Author: John Betjeman
Title: First and Last Loves
Description: London, John Murray, 1952. First edition. Cloth. A first edition copy of this collection of Betjeman's essays on architecture with illustrations throughout. First edition. Illustrated with one folding plate and numerous in-text images. Collated complete. A collection of essays on architecture, including essays on Victorian architecture, London railway stations, coastal architecture, and architecture in Cheltenham, Bournemouth, Leeds and more. Betjeman was a passionate defender of Victorian architecture, helping to save St. Pancras railway station from demolition. Written by Sir John Betjeman, an English writer and broadcaster who was Poet Laureate from 1972 until his death. Illustrated by various artists, including John Egerton Christmas Piper, an English painter, printmaker and designer of stained-glass windows, opera and theatre sets. In the original cloth binding. Externally, very smart with light rubbing to the extremities and the odd small mark to the boards. Minor fading to the spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean throughout. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: John Piper; Various. Very Good Indeed .

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