Balbus : a picture book of building / written and devized by Oliver Hill and Hans Tisdall

Oliver Hill

RA Collection: Book

Record number

12/1218

Author

Edition

1st edition.

Imprint

London: Pleiades Books Ltd, 1944

Physical Description

49 pages : illustrations ; 26 x 21 cm.

General Note

`First published in Great Britain Mcmxliv by Pleiades Books Ltd, 11 Fitzroy Square, London, W1. Printed by McLagan & Cumming Ltd., Edinburgh and London.’ [Rear pastedown].

Contents

The snail -- Tents, wigwams and huts -- Caravans and barges -- Babylonian, Assyrian and Persian -- Ancient Egyptian -- Ancient Greek -- Ancient Roman -- Romanesque and Byzantine -- Norman -- Gothic -- The castles -- The great wall of China -- Angkor Vat -- Old Mexican building -- The Russian churches -- Arabian cities -- The Renaissance -- Inigo Jones and Christopher Wren -- Baroque -- Queen Anne and Georgian -- Shipbuilding -- Victorian -- Skyscrapers -- Modern Scandinavian.

Binding Note

Original grey cloth backed red pictorial boards.

Subject

Illustrated books
Picture books
Colour lithographs
Autolithography

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