Edwardian Architecture: A Handbook of Building Design in Britain 1890-1914

Service, Alistair

ISBN 10: 0195199820 / ISBN 13: 9780195199826

Published by Oxford University Press, New York, 1977

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First Edition, First Printing. In Wraps; covers are clean and flat; reading edge of cover is lightly rubbed; book interior is clean and tight; illustrated; 8vo; 216 pages; indexed.

Seller Inventory # 20072176

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Edwardian Architecture: A Handbook of Building Design in Britain 1890-1914
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, New York
• Publication Date: 1977
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0195199820
• ISBN 13: 9780195199826
• Binding: Trade Paperback
• Edition: First Edition
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Dustjacket, As Issued
• Seller catalogs:
  • Art and Architectural History

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Synopsis

Contents: The background of the period 1890-1914 in Great Britain -- Arts and crafts architecture -- the house -- The * style and large buildings -- Public buildings and the baroque revival -- Church architecture -- late Gothic and Byzantine -- * design and the Edwardian house -- Large buildings and the Edwardian * style -- The Edwardian arts and crafts churches -- Towards rationalism -- offices and factories -- High Edwardian baroque -- The Beaux-arts influence on Edwardian classicism -- The neo-Georgian house -- Palaces of prosperity -- variations on the Grand Manner. Leading architectures and some of their buildings 1890-1914.