Author: BROADBENT, JAMES.
Title: The Australian Colonial House Architecture and Society in New South Wales 1788-1842.
Description: First Limited Edition; Roy. 4to; pp. xxxii, 400; illustrated endpapers, coloured frontispiece, text illustrated with 24 coloured plates, and numerous monochrome illustrations, bibliography, index, bound in original black cloth, title lettered in gilt on spine, dustjacket, some light foxing on first couple of pages otherwise a very good copy. Sydney; Hordern House / Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales; 1997. Edition limited to 2000 copies. The book is a comprehensive history of domestic architecture in New South Wales during the first fifty years. As a social history it relates these houses and fashions to the people who built them and explores how the taste, social or artistic aspirations, philistinism or vulgarity of the builders is evident in their houses.
Keywords: Australian Local History Sydney New South Wales Architecture Art
Title: The Australian Colonial House Architecture and Society in New South Wales 1788-1842.
Description: First Limited Edition; Roy. 4to; pp. xxxii, 400; illustrated endpapers, coloured frontispiece, text illustrated with 24 coloured plates, and numerous monochrome illustrations, bibliography, index, bound in original black cloth, title lettered in gilt on spine, dustjacket, some light foxing on first couple of pages otherwise a very good copy. Sydney; Hordern House / Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales; 1997. Edition limited to 2000 copies. The book is a comprehensive history of domestic architecture in New South Wales during the first fifty years. As a social history it relates these houses and fashions to the people who built them and explores how the taste, social or artistic aspirations, philistinism or vulgarity of the builders is evident in their houses.
Keywords: Australian Local History Sydney New South Wales Architecture Art
Price: AUD 130.00 = appr. US$ 89.94 Seller: Time Booksellers
- Book number: 126239
- Book number: 126239