London: B.T. Batsford, 1902. First edition. Original burgundy cloth with gilt lettering and decoration. Folio (12.5" x 17.5"), pp. viii, 10. Fifty full plates of nicely rendered architectural detail drawings. Ex-library markings. A very technical study of Renaissance, Classic, Jacobean, and Wren architectural examples, with wonderful line drawings of joinery..... More

Chicago, IL: American Builder Publishing Corporation, 1933. First edition. Staplebound Wraps. Quarto, pp. 66, illustrated w/ b/w photographs and drawings. This issue has a special emphasis on the garage, including remodeling, design, equipment, and a photographic portfolio. There are also articles on good architecture in small inexpensive homes, sketches and..... More

New York: Architecture Magazine, 1935. First edition. Staplebound Wraps. Quarto, pp. 16, illustrated w/ b/w photographs. This portfolio features examples from across the United States, with a concentration in New England and the mid-Atlantic states, and a few examples from Europe. The featured dormers appear to be mostly early 20th..... More

New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1994. First paperback edition. Color Pictorial Wraps. Small quarto, pp. 318, indexed, richly illustrated w/ color photographs and artworks. The definitive volume on how paint has been used in the U.S. in the last 250 years. Eminent contributors cover the history of this..... More

New York: Architecture Magazine, 1933. First edition. Staplebound Wraps. Quarto, pp. 16, illustrated w/ b/w photographs. An attractive collection of ironwork balusters from the simple to the ornate, featuring the work of artists such as Arthur Loomis Harmon, Pliny Rogers, Bradley Delehanty, Moise Goldstein, William Ingemann, and many more. More

New York: Architectural Book Publishing Company, 1968. Second Printing. Original Light Blue Cloth. Quarto, pp. 128, numerous b/w photographs and house patterns, as well as a few colored photographs. An uncommon title by America's champion of a neo-colonial architectural aesthetic. With many intimate insights into the mind of the master..... More

New York: 2004. Perfect Bound. The first book to focus on the residential work of McKim, Mead & White, one of America's best-known and most influential architecture firms. With nearly 1,000 commissions executed between 1879 and 1912, the firm was clearly the architect of choice for the most prestigious projects..... More

New York: John Wiley, 1849. First American edition. Decorated Embossed Cloth over Boards. Quarto, pp 205. + 6 Pages of advertising. Illustrated w/14 fold out lithograph plates. Ruskin's text is an enduring architectural classic, a book which was, to quote Sir Kenneth Clark, "in the history of taste, perhaps the..... More

Philadelphia: Athenaeum of Philadelphia, 1976. Reissue of 1885 title by Devoe Paint Company. Leatherette, black w/Dust Jacket. Oblong folio, pp 95. 20 Color plates including a reproduction of an early paint card from 1871. A reprint by the Philadelphia Athenaeum of an iconic paint treatise by Dornsife in the 1880s..... More

New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2001. First edition. Perfect Bound. Small quarto, pp. 285, indexed, illustrated with b/w photographs. What factors create a successful resort? How did the rise of lavish hotels and spas reflect the changing values of American society as the nineteenth century progressed? Historians have argued..... More

San Francisco, CA: The Book Club of California, 1993. First edition. Perfect Bound. Small quarto, pp. 62, illustrated with b/w photographs. This story is about how houses were built in San Francisco in the 1880's and 1890's, and about William F. Lewis who was one of the hundreds of contractors..... More

London: M. Taylor, 1837. Second American edition. Cloth over Boards. 16mo, pp. viii, iii, 244 plus 12 engraved plates. Ex-library markings. Chapters on all the major building trades, including bricklaying, cements, carpentry, joinery, masonry, plastering, plumbing, painting, practical geometry, surveying, and architecture. This is the earliest edition we've been able..... More

Norfolk, VA: Donning Company, 1982. First edition. Boards. Limited edition of 2500 copies; this is number 626. A bookplate inside the front cover includes the signatures of both authors. Chapters: Settlement, Revolution, Stability 1762-1860; Civil War and Reconstruction 1860-1890; Growth, Expectations and Frustration 1890-1917; Prosperity, Depression and War 1917-1945; and..... More