Author: PEARL, CYRIL.
Title: Hardy Wilson and his Old Colonial Architecture. Illustrated by Hardy Wilson.
Description: First Edition; Med. Folio; pp. 34 (text), 47 (full page plates), unpaginated; frontispiece, original quarter cloth with cream papered boards, title lettered in gilt on spine, gilt decoration to front board, dustjacket a little chipped and worn, very good copy. Melbourne; Nelson; 1970. This present volume is a memoir, and it is reproduced the best of the drawings from Old Colonial Architecture (1924), together with several that have never before been published. The book is therefore a new comprehensive collection of the best of Hardy Wilson's drawings. The introduction by Cyril Pearl brings the character of the man into sharp focus and using passages from Hardy Wilson's own writings, unfolds a portrait of a man beset by fears for man's aesthetic degradation and for the future of mankind itself.
Keywords: Australian architecture applied art
Title: Hardy Wilson and his Old Colonial Architecture. Illustrated by Hardy Wilson.
Description: First Edition; Med. Folio; pp. 34 (text), 47 (full page plates), unpaginated; frontispiece, original quarter cloth with cream papered boards, title lettered in gilt on spine, gilt decoration to front board, dustjacket a little chipped and worn, very good copy. Melbourne; Nelson; 1970. This present volume is a memoir, and it is reproduced the best of the drawings from Old Colonial Architecture (1924), together with several that have never before been published. The book is therefore a new comprehensive collection of the best of Hardy Wilson's drawings. The introduction by Cyril Pearl brings the character of the man into sharp focus and using passages from Hardy Wilson's own writings, unfolds a portrait of a man beset by fears for man's aesthetic degradation and for the future of mankind itself.
Keywords: Australian architecture applied art
Price: AUD 95.00 = appr. US$ 65.73 Seller: Time Booksellers
- Book number: 105625
- Book number: 105625