London: Country Life Limited, 1931. Folio. First edition. Original navy cloth, gilt. Top edge stained blue. Black and white photographic plates throughout. Small Edinburgh bookseller's label to front pastedown. D/w with tiny loss to top corner tips and spine ends. Near fine in near fine dust-wrapper. The first survey of...
Sparham: The Mainstone Press, 2008. 4to. Limited edition of 750 copies. Navy cloth lettered in silver with a printed paper label to the upper board. In navy card slipcase as issued. Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white. As new.
Loxhill: The Pendomer Press, [1980]. 4to. De Luxe limited edition. #139 of 200 copies. Quarter black leather, gilt, with patterned paper boards. Top edge gilt. Issued in paper-covered slipcase. With a folder containing the lithograph 'Nekayah, the Prince and Imlac in Cairo' drawn in four colours and printed in an...
London: John Murray, 1977. 4to. Limited edition. #33 of 150 signed copies. Original navy buckram, lettered in gilt. Lacks the loose, signed engraving. With Cockerell endpapers and matching slipcase as issued. Printed on hand made paper. Small 'Sotheran's' label to verso of fly. Slipcase slightly rubbed. Fine in near fine...
London: Chatto & Windus, 2009. 8vo. First edition. Original black hardcovers, gilt. Black and white plate sections. Author presentation inscription on title page. Mint in dust-wrapper.
London: Collins, 2011. 8vo. First edition. Original green cloth, gilt. Jacket design by Robert Gillmor. Mint in dust-wrapper.
London: A. Zwemmer Ltd, 1966. 4to. First edition. Original red buckram, gilt. Top edge stained red. Illustrated throughout in black and white with a black and white photographic plate section at the rear. Very slight foxing to endpapers. Price-clipped d/w is a little rubbed with small loss at the head...
London: A. Zwemmer, 1988. 4to. 2 volumes, set. First edition. Original navy buckram, gilt. Top edges stained blue. Illustrated throughout in black and white. D/ws faded on spine. Fine in near fine dust-wrappers.
London: A. Zwemmer Ltd, 1970. 4to. First edition. Original navy buckram, gilt. Top edge stained blue. Black and white photographic plate section at rear. Pirce-clipped d/w is very slightly faded on spine. Fine in near fine dust-wrapper.
New Haven and London: Yale University Press for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, 1984. 4to. First edition. Original brown cloth, gilt. Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white. Fine in fine dust-wrapper.
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993. 4to. First edition. Original navy cloth, gilt. Illustrated throughout in black and white. Bookplate of George Zarnecki on front pastedown. Compliments slip of The University of Edinburgh pasted to fly, 'George, With warmest regards, Eric. February 1993'. Fine in fine dust-wrapper.
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1990. 4to. Reprint with corrections. First published in 1989. Original navy cloth, gilt. Illustrated throughout in black and white. Fine in fine dust-wrapper.
London and Rio Grande: The Hambledon Press, 1993. 4to. First edition. Original blue cloth, gilt. Illustrated throughout in black and white. Fine in fine dust-wrapper.
London: H.M.S.O. (Her Majesty's Stationery Office), 1963-76. 4to. 6 volumes (out of 7). First editions. Original maroon buckram, gilt. Top edges stained red. Black and white photographic plate sections at rear. Illustrated throughout in black and white with some folding maps and plans. Separate box of Plans. Volumes II, V......
New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 1999. 4to. First edition. Original maroon hardcovers, gilt. Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white. Fine in fine dust-wrapper.
London: Faber and Faber, 1971. 4to. First edition. Original blue cloth, gilt. Black and white photographic plate section at rear. Fine in fine dust-wrapper. Architect to the City of London for nearly half a century, his greatest official achievement was Newgate Gaol, but he was also a huge influence on...
Berkeley, Los Angeles & London: University of California Press, 1986. 4to. First edition. Original green cloth, gilt. Illustrated throughout in black and white with one section of colour plates. Fine in fine dust-wrapper.
Cambridge, MA and London: The MIT Press, 1992. 4to. First edition. Original quarter green cloth, gilt, with paper boards. Illustrated throughout in black and white. Fine in fine dust-wrapper.
London, Toronto & New York: J. M. Dent & Sons Limited and E. P. Dutton & Co. Ltd, 1928. 4to. 2 volumes, set. First English language edition. First published in Germany in 1913. Original green buckram, gilt. With over 600 illustrations in black and white. Covers rather faded. Two book...
London: J. M. Dent and Sons Limited, 1974. 4to. First edition. Original green cloth, gilt. Illustrated throughout in black and white. D/w has one very short closed tear to the top edge of the back panel. Fine in near fine dust-wrapper. Covering the expected statues, urns, sundials and fountains but...
London: A. Zwemmer Ltd, 1977. 4to. First edition. Original blue buckram, gilt.. Plate section at rear with 275 half-tone illustrations. Fine in fine dust-wrapper.
London: Sotheby Parke Bernet, 1979. 4to. First edition. Original brown cloth, gilt. Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white. D/w very slightly rubbed in places. Fine in near fine dust-wrapper. This remains the definitive work on the subject.
Andoversford: The Whittington Press, 1980. 8vo. First edition. One of 600 unnumbered copies from a limited edition of 630. Original ring-bound stiff card covers. Eight front and back views of country figures are split horizontally in three to enable incongruous characters to be formed. The bespectacled old woman in a....
London: Beat Publications Ltd, [1964]. 12mo. First edition. Original white laminated boards. Black and white author photograph on back cover. Price label of 'Seven Shillings' tipped in but crossed through in pencil with revised price of '2/-'. Illustrated in colour by the author. Covers a bit rubbed and dust-soiled. Near...
London: Faber and Faber, 1953. 8vo. First edition. Original blue cloth, gilt. Illustrated by V. H. Drummond. Tiny nick to the d/w at the tail of the spine. Fine in fine dust-wrapper. Self-explanatory (although I could go on).