Edwardian architecture and its origins / [edited by] Alastair Service ; with many contributors

Service, Alastair (1933-2013)

1975, First Edition. London : Architectural Press. Very good cloth copy in a very good, somewhat dust-dulled and edge-nicked dust wrapper. Previous owner's inscription. Remains well-preserved overall. Item #465120
ISBN: 0851393624

Physical description; 504 pages : illustrations, plans, portraits ; 31 cm. Contents; An outline of the period 1870-1914 / by Alastair Service -- An appreciation of Philip Webb / by George Jack -- William Eden Nesfield / by J M Brydon -- Richard Norman Shaw / by Nikolaus Pevsner -- Edward Godwin / by Dudley Harbron -- Oscar Wilde and his architect, Edward Godwin / by H Montgomery Hyde -- The London Board Schools of E R Robson / by David Gregory-Jones -- James MacLaren and the Godwin legacy / by Alastair Service -- William Lethaby's buildings / by Godfrey Rubens -- Edward Prior / by Christopher Grillet -- Charles Annesley Voysey / by John Betjeman -- Charles Harrison Townsend / by Alastair Service -- Sir John James Burnet / by David Walker -- Charles Rennie Mackintosh / by David Walker -- The partnership of James Salmon and Jon Gaff Gillespie / by David Walker -- The Work of John D Sedding / by J P Cooper; assisted by H Wilson -- Byzantium in Brighton / by Nicholas Taylor -- Edwardian ecclesiastical architecture / by B F L Clarke -- Belcher and Joass / by Alastair Service -- Sir Aston Webb and his office / by H Bulkeley Creswell -- Edwin Alfred Rickards / by John Warren -- Leonard Aloysius Stokes / H V Molesworth Roberts -- Edgar Wood and J Henry Sellers: a decade of partnership and experiment / by John Archer -- Charles Holden's early works / by Nikolaus Pevsner -- Arthur Beresford Pite / by Alastair Service -- The architect's department of the London County Council 1888-1914 / by Alastair Service -- The garden city / by Ernest Newton -- The first garden city / by Mervyn Macartney -- Arthur Davis of Mewès and Davis / by Alastair Service -- Sir Albert Richardson: a classic case of Edwardianism / by Nicholas Taylor -- Building with wit: the architecture of Sir Edwin Lutyens / by Nikolaus Pevsner -- Conclusion: Goodhart-Rendel's roll-call / by Nikolaus Pevsner -- Postscript: The end of the Edwardian period -- Principal British architects of the late Victorian and Edwardian period. Subjects; Architecture, Edwardian. Great Britain. Architecture. Great Britain. History. 20th century. Architects. Great Britain. History. 19th century. Architects. Great Britain. History. 20th century. Great Britain. History. Edward VII, 1901-1910.

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