Georgian Grace; A Social History of Design from 1660 to 1830

Gloag, John

Verlag: Spring Books, London

Beschreibung

1967. (4to) Very good in very good dust jacket. 426pp. Color frontispiece, illustrations, appendices, index. There is a previous owner's bookplate, there are tape stains on the outside corners of the front and back endpapers, and the dust jacket has minor edgewear. "Amid the violence and turbulence of our times one is sometimes tempted to look back wistfully to the eighteenth century, which, by comparison, seems so orderly and civilised. In this book John Gloag considers the social history of design from 1660 to 1830, drawing his examples and most of his material from contemporary sources, and suggests reasons for the extraordinary standards achieved during that period". Time Period , 1660-1830 & 19th Century. (Architecture, Architectural Design, Architecture, Design, Social History). Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 122959

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Titel: Georgian Grace; A Social History of Design ...

Verlag: Spring Books, London

Einband: Hardcover

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