Architecture.- Pugin (Augustus Welby) An Apology for a work entitled "Contrasts", only edition, modern half burgundy morocco over marbled boards, spine ruled in gilt (slightly faded), Birmingham, for the author, 1837; An Earnest Address, on the Establishment of the Hierarchy, disbound, 1851 § Barry (Rev. Alfred) The Architect of the New Palace at Westminster. A Reply to a Pamphlet by E.Pugin Esq...., second edition, mounted actual photograph as frontispiece (loose), later buckram, original printed blue wrappers bound in, uncut, 1868 § [Alford (Rev. Henry)] A History of the Restored Parish Church of Saint Mary, Wymeswold, Leicestershire, 4 tinted lithographed plates, wood-engraved illustrations, original blind-stamped cloth, rubbed and faded, [1846]; and 4 others, Pugin, 8vo & 4to (8)

⁂ The first is the architect's rare defence of his controversial 1836 work Contrasts, in which he had criticised much about the modern industrialised world. In this pamphlet he accuses the Church of England of a lack of respect towards its buildings and rites of worship and glorifies the Catholic religion under which the “arts can look for real protection and advancement”. In the second pamphlet he recants his previous opinion that it was Protestantism that was responsible for the damage to churches etc. at the time of the English Reformation and blames it on “a fearful and terrible example of a Catholic nation betrayed by a corrupted Catholic hierarchy”.

The third is by the son of the architect Sir Charles Barry, and was published in response to a pamphlet of 1867 written by the architect Edward Welby Pugin, in which he had argued that it was his father, A.W.N.Pugin, rather than Sir Charles Barry who had been the design genius responsible for the Houses of Parliament building as rebuilt after the fire of 1836.