The Principles Of Architectural Composition by Howard Robertson - 1955

Architectural Press, 1950. Hardcover. Acceptable/Acceptable. 1950. 7th Impression. 166 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over grey paper covered boards with blue cloth to spine. Black and white illustrations throughout. Binding remains firm. Pages and illustrations have light tanning and foxing throughout. Previous owner's inscriptions to front free endpaper. Boards have moderate shelf-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Slight crushing to spine ends. Light tanning to edges. Wear marks overall. Unclipped jacket has heavy edgewear with areas of loss, heavy tears, chips, and creasing. Light tanning to spine and edges. Wear marks overall.

The Architectural Press, Cheam, Surrey, 1942. Third Impression. Hardcover (1/4 Cloth 3/4 Boards). Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Illustrator: Illustrated. foreword by Robert Atkinson, preface by author, list of illustrations, bibliography and index. Black-and-white illustrated frontispiece, showing Liverpool Cathedral. The text is illustrated with numerous black-and-white line drawings, plans and architectural drawings. 1/4 blue coloured cloth covered back strip with black coloured titles. 3/4 gray coloured boards. A book on architectural drawing, design and composition with numerous examples given. First published in 1924. The book is showing use and age. Softening of the back strip edges along with rubbing, with bumping of the book corners and that the underlying board is visible. Rubbing of the remaining edges with some prompting along the top book edges. Rubbing of the book panels and stains also present. The back strip shows some white patches and some foxing along the top edge of the… Read More

The Architectural Press, Cheam, Surrey, 1950. Reprint. Hardcover (1/4 Cloth 3/4 Boards). Good Condition/Good. Illustrator: Illustrated. foreword by Robert Atkinson, preface by author, list of illustrations, bibliography and index. Black-and-white illustrated frontispiece, showing Liverpool Cathedral. The text is illustrated with numerous black-and-white line drawings, plans and architectural drawings. 1/4 blue coloured cloth covered back strip with black coloured titles. 3/4 gray coloured boards. Illustrated dustwrapper, showing Angkor Vat at the Marseilles Exhibition, with dark brown coloured titles to the front panel and backstrip. A book on architectural drawing, design and composition with numerous examples given. First published in 1924. The book is showing use and age. Softening and rubbing of the backstrip edges with fading also present – commensurate with loss of dustwrapper. Rubbing to the other book edges and the corners are bumped. Light tanning of the text block… Read More

The Architectural Press, 1924. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1924. No Edition Noted. 164 pages. No dust jacket. Grey cloth with a black and white illustrated frontis and illustrated plates throughout. Major foxing and tanning to pages with heavier foxing and tanning to pastedowns and endpapers. Slight dog-eared pages throughout and heavier foxing and tanning to text block edges. Boards have visible rubbing foxing and water stains. Moderate bumping to corners and heavy crushing to spine ends. Visible water stains and rubbing to spine.

London: The Architectural Press, 1942. xx, 166pp. Grey covers with blue cloth spine. No d.j. Trifle foxing. Owners name to the end-paper. A foreword by Robert Atkinson, with a preface by the author, list of illustrations, bibliography and index. Black-and-white illustrated frontispiece, showing Liverpool Cathedral. The text is illustrated with numerous black-and-white line drawings, plans and architectural drawings.. 1st edition, 3rd impression. Hardback. V.g./No d.j.. large 8vo.

The Architectural Press, 1948. Hardcover. Very Good. in x in x in. The Architectural Press, 1948, seventh impression. Hardcover with tight binding. Condition: Very Good. Clean and bright text. Includes a dust jacket, unclipped, in fine condition.

The Architectural Press 1955. Super octavo hardcover (VG-) in d/w (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.

The Architectural Press, 1950. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. h/b 166 pages, condition is very good, some edge wear to the DJ.

London: The Architectural Press, 1924. xx., 164 pages, frontispiece & 163 b/w illustrations. Richard Cobden-Sanderson's copy, with a signed dedication to him from Howard Robertson to front endpaper. Some bumping, soiling, wear to covers, small nick with rust marks to spine, some spotting, offsetting to prelims., otherwise contants fine, unmarked. [719]. Signed by Author. First Edition. Boards, 1/4 Cloth. Very Good. 230mm. x 160mm.. Book.