BOOKS FROM THE LIBRARY OF GAVIN STAMP

VICTORIAN ARCHITECTS AND ARCHITECTURE

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LIST 88 1 (Aitchison) Dakers, Caroline, & Robbins, Daniel George Aitchison. Leighton’s architect revealed. London, VICTORIAN ARCHITECTS AND Leighton House Museum 2011. Catalogue for an exhibition held at Leighton House ARCHITECTURE Museum in May - July 2011 (Aitchison had designed Leighton House for the future Lord Leighton, the painter and President of the Royal Academy, in the mid 1860s). It The books offered here represent the third of four highlights Aitchison’s expertise in interior decoration, intended selections from the working library evidenced by his surviving drawings for aristocratic clients. formed by the late Gavin Stamp (1948-2017), 4to. 110pp, many colour photo ills. Publisher’s architectural historian, architectural journalist, pictorial wrappers. Gavin Stamp’s copy, with his booklabel and fearless champion of the conservation of (on inside back cover). £ 12

Britain’s built architectural heritage. 2 (Allom) Brooks, Diana Thomas Allom (1804- A final list will offer his books on British 1872). London, British Architectural Library, RIBA, 1998. architectural history from the time of Wren and Issued to accompany an exhibition held at the RIBA Heinz Gallery, March - May 1998. Allom’s reputation rests Hawksmoor onwards. on his accomplishments as an architectural draughtsman and book illustrator, but he also conducted an architectural The books that we are offering do not represent practice with varying success between the 1840s and the the totality of Stamp’s working library, for other early 1860s. Oblong small 4to. 115 + (1)pp, incl 8 colour plates titles were retained by his widow or given in his and 65 other photo ills. Publisher’s pictorial wrappers. No memory to friends, and we did not purchase a ownership inscription but Gavin Stamp’s copy. £ 14 number of architectural titles that were of slight commercial value or which were of lesser interest to us as booksellers. Additionally, we left behind on his bookshelves, as lying slightly outside our own specialist area of bookselling, Stamp’s substantial assemblage of books on early twentieth century sculpture and war memorials, put together by him as a by-product of his abiding regret at the tragic loss of life occasioned by the First World War.

The books are offering nonetheless provide a very reasonable impression of the general character of Stamp’s accumulated library. It is proper to note that a meaningful proportion of the books contain loosely inserted printed material and, in a few cases, also manuscript material. We have drawn attention in our descriptions of individual items to the presence in them of autograph letters addressed to Stamp or of copies of typescripts by Stamp, but we have not generally noted where volumes include inserted printed texts of reviews, obituaries or periodical articles, even where these were written by Stamp himself. Additionally, many of the books published from the late 1970s onwards were copies sent to Stamp for review, or were gifts to Stamp from their authors, and these occasionally contain short typed business notes, invitations to item 1 3 (Anderson) McKinstry, Sam Rowand Anderson ‘the premier architect of Scotland’. Edinburgh, University Press 1991. A well-illustrated and authoritative volume on Scotland’s leading late Victorian architect and church restorer, Sir Robert Rowand Anderson (1834-1921). The only published monograph on him to date. 8vo. vii+(1)+223+(1) pp, incl. 94 photo plates. Publisher’s cloth. Gavin Stamp’s copy, with his booklabel .A typed letter, signed, to Stamp from the author, 7 January 2012, loosely inserted. £ 18

4 Archer, J.H.G. (ed) Art and architecture in Victorian Manchester. Ten illustrations of patronage and practice. Manchester, Manchester University Press 1985. This includes illuminating essays on the Manchester architect Thomas Worthington, and on the architectural genesis of Manchester Town Hall, the Whitworth Art Gallery and the John Rylands Library. 8vo. xxi + (1) + 290 + (4)pp, 126 photo ills. Item 6 Publisher’s cloth, in dustwrappe. Gavin Stamp’s copy, with his booklabel. A typed letter, signed, to Stamp from the 7 Ayris, Ian A city of palaces. Richard Grainger and author, 29 February 2004, loosely inserted, together with the making of Newcastle upon Tyne. (Newcastle upon two subsequent postcards to Stamp from the author. £ 40 Tyne), Newcastle Libraries and Information Service 1997. Good summary account of the contribution to the

creation of Newcastle’s present-day city centre by the builder and developer Richard Grainger (1797-1861). 5 Aslin, Elizabeth The aesthetic movement. Prelude 8vo. 88pp, photo ills. Publisher’s pictorial to Art Nouveau. London, Elek 1969. First edition. Good general account of the aesthetic movement in wrappers. Gavin Stamp’s copy, with his booklabel. £ 10 architecture and design, encompassing the Queen Anne style in architecture, Japanese influences on interiors and furnishing, and book illustration by Kate Greenaway and 8 Barnes, Samantha F. Manchester Board Schools 1870-1902. Photographs by Mark Watson. London, others. Proper attention is paid to the design work of William Victorian Society and Alan Baxter Foundation 2009. Morris, E.W.Godwin, Bruce Talbert and Walter Crane. 4to. 192pp, 121 ills (some colour). Publisher’s Excellent study of the architecture of the thirty-nine architect-designed primary and secondary schools built for cloth, in dustwrapper. Gavin Stamp’s copy, with his the Manchester School Board between 1875 and 1902, and bookplate. £ 25 of twelve other related schools built in the wider Manchester area. 8vo. 165 + (3)pp, many photo ills. Publisher’s

6 “Aunt Elinor” (pseudonym of Mary Holmes) pictorial wrappers. Gavin Stamp’s copy, with his booklabel. Print-out of an email to Gavin Stamp from Mark Watson, 14 Aunt Elinor’s lectures on architecture. Dedicated to the August 2010, and a postcard to Stamp from Alan Baxter & ladies of England. London, for J.G.F. & J.Rivington 1843. A volume of elementary lectures on English church Associates (presenting this copy), 13 January 2010, loosely inserted. £ 15 architecture, pioneering in that its intended readership were women (see the wording of the title leaf) and children (see statement on p.1 that “Aunt Elinor” had drawn up these 9 Barry, Edward M. Lectures on architecture lectures “for the children’s winter-evenings amusement”). delivered at the Royal Academy. Edited (with introductory Fittingly, the volume’s author, Mary Holmes, was herself a memoir) by Alfred Barry, D.D. London, John Murray 1881. children’s governess, and the text of the book reflects her Edward Barry (1830-1880), son and professional educational objectives. What gives unexpected interest to heir of Sir Charles Barry, was himself an able and successful the book is that Mary Homes was one of the group of devout architect, working for choice in Italian Renaissance, or in unmarried ladies who saw John Henry Newman (Cardinal Tudor or Jacobethan Revival styles, but his career was Newman) as their spiritual leader, and that it was Cardinal clouded by a series of disappointments in major architectural Newman himself who secured the publication of Miss competitions and by his loss of the post of architect to the Holmes’s manuscript for the present book by passing it on to Palace of Westminster. All this is explained in his brother’s the Rivington firm (see letters from Newman to Miss Holmes interesting introductory memoir. The lectures that follow are 20 September 1842, 18 October 1842, 28 October 1842, and tamer by comparison, but Barry’s renaissance sympathies Rivingtons to Newman 21 October 1842, all printed in vol. make them very different in tone to those by Scott whom he IX of the Letters and Diaries of John Henry Newman). had succeeded as Professor of Architecture at the Royal Another curiosity is that in the text of her lectures Mary Academy. The only previous copy of this title that we have Holmes shows a particular interest in the architecture of a handled was item 11 in our Catalogue 1 (now in a German group of churches around Pagham and Selsey in West Sussex institutional library). (was she living and working in that area ?). 8vo. viii (including woodcut frontispiece) + 146pp, 8vo. Portrait frontispiece (an actual mounted photo), 71 + (1) + 433 + (1)pp, 20 photolitho plates. 4 litho plates. Recent boards. Gavin Stamp’s copy, with his Publisher’s cloth, strengthened with paper at inner front bookplate. £ 75

4 of domes and the Great Pyramid (etc.)… second edition, enlarged. London, Crosby Lockwood & Co. 1880. A highly personal view of current English architecture and architectural practice by Sir Edmund Beckett, (better known as Lord Grimthorpe). His text is a curious mixture of practical guidance on the ways of architects and builders, and advice on the construction of such features as mouldings and sash windows, with partisan remarks about matters of architectural controversy. He rates his own architectural talents very highly, is ambivalent about Scott, and consistently hostile to Street. Chapter V, on church building and restoration, shows Beckett at his most characteristic, but his egotism is pervasive and this gives a vividness to every part of the book. This is an enlarged edition of a book first published in 1876. 8vo.xiv+391+(1)pp, and 16 + 32pp publisher’s adverts, text ills. Publisher’s embossed cloth boards, a little weak at hinges and some small paint spots on lower cover. Gavin Stamp’s copy, with his bookplate. £ 45

12 Beesley, Ian, & De Figueiredo, Peter Victorian Manchester and Salford. Photographs by Ian Beesley. Introduction and commentary by Peter de Figueiredo. Halifax, Ryburn Publishing Ltd 1988. An interesting selection of photos of buildings of the Victorian period in Manchester and Salford, including such unfamiliar buildings as the Greek Orthodox church built in impeccable Corinthian style in Higher Broughton and Mynshull’s House in fanciful Elizabethan style in Cateaton Street. There are well-organised explanatory notes on each building illustrated. Folio. (96)pp, 109 photo ills. Item 9 Publisher’s pictorial wrappers. No ownership inscription but Gavin Stamp’s copy. £ 16 hinge. Ink presentation inscription to Robert Lorimer (presumably the future Sir Robert Lorimer, architect), New Year’s Day 1886. Bookplate of St.Mary’s College 13 Bodley, G.F. Poems. London, George Bell and Theological Library (with later cancellation stamp). Sons 1899. Recently Gavin Stamp’s copy, with his booklabel. £ 145 First and only edition of this scarce volume of poems by George Frederick Bodley (1827-1907), the ablest British Gothic Revival architect of the later nineteenth 10 (Barry) Whiffen, Marcus The architecture of Sir century. Bodley had entered George Gilbert Scott’s office in Charles Barry in Manchester and neighbourhood. the mid 1840s, went into independent architectural practice (Manchester), Royal Manchester Institution 1950. in the 1850s and was still actively at work on designs for the This prints in pamphlet form the architectural National Cathedral in Washington, DC, in the first decade of historian Marcus Whiffen’s “Swinnerton Research Essay”, the twentieth century. His commissions, some designed by focusing on Sir Charles Barry’s designs for the Royal him jointly with his architectural partner Thomas Garner, Manchester Institution (subsequently Manchester City Art include several of the most notable English churches of the Gallery) and for the Manchester Athenaeum. Whiffen period - St.Augustine’s Pendlebury, Lancashire ; St.John the evidently wrote this essay while serving on the staff of the Baptist, Tue Brook, Liverpool ; Holy Angels, Hoar Cross, Architectural Review, before leaving in 1952 for an Staffordshire - as well as Hobart Cathedral, Tasmania. He academic career in the USA. Although the present copy and Garner also provided designs for country house interiors, carries a printed label stating that “this book is the property the London School Board offices, buildings for Oxford of Manchester City Art Gallery”, it carries no shelf mark or colleges, textiles and furnishings, and his eminence as an other library markings, and we think it probable that since architect was recognised both by the award to him of the the production of this scarce pamphlet was evidently paid for RIBA Gold Medal and by his election to the Royal Academy by the Royal Manchester Institution, this was one of several (ARA 1881, RA 1902). copies that were once in the City Art Gallery’s possession The context for the present volume of poems - and which have since been discarded by them. perhaps the only volume of published poetry by any major 8vo. 19 + (1)pp, (8)pp of photo ills. Original printed architect living and working in Britain up until modern times wrappers. Printed slip inside front cover stating that “This - has not so far been investigated in print, at least to our book is the property of Manchester City Art Gallery”. No knowledge, but it looks as if most of the poems date from subsequent ownership inscription but Gavin Stamp’s copy. between Bodley’s move to Bridgefoot House, Iver, £ 18 Buckinghamshire, in 1895, and the year of the volume’s publication. The poems as a whole display a respectable command of poetic form and language, and reflect Bodley’s 11 Beckett, Sir Edmund A book on building civil and keen appreciation of colour, art and beauty, but they ecclesiastical: including church restoration; with the theory somehow lack passion, and the fact that none of the sonnets or other shorter poems in the volume are addressed either

5 customarily regarded as one of the finest public buildings of its date in a classical style. 4to. 163 + (1)pp, many photo ills (some colour). Publisher’s pictorial wrappers. Gavin Stamp’s copy, with his booklabel. With an enclosed postcard from Mosette Broderick (US architectural historian), 25 April 2000. £ 24

16 (Bryce) Fiddes, Valerie & Rowan, Alistair David Bryce 1803-1876. (Edinburgh), University of Edinburgh 1976. Catalogue of the exhibition held to mark the centenary of the death of the most distinguished Scottish architect of the middle years of the nineteenth century, especially notable as a designer of houses in the Scottish baronial style. Small 4to. 131 + (1)pp, incl 83 photo ills. Publisher’s decorative wrappers. Gavin Stamp’s copy, with his bookplate. £ 25

17 Buckler, J.C. A description and defence of the restorations of the exterior of Lincoln Cathedral, with comparative examination of the restorations of other cathedrals, parish churches, &c. Oxford, Rivingtons (& Lincoln, Cousans & Gale) 1866. Only edition of this scarce and unexpectedly controversial book by the veteran architect and architectural draughtsman John Chessell Buckler, vehemently defending restoration work carried out by him on the exterior of Lincoln Cathedral which had recently been criticised by a “cabal” of Item 13 opponents headed by George Gilbert Scott. Nearly 150 pages are devoted by Buckler to the defence of his own restoration expressly or by implication to Bodley’s wife no doubt methods and to a pitiless examination of Scott’s own less reflects the fact that by the late 1890s Bodley’s long-standing than satisfactory record as a preserver of authentic mediaeval marriage was largely loveless. A section of poems on the arts structures, while the remainder of the book offers a well- (pp 27-44) includes “A plea for colour in sculpture”, with a informed discussion of the architectural history of Lincoln footnote recording that Bodley had seen fourteenth-century Cathedral. Buckler had clearly been provoked into writing colouring on the western doorways of Tintern Abbey and the book by what he saw as Scott’s improper intervention in Bourges Cathedral, and another poem entitled “Architecture, the affairs of a cathedral where Buckler, not Scott, was the The Minster”. cathedral’s official architect. This is only the second copy that we have handled, 8vo. viii+286pp. Publisher’s cloth, gilt, worn at our previous copy having been a presentation copy from head and foot of spine. Pencil presentation inscription, Bodley to a former pupil, and it looks as the number of copies Christmas 1940. Subsequently Gavin Stamp’s copy, with his printed was small. booklabel. £ 95 8vo. viii + (2) + 168pp. Publisher’s quarter vellum, cloth sides. Presentation inscription to Gavin Stamp from Michael Hall, Christmas 2016. £ 300 18 (Burges) Crook, J.M. William Burges and the High Victorian dream. Revised and enlarged edition. London, Frances Lincoln Limited 2013. 14 (Bonomi) Crosby, J.H. Ignatius Bonomi of Weighty new edition of Crook’s biography of the Durham architect. (Durham), City of Durham Trust 1987. architect and designer William Burges (1827-1881), A useful summary of the available information on published in a large quarto format with plenty of new the life and career of the architect Ignatius Bonomi (1787- illustrations, many of them in colour. The author adds a new 1870), a prolific designer of Greek Revival country houses preface, “Billy Burges revisited”, to the text of the 1981 first and Gothic Revival churches in the North of England. edition, and makes a good many corrections on minor points 4to. (4) + 102 + (2)pp, (36)pp of photo and other of detail, but his narrative essentially remains that set out ills. Publisher’s pictorial wrappers. No ownership over thirty years ago and now has (dare one say it ?) a certain inscription but Gavin Stamp’s copy. period charm. Crook’s book nevertheless remains essential £ 18 to any understanding of Burges’s unique contribution to High Victorian architecture and design, and is a necessary 15 (Brodrick) Linstrum, Derek Towers and element in any library or specialist book collection devoted colonnades. The architecture of Cuthbert Brodrick. Leeds, to the subject. On one very minor point of detail, the late Leeds Philosophical and Literay Society Ltd 1999. Ronald Graham, occupant of Burges’s own London house, Scholarly study of the architectural work of Tower House, Melbury Road, between 1933 and his death in Cuthbert Brodrick (1821-1905), winner of a competition to 1962, would certainly have been surprised to be described as design Leeds Town Hall in 1852 with an entry in a classical “Col.E.R.B.Graham” (as Crook describes him in a footnote Corinthian style which was subsequently built, and which is

6 designs in 1837-41 for its charismatic Vicar, W.F.Hook (one of the present cataloguer’s great-grandfathers began his clerical career as one of Hook’s curates). 4to. 347 + (1)pp, many photo ills. Publisher’s cloth, in dustwrapper. Gavin Stamp’s copy, with his booklabel. £ 25

21 (Christian) Charles, Elisabeth Rundle (and others) Ewan Christian architect. Cambridge, “printed at the University Press” 1896. A scarce memorial volume for the architect Ewan Christian (1814-1895), printed for private circulation after his death in a small numbered edition. He had been one of the busiest architectural practitioners in nineteenth-century Britain, who as architect to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for a forty-four year period carried out work on some 350 churches in England and Wales, as well as on over 200 rectories, vicarages, church halls, etc. He also designed a number of country houses and the National Portrait Gallery, and was President of RIBA in 1884-6. The only previous copy of this title that we have catalogued featured as item 30 in our Catalogue 7, distributed in 1990. 8vo. vii + (1) + 103 + (1)pp, photo frontispiece, 1 photo plate. Original cloth, spine slightly browned and a fademark on upper cover. No.68 of a numbered limited edition. Presentation copy from Mrs Ewan Christian to Frederic Chancellor (1825-1918, FRIBA 1870), an architect in practice at Chelmsford, Essex, who had worked as an assistant in Ewan Christian’s office, with related ink Item 18 inscriptions pasted to inner front cover. Recently Gavin Stamp’s copy, with his book label. £ 85 on p.396), for he was a solicitor who never rose beyond his temporary First World War rank of 2nd Lieutenant. 22 Clark, Kenneth The Gothic revival. An essay in It is proper to note that although this 2013 edition the history of taste. London, John Murray 1962. was priced on publication at £45, a marketing ploy offering Third edition of K.Clark's celebrated book on the this much weightier and much more extensively illustrated Gothic revival movement (he states that "in preparing this volume at the same price at which the 1981 edition had edition I have been greatly helped by Mr John Piper and Mr originally been issued, copies currently being offered on the John Betjeman"). internet seem routinely to be priced at amounts in excess of £100, and we have taken that into account in pricing the present copy. Large 4to. 432pp, hundreds of photo ills (many colour). Publisher’s cloth, in pictorial dustwrapper. Gavin Stamp’s copy, with his booklabel. £ 95

19 Calloway, Stephen, & Orr, Lynn Federle (eds) The cult of beauty. The aesthetic movement 1860-1900. London, V & A Publishing 2011. Issued to accompany an exhibition initially held at the Victoria and Albert Museum and subsequently at Paris and San Francisco. Worth having for its illustrations, which are striking throughout, and for the sections of explanatory text, contributed by a number of experts in the field, which are well-written and effective in terms of their target audience. Large 4to. 296pp, many colour photo ills. Gavin Stamp’s copy, with his booklabel. £ 60

20 (Chantrell) Webster, Christopher R.D.Chantrell (1793-1872) and the architecture of a lost generation. Reading, Spire Books Ltd 2010. Good biography of Robert Dennis Chantrell, a Leeds-based architect specialising in the design and restoration of churches, whose best-known building, fittingly, is Leeds Parish Church, rebuilt to Chantrell’s Item 19

7 8vo. xii + 236pp, (16) photo plates. Publisher’s cloth, in dustwrapper (the wrapper a little soiled). Library accession stamp, 17 October 1962, on verso of title leaf, but no other library markings. Gavin Stamp’s copy, with his bookplate. £ 12

23 Cocke, Thomas Brighton churches. The need for action now. London, Save Britain’s Heritage 2009. The last publication by the scholarly architectural historian Thomas Cocke (1949-2008), sometime Secretary to the Council for the Care of Churches, and a committed supporter of the preservation of churches of architectural merit. This book offers striking colour illustrations of Brighton’s major nineteenth century churches and a text which persuasively argues for their retention. It is pleasing to report that Sir Charles Barry’s St.Peter’s, Brighton, under threat at the time Cocke wrote, now has a large and flourishing congregation. Item 27 Large folio. 93 + (1)pp, many colour photo ills. Publisher’s pictorial wrappers. No ownership inscription but and remarks on Bedford Park, the new village in Chiswick Gavin Stamp’s copy. £ 14 partly designed by Norman Shaw which had become the author’s home. The free-thinking minister and lecturer Conway (1832-1907), American by birth, became unpopular in the US for his abolitionist views. Following the outbreak 24 Comper, J.N. Of the atmosphere of a church. of the American Civil War, he settled temporarily in London London, Sheldon Press 1947. in 1863, and developed a warm admiration for everything An interesting pamphlet by the High Church Anglican architect Sir Ninian Comper (1864-1960), focusing "English". Despite his praise for the cosiness of his home in Chiswick, he and his wife returned to America in 1884 on the contribution made by the high altar and its related following the death of his father. 8vo. 234pp, incl. photo furnishings to the internal character of a church, but of wider significance in tracing resemblances and differences in the frontispiece and text ills. Publisher’s decorative gilt- stamped cloth, slightly worn and bumped. Occasional light respective provisions of Anglican and Roman Catholic internal spotting. Gavin Stamp’s copy, with his bookplate. worship. 8vo. 32pp, including (8)pp of photo ills (of which 6 £ 48 illustrate church interiors designed by Comper) and 1 ground plan. Publisher’s printed wrappers.No ownership inscription but Gavin Stamp’s copy. £ 24 28 (Cresy) Burfield, Diana Edward Cresy 1792-1858 architect and civil engineer. Donington, Shaun Tyas 2003.

25 Comper, J.Ninian Of the Christian altar and the Biographical study of Edward Cresy, who although a practising architect made more of an impact as a writer on buildings that contain it. With a preface by the Bishop of architecture and civil engineering. The author, one of Cresy’s London. London, SPCK 1950. This pamphlet sets out at some length Comper’s descendants, has done some useful research into Cresy’s career, but, as Andrew Saint points out in a preface, much view that worship in a church should be centred round the about him remains puzzling. church’s altar. 8vo. 71 + (1)pp, photo frontispiece. Publisher’s 8vo. xvii + (1) + 222pp, 55 photo ills on plates. Publisher’s cloth, in dustwrapper. No ownership inscription printed wrappers. Gavin Stamp’s copy, with his bookplate but Gavin Stamp’s copy. £ 20 (gift to him from Andrew Sanders 1969). £ 28

29 Crick, Clare Victorian buildings in Bristol. 26 (Comper) Symondson, Anthony, & Bucknall, Bristol, 1975. Stephen Sir Ninian Comper. An introduction to his life and First edition of this good scholarly introduction to work with complete gazetteer. With Of the Atmosphere of a Bristol’s Victorian architecture (unfamiliar to most non- Church by Sir Ninian Comper. Reading, Spire Books & the Bristolians). Ecclesiological Society 2006. Small oblong 4to. (2) + 72 + (6)pp, photo ills. Good illustrated monograph, much fuller than Original pictorial wrappers. Gavin Stamp’s copy with his Symondson’s previous publications on this architect. bookplate. £ 12 4to. 336pp, many photo ills. Publisher’s pictorial wrappers.Gavin Stamp’s copy, with his booklabel. £ 25 30 Crook, J. Mordaunt The architect’s secret. Victorian critics and the image of gravity. London, John 27 Conway, Moncure Daniel Travels in South Murray 2003. Kensington with notes on decorative art and architecture in Essays on four nineteenth century British England. London, Trübner & Co. 1882. architectural critics and theorists (George Aitchison, A commentary on the collections at the South Benjamin Webb, Alexander James Beresford Hope, Kensington Museum, which was then about twenty-five years old, followed by discussions of decorative art and Coventry Patmore). 8vo. ix + (1) + 228pp, 26 photo ills. Publisher’s architecture in England (praising in particular the “solid” cloth, in dustwrapper. Gavin Stamp’s copy, with his qualities of Alfred Waterhouse and George Gilbert Scott), booklabel. £ 18

8 33 (Cubitt) Hobhouse, Hermione Thomas Cubitt master builder. London, Macmillan 1971. Excellent biographical study of Thomas Cubitt (1788-1855), the supremely competent builder responsible for developing Belgravia as a fashionable London district. 8vo. xx + 568pp, 104 photo ills on plates. Publisher’s cloth, in dustwrapper. Gavin Stamp’s copy, with his booklabel. £ 65

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31 Crook, J. Mordaunt Victorian architecture. A visual anthology. New York & London, Johnson Reprint Corporation 1971. An impressive volume reproducing three hundred contemporary full-page illustrations of architect-designed Victorian buildings, taken from The Builder and from other leading British architectural journals of the nineteenth century. The selection, made by Crook himself, is intelligent, and it is not likely that it could be bettered, still less that any publisher of today would issue a hardback volume of this size and nature. Tall folio. (6)+ii+(3)+300+(7) pp, incl. 300 full- page ills. Publisher’s cloth, in dustwrapper. Gavin Stamp’s copy, with his booklabel. £ 130

32 (Crystal Palace) Crystal Palace (title taken from upper cover). (London, 1924). The principal interest of this brochure lies in its illustrations of the Crystal Palace building on its Sydenham site in the early 1920s. Item 33 Oblong small folio. 23 + (1)pp, (16)pp of photo ills. Original printed wrappers. Old pencil ownership inscription 34 Cunningham, Colin, & Anderson, James (eds) on upper cover. Subsequently Gavin Stamp’s copy. £ 30 The hidden iceberg of architectural history. Papers from the Annual Symposium of the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain, 1998. (Milton Keynes), Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain 1998. Six essays by architectural historians, mainly devoted to nineteenth century topics. One of these, oddly for a volume whose title mentions a “hidden iceberg”, is on the now forgotten Jermyn Street Hammam (Turkish Bath premises), designed by George Somers Clarke in the early 1860s. Folio. 97 + (1)pp, text ills. Original pictorial wrappers. No ownership inscription but Gavin Stamp’s copy. £ 16

35 Curl, James Stevens Victorian architecture diversity & invention. Reading, Spire Books Ltd 2007. Massive illustrated survey of the architecture of the Victorian period, utilising some excellent photographs from the archives of the National Monuments Record as well as photographs by the author and from other sources. Folio. 634 + (2)pp, many photo ills (a few colour). Publisher’s cloth, in dustwrapper. Gavin Stamp’s copy, with Item 32 his booklabel. A typed letter, signed, to Stamp from the author, 16 January 2008, and a postcard to Stamp from the author dated 6 March 2009, loosely inserted. £ 55

9 38 (Devey) Allibone, Jill George Devey architect, 1820-1886. Cambridge, Lutterworth Press 1991. The only study, and a good one, of the career and architectural output of the Victorian architect George Devey, designer of country houses and estate cottages in Jacobean and vernacular styles for a network of wealthy patrons. 4to. 189 + (1)pp, 112 photo ills. Publisher’s cloth, in dust wrapper. Gavin Stamp’s copy, with his booklabel. £ 25

39 Eastlake, Charles L. A history of the Gothic Revival… edited with an introduction by J. Mordaunt Crook. Leicester, Leicester University Press 1970. A facsimile reprint of Eastlake’s book of 1872, with supplement by Crook adding a new introduction, an appendix of significant buildings and a much-needed index. First edition in this form (there was also a 1978 reissue). 8vo. xvi + 372 + 209 +(1)pp, 36+26 plates, 12 text ills. Publisher’s cloth, in dustwrapper. Gavin Stamp’s copy, with his booklabel. £65

40 Edis, Robert W. Decoration & furniture of town houses. A series of Cantor lectures delivered before the Society of Arts, 1880, amplified and enlarged. London, C.Kegan Paul & Co. 1881. By 1880 the ideas on interior decoration and furnishings propagated by Charles Eastlake in the late 1860s were no longer fashionable, and the series of Cantor lectures delivered in 1880 by the architect R.W.Edis (subsequently Sir Robert Edis), and published here, cater for a generation who preferred the “Queen Anne” style and the earliest manifestations of the Arts and Crafts movement. Item 35

36 Davies, Philip Lost London 1870-1945. Foreword by HRH the Duke of Gloucester. Croxley Green, Transatlantic Press 2009. A visually very impressive selection of over 500 photo illustrations of buildings in the Inner London area that have since been demolished or changed out of recognition, selected from the London County Council’s photographic archive (now held by English Heritage). Large 4to. 368pp, mostly photo ills. Publisher’s cloth, in dustwrapper. Gavin Stamp’s copy, with his booklabel. £ 35

37 (Deane & Woodward) O’Dwyer, Frederick The architecture of Deane and Woodward. Cork, Cork University Press 1997. A very full account of the architectural partnership between Sir Thomas Deane, his son Thomas Newenham Deane, and Benjamin Woodward (1816-1861), in which Woodward was the designing genius. The partnership’s most notable building was the University Museum, Oxford, designed by Woodward personally in a Ruskinian Gothic style. The present book effectively supersedes an earlier study of the partnership’s work by Eve Blau, and is particularly helpful for its exploration of the partnership’s commissions in the partners’ native Ireland and for the information it provides on the buildings designed by the Deanes, father and son, before and after their partnership with Woodward. Small folio. xxx + 650pp, many photo ills. Publisher’s cloth, in dustwrapper. Gavin Stamp’s copy, with Item 37 his booklabel. £ 85

10 can be judged from an enclosed typed letter, signed, from him to Hermione Hobhouse, 17 April 1977, marked by him in pencil, “not send - Andrew Sanders told me it was too extreme”), is one of a very few surviving examples of the book as originally printed. In retrospect it is difficult to see why the publishers should buckled in response to family threats, since Detmar Blow had died as far back as 1939 and Lutyens in 1944 and no libel actions can be commenced on behalf of the dead, but such things happen. 8vo. 160pp, 119 photo ills. Publisher’s cloth, in dust wrapper. Gavin Stamp’s copy, with his bookplate. A draft typed letter by Stamp to Hermione Hobhouse, 17 April 1977, loosely inserted, together with other related enclosures. £ 50

42 Fine Art Society Architects for a new age. The Gothic Revival to the Arts & Crafts Movement 1827-1927. London, The Fine Art Society (and Haslam & Whiteway) 2008. Catalogue listing eighty architectural drawings by Barry and Pugin, William Wilkins, Viollet-le-Duc, Owen Jones, E.W.Godwin, Lethaby, Voysey, and others. Small folio. 64pp, colour photo ills. Original pictorial wrappers. No ownership inscription but Gavin Stamp’s copy. £ 14

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Edis commends some of the best products of such commercial furniture manufacturing businesses as Gillows, Jackson & Graham, and Holland & Sons, and supplies useful information on almost every feature of the interior of a London town house of the period’ We price the copy in accordance with the condition of its plates, but it should be recorded that the binding is sound and the text pages clean. 8vo. xvi + 292pp, litho frontispiece, 28 litho plates. Publisher’s decorative cloth, spine bumped at head and foot and slightly worn. Frontispiece dampstained at left-hand side, the stain extending into the image, lighter stains on the subsequent plates. Some pencil reading marks in text. Gavin Stamp’s copy, with his bookplate. £ 25

41 Fawcett, Jane (ed) Seven Victorian architects. Introduction by Nikolaus Pevsner. London, Thames & Hudson 1976. First edition, first issue, of this volume of essays on the architects William Burn, Philip and P.C.Hardwick, Sydney Smirke, Pearson, Bodley, Waterhouse and Lutyens. Contributors include Hermione Hobhouse, J.Mordaunt Crook and Roderick Gradidge. The present copy is an example of the rare suppressed first issue, which includes a footnote (on p.147) to Gradidge’s essay on Lutyens, which reads “The history of Lutyens’s and Detmar Blow’s peculations at the expense of the Duke of Westminster has yet to be written”. This caused the original printing of the book to be withdrawn, apparently as a result of representations by the family of Detmar Blow, and the present copy, proudly retained by Gavin Stamp (as Item 41

11 Edward Gordon Craig. Indispensable reading for those interested in Godwin and his contemporaries. Large 4to. 431 + (1)pp, many photo ills (mostly colour). Publisher’s cloth, in dustwrapper. Gavin Stamp’s copy, with his booklabel. £ 50

46 Goodhart-Rendel, H.S. English architecture since the regency. An interpretation. London, Constable 1953. Although published as late as 1953, this book is based on a series of lectures delivered by Goodhart-Rendel at Oxford in 1934, thus accounting for his complete silence on English architecture from that point onwards (which he no doubt thought too dreadful to contemplate). For the architecture of the century or so preceding 1934, it is however a real treat to read, for it combines genuine learning with a sparkling prose style and strong opinions on all the great Victorian architects. 8vo. 296pp, incl. frontis & 48 ills. Publisher’s cloth, in dustwrapper (the wrapper rather soiled and defective). Gavin Stamp’s copy, with his bookplate. £ 18

47 (Handley-Read) Victorian and Edwardian decorative art. the Handley-Read collection. 4 March to 30 April 1972. Diploma Galleries, The Royal Academy of Arts. (London, 1972). Catalogue of the marvellous collection of objects of decorative art formed by Charles and Lavinia Handley-Read in the decade before their deaths in 1971. Folio. 139+(1)pp. Publisher’s pictorial wrappers, a Item 45 little soiled. Gavin Stamp’s copy, with his bookplate. £ 18

43 Girouard, Mark Sweetness and light. The “Queen 48 Harbron, Dudley Amphion or the nineteenth Anne” movement 1860-1900. Oxford, Clarendon Press century. London & Toronto, J.M.Dent & Sons Ltd 1930. 1977. A playful but pioneering account of nineteenth The first modern study, and a very good one, of the century British architecture, jokily written but more serious “Queen Anne” movement in British domestic architecture than might appear from its chapter headings ((Chapter XI, during the last forty years of the nineteenth century. “A pastry-cook’s pagoda”, is in fact devoted to the Albert 4to. xvi + (2) + 250pp, 8 colour plates, 215 other Memorial). Harbron (1880-1953), a practising architect in photo ills. Publisher’s cloth, in dustwrapper. Gavin Stamp’s Hull, FRIBA 1921, was later to write the first biographical copy, with his bookplate. Review copy, with publisher’s note study of E.W.Godwin. loosely inserted. Postcard sent by Girouard to Stamp also 8vo. xxiv + 179 + (1)pp, 26 text ills. Publisher’s inserted (carrying brief ink message, signed). £ 65 cloth, in remains of original dustwrapper. Gavin Stamp’s copy, with his bookplate. £ 24

44 (Godwin) Aslin, Elizabeth E.W.Godwin. Furniture and interior decoration. London, John Murray 49 Hartwell, Clare, & Wyke, Terry (eds) Making 1986. Manchester. Aspects of the history of architecture in the city A good illustrated account, put together with skill and region since 1800. essays in honour of John H.G.Archer. from fragmentary evidence, of furniture, interiors and Manchester, Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society wallpaper designed by the architect Edward William Godwin 2007. (1833-1886). Thirteen essays on Manchester architecture and Oblong 4to. 96pp, 85 photo text ills. Publisher’s architects, including informative contributions on the cloth, in pictorial dustwrapper. Gavin Stamp’s copy, with his architects Richard Lane and Vincent Harris, and an booklabel. £ 16 enlightening essay on the career of John Swarbrick, the now forgotten Manchester-based founder of the Ancient Monuments Society. 45 (Godwin) Soros, Susan Weber (ed) E.W.Godwin 8vo. xi + (1) + 267 + (1)pp, photo text ills. Aesthetic Movement architect and designer. New Haven & Publisher’s cloth, in dustwrapper. Gavin Stamp’s copy, with London, Yale University Press for the Bard Graduate Center his booklabel. £ 20 for Studies in the Decorative Arts 1999. Thirteen essays by specialist scholars on aspects of the career of Edward William Godwin (1833-1886), brilliant architect and 50 Hilling, John Plans & prospects. Architecture in designer, friend of the painter James McNeill Whistler (for Wales 1780-1914. (Cardiff ?), Welsh Arts Council 1975. whom he designed the remarkable White House, in Tite Useful catalogue of an exhibition of design Street, Chelsea), lover of Ellen Terry and father by her of drawings for Welsh country houses, public buildings,

12 of the charm of Jackson’s own Recollections, edited by Jackson’s son for publication in 1950. 8vo. xvi + 268pp, 100 photo ills. Publisher’s cloth, in dustwrapper. Gavin Stamp’s copy, with his booklabel. £ 24

53 Kerr, Robert The consulting architect : practical notes on administrative difficulties and disputes. London, John Murray 1886. Much good practical advice for architects on possible legal and contractual problems that may confront them. The most interesting section is that dealing with “architects’ disputes and etiquette”, where Kerr sets out more

explicitly than in any other publication of this date the then accepted conventions of professional etiquette. 8vo. xv + (1) + 313 + (1)pp. Publisher’s cloth, worn and weak at hinges. Gavin Stamp’s copy, with his bookplate. £ 14

54 Kerr, Robert The gentleman's house ; or, how to plan English residences, from the parsonage to the palace ... third edition, revised, with additional plans by the author and a prefatory chapter. London, John Murray 1871. Third and fullest edition of Kerr's successful book on the planning of the English house, first published in 1864.

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churches and chapels, held successively at the National Museum of Wales and National Library of Wales in 1975. Folio. 100pp, 83 photo ills. Publisher’s pictorial wrappers. Gavin Stamp’s copy, with his bookplate. £ 14

51 Hughes, Quentin Seaport. Architecture & townscape in Liverpool. London, Lund Humphries 1969. First published in 1964, and ahead of its time in discussing Liverpool’s finest buildings and its townscape in the same narrative. The author, Quentin Hughes (1920- 2004), was a lecturer at the Liverpool School of Architecture and subsequently Professor of Architecture in the Royal University of Malta. 4to. xi + (1) + 180pp, many photo ills. Publisher’s cloth, in dustwrapper, the wrapper a little worn at outer margins. Gavin Stamp’s copy, with his bookplate. £ 35

52 (Jackson) Whyte, William Oxford Jackson. Architecture, education, status, and style 1835-1924. Oxford, University Press 2006. An up-to-date biography of Thomas Graham Jackson (1835-1924), the architect responsible for the Oxford Examination Schools and for much work at individual Oxford colleges, designed by him in what came to be described, facetiously, in an “Anglo-Jackson” style. It is Item 54 efficiently done, and necessary to have, but lacks something

13 Its attention to such matters as the arrangement of guest rooms, nurseries, and servants' quarters, all of which were major preoccupations of mid 19th century upper-class English households, made it a notable addition to existing literature on domestic architecture, and there is indeed no better book of its kind and date. Interestingly, considerations of architectural style occupy only some 40 pages in the book (pp 340-380), and it is obvious that Kerr did not really mind what style houses were built in, provided that they were properly planned. 8vo. (4) + 26 + xiv + 477 + (1)pp, folding frontispiece (with perspective view of Bearwood, the house designed by Kerr for John Walter, proprietor of the Times newspaper), 52 litho plates (of which plates 48 and 50, perplexingly, are printed on the same folding sheet as plate 15), most folding, also many woodcut text ills, plus 32pp publisher’s adverts. Publisher’s cloth, a little bumped at head and foot of spine. Booklabel of John Sparrow, Warden of All Souls College, Oxford, and book collector. Subsequently Gavin Stamp’s copy, with his booklabel. Folding frontispiece rather creased at one of its folds, and plates 14 and 21, together with their following pages numbered 51-2 and 61-2, abraded with small tears to their outer margins. £ 195

55 Law, Brian R. Building Oxford’s heritage. Symm & Company from 1815. Foreword by Sir Howard Colvin. With an introduction by David Sturdy. Oxford, Prelude Promotion 1998. Item 57 History of an Oxford-based building firm, founded in 1815 by David Evans, carried on from 1846 by his son-in- law Joshua Robinson Symm, and subsequently by Symm’s with fourteen photographic plates by W.Wedlake. London, two senior employees and their descendants. The firm had The Bedford Bookshop (1935). been continuously employed from the 1820s onwards in An unusually extensive description of the building work for Oxford colleges, latterly specialising in the architecture and internal furnishings of the Catholic restoration of their historic fabric, and had also won contracts Apostolic Church, Gordon, Square, London, built to designs for the construction of the University’s science laboratories, by the architect Raphael Brandon in 1853-5. Present-day for the building of local churches and schools, and for the architectural historians will find it irritating that the volume adaptation of Oxfordshire country houses to present-day contains an unnecessary glossary of terms and does not requirements. The fact that both Daniel Evans and J.R.Symm identify the contractors and craftsmen employed by Brandon, were Methodists but were nonetheless thought trustworthy but the accompanying photo illustrations are excellent for a enough to be employed by the Masters and Fellows of publication of 1935. colleges that were at the time wholly Church of England in 4to. 48pp, 14 photo plates. Publisher’s printed their personnel says much for their firm’s reliability and for wrappers, a little abraded at edges. Pages slightly curling at the skills of their work force. bottom outer corner. From the library of the Central Council Folio. 135 + (1)pp, many photo ills (mostly colour). for the care of Churches, with their bookplate and two neat Publisher’s cloth, in dustwrapper. No ownership inscription ownership stamps on front endpapers (but the bookplate is but Gavin Stamp’s copy. £ 40 crossed through in pencil, indicating that the book was de- accessioned). No inscription but Gavin Stamp’s copy, with a typed letter, signed, to him from Dr Clare Taylor, 20 June 56 Lewis, David The churches of Liverpool. 2009, together with the text of a short typed note by her on Liverpool, The Bluecoat Press 2001. the church, loosely inserted. £ 35 A comprehensive illustrated survey of Liverpool’s very numerous churches, Anglican and Roman Catholic, and its equally numerous Nonconformist chapels. It is 58 Maughan, H.Hamilton Some Brighton churches. particularly helpful for providing information on, and, where London, Faith Press Limited 1922. possible, images of, those that have been demolished over The book’s title fails to reveal that the core of the the last two centuries. book is devoted to Brighton’s five remarkable “Wagner” 4to. 175 + (1)pp, many colour photo ills. churches, designed for a High Church Vicar of Brighton and Publisher’s pictorial wrappers. Gavin Stamp’s copy, with his for his even more High Church clerical son by the Gothic booklabel. £ 38 Revival architects R.C.Carpenter, Bodley, Edmund Scott and Somers Clarke. 8vo. vi + 101 + (1)pp, photo frontispiece, (13) 57 Lickfold, J.Malcolm The Catholic Apostolic photo plates. Publisher’s cloth, with photo vignette Church Gordon Square London. Notes on the architectural illustration on upper cover. Gavin Stamp’s copy, with his features and furniture, with a glossary of technical terms ... bookplate. £ 25

14 59 Micklethwaite, J.T. Occasional notes on church copy, with his booklabel. Ink presentation inscription to furniture and arrangement. London, Incorporated Church Stamp, 28 February 1997, from Stephen Wildman. £ 24 Building Society 1908. Fifteen terse but authoritative notes on the furnishing and arrangement of church interiors, written by the scholarly architect J.T.Micklethwaite for quarterly issues 64 (Paxton) Colquhoun, Kate A thing in disguise. of the periodical The Church Builder between 1899 and The visionary life of Joseph Paxton. London and New York, 1905, and here in a collected and consecutively paginated Fourth Estate 2003. version. 8vo. Portrait photo frontispiece, 52pp, (2)pp A biography of Joseph Paxton (1803-1865), the 6th adverts. Publisher’s printed wrappers. Gavin Stamp’s copy, Duke of Devonshire’s head gardener from 1826 onwards, with his bookplate. £ 40 who during his remarkable career was to provide the design for the glass and iron exhibition building for the Great Exhibition of 1851, and who was to die a knight and a 60 (Middleton) Torode, Brian E. John Middleton. Member of Parliament. The book is aimed at a general Victorian, provincial architect. Zagreb, Accent (2008). readership, but is said by its author to have been based on A competent study of the life and work of John “months of access to [Chatsworth’s] glorious archives”. Middleton (1820-1885), an architect with a substantial local 8vo. xi + (1) + 307 + (1)pp, (16)pp of photo ills practice in the Cheltenham area of Gloucestershire. That (mainly colour), also text ills. Publisher’s cloth, in said, it is a disappointment that the author only sketches the dustwrapper. Gavin Stamp’s copy, with his booklabel. outlines of the career of Middleton’s brilliant and complex £ 18 son John Henry Middleton (1846-1896), pupil of George Gilbert Scott, friend of William Morris, and successively a practising architect, Director of the Fitzwilliam Museum, 65 (Pearson) Quiney, Anthony John Loughborough Cambridge, and Director of Art at the South Kensington Pearson. New Haven, Yale University Press 1979. Museum. Good study of the career and executed works of the 8vo. 175 + (1)pp, 106 photo ills. Publisher’s Gothic Revival architect John Loughborough Pearson (1817- pictorial wrappers. £ 14 1897), architect of Truro and Brisbane Cathedrals, and designer of many elegant churches in Gothic styles. 61 (Moore) Brandwood, Geoffrey K. Temple 4to. (14) + 306pp, 153 photo ills. Publisher’s cloth, Moore. An architect of the late Gothic revival. With an essay in dustwrapper. Gavin Stamp’s copy, with his bookplate. A on Leslie Moore by Tim Ellis. Stamford, Paul Watkins 1997. copy of Stamp’s typescript for his review of the book in the Monograph on the architect Temple Lushington Architectural Review loosely inserted. £ 45 Moore (1856-1920), one of the last specialists in Gothic Revival church architecture. Tim Ellis supplies a separate essay about Temple Moore’s son-in-law Leslie Moore (1883-1957), himself a specialist in church restorations. 8vo. ix + (1) + 310pp, 214 photo ills. Publisher’s cloth, in dustwrapper. Ink presentation inscription to Stamp from the author, July 1997. Enclosures include two typed letters, signed, to Stamp from the author, 23 July 1997 and 28 July 1997. £ 35

62 Morgan, Diane Aberdeen’s Union Terrace Gardens. War and peace in the Denburn Valley. With an additional chapter by Mike Shepherd. Edinburgh, Black & White Publishing 2015. Fascinating account of the vicissitudes of Union Terrace Gardens in Aberdeen, a public space laid out in the late 1870s on the initiative of a local Aberdeen architect, James Matthews. The narrative blends architectural history with all sorts of information about the area and its inhabitants. 8vo. xiii + (1) + 238 + (2)pp, many photo ills. Publisher’s pictorial wrappers. No ownership inscription but Gavin Stamp’s copy. £ 11

63 (Morris) Robinson, Duncan, & Wildman, Stephen (cataloguers) Morris & Company in Cambridge. Exhibition organised by the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press (and Fitzwilliam Museum), 1980. Based on gifts of William Morris material made to the Fitzwilliam Museum by Sydney Cockerell, Charles Fairfax Murray and J.R.Holliday, but also including descriptions of Morris & Company stained glass windows and other Morris-designed items in Cambridge college chapels. Folio. xiv + 111 + (3)pp, incl 81 photo ills. Publisher’s cloth, in pictorial dustwrapper. Gavin Stamp’s Item 65

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69 (Powell, Ken) Save Britain’s Heritage. Leeds. Must old still mean bad ? (title taken from front printed wrapper). (London, May 1981). A report for the campaigning architectural conservation group Save Britain’s Heritage, lamenting “the destruction of row after row of ... terrace housing in the city of Leeds”. Its cheap production standards and ephemeral nature might have meant that it would not deserve cataloguing by an antiquarian bookseller, but unexpected dignity is added by the present copy’s binding in marbled boards. Folio. (18)ff (blank on versos), photo text ills. Contemporary marbled boards, cloth spine, original printed wrappers bound in. Gavin Stamp’s copy, with his book label. £ 10

70 Richardson, Ruth & Thorne, Robert The Builder. Illustrations index 1843-1883. London, The Builder Group & Hutton & Rostron 1994. A massive volume which provides an indispensable listing, with associated indices, of all the very numerous illustrations in the celebrated architectural periodical The Builder over the first forty years of The Builder’s existence. Folio. xiii + (1) + 832pp. Publisher’s cloth, in dustwrapper. Gavin Stamp’s copy, with his booklabel. An enclosed typed letter, signed, from the volume’s publisher. £ 160 Item 66

66 (Pennethorne) Tyack, Geoffrey Sir James Pennethorne and the making of Victorian London. Cambridge, University Press 1992. An excellent monograph on Pennethorne, a sometimes overlooked architect who nonetheless had an enormous impact on the shaping of Victorian London, responsible for designing parts of the Public Record Office, Buckingham Palace, and Somerset House, and for many other improvements to the Crown Estate in London and Windsor. Folio. xviii + 336pp, 127 photo ills. Publisher’s cloth, in dustwrapper. Gavin Stamp’s copy, with his booklabel. £ 65

67 Pevsner, Nikolaus High Victorian design. A study of the exhibits of 1851. London, Architectural Press 1951. First edition of Pevsner’s illuminating little book, “meant as a first and preliminary attempt to explain why High Victorian design looks as it does”, and sensible about the exhibits at the Great Exhibition of 1851 and their intellectual context. 8vo. Small 8vo. 162pp, incl 122 text ills. Publisher’s cloth, in dustwrapper. Gavin Stamp’s copy, with his booklabel. £ 55

68 Physick, John & Darby, Michael Marble halls. Drawings and models for Victorian secular buildings. Exhibition August- October 1973. London, 1973. Catalogue of this most impressive exhibition held at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, in 1973, devoted to architects’ design drawings and models of the Victorian period, with particularly good representation of competition entries for government and civic buildings. 4to. 220pp, many ills. Publisher’s pictorial wrappers. Ink ownership inscription of Edward Marthe, Item 67

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Item 70 73 Scott, Sir George Gilbert Personal and professional recollections ... edited by his son G.Gilbert Scott, F.S.A. With an introduction by the Very Rev.John William Burgon. London, Sampson Low 1879. 71 Salmon, Frank (ed) Gothic and the Gothic revival. Papers from the 26th Annual Symposium of the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain. (No place of publication), Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain 1998. The papers read at this symposium include interesting discussions of the nineteenth century architectural historian Robert Willis (rather more critical of him than is otherwise customary) and of George Edmund Street’s restoration of Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin. Folio. (6) + 125 + (1)pp, photo ills. Publisher’s pictorial wrappers. Gavin Stamp’s copy, with his booklabel. £ 13

72 (Schultz) Stamp, Gavin Robert Weir Schultz architect and his work for the Marquesses of Bute. An essay. Mount Stuart, 1981. A very good monograph on the architect Robert Weir Schultz (1860-1951) and his work for two successive Marquesses of Bute. Printed for private circulation, evidently at the expense of the 6th Marquess of Bute, owner of the Mount Stuart estate at the time when Gavin Stamp was writing. 8vo. 80pp, 20 photo plates, text ills. Contemporary cloth. Gavin Stamp’s own copy, with his booklabel. The book contains loosely inserted autograph letters, signed, to Stamp from Joe Crook, undated (”Monday”), and from Sir Steven Runciman (16 June 1981), and a typed letter, signed, from Kitty Cruft, 24 June 1981. £ 50 Item 73

17 First edition. Scott's autobiography, tidied up and published after his death by his son, is a key document for the light it sheds on Scott himself and for its narrative of the events in which he took part. It is also a fascinating one, for it takes the reader step by step through the triumphs and defeats of Scott's professional career, and because of the fortuitous fact that the bulk of it was written in 1865, and the rest tacked on at intervals between then and 1878, it combines a basic narrative written with a good dose of Evangelical self-confidence and frank pleasure in his professional success, with later sections written in a spirit of somewhat anguished self-justification. 8vo. xx + 436pp, portrait frontispiece, (32)pp publisher’s adverts. Publisher’s cloth, spine a little worn at head and foot. Gavin Stamp’s copy, with his bookplate. £ 185

74 (Scott) Barnwell, P.S. (and others) (eds) Sir George Gilbert Scott 1811-1878 an architect and his influence. Donington, Shaun Tyas 2014. A collection of essays on the architectural career of Item 77 Sir George Gilbert Scott, by scholars who include Gavin Stamp, Geoffrey Tyack, M.H.Port and William Whyte. The manuscript had been delivered by Sedding to Large 8vo. vii + (1) + 248pp, many photo ills. his publishers before his premature death, and the Publisher’s cloth, in dustwrapper. Gavin Stamp’s copy, with opportunity was taken to add a vividly written introductory his booklabel. £ 35 tribute to him by a close friend. 8vo. vii + (1) + xxvi + ( 2) + 215 + (1)pp, 16 plates including frontispiece. Publisher’s gilt-stamped cloth. Ink 75 (Scott) Cole, David The work of Sir Gilbert Scott. ownership inscription of Lindsay Mackie, 25 March 1943. London, Architectural Press 1980. Subsequently Gavin Stamp’s copy, with his booklabel. Scarce monograph on Sir George Gilbert Scott £ 110 (1811-1878), the Gothic Revival specialist who was the dominant figure in English architecture in the middle years of the nineteenth century. An appendix lists 879 of his 77 (Sedding) Wilson, H(enry) A memorial of the late architectural commissions. J.D.Sedding being illustrations of some of his works 8vo. xi + (1) + 244pp, 138 photo ills on plates, also compiled by the Architectural Association. With a short text ills. Publisher’s cloth, in dustwrapper. Gavin Stamp’s sketch of his life by H.Wilson. London, “printed for copy, with his bookplate. £ 85 subscribers only by B.T.Batsford” 1892. A handsome volume produced in memory of the architect John Dando Sedding (1838-1891). Although his 76 Sedding, John D. Garden-craft old and new. With actual practice was chiefly as a church architect, he had been memorial notice by the Rev. E.F. Russell. Sixteen one of the most active members of the Architectural illustrations. London, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co. Association and of the Art Workers Guild, and his interests 1891. ranged from the designing of metalwork and embroidery to First edition (two later editions followed). the design of gardens. The present volume, published in an Reflections on garden design by Sedding (1838-1891), edition of 250 copies only for subscribers, illustrates his architect and one of the intellectual begetters of the Arts and principal commissions, including his best-known church, Crafts movement. As Sedding explains in his preface, the Holy Trinity, Sloane Street, and reproduces a number of his book owes its origin to a lecture delivered by him to the Art drawings and sketches. Henry Wilson, his former assistant, Workers Guild, but eventually assumed this more substantial contributed a biographical appreciation. form. Large folio. Portrait frontispiece, 16pp, 33 plates (some photo). Publisher’s gilt stamped boards, slightly soiled, neatly recased. A small old stain at outer blank margin of plates 3-11, and another small stain at volume’s top outer blank corner. Armorial bookplate of (Rev.) Henry Chadwick Windley, author of a 1905 book on English Church Architecture, and the later neat library stamp of the Community of the Resurrection, Mirfield, Yorkshire (of which Windley became a member). Recently Gavin Stamp’s copy, with his bookplate (an ink note on the bookplate records that this was a gift to him from Andrew Saint). £ 250

78 (Seddon) Darby, Michael John Pollard Seddon. London, Victoria & Albert Museum 1983. The first in this series of illustrated catalogues of English architectural drawings held by the Victoria & Albert Item 76 Museum. It describes nearly two thousand drawings by the

18 architect John Pollard Seddon (1827-1906), a Gothic Revival enthusiast strongly influencec by Ruskin. Seddon’s best known building is what is today the central administrative building for the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth (now Aberystwyth University). Folio. 120pp, many ills. Publisher’s cloth, in dustwrapper. No ownership inscription but Gavin Stamp’s copy. £ 24

79 Sheeran, George The buildings of Bradford. An illustrated architectural history. (Stroud), Tempus 2005. A good illustrated account of Bradford’s architectural heritage, less familiar than that of other English cities. 8vo. 128pp, many photo ills. Gavin Stamp’s copy, with his booklabel. £ 10 Item 84

81 Stamp, Gavin Lost Victorian Britain. How the 80 Stamp, Gavin Lost Victorian Britain. How the twentieth century destroyed the nineteenth century’s twentieth century destroyed the nineteenth century’s architectural masterpices. London, Aurum Press Ltd 2010. Paperback edition of this distressing but well- architectural masterpieces. London, Aurum 2010. executed narrative of avoidable losses to Britain’s Victorian A good illustrated account of the losses from building heritage. various causes in the twentieth century of major buildings of 8vo. 192pp, many photo ills. Publisher’s pictorial the Victorian period, some by fire or because of wartime damage, but the majority through avoidable human folly. wrappers. Gavin Stamp’s own copy, with inserted markers inscribed in pencil by him. £ 20 Stamp gives proper prominence to the role of the Victorian Society in trying to preserve as many of these threatened buildings as possible. 82 Stamp, Gavin The changing metropolis. Earliest 4to. 187 + (5)pp, many photo text ills. Publisher’s photographs of London 1839-1879. Harmondsworth, Viking cloth, in dustwrapper. Gavin Stamp’s own copy, with his booklabel. Some related correspondence loosely enclosed. 1984. An interesting volume reproducing early £ 50 photographs of London streets and buildings, many published here for the first time, with historical notes. Among the subjects are numerous now vanished buildings, and also a number of still familiar buildings under construction. Small 4to. 240pp, numerous photo text ills. Publisher’s cloth, in dustwrapper. Gavin Stamp’s own copy, with his booklabel. Various enclosures include an autograph letter, signed, 15 February 1985, to Stamp from Asa Briggs (Lord Briggs), and a typed letter, signed, to Stamp from Sir Owen Aisher. £ 40

83 Steer, Francis W. (compiler) The cathedral church of Our Lady and Saint Philip Arundel. A monograph to celebrate its first hundred years 1873-1973. (No place of publication), for the Diocese of Arundel and Brighton 1973. Good monograph on Arundel’s very impressive Roman Catholic church (now RC cathedral), built to designs by the architect J.A.Hansom in 1871-3. Folio. 31 + (1)pp, 30 text ills incl reproductions of architect’s drawings and plans. Publisher’s pictorial wrappers. Gavin Stamp’s copy, with his bookplate. Compliments slip from author with autograph ink note from him. £ 15

84 Stevenson, J.J. House architecture. London, Macmillan & Co. 1880. First and only edition. Stevenson (1831-1908), a pupil of Sir George Gilbert Scott, was the first architect to produce designs in the “Queen Anne” style that became fashionable during the 1870s. The first of these two volumes deals with architectural styles and the second with house planning, and they represent between them the most Item 80 significant contribution to the literature on house design

19 since Robert Kerr’s English Gentleman’s House, published There may be no significance in this, but the possibility that in the mid 1860s (Stevenson says of Kerr’s designs that they copies intended for the Sykes family were bound thus should resemble “a fish dinner, at which cod, skate and haddock all be flagged up. tasted the same, having been cooked with the same lard”). Folio. (8) + 15 + (1)pp, 21 photolitho plates. Stevenson’s preference for “the cheery comfort of an English Original gilt stamped cloth (by Potter & Sons, York). A good red-brick house” distances what he has to say from the copy, given to Gavin Stamp by the present Sir Tatton Sykes, remarks of previous writers, as does his approval of “the old Bart., in 1975, with Stamp’s bookplate. £ 220 national Scotch style”, and his book marked a significant change in British architectural taste. Large 8vo. 2 vols. (10) (ex xii) + 383 + (1)pp, 86 Summerson, John Victorian architecture. Four woodcut frontispiece, 131 woodcut text ills ; (8) + 303 + studies in evaluation. New York. Columbia University Press (1)pp, woodcut frontispiece, (69) text ills, numbered 132- 1970. 190. Publisher’s decorative gilt-stamped cloth. No front free The text of four lectures on Victorian architectural endpaper or half title leaf in first volume, and binding of topics, delivered by Summerson as the Bampton Lectures at second volume is worn at outer hinges, but both volumes are Columbia University in 1968. One discusses the Law Courts generally in respectable condition. Erased ink ownership Competition of 1866, and another makes illuminating inscription in second volume. Gavin Stamp’s copy, with his comparisons between two London churches respectively booklabels in each volume. £ 180 designed by George Edmund Street and Edward Buckton Lamb. 4to. (8) + 131 + (1)pp, 86 photo ills. Publisher’s cloth, in dustwrapper (the wrapper a little soiled).Gavin 85 (Street) Bayly, James Four churches in the Stamp’s copy, with his bookplate. £ 12 deanery of Buckrose restored or built by the late George Edmund Street, R.A., for Sir Tatton Sykes, Bart. London, printed by James Akerman nd (1894). 87 Taylor, Simon (and others) Manchester : the A handsome volume recording four of a number of warehouse legacy. An introduction and guide. London, churches designed or restored by Street for Sir Tatton Sykes, English Heritage 2005. Bart. (1826-1913), a major landowner in the East Riding of Excellent and well-illustrated guide to the Yorkshire. Although Street’s most celebrated buildings are impressive surviving commercial warehouses in Manchester, well recorded in the architectural literature of the time, his most of them of Victorian date and of architectural merit, and numerous country churches are less familiar, and the present most of them also grouped together in the present-day city volume, presumably produced for private distribution by the centre. First published in 2002. Sykes family, shows the skill and taste which Street brought Small 4to. 54pp, many colour ills. Publisher’s even to the most minor commissions. It carries no date but pictorial wrappers. No ownership inscription, but Gavin the British Library Catalogue assigns it to 1894, as we do Stamp’s copy. £ 10 here. The present copy, deriving from a family source, is in an original gilt-stamped blue cloth binding, as opposed to 88 (Thomson) McFadzean, Ronald The life and the binding in red cloth in which the book is normally found. work of Alexander Thomson. London, Routledge & Kegan Paul 1979. Good monograph on Alexander Thomson (1817- 1875), the architect of many notable Greek Revival buildings in and around Glasgow. 4to. xvi + 304pp, 169 photo and other text ills. Publisher’s cloth, in dustwrapper. Gavin Stamp’s copy, with his booklabel. Two short letters from McFadzean to Stamp loosely enclosed, one an autograph letter, signed, 9 June 1979, the other a typed letter, signed, 11 May 1979. £ 48

89 (Thomson) Stamp, Gavin Alexander “Greek” Thomson. With new photography by Phil Sayer. London, Laurence King Publishing 1999. A very handsome volume indeed and an excellent record of the built output of the Glasgow-based Greek Revival architect Alexander Thomson (1817-1875). Large 4to. 184pp, many photo ills (mostly colour). Publisher’s cloth, in dustwrapper. Gavin Stamp’s own copy, with his booklabel. Various enclosures include a postcard, 20 September 1998, carrying an autograph note, signed, to Stamp from Sir Howard Colvin (Colvin incidentally remarks “do you know Holywood Church, N. of Dumfries, the top of whose tower I remember thinking somewhat Thomsonian”). £ 55

90 (Thomson) Stamp, Gavin, & McKinstry, Sam (eds ‘Greek” Thomson. Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press 1994. Item 85

20 A volume of authoritative essays on the Glasgow- based Greek Revival architect Alexander Thomson (1817- 1875), by contributors who include Sir John Summerson, Charles McKean, David M.Walker, Ian Gow, and David Watkin, as well as the editors themselves. 4to. xv + (1) + 249 + (1)pp, many photo ills. Publisher’s cloth, in dustwrapper. Gavin Stamp’s own copy, with his booklabel. Various enclosures include an autograph letter, signed, 1 May 1990, to Stamp from David Watkin, and a typed letter, signed, to Stamp from Watkin, 3 October 1992, also a typed letter, signed, to Stamp from Andor Gomme, 27 July 1999. £ 60

91 Thornton, Roy Victorian buildings of Birmingham. (Stroud), Sutton Publishing 2006. An engagingly personal account of Birmingham’s Victorian buildings by a retired Birmingham-based architect. Separate chapters are devoted to examples of each building type. Large 8vo. 129 + (1)pp, many photo ills. Publisher’s pictorial wrappers. No ownership inscription but Gavin Stamp’s copy £ 10

92 Tilbrook, Adrian J., & Fischer Fine Art Limited Truth, beauty and design. Victorian, Edwardian and later decorative art. An exhibition at Fischer Fine Art Limited 15 May - 27 June 1986. London, Fischer Fine Art Limited 1986. Handsome catalogue of a wide-ranging selection of furniture, ceramics, glass, textiles and minor decorative Item 94 objects by designers who range from Barry and Pugin to Paul Nash and Edward Bawden. 4to. 91 + (1)pp, many colour photo ills. Original pictorial wrappers. No ownership inscription but Gavin 93 Toplis, Ian The Foreign Office. An architectural Stamp’s copy. £ 10 history. London and New York, Mansell Publishing Limited 1987. A good scholarly study of the circumstances leading up the choice in November 1858 of Sir George Gilbert Scott to design the new Foreign Office building in Whitehall, and to Scott’s subsequent agreement to build the Foreign Office in an Italian classical style rather than in the Gothic style. 8vo. x + (2) + 278pp, 19 photo text ills. Publisher’s cloth, in dustwrapper. Gavin Stamp’s copy, with his booklabel. £ 18

94 (Waterhouse) Cunningham, Colin, and Waterhouse, Prudence Alfred Waterhouse 1830-1905. Biography of a practice. Oxford, Clarendon Press 1992. Excellent study of one of the major architects of the late Victorian period, incorporating a catalogue of his 647 known architectural commissions between 1852 and 1901. Now scarce in this hardback edition. Large 4to. xviii + (2) + 319 + (2)pp, 205 photo ills on plates. Publisher’s cloth, in dustwrapper. Gavin Stamp’s copy, with his booklabel. The copy is signed in ink by Colin Cunningham on its title leaf. £ 75

95 Webster, Christopher (ed) Building a great Victorian city. Leeds architects and architecture 1790-1914. (No place of publication), Northern Heritage Publications (with Victorian Society West Yorkshire Group) 2011. Essays on individual architects associated with Leeds by the volume’s editor, Terry Friedman, Colin Cunningham, and others, together with a biographical Item 89 directory of all other significant Leeds-based architects in

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98 Williams, Guy Augustus Pugin versus Decimus Burton. London, Cassell 1990. The title is more interesting than the book, for the evidence on which the author relies for mutual antagonism between Burton and A.W.N.Pugin is extremely flimsy, as the reader will quickly discover. 8vo. 160pp, (16)pp of photo plates. Publisher’s cloth, in dustwrapper. Gavin Stamp’s copy, with his booklabel. £ 10

99 (Willis) Pevsner, Nikolaus Robert Willis. Northampton, Mass., Smith College 1970. The text of a lecture on the Cambridge academic and architectural historian Robert Willis (1800-1875), delivered by Pevsner at Smith College in the USA as part of celebrations there to mark the 65th birthday of Henry-Russell Hitchcock. 8vo. (10) + 27 + (3) + (10)pp, (8)pp of photo ills. Publisher’s boards. An ex-library copy with the library stamp (and withdrawn stamp) of Leeds Polytechnic (later Leeds Metropolitan University) on the verso of the title leaf, and another withdrawn stamp at foot of front free endpaper. Subsequently Gavin Stamp’s copy, with his booklabel. £ 12

Item 96 100 (Woodyer) Elliott, John, & Pritchard, John (eds) Henry Woodyer gentleman architect. Reading, University of Reading 2002. this period. A substantial contribution to architectural history. 4to. x + 419 + (1)pp, many photo ills. Publisher’s pictorial wrappers. Gavin Stamp’s copy, with his booklabel. £ 40

96 (White) Hunter, Gill William White pioneer Victorian architect. Reading, Spire Books Ltd 2010. The first full account of the architectural career of William White (1825-1900), a prolific designer of churches, vicarages and schools from the late 1840s onwards. 4to. 338pp, many photo ills (some colour). Publisher’s cloth, in pictorial dustwrapper. Gavin Stamp’s copy, with his booklabel. £ 35

97 Wilkes, Lyall, & Dodds, Gordon Tyneside classical. The Newcastle of Grainger, Dobson & Clayton. London, John Murray 1964. Excellent account of the impressive nineteenth century development in the classical style of the central areas of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, largely by the builder Richard Grainger from designs by the architect John Dobson and others. 8vo. xi + (1) + 159 + (1)pp, 21 photo plates, double-page map. Publisher’s cloth, in dustwrapper.Gavin Stamp’s copy, with his booklabel. An enclosed typed letter, signed, from Sir Jeremy Beecham (now Lord Beecham), Newcastle City Council, 30 March 2005, to Stamp, criticising Stamp’s negative portrayal in a then recent TV programme of T.Dan Smith’s role in the redevelopment of Item 100 the city in the 1960s (Stamp has noted in pencil at the foot of

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An extensive study of Henry Woodyer (1816- 1896), a Gothic Revival architect responsible for some three hundred commissions for churches, church restorations, vicarages and schools in the southern counties of England. His designs are in a similar spirit to those by William Butterfield, although the team at the University of Reading responsible for this volume have found no evidence that he was ever a pupil in Butterfield’s office. Large 4to. 285 + (1)pp, many photo ills (some colour). Publisher’s pictorial wrappers. Gavin Stamp’s BOOKS FROM THE LIBRARY copy, with his bookplate. £ 45 OF

GAVIN STAMP 101 (Worthington) Pass, Anthony J. Thomas Worthington. Victorian architecture and social purpose. List 88 Manchester, Manchester Literary and Philosophical Publications Ltd 1988. Monograph on the successful Manchester architect VICTORIAN ARCHITECTS AND Thomas Worthington (1826-1909), designer of Manchester’s ARCHITECTURE Albert Memorial and City Police Courts, and father of two architect sons, Percy and Hubert, both knighted for their services to the architectural profession. Folio. ix + (1) +173 + (1)pp, photo ills. Publisher’s cloth, in dustwrapper. Gavin Stamp’s copy, with his booklabel. No.286 of 300 numbered copies, named to Gavin Stamp and signed by the © Hugh Pagan Limited author. £ 65 October 2018

102 (Wyatt) Pevsner, Nikolaus Matthew Digby Printed by The Lymington Printing Company Wyatt. The first Cambridge Slade Professor of Fine Art. An inaugural lecture. Cambridge, at the University Press 1950. Only edition of this very characteristic lecture by Pevsner on Sir Matthew Digby Wyatt (1820-1877), “so undeniably remarkable a man ... so undeniably bad an architect”. 8vo. (10) + 44 + (4)pp, 6 photo plates. Publisher’s cloth, in dustwrapper. Bookplate of William W.Begley. Subsequently Gavin Stamp’s copy, with his booklabel. £ 40

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