Sir Banister Fletcher's A History of Architecture

[FLETCHER, Sir Banister] CRUICKSHANK, Dan (editor)

Published by Architectural Press, Oxford, 1996

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Oxford, Architectural Press, 1996 (twentieth edition, revised and expanded)/ 1896. Quarto, xxxviii, 1794 pages, extensively illustrated. Cloth; a fine copy with the near-fine dustwrapper. 'In this twentieth and centenary edition . chapters have been recast and expanded and a third of the text is new. There are new chapters on the twentieth-century architecture of the Middle East (including Israel), South-east Asia, Hong Kong, Japan and Korea, the Indian subcontinent, Russia and the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe and Latin America. The chapter on traditional architecture of India has been rewritten and the section on traditional Chinese architecture has been expanded, both with new specially commissioned drawings' (dustwrapper blurb).

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Sir Banister Fletcher's A History of Architecture
• Publisher: Architectural Press, Oxford
• Publication Date: 1996
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
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  • Architecture