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"Daily Mail" SMITH Trevor (ed) Daily Mail Book of House Plans 1952. 64pp, many ills (plans, drawings, interesting adverts). Pictorial card covers. 26x20. VG. Brochure for model house types (The Coates House, David House and 2 others), 4pp, ills, loosely inserted. London, Associated Newspapers Nice item, featuring named architects (June Park, Powell & Moya, Architects' Co-operative Partnership etc), also builders (Laing's, Wates etc). [Ref:29352]	£16
"Daily Mail". SMITH Trevor (ed) Daily Mail Book of House Plans 1955.New designs for houses and bungalows including those exhibited at the Daily Mail Ideal Home Exhibition, 1955. 96pp, many ills (plans, drawings, interesting adverts). Pictorial wraps. 26x20. VG. London, Associated Newspapers Nice item, including named architects and builders. A notable feature of the Olympia Exhibition was the Village on the Hill, with eight 'new-style' homes. Attractive item. [Ref:29354]	£16
A SANITARY REFORMER Cottages;How to Arrange and Build Them to Ensure Comfort, Economy and Health with Hints on Fittings, and Furniture xiii, 162pp plus 41 single-sided plates, one fold-out, of plans and elevations, inc l26 figs in text. Gilt lettered decorated and embossed cloth, 18x13. Small private blind stamp on front end paper, title and page 2, front cover faintly splash marked, hardly apparent, else nice copy. London, Bemrose and Son, nd, c1878. More than most contemporary studies, the author goes into the subject in great technical detail - including drainage, ventilation, lighting, sewerage etc. Also with material on model cottage groups. [Ref:18409]	£90
ADAMS Thomas (with THOMPSON F Longstreth et al) Recent Advances in Town Planning Frontis, xvi, 400pp+ 85 b/w illustrations, 2 colour maps and incl bibliog. Gilt lettered cloth. 25x19. Nice copy. Patrick Abercrombie's copy. London, J & A Churchill, 1932. Major Adams work: an important pre-war survey, packed with information. Includes good material on housing, garden cities etc.. Photocopy of Adams' obituary notice, 1940, loosely inserted. [Ref:19594]	£75
ALDER Leo (ed) Neuzeitlicher Miethäuser und Siedlungen xvi, 314pp incl photos, plans, elevations. Cloth, 30x22. Vg, dust wrapper. Berlin, Gebr, Mann (1931), 1998. Mostly German examples but also Liverpool, Prague, Soviet Union, Brussels, Netherlands etc. Wonderful survey of worker's mass housing and settlements from the 1920s and 30s. Architects include Gropius, Oud, Poelzig, Gutkind, Fisker, Bernoulli, Taut et al. Lovely photos. [Ref:29202]	£65
ALDRIDGE Henry R. The National Housing Manual.A Guide to National Housing Policy and Administration. 526pp, incl. 20 b/w plates and many text figs. Inscribed by the author to Raymond Unwin. Cloth. 28x22. Ex TPI lib (bookplate only), cloth slightly discoloured, else good. London, National Housing and Town Planning Council, 1923. Fine association copy, inscribed from Aldridge to Raymond Unwin. Covers every aspect of contemporary housing, including model estates, garden cities etc. [Ref:12522]	£95
ALDRIDGE Henry R. The National Housing Manual.A Guide to National Housing Policy and Administration. 526pp, incl. 20 b/w plates and many text figs. Inscribed by the author to Raymond Unwin. Publisher's cloth. 28x22. Discreetly ex lib (bookplate and tiny stamp only), cloth faintly discoloured, a good copy. London, National Housing and Town Planning Council, 1923. Covers every aspect of contemporary housing, including model estates, garden cities etc. [Ref:28869]	£95
ALLAN Charles E., assisted by ALLAN Francis J. The Housing of the Working Classes Acts, 1890-1909 lxiv, 372pp. Gilt lettered cloth. 22x14. Top of spine slightly pulled, else vg. London, Butterworth/Shaw, 3rd ed, 1911. Excellent source for these key decades. This edition was the first to describe the Housing of the Working Classes, 1903, and Part 1. of the Housing, Town Planning, &c. Act, 1909-the first British Town Planning Act, covered here in detail [Ref:21967]	£65
ALLEN Gordon The Cheap Cottage and Small House.A Manual of Economic Building. xii, 144pp, 107 figs (many being on hors-texte plates). Cloth with attractive pictorial design, 23x16. Good copy, in the scarce dust wrapper (minor edge wear to this). London, B.T. Batsford, 1919, 6th edition revised. Excellent study. Most of the examples are taken from garden villages and other model schemes (at Hampstead GS, Gretna, Crayford etc). [Ref:28680]	£45
ANDREWS C Lesley Tenants and Town Hall 342pp. Wraps. 25x19. VG. London, HMSO, 1979. Detailed study of a typical post-war Inner London Estate. Well illustrated. [Ref:26737]	£15