Sailing to Byzantium: an architectural companion
by Lancaster, Osbert
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near fine, 1st edition, yellow boards clean, gilt front cartoon and spine titling bright; pages tight and unmarked. Previous own
- Seller
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Maidenhead, Berkshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: John Murray, 1969. 1st. hardback. Near fine, 1st edition, yellow boards clean, gilt front cartoon and spine titling bright; pages tight and unmarked. Previous owner has lightly glued image from Country Life of a church on Crete adjacent to Lancaster's full colour plate. Provenance: Peter Foster (1919-2010), architect and painter (fmr Westminster Abbey's Surveyor of Fabric) and his wife Margaret (Hemingford Grey, Cambridge). 8vo: royal (250 x 170 / 10"" x 6_""). Lancaster's unique guide to the Byzantine architecture of the Eastern Mediterranean illustrated in his own inimitable style.
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- Bookseller
- Inklings & Yarnspinners (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- IYC40397
- Title
- Sailing to Byzantium: an architectural companion
- Author
- Lancaster, Osbert
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used - Near fine, 1st edition, yellow boards clean, gilt front cartoon and spine titling bright; pages tight and unmarked. Previous own
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- John Murray
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1969
- Pages
- 184
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- 1st, travel, cartoons, comedy, Lancaster
- Bookseller catalogs
- 2nd-hand books;
- Size
- 8vo: royal (250 x 170 / 10\"\" x 6_\"\")
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