Christopher Wren
by Whinney, Margaret
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/very good -
- Seller
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Lansdowne, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
New York: Praeger, 1971. Hardcover. Very Good/very good -. 216 p.: 166 illustrations consisting of plans and black-and-white photographs; 22 cm. Red cloth with gilt spine title. White dust jacket with black spine and cover titles, and color photograph of St. Paul's Cathedral, London, on front. White call number at tail of spine on book, not dust jacket. Includes a chronological table, bibliography, and index. The author, Margaret Dickens Whinney (1894-1974), was a Courtauld Institute scholar of medieval architecture and sculpture, as well as the daughter of the architect Thomas Bostock Whinney and the great-granddaughter of Charles Dickens. Book is in Very Good Condition: both free endpapers removed; call number on spine; cover slightly soiled; pages are clean and bright. Dust jacket is in Very Good- Condition: 2-cm. tear from upper edge at head of front joint, without loss; rubbed.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Classic Books and Ephemera (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 003721
- Title
- Christopher Wren
- Author
- Whinney, Margaret
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- very good -
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Praeger
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1971
- Bookseller catalogs
- Architecture; Women Writers;
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Classic Books and Ephemera
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Lansdowne, Pennsylvania
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- Jacket
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- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Gilt
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- Cloth
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....