Ghastly Good Taste. Or, a Depressing Story of the Rise and Fall of English Architecture.
London: Chapman and Hall, 1933.
Price: $350.00
About the item
First edition, first issue. Wth large folding plate by Peter Fleetwood-Hesketh at end (7 x 40 inches) . xi, 186, [3] pp. Errata slip present. 1 vols. 8vo. Blue cloth spine, printed rose paper boards. Spine label refreshed with original duplicate label, minor soiling to boards. Folding plate clean and complete. Very good plus, nice copy.
Item #370941
“Victorian architecture exactly reflected the middle class, the backbone of England, which industrialism had created. In its utilitarian buidlings it was honest and often imaginative, in its domestic buildings naïvely snobbish, as unpleasant and as well-intentioned, as grocer’s port.”
The folding plate is “The Street of Taste or the March of English Art down the Ages” by Peter Fleetwood-Hesketh.
A facsimile edition was issued in 1970.
