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Gloucestershire, Volume 2: Vale and Forest of Dean Buildings of England
ISBN: HB: 9780300097337, Yale University Press, January 2002
832 pp., 21.6x12.1 cm, maps, glossary, indexes, 107 colour illus., 20 black&white illus.
This volume, along with its companion work, "Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds" provides a comprehensive guide to the architecture of Gloucestershire. Alan Brooks's extensively revised and expanded editions of David Verey's original volumes bring toge...
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£60,00
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Stirling and Central Scotland Buildings of Scotland
ISBN: HB: 9780300095944, Yale University Press, January 2002
736 pp., 21.6x12.1 cm, 128 illus.
"The Buildings of Scotland", founded by Sir Nikolaus Pevsner (1902-1983) and Colin McWilliam (1928-1989), will, when complete, guide the reader to all buildings of significance in Scotland. In each volume, a gazetteer describes and interprets buildin...
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Public Architecture in Ireland, 1680-1760
ISBN: HB: 9780300090642, Yale University Press, October 2001
272 pp., 33x25 cm, 220 black&white illus., 28 colour illus.
This innovative book examines the public architecture of Ireland from 1680 to 1760, a crucial period during which the country undertook the combined tasks of recovering from war and constructing a new and stable society. New buildings, and new types...
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£55,00
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London Town Garden, 1700-1840
ISBN: HB: 9780300085389, Yale University Press, March 2001
298 pp., 28.5x23 cm, 200 black&white illus., 60 colour illus.
Much has been written about London's terraced houses with their simple dignity, their economical use of space and their sense of comfort and human scale. Yet the small gardens that lie before or behind the houses in this great city have until now bee...
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£40,00
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Manchester City Guides
ISBN: PB: 9780300096668, Yale University Press, January 2001
374 pp., 21.6x12.1 cm, colour illus.
Manchester is the first in a brand new series of affordable, pocket-sized guides to England's cities and the first to include integrated colour illustrations. Clare Hartwell's detailed guide examines the full range and variety of Manchester's buildin...
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£16,99
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Medicine and Magnificence British Hospital and Asylum Architecture, 1660-1815
ISBN: HB: 9780300085365, Yale University Press, November 2000
312 pp., 25.6x19.2 cm, 96 illus.
The late-17th and 18th centuries represent a golden age in terms of the design and construction of hospitals in Britain and its US colonies. This account of this period of planning and construction considers both the architecture and function of the...
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£30,00
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Language of Landscape
ISBN: PB: 9780300082944, Yale University Press, August 2000
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 84 illus.
This eloquent and powerful book combines poetry and pragmatism to teach the language of landscape and thereby to avoid making profound aesthetic and environmental mistakes in landscape design. Using examples that range across thousands of years and f...
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£30,00
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Inigo Jones
ISBN: PB: 9780300082449, Yale University Press, June 2000
146 pp., 21x14.8 cm
Inigo Jones, the first English classical architect, was famous in his own time and was the posthumous sponsor of the Palladian movement of the eighteenth century. This authoritative and elegantly written book, first published in 1966, reassessed Jone...
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£15,00
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Landscape in Sight Looking at America
ISBN: PB: 9780300080742, Yale University Press, April 2000
428 pp., 23.5x15.5 cm, 51 illus.
Focusing not on nature but on landscape – land shaped by human presence – Jackson invites us to see the everyday places of the American countryside and city. This appealing anthology, illustrated with Jackson's sketches and photographs, brings togeth...
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£25,00
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Argyll and Bute Buildings of Scotland
ISBN: HB: 9780300096705, Yale University Press, January 2000
704 pp., 21.6x12.1 cm, 64 illus.
The latest volume in the "Buildings of Scotland" series provides an authoritative and enlightening survey of this dramatic region of Scotland stretching from the Atlantic islands and sea-lochs of Argyll to the softer landscape of Bute and the banks o...
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