Daily Mail Ideal (Workers') Homes : Midland Industrial Area. Reproductions of the Best Plans Entered in The Daily Mail's £2000 Architects' Competition 1919
by The Daily Mail
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Letchworth Garden City, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Associated Newspapers Limited, 1920. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall/landscape. Undated, presume circa 1920. Bound with red linen over the spine and blue/green decorated paper covered boards. Wear around edges, disco9louration and mottled fading, extremely sunned along the spine. Rubbing and scraping and fading over all, but in tact and robust still. Hinge loose, webbing revealed at front join. Advertising at the front. Pages yellowed with some wear around the edges, but generally clean and clear. Collection of architectural drawings with supporting notations. Inserted are loose design sheets of Architect E. Edward Briggs.
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- Bookseller
- David's Bookshop
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 036979
- Title
- Daily Mail Ideal (Workers') Homes : Midland Industrial Area. Reproductions of the Best Plans Entered in The Daily Mail's £2000 Architects' Competition 1919
- Author
- The Daily Mail
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Associated Newspapers Limited
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1920
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
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