Modern European Buildings. First Series by YERBURY, F.R - 1928

New York: Payson and Clarke Ltd. Undated [1928], 1928. First US edition. 293x235mm. pp. 6, [1], 144 black and white photographs. Original cloth with modernist architectural pattern in green, blue and purple. Lettered in purple to upper cover and spine. Rubbing and wear to edges and corners, bumping to head and foot of spine. Protected by plastic cover. Internally in good condition save for the front- and rear- free endpapers the edges of which are creased and torn. The many photographs are in very good condition. This is an excellent survey (with an introductory essay), of European buildings from the first two decades of the 20th century including works by Mendelsohn, Gunnar Asplund, Edward Maufe, Eliel Saarinen and Sir Giles Scott. Architecture on the cusp of Bauhaus.