Shelfmark
Lk.6.05
Author
Title
Ghastly good taste, or, A depressing story of the rise and fall of English architecture / by John Betjeman.
Varying form of title
Other title: A depressing story of the rise and fall of English architecture
Edition
1st ed.
Publication, distribution, etc.
London : Chapman & Hall ..., 1933.
Physical description
136 p. : ill., diagrams ; 20 cm.
Note
Original blue cloth and pink boards.
Note
1st issue. Pages 119-120 are not on a stub and contains the line (in a poem describing a Victorian church) "Come Mowbray swell the praise". Pages 129-130 are on a stub, as seems to be the case with all copies.
Note
With fold out illusted timeline at back of vol.
Provenance
Bequeathed by Kenneth Rose, 2014.
Provenance
Signed in ms. by Kenneth Rose on front endpaper, April 1946.
Copy-specific note
Page from G. F. Sims (Rare Books) listing this book loosely inserted
Subject
Architecture Great Britain.
Added entry--name
Rose, Kenneth, 1924 - ? donor.
Added entry--name
Chapman and Hall publisher.
Added entry--place
England London.
Identifier
B35078