Search Results: Titles starting with L from Theatreshire Books Ltd

. hardback illus boards, very good condition, text in French, year book with also historical retropsective of past movies, Very well illustrated.

Venice:Marsilio, 1997 . grey cloth, illus d.w., fine condition, 206pp., many illus. in colour and black and white, text in Italian, covers the competition for the design of the original Fenice Opera House in Venice, many architectural plans illustrated, a very important book on the subject.

Paris:Firmin-Didot, n.d. . rebound in buckram cloth with gilt lettering, 158pp., gilt edges, text in French, very good with browning to pages as with all copies. This is a very rare book on stage machinery, effects, including lighting etc, with some lovely engravings of backstage and equipment.

Theatre Notebook:London . extracted article, 8pp., very good condition.

Paris: Librarie Generale de L'Architecture, n.d. c.1865. . Folio, blue cloth boards with dark blue leather spine, raised bands and gilt lettering and tooling, 64 full page engraved plates, some water marking to front cover, internally occasional light foxing but plate images good includes superb double page chromolithograph. Daly was considrede to be one of the foremost architectural theoreticians of his day. He, more than anyone else, was able to record the new construction of Paris, under the Second Empire. This is a fine monograph on the two theatres in the Place du Chatelet. They were constructed in 1860-62 on Gabriel Davioud's designs, as an integral part of Haussman's plans for the rebuilding of Paris and the redevelopment of the Chatelet. The theatres were the immediate predecessors of Garnier's Paris Opera.

Doncaster:Doncaster Library . very good cinema building history of Doncaster and surrounding area, verty good condition, 134pp., very well illustrated with many photographs.

New York: The New American Libary, 1957. . illus. paperback., 352pp., previous owner's stamp.

St.Albans: Martin Secker & Warburg Limited, 1974 . previous owner's stamp., illus.paperback., good condition., 752pp.