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Author: Briggs, Martin S.
Title: Goths and vandals. A study of the destruction, neglect and preservation of historical buildings in England.
Publication: London, Constable 1952.
Price: £25
Reference: 10111
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8vo. (8) + 251 + (1)pp, 51 photo ills on (32) plates. Publisher’s cloth, in dustwrapper (the wrapper a little frayed). Jill Allibone’s copy, with her bookplate.
A well-written study of changing English attitudes to historic buildings and their conservation, focusing on such matters as Sir Christopher Wren’s attitudes to Old St Pauls and to Westminster Abbey, Sir George Gilbert Scott’s role as a restorer of churches, and William Morris and the foundation of the SPAB.