ARCHITECTURE. (Hamlyn Colour Paperback).

SOFTBACK ?HAMLYN ALL-COLOUR PAPERBACK? SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1969* Publisher: Hamlyn Publishing* Binding and cover condition: Colour illustrated soft card covers, no bumps or rubs. Some shelf wear to edges, creases to corners and & heavy crease to front cover. No reading creases to spine or hinge. Small price clip from rear cover. GD* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY, Clean, crisp, tight & bright. No annotations, marks or inscriptions. Seems little used. No tanning. VG++* Illustrations: Colour & b/w drawings throughout by Harry Green.* Pages: 155 pp. text. vi pp. bibliography, index & advertisements at rear.* Product Description:- This compact history of Architecture, splendidly illustrated in full colour,outlines the achievements of the world?s greatest architects and describes some of their finest buildings. The author has organised this vast and fascinating subject into clear, definite sections, dealing first with the raw materials used by craftsmen and builders and then with the functions of buildings such as castles, churches and factories which inevitably helped to create a variety of styles and forms. With these guidelines, we follow the course of man?s constructional genius to the steel and concrete functionalism of our modern environment.* This is a NEAR VG copy of the 1st./1st. with some faults to boards reducing it to GD*