Author: DUNNETT H McG (ed)
Title: Festival of Britain: Guide to the Exhibition of Architecture Town-Planning and Building Research.
Description: London, HMSO, 1951. xlviii adverts, 52pp, a great many illustrations & plans, some coloured. Coloured centre-fold site plan. 24x18, stapled illustrated wraps, bound inside decorated boards with cloth spine and paper label. Boards and cloth a bit dusty, original staples slightly rusted, contents including original cover very clean and bright. Catalogue of the influential Festival of Britain Poplar Exhibition. It was called the Lansbury Exhibition, after George Lansbury, philanthropic politician. The exhibition did much to publicise modern British architecture, mass housing and town planning. Contributors included Gibberd, Jellicoe. YRM, Gilbert Scott, Casson et al.

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