An Understanding of Architecture by Lutyens, Robert & Greenwood, Harold - 1948

People's University Press, 1948. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. First edition and printing. In very good bright red cloth boards, black titles to back strip. The boards are straight, tight and unmarked. Clean end papers. Slightly tanned cut edges. The text block is tightly bound, square and not tanned, foxed or marked - very good condition - and with b/w drawings. No dedications etc. Inside good pale blue dust jacket with dark red titles. The jacket is tanned around the edges; and with chipped edges and a few small closed tears. Not price clipped.

People's University Press, 1948. Hardcover. Very Good. A very good+ hardback whose only fault is a name on front endpaper, in

People's University Press, 1948. Hardcover. Acceptable. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Hardcover. Good. 1st edition 1948 hardback with dust jacket Offered by the UK charity Langdon: Supporting people with disabilities. Dispatched within one working day

People's Universities Press,. Hardback. 116pp. 11 illustrations. Yellow boards have a few minor surface marks and are faded to spine. Text is clean. Binding is sound. Good+, sound copy . Hardback. 1948.

London England: People's Universities Press, 1948. Hardback. An Understanding of Architecture. Previous owners name to inside cover. Slight foxing to end inside covers and edge. Slight shelf wear to edges of D/J. Buildings are the physical signposts of history. Paintings tells us what people looked like, and literature tells us what they thought, but it is architecture that tells what they did and how they lived. Architecture, the author says, can only be enjoyed as an art if it is first understood as a document. How is this interpreted? What is the art of Architecture? What standards of appreciation can we apply? These and many other questions are raised and answered by the authors in a book that will provoke widespread interest. The authors have illustrated the book with their own drawings, showing typical examples of ancient, mediaeval, Palladian and later buildings, including the stylistic revivals of the nineteenth centuy. Here is a concise guide to those who recognise that taste must be… Read More