Inch's Books

Octavia Hill: A Biography

BELL E Moberley · 1938

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

(1938) Church Commissioners Xerox Typescript version, 1986. 1986 iv, 206pp, 8 illustrations. Foreword by Sir Reginal Towe. 30x22, comb-bound card covers. Very good. Scarce reprint, with new material, of this notable biography.

Chester: Conservation Review Study 1976

MORRIS Cyril and INSALL Donald · 1976

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

Chester, Chester City Council, 1976 108pp, 10 coloured maps, some fold out, bw photographs 30x21, card wraps, taped binding Fine. Report published 10 years after Insall's "Chester: A Study in Conservation" (1968); there was good progress, but increasing challenges from the '...

Historic Towns: Preservation and Change

MINISTRY OF HOUSING AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT · 1967

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

London, HMSO, 1967. 49pp, 65 b&w plates. 31x25, glt lttd cloth, pictoral dw. Very good in clipped , rubbed and spotted dw. Early and interesting ministry study

Bath: A Study in Conservation. Report to the Minister of Housing and Local Government and Bath City Council

BUCHANAN Colin and Partners · 1968

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

London, HMSO, 1968. 141pp, many plans, photos etc, 5 fold-outs at end. 30x21, illustrated wraps Very good. One of the four classic 1968 official conservation reports on English historic towns.

Cambridge Townscape: An Analysis.

UK DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURE AND PLANNING CITY OF CAMBRIDGE · 1971

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)

Cambridge, 1971. 144pp, many hors-texte colour plans & maps and incl text photos. 30x21, ring bound, illustrated card covers. Covers a bit rubbed, contents good. Sensitive study that seems to owe a good deal to Cullen's "Townscape" ideas.

Lavenham. Past, Present, Future for the County of West Suffolk and the Rural District of Cosford

INSALL Donald W · 1961

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

West Suffolk County Council, 1961. 43pp, maps, photos plans, drawings. 27x22, pictoral wraps. Spine originally taped, this missing with remains of glue visible on wraps and spine, good thus. Uncommon

Building for Beauty and How Not to Do it. From a Note on Contemporary Development read to the Bedford Natural History and Archaeology Society.

HAWKINS L.M. · 1941

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,439)

Bedford, The Sidney Press, 1941. 34pp incl 23 plates, two additional 'Appendices' also bound in: Appendix A 'A Reply to His Worship the Mayor of Bedford' 8pp, Appendix Z 'Rejected Successes with some Pictures An Apology and a Postscript' 16pp, each with plates, some repeated....

Conservation of Wallpaintings

BURMAN Peter (ed) · 1986

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

London, Council for the Care of Churches, 1986. 84pp, many ills, some in col. 30x21, illustrated wraps Very good. Papers from various countries, given at the International Symposium on the Conservation of Wallpaintings, Farnham Castle and Oxford, 1979. Uncommon.

Vanishing Street Furniture

WARREN Geoffrey · 1978

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

Newton Abbot, David & Charles, 1978. 159pp, 100 b&w plates, bibliog. 26x18, publisher's cloth, illustrated dw. Very good in slightly sunned dw, now protected. First book entirely devoted to street furniture. Many of these fine features are now lost forever.

The Quality of the Environment

TOWN PLANNING INSTITUTE, NORTHERN BRANCH · 1970

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

Newcastle 1970 45pp, copied typescript. 30x21, stapled card wraps Covers a bit faded, very good thus. Proceedings of a conference held in European Conservation Issue, exploring issues including planning for population increase, pollution etc.

The Archaeology of the English Church The Study of Historic Churches and Churchyards

RODWELL Warwick · 1981

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

London, Batsford 1981 192pp, nearly 100 bw illustrations, plans, diagrams etc 26x20, cloth, illustrated dw. Very good. Informative guide to the then developing field of church archaeology.

Save Leicestershire's Countryside.

CPRE · 1945

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

Leicester, CPRE, c1945 66pp, extensively illustrated. 25x19, stapled illustrated wraps. Very good. Very attractive short pamphlet, which was prepared in 1938-39 but not published until after WWII; includes much on house design, preferred layouts, the problem of advertising s...

Save the City. A Conservation Study of the City of London

LLOYD David, FREEMAN Jennifer and FAWCETT Jane et al · 1976

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

London, SPAB, 1976. xiv, 191pp inc 77 illustrations, plans etc. 30x21, wraps. Fair copy, with quite a lot of pencil underlinings and a few annotations. Other contributors include Peter Burman, Nikolaus Pevsner and Roderick Gradidge.

Twenty-Second Report: October 1971-December 1984

ROYAL FINE ART COMMISSION · 1985

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

London, HMSO 1985 80pp, 4pp of colour plates. 30x21, card wraps. Covers a bit creased and rubbed, contents good. Extensive report from the Commission (without really explaining the enormous delay since their previous report), with details of the correspondence between the Co...

A History of Aesthetic Control 1909-1947 (vol 1) and 1947-1985 (vol 2): The Control of the External Appearance of Development in England & Wales (Working Papers in Land Management and Development 2 and 7)

PUNTER John · 1984

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)

Reading, University of Reading 1984, 1985 v, 68pp; vi, 128pp (two volumes). 30x21, card stapled wraps, two uniform volumes. Good copies, owner's name on front of second volume Extensive survey, with excellent bibliography.

Issue 46:4 - A Special Issue to Commemorate European Architectural Heritage Year 1975

TOWN PLANNING REVIEW · 1975

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

Liverpool, Liverpool University Press 1975 pp355-480 inclusive, bw images. 25x19, illustrated wraps. Very good. Interesting articles on aspects of architectural conservation.

Homes in the Countryside: Problems of Conservation

ADAMS James WR (revised and edited by LAWS Peter) · 1971

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

London, Council for the Protection of Rural England 1971 47pp, black and white photographs. 25x19, stapled wraps. Owner's name in ink on front cover, good thus. Nice little pamphlet with examples of good and (very) bad restoration work done on historic cottages and barns.

The Living Heritage of Westminster

MANSELL George (Ed) · 1985

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

London, Westminster City Council etc, 1985. 104pp, a great many b/w ills. 29x21, illustrated wraps. Very good. The original survey had been published 10 years earlier - this updated version highlighted successful conservation projects to bring derelict or at risk buildings b...

Historic Towns Preservation and Change

MINISTRY OF HOUSING AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT · 1967

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

London, HMSO, 1967. 49pp, 65 b&w plates. 31x25, cloth, illustrated dw. Vg in slightly rubbed and price clipped dust wrapper. Early and interesting ministry study.

Ruins: Their Preservation and Display.

THOMPSON M W · 1981

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

London, Colonnade, 1981. 104pp, 55 photos, plans etc. 24x16, glt lttd cloth, illustrated dw. Very good, in very good wrapper. The author worked for 30 years for the Ancient Monuments Service.