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Author: Brown, R.Allen, Colvin, H.M., & Taylor, A.J.
Title: The history of the King's Works. Volume I (Volume II). The middle ages.
Publication: London, HMSO 1963.
Price: £120
Reference: 10457
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Large 8vo. 2 vols (and accompanying box of plans). xxvi + (2) + 552 + (2)pp, colour frontispiece, 36 photo plates, 47 text ills ; xiv + pp 553-1139 + (1)pp, (16) photo plates numbered 37-52, (25) text ills numbered 48-72 ; and box of folding plans, in similar format. Publisher's cloth, in dustwrappers (the wrappers a little creased and worn at outer margins). Jill Allibone's copy, with her bookplates.
The first two volumes of this remarkable series, in retrospect one of the greatest achievements of British architectural history during the third quarter of the twentieth century.