Sir Mortimer Wheeler Preface (6 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Included. pp.xxxi, 448 pages, a Fine hardback in a fine dust-jacket [0946495025].

reprint. A major study of mediaeval domestic architecture from the Norman Conquest to 1540, illustrated. clear light dampstain along bottom edge resulting in a slight waviness to the pages, previous owner's ink name on front end paper otherwise very good hard cover book/ edgewear otherwise good dust jacket.…

Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Thus. Lovely copy of this 1994 printing. Book is fine with no marks or inscriptions. Dustjacket is fine and not priceclipped. Now in protective sleeve. 0.0.

Imperial octavo, red heavy card boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, xxxi + 448pp, illus, VG+ (light bruising to board corners, light foxing to page edges) in d/w, VG (light creasing to edges, light sun fading to spine, light chafing to covers, light foxing to internal sides).

Royal octavo; hardcover, with gilt spine titles; 448pp., with a monochrome frontispiece, many monochrome diagrams maps and illustrations and 92pp., of plates likewise. Mild wear; a little shaken; spine extremities lightly softened; text block edges mildly toned. Dustwrapper mildly rubbed and edgeworn; now professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Very good. Postage quoted is for a standard format octavo book. Final charges may vary depending on size and weight. This is the first major work on mediaeval domestic architecture for over a hundred years (that is, since J.H. Parker's "Domestic Architecture of the Middle Ages", 1852-9). It is a volume substantial in content as in appearance, massively and finely illustrated, in every sense worthy of its great subject. The period covered is from the Norman Conquest to 1540. It is only in the last decade that mediaeval archaeology, so long confined to ecclesiastical buildings, has come into its own. After an introductory summary of the recent work on excavation and recording, and a chapter on the main types of mediaeval house, the author devotes a separate chapter to each architectural feature - "The Kitchen", "The Central Hearth", "Windows", and so on. The many examples cited are listed in references at the end of the chapters with their dates. A glossary, bibliography and index are included. This book has established itself as the definitive work on the subject for many years to come.…

3. London, Bracken Books, 1983, (reprint of the 1965 edition), in-4°, 448 pp, index, glossary, bibliography, publisher's half cloth with dustwrapper.