THE ARCHITECTURE OF HISTORIC LEXINGTON. [Lexington, Virginia.]

Second printing (as stated; first published 1977). xiv, 314 pages. Hardcover: H 25.5 cm x L 24cm. White dust jacket toned with some soiling and small stains; nicks and short tears at edges; dj now presented in a mylar Brodart protector. Dark gray cloth; vibrant gilt stamped lettering to spine. Past owner's ink signature at front free endpaper's top right corner; creasing to gutter margin heels of pages 3-6 with small chip to pages 5-6 as well ; a few scattered spots of interior foxing and soiling but leaves overall remain quite clean. Binding is firm. Else a very good copy in a very good- dust jacket. With frontispiece, Foreword by Frederick D. Nichols, Preface by authors Royster Lyle, Jr. and Pamela H. Simpson, three maps, b/w photographs, measured drawings, two drawing overlays (between pages 14-15 and 146-147), two appendices, Acknowledgements, Notes, Selected Bibliography, and Index. Lyle and Simpson survey the architecture of the town of Lexington, Virginia and its two colleges of Washington and Lee University and the Virginia Military Institute aka VMI. Several nationally notable architects were commissioned for Lexington buildings including Thomas Ustick Walter, Alexander Jackson Davis, and Bertram Goodhue.…