Architecture from Rickaro Books Ltd

Exeter: Exeter City Council, 1936. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. A very good copy in original blue cloth with gilt arms of Exeter to front board. 12 illus., 174pp. Small printed label with name of a previous owner to fep. Two related cuttings laid in..

London: The Bodley Head, 1931. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. A very good copy in a fair d/w that has wear to top edge and internal repair. This was the first book to be published exclusively on the old London Bridge. It is a handsome well illustrated production with many plates including… Ler mais sobre este item

Cambridge: The Library of Gonville and Caius College, 1997. Book. Fine. Soft cover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. A fine copy of this illustrated booklet on the Library. 41pp..

Donington: Shaun Tyas, 2024. Book. Fine. Paperback. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. This collection of essays is a special number of the journal 'Ecclesiology Today' and is a book in its own right. The five essays are by Mark Kirby (the preface), Brian and Moira Gittos, 'Effigial Commemoration in the Medieval Churchyard', 11-37; Sally Badham, 'Heraldic… Ler mais sobre este item

London: Bloomsbury Osprey, 2024. Book. Illus. by Turner, Graham. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. A very good copy but with bump to corner.. A highly illustrated history of the Wars of the Roses based on the medieval art of Graham Turner. The so called "Wars of the Roses" is a popularist name given… Ler mais sobre este item

Donington: Shaun Tyas , 2011. Book. Fine. Hardback. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A fine new copy. A look at one of the defining but generally neglected cultural artefacts of the Middle Ages. With multiple contributors, this book explores the aristocratic medieval house, an important aspect of medieval history that has been somewhat neglected by scholars,… Ler mais sobre este item

London: Bloomsbury Osprey, 2024. Book. Illus. by Turner, Graham. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. A fine new copy. A highly illustrated history of the Wars of the Roses based on the medieval art of Graham Turner. The so called "Wars of the Roses" is a popularist name given to the dynastic strife of the… Ler mais sobre este item

Horbury: Rock Villa Publications, 2006. Book. Very Good. Paperback. Signed by the Author. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A very good copy of this detailed history of the church at Horbury. Includes illustrations, a history of the township and information on the earlier medieval church. 51pp..

Horbury: Rickaro Books, 2013. Book. Fine. Paperback. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A fine new copy of this illustrated volume on John Carr. Though John Carr of York was one of the leading architects of the Georgian period, his huge and varied achievement is still there to be enjoyed. Every day thousands of people cross his… Ler mais sobre este item

Donington: Shaun Tyas, 2023. Book. New. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. A fine new copy. The ninth in a series on Places of Worship in Britain and Ireland, extending from prehistoric times to the twenty-first century. The period 1929-1990 extends from the failure of the Church of England to reform the Book of Common Prayer… Ler mais sobre este item

Donington: Shaun Tyas, 2023. Book. New. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. A fine new copy. The third in a series of Tower Studies, which here publishes the fourth and fifth conferences of the European Towers Studies Group, held in 2013 and 2014. Since their first delivery, the papers have undergone significant revision to bring thinking… Ler mais sobre este item

Winchester: Carriana Publishing, 2023. Book. New. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. A fine, new copy of this long-awaited volume of essays by the celebrated historian Dr Ivan Hall. John Carr of York (1723-1807) was one of the most prolific and significant architects of the eighteenth century, with an output of over 400 designs, most of… Ler mais sobre este item

Donington: Shaun Tyas , 2022. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. A fine new copy. Horace Walpole (1717-97), the artistic son of Robert Walpole, the United Kingdom's first prime minister, began creating Strawberry Hill in Twickenham at the end of the 1740s. The house is now seen as the most significant, if not the… Ler mais sobre este item

Donington: Shaun Tyas, 2019. Book. Fine. Hardback. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Temple Moore (1856-1920) was one of the greatest British church architects of his day, designing a series of fine and varied buildings between about 1890 and the First World War. A devout High Churchman, he worked primarily for Anglo-Catholic clients who sought to express… Ler mais sobre este item

Lincolnshire: Shaun Tyas, 2004. Book. Fine. Hardback. New Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. William flockhart was an important architect, an eclectic designer who provided his clients with extravagant, opulent and inventive designs. A fine, new copy. Printed in colour throughout with 154 photographs and architectural drawings. 152pp..

Donington: Shaun Tyas , 2023. Book. New. Soft cover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Edward S. Prior and Arthur Gardner published An Account of Medieval Figure Sculpture in England with Cambridge University Press in 1912. This became the foundational book for the study of medieval figure-sculpture in England (and Wales). The authors' presuppositions about the materials… Ler mais sobre este item

Donington: Shaun Tyas, 2017. Book. Fine. Hardback. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A fine new copy. 250pp..

Donington: Shaun Tyas Book. Fine. Hardback. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. A fine new copy. 128pp..

Donington: Shaun Tyas, 2018. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A fine new copy of this superbly illustrated volume. Andrew Boorde, writing in the 1540s, advised the builder of a new house to choose a site which was close to supplies of water and wood but also had a good view. He further recommended… Ler mais sobre este item

Donington: Shaun Tyas, 2018. Book. Fine. Hardback. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A fine new copy. 672 pp. 700 pictures.The book was the life's work of the author, who died leaving it unfinished in 1997, though complete in draft. It was a subject on which he had lectured and contributed many ground-breaking articles in scholarly journals.… Ler mais sobre este item