What is the secret of beauty in architecture? Critics have puzzled over that conundrum for centuries, not least the architectural writers of the Victorian period. This book focuses on four Victorian critics - George Aitchison, Benjamin Webb, Beresford Hope and Coventry Patmore - and charts their responses to one of the eternal problems of art: the enigma of architectural form.
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What is the secret of beauty in architecture? Critics have puzzled over that conundrum for centuries, not least the architectural writers of the Victorian period. This book focuses on four Victorian critics - George Aitchison, Benjamin Webb, Beresford Hope and Coventry Patmore - and charts their responses to one of the eternal problems of art: the enigma of architectural form.
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Good. Some marks to cover & scuffs to edges. Scratches/marks to dustjacket & crease/tear at top of front. Foxing to textblock edges/endpapers/some pages. Light tanning to pages. Text good. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 224 p. Contains: Illustrations. Victorian Critics and the Image of Gravity.
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1st edn. 8vo. Original silver lettered dark blue cloth (very slightly bumped at tail of spine-otherwise near Fine), dustwrapper (Fine, price clipped). Pp. ix + 228, illus with b&w plates (no inscriptions).
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Embossed by previous owner. DJ has light edgewear and one corner is torn. Pages lightly tanning.; 8.4 X 5.6 X 1.0 inches; 224 pages.
