Author: LEWIS, MILES.
Title: Victorian Primitive.
Description: First Edition; Demy 4to; pp. [viii] 87; text illustrated with numerous b/w. photographic plates, notes, bibliography, index, bound in original black cloth, title lettered in gilt on spine, dustjacket, fine copy. Carlton; Greenhouse Publications; 1977. The book is a study in both the technology and the cultural history of our forebears. It looks at how they built their structures, how the derived their techniques from traditional methods of Britain and Europe, and how they developed purely colonial innovations, such as the bark roof.
Keywords: Australian Local History Victoria art Architecture Buildings
Title: Victorian Primitive.
Description: First Edition; Demy 4to; pp. [viii] 87; text illustrated with numerous b/w. photographic plates, notes, bibliography, index, bound in original black cloth, title lettered in gilt on spine, dustjacket, fine copy. Carlton; Greenhouse Publications; 1977. The book is a study in both the technology and the cultural history of our forebears. It looks at how they built their structures, how the derived their techniques from traditional methods of Britain and Europe, and how they developed purely colonial innovations, such as the bark roof.
Keywords: Australian Local History Victoria art Architecture Buildings
Price: AUD 35.00 = appr. US$ 24.22 Seller: Time Booksellers
- Book number: 124554
- Book number: 124554