F. R. S. Yorke 'The Modern House in England' . The Architectural Press 1945
The Modern House in England. 1945 reprint of the 1944 second edition (first published in 1937). Cover design by Tom Eckersley (1914-1997) and George Eric Lombers (1914-1978). With the John Williams designed bookplate of actor and art collector, Gilbert Davis (1899–1983). Scarce. With the scarce dust jacket.
F. R. S. Yorke was a modernist architect and founder member of the MARS Group (Modern Architectural Research Group). The Modern House in England surveys a selection of Modernist houses in England, including those by fellow MARS Group architects Maxwell Fry, Erno Goldfinger and Berthold Lubetkin.
This copy includes the the book plate of Gilbert Davis designed by John Williams in 1920. John Williams, carver and metal worker specialising in beaten copper and brass work, was a founding member of the Guild of Handicraft, London. In 1892 he went on to teach at Hammersmith School of Art and later at Fivemiletown Art Metalwork in County Tyrone. His bookplate designs became popular in the 1890s and were included in numerous publications on bookplates at the time, including Norna Labouchere’s “Ladies’ Book-plates: An illustrated handbook for Collectors and Book-lovers” published by George Bell & Sons., London, in 1895, and H.W Fincham’s “Artists and engravers of British and American book plates’’ published in 1897. The Library of the University of California holds a copy of Zella Allen Dixson’s, “Concerning Bookplates”, published by The University of Chicago in 1903, which lists 57 bookplates designed by John Wiliams. The list of commissioners includes the great and the good of the period, including the English first-class cricketer and businessman, Herbert Edlmann; the early British electrical pioneer Dr Robert Mullineux Walmsley; the Anglo-Irish Peer and Polo Players Lord Decies, as well as bookplates for institutions such as the Northampton Institute Library Clerkenwell, London (now City University). John Williams’ ‘Persevere’ design for Gertrude Harriet Edlmann (1894) and ‘For wisdom more precious than rubies, persevere’ (1894) a church bookplate design for Sophia Elizabeth Hall, are held in the collection of The Maria Gerard Messenger Collection of Women's Bookplates held by The Grolier Club New York, the oldest existing bibliophilic club in North America.
Gilbert Israel Davis (1899–1983) was a successful South African born actor, who appeared in many films in the 1930s and 40s including The Sign of Four: Sherlock Holmes' Greatest Case (1932), The Amateur Gentleman (1936) and Passport to Pimlico (1949). Davis amassed one of the world’s most important collections of British art, notably through the dealers, Colnaghi, in London. His collection of around 2000 British drawings and watercolours ranging from the 17th century to the early 20th century, including William Blake, John Constable, Rowlandson and Cruikshank, was acquired by the Huntingdon Library, San Marino, California, making it the most important repository of British drawings outside of the United Kingdom. Other works from Davis’ collection are now in the collections of important institutions throughout the world, including the FitzWilliam Museum, The Paul Mellon Centre and The National Portrait Gallery, London. The exhibition “British Watercolours and Drawings from the Gilbert Davis Collection” was shown in the UK in 1955.
Price: £50
Title: The Modern House in England
Authors: F.R.S. Yorke
Publisher: The Architectural Press
Publication date: 1945 (1937, 1944)
Format: Cloth-bound with illustrated dust jacket by Eckersley Lombers
Total Pages: 144
Images: Profusely illustrated with innumerable photographs and tapes throughout
Dust Jacket Condition: Good. With several tears, losses and marks
Book Condition: Good. Wavy pages throughout
Provenance: The Library of Dr Alastair Grieve
Stock Number: RB02746
The Modern House in England. 1945 reprint of the 1944 second edition (first published in 1937). Cover design by Tom Eckersley (1914-1997) and George Eric Lombers (1914-1978). With the John Williams designed bookplate of actor and art collector, Gilbert Davis (1899–1983). Scarce. With the scarce dust jacket.
F. R. S. Yorke was a modernist architect and founder member of the MARS Group (Modern Architectural Research Group). The Modern House in England surveys a selection of Modernist houses in England, including those by fellow MARS Group architects Maxwell Fry, Erno Goldfinger and Berthold Lubetkin.
This copy includes the the book plate of Gilbert Davis designed by John Williams in 1920. John Williams, carver and metal worker specialising in beaten copper and brass work, was a founding member of the Guild of Handicraft, London. In 1892 he went on to teach at Hammersmith School of Art and later at Fivemiletown Art Metalwork in County Tyrone. His bookplate designs became popular in the 1890s and were included in numerous publications on bookplates at the time, including Norna Labouchere’s “Ladies’ Book-plates: An illustrated handbook for Collectors and Book-lovers” published by George Bell & Sons., London, in 1895, and H.W Fincham’s “Artists and engravers of British and American book plates’’ published in 1897. The Library of the University of California holds a copy of Zella Allen Dixson’s, “Concerning Bookplates”, published by The University of Chicago in 1903, which lists 57 bookplates designed by John Wiliams. The list of commissioners includes the great and the good of the period, including the English first-class cricketer and businessman, Herbert Edlmann; the early British electrical pioneer Dr Robert Mullineux Walmsley; the Anglo-Irish Peer and Polo Players Lord Decies, as well as bookplates for institutions such as the Northampton Institute Library Clerkenwell, London (now City University). John Williams’ ‘Persevere’ design for Gertrude Harriet Edlmann (1894) and ‘For wisdom more precious than rubies, persevere’ (1894) a church bookplate design for Sophia Elizabeth Hall, are held in the collection of The Maria Gerard Messenger Collection of Women's Bookplates held by The Grolier Club New York, the oldest existing bibliophilic club in North America.
Gilbert Israel Davis (1899–1983) was a successful South African born actor, who appeared in many films in the 1930s and 40s including The Sign of Four: Sherlock Holmes' Greatest Case (1932), The Amateur Gentleman (1936) and Passport to Pimlico (1949). Davis amassed one of the world’s most important collections of British art, notably through the dealers, Colnaghi, in London. His collection of around 2000 British drawings and watercolours ranging from the 17th century to the early 20th century, including William Blake, John Constable, Rowlandson and Cruikshank, was acquired by the Huntingdon Library, San Marino, California, making it the most important repository of British drawings outside of the United Kingdom. Other works from Davis’ collection are now in the collections of important institutions throughout the world, including the FitzWilliam Museum, The Paul Mellon Centre and The National Portrait Gallery, London. The exhibition “British Watercolours and Drawings from the Gilbert Davis Collection” was shown in the UK in 1955.
Price: £50
Title: The Modern House in England
Authors: F.R.S. Yorke
Publisher: The Architectural Press
Publication date: 1945 (1937, 1944)
Format: Cloth-bound with illustrated dust jacket by Eckersley Lombers
Total Pages: 144
Images: Profusely illustrated with innumerable photographs and tapes throughout
Dust Jacket Condition: Good. With several tears, losses and marks
Book Condition: Good. Wavy pages throughout
Provenance: The Library of Dr Alastair Grieve
Stock Number: RB02746
The Modern House in England. 1945 reprint of the 1944 second edition (first published in 1937). Cover design by Tom Eckersley (1914-1997) and George Eric Lombers (1914-1978). With the John Williams designed bookplate of actor and art collector, Gilbert Davis (1899–1983). Scarce. With the scarce dust jacket.
F. R. S. Yorke was a modernist architect and founder member of the MARS Group (Modern Architectural Research Group). The Modern House in England surveys a selection of Modernist houses in England, including those by fellow MARS Group architects Maxwell Fry, Erno Goldfinger and Berthold Lubetkin.
This copy includes the the book plate of Gilbert Davis designed by John Williams in 1920. John Williams, carver and metal worker specialising in beaten copper and brass work, was a founding member of the Guild of Handicraft, London. In 1892 he went on to teach at Hammersmith School of Art and later at Fivemiletown Art Metalwork in County Tyrone. His bookplate designs became popular in the 1890s and were included in numerous publications on bookplates at the time, including Norna Labouchere’s “Ladies’ Book-plates: An illustrated handbook for Collectors and Book-lovers” published by George Bell & Sons., London, in 1895, and H.W Fincham’s “Artists and engravers of British and American book plates’’ published in 1897. The Library of the University of California holds a copy of Zella Allen Dixson’s, “Concerning Bookplates”, published by The University of Chicago in 1903, which lists 57 bookplates designed by John Wiliams. The list of commissioners includes the great and the good of the period, including the English first-class cricketer and businessman, Herbert Edlmann; the early British electrical pioneer Dr Robert Mullineux Walmsley; the Anglo-Irish Peer and Polo Players Lord Decies, as well as bookplates for institutions such as the Northampton Institute Library Clerkenwell, London (now City University). John Williams’ ‘Persevere’ design for Gertrude Harriet Edlmann (1894) and ‘For wisdom more precious than rubies, persevere’ (1894) a church bookplate design for Sophia Elizabeth Hall, are held in the collection of The Maria Gerard Messenger Collection of Women's Bookplates held by The Grolier Club New York, the oldest existing bibliophilic club in North America.
Gilbert Israel Davis (1899–1983) was a successful South African born actor, who appeared in many films in the 1930s and 40s including The Sign of Four: Sherlock Holmes' Greatest Case (1932), The Amateur Gentleman (1936) and Passport to Pimlico (1949). Davis amassed one of the world’s most important collections of British art, notably through the dealers, Colnaghi, in London. His collection of around 2000 British drawings and watercolours ranging from the 17th century to the early 20th century, including William Blake, John Constable, Rowlandson and Cruikshank, was acquired by the Huntingdon Library, San Marino, California, making it the most important repository of British drawings outside of the United Kingdom. Other works from Davis’ collection are now in the collections of important institutions throughout the world, including the FitzWilliam Museum, The Paul Mellon Centre and The National Portrait Gallery, London. The exhibition “British Watercolours and Drawings from the Gilbert Davis Collection” was shown in the UK in 1955.
Price: £50
Title: The Modern House in England
Authors: F.R.S. Yorke
Publisher: The Architectural Press
Publication date: 1945 (1937, 1944)
Format: Cloth-bound with illustrated dust jacket by Eckersley Lombers
Total Pages: 144
Images: Profusely illustrated with innumerable photographs and tapes throughout
Dust Jacket Condition: Good. With several tears, losses and marks
Book Condition: Good. Wavy pages throughout
Provenance: The Library of Dr Alastair Grieve
Stock Number: RB02746
