Edwardian Architecture: A Biographical Dictionary

Book Description

London: Duckworth, 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. Barest hint of shelf/edge wear, one small notation in Index, else tight, bright and unmarred. DJ shows very minor shelf/edge wear, else bright and clean. Blue textured paper boards, gilt lettering, frontispiece. 4to. 422pp. Illus. (b/w plates). Index. The first biographical dictionary of the architects and builders who designed and built the most significant buildings in Britain during the reign of Edward VII (early 20th cent.). From the library of noted architect and writer on architecture, J. Sadler. Sadler was prone to marginalia and laying in clippings and ephemera related to a given book’s subject. The presence of marginal notes or marks will be noted above and are absent if not so noted. A handsome copy of this significant reference.

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