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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

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.

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Cover of THE OBSERVER'S BOOK OF ARCHITECTURE by John Penoyre; Michael Ryan

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