The Art of Building a Home

Barry Parker, Raymond Unwin

Verlag: Longmans, Green and Co., London, 1901

Beschreibung

A second edition copy of this collection of lectures on building a home, with illustrations. A second edition copy.A collection of lectures on building a home, including art and simplicity, furniture, building and natural beauty and the art of designing small houses and cottages. The lectures are written by Barry Parker and Raymond Unwin.With sixty-eight plates.Collated, complete.With an inscription for Malcolm Higgs, 1969 to the front pastedown and a bookplate for John Sawers. From the library of Doctor Malcolm Higgs, an important architectural historian who worked as an assistant architect to Stirling & Gowan, working on their particularly renowned Leicester University Engineering Laboratory. During his long career he taught at the University of Edinburgh School of Architecture, Canterbury School of Architecture, and University of Nottingham. Later in his life he was the Vice-President and Honorary Librarian of the Royal Institute of British Architects, and contributed and edited the "Journal of Architecture". In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, smart with some light marks to the boards and some fading to the spine. Front hinge is starting and remains generally firm. With an inscription for Malcolm Higgs, 1969 to the front pastedown and a bookplate for John Sawers.Internally, firmly bound with bright and clean pages. Very Good. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 856B62

Bibliografische Details

Titel: The Art of Building a Home

Verlag: Longmans, Green and Co., London

Erscheinungsdatum: 1901

Einband: Cloth

Illustrator: Not Stated

Zustand: Very Good

Art des Buches: book