TOMLINSON Charles

Cyclopedia of Useful Arts, Mechanical and Chemical, Manufactures, Mining and Engineering (Volume 1, Division 1)

London, George Virtue 1852 pp1-240, many illustrations, including fold out plan of the Great Exhibition. 27x18, red blind stamped cloth, glt decoration and text on front and spine. Rather rubbed and worn, spine pulled with slight loss at the top and bottom, a few pages loosening, two plates detached and loosely inserted. Originally inspired by the Great Exhibition, this was one of the great celebrations of Victorian technical and mechanical innovation. It was issued in nine successive parts, the intention being that the parts would rebound into volumes by the subscriber. The editor clearly didn't anticipate that the reader would read each 'Division' on its own, as the entry for Bridges in this volume stops mid-sentence at the end of page 240; those wanting the full entry would have to wait until Division 2 was in their hands!The second 1866 edition expanded over three volumes, but this is from the first two-volume edition.

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Book number: 36978

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WAILES Rex

The English Windmill With drawings by Vincent Lines

London, Routledge Kegan Paul (1954), 1967 (2nd impression with corrections) xxiii, 246pp, very many fig, plates, drawings etc, glossary, bibliog, maps showing location of windmills. 26x16, glt lttd publisher's cloth, pictoral dw. Some foxing, otherwise good in similar dw, this clipped and now protected. Complete history of the English windmill and their various types. Author was probably the greatest authority on these structures.

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Book number: 38457

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WALKER T

Foundry Sands with Special Reference to Steel Foundry Practice

London, Charles Griffin and Co, Ltd 1938 x, 134pp, 22 illustrations, including 7 photomicrographs 20x14, brown cloth, no dw. Very good. Part of Longmuir's Industrial Textbooks Series

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Book number: 33897

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WALL PAPER MANUFACTURERS LTD

A Service for Architects. A description of the services and products available to the architect, interior designer and decorator.

Manchester & London, 1956 8pp, colour illustrations, covering letter loosely inserted. 21x14, attractive card covers. Slight ink mark on cover, very good thus. Lovely illustrations.

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Book number: 34281

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WALL PAPER MANUFACTURERS LTD

Specifications for Wallpaper

Manchester & London, Westerham Press, 1955. 24pp, bibliography. 22x14, attractive card covers. Very good. A practical reference pamphlet

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Book number: 34280

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WATSON F R

Acoustics of Buildings including Acoustics of Auditoriums and Soundproofing of Rooms.

NY, John Wiley, 1930 2nd ed, revised. x, 155pp incl 69 figs. Gilt lettered cloth, 23x16. Ink stain on front and rear covers, contents very good and binding tight. Revised and updated edition which now includes acoustics related to the new talking movies.

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Book number: 33105

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WELCH Charles, BARRY J Wolfe and BENHAM Rev Canon

History of The Tower Bridge and of other bridges over the Thames built by the Corporation of London. Including an account of the Bridge House Trust from the Twelfth Century, based on the Records of the Bridge House Estates Committee.

London, Smith, Elder, 1894. Frontis, 284pp incl illustrations plus six plates, some double-page. Signatures of Frank Green, Chairman Bridge House Estates Committee 1884 and Francis Haydn Green, Chairman 1919 on front end paper. Gilt embossed publisher's cloth, leather corners and spine, 29x24. Spine edges and corners rubbed else good copy with nice bright contents. Top edge gilt. Gives a history of bridges in this area of London, followed by a detailed account of the new bridge and its background.

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Book number: 31239

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WELCH Charles, BARRY J Wolfe and BENHAM Rev Canon

History of The Tower Bridge and of other bridges over the Thames built by the Corporation of London. Including an account of the Bridge House Trust from the Twelfth Century, based on the Records of the Bridge House Estates Committee.

London, Smith, Elder, 1894. Frontis, 284pp incl illustrations plus six plates, some double-page. 29x24,gilt embossed publisher's cloth, leather corners and spine, top edge glt. Edges heavily rubbed with some loss of surface, front and bottom edges untrimmed, book plate (Sir Alfred James Newton) on ffep, binding cracked in a couple of places, fair to good copy thus. Gives a history of bridges in this area of London, followed by a detailed account of the new bridge and its background.Sir Alfred Newton had a distinguished career as a businessman, during which he was involved with the stock market flotation of Harrods, where he served as Chairman for many years. He became Lord Mayor of London in 1899, and was made a Lord the following year. He died in bizarre circumstances in 1921 when he was apparently accidentally poisoned by strychnine in a medicine made up at the pharmacy in Harrods.

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Book number: 37165

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WILHIDE Elizabeth

The Millennium Dome.

St Helens, Ted Smart, 1999. 192pp, incl over 250 illustrations, chronology. Foreword by Tony Blair. Boards, 27x27. Fine in dust wrapper. Built at Greenwich to celebate the millenium. Designed by Richard Rogers and part of his Greenwich Regeneration plan. Claims to be the most comprehensive record available of this modern day wonder 'The world's foremost architecture monument to celebrate the year 2000', though not a great success commercially. Already quite scarce.

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Book number: 34052

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WINDMILLS

Seven Pamphlets on Windmills North Leverton Windmill: History and Guide, 1970; Stansted Windmill: a pictorial guide, 1966; Saxted Green Mill, by Rex Wailes (incl. 3 post cards), 1960; Nutley Windmill Restoration, Phase One, 1979 (vg photos and diagrams); Stevington Mill by A F Cirket, 1966 (good photos etc); Ballycopeland Windmill, County Down, 1962 (incl nice fold-out diagram); Danske Mollers Venner, Regnskab 1972/3 (on Danish windmills).

Various 1962-1979 Various paginations 8-24pp Pamplets, one spiral bound otherwise stapled Vg condition. Useful pamphlets, with interesting photos, diagrams etc..

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Book number: 33836

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WRIGHT Lawrence

Clean and Decent: The History of the British Bathroom and WC. Together with sundry illustrations of the habits, fashions and accessories of the toilet. A Descriptive Souvenir of the Exhibit at the Building Exhibition, Olympia, November 13-27, 1957.

Building Exhibition, London 1957 8pp, illustrations. 25x19, illustrated paper wraps. Covers foxed, contents good. Precursor to Wright's entertaining history, published three years later.

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Book number: 34276

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WRIGHT CLARKE J

Hydraulic Rams, Their Principles and Construction A Handbook for Practical Men

Batsford (1900) 1907 second edition viii, 124pp, 16pp publisher's notices, 41 illustrations 19x13, brown cloth with glt lettering. Some marks to cloth, gilt nice and bright, contents very good. Previous owner's stamp to fep. The text was re-written and re-organised for this new edition, and all the illustrations re-drawn.

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Book number: 33911

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YEE Albert (foreword by Lord Holford)

London Bridge: Progress Drawings 1968-1973

The Author 1974 16pp, 113 plates each with hand-drawn illustrations. 22x33, boards, illustrated dw. Very good in similar dw, signed by author on title page. Limited edition, of which this is number 1662. Very nicely presented drawn record of the removal of Rennie's 1831 London Bridge and its replacement by Holford's modern design.

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Book number: 37173

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YOUNG Francis Chilton

Every Man His Own Mechanic. a Complete and Comprehensive Guide to Every Description of Constructive and Decorative Work That May be Done By the Amateur Artisian at Home and in the Colonies. In Three Parts

London, Ward, Lock, and Co. c. 1893 (sixth edition) xii, 816pp, 751 bw figs some fold-out 22x15, half bound in black leather, glt and red decoration lettering on spine, Not the original binding, which is more decorative, edge wear and some splitting along spine, good thus. A wonderful and very early Do-It-Yourself Guide, with advice on more or less anything that the amateur artisan could turn his hand to; the sections with advice on tools and how to use - and not use - them is particular interesting.

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Book number: 36934

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YOUNG OSMOND & YOUNG

Heating & Ventilating by Electricity.

Welwyn Garden City, 3rd ed, nd, 1929? Pictoral end papers, 130pp inc interesting photos, diagrams etc. Cloth, 29x22. Corners a trifle rubbed and bumped, owner's neat signature on front end paper, still a fair copy. Interesting work on then current practice. Obviously prepared with the firm's own products in mind. Mainly on public buildings: factories, shops, cinemas, churches etc.

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Book number: 31664

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