Archer, J.H.G. (ed)

Art and architecture in Victorian Manchester. Ten illustrations of patronage and practice.

Manchester, Manchester University Press 1985.

Reference: 14640
Price: £40 [convert currency]

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8vo. xxi + (1) + 290 + (4)pp, 126 photo ills. Publisher’s cloth, in dustwrappe. Gavin Stamp’s copy, with his booklabel. A typed letter, signed, to Stamp from the author, 29 February 2004, loosely inserted, together with two subsequent postcards to Stamp from the author.

This includes illuminating essays on the Manchester architect Thomas Worthington, and on the architectural genesis of Manchester Town Hall, the Whitworth Art Gallery and the John Rylands Library.