Patrick Abercrombie Foreword (2 results)
Published by Architectural Press, GB, 1946
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Richard Sylvanus Williams (Est 1976), WINTERTON, United KingdomRichard Sylvanus Williams (Est 1976)
Contact seller5-star sellerCondition: Used - Very good
US$ 15.65
US$ 43.35 shippingShips from United Kingdom to U.S.A.Quantity: 1 available
Add to basketHardback. Condition: VG-. No DW. 1st Edition. Blue cloth with silver lettering to spine. In very good condition BUT text edges browned / spotted and some light spotting to pastedowns / endpapers. Minor cover wear.
More imagesPublished by Macmillan and Co. Limited; His Majesty's Stationary Office 1943-1945, London, 1943
- Hardcover
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United KingdomRooke Books PBFA
Contact seller5-star sellerAssociation member: PBFA
Condition: Used - Very good
US$ 195.35
US$ 33.85 shippingShips from United Kingdom to U.S.A.Quantity: 1 available
Add to basketCloth. Condition: Very Good. A smart two-volume set of Abercrombie"s post-war reconstruction plans for London, richly illustrated and complete with all maps and plates. In the publisher's original cloth bindings.An important two-volume collection of mid-twentieth-century London planning reports, documenting the reconstruction an…d re-organisation of the capital during and immediately after the Second World War. Compromising:County of London Plan: Prepared for the London County Council by J. H. Forshaw and Patrick Abercrombie, with a foreword by Lord Latham (1943). Illustrated with 12 colour plates, three of which are fold-out plates, and a further 58 monochrome plates, including a frontispiece. Collated, complete.Greater London Plan 1944 by Patrick Abercrombie (1945). This copy is illustrated with eighty-nine photographs, thirty-three illustrations from drawings, diagrams, & nine fold-out maps including a map in the pocket at the rear. Collated, complete. In the publisher's original cloth bindings. Externally, very smart. Very minor splaying to front board of "County of London." Slight discolouration to extremities. One or two very minor handling marks. Previous owner's contemporary ink inscription to front free endpaper of "Greater London." Very Good. None Stated (illustrator). book.
