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BOOKS FROM THE LIBRARY OF GAVIN STAMP VICTORIAN ARCHITECTS AND ARCHITECTURE LIST 88 Hugh Pagan Limited Our firm specialises in rare and out-of-print books and periodicals in the field of architecture and architectural history. We also stock books on town planning, building construction, interior decoration and ornament, furniture, sculpture and other related subjects. We undertake valuations and provide other advisory services. Enquiries are welcomed for particular titles required by customers and we are always willing to buy libraries or individual books within our specialist field. A selection of our stock and recent catalogues can be found on our website, www.hughpagan.com. New customers are requested to include payment with their order or to provide an acceptable London book trade reference. Payment can be made by direct payment to our bank account or by cheque. We also accept payment by Mastercard or Visa. Our VAT No. is GB 468 6672 90. 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Hugh Pagan Limited PO Box 354 Brockenhurst, Hampshire SO42 7PS United Kingdom Tel: +44 (0)1590 624455 email: [email protected] 2 book launches, or related publishers’ promotional literature, most of which have gone BOOKS FROM THE LIBRARY unmentioned in our descriptions. OF __________________________________ GAVIN STAMP 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.