Department Architecture Civic Design (3 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Comb bound, some wear to covers and spine, mainly edges and corners, edges and corners a little creased and worn, some light wear to surface, internally in good condition, pages crisp and clear. 91pp.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 9th Edition. Hardback. GLC Preambles to Bills of Quantities. Previous owners name to inside cover and front D/J. Shelf wear to edges of D/J. Sunned spine to D/J. Price clipped to D/J. This book, now being made available as a published book for the first time, has for fifteen years been one of the most sought-after sets of readymade specification clauses for building work in the UK. These descriptions of materials and workmanship incorporate the wealth of experience and in-use testing of one of the largest builsing authorities in the world. They may be used either with Bills of Quantities, or (with appropriate selection and amendment) on works without quantities, to form the contract specification. In addition to the vast library of clauses themselves (arranged in Work Section order), this manual also contains lists of proprietary names - that is to say, trade-name products considered by the GLC to meet the clause description. At a fraction of the cost of preparing an office specification, this 1000-clause compendium will be an essential tool of tradfe for architects, quantity surveryors, and builders. 438 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Academic Literature.).

Each letter 1p., 4to. The collection in fair condition, on aged and worn paper. Two items with the Society's stamp. The first three items from 1930, relate to the appointment of a chairman for a 'meeting in March' by Abercrombie at the Society. On 28 November he suggests the Bishop of Chichester, 'who as Dean of Canterbury worked in very close co-operation with me, or Lady Milner'. He next (11 December) suggests 'Lord Cornwallis of the Kent County Council, who is also a member of the East Kent Committee'. He is pleased (16 December) when Cornwallis agrees, writing: 'He has taken a great interest in the work in Kent from its very beginning and it is of the more importance to have him as he represents the wider outlook of the whole county of Kent.' Two letters from 1931 relate to another talk and the typescript of a paper from it to be printed in the Society's journal. On 16 March Anbercrombie enquires: 'I have been asked by a friend who is coming whether it is usual to wear full evening dress on these occasions. My own idea is that that would be desirable for the lecturer but dinner jacket and black tie would be quite suitable for the audience.' On 1 March 1934 he asks to 'see someone and select slides both from the West Wycombe and the late Sir Frank Baines' collection', anticipating that he will 'get something extremely useful for my lecture'. For information on Anbercrombie, see his entry in the Oxford DNB.