Edwardian architecture and its origins.
London, The Architectural Press 1975.
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Folio. 504pp, many photo ills and plans. Publisher’s cloth, in dustwrapper. Gavin Stamp’s copy, with his bookplate and pencil ownership inscription. Review copy, with the typescript of his review of the book for The Architectural Review, February 1976 in an accompanying folder, together with extensive related correspondence, including a typed letter, signed, from Alastair Service.
Thirty essays on architects and architecture of the Edwardian period, some reprinted from long unavailable back issues of the Architectural Review, others specially written for this hefty volume. Authors include Pevsner, Betjeman, David Walker, Nicholas Taylor, and Alastair Service himself.