subjects; Caricatures and cartoons Great Britain. Caricatures and cartoons. Comic books, strips, etc. English wit and humor, Pictorial. Great Britain. Great Britain Social life and customs 19th century. Caricatures British Isles 19th century. Satire. Trades. Genre; Illustrated. 3 Kg.

First Edition. Poor copy in the original stiff-card wrappers; wear and tear as with age. Text remains in fine condition and without blemish. Physical description; 104 pages : all illustrations ; 28 cm. Notes; "This companion volume to 'The British working man' is a second collection of sketches from the pencil of J.F. Sullivan, culled from the pages of 'Fun'." Subjects; Caricatures and cartoons Great Britain. Caricatures and cartoons. Comic books, strips, etc. English wit and humor, Pictorial. Great Britain. Great Britain Social life and customs 19th century. Caricatures British Isles 19th century. Satire. Trades. Genre; Illustrated. 1 Kg.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. This scarce book tells how, without Edward Gibbon Wakefield, there would probably have been no British Commonwealth. If he had not organized aided emigration to distant Australia and New Zealand at a critical moment, nearly all emigrants from Britain would then and later have gone to the United States and to a Canada which -- but for him -- might have become a foreign country. Mr Bloomfield has been able to use material unavailable to earlier biographers, and his vivid book should at least rouse public interest in one of England's greatest men. **The book light tanning. The jacket has a good few tape-repaired tears and several small missing pieces.**.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. AUTHOR (illustrator). 1st Edition. Illustrated paper covered boards with bottle green cloth quarter binding, 280 x 215 mm approx. Commercial adverts to end papers and rear board, [viii] + 104 pp. First Edition thus 1880. Collection of pencil sketches by J F Sullivan culled from the pages of the weekly periodical "Fun" and engraved by Dalziel Bros at the Camden Press. Companion volume to The British Working Man. Please see our images of the actual book offered for sale for further details and condition. Good (Book- restoration work - the book block has been re- sewn by us on cords and re backed with plain cloth best match to original, retaining the original end papers without too significant evidence of disturbance. Paper covers rubbed with loss to board corners and soiled. Ink previous owner name to top margin of a preliminary page. Conservation tape repair to margins of one or two leaves. No other notable defects).

(3) pages 'Index Supplement [Fitfth Volume, January to December 1930], Building, December 1930'; 564 annually counted pages on medium-glossy paper; fully illustrated throughout with photographs of buildings or their details and ground and floor plans; 8 multiple (partly huge) folded plans and views ('Baker Street Station Buildings', 'Builders' Administration', 'New Olympial Hall', 'New Headquarters Martins Bank Liverpool', 'New Midland Bank, new Headquarters, London', 'Liverpool Cathedral Organ Cases', 2x 'Thames House Westmister London', 'New Masonic Peace Memorial, Queen Street, London'). - Gilt-titled 'olive-grey' cloth-binding of the period with red-sparkled edges; 4to.(ca. 30 x 23 x 4 cm; ca. 2,5 kg.). *** FIRST EDITION, COMPLETE ANNUAL OF THE AS IMPORTANT AS NOWADAYS RARE ARCHITECTURAL MONTHLY; CLOTHBOUND ORIGINAL, Fifth Year in 12 monthly Issues complete. - Cloth-binding minimally used, last two sheets with short central tear, corners of last page slightly dusty; A BEAUTIFEL COPY.

Full leather. 1st edition. 1st ed., octavo, pp.iv, 296, (xvi, contents, subscribers), 'Sion College' stamp to verso of t.p. with stamp date, eps foxed with ink markings to fep, full leather, hinges weak, edges chipped and worn with some loss, cnrs bumped, later restored spine with red titled leather label, contents generally clean, complete and in very good condn Rare first edition by English carpenter and joiner, Thomas Skaife. Published same year as the great London Building Act of 1774, known as the 'Black Act'.

viii, 20 pp. Illustrated with sixty fine engravings; most of them full-page. Folio, later old half calf and marbled boards. First edition. Large chips to the spine at both ends; leather worn at edges; rear joint cracked and weak. Contents very attractive.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1745, 1st edition. Folio. viii, 20pp, 60 folio copper plates. Re-bound in light brown quarter calf with marbled paper boards. New end papers. A little spotting to spine, slight rubbing to board surfaces. Some internal spotting and foxing and off setting from plates. Stain to lower edge of title page. Generally a 'Very Good' copy.

3 vols. in 1. Folio (400 x 260 mm). Two vols with Title page, Preface and a Description of the Plates, each followed by 60 full page copper plate engravings, all plates numbered, signed and with imprints dated '1757'; final vol with Title page, Introduction (iii - viii), Description of the plates beginning 'Of the Orders in General' (pp. 1 - 16) followed by 65 numbered plates. Later calf-backed marbled boards, spine with compartments and black morocco label bearing titles in gilt, board edges tooled in gilt. [PROVENANCE: Label of Doddington Library to front pastedown]. Abraham Swan's extensive two volume study of domestic architectural designs, 'A Collection of Designs', bound here with his seminal work on staircases, 'The British Architect . ' . The two volume 'Collection of Designs' - the second of three pattern books published by Swan, a carpenter and joiner - was his attempt to provide an inexpensive pattern book of inexpensive designs. Swan made his intentions of quantity over quality clear in his Preface: 'I hope that whatever defects may be observed in any of them will be candidly excused, considering what a number of designs are contained in these two volumes, and that they are all of my own contriving and drawing.' 'The first volume contains 4 engravings of the staircase at Blair Castle, Perthshire, which Swan designed for the Duke of Atholl, 1757. Two Chinese Bridges for the grounds at Blair appear in the second volume. Swan's designs belong to the 'rococo' taste popular in the mid-18th century'. (Weinreb). Swan's comprehensive work 'The British Architect' - first published 1745, here in the 3rd edition - was destined to be the first architectural book published in America. The title page of the earlier edition described the author as 'Abraham Swan, Carpenter', later changed to 'Abraham Swan, Architect.' The work includes the following: 'I. An easier, more intelligible, and expeditious Method of drawing the Five Orders, than has been hitherto been published, by a Scale of Twelve equal Parts, free from those troublesome Divisions call'd Aliqu(o)t Parts. Shewing also how to glue up their Columns and Capitals. II. Likewise Stair-Cases, (those most useful, ornamental, and necessary Parts of a Building, though never before sufficiently described in any Book, Ancient or Modern); shewing their most convenient Situation, and the Form of their Ascending in the most grand Manner: With a great Variety of curious Ornaments, whereby any Gentleman may fix on what will suit him best, there being Examples of all Kinds; and necessary Directions for such Persons as are unacquainted with the Branch. III. Designs of Arches, Doors, and Windows. IV. A great Variety of New and Curious Chimney-Pieces, in the most elegant and modern Taste. V. Corbels, Shields, and other beautiful Decorations. VI. Several useful and necessary Rules of Carpentry; with the Manner of Truss'd Roofs, and the Nature of a splay'd circular Soffit, both in a streight and circular Wall, never published before. Together with Raking Cornices, Groins, and Angle Brackets, described.' (From the title-page). Across all three volumes, the title page imprint has been altered, Meadows and Hitch and Hawes erased and replaced, in ink manuscript, with 'Mr Brotherton' and 'Buckland at the Buck'. 'This is one of the books that had great influence on the builders and architects of eighteenth-century America.' (Fowler). [Park 80 / 79 (first edition, 1745, but citing other eds. including the present); RIBA Early Printed Books 3220; Fowler 341 (second American edition, 1794); Weinreb 1:166; Millard Architectural Collection Vol. 2, 82; Berlin 2285].

Folio. (414 x 270 mm). pp. viii, 20. Printed title, 3 leaves with Swan's introduction, 10 leaves with text and 60 engraved plates, all printed recto only and numbered I - LX, the five plates depicting the 'Orders' printed half-page vertically at right with explanatory text at left. Full reverse calf, front and rear boards ruled in blind and with pattern decoration in blind, banded spine in seven compartments. (Binding worn and rubbed, corners bumped, joints cracking, head and foot of spine worn). [PROVENANCE: Unidentified armorial bookplate to front pastedown with the motto 'rapido contrarius orbi']. A good, unsophisticated copy of the second edition of Swan's building manual with the explanation of the 'Orders'. Swan's comprehensive work includes the following: 'The work contains: 'I. An easier, more intelligible, and expeditious Method of drawing the Five Orders, than has been hitherto been published, by a Scale of Twelve equal Parts, free from those troublesome Divisions call'd Aliqu(o)t Parts. Shewing also how to glue up their Columns and Capitals. II. Likewise Stair-Cases, (those most useful, ornamental, and necessary Parts of a Building, though never before sufficiently described in any Book, Ancient or Modern); shewing their most convenient Situation, and the Form of their Ascending in the most grand Manner: With a great Variety of curious Ornaments, whereby any Gentleman may fix on what will suit him best, there being Examples of all Kinds; and necessary Directions for such Persons as are unacquainted with the Branch. III. Designs of Arches, Doors, and Windows. IV. A great Variety of New and Curious Chimney-Pieces, in the most elegant and modern Taste. V. Corbels, Shields, and other beautiful Decorations. VI. Several useful and necessary Rules of Carpentry; with the Manner of Truss'd Roofs, and the Nature of a splay'd circular Soffit, both in a streight and circular Wall, never published before. Together with Raking Cornices, Groins, and Angle Brackets, described.' (From the title-page). 'This is one of the books that had great influence on the builders and architects of eighteenth-century America.' (Fowler). [Park 79 (first edition, 1745, but citing other eds. including the present); Fowler 341 (second American edition, 1794);

Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Book measures 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches. Pagination, complete, 296pp, plus 16pp, contents and subscribers list. Rebound in full modern antiquarian style calf, raised bands, gilt lines, red leather title label, retaining the period endpapers. Although the binding is modern, it does not look that recent, [ probably 30/40 years old ]. Binding in very good clean firm condition.Internally, early previous owners name, [ Henry Holt ] [ dated 1837 ], on front fixed endpaper, also on one other page, title page has a closed tear that has been repaired. Some occasional spotting, or dirt marking. Pages in very good clean condition. A very nice copy, of a rare book. Size: 8vo.