The Spirit of The Age
de S, Alec Clifton-Talyor Roy Strong Robert Furneaux Jordan John Julius Norwic
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- VG/GD/VG
- Librería
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Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
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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.
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- Librería
- Cocksparrow Books
(GB)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 3119
- Título
- The Spirit of The Age
- Autor
- S, Alec Clifton-Talyor Roy Strong Robert Furneaux Jordan John Julius Norwic
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - VG/GD/VG
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- First Edition
- Editorial
- BCA In Assn with the BBC
- Lugar de publicación
- London Uk 0
- Fecha de publicación
- 1976-01-01
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