James Kendrew, York, c1820 Specialist in high quality books on architecture, gardens, art & design subjects, also photography. Catalogues issued. open: Wednesday - Saturday 10.00am - 5.00pm - most other times by appointment.
Member of: ABA, ILAB, PBFA.
Yorkshire books:
(BUCK Samuel) HALL Ivan (intro): Samuel Buck's Yorkshire Sketchbook Wakefield Historical Publications 1979 Description: xii + 420pp illustrated with b/w plates. 4to. Vg in dw. Important facsimile illustrating Yorkshire's middling and larger houses and their gardens before so many were remodelled or enlarged. The sketches were commissioned between 1719-1723 by John Warburton, historian and antiquarian. £12.95
ADSHEAD S D with MINTER C J and NEEDHAM C W C: York: a plan for progress and preservation
York 1948 14pp + 4pp b/w plates includes centre colour fold of plan, Decorated frontis. Wraps.4to. Visionary plan for the historic core of York. Fine copy. £30.00
BRIGHTON J T: Henry Gyles: Virtuoso and Glass painter of York, 1645 - 1708 Yorkshire Architectural and York Archaeological Trust 1984 vi + 62pp illus w 16 b/w an colour plates, wraps. Vol 4 of the York Historian Series. A discussion of the life, work and contribution of Henry Gyles towards the survival of glass painting in York. £10.00
LINSTRUM Derek,: West Yorkshire Architects and Architecture
Lund Humphries 1978 399pp illus. with b/w plates. 4to. Fine in dust wrapper. Extensively illustrated with black and white photographs, both interior and exterior, of important buildings in West Yorkshire, together with notes on major architects. Much on Leeds, Bradford and includes material not readily available from other sources. £95.00
LOCKWOOD Henry F CATES Adolphus H: The History and Antiquities of the Fortifications to the City of York
London: J. Weale; Charles White; J. Lee; J. Noble; and J. & G. Todd 1834 viii + 48pp w 12 b/w engraved plates and fold out map frontispiece, leather spine and printed boards. 4to. Good condition, boards and endpapers are worn and sl foxed, some foxing of 4 of the engraved plates. 2pp list of subscribers. £180.00
NUTTGENS Patrick: Brierley in Yorkshire: The architecture of the turn of the century
York Georgian Society 1984 32pp essay on Walter Brierley and his works in Yorkshire. Key arts and crafts movement architect of the north. Wrapper. Illustrated with b/w plates. There is not published book on this architect and this small booklet is a very useful introduction to his work. £5.50
TATE E. Ridsdale and BENSON George: Quaint and Historic York: In and Around the Old City
York, London, Edinburgh: E.R. Tate, B.T. Batsford, W.J. Hay 1906 12pp text + 12 b/w plates, repairs to cloth spine, printed boards. Good copy. Collection of drawings from York artist and architect Ridsdale Tate. Scarce complete collection of York images at the turn of the century. The plates are usually missing as the publication is often raided for framing. £460.00
YORK MINSTER SCREEN: Three un-numbered lithographed plates of York Minster Interior.
Engelmann Graf and Coindet & Co. undated c1819 Plate 1 Floor plan 560x380mm of the whole building showing the arrangemnt of the Choir with the Screens removed to their proposed situation. (Folded) Plate 2 280x380mm Elevation of interior of York Minster viewed from the Nave showing the Screen of the Choir in its present position with a loose flap showing before and after. Drawn on Stone by F Mackenzie. Plate 3 280x380mm Interior of York Minster from the South Transept showing the Screen of the Choir in the Situation to which it is proposed to be removed. Listed in Boyne p281 as prints numbers 453 and 454. Preserved between paper wrappers. All the images are a little dusty else good. A very interesting group of images. £125.00
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