Shingle Style Today or The Historian's Revenge by Scully, Vincent - 1974

New York: George Braziller, 1975. Second printing. Paperback. Very good +. Sm 4to. Glossy illustrated wrappers. 118 pages, with Index. Illustrated. Name on Front FEP. No marks to text.

New York: George Braziller, 1975. Contents: 1). Preface. 2). Text. 3). 133 b/w Illustrations. With notes and index. Vincent Joseph Scully, Jr. (*1920) is Sterling Professor Emeritus of the History of Art in Architecture at Yale University, and the author of several books on the subject. Architect Philip Johnson once described Scully as 'the most influential architectural teacher ever'. His lectures at Yale were known to attract casual visitors and packed houses, and regularly received standing ovations. The Shingle style is an American architectural style made popular by the rise of the 'New England school of architecture', which eschewed the highly ornamented patterns of the Eastlake style in Queen Anne architecture. In the Shingle style, English influence was combined with the renewed interest in Colonial American architecture which followed the 1876 celebration of the Centennial. The plain, shingled surfaces of colonial buildings were adopted, and their massing emulated. 118 pag.… Read More

New York: George Braziller, 1974 First Printing in brown-stamped full cream-colored cloth, no markings, NOT ex-lib, binding tight pages bright, a few tiny soil spots to front panel cloth, else Fine (no dj, if issued); 8vo; [x] 118pp indexed & illus. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good+.

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