The Spirit of The Age
by S, Alec Clifton-Talyor Roy Strong Robert Furneaux Jordan John Julius Norwic
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- VG/GD/VG
- Seller
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Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
HARDBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st. Thus.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1976 * Publisher: BCA by arrangement with the BBC,* Binding and cover condition: Slate cloth, Gilt title to spine, some fading to top front & spine. Bumped to top & bottom of spine and slight rubs to edges, slightly loose in case. GOOD.* Jacket condition: NOT PRICE CLIPPED, colour photographic cover, some shelf wear, top & bottom edges worn and riffled. GOOD.* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY, coloured end papers, clean, crisp, tight and bright. No inscriptions or annotations, some slight reading wear and ageing but no major faults. VG.* Illustrations: B/w and Colour Photos and illustrations throughout.* Pages: 234 pp. text. vi pp. Acknowledgements, Index at rear.* Product Description:- An account of the various periods of British architectural history written by some of the best known experts on the subject, including Roy Strong, John Summerson, Hugh Casson, John Julius Norwich & Patrick Nuttgens. Each of the eight chapters in this book looks at what was built during a period of British history. They give architecture a social and intellectual context, and relate the architecture to the economic, political and aesthetic thinking of the time. NEAR VG copy with only reading wear to reduce it to GOOD.
Synopsis
Primrose Peacock, a former antique dealer and author of Buttons for the Collector (David and Charles), lives in Somerset. She remains Honorary Secretary of Friends of Albania, a country in which she has a special, non-political interest.
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- Bookseller
- Cocksparrow Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3119
- Title
- The Spirit of The Age
- Author
- S, Alec Clifton-Talyor Roy Strong Robert Furneaux Jordan John Julius Norwic
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG/GD/VG
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- BCA In Assn with the BBC
- Place of Publication
- London Uk 0
- Date Published
- 1976-01-01
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