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Author: Goodhart-Rendel, H.S.
Title: English architecture since the regency. An interpretation.
Publication: London, Century (and The National Trust) 1989.
Price: Sold
Reference: 10198
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8vo. 304pp, including frontispiece and 48 ills. Publisher’s pictorial wrappers. Jill Allibone’s copy, with ownership inscription dated 20 Apr 1998.
Although first published as late as 1953, this book is based on a series of lectures delivered by Goodhart-Rendel at Oxford in 1934, thus accounting for his complete silence on English architecture from that point onwards (which he no doubt thought too dreadful to contemplate). For the architecture of the century or so preceding 1934, it is however a real treat to read, for it combines genuine learning with a sparkling prose style and strong opinions on all the great Victorian architects. This reissue has a short new foreword by Alanj Powers