Architecture & Design

	Wood-Carving Design and Workmanship This is a text book on wood-carving design and workmanship. It provides practical instructions on the design, the basic skills and the production process of the art of wood carving. The book teaches the use and maintenance of carving tools, the knowledge... Only $1.00 - Click here to buy now!
	The Ten Books on Architecture The classic manual on architecture, filled with discoveries and ideas to inspire anyone interested in architecture. Only $1.59 - Click here to buy now!
	The Seven Lamps of Architecture Only $1.95 - Click here to buy now!
	Miscellaneous Studies Hence the splendour, the space, the novelty, of the great French cathedrals in the first Pointed style, monuments for the most part of the artistic genius of laymen, significant pre-eminently of that Queen of Gothic churches at Amiens. In most cases those... Only $1.99 - Click here to buy now!
	The Churches Of Coventry The clearing away of galleries, the provision of new seating and the renewal of much window tracery have been the principal changes, the greatest loss being the destruction of the Corpus Christi Chapel. The nave is of moderate width and consists of only... Only $1.99 - Click here to buy now!
	HOMES, AND HOW TO MAKE THEM From the PREFACE: These letters between the architect and his friends are composed of hints and suggestions relating to the building of homes. Their aim is to give practical information to those about to build, and to strengthen the growing demand for... Only $2.95 - Click here to buy now!
	IF YOU'RE GOING TO LIVE IN THE COUNTRY an excerpt from the: INTRODUCTION There is a beginning with everything. So far as this book is concerned, annual driving trips through Central Vermont are responsible. They were great events, planned months in advance. With a three-seated carriage and... Only $2.95 - Click here to buy now!
	RURAL ARCHITECTURE BEING A COMPLETE DESCRIPTION OF FARM HOUSES, From the PREFATORY: This work owes its appearance to the absence of any cheap and popular book on the subject of Rural Architecture, exclusively intended for the farming or agricultural interest of the United States. Why it is, that nothing of the kind... Only $2.95 - Click here to buy now!
	Leon Batista Alberti Life of the Florentine Architect,Leon Batista Alberti [Born 1404 died 1472]Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors, and Architectsby Giorgio VasariFrom the edition in six volumes translated by Mrs. Jonathan FosterLondon: George Bell and Sons,... Only $3.00 - Click here to buy now!
	An Abridgment of the Architecture of Vitruvius From Introduction: 'There are so many things in the Works of Vitruvius that do not directly appertain to Architecture, that one would 2 think they were less fitted to Instruct those that have a design to learn the Precepts of this Art, than to perswade... Only $3.95 - Click here to buy now!
	Handwork in Wood This book is intended primarily for teachers of woodwork, but the author hopes that there will also be other workers in wood, professional and amateur, who will find in it matter of interest and profit and covers all subjects from Logging to Woodcrafting.... Only $4.75 - Click here to buy now!
	Illustrated History of Furniture with 278 Illustrations Preface: In the following pages the Author has placed before the reader an account of the changes in the design of Decorative Furniture and Woodwork, from the earliest period of which we have any reliable or certain record until the present time. A careful... Only $4.75 - Click here to buy now!
	A Vanishing England From Chapter 1 The Introduction: This book is intended not to raise fears but to record facts. We wish to describe with pen and pencil those features of England which are gradually disappearing, and to preserve the memory of them. It may be said that... Only $4.95 - Click here to buy now!
	CATHEDRALS AND CLOISTERS OF THE SOUTH OF FRANCE PREFACE. For years the makers of this book have spent the summer time in wandering about the French country; led here by the fame of some old monument, or there by an incident of history. They have found the real, unspoiled France, often unexplored by... Only $4.95 - Click here to buy now!
	Lectures on Architecture and Painting from the PREFACE:The following Lectures are printed, as far as possible, just as they were delivered. Here and there a sentence which seemed obscure has been mended, and the passages which had not been previously written, have been, of course imperfectly,... Only $4.95 - Click here to buy now!
	The Beautiful Necessity from the PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION: The Beautiful Necessity was first published in 1910. Save for a slim volume of privately printed verse it was my first book. I worked hard on it. Fifteen years elapsed between its beginning and completion; it was... Only $4.95 - Click here to buy now!
	The Cathedrals of Northern France From Content: 'There are two ways of writing a book of travel: to recount the journey itself or the results of it.' This is also the case with regard to any work which attempts to purvey topographical or historical information of a nature which is only... Only $4.95 - Click here to buy now!
	The House that Jill Built - after Jack's had proved a failure from the INTRODUCTION: Â 'MR. E.C. Gardner, architect, has consented to write us a series of articles upon house-building,' said one of his associates to the editor of Our Continent a few months since. 'What do you think of it?' 'We have no sort of use... Only $4.95 - Click here to buy now!