THE OBSERVER'S BOOK OF ARCHITECTURE
Written by John Penoyre, Michael Ryan
Illustrated by John Penoyre, Michael Ryan
Published by Frederick Warne & Co Ltd.
in 1958
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- OBSERVERS
- ARCHITECTURE
THE OBSERVER'S BOOK OF ARCHITECTURE
Written by John Penoyre, Michael Ryan.
Illustrated by John Penoyre, Michael Ryan.
Stock no. 1329805
1958.
Hardback.
Small format.
Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.
Observer book no. 13. Over 250 coloured & b/w illustrations. Revised edition. Small format. Brown boards with black titles. Old tape marks to endpapers. Dustwrapper is bright, just a little edge rubbed.
Front cover
Contents
- AUTHORS' PREFACE
- FOREWORD
- INTRODUCTION
- PART ONE. Buildings of the Medieval Period (7th to 15th Centuries)
- CHAPTER I Pre-Conquest or Saxon
- CHAPTER II Norman or Romanesque
- CHAPTER III The Early English Period
- CHAPTER IV The Decorated Period
- CHAPTER V The Perpendicular Period
- PART TWO. Buildings of the Transitional Period (16th Century)
- CHAPTER VI Renaissance
- CHAPTER VII Tudor
- CHAPTER VIII Elizabethan and Jacobean
- PART THREE. Buildings of the Classical Era (17th and 18th Centuries)
- CHAPTER IX Inigo Jones and Christopher Wren
- CHAPTER X The Eighteenth Century
- PART FOUR. Buildings of the Industrial Era (19th Century and present day)
- CHAPTER XI The Nineteenth Century
- CHAPTER XII The Twentieth Century
- MAP
- VISUAL INDEX
- ILLUSTRATED GLOSSARY