An outline of world architecture

HARDBACK "RARELY AVAILABLE," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st.Thus.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1973* Publisher: Octopus Books Ltd.* Binding and cover condition: Textured and decorated cloth covers with sepia title to spine and architectural drawings to face. No bumps or rubs, no visible faults. FINE* Jacket condition: Colour photo-illustrated dust wrapper. price clipped. Slight shelf wear to top & bottom edge and to head & tail of spine. One ¾? tear to lower back edge. VG* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, no tanning, no visible faults. FINE.* Illustrations: 237 colour & b/w photos, prints and line drawings.* Pages: 125 pp. text. iv pp. acknowledgements, index & blank pages at rear.* Description: Monumental civilizations; Greece and Rome; Christian Middle Ages; Islamic Era; Renaissance; Civilizations of the East; Revivals; Modern Monuments, etc.A comprehensive survey of the world's architecture giving a chronological outline of major buildings from the age of the pyramids to the newest constructional developments of the 1970's.there are chapters on the ancient civilizations, Greece and Rome, the Christian Middle Ages, Islamic architecture, the Renaissance, Baroque and Rococo, the architecture of the East, nineteenth-century revivals and modern developments. Special cutaway line-drawings showing interior construction were commissioned for the book from Enzo di Grazia. The photographs are by some of the world's leading architectural photographers, including Werner Forman and Ian Graham.* A NEAR FINE copy OF THE 1st. edition with only minor jacket wear reducing it to VG*